The WELL: inkwell.vue.116: New York Times Bestselling Author Neil Gaiman: _American Gods_

#406: Linda Castellani (castle) Sun 12 Aug 01 23:41

Sun, 12 Aug 2001 23:41:00 PDT

Folks, we are seriously drifting away from conversation with Neil about American Gods, so I am going to freeze this topic now, and ask you all kindly to continue over in topic 115. [Read entire topic]

#405: Len Schiff (theboojum) Sun 12 Aug 01 17:05

Sun, 12 Aug 2001 17:05:00 PDT

Dan-- agreed--it's a wonderful book... it always makes me think twice about whether what I'm creating is "deadly theatre." [Read entire topic]

#404: Dan Wilson (stagewalker) Sun 12 Aug 01 10:24

Sun, 12 Aug 2001 10:24:00 PDT

Len - I'm quite terrible about reading about theatre... but I do swear the The Empty Space by Peter Brook... [Read entire topic]

#403: Len Schiff (theboojum) Sat 11 Aug 01 18:31

Sat, 11 Aug 2001 18:31:00 PDT

Dan-- I think it's essential-- much more readable than Spolin, and maybe a little less starry-eyed too. Most of my improv buddies think of it as their bible. What are your must reads, theater wise? [Read entire topic]

#402: John M. Ford (johnmford) Sat 11 Aug 01 18:02

Sat, 11 Aug 2001 18:02:00 PDT

"Slaughter on 10th Avenue" is very definitely Rodgers & Hart -- Gene Kelly and Vera-Ellen dance it in WORDS AND MUSIC, the MGM revue that's their biography from some parallel universe. I can't remember now which show it's from, and the book that would tell me is hiding at the moment. [Read entire topic]

#401: Dan Wilson (stagewalker) Sat 11 Aug 01 17:23

Sat, 11 Aug 2001 17:23:00 PDT

Len, I haven't read Impro, no... is it a must read??

Neil/Martha - I counted the chairs today. 48. ... Which is why I don't normally like to count the chairs... it looks like more than that when they're full.

Dan [Read entire topic]

#400: Len Schiff (theboojum) Sat 11 Aug 01 17:14

Sat, 11 Aug 2001 17:14:00 PDT

Pamela & Neil-- I'll check on this further, but I think that Slaughter' was written for the Rodgers and Hart musical, _On Your Toes_.

Stagewalker-- Have you read Keith Johnstone's book Impro? [Read entire topic]

#399: JaNell (goldennokomis) Sat 11 Aug 01 05:24

Sat, 11 Aug 2001 05:24:00 PDT

Neil, if you hadn't said "Honest." at the end of your blogger entry, I'd not have said a dern thing. That one word just screamed, "Come play with me!". So I obligingly did. [Read entire topic]

#398: Neil Gaiman (neilgaiman) Sat 11 Aug 01 00:24

Sat, 11 Aug 2001 00:24:00 PDT

http://www.zip.com.au/~peterb/smeg/

is the link that just arrived in my e-mail. [Read entire topic]

#397: Neil Gaiman (neilgaiman) Fri 10 Aug 01 23:53

Fri, 10 Aug 2001 23:53:00 PDT

JaNell -- yes, I know what smegma is. I assume that Rob Grant and Doug Naylor did as well. That was why they made Smeg their all purpose swear word joke in Red Dwarf. It's a series that's about 15 years old, so the joke is pretty old too, but it's nice to find someone who still finds it funny. [Read entire topic]