Maddy glanced at my laptop case but said nothing, Julie Andrews was silent and forgotten in the side pocket.
The struggle to be a star leaves many junior actors gasping on the field of battle, abandoned and forgotten in the fray.
But in 1992, dogged by a string of bad record deals, waning popularity and personal misfortunes, La Lupe died at 53, broke and forgotten, in the South Bronx.
With pandemonium unfolding all around them, the faces of Tawfiq, Sultan and Sa'dun were lost and forgotten in the crush.
There are hints, as well, of what could have been a better dramatised argument about reading, writing and forgetting in the digital age.
The Spaniard insisted he was happy to "forgive and forget" in the wake of Europe's 16½-11½ victory at Gleneagles but Torrance, who served as one of Paul McGinley's vice captains, was not so willing to forget the slur.
So long ago, you think, those days, so unlike these, blessed by favorable winds and forgotten in the anthems we hummed on the long walk home from work or the childish fables we tried to believe.
Perhaps a section of the great city wall, one of the world's largest man-made monuments, now lies bruised and battered, neglected and forgotten in the Nigerian bush.
To rise and forget, in the bright sunlight, the ugly dreams that frightened you so when all was dark — to rise and enjoy another happy day, first kneeling to thank that unseen Friend, who sends you the beautiful sun?
Its modest budget, and its sensationalism, don't disqualify it from being not only entertaining but, sometimes, meaningful, mining the lives of the tortured and forgotten in the manner of certain noir or hard-boiled writers like Thompson, David Goodis and Charles Williams.
