Stoppard is not unfamiliar with the espionage genre. From Wordnik.com. [Filmstalker: Bond 22 directing rumours] Reference
As a playwright, Stoppard is drawn to the dark and philosophical. From Wordnik.com. [How Hollywood Saved God] Reference
Nevertheless, the translation by Tom Stoppard is excellent and the ensemble work superb. From Wordnik.com. [Where I was yesterday] Reference
Daily Mirror agony aunt Miriam Stoppard is also the real aunt of former Labour MP Oona King. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-11-01] Reference
The report claims that playwright/Oscar-winning screenwriter Tom Stoppard is "in talks" to pen the screenplay. From Wordnik.com. [Filmstalker: Bond 22 directing rumours] Reference
Stoppard was born Tomas Straussler in Czechoslovakia. From Wordnik.com. [Mind Over Matter] Reference
Stoppard is a master architect of language and ideas. From Wordnik.com. [Stop-Rocks] Reference
Stoppard was born in Czechoslovakia; left as a baby in 1938. From Wordnik.com. [Printing: Rock 'n' Roll: Art or Politics?] Reference
Stoppard dazzles and delights us; Pinter simply provokes us. From Wordnik.com. [Pinter and Losey] Reference
Related online listening: Stoppard on the Leonard Lopate Show. From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily: Shorts, 11/24.] Reference
‘Then a stretch with Peter Hall doing Stoppard and Chekhov.’. From Wordnik.com. [Whipping up a storm] Reference
Stoppard, Tom, ˜The Presiding Spirit of Isaiah Berlin™ (in PDF). From Wordnik.com. [Isaiah Berlin] Reference
I, for example, always try to read a Stoppard play before seeing it. From Wordnik.com. [Mainstream Marketing vs. the Central Six, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
(And Tom Stoppard picks up on this in his trilogy The Coast of Utopia.). From Wordnik.com. [Balkinization] Reference
HBO movie with a script by Tom Stoppard, to be directed by him, as well. From Wordnik.com. [An Interview with Robert Parker] Reference
Levine at the Met, and plenty of Stoppard and Pinter on or off Broadway. From Wordnik.com. [Edmund S. Phelps - Autobiography] Reference
"It's wanting to know that makes us matter," says Hannah, speaking for Stoppard. From Wordnik.com. [Mind Over Matter] Reference
A superb entertainer, Stoppard sees no conflict between that and true seriousness. From Wordnik.com. [Mind Over Matter] Reference
It's as if Stoppard were arguing not only with his first critics but with himself. From Wordnik.com. [The Real Thing; The Concise Dictionary of Dress] Reference
And wouldn't the Bennett, Stoppard or Frayn be an equally good title for a theatre?. From Wordnik.com. [Dorfman or Cottesloe? Does it matter what a theatre is called?] Reference
It was only after her death in 1996 that Stoppard, then 59, began exploring his roots. From Wordnik.com. [Stop-Rocks] Reference
Discovering this link was "a watershed," says Stoppard, who was born in Czechoslovakia. From Wordnik.com. [Stop-Rocks] Reference
The studio reportedly called Stoppard and told him not to do any more work on the script. From Wordnik.com. [How Hollywood Saved God] Reference
Second, Stoppard portrays a few of his characters as more frivolous than they actually were. From Wordnik.com. [Stinky Inky, Part VI: Carlin Romano's April Fools' Joke on His Philadelphia Inquirer Readers] Reference
Stoppard provides an answer at the end, an answer connected to Hapgood's code name of Mother. From Wordnik.com. [What Happens When Spies Collide] Reference
Norman explains that once Stoppard transformed the words, it had to become an English production. From Wordnik.com. [Brush Up Your Shakespeare] Reference
Stoppard, a master at using wit and humanity to lighten up Big Ideas, denies his play is a polemic. From Wordnik.com. [One Brit vs. The Utopians] Reference
Yet, what Stoppard has rendered brilliantly accessible, Romano has rendered ghastly unintelligible. From Wordnik.com. [Stinky Inky, Part VI: Carlin Romano's April Fools' Joke on His Philadelphia Inquirer Readers] Reference
Unlike a Graham Greene or a John Le Carre, Stoppard isn't concerned with espionage as a morality play. From Wordnik.com. [What Happens When Spies Collide] Reference
"Miriam, my second wife, used to chase up and down the touchline watching our sons play," says Stoppard. From Wordnik.com. [Mind Over Matter] Reference
In the age of toothless sound bites and attention-span interruptus, Stoppard does ask you to turn on your brain. From Wordnik.com. [Mind Over Matter] Reference
"It's my experienced say this gently-that audiences seem to have a lot less trouble than certain critics," says Stoppard. From Wordnik.com. [Mind Over Matter] Reference
Stoppard wants us to think about tolerance, freedom and how we live our lives -- but also about how idealism can be subverted. From Wordnik.com. [One Brit vs. The Utopians] Reference
It is a play where Stoppard turns himself into a clown whose juggling balls are romanticism, classicism, and the meaning of life. From Wordnik.com. [Johann Hari: Is This the Greatest Play of the Late Twentieth Century?] Reference
Stoppard understands that the new formulations of science and thought are changing art because they are changing the shape of reality. From Wordnik.com. [Mind Over Matter] Reference
Stoppard uses music to sharp effect, depicting a world increasingly aware of the power of individual consciousness to shape societies. From Wordnik.com. [Stop-Rocks] Reference
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