HOLLYWOOD: Shoot Only When Covered

Cleopatra was once rendered unto Caesar in a rug, but today she is wrapped up in an insurance policy. Before 20th Century-Fox began filming Cleopatra early this fall, the studio spent an estimated $390,000 in premiums for a Lloyd's of London standard policy covering possible delays. Then production got under way in a spectacular, 8½-acre, open-air reproduction of Alexandria, just west of London. But in the title role, Elizabeth Taylor turned out to be little more than queen for a day.

An abscessed tooth put Liz in the hospital. While she recuperated last week in California, her bright-eyed three-year-old daughter...

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