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...Fiennes, struggling with writer's block and a script called Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter, until he falls in love with Viola De Lesseps (Gwyneth Paltrow), who becomes his Juliet. Fact weaves with fantasy, verse with demotic dialect, low comedy with high passion; and as director John Madden puts it, "Who dares put words in Shakespeare's mouth and get away with it?" The answer is Stoppard, who says, "It never occurred to me to worry about Shakespeare's language butting up against mine. It's not a competition...
That's a start, anyway--football as text. Papers for future discussion: "The Huddle: Gemeinschaft or Gesellschaft?" "The Snap from Center: A Buried Semiotics of Homoeroticism?" "From Cosell to Madden: Pedants and Blowhards in the Booth...
...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...
...Madden says the long learning curve explains why so many grayhairs who should be regaling bowling buddies with stories about the good old days are still putting on helmets. The league will have three quarterbacks in their 40s as of next week, when Tennessee backup Dave Krieg enters middle age. Seattle Seahawks starter Warren Moon is 41, and Atlanta Falcons backup Steve DeBerg, at 44, is the age of Manning and Leaf combined. Oakland Raider backup Wade Wilson is 39; Denver Bronco John Elway, 38; and Minnesota's Randall Cunningham, 35, came out of retirement two years ago and threw...
...learning from the bench, Madden says it's a moot point with Manning and Leaf because their teams don't have better quarterbacks. For better or worse, they are the future of each franchise, and both Madden and Bradshaw say that although Leaf can throw the football to Hawaii, Manning is further along in geometry class. He's the son of Archie Manning, a heck of a quarterback who played for the Saints when they were called the Aints and fans wore bags over their heads, so Junior might have inherited some poise, a quality everyone is very...