Intrigued by a movie version of Howl?

"Next year, a star-studded cast -- James Franco, Alan Alda, Jeff Daniels, Mary-Louise Parker and Paul Rudd -- will dramatize the literary life and times of Allen Ginsberg in the biopic, Howl," reports MediaBistro.  "After a summer dominated by superhero blockbusters, it seems somewhat quixotic to make movie heroes out of poets and literary critics. The film also faces the daunting task of getting the Internet generation excited about a 50-year-old poem."