Movie: Loaded Gun: Life and Death and Dickinson

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Billy Collins
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Himself

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Leslie Fleming-Mitchell
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Emily Candidate

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Julie Harris

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Nicole Jesson
Nicole Jesson

An Emily Dickinson

Dan Lombardo
Dan Lombardo

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Polly Longsworth
Polly Longsworth

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Lisa Perkins

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Alan Powers

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Michele Proude
Michele Proude

Auditioning Emily

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    Hundreds of scholars and biographers have tried to explain the life and work of Emily Dickinson, but the famously reclusive poet remains an enigma. In LOADED GUN: Life, and Death, and Dickinson, stumped filmmaker Jim Wolpaw uses a decidedly unorthodox approach to create a documentary about the writer whose beautiful, haunting and cryptic poetry has never quite squared with her reputation as a sensitive spinster. Wolpaw's efforts to illuminate this ethereal subject - more than 150 years after her death - yield some hilariously frustrating results.

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    2002-03-13

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