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TheOldMole Apr 13 2006 10:35 PM

Happy birthday, Samuel Beckett!

metirish Apr 13 2006 10:47 PM

You should check this out, again from Ireland.com.... http://www.ireland.com/focus/beckett/

sharpie Apr 13 2006 11:25 PM

I put this in Mets-lovin' Big Shots but it belongs here too: This from the current Publisher's Weekly. Rosset is Barney Rosset, Samuel Beckett's publisher. ]Beckett came to New York - once, in 1964, to work on a short film that he'd written called Film, starring Buster Keaton, to be distributed by Rosset. He spent a hot summer week at Rosset's Houston Street townhouse, but did catch up with Dick Seaver, who, as it turns out, was second cousin to the future Hall of Fame pitcher for the New York Mets, Tom Seaver. Seaver (Dick, that is) helped Beckett beat the heat by taking him to a Mets doubleheader at Shea Stadium in Queens. "I tried to explain the rudiments of the game to him," says Seaver four decades later. "I also explained that the Mets were at the time a fledgling team and pretty terrible." Beckett, later known for his kinship to failure ("Try again. Fail again. Fail better."), found the miserable Mets to be perfectly enjoyable, so much so that he insisted they stay for the second game. Unfortunately, the Mets, rather improbably, won both games.

MFS62 Apr 14 2006 08:21 AM

So, if he'd brought a video camera to capture his recollections of those terrible early Mets, and they had lost the second game, would he have considered it....... (you ready?)............ Taped Last Crap? Later

TheOldMole Apr 14 2006 11:13 AM

Waiting for Gonder?