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posted by davidt
on Wednesday February 04 2004, @11:00AM
boz b writes:
In the February issue of Interview Magazine, Morrissey is mentioned in the article "Shots in the Dark" by Graham Fuller. Here is the excerpt:
"For each young actor or actress who realizes his or her dreams of becoming a star, thousands more fall by the wayside--some after tantalizingly getting a hand on the golden ring. The singer Morrissey understood the special pain of a failed actor when he told the story of a TV has-been in the haunting "Little Man, What Now?": "Too old to be a child star/Too young to take leads," Morrissey sang. "Four seasons passed/And they axed you/Nervous juvenile/(Won't smile!)/What became of you?/Did that swift eclipse torture you?/A star at 18/And then--suddenly gone."
"The recurring line in the song, though, is "Oh, but I remembered," the point being that once an actor touches us, his face takes up permanent residence in our hearts."
I couldn't agree more, and the same could be said for young singers. I mean, how many Morrissey fans still picture him in his younger years?
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or is it just me?