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Article: THE MYSTERY OF ALFRED LAWSON--WHO?(Local/State)
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- The Capital Times
- Article date:
- August 28, 2000
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LOS ANGELES filmmaker Jim Newman, a Stevens Point native, came through Madison recently doing research for a documentary he's putting together on Alfred Lawson.
You've never heard of Lawson?
``Nobody has,'' Newman was saying Sunday. ``That's one reason I want to do this.''
What Newman, reached by telephone in Los Angeles, didn't want to do was talk publicly about his movie, since it's still a work in progress. Lawson's followers -- who are still based in Wisconsin -- are notoriously distrustful of the media. Newman said he had to respect that.
Newman was in Madison this summer to talk to UW-Madison Professor Barry Orton, who has an ...