Cleopatra is not only a supercolossal eye-filler (the unprecedented budget shows in the physical opulence throughout), but it is also a remarkably literate cinematic recreation of an historic ...

Michener story [from his Tales of the South Pacific]. Combination boffo. Mitzi Gaynor is no Mary Martin but there are millions who never saw the original Nellie Forbush [in the 1949 Broadway ...

But they were there for another reason, too. They’d become family members, part of a community of regulars at Mitzi’s, the successful downtown restaurant with an impressive 46-year history.

The Greek queen of Egypt Cleopatra is associated with a very public love affair with Roman leader Julius Caesar apart from her glamorous beauty routines, deadly snake bites, and lavish banquets. But ...