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DIED. Tamara Dobson, 59, Amazonian model-actress who created one of the blaxploitation genre's most memorable women--the Corvette-driving, martial-arts-loving title character in the film Cleopatra Jones; of complications from pneumonia and multiple sclerosis; in Baltimore, Md. With her flashy style--huge Afro, big hats, leather-trimmed fur coats--Cleopatra was, in the words of the drug traffickers she battled, "10 miles of bad road." Before her career ebbed in the '80s, the 6-ft. 2-in. Dobson went on to appear in other films of the genre, notably the women-in-prison film Chained Heat...
...seduce all women in sight with a suave nonchalance that is part Fred Astaire and part Elvis. In “There’s the Rub,” a dazzling Andersson manages to be touching and moving, even while dressed in more makeup, skimp and sparkle than Cleopatra...
...most eclectic cast in movie history--Julie Christie, Billy Crystal, Gerard Depardieu, John Gielgud, Rosemary Harris, Charlton Heston, Derek Jacobi, Jack Lemmon, John Mills, Robin Williams, Kate Winslet and the Duke of Marlborough, to name but a dozen--in the second longest film released by a major studio (after Cleopatra). If Kenneth Branagh doesn't win an Oscar for his four-hour, uncut Hamlet, he should at least cop a Chutzpah Award...
...become a prizefighter in New York and later an actor. I was never part of his family really, and it wasn't until I was in my 20s that I had a relationship with him. He played one of the Nubian slaves in a version of Caesar and Cleopatra, that sort of thing. In high school once, I saw a picture of my father in Look magazine, performing in a play by Lillian Smith called Strange Fruit. I was quite proud of that...
Aloe has been a staple in home medicine cabinets for skin health since Cleopatra's time. According to a report in the journal General Dentistry, there is growing evidence that the plant's sap can also treat many mouth maladies, from cold sores to painful gums after a tooth is pulled...