MOVIES - Jan. 28, 1987

Harvard assistant professor Jane V. Anderson testified in a Boston federal court Tuesday that the 1979 film “The Bell Jar” created the false impression that she is a homosexual and that she tried to lure witer Sylvia Plath into a suicide pact. Anderson claims the film based on Plath’s book includes a character, based on her life, who tries to seduce a character based on Plath, fails and then kills herself. “In real life, I never, never in any way attempted to seduce Sylvia Plath into a homosexual relationship, and I never in any way attempted to get her to enter into a suicide pact as lovers,” Anderson said. The suit names 14 defendants, including British Poet Laureate Ted Hughes, Plath’s widower.