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...legal pundit, or Hamlet invoking "words, words, words" could have explained the wrongful-death lawsuit against Simpson more succinctly. As the defense prepares to rest this week, jurors will ponder what has been presented to them. Under gentle questioning from his attorney, Robert Baker, Simpson constructed the architecture of his life, recounting his impoverished childhood in San Francisco and detailing his development as an athlete throughout high school and college. Baker spent a good deal of time prompting Simpson to list his athletic achievements and awards, from the Heisman trophy in 1967 to his status as perhaps the game...
MOVIES . . . HAMLET: "If Kenneth Branagh doesn?t win an Oscar for his four-hour, uncut ?Hamlet,? " says TIME's Richard Corliss, "he should at least cop a Chutzpah Award." Here's the most eclectic cast in movie history -- Julie Christie, Billy Crystal, Gerard Depardieu, John Gielgud, Rosemary Harris, Charlton Heston, Derek Jacobi, Jack Lemmon, John Mills, Robin Williams, Kate Winslet and the Duke of Marlborough, to name but a dozen -- in the second longest film released by a major studio (after ?Cleopatra?). To his credit, the actor-director-adapter approached this job not as a solemn duty or an egotistical...
...weary, stale, flat and unprofitable,/ Seems to me all the uses of this world," says Hamlet to himself...
...Hamlet endures as a character because he is the embodiment of the unsatisfied soul. He is irritating and threatening, a scold, a drag. He is the relentless accuser and reproacher, who cries, "O shame! Where is thy blush?" But he is also part of the people he confronts; he is that "noble and most sovereign reason" within them too, which is why his unnerving presence among them eventually overthrows the status quo and winds up revolutionizing their world...
...needed Hamlet. It needed a noble person for an ignoble time--someone who kept his eyes on the significant, honorable and right. What was missing in 1996 was not the shimmering personality or the magnificent event or the spectacular work of art; it was the old absurd and necessary dream of the perfectible society. In its place was merely the dream of escape, which Hamlet had too. The difference was that Hamlet made his escape only after he achieved his purpose...