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The Roman emperor Caligula's name has become a byword for depraved tyranny, used as a popular benchmark for everyone from Idi Amin to Jean-Bedel Bokassa. But was Caligula really mad and bad, or the ...

In the 1970s, Bob Guccione — publisher of the porn magazine Penthouse — commissioned a script for a sexually explicit Roman saga from novelist Gore Vidal. He hired Tinto Brass — who’d just made the ...

A curator in England has rediscovered a tiny Roman-era bronze bust of the emperor Caligula, which had been missing for some 200 years. The artifact was unearthed in the mid-18th century at Herculaneum ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Malcolm McDowell and Helen Mirren in ‘Caligula' (Penthouse Films International LLC) While Brass and Vidal didn’t exactly see ...

While Brass and Vidal didn't exactly see eye-to-eye, the real problem came with the film's financier, Bob Guccione, the founder of the erotic magazine Penthouse. McDowell had raised concerns even ...