Egypt
Legion of the Dead (DVD Review)
- Angelina As Cleopatra Causes Backlash
I was waiting for this. It is a highly emotive topic. These are just a small sample of what's landing in my inbox. Deadbolt News Although Angelina Jolie has amassed millions of fans and is up for the role of Cleopatra in an upcoming film about the...
- Trivia: Another Cleopatra Movie
The Guardian, UK (Catherine Shoard) Angelina Jolie is to star in a new film about the life of the queen of the Nile, adapted from the forthcoming biography, Cleopatra: A Life, by Pulitzer prize-winner Stacy Schiff. The book isn't published until the...
- Book Review: Cleopatra, Last Queen Of Egypt
Star Tribune (Allen Barra) Cleopatra VII has always inspired a considerable amount of interest. It is nice to see that Joyce Tyldesley's book has been so well received by so many reviewers. Here's another positive review. Cleopatra has generated...
- Book Review: Cleopatra, Last Queen Of Egypt
STLtoday (Allen Barra) Cleopatra has generated more fame — in the form of poems, paintings, books, plays and films — per known fact than any woman in history. As Joyce Tyldesley phrases it in her fascinating and irresistible biography, "Cleopatra:...
- Book Review: Cleopatra And Rome
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/reviews/article336482.eceA review of the book Cleopatra And Rome, by Diana E E Kleiner, on The Independent's website: "In Cleopatra and Rome, Diana E E Kleiner - a professor of classics and art history at Yale...
Egypt
Trivia Round-Up
This weeks round-up of trivia:
Get out in front of that Epitaph
Get out in front of that Epitaph
http://tinyurl.com/cfdrn
I'm not sure how Ramesses II would have felt about this piece if he had had the chance to meet Donald Trump, but here goes anyway: "Baby boomers, the increasingly ignored demographic, are getting the jump on death by self-memorialization. Not that the concept is new. Ramses II, who reigned over ancient Egypt for longer than the life expectancy of a modern Egyptian, was Donald Trump B.C.. We're the first, however, to memorialize the eternally anonymous". You've got to love it. For more on the subject of self-immortalization (but not, admittedly, about Ancient Egypt) see the above article on the latimes.com website.
Halle Berry to play Nefertiti
http://tinyurl.com/c5qwf
Movie star Halle Berry "is working on a new biopic of ancient Egyptian queen Nefertiti. The Oscar winner will produce and star in the project. She says, 'She was the first female pharaoh, a warrior whose story is not as well told as Cleopatra's, so we can put light on a dark place in history'." This is the entire bulletin on the Contact Music website.
http://tinyurl.com/c5qwf
Movie star Halle Berry "is working on a new biopic of ancient Egyptian queen Nefertiti. The Oscar winner will produce and star in the project. She says, 'She was the first female pharaoh, a warrior whose story is not as well told as Cleopatra's, so we can put light on a dark place in history'." This is the entire bulletin on the Contact Music website.
Legion of the Dead (DVD Review)
http://www.filmthreat.com/Reviews.asp?Id=7863
A review of another Mummy-Comes-Back-To-Life-To-Wreak-Havoc film. The reviewer really wasn't impressed!
Today in History: Cleopatra
http://tinyurl.com/awmga
30th August: " In 30 B.C. (by some estimates), the seventh and most famous queen of ancient Egypt known as Cleopatra committed suicide".
Today in History: Cleopatra
http://tinyurl.com/awmga
30th August: " In 30 B.C. (by some estimates), the seventh and most famous queen of ancient Egypt known as Cleopatra committed suicide".
- Angelina As Cleopatra Causes Backlash
I was waiting for this. It is a highly emotive topic. These are just a small sample of what's landing in my inbox. Deadbolt News Although Angelina Jolie has amassed millions of fans and is up for the role of Cleopatra in an upcoming film about the...
- Trivia: Another Cleopatra Movie
The Guardian, UK (Catherine Shoard) Angelina Jolie is to star in a new film about the life of the queen of the Nile, adapted from the forthcoming biography, Cleopatra: A Life, by Pulitzer prize-winner Stacy Schiff. The book isn't published until the...
- Book Review: Cleopatra, Last Queen Of Egypt
Star Tribune (Allen Barra) Cleopatra VII has always inspired a considerable amount of interest. It is nice to see that Joyce Tyldesley's book has been so well received by so many reviewers. Here's another positive review. Cleopatra has generated...
- Book Review: Cleopatra, Last Queen Of Egypt
STLtoday (Allen Barra) Cleopatra has generated more fame — in the form of poems, paintings, books, plays and films — per known fact than any woman in history. As Joyce Tyldesley phrases it in her fascinating and irresistible biography, "Cleopatra:...
- Book Review: Cleopatra And Rome
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/reviews/article336482.eceA review of the book Cleopatra And Rome, by Diana E E Kleiner, on The Independent's website: "In Cleopatra and Rome, Diana E E Kleiner - a professor of classics and art history at Yale...