Clown’s Dream

Léo Arnaud and His Orchestra ~ Carnival in Rio, 1956
Léo Arnaud: French-American composer of film scores, best known for Bugler’s Dream, which is used as the theme by television networks presenting the Olympic Games in the US. 
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"I think that the longer I look good, the better gay men feel" -Cher

Liberace gives Cher, in character as ‘Laverne,’ a tour of his Hollywood Hills mansion for an episode of The Sonny And Cher Show in January 1974 in Los Angeles, California. [Photo Michael Ochs Archives]

Cleopatra

Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have
Immortal longings in me: now no more
The juice of Egypt’s grape shall moist this lip:
Yare, yare, good Iras; quick. Methinks I hear
Antony call; I see him rouse himself
To praise my noble act; I hear him mock
The luck of Caesar, which the gods give men
To excuse their after wrath: husband, I come:
Now to that name my courage prove my title!
I am fire and air; my other elements
I give to baser life. So; have you done?
Come then, and take the last warmth of my lips.
Farewell, kind Charmian; Iras, long farewell.

Kisses them. IRAS falls and dies

Have I the aspic in my lips? Dost fall?
If thou and nature can so gently part,
The stroke of death is as a lover’s pinch,
Which hurts, and is desired. Dost thou lie still?
If thus thou vanishest, thou tell’st the world
It is not worth leave-taking.

William Shakespeare ~ Antony and Cleopatra