Love at First Sight: The King and Hattie ©2022 A work of fiction that should have been.By Edmund J. Janas, II In the background the voices of the theater projectionists started fading like the flitter of film clapping on a spool. King Edward heard them before the theater went dark, being audibly impertinent, but he did not care. Projectionist 1: “Ah, he watches Gone with the Wind again! The fifth time this week alone, does King Edward have a crush on Vivien Leigh?” The theater manager chimed, “He’s the King of England, we’ll show it to him a hundred times a week if he’s paying. Besides, I think it’s more than a crush, don’t you? He’s practically mesmerized by her!” The young projectionist looked on in admiration at the screen popping with color, “No...