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...Wednesday before Christmas. Leonardo DiCaprio had agreed to talk with TIME. Talk with me, to be exact. I explained that I was supposed to leave for the theater in an hour to see the Broadway "La Boh?me" directed by Baz Luhrmann, DiCaprio's once ("Romeo + Juliet") and future ("Alexander the Great") collaborator. That's OK, my editor said, Leo will be calling you in 10 minutes...
...half of England's most celebrated couple; she is married to soccer star David Beckham, who plays for Manchester United. Their combined profiles and incomes made her the target of a shadowy group of alleged art thieves who plotted to take hostage her and her two sons Brooklyn and Romeo for close to $8 million. The plot was foiled after Scotland Yard was tipped off by the tabloid News of the World, whose reporters had infiltrated the cabal. The thwarted kidnapping allowed tabloid reporters to revert to more fan-friendly matters. First came reports that Victoria had signed...
...other day I opened up an old copy of the New Yorker and came across a cartoon titled “The IMs of Romeo & Juliet.” Mocking our generation of IM-users, the cartoon had Romeo start out saying “yo wassup” and “scool sucked 2day.” Overall, I have to agree with the magazine’s message. There’s something wrong when “talking to friends” means staring at your computer screen and typing, while not gesturing or making...
...house--are often treated with well-known antidepressants (Paxil, Zoloft, Prozac). Not surprisingly, some pets end up on the same medicines as their owners. That fuels some vets' criticism that the treatment is just an exercise in anthropomorphizing the animals. But Dodman, a pioneer in this field, writes of Romeo, a King Charles spaniel that was a compulsive licker. Romeo also barked constantly, to his owner's and the neighbors' distress. Prozac was prescribed, says Dodman, and it kept the puppy from being put down by its exasperated owner. --By Andrea Sachs
...production in a novel space, giving way to an As You Like It on the beach or Hamlet in the actual ruins of Elsinore. The second, or conceptual tack, applies an external theme to the play’s framework, leading to Richard III in fascist Italy or Romeo and Juliet at a post-apocalyptic rave. The third posits some new interpretation of a character that flows against the traditional grain, allowing a lovable, misunderstood Iago or a courageous, bloodthirsty Hamlet. Hyperion’s current version of Macbeth takes both the first and third avenues...