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To: wildbill

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.


24 posted on 01/01/2010 8:40:49 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Happy New Year!)
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To: SunkenCiv

“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.


29 posted on 01/02/2010 11:53:27 AM PST by wildbill (You're just jealous because the Voices talk only to me.)
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