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...taking shape in their living room. Finally, I just had to ask what was going on. It turned out that their son John, a seventh-grader, was putting together a skit with a group of other kids. Their short play was loosely based on Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew, except that it was set inside a gigantic mouth, and the main characters were teeth. The theme involved not a tumultuous relationship but the invention of the electric toothbrush. Yet part of the dialogue was lifted verbatim from the Shakespearean original...
Meanwhile, the teen comedy "10 Things I Hate About You" is keeping the Bard's spirit alive by basing its plot loosely--very loosely--on "The Taming of the Shrew." Amidst the discussion of Prada backpacks and prom dates, if you listen closely enough, you might hear a few snatches of William's immortal verse. All of which goes to show us that more than four centuries after his first play was performed, Shakespeare stays with us as a writer for all seasons and all topics. With the help of a cool web site from MIT (www-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare) which allows...
...EMBRACED, LIKE, SHAKESPEARE: "I lucked out in terms of timing," Stiles says, poised to appear in three youth movies borrowed from the Bard. 10 Things is basically Taming of the Shrew in high school; an updated Hamlet will star Ethan Hawke as the melancholy Dane; and O, currently filming, is a retelling of Othello set in the world of high school basketball...
...would expect otherwise? If a scandal hangs around long enough and becomes familiar enough, it takes on the quality of a melodrama, pushed along by characters that quickly harden into recognizable types. Depending on your point of view, Linda Tripp is a double-crossing shrew or a courageous whistle blower. Monica Lewinsky is either a vixen or a violated innocent. (An innocent in thong underwear, but still.) And Lucianne? At a minimum, she is forever sealed in history as the New York City literary agent who uttered to her friend the most ruinous sentence of the Clinton presidency: "Linda...
...Heckerling comedy Clueless transformed Jane Austen's Emma into a modern-teen hit, and they dip some literary favorite into the fountain of youthpix. The fall film Ten Things I Hate About You, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt of 3rd Rock from the Sun, is "The Taming of the Shrew in high school." Next year's Cruel Inventions, with Gellar and Dawson's Joshua Jackson, was pitched as "Dangerous Liaisons in high school." Then there's Strike, billed as "Lysistrata in high school." Can a teen Finnegans Wake be far behind...