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Lynn Redgrave
Published: 5/3/2010 3:40 PM
Last Modified: 5/3/2010 3:40 PM

I met Lynn Redgrave only once, briefly -- at the book signing that followed her performance of one-woman play "Nightingale," at the Tulsa PAC in April 2008.

The book being signed was called "Journal," a collaboration between Redgrave and her daughter, Annabel Clark, about Redgrave's battle with breast cancer.

Many of the photographs from that book were on display at the PAC Gallery, and you could not help but be struck and shaken by the intimacy, the vulnerability, the despair, the hope, the strength and the dignity of those images, and of the woman herself.

Yet after her performance of "Nightingale" -- itself a wrenching work of memory and theater, very personal and intimate -- Lynn Redgrave came across as a vibrant, even jolly person, greeting even the most casual visitor with an air of direct and open friendliness.

Which makes the news that she is gone more difficult to comprehend.

I didn't get the chance to interview Ms. Redgrave, but I did talk with Ms. Clark:

Read the story: An intimate focus

Here is the review of "Nightingale":

Read the story: Singular sensation

WriteTV, the internet archive of episodes of "Writing Out Loud," by the Oklahoma Center for Poets and Writers, has the two-part interview with Lynn Redgrave and Annabel Clark online:

Part One:

Lynn Redgrave and Annabel Clark

Part Two:

Lynn Redgrave and Annabel Clark

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James D. Watts Jr. has lived in Oklahoma for most his life, even though he still has people saying to him, "Don't sound like you're from around these parts." A University of Oklahoma Phi Beta Kappa graduate, Watts has received the Governor Arts Award, Harwelden Award and the National Conference of Christians and Jews Beth Macklin Award for his writing. Before coming to the Tulsa World, Watts worked for the Tulsa Tribune.

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