[New-Poetry] Hollywood does the poets

[Tad Richards]

Joseph Fiennes as Shakespeare, Ronald Colman as Francois Villon

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Jeff Newberry <jeff.newberry at gmail.com>wrote:

> Jim's post got me to thinking:  what is your favorite portrayal of a poet
> on the big screen.  I actually liked DiCaprio as Rimbaud in *Total
> Eclipse*.  I didn't see *Sylvia*, but someone told me that Paltrow did a
> good job with the role.
>
> --Jeff Newberry
>
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 10:21 AM, <jforjames at aol.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> http://www.firstshowing.net/2010/12/13/first-bw-look-john-cusack-as-edgar-allan-poe-in-the-raven/
>>
>> Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary… I'm not
>> sure how they got it, but The Huffington Post (via MTV) recently debuted the
>> first photo (or this just a Photoshop?) of John Cusack as  poet Edgar Allen
>> Poe in James McTeigue's The Raven. The dark thriller has been shooting
>> Europe for the last few months and is a period piece about the last five
>> days before Poe's odd death, in which the poet is in pursuit of a serial
>> killer whose murders mirror those in his stories.
>>
>> ==
>> Celebrity poets...
>> http://www.thefrisky.com/post/246-10-celebs-who-played-poets/
>>
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