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| | The Life and Work of Dennis Potter - The Overlook Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19) |
 | | Television was the only form of communication that really meant anything to Potter, and in thirty original plays and nine serials, he reinvented the medium, so to speak, lavishing it with his tough intelligence, fierce artistic integrity and boundless creativity. |
 | | Stephen Gilbert brilliantly analyzes Potter's work, emphasizing the dramatic interplay between this brilliant, difficult man's life and the medium to which he was devoted. |
 | | At the age of twenty-four, for instance, Potter was diagnosed with psoriatic arthopathy, a rare debilitating skin disease whose horrors he portrayed with biting fl humor through his alter ego, the Michael Gambon character in "The Singing Detective." Weeks before his foretold death, he gave an astonishing television interview to Melvyn Bragg. |
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