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Article: DANCING FOOLS.(Review)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- June 30, 2000
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A musical Shakespeare, Proust and Woody Allen
Back when talkies were still a novelty, Sam Taylor (my uncle) directed Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford in Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew" and was immediately ridiculed by the critics. This was because the title credits included the line, "Additional dialogue by Sam Taylor."
In view of the freedom taken in adapting the Bard today, I doubt that anyone would notice.
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