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What to Look For Danes is breaking out of her previous typecasting as she ditches her nice girl image that has followed her from My So-Called Life to Romeo and Juliet to Les Miserables and replaces it with a tougher character. In the recent trend of theme-sharing movies (war, asteroids, bugs), this plot seems to echo Return to Paradise (drugs and Americans in trouble with the law in Asia). Another interesting tidbit is that a thoughtless quote by Danes about living conditions in Manila, Philippines, where it was filmed, led to violent reactions. There is talk of banning...
Allocating funds to new Women's Studies department with 30 fresh professorship rather than an institute would do the same, allowing students of both genders to benefit by offering an incentive to study for credit, to read post-modern feminist theory, to discuss Army Tan novels, Juliet Schor sociological tracts and Simone de Beauvoir. In this way, Radcliffe would stay true to its mission to "advance society by advancing women" of all ages, while prioritizing undergraduate education...
...skyrocketed much as Jane Austen's did a few years ago as every Hollywood producer scrambles to 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...
CONCEIVED BY: Baz Luhrmann, director of the 1996 film Romeo + Juliet and the 1992 film Strictly Ballroom...
...idea was to spice the old format with smart comers--Claire Danes (Romeo + Juliet), Omar Epps (Higher Learning) and Giovanni Ribisi (the medic in Saving Private Ryan)--and a screw-you modernity. Instead, director and co-writer Scott Silver (Johns) gives us a surly anti-toon; it's the Three Sociopathic Stooges with lots of Method mewling. By the time Ribisi has his big shouting scene with Epps ("Dude, your cover's been blown. Your cover's been blown. You cover has been blown!"), you realize these kids just aren't having any fun playing cops. But hang around...