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...your report on Cleopatra's death scene [TIME, June 8]: the Egyptian asp is a cobra, attaining a length of about 5 ft. when grown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 22, 1962 | 6/22/1962 | See Source »

Newly hatched asps would probably be at least 9 or 10 in. long. The 6-in. Egyptian asp-in training for two months-used by aoth Century-Fox in its forthcoming film Cleopatra evidently is a retarded baby, poor thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 22, 1962 | 6/22/1962 | See Source »

With a $30 million sigh of relief, 20th Century-Fox finally brought Elizabeth Taylor and a real live six-inch Egyptian asp within striking distance of one another for the death scene in Cleopatra. "The asp," said Fox flacks somewhat ambiguously, "has been in training for two months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 8, 1962 | 6/8/1962 | See Source »

...clapped wigs on his mannequins' heads. He thought it was a gag. Three years later, American women, slow to see the joke, finally saw the potential: brunettes, with only one life to lead, could turn blonde overnight; straight-haired women could have the curls they pinned for; a Cleopatra by day could let down her own long hair at night, without having suffered the irreversible decision of a haircut; two heads, or three, were clearly better than one. More expensive too. A wig of all-human hair (the finest comes from the peasant women of southern Italy) costs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Extra | 6/1/1962 | See Source »

...corporation-happily announced a preview showing of scenes from new Fox films. The ploy failed. Twenty minutes of movies helped no one to forget that Fox lost $22.5 million on last year's operations, and next year's hopes rest entirely with the $30 million production of Cleopatra. The fact that Liz Taylor's take from Cleopatra will exceed $1,300,000 brought a bitter joke; a furious stockholder nominated her for the board of directors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: Period of Adjustment | 5/25/1962 | See Source »

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