Word: forgottenness
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Over the five years since his death, Stephen, the boy--Stephen, offering hope--has been forgotten by the masses. His image--a marketable picture of a smiling boy wearing a M*A*S*H shirt and giving his photographers a wave--lives on, reproduced on t-shirts, in the British tabloids, on television and on propaganda posters. It is, however, but the ghost of person--a voodoo doll that, when pricked, creates an automatic yelp from hundreds of protesters...
...Albertville-Boaz (Ala.) Reporter story appeared on April 10, 1990. A day that will not soon be forgotten in these parts. The story began like this...
...half-century later, Vanessa Redgrave came to the rescue. While researching her role in Williams' Orpheus Descending a few years ago, the actress discovered a reference the playwright made to his forgotten early work: "I have never written anything since then that could compete with it in violence and horror." She tracked down the manuscript at the University of Texas and eventually showed it to Trevor Nunn, the acclaimed British director (Nicholas Nickleby; Cats) who is now artistic director of London's Royal National Theatre. Nunn's first reaction was surprise that there was no role in it for Redgrave...
Digital printing systems are breathing new life into out-of-print books. Lightning Print Inc. of LaVergne, Tenn., makes inexpensive ($15-$25), quickie paperback versions of older books, allowing bibliophiles to discover forgotten works from Phillip K. Dick, Doris Lessing and others. Only 150 titles are available to date, but the company hopes to offer 10,000 by year's end. The catch: Lightning Print works directly with publishers and prints only books ordered by them. To buy a Lightning Print book, customers must check with a bookstore or online seller to see what's in stock...
...even as the new faces arrive both in and out of the pool and the urgency to generate a winning program mounts, the past struggles will not be forgotten...