April 16, 1999

Hollywood in Love

By MARTIN HARRIES

The day after the world watched Gwyneth Paltrow's tears, The New York Times reported a whole series of guesses about why Shakespeare in Love, rather than one of those big, important movies about the last just war, had won the Academy Award for best picture.

One speculation strikes me as on the right track. An unnamed executive from DreamWorks, the studio that produced Saving Private Ryan, speculated that

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