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...attended in northern Michigan. At Northwestern University, he worked with Classmates Patricia Neal and Ralph Meeker, met another hopeful actress, Lydia Clarke, who has been his wife for 22 years. After some skinny years in Manhattan, he got a supporting role in Katharine Cornell's Antony and Cleopatra ("Miss Cornell is a tall woman and likes to have tall actors around"). From there, it was roles in TV and a lead in his first film, Dark City. Today, Heston commands $500,000 a picture, plus 10% of the gross, gets control over cast and script. Says he, ruefully...
...Metropolitan. Of course, the curtain did shrink some in the cleaning, but there was enough to go around as Soprano Leontyne Price scissored off the first snippet for publicity's sake. Then she hurried back to rehearsals at the new Met, where she will star opening night as Cleopatra in an opera written for her by Composer Samuel Barber...
Five Cheaters. Harper's Bazaar editor and former model China Machado wore what she called "just me" beneath Yves St. Laurent's Cleopatra dress -a snowfall of shimmering spangles around bosom and hips joined by sheer, flesh-color chiffon. But others, who felt uneasy about the quasi-nude fashions, decided to cheat. Newporter Minnie Gushing, tall and stately with cascading hair, wore a body stocking under her gold latticework Desdemona robe designed by Oscar de la Renta...
Sounds like a replay of some of the hanky-panky that made such eyepopping headlines when Cleopatra was in the making. But not so. This time the Burtons were working. In Rome last week the two were filming a story that William Shakespeare wrote expressly for them some years back: The Taming of the Shrew...
...Bond movies. That is, if it doesn't end Charlie Feldman first. The film is already four weeks behind schedule and one-third over its $6,000,000 budget. To the unamusement of Feldman's bankroller, Columbia Pictures, Casino Royale has become known as Little Cleopatra...