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...occasional novelist, edited the manuscript and supplies (from Cammell's notes) a last chapter, in which Annie finally beds a piratical dragon lady after whom he has long lusted. Their encounter, which involves foreign objects and upturned bums, may strike some readers as less than delectable. And only borderline rompish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Legend Writes a Novel | 8/7/2005 | See Source »

...soft, what light through mogul's closed mind breaks? It is the glimmer of belief that there might be an audience for movies based on the plays of William Shakespeare. Since 1993, when Kenneth Branagh's rompish Much Ado About Nothing earned $23 million at the domestic box office on an $8 million budget, studios have begun to belly up to the Bard. "Much Ado showed Hollywood how successful and enjoyable a Shakespeare movie could be," says Lindsay Law, president of Fox Searchlight Pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: SUDDENLY SHAKESPEARE | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

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