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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
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Film Producer
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Watch
Shakespeare

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