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Pacino's Passion
23 November 2004The Merchant of Venice is coming to a theater near you, with Al Pacino as Shylock. James Shapiro, author of Shakespeare and the Jews and one of the definitive books on passion plays, is not happy. "'This is Mel Gibson's 'Passion Part II,' says [Shapiro.] 'When you go down Gibson's road, this is where you end up. You can't have the demonization of Jews without seeing where it ends up — and it ends in ghettoization and persecution.'" More...
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