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...advertising had existed two millenniums ago, Caesar would surely have endorsed chariots, Cleopatra barges and Cicero throat lozenges. It does exist today, and it offers about as easy money as celebrities can make, whether they be Catherine Deneuve purring for a perfume, James Garner clicking away for a camera company, or Joe Namath and Joe DiMaggio rustling something up in the kitchen. The right match of personality and product must pay off, since advertisers regularly provide the stars fees of $100,000 for a brief pitch and $1 million contracts for long-run identification are not unknown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Let the Stellar Seller Beware | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

...holes Dales innocently coasted along displaying the midseason form that earned him the low round of 73 in the linksters' last outing before the course reached up and grabbed him. Dales' fatal Cleopatra proved to be the 16th. The hole is a 535-yard double dogleg with water encircling the green...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Linksters Succumb to Wollaston and Salem State | 4/14/1978 | See Source »

...mixture of Cleopatra, Lawrence of Arabia and Dick and Jane," says Jennifer O'Neill about the movie version of James Michener's Caravans. Jennifer, 29, won acclaim for her role as a grieving but indulgent young war widow in Summer of '42. This time she plays an adventurous American woman who follows a desert caravan and wins the grudging respect of a nomad chieftain (Anthony Quinn). Caravan is being filmed in Iran, and Jennifer sometimes longs for the comforts of home. "It's terribly hot," she says. "Your eyes get red, the winds whip sand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 17, 1977 | 10/17/1977 | See Source »

...James Russell Lowell, Cousin Amy Lowell and relatives on his mother's side who date back to the Mayflower. More combative than his genteel forebears, Lowell was fascinated by power. He often chose for his theme the doomed great in history: Racine's Phaedra, Mary Stuart and Cleopatra, and Alexander, "double-marching to gain the limits of the globe." Classmates at his prep school, St. Marks, called him Cal, after the despotic Roman emperor Caligula, because he was so imperious. The name stuck all his life. But a critic who described him as "an Old Testament prophet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Self-Examined Life | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

...Repentance and Retreat murdered a former Egyptian Cabinet minister and planted bombs in Cairo, the Egyptian government blamed it on Gaddafi. At least four people have been executed in Egypt as Libyan "saboteurs." Sadat is incensed by Libyan propaganda that mocks him and his wife Jehan as "Antony and Cleopatra," living in presidential splendor while poor Egyptians starve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Revenge in the Desert | 8/1/1977 | See Source »

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