The twelve U.S. Congressmen had dragged themselves away from their Washington duties to serve as the U.S.'s official delegates to the Italian Centennial celebration. Naturally, they took their wives and, naturally, when they arrived in Rome, they hustled right out to the
Cinecitta movie studios to have their pictures taken with Elizabeth Taylor on the set of 20th Century-Fox's beleaguered Cleopatra.
Humbly, the Congressmen stood around drinking at a soundstage bar, watching a corps of almost nude ballerinas rehearsing as slave dancers—and waiting. Taylor did not show. Eddie Fisher arrived in a...
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