That might not be as dramatic as the image of Cleopatra clasping an asp to her breast.
Fellow former teenage heartthrob Selena Gomez put on Vegas-y frocks and an unfortunate Cleopatra-inspired hairdo.
Since the days of Cleopatra, jewelers have vied to get celebrities to wear their products.
Cleopatra followed to the throne a sister who had briefly succeeded in deposing their father.
Cleopatra emerged as stand-in for her occult, alchemical land, the intoxicating address of sex and excess.
Herod did the same, expounding in the course of Cleopatra's Jerusalem visit on her shameless behavior.
Cleopatra, when in bed, inveigled Mark Anthony into giving her any kingdoms she wanted.
After Cleopatra, the star smartly negotiated a 10% ownership stake in each of her films.
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Cameron had been toying with doing a 3-D version of Cleopatra with Angelina Jolie at Sony.
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Also joining the first lady in her box will be Cleopatra Cowley-Pendleton and Nathaniel A. Pendleton Sr.
In fact, a whole array of tarts: Nell Gywnne, Lady Hamilton, Cleopatra (to tiny Ronnie Corbett's Caesar).
In Octavian's version, Cleopatra assumed the role of the "wild queen, " lusting after Rome and plotting its destruction.
In 1889, British actor Claude Rains, who starred in the films "Casablanca, " "Robin Hood" and "Caesar and Cleopatra, " born.
Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Macbeth, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, Timon of Athens, Titus Andronicus.
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Cleopatra - ancient historian Plutarch wrote that she was buried with her lover Mark Antony in an undisclosed location.
There are references to it in Homer's Odyssey and Shakespeare's plays Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet and Anthony and Cleopatra.
However, this is not an exhibition that delves into how Cleopatra has been imagined (and romanticised and vilified) in the modern period.
From "Cleopatra" to "Apocalypse Now, " these infamous productions have all been struck by extreme weather, tragedy, illness and sometimes death.
"The way people are covered these days, even if you were Cleopatra, people would get tired of you, " he says.
Both Helen Mirren and Cathy Tyson have played Cleopatra in London recently, while Frances de la Tour is about to.
The movie's great surprise, and delight, is Salma Hayek's Elena, a svelte monster with a Cleopatra haircut who runs the cartel.
Theirs was one of the great love stories of history, in a league with Napoleon and Josephine or Antony and Cleopatra.
Wealth and culture also happened to share an address in Cleopatra's lifetime.
In the Roman view, Cleopatra quite literally possessed an embarrassment of riches.
In 1878, the obelisk known as Cleopatra's Needle, originally cut from the quarries of Aswan in about 1475 BC, was erected in London.
Five months ago, ASEAN's foreign ministers met at the weird and wacky Sunway Lagoon, a suburban resort dressed as a Cleopatra movie set.
Cleopatra's relationship with Mark Antony was the longest of her life, but that with Octavian, the future Caesar Augustus, would prove the more enduring.
Nobody knows exactly how Cleopatra snuffed herself, the asp agent discredited, but she was a great student of toxic poisons, inclusive of cobra venom.
After a string of reported affairs, the Burtons' marriage finally collapsed after he met Elizabeth Taylor on the set of the 1963 film Cleopatra.
And Cleopatra controlled the greatest grain supply in the ancient world.
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