Whether you're a believer or an atheist, you've probably heard of the Ark of the Covenant. Either through teachings of the Bible or by watching Indiana
Of all movie genres, the literary biopic is among the likeliest to come across as phony, mushy, or just plain dumb. It conjures images of the anguished author wringing words from the typewriter think of Jane Fonda as Lillian Hellman in Fred Zinnemann’s admirable but cliched Julia or a kind of glib romanticism about the writer’s life, evinced in the perpetual popularity of movies about the Beats (including Heart Beat, starring Nick Nolte as Neal Cassady, or Kill Your Darlings, with Daniel Radcliffe, of all people, as Allen Ginsberg).