![]() ![]() ![]() “Shakespeare in Love” - part of a slew of overrated Best Picture winners that includes oversentimental saccharine such as “Crash,” “Titanic” and “The King’s Speech” - took home seven trophies at the 1998 Oscars, including, as previously stated, dubiously awarded honors for Best Picture and Best Actress. In case you can’t decipher the pillaged sonnet in the article’s lead, here’s some background. But then again, neither is “Shakespeare in Love,” no matter how many flowery romantic clichés its characters spew in cloyingly delivered Early Modern English. That’s all loosely paraphrased from the Bard himself - loosely to the point when it’s no longer really poetry.
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