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I have a play -- a very loose (EXTREMELY LOOSE) adaptation of Shakespeare -- and I'm trying to get it produced. Does anyone know where I can find companies that do Shakespeare parodies and actors to perform it?

If Bill Clinton was Elvis, Hillary was the Statue of Liberty, inspired by Pelosi's triumph (more about that in a future story) and welcoming the huddled masses, who were pushing each other out of the way to take pictures with her. At night, we gathered at the National Building Museum for a celebration concert and Democratic Party fundraiser. Filmmaker Peter Kaufman, a friend of Christine Pelosi's, set the tone of the evening's festivities. He quoted someone else he'd heard that day: "She's the most powerful Italian since Caesar.''

As a result of their arena exploits, Pullo and Vorenus have become heroes to the Roman rank and file, causing Caesar to reward those he normally would punish. Pullo's unexpected return to Vorenus' household is not appreciated by his former slave Eirene. Caesar decides to overhaul the Senate by adding some unexpected new faces, to the chagrin of the old guard. And Servilia hurdles the final obstacle in her ambitious revenge scenario, at Niobe's expense.

Episode 9: Utica With Scipio and Cato defeated, Caesar returns home to a hero's welcome. Vorenus and Pullo's showdown with local thug Erastes gets an unexpected reprieve from Caesar. Servilia's plan to use Octavia to unearth a secret about Caesar backfires. Don't miss the all new episode "Utica", Sunday, October 30th at 9PM ET.

Tonight, HBO-HD (HBO 1) shows Rome Episodes 6, 7, 8 in a run up to the new episode "Utica". Episode 6: Egeria Synopsis With Caesar chasing Pompey in Greece, Mark Antony is in Rome pushing through laws on his behalf - insisting that the few remaining senators agree to anoint the general "co-Consul," free more slaves and create more jobs for the populace. The senior senator protests, arguing that such efforts would be too expensive. "Only to those few rich men that own all the land," Antony replies, "and they will have the consolation of doing something eminently patriotic." Niobe...

Episode 4 and 5 tonight in HD! Episode 4: Stealing from Saturn: Here we are, refugees in our own land," Cicero says to Pompey and his supporters, anxiously settling into their makeshift camp south of Rome. "We are not refugees, we are maneuvering," Pompey responds sharply, before explaining his strategy to the men: without gold, Caesar will have to resort to violence, and once the blood starts to spill, the people will turn on him with a vengeance. "While he is fighting mobs in the forum, I will be gathering an army the like of which he has never seen!"...

LADIES & GENTLEMEN: TODAY IS THAT MOST INFAMOUS IN ALL OF HISTORY, THE ASSASSANATION OF OUR BELOVED JULIUS CAESAR on the Ides of March, March 15, 44 BC in Imperial Rome. Please read on as an account of the activities of that gruesome day are recounted by Mr. Samuel L. Clemens aka Mark Twain: The Killing of Julius Caesar "Localized" By Mark Twain From The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Sketches (New York: C. H. Webb, 1867). BEING THE ONLY TRUE AND RELIABLE ACCOUNT EVER PUBLISHED; TAKEN FROM THE ROMAN "DAILY EVENING FASCES," OF THE DATE OF...

Body of missing Okemah woman found in a ditch in Hughes County The family of a missing Okemah woman talks about the baby, and the future she'll never have. It's a bizarre case that's taken authorities to Okfuskee and Hughes Counties. Authorities say 21-year-old Carolyn Simpson of Okemah may have been killed for her baby. Simpson had been missing since last Monday. Her body was found in a Hughes County ditch by a hunter. She'd been shot in the head. Authorities say her attacker carved her baby from her body. Simpson's family is in shock over what's happened. "Disbelief...

Americas Amber Alert News Center (Skidmore Missouri USA) AP--Breaking News Update A Skidmore woman is dead tonight and the search begins for the unborn baby cut from her womb. Nodaway County authorities ask for help to find the baby and the person or persons responsible. The Nodaway County sheriff says a 23 year old white woman was murdered this afternoon in her home and her unborn baby girl was removed from her body. Police believe the child could still be alive. U.S. authorities release Amber alerts when they believe immediate widespread publicity will help solve abduction cases.The Amber abduction...

BORDEAUX, France (AFP) - French archaeologists said this week they had discovered an exceptional Gallic war treasure in the south of the country, including rare war trumpets and ornate helmets. The some 470 objects, or fragments of objects, were found at the end of September during a dig at Naves, in the department of Correze in southern France, in a ditch hollowed out of a Gallic-Roman temple, they said. "The exceptional character of this discovery lies mainly in the presence of five almost complete carnyx," Christophe Maniquet, an archeologist at Inrap, France's national institute for Archeological studies, said. "They are...

The History Channel is going to air a new historical series entitled DECISIVE BATTLES including some classic wars between ancient Persian armies and Roman and Greek ones. The History Channel goes on location to the actual battlefields and integrates cutting-edge videogame technology to bring history and imagination together in the new series DECISIVE BATTLES. The half-hour series DECISIVE BATTLES premieres Friday, July 23 at 9-9:30pm ET/PT. The series is hosted by Matthew Settle (Band of Brothers) on location at the ancient battlefields and features expert commentary from the world©s foremost historians. DECISIVE BATTLES is unlike any series The History Channel...

Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2004 February 29 Julius Caesar and Leap Days Credit: Rune Rysstad Explanation: Today, February 29th, is a leap day - a relatively rare occurrence. In 46 BC, Julius Caesar, pictured above in a self-decreed minted coin, created a calendar system that added one leap day every four years. Acting on advice by Alexandrian astronomer Sosigenes, Caesar did this to make up for the fact that the Earth's year...

The forced march to Bethlehem -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: December 24, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com Some people may interpret this column as shameless politicization of the Christmas story. I think of it as an effort to de-politicize a beautiful and important truth distorted by the prism of modernity. When I listen to certain unnamed, misguided humanist prophets use the story of Joseph, Mary and Jesus, it is often used as a segue into their phony compassion for the "homeless." You've heard them. They tell us, with a straight face, that Joseph and Mary were poor, homeless people. I've even...

According to European "anti-war" protesters, the United States is a new Rome, seeking to dominate the world through sheer military power, bent on conquest of the oil-rich Middle East and making it part of the new American Empire. If President Bush is a new Caesar, some comparisons are in order. American war-planners fretted about Saddam Hussein's plans to withdraw his troops into the cities, forcing U.S. troops into urban warfare that would mean a heavy toll in civilian casualties. The deaths of innocent Iraqi civilians would be a terrible thing, and the U.S. military is making every effort to minimize...

Reports on radio stations,in newspapers and on television flooded across the land in the middle of the week 12 days before Christmas Eve. Is an Oregon political savoir about to be born? Let us tally the signs and portents. He resides in the holy city of Salem, namesake descendant of the equally holy (and even more political) city of Jeru-Salem...(snip) For Complete Article, Click Here.

America... ALL HAIL **HILLARY CAESAR!** Hillary has a "Caesar Complex" unlike any politician in known recent history!!! Hillary filled up her lungs with *HOT AIR* and bellowed in loooong drawn-out syllables (very much in a John Kennedy New England style of speech, by the way!) these words (and oh, so many others!), in her mission to berate our President on the Senate Floor the other day... "MMMMYYYYYY constituents want answers!" the Junior Senate roared through the Senate Chambers as she waved a copy of the morning headline. As only one (1) Senator, and a "junior one" at that, isn't it...