But the draft doesn't need to be Hamlet.

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It stands to reason that a 90-minute "Hamlet" can't be poetic other than in passing.

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Aren't the fictional characters of great writing-- Hamlet, Raskolnikov, Emma Bovary--at least as compelling as real people?

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Jackson Pollock, the abstract expressionist - who presumably didn't have an interest in his stockbroker neighbours - resided in the hamlet of Springs until he died there in a car crash.

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Populated by mainstream Americans and Mexican immigrants, by the working class and the retired, this hamlet is a poor outpost with Old West roots where people don't miss society and have often dropped out of it.

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Hamlet's one, I think I'd have been a marvellous Hamlet but, I never, I never got to that, in fact I didn't get much Shakespeare because I was, got so busy with films during the war and there just wasn't time.

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