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...academia to accept that there is "room for reasonable doubt about the identity of William Shakespeare" and to start taking the research into who is really responsible for his works seriously. Along with Jacobi and Rylance, signatories include Charles Champlin, the former L.A. Times arts editor; Michael Delahoyde, an English professor at Washington State University; and Robin Fox, professor of social theory at Rutgers University in New Jersey. Some more famous names, like Mark Twain, Charles Dickens and Orson Welles, also lent their posthumous support in a list of people who expressed their own doubts about the Bard when they...
...retired back in Stratford until his death in 1616. But that's where the agreement ends. Stratfordians, as they are known, believe that this William Shakespeare is the same man who wrote what would become known as the greatest body of literary works in the history of the English language. The Anti-Stratfordians say that there is, in fact, nothing solid linking Shakespeare with the plays, poems and sonnets attributed...
...Hark, the Hong Kong action master. The gaudily talented, impossibly prolific Takashi Miike got his start here and soon became a Madness regular. One of the highlights of TIFF 2007 is Miike's Sukiyaki Western Django, a shotgun-vs.-sword sagebrush pastiche in which all the actors speak phonetic English - except for Quentin Tarantino, in a succulent cameo role...
...opportunity," Illinois Senator Barack Obama said via translator (all responses were given in English and simultaneously translated). "It's a privilege to be here," said New York Senator Hillary Clinton. "An extraordinary privilege," echoed former North Carolina Senator John Edwards...
During the Univision debate, Richardson made the most of his ethnic advantage. Going against the debate's rules, which called for all answers to be given in English, Richardson answered in Spanish. "I'm very proud, first of all to be the first Latino - major Latino candidate to run for President," said Richardson, who has been gaining in polls of early voting states, though he only averages 3% nationally. "I'm disappointed today that 43 million Latinos in this country, for them not to hear one of their own speak Spanish...