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any thoughts on the romeo and juliet movie?  i thought it was an
insult to shakespeare




---Camille Scaysbrook <verona_beach@geocities.com> wrote:
>
> I've just been invited to the Australian press premiere myself on
Thursday
> - and I must say I'm looking forward to it probably like no other
movie
> since `Romeo + Juliet' (coincidentally). I only found out a few
weeks ago
> that it was Stoppard, which made me extra delighted because I've
always
> found his work so clever and distinctive and idiosyncratic (not to
mention
> excellent). The Bard deserves no less!  
> 
> I'm actually in the middle of writing a radio play in a very similar
vein -
> investigating the link between the character of Ophelia, Shakespeare's
> lifetime obsession with Hamlet, and the drowning death of a young
woman
> named Katherine Hamlet in the Avon when Shakespeare was a teenager.
And I
> will admit that forging such a life/art link convincingly is quite
> difficult. I shall be interested to see what Stoppard makes of it.
> 
> Will Hochman wrote:
> > Well, yesterday I saw _Shakespeare in Love_ and not to give too much
> away,
> > but the bard and Romeo are synthesized quite brilliantly.  I think
it
> > was Tom Stoppard's screenplay work that made literature and life
> intersect
> > in some of the most lovely ways I've yet seen. 
> 
> Camille
> verona_beach@geocities.com
> @ THE ARTS HOLE www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/6442
> @ THE INVERTED FOREST www.angelfire.com/pa/invertedforest
> 
> 

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