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Tuesday, February 27, 2007
"Gracefully Insane," the movie
Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam's Gracefully Insane: The Rise and Fall of America's Premier Mental Hospital is "[a]n entertaining and poignant social history of McLean Hospital -- temporary home to many of the troubled geniuses of our age -- and of the evolution of the treatment of mental illness from the early 19th century to today."
Could this work of non-fiction ever find its way to Hollywood?