Newsweek - USA (2020-03-20)

MARCH 27, 2020

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“How could any movie, even one with Elizabeth Taylor and a cast of

thousands, cost $40 million?” asks Newsweek. The public blamed

Taylor for what they saw as lavish expenses, but unforeseen setbacks racked up

costs throughout the movie’s production—like the “$7 million and sixteen

months spent in Britain for twelve minutes of film.” Directed by Joseph L.

Mankiewicz, Cleopatra was, at the time, the most expensive movie ever made.

Now, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011) holds that title, with

expenses topping $378.5 million, nearly 10 times that of Cleopatra.

1997

“Discovered only two years ago, a brilliant

Hale-Bopp arrives in the night sky,” says

Newsweek. “This one is worth the watch.”

For 18 months, the unusually bright

comet was visible to the naked eye

across the Northern Hemisphere—and

very widely observed. It last passed Earth

4,200 years ago, in 2215 B.C., and it

won’t be visible again until the year 4385.

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2004

Newsweek writes that “*oogle has

revolutionized the way many of us work,

learn and play. Now the search giant’s

rivals are scrambling to catch up.” Spoiler

alert: The competitors never caught up.

To d a y, *oogle dominates among search

engines and is consistently ranked the

world’s most popular website.