Word: goddesses
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...travels, Zheng He makes clear that imperial hubris was best left ashore: the success of these voyages depended on knowing his place between heaven and earth, on paying homage to the many gods worshiped by people along the way, starting with the constantly burning incense to Chinese sea goddess Tianfei. I jot down a note to myself: when the next typhoon approaches, light incense for Tianfei aboard my junk - and be friendly to any woman in a red dress...
Through design or instinct, Roberts cannily feeds her goddess-next-door image. She ladles her charm onto David Letterman, and the cynic morphs into a swain. She was chattily charismatic picking up her laurels at the Golden Globes and the Oscars; if there were an award for Best Acceptance Speech, she'd win that...
...plot twist. She ditched Kiefer Sutherland at the altar; married Lyle Lovett on a whim and a prayer; was linked with dishy actors like Jason Patric and Daniel Day-Lewis. Now she and Benjamin Bratt are phffft. But her eminence obliges her to have these affairs. Being a movie goddess is not only a skilled trade; it's tough work...
...than 45 movies. One of her first, Sex and Zen II, is a soft-porn classic, the Emmanuel of Asia. Two of her films just debuted amid the incomparable glare of Cannes: Millennium Mambo and Beijing Rocks. Hong Kong singer-cine idol Leslie Cheung calls Shu Qi a "sex goddess." (And Cheung knows something about being adored by the crowd.) Chinese director Yonfan is even more gushing: "I think of Catherine Deneuve," he says. "A lady daring enough to do different roles...
...contemporary coins, Cleopatra appears masculine and powerful. Slim and serene in sculptures, she is sometimes portrayed as the goddess Isis, the divine, royal mother whose cult she followed. Erotic Roman caricatures depict her as a harlot. She is a sensual and tragic figure in Renaissance paintings and objets d'art. Her modern face comes straight from Hollywood, embodied most famously in 1963 by Elizabeth Taylor-whose off-screen affair with her own Mark Antony, co-star Richard Burton, recalled the 14th century writer Giovanni Boccaccio's description of Cleopatra as a woman "who became an object of gossip...