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...fine. Click click click click click click click. Into that big brass bed of a back seat she came ... Cleopatra ... ravaged husbands ... headlines ... southern charm ... headlines ... diamonds ... bigger diamonds ... Farrah Fawcett-drip Majors and "One Million B.C." bosoms paled in comparison. She was The Queen Bee, the dream of very press photographer. And now here I was rising above the multitude of lenses to claim my prize. Almost instantaneously I straddled the fenders and lay prostrate on the firm hood of that convertible '58 Lincoln Continental. The picture was mine...

Author: By David Melody, | Title: Notes From A Photographer's Journal | 2/25/1977 | See Source »

...screamed. Black snakes crawled towards her with mouths wrapped in microphones. Her every breath was sucked down by the surging mob. She communicated in gibberish and lights flashed their response. Everything oozing as Cleopatra's heat wave burned inside...

Author: By David Melody, | Title: Notes From A Photographer's Journal | 2/25/1977 | See Source »

...onstage eight times a week with Rex Harrison, a true champion in his 60s who still gets the girl," gloats Elizabeth Ashley. At 37, she is playing a 16-year-old Cleopatra to Harrison's 50-year-old Caesar in the G.B. Shaw play at Washington's Kennedy Center. Ashley is delighted with her jewel-studded Egyptian robes, "the most breathtaking drag I've ever had on." For her sequined eye makeup she got some tips from another Cleopatra: Elizabeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 31, 1977 | 1/31/1977 | See Source »

...recent years, Carson has divided his time between hosting the "Tonight Show" and appearing in his own nightclub act. Taylor's career has spanned four decades, and includes such memorable cinematic outings as "Butterfield 8," "Cleopatra," and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf...

Author: By Nicole Seligman and Richard S. Weisman, S | Title: Hasty Pudding to Honor Johnny Carson, Liz Taylor | 1/24/1977 | See Source »

...however, with Penthouse magazine and its publisher, Bob Guccione, who has put up $16 million, exactly double the original budget, to film the life of one of history's most colorful monsters. The movie is the grandest spectacle to be shot in Italy since Elizabeth Taylor's Cleopatra (1963). Guccione hired some of England's best actors-Malcolm McDowell to play Caligula, Peter O'Toole for the diseased Emperor Tiberius and John Gielgud for the aristocratic Nerva. He then set about constructing half of ancient Rome: a mile-long facsimile of a 1st century street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Will the Real Caligula Stand Up? | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

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