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...chase for audience approval and Oscar nods, screenwriters Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard could not have custom tailored "Shakespeare in Love" any better. Gwyneth Paltrow bares her breasts, audiences can test their recognition of the Shakespearean quotes interspersed in the dialogue, the most acclaimed playwright and poet is known by the affectionately simple title "Will," and the bond between two beautiful lovers is yet again tragically severed. What is there not to love? Oh, and one more thing: the screenwriters took the liberty of redirecting a bit of William Shakespeare's prose to alter his sexual orientation. But in Hollywood...
...face of it, who in the British theater world appears more established, and Establishment, than playwright David Hare? Last year, despite his decades of scathingly political writing targeted at the holy trinity of monarchy, government and church, he was knighted. In London, where the theater is woven into the fabric of everyday life as in no other place in the world, Hare is one of the city's most popular and prolific craftsmen. In 1998 four of his works were staged--four new works, that is--and all did well enough to make...
Those who know him, though, say his venture into acting is just further evidence that Hare has reached a new level in his work. "He's just got better and better," says director Eyre. "The more usual shape of the playwright's career is to have huge sunbursts of energy early on and then to rather simmer away." Hare admits, "I find myself with almost an abundance of subject matter." And he writes every day, no matter what. "It's heresy to say so, but the Beckett path--whereby you start out writing many words and you end up writing...
...Goodnight Moon. Sophisticated teens will want to stop for a hamburger at the White Horse Tavern on Hudson Street, the onetime haunt of poet Dylan Thomas. And St. Luke's Place is a literary warren: novelist Theodore Dreiser lived at No. 16, poet Marianne Moore at No. 14, playwright Sherwood Anderson...
East-coast intellectuals, like Appalachian mountain folk, are famous for their feuds. When Whittaker Chambers accused Alger Hiss of being a Soviet spy in the 1950s, the political elite chose sides, and some still aren't speaking. After novelist Mary McCarthy called playwright Lillian Hellman a liar--or, more precisely, said, "Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'"--the literary crowd split in two. They're at it again. That rumbling out of Washington is the sound of a new chattering class feud--and unaligned wordsmiths had better head for the hills...