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(midday
preview) A VERY SPECIAL TEA TIME: Writing "The Ballad of Sarah
Michelle Gellar"
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TEA TIME in L.A. hour * 7-8PM Bronze Time
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Posted
by: forensicpopouri - Apr 02, 2002, 3:21
PM
A VERY SPECIAL TEA
TIME: Writing The Ballad of
SMG
[rhetorical verse in
Shakespearean sonnet
form]
LAST NIGHT I scanned the
Bronze and watched "The Witch."
About "The
Witch," I choose to hold my tongue.
But
in the Bronze I found a post for
which
I felt compelled to post what must be
sung.
http://www.buffy.com/bronze_posts.jsp?tid=54315
THE
TOPIC POSTER whom had caught my eye
was
going_through_the_motions (their Bronze
name).
An English-class assignment
made them sigh.
They had to write a
ballad which would frame . . .
.
. . the story of our Buffy's
S.M.G.
Now, ballads have more
slack than sonnets do,
and so I told
them that a useful key
to telling
Gellar's tale was Going Through . .
.
. . . The Motions' tune.
Rewrite that great song's lines
for TEA
TIME: Write G's song in those confines!
# # #
<smile>
FOR
EXAMPLE: SUNG TO THE TUNE OF
GOING
THROUGH THE
MOTIONS
Once
upon a time, a girl named Gellar
got a job
at sweet sixteen.
Acting on TV -- so well,
so stellar
Won an Emmy fast. First year on
the scene.
The OLD STAR on the show
said "No. No. No. . . ."
"Sweet Sarah's got
to go."
"Young Sarah Gellar's too
precocious, for her own damned good."
"I
must run Miss Gellar from my hood." . . . . .
.
TO BE CONTINUED .
. . BY YOU? . . . AT TEA
TIME
you
speak
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Responses
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REPOST of SMG bio information (that I'm
using as the basis to write an SMG
ballad)
| Posted by:
forensicpopouri - Apr 02, 2002, 4:15
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[REPOST]
What
You ask is difficult
Posted by: Ron_j_d - Apr 02,
2002, 12:38 AM
That's a pretty tall
order but here's some info on her...
She Played
Kendel Hart, Long lost daughter of Erica Kane on "All My
Children" when she was 16.
She started on the
show playing a 16 year old but people complained that
Erica couldn't have a secret 16 year old since she was
on the show for about 18 or so years and never been away
long enough to have a baby off-camera so the writers
quickly made Kendel 22 which put Sarah in an ironic
spot... she played over 21 when she was really 16 then
on buffy she played 16 when she was really over 21. (I
don't know how you can make THAT rhyme but I thought it
was interesting)
She won a Daytime Emmy for the
role her first year on TV.
That pissed off Susan
Lucci who played her mom "Erica" for almost 20 years
with no Emmies to her credit to that point (since then I
think she finaly won one).
Suddenly Kendel
became "Bad.. real bad" so bad that soon she had to be
written off the show. (I hope your proud of yourself
Susan)
But that turned out to be a blessing in
disguise. She was now free to audition for a roll on a
TV series based on a movie about a girl who hunts
Vampires.
She auditioned for the role of a
Cordelia.
She got the part of
Buffy.
That's a few tidbits of what I know...
hope you can use it in your assignment.
[END
OF REPOST]
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FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY (some
songwriting commentary)
| Posted by:
forensicpopouri - Apr 02, 2002, 3:25
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Let's analyze
Going Through The Motions
for a few lines,
until we understand better just what
Joss was doing
when he composed the words to the
first song in
Once More, With Feeling (BtVS
#107).
BUFFY
SINGS:
(1) Ev'ry single
night, the same arrangement
(2) I go
out and fight the fight.
(3) Still I
always feel the same
estrangement:
(4) Nothing here is
real. Nothing here is right.
FIRST,
LET'S ANALYZE THE RHYTHM BUFFY
SINGS
(1) EV'ry sin-gle
NIGHT . . . . THE SAME . .
ar-RANGE-MENT
(2) I go out and FIGHT
. . . THE FIGHT.
(3) STILL I always
FEEL . . . . THE SAME . . es-TRANGE-
MENT
(4) NOTHing here is REAL . . .
NOTHing here is RIGHT.
TO CLARIFY
THE RHYTHMIC "DRUM BEATS" . . . IMAGINE A SNARE
DRUM
(1) TA-ta ta-ta TA
. . . . TA TA . . ta TA TA
(2) TA ta
ta ta TA . . . . TA TA.
(3) TA ta ta
ta TA . . . . TA TA . . ta TA TA
(4)
TA ta ta ta TA . . . . TA ta ta ta TA.
NOW MAKE UP SOME LINES FOR
THE BALLAD OF SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR
USING THE
SAME RHYTHM (and yes, I'll leave you to note the
rhyme).
(1) SING with all
my MIGHT . . . OF SAR- . . -ah
GEL-LAR.
(2) (GOSH I hope I WRITE . .
THIS RIGHT.)
(3) LOVE her pretty
FACE. . . . HER GRACE, so
STEL-LAR.
(4) (PRAY I write good
LINES . . . PRAY I keep them
LIGHT.)
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