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Eliot, who will no doubt share screenwriting credit with Stoppard in the film version of Cats , once referred to his poetry as a "superior amusement," a description that applies to Stoppard's plays as well: They are amusing, and they make us feel superior.
Stoppard's name, familiar to anyone who cares about modern theater or who took AP English in high school, signifies a deft blend of high culture and high wit, deep thinking and schoolboy cleverness.
In her personal memoir A Place in El Paso, Gloria Lopez-Stoppard has a delightful de-scription of the use of pilón during her childhood.
(One of Stoppard's best-known plays, Travesties , grows out of his discovery that Lenin, James Joyce, and the Dadaist poet Tristan Tzara all spent time in Zurich in 1916, and imagines what their table talk might have been like.)
It's the critics who are in love: Gwyneth Paltrow is gorgeous, Joseph Fiennes is dashing, and the movie is "smart and giddily entertaining" (David Ansen, Newsweek ). Fiennes' young Will Shakespeare has an affair with Paltrow's character that becomes the basis for Romeo and Juliet . Tom Stoppard and Marc Norman's screenplay is full of amusing references to Shakespeare plays, but is not so erudite that it won't please crowds, and the dialogue "percolates with bubbly finesse" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). The New Yorker 's David Denby puts a slight damper on the general festivities: He says the film starts out muddled, though it livens up by the end.