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One of the more impressive things about "Sylvia," which recounts the life and death of Sylvia Plath, is the fact that the film was made at all. When I worked for the book-review section of a newspaper, we had a vague premonition that hardened into a single, inflexible rule of office procedure: Do not, under any circumstances, write or publish anything on the subject of Sylvia Plath, especially if it concerns her marriage to Ted Hughes. At the merest mention of his or her name in print, winged covens of family members or acquaintances, backed by defenders of either the Plath camp or the Hughes clan (but never both), would descend from the hills, baying for blood. There were ...