No screen tests for these famed lovers

Cleopatra was a sharp-nosed, thin-lipped woman with a protruding chin, and her paramour, Mark Antony, no great looker, according to University of Newcastle scholars, who have unveiled a coin depicting both unflattering profiles.

“The image on the coin is far from being that of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton,” said Lindsay Allason-Jones, director of archeology museums at the university, recalling the 1963 film “Cleopatra,” which ignited the tempestuous romance between the two actors.