It's a long time since I saw the film, longer, apparently, than memory. I do remember Gwyneth Paltrow, tho. At 02:28 PM 4/4/2009, you wrote: >From: "Mark Weiss" <[log in to unmask]> > >>And there's that offhand anachronism of portrayiong John Ford as a >>bloody-minded London guttersnipe, a bit of a reach, since when R&J >>was written he would have been 4 or 5 and snug in the family bosom in Devon. > >I thought that was John Webster -- would that fit the chronology better? > >Though if Webster was born c. 1580 and R&J was written in 1595, he >might equally be anachronistically *old for the character as portayed. > >Robin