I just got home from the hospital and felt the need to share an incredible experience I had today.  It’s been a whole YEAR since I’ve had a round of treatments.  My choice, really.  The complications from last year’s sessions were uncomfortable and unnerving.  So, I put them off for as long as I could – at least until my doctor admonished me.

For eight hours I’m tied down to 2 machines.  Thank heavens the chair is comfortable and the bathroom nearby.  Anyway, I like to watch a movie during each session.  Usually a classic – what men would call a chic flick with old fashioned clothes.  Seldom in any of our lives can we enjoy a 4 hour extravaganza of a movie so I chose this session to watch Cleopatra.  You know the one –  with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.   It was beautiful, amazing, stunning.  What else can I say?  It is the perfect old fashioned clothes chic flick.  Taylor is stunning, Burton gorgeous.

Elizabeth Taylor once told the story of falling in love with Richard Burton on the set of this film.  I watched both of the them closely and I can say I felt the electricity between them.  You can see her swallow nervously during one of the close scenes.   The next time you get the chance to have a girls’ night in – you might want to check this film out.  It is available from iTunes for rent for $2.99.

Check out my library link to the right to see some of the new biographies on Cleopatra.  It is too bad that she has come down through history so poorly.  Fall in love with a couple of the most powerful men in the world, have their kids so they won’t destroy your country and voila! – you are a harlot.  I think most women of her day would have thought her quite clever.  The Egyptians loved her during her reign.  Unfortunately, men – Roman men – got to write her story.    Good thing she predated the Christians.  I don’t think she would have fared any better than Joan d’Arc.

Okay, so the row of ram headed sphinx aren’t exactly historically accurate and the scenery is a bit kitchy but still,  I honestly loved every minute of this film.  Check out the row of sphinx late in the movie when Elizabeth goes back to Alexandria after they are beaten by Octavian.  Here’s what they really look like – with little pharoahs under the rams’ chins.  Let me know if you liked the film, too.