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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...
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...
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...
...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...
...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...