You can't write about an iconic Hollywood star of the sixties without bumping up against Elizabeth Taylor.

My idol when I was a kid was Elizabeth Taylor.

Elizabeth Taylor. In her heyday, she was amazing.

Elizabeth Taylor has more chins than the Chinese telephone directory.

My first husband ran off with Elizabeth Taylor.

Cleopatra: You come before me as a suppliant.

Antony: If you choose to regard me as such.

Cleopatra: You will therefore assume the position of a suppliant before this throne. You will kneel.

Antony: I will *what*?

Cleopatra: On-your-knees!

Antony: You dare ask the Proconsul of the Roman Empire?

Cleopatra: I *asked* it of Julius Caesar. I *demand* it of you