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"  Photo: Courtesy of Bulgari It&amp;#039;s hard to imagine anyone outdoing the actresses who dominated Italy&amp;#039;s Dolce Vita decade\u2014Claudia Cardinale, Monica Vitti, Sophia Loren, and, of course, Anita Ekberg, who so famously parodied them all in Federico Fellini&amp;#039;s La Dolce Vita\u2014but leave it to the histrionics between Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton behind the scenes of 1963&amp;#039;s Cleopatra to take the drama to the next level. When they weren&amp;#039;t arguing on the set at Cinecitt\u00E0, Rome&amp;#039;s studio city, Liz &amp;#039;n Dick were making up at the Bulgari store on Via Condotti. The paparazzi frenzy followed the couple&amp;#039;s every move throughout Hollywood on the Tiber, as Rome was known in the early &amp;#039;60s, capturing the narrative of Taylor (aka the Diva) and her many love affairs with men\u2014and with Bulgari. Now, 20th Century Fox is celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of Cleopatra by rereleasing it in all its Technicolor glory, and Bulgari has crafted a Diva collection (see below) of showstopping high jewelry and what the company calls &amp;quot;medium-high&amp;quot; (priced between roughly $14,000 and $84,000), as well as handbags and sunglasses that offer a fresh take on the whimsical, bold luxury of those unforgettable divas. Underscoring Bulgari&amp;#039;s big moment, the brand&amp;#039;s first U.S. retrospective, &amp;quot;The Art of Bulgari: La Dolce Vita and Beyond,&amp;quot; is running at San Francisco&amp;#039;s de Young Museum from September 21 to February 17, 2014. Eight pieces from Taylor&amp;#039;s infamous trove and other never-before-seen items from private owners will be on display. &amp;quot;The exhibition very much channels Taylor&amp;#039;s spirit,&amp;quot; curator Amanda Triossi says. &amp;quot;She felt she was a temporary keeper of these beautiful objects and wanted them to be enjoyed by others.&amp;quot; Oh, Elizabeth, you shouldn&amp;#039;t have!  Photo: Courtesy of Bulgari "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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