#397: Neil Gaiman (neilgaiman) Fri 10 Aug 01 23:53
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...
View Article#398: Neil Gaiman (neilgaiman) Sat 11 Aug 01 00:24
http://www.zip.com.au/~peterb/smeg/is the link that just arrived in my e-mail. [Read entire topic]
View Article#399: JaNell (goldennokomis) Sat 11 Aug 01 05:24
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]
View Article#400: Len Schiff (theboojum) Sat 11 Aug 01 17:14
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?...
View Article#401: Dan Wilson (stagewalker) Sat 11 Aug 01 17:23
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...
View Article#402: John M. Ford (johnmford) Sat 11 Aug 01 18:02
"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...
View Article#403: Len Schiff (theboojum) Sat 11 Aug 01 18:31
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?...
View Article#404: Dan Wilson (stagewalker) Sun 12 Aug 01 10:24
Len - I'm quite terrible about reading about theatre... but I do swear the The Empty Space by Peter Brook... [Read entire topic]
View Article#405: Len Schiff (theboojum) Sun 12 Aug 01 17:05
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]
View Article#406: Linda Castellani (castle) Sun 12 Aug 01 23:41
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]
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