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...worry about Burton. Unlike Cleopatra, the last scene will be tearfully happy. The end of the affair will come when the flick has been declared a smashing success; Richard will return to the legitimate theater; Liz will mark up another man; and 20th Century-Fox will gladly get its $40 million back...
...17th century, John Dryden summed it all up when he called his play about Antony and Cleopatra All for Love: or, the World Well Lost...
...Taylor-Burton game must inevitably yield up a loser. If he should ever marry her, he will be the Oxford boy who became the fifth husband of the Wife of Bath. If she loses him, she loses her reputation as a fatal beauty, an all-consuming maneater, the Cleopatra of the 20th century...
Darryl Zanuck, president of 2Oth Century-Fox, is pleased with them. "I think the Taylor-Burton association is quite constructive for our organization," he says. But what if the Taylor-Burton association were to collapse before Cleopatra opens? The picture would be an anachronism while it is still...
Playing Adonis. It is possible that Burton cares more about Cleopatra than he admits. "What if the first kiss isn't up to scratch?" he worries. "We're finished." With Taylor's assistance, Cleopatra has made him a big-money star and its success could keep him there. He has new power, not to mention fame. Before Cleopatra, Burton got $125,000 a picture; today his price is $500,000, most of which he banks. His own term for his emotional world today is "suspended animation." He has never asked for a divorce from Sybil and apparently never intends...