Word: hamlet
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...films will be on view: Romeo and Juliet, Al Pacino's Looking for Richard and the British Twelfth Night, or What You Will, directed by Trevor Nunn, the former Royal Shakespeare Company artistic director who has been named boss of the Royal National Theatre. Branagh has his four-hour Hamlet ready for Christmas. Filmmakers are trying every tactic--cultural intimidation, lavish spectacle, frenzied camerabatics and the casting of young stars--to put the masses in the seats...
...bosses, who will never replace the NEA as arts benefactors, is to make a profit. And that can happen when it's the directors and stars, eager to do good works and glean Oscar nods, who subsidize the projects by working for next to nothing. Branagh's sumptuous-looking Hamlet was shot for a mere $18 million. In its domestic release, the film need gross only about $12 million to break even. Why, Robin Williams, one of Hamlet's A-list co-stars, could earn that much on a single Jumanji-size movie...
Gibson, who was born in Australia, has won two Academy Awards, both for his work starring in and directing the film "Braveheart." He has also starred in such films as "Lethal Weapon," "Hamlet...
Humanity. Right. Getting back to the theme. Yes, humanity these days appears to be on the upswing in our fine hamlet of Cambridge. People...people in the houses and on the stages are suddenly getting it, suddenly and thankfully. Good night, America...
Life, alas, is a bit harder on these un-moneyed dinosaurs of style--all aspiring actors--than it was on the cast of Ocean's Eleven. Rob (Ron Livingston) has done Hamlet off-Broadway; now, if he's lucky, he can play Goofy at Disneyland. Sue (Patrick Van Horn), perhaps compensating for his girl's name, picks fights with punks. Even Trent (Vince Vaughn), the cute one, has problems; he's so at ease with his boyish charm, he's forgotten that maybe it's time, at 24, to grow...