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Article: Critical Eye.
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Literary bad boys caught on film... the century's greatest romance debunked... Madonna's studio wizard goes solo... and books that make great gifts--and better doorstops.
FILM It seems Hollywood has found an unlikely new ally in its battle against government regulation: everyone's favorite Enlightenment-era literary bad boy, the Marquis de Sade.
In Quills, which opens November 22, Geoffrey Rush stars as the French nobleman and libertine who, confined to the Charenton asylum, devotes himself to his writing. The authorities resolve to silence him, enlisting the aid of noted physician Dr. Royer-Collard (a top-notch Michael Caine), who proposes a program of ...
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