Word: cleopatras
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Time was when a man feeling loaded, fond and possibly guilty at Christmas time would hie himself to Tiffany or Cartier and buy his loved one a little something to make her feel like Cleopatra-an epithalamium of emeralds, say, or a modest suburban tiara. The trend in recent years, however, seems to have been away from the unilateral bauble and toward the his and her extravaganza, particularly of the shared, sensory and sensational sort...
...presided over by a brash young newcomer named Bob Hope. Perhaps the show's most comic sequences are the ones that started out to be serious-a parade of insect mutants from post-A-bomb sci-fi epics, Elizabeth Taylor served up like a high-priced entree in Cleopatra, a series of youthquake teen films (Teen Age Cave Man is a typical example) to lure the young back into the moviehouses...
Caesar had Cleopatra. Tristan loved Isolde. Romeo died for Juliet. Arthur Fonzarelli (a.k.a. "the Fonz") went ape over Pinky Tuscadero. Flame-haired Pinky (played by Roz Kelly, thirtyish), came roaring into Fonzie's life on her guess-what-color motorcycle for the new season's first two shows of ABC'S hit series Happy Days. Instantly smitten by the shapely Pinky, the self-proclaimed "world's greatest female biker," the Fonz actually bussed her in the bike shop and carried her pink scarf close to his leather-jacketed heart. For a few tense moments marriage loomed...
...major acting burden falls on the heroine Rosalind, which is the longest female role in all Shakespeare (there are ten or so longer male parts, topped by Hamlet, Richard III, Iago and Henry V). Rosalind is longer even than Cleopatra, which is the most difficult of the women's roles. Bernard Shaw attributed the great popularity of Rosalind to three factors: she speaks blank verse only for a few minutes; she wears a skirt only a few minutes; and she makes love to the man instead of waiting for him to make love to her. The last idea...
...fellow Tennis Champ Chris Evert, Jimmy Connors hasn't bothered playing the singles scene off the court. Last week, as he bulled his way through the opening rounds of tournament play at Wimbledon, Connors' most passionate fan was Marjorie Wallace, Miss World of 1973 and the Cleopatra of the jock set (previous conquests: Soccer Superstar George Best and the late Peter Revson, a top Grand Prix driver). "We've been close now for six months and travel everywhere together," said Margie happily. "Jimmy is teaching me tennis and practices with me. I don't think...