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...make good on the success of Oscar hit "Shakespeare in Love." To be sure, that comedy misappropriated a few of the sonnets for dramatic purposes, but it brought lines from "Romeo and Juliet" to the screen and was filmed on a set similar to the Bard's old haunt, The Globe Theatre, recently rebuilt in London. "A Midsummer Night's Dream," a serious effort at bringing an entire play of Shakespeare's--lines and all--to the screen is scheduled for release on May 7 (Calista Flockhart/Ally McBeal as Helena seems an odd choice, but Kevin Kline as Bottom...
...three-page press release on seth bechis' accomplishments written by his adoring parents will haunt the pre-frosh for at least 525,600 minutes...
Root seekers haunt cemeteries. Dennis Rawlings had almost given up searching for a set of great-grandparents in a Port Hope, Ont., graveyard when, on a hunch, he took a pen from his pocket and poked it into the ground, hitting something hard. Tearing up the sod, he found an old stone reading MARY ANN RAWLINGS--DIED 1869. "We picked up 'Grandma' and cleaned her up for the next 100 years, until somebody else comes to visit," he recalls. "It felt like an episode from The Twilight Zone...
...anarchic spirit of the '60s got sold out. But this adaptation of Julian Barnes' first novel, by director Philip Saville and screenwriter Adrian Hodges, has some good things going for it. They understand that it isn't politics, Pop Art or drugs that would come permanently to haunt the memories of that brief, lost time for people like Chris. It's the sex, stupid. And the freedom that era offered to pursue it across all sorts of formerly formidable barriers...
...question of what this behavior meant, andmeans, is exactly as simple as Hemingway's prose:what is implied runs deeper than most otherwriters could ever state, Cowley explains thatHemingway's "heroes live in a world that is like ahostile forest, full of unseen dangers, not tomention the nightmares that haunt their sleep.Death spies on them from behind every tree. Theironly chance of safety lies in the faithfulobservance of customs they invent for themselves...