Impossible Dream (advertisement) million to produce. A making-of and karaoke version of the video were also made. This commercial was never released in the United States. The original version closed with a message addressed specifically to England, whilst the Australian version closes with a voice-over by Garrison Keillor saying "I couldn't have said it better myself" (This is now the standard version used in the United Kingdom). The music is Andy Williams singing "Impossible Dream (The Quest)" from the album "16 Most Requested Songs". The song is from the Don Quixote musical "Man of La Mancha". Songwriter Joe Darion won the 1965/66 Tony
The Dream Songs the unnamed "friend," to whom Berryman refers, speaks in a Southern, black dialect and in "blackface," as Berryman indicates, suggesting a kind of literary minstrelsy. Kevin Young, an African-American poet who edited a "Selected Poems" of Berryman for Library of America, commented on this issue: [Berryman's] use of "black dialect" is frustrating and even offensive at times, as many have noted, and deserves examination at length. Nonetheless, the poems are, in part, about an American light that is not as pure as we may wish; or whose purity may rely not just on success (the dream) but on failure (the