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What’s your favorite movie?

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Elaine Cunningham(co-author of The City of Splendors): “Bizet’s Carmen,” by Francesco Rosi.  A really well done film version of the opera with Placido Domingo as Don Jose and Julia Migenes-Johnson as Carmen. (Friend Elaine)

Ed Greenwood (author of The Sword Never Sleeps): I really can’t pick just one, but at the forefront would be Kenneth Branagh’s Henry V. I’m also partial to The Princess Bride, The Man Who Would Be King, Excalibur, the Errol Flynn Adventures of Robin Hood, and a long list of mainly fantasy, mainly romantic epics, large and small.

Richard Baker (author of Avenger): I like a lot of movies, but I guess The Sand Pebbles is pretty close to the top. There aren’t many great Navy movies, which is a bit of a shame. (Friend Richard)

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You get one superpower. What is it?

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Elaine Cunningham(co-author of The City of Splendors): The ability to write as fast as Ed Greenwood. (Friend Elaine)

Ed Greenwood (author of The Sword Never Sleeps): Invisibility. I could learn so much more, and have such naughty fun doing it.

Richard Baker (author of Avenger): Invincibility. It’s a very forgiving power, no learning curve. (Friend Richard)

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What word do you really love?

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Elaine Cunningham(co-author of The City of Splendors): “Schadenfreude.” This word sums up why I love the German language. There’s no single-word equivalent in English. (Friend Elaine)

Ed Greenwood (author of The Sword Never Sleeps): I have lots of them. “Indubitably” is one. “Chatoyence” is another. Then of course there’s “paycheck.”

Richard Baker (author of Avenger): “Dovetail.” It’s the word I used to empty all 7 letters on my rack in a game of Scrabble the first time I ever managed to do it, and score that big fat 50 point bonus. (Friend Richard)

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What’s the silliest thing you did for the sake of rebellion?

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Elaine Cunningham(co-author of The City of Splendors): I fired BEFORE I saw the whites of their eyes. (Friend Elaine)

Ed Greenwood (author of The Sword Never Sleeps): Raced to the front of a classroom and imitated the teacher’s very bad vocal and vocabulary habits, knowing full well that the classroom door had a window in it and didn’t reach the floor, and that the teacher and principal would very soon be coming through that door—together. It was worth being the cool rebel for a week, instead of my usual role as Class Nerd.

Richard Baker (author of Avenger): Soaped the windows of my parents’ cars on Halloween. I couldn’t work up the nerve to vandalize the car of someone I didn’t know. (Friend Richard)

Mark Sehestedt (author of The Fall of Highwatch): 12^th grade. Pink hair. It was supposed to be purple, but things didn’t quite work out.

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