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Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader and making it into a poem that, primarily, has to be a plausible poem in English.
And the inner dynamics of Hollywood are like politics. Say you give a script to a group of executives - they all sit around, afraid to voice an opinion, saying nothing, waiting to know what the consensus is. Just like focus groups, opinion polls or a cabinet.
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Claudia Cardinale, Actress (1938) |
Bliss Carman, Poet (1861) |
Joe Davis, Celebrity (1901) |
Dave Edmunds, Musician (1944) |
Leonhard Euler, Mathematician (1707) |
Luke Evans, Actor (1979) |
Eva Figes, (1932) |
Jay Garner, Soldier (1938) |
Henry James, Writer (1843) |
Simon Dach, Poet (1659) |
William Empson, Poet (1984) |
Oliver Evans, Inventor (1819) |
Greta Garbo, Actress (1990) |
Jean Genet, Dramatist (1986) |
Abraham Lincoln, President (1865) |