Hot damn Christmas ham that was actually very very good. The script was well written, well paced and as an audience member i felt as if i were in the chaos of the story myself. If Ceaser were with us today he was would prolly love it, i think, senate what do you think? ...
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I mid-June 1963 I was at the NYC premiere of CLEOPATRA, which cost $40-milllion, ran 243 minutes, and ended @ 100AM! I could never have imagined that 63 years LATER, almost exactly to the day(!), I'd watch a dozen youngsters ("20-30") race and shout their way through the entire same story in 97 minutes in a WeHo garage, and it would SEEM longer! For today's audience, NOT familiar with this Roman/Egyptian saga and its many, many now-obscure characters, it must all seem like a lot of "...Sound and Fury, Signifying....???" ...
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A very ambitious topic covered in the funniest, silliest most chaotic way possible. This would've been an excellent SNL skit. At 1:30 it's hard to keep up all those jokes going and going, but this cast found a way to make so much complicated history compelling and entertaining. ...
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