Tag Archives: Cleopatra

*Fun with Liz & Dick

Imagine my delight when I tore the wrapping from one of my birthday presents and discovered a copy of the much-maligned biographical telemovie Liz & Dick. Had I a first-born child, I would gladly have traded it in for this bounty. I initially developed a keen interest in, and enthusiasm for, the love affair between Elizabeth […]

*The Best Will in the World

There are two big Hollywood films that, much as I have tried, I simply have never been able to watch in their entirety. Of course, there is nothing unusual in not managing to make it through a film, but these are works that I’ve been attempting literally for as long as I can remember to […]