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Hollywood should stop making films about our great writers | Tanya Gold

published Tue, Nov 10 2009 03:00 GMT
Bright Star, the new movie about Keats, has ruined him for me. It's not the first time and it certainly won't be the lastOn Sunday I did the bad thing again. I bought a ticket to Bright Star, the biopic about John Keats. I have always liked Keats, despite the line, "Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird!" But I had forgotten what I call the Impromptu Law – after the George Sand biopic, Impromptu (1991), which stars Judy Davis as Sand and Hugh Grant and a handkerchief as Chopin.My "Impromptu law" states: don't watch films about writers. Die of tuberculosis. Stick your head in the oven. If you are a writer, stick your life's work in the oven ...

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