Who was William Shakespeare? Was he the Bard of Avon, the rags-to-riches playwright whose brilliant command of language produced “Hamlet,” “Macbeth” and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”? Or was he a drunk, a fraud and a shameless opportunist?
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Screenwriter John Orloff tried to get his Shakespeare movie made. “Shakespeare in Love” in 1998 was one big roadblock, but Orloff kept at it.After a 20-year journey, “Anonymous” finally opens Friday in Bay Area theaters.“Anytime I was in a meeting with someone, I’d pitch it, and one time I was in a room with Roland Emmerich,” says Orloff, during a recent Bay Area visit.
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John Cusack is an interesting actor, and if his movies are not always up to his best — among them "Say Anything" (1989) and "High Fidelity" (2000) — they are at least watchable.
That he has chosen to star in Roland Emmerich’s latest disaster fantasy, the laughably overwrought "2012," does no damage to his credibility and reaffirms his talent for bringing heft to an otherwise weightless exercise.
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