Ding! Winner!Originally Posted by Bren
Ding! Winner!
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Miles Gloriosus: You, slave, will be torn apart by horses, to the plaudits of the troops and the amusement of the children.
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"Cerebus the Aardvark" #21
About halfway down the page
http://mindlessones.com/2014/05/06/cerebus/
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Hmmm. Inertialess space drives, millennia-long breeding programs, aliens contending for control of entire universes, etc., etc.; where, oh where, have we heard this before...Ding! Winner!
I still think that this film should be watched and notes taken by anybody who wants to GM in the style of Dave Arneson.
And for that matter, TCM Classic movies is supposedly broadcasting the Burton-Taylor "Cleopatra" at 7:00 pm Eastern this coming Sunday. I'd like to suggest giving this a look, as it was one of Phil's "guilty pleasures", as he put it. Pack a lunch; it's over 230 minutes long, but the battle scene in Alexandria, the sea battle at Actium, and the costumes are all worth it. The cast works very hard at chewing the scenery, in what was an agonizingly long shoot due to the lack of a finished shooting script; Hume Cronyn (who I met at the theater I was working at, back in the day) told me that he threw himself off of Cleoptara's golden barge at the end of the scene where he was trying to get Mark Anthony to board the thing - it was his last contracted scene, and he was so giddy at being done with the filming he went over the side when the director yelled cut and swam to shore hollering "I'm free! I'm free!". Costume and all.
Lots of stuff worth quoting; Phil's problem was that he held the Romans personally responsible for Egypt's decline.
And my favorite story from the shooting of this film comes from the little boy who played Caesarion: He was sitting next to Ms. Taylor during the big entry into Rome scene, when she asked him how he was doing (she was always very kind to him, he said.) He told her he was fine, and she whisper "That's good, because Auntie Elizabeth is about to barf!"...
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And I still have the miniature, too...
Actually I though (and could be misremembering) that there were others after those (I have the Zottola prints of those three)
Aha - the last one is the one I was thinking of.
Yep; that's the lot.
It's very sweet that she was kind to him. And that is a GREAT quip.
"Boom! Zing! Tantantaraa! BLURRCH!"
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