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Shakespeare in Love fancifully retells the creation and premiere of Romeo and Juliet. It peoples the London of 1593 with the usual suspects--Christopher Marlowe (crafty Rupert Everett), Queen Elizabeth (Judi Dench, a sly dominatrix)--and some ageless show-biz types: the poverty-pleading producer (Geoffrey Rush), the backer with a lust for limelight (Tom Wilkinson). Director John Madden works in jokes about profit sharing and credit hogging, and a climax in which the real star steps in for an indisposed leading lady...
...highest honors. Other credits: he was acting president of the student government, most valuable player in his basketball league, a Little League star and an accomplished saxophone player. Teachers describe Donny as a natural leader who lights up a room with his charm. His success, says assistant principal Judi Callanan Devlin, "is due to his innate ability and his work ethic--and then his mother is very clear about her expectations...
...youth of America, who make up a large percentage of movie-goers, have not been represented as they should be. (Anyone seen Mrs. Brown,for which Judi Dench received a Best Actress nomination? Anyone heard of Judi Dench?) We at Harvard may feel particularly left out, seeing as we were the inspiration for a disproportionate number of Oscar-nominated films this year...
WILL WIN Count out Christie, whose film was barely seen (and not that great), and Winslet, who delivered lines like "I'd rather be Jack's whore than your wife!" In the Dueling British Ladies contest, Judi Dench in Mrs. Brown, who won the Golden Globe, has more momentum than The Wings of the Dove's Helena Bonham Carter. So the race is between Dench and Helen Hunt, also a Globe winner. Give Hunt the edge, since she won the Screen Actors Guild and is the only American nominee--that's how Tomei beat four Limeys...
...screen presence to win. Ditto for Kate Winslet(Titanic), who merits only compassion for her efforts to overcome a rotten script. Julie Christie(Afterglow) already has her Oscar dues; the showdown will likely be between Helena Bonham-Carter (The Wings of the Dove) and Judi Dench(Mrs. Brown...