tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post3840187553476934960..comments2024-03-29T14:45:32.326+13:00Comments on The Imaginary Museum: Movies about Creative Writing TeachersDr Jack Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01805945600952222957noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post-81580184481515146392016-05-11T19:48:51.709+12:002016-05-11T19:48:51.709+12:00Interesting. I haven't seen the film based on ...Interesting. I haven't seen the film based on Chabon's book but it looks interesting. I saw the film with De Vito who was great in the very good TV series 'Taxi'. But I had forgotten the plot that one of them had writer's block, but thanks to my "memory" called Wikipedia I remembered it (mostly).<br /><br />Did you think of the film 'The Shining' which I finally saw a year ago or so: I always wanted to see the movie. It was good and I 'quoted' "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." That was a great movie. But it's not about teaching but has the aspect of writer's block. <br /><br />My son has told me a lot about 'Misery'. It is a brilliant idea for a movie / book. Of course characters or fans getting into books is an old idea but that doesn't matter. In that respect 'At Swim Two Birds' by Flann O'Brien is an example of the characters rebelling and so on. <br /><br />That fake biography. I read a biography of Hughes. I dont know who wrote it. I've been quoting it! Of course anything about his life is going to be pretty crazy...now I think of it perhaps it was the fake one. <br /><br />Well, about 1992 I had written a poem with things in it from that (I read it at The Shakespear at Poetry Live and it went down well. In fact the US poet Kleinzhaler was there (he was the guest poet), and he liked it (he had come with Ashbery to Australia, but Ashbery stayed there), I had a beer with him and read him one of my poems. As a side comment his poems are good... Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10272507198753290435noreply@blogger.com