Watch the Opening Credit of an Imaginary 70s Cop Present Starring Samuel Beckett

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Samuel Beck­ett: avant-garde drama­tist, brood­ing Nobel Prize win­ner, poet, and…gritty tele­vi­sion detec­tive? Unhappy­ly, no, however he had the mak­ings of a terrific one, no less than as lower togeth­er by play­wright Dan­ny Thomp­son, cofounder of Chicago’s The­ater Oobleck. Some 35 years after Beckett’s dying, Thompson—whose cred­its embody the Com­plete Misplaced Works of Samuel Beck­ett as…

When Samuel Beckett Drove Younger André the Big to College

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Are your idle moments spent invent­ing imag­i­nary con­ver­sa­tions between unusual mattress­fel­lows? The type of con­ver­sa­tion which may tran­spire in a decide­up truck belong­ing to Samuel Beck­ett, say, have been the Irish play­wright to chauf­feur the kid André Rene Rous­si­moff—aka professional wrestler André the Big—to highschool? Too sil­ly, you say? Non­sense. This isn’t some wack­adoo ran­dom…