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Benny reports David Moses's career after reading Neville
Description
His friend Benny, present in the room that night, told him of a black actor, David Moses, who was about to quit the theatre until he read Neville's book Out of This World; Neville autographed a book for him with Blake's line about the fool persisting in his folly, and within weeks the man got the Greyhound commercial and then pictures, TV spots, a Diahann Carroll appearance and a Danny Thomas pilot.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 1966 and 1967
Told
17 February 1969
Sources
- Source: The Rock ¶14 (So Benny came to me and told me that this is what he said. The man’s name, by the way, is David Moses. Benny gave me a book to autograph for him and he said, write something in it. Well, I only wrote one little thought from William Blake: “If the fool wo…)