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...precision--that Gollob found "galvanizing." It whetted his appetite for more Shakespeare. He started reading plays and watching PBS videotapes. Before long, his curiosity had grown into a full-blown obsession--and a new way of life, as Gollob explains in his book, Me and Shakespeare: Adventures with the Bard (Doubleday; $26), to be published...
...owing to Jordan's "finding his legs," Barkley said, "I don't think it had anything to do with his legs. He wanted [the Celtics'] Paul Pierce. Paul Pierce talked trash to him in the pre-season...Michael can kick his butt." It is hardly Harold Bloom on the Bard, but sports, as Barkley points out, "doesn't require a Harvard degree." He confirms what most hoops fans suspect is true: that the game is often driven by clashing personalities and deep grudges, and the better athletic talent usually wins...
...Fallen Angels, in which she wore a wig and played Punkie, a semicrazed jilted girlfriend. That won Mok a best supporting actress award from the Hong Kong Film Academy. "She's not one of us and nobody knows what to do with her," says Kar-wai, Hong Kong's bard of nihilism and neon. "The Hong Kong Cantonese look at a young Maggie Cheung and see her as the girl next door. They look at Karen and can't identify." Mok has a monopoly on marginality in Hong Kong movies and she's adamant about its benefits: "Hong Kong directors...
EMINEM Australia granted the bard of spousal abuse a visa to perform this week, but Immigration Minister Philip Ruddock says the rapper was warned that it "carried with it a responsibility of respect for our multicultural society and values and the need to avoid vilifying or inciting discord." Is there an instrumental version...
...main vehicle for it, the special medium through which he staked his claims as seer, prophet and bard, was the hand-etched and -printed book. Part of Blake's uniqueness is that you cannot separate his writings from his art. He was probably the first major European artist of whom this was true. Illuminated manuscripts had been done for hundreds of years before his birth, but usually the script was by one person and the decoration by another, while the actual text had originally been composed by a third...