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...Norman and Stoppard yearned to make a movie about homosexuality, here would have been an opportunity to show that the man capable of creating the "greatest love story of all time" would have pursued not Juliet, but fair Romeo. But this plot would not have rewarded the screenwriters with adoring audiences, and certainly not with 13 Oscar nominations...
...necessarily activate the female swoon response. It may be smart for women to go for the billionaires and tribal big shots, but in practice their choices are often politically and economically irrational, if not self-destructive. Helen dumped a perfectly good warrior-king for the cute but feckless Paris. Juliet fell for a scion of the enemy clan. In rock-'n'-roll tradition and movies from The Wild One to Shakespeare in Love, it's the penniless no-account who makes the girls scream--and did anyone see Titanic...
...Women's Studies 132, "Shop 'Til You Drop," Professor Juliet Schor mentioned a few weeks back how Americans today say they cannot meet their "needs," even on healthy middle-class salaries. Over the last few decades, wants have become needs with great rapidity. Harvard, it seems, is experiencing the same phenomenon. Dean Knowles includes improving "athletics" and "the Houses" among the many "needs" Harvard has. As much as we may complain about the Malkin Athletic Center and the crummy Leverett lighting, we don't need to improve them...
...Sandy comes with strong responses to the material," notes John Madden, director of Shakespeare in Love, which speculates fancifully about the Bard's inspiration for Romeo and Juliet. "She comes armed with instinct." Among Madden's favorite creations for the film were the costumes she made for the staged production of Romeo and Juliet. He loved the way in which the lavishness of the players' dress contrasted with the shabby browns worn by the commoners in the audience. "At first we thought it looked bizarre," says Madden, "but what was so brilliant was how she captured in costume how extraordinarily...
...ages. A delicious, brilliantly crafted example of how a movie can entertain, move and impress without sacrificing wit and intelligence. In a play-within-a-play, Joe Fiennes plays Shakespeare as an ill-fated Romeo trying to woo his upper-class Juliet (Gwyneth Paltrow). What prevents this familiar tale from degenerating into cliche is its self-awareness--it's a fulfilling romance and a sharp comedy. And a luminous Paltrow glowingly convinces why she is worthy of the greatest mind of all time...