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Beckett had written it in 1956 for radio, and his notoriously protective estate specified it could only be staged if the actors were holding scripts to simulate a radio studio – a gift for Gambon.
Beckett had form when it came to not allowing the reprinting of early works, but in the cases of Mercier and Camier (in prose, but Godot in utero) and "First Love" he relented; his highly protective estate let through, eventually, the pre‑Godot play Eleutheria and the 1932 novel Dream of Fair to Middling Women; but not "Echo's Bones", until now.
The utilisation of real-life figures as characters in an original story is unusual (if not unheard of) in Hollywood, and it is not clear whether Lee's famously protective estate is involved in Birth of the Dragon, nor whether it would legally need to be for the film to go ahead.
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The notoriously protective Beckett estate reportedly tried in vain to stop it.
Then there are the academics and fans who argue among themselves at least as much as they do with the famously protective Plath estate.
The veteran director Max Stafford-Clark will bring another radical reimagining of a Beckett work, a version of the 1956 radio play All That Fall, which will feature the actors sitting in a circle in pitch darkness – an approach warmly welcomed by the legendarily protective Beckett estate.
Even the Samuel Beckett estate, notoriously protective of texts that often describe actions with choreographic precision, now seems prepared to relent.
It marked "a new era for biographers and scholars who are now free to publish him or parts of his work without the permission of the fiercely protective, and often litigious, Joyce estate," the Irish broadcaster RTE commented.
He was known as a protective father and an enterprising real estate collector, irking a few neighbors by buying up five apartments in the building.
Cabela's is protective of its brand and requires real estate brokers to follow its marketing and brand management guidelines.
Many companies are studying contingency plans to move high-paid executives outside of France, according to consultants, lawyers, accountants and real estate agents — who are highly protective of their clients and decline to identify them by name.
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