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11 November 2009 1:09 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

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 last

On 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 as well – then maybe they won't get you.

As soon as Keats appeared with his quill, I knew it was bad. Ignore the applauding critics; they have been blinded by the Shrek franchise. »

- Tanya Gold

23 March 2009 12:00 AM, PDT | PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news »

The son of poet Sylvia Plath followed in his famous mother's tragic footsteps by committing suicide. Nicholas Hughes, 47, hanged himself at his home in Fairbanks, Alaska, on Monday, March 16, the Associated Press reports a week later. His death comes 46 years after his mother committed suicide and nearly 40 years after his stepmother, Assia Wevill, did the same. Hughes's sister, Frieda Hughes, issued a statement professing her "profound sorrow" and saying that her younger brother "had been battling depression for some time." Hughes, an evolutionary biologist, worked at University of Alaska Fairbanks for nearly a decade before leaving the position about a year ago. »

- Marla Lehner

2 articles from 2009