Two of my favorite poets--Sylvia Plath and her husband, Ted Hughes--are apparently going to get the bio-pic treatment. According to the Sunday Times (of London), Russell Crowe is to play Hughes and Plath will be played by (drum roll)...Gwyneth Paltrow. I actually think those are pretty good choices. Paltrow looks a bit like Plath, and though Crowe doesn't look much like Hughes, he has that glowering, uber-male presence that Hughes had. More important, both can act. Thank God the BBC will be producing this, and not Hollyweird. At one point, I had heard that Meg Ryan was being considered for the Plath role in some tinseltown production. [He gags.]

Ananova - Russell Crowe in line to play late poet