Word: luhrmann
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CONCEIVED BY: Baz Luhrmann, director of the 1996 film Romeo + Juliet and the 1992 film Strictly Ballroom...
PROVENANCE: A column Schmich wrote in 1997 achieved fame when it got sent out over the Internet, inexplicably and erroneously labeled as a commencement speech by author Kurt Vonnegut. Taken with Schmich's words, Luhrmann added a techno beat...
...many times before. Performing "Shakespeare-in-the-yard" has become so cliched that the Class of 1999 made the phrase itself the title of their Freshman Musical. However, add some modern twists, funky costumes and characters with character, and you've got a hit as big as Baz Luhrmann's "Romeo and Juliet"--or, on a more local scale, last spring's production of "As You Like...
Danes and DiCaprio speak most eloquently with their faces (hers strong, his soft) and with the hurt and ardor that make this a Rebel Without a Cause for the '90s--1590s or 1990s. Sometimes it takes a radical like Luhrmann to get to the root of a natural-born screenwriter like Shakespeare...
...gigs, a music video for Soul Asylum. She played the angelic sister, Beth, in Little Women, and in her most widely known role to date, on the TV show My So-Called Life, she was an angst-ridden teen called Angela. Now, amid the racy urban grime of Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, she wears white, has a room full of china angels and dons wings for a party. But she insists, "I'm human. I think people see me as sweeter and softer than...