Posted on 01/01/2010 12:23:02 PM PST by SunkenCiv
when they open that door, they better watch their asp!
According to Sacajeweau, “but when she opened her mouth, she sounded like a choking chicken..”
I ask you, have you ever heard of such a thing?
[choking chicken jokes automatic shutdown]
Nope. Cleo is reputed to have been the most enthusiastic fellatrix of all time, so maybe her voice sounded a bit, uh, rough. Herod the Great complained in a letter to Rome that, at their first meeting, Cleo asked that both dismiss their staff and servants, and when they were gone, wanted to ride him like a big boy.
Oh, okay, *Liz*, not Cleo. Yeah, I like that movie for the sets and staging, they really don’t make ‘me that way anymore. Supposedly the $50 million+ spent from the late years of the 1950s into about 1963 to produce that version of “Cleopatra” (there were at least three earlier versions I think, in the US film industry alone, including a silent version starring Theda Bara) would run in excess of $1 billion today, making the apples-to-oranges comparison result in the most expensive film of all time, not excluding “Titanic” and “Waterworld”.
Liz is not a great actress. IMHO, she’s not even pretty, although I’ve always very much liked that pic some gracious soul posted earlier in the thread.
For an entertaining read on this topic, check out “The Memoirs of Cleopatra” by Margaret George. You can learn a lot more about Cleopatra, Caesar and Marc Anthony through this (obviously)fictionalized account. It’s been a few years since I read it and might do it again.
LOL! Guess I had nothing to share.
The bog knockers were on Cleo
Big knockers! Big knockers! < slap !>
“Liz is not a great actress. IMHO, she’s not even pretty.”
Son, wash your mouth out with lye soap.
Awards: 6 oscar nominations with two winners. I’m not going to list all the rest. go to IMDB.com.
Pretty? I think she is still a striking woman today considering her age (78 in Feb.)but man, she was univerally acclaimed as the most beautiful woman of the world during her youth.
I recently saw a rerun of Raintree County with Monty Clift and she was absolutely gorgeous with a figure that would have been memorialized by Phidias or Praxiteles or Micheangelo in their day.
Imho, the only movie Liz was any good in was “A Place in the Sun.”
And Jimmy Carter, Al Gore, and Barack Obama have all rec’d the Nobel Peace Prize. :’) Her win for “Butterfield 8” was attributed to her being on her deathbed shortly before the Oscars, when she caught some kind of respiratory bug while working on Cleopatra. Regarding her plain-ness, hey, at least I didn’t say “ugly as a mud fence”. :’)
Thanks malkee!
Cleo may not have been a great beauty, but as you say she had “talents” that would make up for that. :-))
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