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There's a movie playing at Film Forum until next Thursday called "Late Fame," starring Willem Dafoe as a fictional former West Village poet. Dafoe's character Ed Saxberger keeps a clip of the one rave review of the one book he wrote in 1979 in the Village Voice, but seems otherwise content with his life working at the post office, and hanging (but not drinking) in the bar with his pool-playing friends, one of whom wears an MTA windbreaker. Nobody knows he once ran with Amiri Baraka, Ed Dorn, and the rest of the post-modernists.