Writer-Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz (All About Eve) announced that his version of Cleopatra, which stars Elizabeth Taylor (naturally; who is Pharaohess of them all?), would be considerably different from Shaw’s Caesar and Cleopatra.

“So, two babushki are riding the electric train. One says, ‘Oi, there is so little rain this year the cucumbers are only this big.’ ” Alyosha holds up his palms, two inches apart. “ ‘Don’t worry, dear,’ the deaf babushka says, ‘the most important thing is that a man be good.’ ”

And this the practice of Christians hath acknowledged, who have baptized these geminous births.

Smith had merely dug a shaft, salted the mine with a good grade ore, in order to lure Jeremiah into purchasing.