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Summer Sizzlers | May 2000

by Beth Rowen Dinosaur Disney's animated extravaganza Dinosaur What would summer be without a Disney animated extravaganza? This year's entry is computer-generated, à la…

1948 Academy Awards

The 1948 Academy Awards were presented March 24, 1949 at the AMPAS Theatre, Los Angeles.Best Motion PictureHamlet (British) (J. Arthur Rank-Two Cities; Universal-International)Johnny Belinda…

Shakespeare Quotes: Tragedies

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears William Shakespeare Related Links William ShakespeareQuiz: Famous Quotes from Shakespeare Shakespeare's PlaysShakespeare's…

Ophelia's Flowers of Madness

The Question: What Shakespeare play is this quote from? "There's rosemary, that's for remembrance; pray,love, remember: and there is pansies. That's…

Brewer's: Hammel

(Scotch). A cattle-shed, a hovel. (Hame = home, with a diminutive affix. Anglo-Saxon, ham, home. Compare hamlet.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…

Brewer's: Kin, Kind

“King. But now, my cousin Hamlet, and my son” - Ham. “A little more than kin, and less than kind.” Shakespeare: Hamlet, i. 2. Kin or kinsman is a relative by marriage or blood more…

Lights! Camera! Learning!

The best school movies ever made Sir Laurence Olivier's classic Hamlet With school bells set to ring in only a matter of days, it's time for students to shift into back-to-school mode. What…

Redgrave

(Encyclopedia) Redgrave, family of English actors. Sir Michael Redgrave, 1908–85, b. Bristol, Eng., was an actor, director, and writer. After his first professional performance in Counsellor-at-Law (…

Famous Shakespearean Actors

From John Barrymore to Emma Thompson   Sir Lawrence Olivier as Hamlet Related Links Shakespeare on Film Royal Shakespeare Company Quiz: Shakespeare's Life and Times  …

Brewer's: Gags

in theatrical parlance, are interpolations. When Hamlet directs the players to say no more “than is set down,” he cautions them against indulgence in gags. (Hamlet, iii. 2.) (Dutch,…