My first article at HollywoodIsTalking.com was titled, No Room For Poets At The Hollywood Inn? and was a tongue 'n cheek rant about poets being shut out of the film industry. HIT's aspiring screenwriter, LaughCalvin, e-mailed me today as it appears someone else has been thinking along the same lines as myself. Reviewer Simon Augustine writes:

"Could writers working prior to the 20th century have imagined their creations and characters being expressed in films, with all the dramatic innovations that moving pictures afford? With the advent of film, the literary arts, ancient by comparison, were instantaneously afforded a new interpretative dimension, as occurs when any new art form appears and is able to comment and expand upon another. In this process, the old art form and the new one are changed forever. Placed alongside the fresh aesthetic abilities of cinema, the frame of the written page acquires an adjunct frame, that of the screen, and a conversation ensues between the two frames that provides a new conceptual space, not to mention limitless new fodder for critical thought." Writers and Poets on Film

I've yet to be hired by any Hollywood movie studios but I'd say a movie about Sylvia Plath is a step in the right direction.