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...hours reshooting scenes and redubbing voice-overs. "I would do a movie for a year if I could, and do as many takes as I can," he says. "I'm indecisive. It isn't my strongest character trait." Even the decision to star in Titanic took a long time. Baz Luhrmann, the director of Romeo + Juliet, finally convinced him that a big-budget film offered its own kind of acting risk. "The thing he hates most in life is making a decision," says Luhrmann. "It's a great pain to get Leo to commit to anything in life, particularly...
Happily, this adaptation hasn't gone the way of others featuring beautiful blonde heroines (think Great Expectations). While iambic pentameter usually complicates dialogue enough to make directors resort to other narrative devices (dance in West Side Story and gaudy cinematography in Baz Luhrman's Romeo and Juliet), Hoffman's production miraculously retains both the language and the humor of the original version. Case in point, Calista Flockhart is surprisingly effective, delivering lightweight slams like "spite... oh hell!" with utter conviction. Less a comedy of language than a physical comedy of errors, film makes it possible to keep all the characters...
CONCEIVED BY: Baz Luhrmann, director of the 1996 film Romeo + Juliet and the 1992 film Strictly Ballroom...
...done so many times before. Performing "Shakespeare-in-the-yard" has become so cliched that the Class of 1999 made the phrase itself the title of their Freshman Musical. However, add some modern twists, funky costumes and characters with character, and you've got a hit as big as Baz Luhrmann's "Romeo and Juliet"--or, on a more local scale, last spring's production of "As You Like...
...paying gigs, a music video for Soul Asylum. She played the angelic sister, Beth, in Little Women, and in her most widely known role to date, on the TV show My So-Called Life, she was an angst-ridden teen called Angela. Now, amid the racy urban grime of Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, she wears white, has a room full of china angels and dons wings for a party. But she insists, "I'm human. I think people see me as sweeter and softer than...