Word: hamlet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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McCullough's main weakness is one he shares with Truman: he occasionally fails to wrestle with the moral complexities of policy. Truman took justifiable pride in his feel for right and wrong, but he was an unreflective man at times, a proudly untroubled non-Hamlet...
...Like Hamlet as he strolled the ramparts of Elsinore castle, Danish voters last week confronted a dramatic dilemma: to be, or not to be fully a part of the new Europe. Their answer, which provoked an instant volley of slings and arrows from the nation's outraged Community partners, was an astounding no. By a 50.7% majority, meaning roughly 48,000 votes out of nearly 4 million cast, Danes voted in a referendum not to ratify the treaty of Maastricht, a landmark agreement that pledges the Community to monetary as well as political union by the end of the century...
...movie began as a screenplay written for Bette Midler by playwright Paul Rudnick (Poor Little Lambs, I Hate Hamlet). When she said no thanks, the script became an orphan with many foster parents, and the usual Hollywood bustle commenced, with a new star and half a dozen new writers (including Carrie Fisher). In arbitration, the Writers Guild ruled that Rudnick was the only writer who deserved screen credit, but he declined the honor. "Joseph Howard" is the pseudonym for a committee...
...Stars on the screen put fannies in the seats. Sure, but what's a star? * Mel Gibson? In Lethal Weapon movies, but not in Hamlet. Steve Martin? In Father of the Bride, but not in L.A. Story. Over the past three years, only three actors -- Arnold Schwarzenegger, Kevin Costner and Sean Connery -- have starred in two $100 million-plus pictures. Just one performer has starred in three. But Julia Roberts is taking the year...
...almost twenty years old, having a full-fledged love affair, as well as his neurotic mother taking on lover, Van. All this dismay follows his father's untimely death and the departure of his mother and sister from their decrepit house--his melancholic behavior resonates with allusions to Hamlet...