They have us.' She's sensing that her identity is something that people can take."
"At one point, she says, `They know everything about us. "She rearticulates it in terms of property," says Margot Kelley, professor of English at Ursinus College in Pennsylvania. Bennett is played by Diane Baker, who played opposite Peck in "Mirage" and co-starred in the recovered- memory movie "Marnie.") (In a lovely bit of amnesia cross-reference, Mrs. Bennett's mother, virtually the only person who could help her straighten things out, has Alzheimer's disease. In that movie, sinister forces obliterate all computer records of Bennett's identity and assign her a new name. So did Sandra Bullock as Angela Bennett in the movie "The Net." Thomas Veil (Bruce Greenwood) in "Nowhere Man" has a bad case. Reverse amnesia makes the world forget you. But television is the frontier for the New Amnesia, especially on the fourth and fifth networks.Īmnesia makes you forget the world. Recent amnesia-driven novels include Ishiguro's, "Past Perfect" by Jodi Picoult (Putnam, 1995) and "Amnesia" by Douglas Cooper (Hyperion, 1994) to name just a few. There seems to be a little extra amnesia (including a few not-very- treatable strains) going around right now in popular culture. The two words were the only clue that amnesia-stricken Michael Alden, played by Frank Converse, had to his identity in a three-month television series in 1967. Recent sufferers include Harrison Ford ("Regarding Henry"), Goldie Hawn ("Overboard") and Emma Thompson ("Dead Again").Īnd small clutches of people still wake up wondering what "Coronet Blue" means. In the movies, Gregory Peck is probably the most distinguished amnesiac, with two solid films ("Mirage" and "Spellbound"). (At the moment, Matt Clark on "The Young and the Restless" may also be playing mnemonic possum.) There probably hasn't been a day in the last 10 years when there wasn't at least one soap opera using it as a plot twist, and lately characters have been more likely to fake amnesia than orgasms.
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