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Entertainment WeeklyGives Oberlin Alum Julie Taymor Top-Story Position
The whole Entertainment Weekly story, "Julie Madly Deeply"
FEBRUARY 11, 2000--The February 11 issue of Entertainment Weekly (EW) has a three-page article on Oberlin alumna and Lion King director Julie Taymor '74 and her feature-film-writing-directing-designing debut, Titus. What EW calls the "energetic, bracingly gory 2-hour-and-40-minute adaptation of the early Shakespeare tragedy" stars Anthony Hopkins and Jessica Lange and "depicts life in ancient Rome as one big circle of death."
"I love revenge stories," Taymor told EW. "They're full of strong emotions." Now in limited release, Titus has grossed $700,000 to date.
According to the article, in April Taymor will revive her Off Broadway production The Green Bird, a commedia dell'arte fairy tale, in a Broadway theater. She also wants to adapt several other of her past theater pieces into movies, including the opera The Flying Dutchman and The Transposed Heads, taken from a Thomas Mann novella. Transposed Heads, says EW, is "about a woman in love with two men--one brainy, one brawny--who have their noggins switched but don't end up creating one ideal husband."
"It's such a great love story," Taymor told the weekly. "Best one I ever heard."
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