I loved it the second I saw it and it just gets better with age. If you’ve seen it, here it is to enjoy all over again. If you haven’t seen it… prepare to go buy more guns, ammo and flags.
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At the Stargate
May 22, 2025
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As a contributing member of BW for so many years….I came to story mechanics a little skeptical.
This segment might be one of the best I’ve seen ever on BW.. We’ll done Bill and Mike.
Guys, I’m so glad you included Sweeney Todd. It is a wonderful story, fabulous and dark, yet hilariously funny, and just absolutely excellent! Also, I’m not at all surprised that you both had training in the spoken arts. You are both phenomenal communicators (:
Wait a minute – Bill was theater & Mike was Opera? This reminds me of one of the best scenes from the movie Heathers, when the cops found the bodies of Kurt & Ram. One of the cops produced the bottle of mineral water and his partner said, “Oh my God – they were fags!”
I keeed, I keeed, of course!
I was a drama major in college, which always seems to shock everyone who hears it. However, my training has stood me in good stead as a teacher, a counselor, and a pastor. I’m thrilled that one of my grandsons seems to be following the same path, though he’s not in college yet.
I’ve seen Les Misérables in a number of movie versions, the best IMO is the 1935 staring Frederick March and Charles Laughton, who I’ve seen do a number of monologues, and has such presence when doing them.
Mike, Mr. “Dirty Jobs”, got started in Opera. LOL. Bill, who is my favorite conservative voice, was a theater major. Andrew Klavan, tied with Bill, is a writer. LOL twice more. So much for pigeon-holing us. As far as the topic of the discussion, a good story makes a human connection by posing a fallible human and their internal conflict against the wrongness of their misbelief. I learned this by actually writing a book, being told it was unreadable, and teaching myself how to use already existing methods that can be followed quite easily. Followed, that is, substituting your characters… Read more »
Mike was also a “Pitch Man” on the early Home Shopping Network..