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				    HAMLET
		       A film review by X
			Copyright 1991 X

     Seeing this HAMLET I thought of a scene from AMADEUS: "Wolfy" sits
slumped in the balcony.  It is towards the end of the flic and Wolfy is
already far down the degenerate's path.  He smile and watches as his
dark and somber Don Giovanni is enacted by the "regular folk."  He
smiles.  He laughs as the midgets scramble across the stage singing
bawdily.  The audience applauds and laughs at the, seemingly, proper
moments.  The moments are duly exaggerated by the populist engineers.
His wife protests but is calmed when she is reassured that such "art" as
this will surely bring in a ton of dough.

     This HAMLET has been made for the median.  I understand the
Shakespeare should be made accessible to everyone.  But we can't just
dish it out or cut and paste it down the throat of a commercial society.
I strongly believe there are two parts to literature and two parts to
any expressive art--the creator and partaker.  Art should challenge us.
It should make us think hard and arrive at whatever artistic realization
we surprised to see.  I feel good art should ask of us more than it
gives of us.

     This HAMLET gives a lot.  It demands very little.  And what it
gives, however well served, has been seen again and again.  This HAMLET
is the haute cuisine of Hollywood commercial pastry.

Well, at least this HAMLET wasn't as bad as my typing.