Walk like an Egyptian to the bookstore and� read Stacy Schiff’s great new bio on the real-life Cleo
Liz Smith | 11/05/2010 12:00 am
"THE ONLY negative that the Romans could find about Cleopatra was that she was a woman. Other than that, privately, they considered her a master politician, tactician and survivor. But, given Roman attitudes toward women, they couldn’t honor her attributes. She had to be demonized as a whore, whose sexuality was her great ? her only! ? calling card."
That’s actress Kim Cattrall, phoning from London, talking about her role as the misunderstood "Serpent of the Nile" in Shakespeare’s "Antony and Cleopatra" at the Liverpool Playhouse, England. Miss Cattrall, thought of as the quintessential hyper-sexed ...
Source: http://www.wowowow.com/culture/liz-smith-kim-cattrall-liverpools-serpent-nile-509372
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