Don’t Be Silly
Myra Melford: It's not so much that I want to imitate what I'm hearing or seeing, but that it really is like call and response, or I see this thing, or I read this thing or, you know, I've been inspired by architecture.
Michael J. Fox: Little things, like watching sports, going to the fridge, opening it, looking around, not seeing anything to eat and closing it.
Melford: It comes from a physical impulse.
Fox: I love that. Seriously.
Melford: Yeah. Yes.
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Fox: The oldest form of theater is the dinner table. It’s got five or six people, new show every night, new script, same players. Good ensemble; the people have worked together a lot.
Melford: The interplay, you know, everybody is listening so intently and constantly responding to each other, either very directly or obliquely, however those dialogues happen.
Fox: I’m sorry for divulging that. Now I’ve spilled it.
Melford: I’m here for seven months. What can I add to it?
Fox: No. No, don’t be silly.
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Melford: Anyway.
Fox: I had a great guitar teacher named Paul Hanson, who used to talk normally, but after teaching a lot of L.A. kids, he started to talk like, “Hey, dude, it was way bitchin’. Man, you were all the way happenin’ on that riff.”
Melford: I've been fascinated with his work, as you've probably seen, for a long time.
Fox: We’d get together and groan.
Melford: We did the best we could. We all tried.