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                    [Title] => Shaking up Shakespeare
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Taking a William Shakespeare play as source material and coming up with a film that is contemporary and relevant has always been a challenge for today’s film directors and producers.

[DatePublished] => 2012-01-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805321 [AuthorName] => Philip Cu-Unjieng [SectionName] => Entertainment [SectionUrl] => entertainment [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 727369 [Title] => Blame the nosebleeds on William Shakespeare [Summary] =>

How do you teach high school students to truly appreciate the work of Shakespeare if he wrote it in old, fanciful English? When, even more importantly, their first language isn’t English?

[DatePublished] => 2011-09-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134107 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1436319 [AuthorName] => Kara Ortiga [SectionName] => Young Star [SectionUrl] => young-star [URL] => http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/4610/ystar2thumb.jpg ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 442943 [Title] => Bollywood comes to the Oscars [Summary] =>

John Legend did his best. The show’s producers even gave him a gospel chorus for his performance of Down to Earth.

[DatePublished] => 2009-02-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135672 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804842 [AuthorName] => Baby A. Gil [SectionName] => Entertainment [SectionUrl] => entertainment [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 414869 [Title] => Blues travelers [Summary] => Young hearts, run free / Never be hung up, hung up like my man and me, goes the Kym Mazelle song best remembered in the Leo DiCaprio-Claire Danes-starring, Baz Luhrman-helmed Romeo and Juliet. [DatePublished] => 2008-11-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Young Star [SectionUrl] => young-star [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 341854 [Title] => The brides of June [Summary] => There she is radiant at the entrance of the altar. She waits for her turn to march down the aisle after the entourage has finished their processional. She glows in the moment. Pachelbel’s "Canon"soars through the hollows of the church. Then she marches down the aisle. Her walk is steady. Sure of herself, she approaches the altar. Then the smile turns to tears. No wonder, waterpoof makeup is a requirement for weddings. 
[DatePublished] => 2006-06-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1440512 [AuthorName] => Kevin Piamonte [SectionName] => Fashion and Beauty [SectionUrl] => fashion-and-beauty [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 257757 [Title] => All’s fairy in love and war [Summary] => Baz Luhrman revitalized a clichéd love team for the ADD generation with the cut-and-paste oversaturation of Romeo + Juliet, showing that even Elizabethan English can still somewhat make sense if recast in a more familiar, trendy and media-drenched context. The universal themes of life, love and betrayal, after all, never change, and the Bard was really closer to the soul of the masses than what distracted high schoolers have been misled to believe. [DatePublished] => 2004-07-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133679 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1149216 [AuthorName] => Audrey N. Carpio [SectionName] => Young Star [SectionUrl] => young-star [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 235965 [Title] => Master filmmaking instructor in Manila [Summary] => Dov SS Simens, founder of Hollywood Film Institute in Los Angeles, California and known as the "Champion of Independent Filmmaking", is in Manila to hold a two-day Film School on Jan. 24 to 25, at the Expo, Greenbelt 1, Ayala Center, Makati.
[DatePublished] => 2004-01-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Entertainment [SectionUrl] => entertainment [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 127835 [Title] => Second sexiest woman in the world to write her own book [Summary] => I’m sure curious kayong malaman kung sino ba siya. Lalo na kapag nalaman n’yo na isa siyang Pilipina at tinalo lamang siya ng nasa number one position na si Jennifer Lopez by a small margin. She is non other than Donita Rose, isang paboritong product endorser (Greenwich, Globe, Lux, Pepsi, Gen X), movie/TV actress and MTV Asia VJ.
[DatePublished] => 2001-07-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135473 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1786987 [AuthorName] => Veronica R. Samio [SectionName] => PSN Showbiz [SectionUrl] => showbiz [URL] => ) ) )
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