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I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence.

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Ian Mcewan
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: June 21
Author
Film Producer
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
Belfast
Ireland
Every
Watch
Shakespeare
Never
Littles
Production
Men
Little
Productions
Sorrowful
Time
Come
Decent
Curtain
Play
Warm
Apologize
Feel
Obvious
Curtains
Feels
Intelligence
Apologizing
Even
Watches
Halfway

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