“Michael Stusser’s ingenious ability to bring historical figures to life falls somewhere between brilliant writing and method acting. Or perhaps even necrophilia. Who knows. Point is, The Dead Guy Interviews is both wildly educational (yes, it’s possible) and wickedly entertaining.â€
—Neely Harris, Editor-in-Chief mental_floss magazine
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Music:
In The Dead Guy Interviews, you’ll get dating tips from Henry the VIIIth, a palm reading from Confucius, some couch time with Freud, the real scoop on where Amelia Earhart landed, and if George Washington actually inhaled.
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Movies:
Participants include: Alexander the Great, Ludwig van Beethoven, Napoleon Bonaparte, the Buddha, Michelangelo, Julius Caesar, Caligula, George Washington Carver, Catherine the Great, Coco Chanel, Winston Churchill, Cleopatra, Confucius, Crazy Horse, Salvador DalÃ, Charles Darwin, Leonardo da Vinci, Emily Dickinson, Isadora Duncan, Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Sigmund Freud, Henry VIII, J. Edgar Hoover, Harry Houdini, Thomas Jefferson, Joan of Arc, Robert Johnson, Frida Kahlo, Genghis Khan, Abraham Lincoln, Mao Tse-Tung, Karl Marx, Montezuma, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Benito Mussolini, Nostradamus, Edgar Allen Poe, William Shakespeare, Sun Tzu, Vincent van Gogh, George Washington, Mae West, and Oscar Wilde.
Television:
The concept of the "Dead Guy Interviews" came out of one living guy’s desire to "talk" with fascinating historical figures who, in addition to being dead, weren't giving out interviews during their lifetimes - sometimes due to difficult surroundings (Montezuma, Helen Keller), or just because they had lousy PR agents (Mussolini, Caligula, etc.). In depth, knock-down, drag out, tête-à -têtes with Lincoln, da Vinci, Genghis Khan (no relation to Chaka, apparently), Cleopatra, and a whole host of famous dead guys (and gals) throughout history. Edutainment, you'd call it, but with a little theatre and pop-off pop-culture thrown in for good measure. It's how we get away with asking Alexander the Great who he’d have preferred play him in the movie, Hoover's take on the cross-dressing, and Catherine the Great about her sex life. (For the record, she insists, “I did not, have, sex, with that horse.â€)
Books:
The interviews are historical, hysterical, and great conversational fodder. If you ever wondered what it would be like to have dinner with anyone in history - now you’ll know…
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Heroes:
Read the interview with Cleopatra
Read the interview with Nikola Tesla
MLK, Jr. Ralph Nader, Abe Lincoln, Greenpeace, and, as sappy as it sounds, my wonderful parents.
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