Shakespeare Punches Burt Reynolds

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There’s a piece of advice that every writer gets at some point in their career, and it goes like this: “Write what you know.”

The irony of course is that as writers keep on writing, eventually “what they know” the most about is being a writer. You may have noticed that a whole heck of a lot of Stephen King characters are novelists. And you may have noticed that Hollywood types love to make movies and TV shows about working in Hollywood.

“The Twilight Zone” creator Rod Serling was no exception to this rule, so although he wrote a lot of different stories about a lot of topics that spoke to him in various ways, he wasn’t above writing the occasional tale about why the entertainment industry is a terrible place. Sometimes it’s a story about how Hollywood Westerns are insipid and irresponsible. And sometimes it’s a story about how Hollywood studios would ruin the works of William Shakespeare if he were alive today…

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