<PRE><TT>>You're quite right. The most remarkable thing about the movie is that >someone managed to be put it about that it was good. The woman may one >day >learn something about acting -- it's an open question -- but Murray, >who >should know better, was in fact much better in Ethan Hawke's Hamlet. >--CGE </TT></PRE><PRE><TT>yep -- a pretty slow year for movies ensured coppola fille became </TT><TT>the toast of indiedom with her </TT><TT>woefully limited </TT><TT>(not to say modest -- wasn't the point of the scarlett johannson character that she was a self-important narcissist who sought validation for her bitchiness above all else?), and and notably offensive sophomore effort -- virgin suicides is a much more significant achievement, and the reason i won't write her off. yet.</TT></PRE><PRE><TT>but, as much as i cherish the work of michael almereyda, his (dear g-d, not ethan hawke's!) hamlet was a major disappointment for me, in execution, hawke's performance (making tom cruise look like paul scofield) and the truly lamentable underutilization of bill murray as polonius. one of almereyda's unfortunate elisions of the play's text impacts murray directly -- when polonius asks hamlet "will you walk out of the air, my lord?" and hamlet replies "into my grave," polonius, in the film, remains silent. what i wouldn't have paid to hear murray's lips get around polonius' original reply as written by willy s.: "indeed, that is out o' the air."</TT><TT></PRE></TT> <DIV>________________________________james keepnews Art is algebra plus fire. -- Borges _____music+writing+webart+multimedia performance</DIV> <hr size=1>Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. <a href="http://messenger.yahoo.com/">Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger</a>