This unlikely alliance came to nothing, but Beckett's interest in film persisted, notably in his collaboration with Buster Keaton on "Film" (Keaton's last silent movie).
Rumors of an additional season and a feature film persisted until 2011, when Netflix agreed to license new episodes and distribute them exclusively on its streaming video service.
But the makers of children's films persist in foisting those issues on us, Ice Age 3 being the latest example.
But many of the stereotypes that fill the film persist; and, as we've learned over and over and over and over again, this is a still a country where people, and police, need to be reminded that black lives really do matter.
From the Sex Pistols, Bowie and Julien Temple to the Gooners and the Inter-City Firm, the film has persisted in making its shadowy inscriptions on our collective unconscious.
The ban on the film persists.
Her pious quoting of St Francis of Assisi ("where there is despair, let there be hope") on her accession to No 10 has always carried a ghastly irony, but the film persists in keeping the woman separate from her works.
This is a monumentally naff film, shaming and depressing in a way that British feature-film comedies have persisted in being, intermittently, all our lives.
And the film's legacy persisted, infuriating a young Spike Lee when it was presented at NYU's film school without any historical context.
Even when it premiered at the Venice film festival, the suspicion persisted that it might all be true.
This impression persisted in films such as the Cormac McCarthy adaptation All the Pretty Horses (2000), The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) and the Mississippi melodrama Mud (2012).
