How do you turn that into-- I mean, the nuance and detail, how do you turn that into a two and a half hour stage play? Matt Spangler did a remarkable job and had to make very judicious cuts. Certain characters had to be removed.
feel a certain sense of guilt they are citizens of the world with contempt for those who feel chills up their spines when they hear a star spangled manner I when I spoke at the Princeton Club they're all looking around like know but but he's wrong too uh because higher
Madeira is this unsung hero of great wines, and it's surprising because the Declaration of Independence was written with the Founding Fathers drinking Madeira. Francis Scott Key was drinking Madeira when he wrote the "Star-Spangled Banner." Madeira parties were a part of all the original Congressional Congresses.
I just didn't think I-- you know, some people like that If you go to church you know that one person. Yeah, I'm just gonna sing the "Star Spangled Banner" for the Lord today. We didn't ask you to do that.
Lauren: I'm always looking on the bright side of things as everyone can tell. I was like, "Sing the Star-Spangled Banner." Someone said that so I told him to sing it.
Otherwise, every single blues artist would be suing every other single blues artist. You can't copyright rhythm, or else "Happy Birthday" and "The Star-spangled Banner" would be suing each other, because-- like, legend has it, Robert Kennedy was so tone deaf that he couldn't tell if it was the national anthem or "Happy Birthday"
Interviewer: Right, and The Wolf Gift also, I think, this is something that I just, always appeals to me in fiction there are wonderful names and I think Reuben Golding is a very distinctive name, but Felix Nideck, Margon Spangler, you have these wonderful, creative, unusual names, I wanted to ask you, if, when you’re developing characters, like, where do names fall in the process?
So six months later, he called me. He said, you know, there's a professor at SJSU, Matt Spangler. And he's adapting the book into a play.
And I just didn't think I-- you know, some people are like that. You go to church, you know that one person, yeah, I'm just going to sing "The Star Spangled Banner" for the Lord today. We didn't ask you to do that.
in the country and his wife is a beautiful 20-year-old, who speaks five languages, and so, they go in and they get into society and they make plenty of friends and Philip Barton Key was one of them. He was a U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. His father wrote the Star Spangled Banner and his uncle was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, so a solid member of Washington society. He is a handsome man, again, the mustache, back