Another Queen has left us. Angela Lansbury’s death forces entire generations to peer into memories of television afternoons spent with Jessica Fletcher’s reassuring investigations. We start with those initials that are always the same for all editions, from the United States to Italy, even if we call it “Murder, she wrote”and not” Murder, she wrote “because “yellow” as such we only have it and we owe it to Mondadori. But it was”Murder, she wrote”especially to remember the character of Miss marple, which Lansbury had played a few years earlier on “Murder, She Said”. Fletcher was an absolutely brilliant intuition to draw all the pen characters in an original design Agate Christie.
It was a pleasure to be transported to the fictional Cabot Cove, located in Maine, the region of the greatest of them all, Stephen King. The widowed writer who was faced with a murder, in each of the 280 episodes. A simple story, capable of uniting everyone: the housewife and the professional, the grandfather and granddaughter, the literate and the uneducated. Comfortable, we said, but also capable of sticking to armchairs with temperatures that resist time and place. A cross-media masterpiece, we would say today. “The Lady in Yellow” also made a necklace with novels all signed “Jessica Fletcher”, as well as the character.
It is said that each of us should have seen the fundamental movies and series, read the most important books, in the first twenty to twenty-five years of life. Because this is the moment when our memory assimilates what is most important. Then memory finds duplicates in the new information, stores it in the warehouse as a copy of other information. Let’s not forget them, mind you, but we don’t highlight them as current, as important for our consciousness. “The Lady in Yellow” was certainly a monolith in that sense. A product that our memory cannot erase. It’s in our past. It is the memory of a vision especially with whom we lost. Perhaps, now, we like to think that they are together, Lansbury and who else we have lost.
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Emma Fitzgerald is an accomplished political journalist and author at The Nation View. With a background in political science and international relations, she has a deep understanding of the political landscape and the forces that shape it.
