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GREAT LAKES SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL (Lakewood, Ohio): The Taming of the Shrew, Hamlet, Much Ado, Henry VI, Richard III and Antony and Cleopatra...
...every room") above the Old Cataract Hotel, where oldtimers still sip icy martinis on the veranda and watch the river ride by. The presence of the High Dam and the threatened antiquities above Aswan have bred a burgeoning tourist trade, and each day the 50-passenger hydrofoil Cleopatra roars up from Aswan at 30 m.p.h. to visit the historic sites that will soon be lost to mankind...
...Spanish merchant family named Labia started building a palace just off the Grand Canal. The palace's ultimate glory was a set of 18th century frescoes by Tiepolo, which depicted the story of Antony and Cleopatra with almost as much flair as the 20th Century-Fox film. With the extinction of the Labia clan, the palace turned into a squalid dump; illiterate boarders spent unknowing nights under the Tiepolos. In 1948, another Spaniard, the wealthy Don Carlos de Beistegui, now 78, rediscovered the palace, as he said, "with a violence of love and passion that no woman has inspired...
...Capucine in the role of Sellers' wife, giving a surprisingly able performance as a knockabout comedienne. And it has a pervasive air of desperation that leads to the inevitable masked-ball finale in Rome, with fireworks going off, Sellers in a suit of armor bumping into Cleopatra, and a pair of cat burglars dressed as gorillas-presumably with the hope that a lot of monkey business will perk up a tired Panther...
...result most likely to have ugly repercussions is the choice of "Cleopatra" both for Worst Picture of the Year and Worst Film of the Century. (The latter award, given for the century 1863-1963 was last presented in 1958.) Usually reliable sources said last night that stars Elizabeth Taylor (winner of The Timothy Cratchit Memorial Crutch) and Richard Burton (recipient of the Wilde Oscar) have already left Boston in a huff...