Dennis Potter screenings in NYC

[Grant White]

The ABC (thats A fer Australian) recently screened Karaoke and Cold 
Lazarus back to back which helped to make sense of the latter which 
revolves mostly around Albert Finney's cryogenicised head. Set in the 
future the series is tinged by the really sad perspective of knowing that 
Potter knew he 
was dying when he wrote it and that this was his last chance to say 
something. It is full of
an unusual ease with death and the role of thought in defining what an 
individual is and can do and the suffering that can go on when you only 
have your own memories to play with. Melvyn Bragg's interview with Potter 
shortly before his death, outlined his plans for the series and what he 
hoped to achieve. They're not his best work, not by a long shot, but 
Finney is great, and the context of the works are provoking and well 
worth a look.

GW
 

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On Fri, 4 Oct 1996, Andrew Dinn wrote:

> davemarc writes:
> 
> > I think that most Pynchophiles would get a lot out of the work of Dennis
snipsnippity
> I don't much like hs later work - too much of his rather grubby tits
> 
> 
> Andrew Dinn
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