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Finding Orlando

By the spring of 1988, years of trying to convince financiers that Orlando was a makeable film had led nowhere. The file of rejection letters was getting fatter and fatter. One studio head even wrote that not only could the film never be made, it should never be made.

It seemed that making was turning into a moral imperative … for them. Virginia Woolf was not adaptable for the screen, especially not this unrealistic book. And even if

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