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Old 2007-04-23, 16:50   Link #1621
Vexx
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 66
... it reminds me of those silly sketches where the "adaptation writers" so completely rework a story that it is unrecognizeable to the author outside of the title. Why did they even bother to lift the title? Lots of stories abound about "doomed love" without people being named Romeo or Juliet.... (I've already done enoug posts lampooning 'adaptations gone wild')

For something fun like what I'd rather see ---
If anyone remembers a tv series called "Moonlighting" that included such unknowns as Bruce Willis and Cybil Shepard... they did a wonderful "omake theatre" episode called "Atomic Shakespeare" that was a fanciful musical satirical blend of the play "Taming of the Shrew" and its parallels with the world the characters inhabited. The setup was we saw a kid who was a fan of "Moonlighting" wanting to watch the show but was banned from the tv set until he finished his Shakespeare essay...
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