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...Dennis Potter lived on TV. He was a dramatist, not an actor, yet viewers in his native England and abroad knew Potter's life story through his teleplays. In 1964 he ran unsuccessfully for a seat in Parliament as a Labour Party candidate, then wrote his two Nigel Barton plays about a Labour M.P. that hit such a nerve the party demanded they be softened. He fictionalized his military service in last year's six-parter, Lipstick on Your Collar. His 1986 magical musical memory masterpiece, The Singing Detective, pictured a writer who, while suffering an egregious skin disease, psoriatic...
...chronically disabled Potter, life was a death sentence; but he would have the last word. So this spring, two months before he succumbed at 59 to cancer of the pancreas and liver, he staged his own funeral oration on Britain's Channel 4 program Without Walls. In the 70-minute conversation with host Melvyn Bragg, the dying man displayed a new, calm bravery. At one point he paused, knee-high in the stream of his eloquence, to ask if he might take a sip of liquid morphine to ease his pain. Bragg wondered if they should stop; Potter replied...
...Potter went on, heroically, from the day he learned his cancer was incurable, Valentine's Day -- "a little gift, a little kiss from somebody or something." He continued to care for his wife Margaret, whom he called "my rock, my center," as she battled breast cancer. And he worked ferociously, testing the limits of his anguish, to complete two teleplays: Karaoke, another musical drama; and Cold Lazarus, about a 20th century man whose head has been preserved for 400 years. Potter planned to write 10 pages a day. "I will -- and do -- meet that schedule every day," he told Bragg...
...nothing became Potter's life so much as his grace in leaving it, then nothing became his death so much as his having written so often about it. Mortality hung on his plays like crape. While awaiting his own demise, Philip Marlow, the hero of The Singing Detective, plots the death of all who may have hurt him. Lipstick on Your Collar climaxes at a grave site, where one of the three main characters is dead, a second falls into the open grave, and a third woos the widow -- all to the '50s tune Sh-Boom...
After the Yale win, the team kept it rolling even further with the Potter's Cup win and its general success at the individual championships, both of which solidified its position as the high and mighty of American collegiate squash...