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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