Shapiro versus Godzilla

In a whirlwind of tinfoil, the author of Contested Will takes on the perpetrator of "Anonymous."  I hope there's a transcript!

          Tonight at the Director’s Guild Theater, a screening of the forthcoming
          movie “Anonymous” was followed by a heated discussion between Roland
          Emmerich, the director, and James Shapiro, a Shakespeare scholar.
          Conspiracy, drama, and contention were in the air, and why not? All the
          world’s a stage, after all.

          James Shapiro on the film as a whole: “This was factually incorrect in almost every respect.” (applause)

          James Shapiro on how things happen in Hollywood: “I’ve long been interested in why smart people say
          stupid things.”

          James Shapiro on royalty: “I’ve never seen Queen Elizabeth depicted as
          someone who couldn’t keep her legs together or her head on straight."


The Oxturbators will be frothing mad.

And just as an apéritf after that swill, Ralph Fiennes on Coriolanus.

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