CHICAGOLAWBULLETIN.COM FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2017 ® Volume 163, No. 175 Serving Chicago’s legal community for 162 years “We just need to put everything on one bulb.” On the exchange floor, it’s clear Visuals eclipse that every stratum of Dutch so- ciety mingles in the grimy casino milieu where pedigrees to exotic RE B E C CA flower bulbs are auctioned. L. FORD We root for this reverse-Cin- storytelling in derella romance because we are supposed to, not because it’s easy. Rebecca L. Ford is counsel at Scharf Cornelis may be a “fatuous wind- Banks Marmor LLC, and concentrates her practice on complex litigation, compliance, b a g , ”but Jan has creditors pound- board governance and specialized ing at his door, and his Falstaffian ‘Tulip Fever’ employment issues. She is the former buddy Gerrit’s (Zach Galifanakis) executive vice president for litigation and unreliability is epic. intellectual property at MGM. She can be Tom Stoppard, the playwright reached at
[email protected]. who wrote “Shakespeare in Love,” Play invokes the best of Flemish visual art, adapted the screenplay. With its missions Jan Van Loos (Dane De- missed connections, convent in- but the corniest of Hollywood plot devices Haan), an artist who is equal to trigue and deus ex machina end- his wife in youth and beauty, to ing, “Tulip Fever”reflects the paint the couple’s portraits. B a r d ’s influence, as well as the n the Dutch Golden Age of She arrived barefoot, and now You see where this is going. farces and morality plays popular the 17th century, Amsterdam Sophia leaves the orphanage in a The lovers take the woozy, ro- in the period.