![]() ![]() Henderson replies, “You have to go fill your vessel with the truth… your own story. Stevens says that when he looks in the mirror, he sees “a lost clown without a circus,” mist in his eyes. One day after Stevens is late to class, Henderson pulls him aside for some soul searching. ![]() “If there was ever a man made for the theatre, it was Rodger Henderson,” the book wryly notes. ![]() Lost in Beirut’s narrative starts in Los Angeles, where Stevens is studying at Cal Arts under the tutelage of a celebrated professor and mentor. The 252 breakneck pages beneath see Stevens navigating the archetypal inner conflict every human experiences, while uniquely in the middle of authentic conflict. ![]() On its cover, Stevens streaks through the air, cannonballing into a crystal pool beneath azure skies punctuated only by actual, active rocket fire. Their volume stands as an art object in its own right, wrapped with vivid imagery. Magdalena Stevens, partnered to write this memoir which hit shelves last month, 15 years after Ashe Stevens survived the original ordeal. Lost in Beirut details the epic of rising actor and jetsetter Ashe Stevens, who traveled to Beirut in 2006 for a business opportunity and found himself caught in the crosshairs of international conflict. ![]()
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