Andrew Brown telephone conversation, tape one
name: label: Collection Collector
content: McCormick, Mack
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content: Robert "Mack" McCormick Collection
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content: Robert "Mack" McCormick Collection / Series 15: Audio Cassette Tapes and Digital Files
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content: 1 Cassette tape (Total Running Time: 93:22)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2006-04
container: label: Container
content: Box 165, Cassette OTC 1485.15
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Archival materials
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content: Audio
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content: Cassette tapes
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Side A: Andrew Brown, telephone conversation, part one, April 2006.

Side B: Andrew Brown, telephone conversation, part two, April 2006.

Telephone conversation recorded between McCormick in Houston, Texas and Andrew Brown in Carthage, Texas at 3:17 pm. It provides context for the work he has completed between April 1-19, 2006 on six plays. McCormick informs Brown that the recording is for his daughter Suzannah in case something happens to him and that it is confidential, only to be given to her or to help his collection/foundation. Very much concerned about his health and the future of the collection he highlights what is important in the collection so that his daughter can evaluate the value of the materials.  He notes that he was previously diagnosed as psychotic and bipolar which he states is why he cannot finish projects. He refers to an extraordinary event which begins on April 1 and April 2 when he wrote a 90-minute three act tragedy titled Zero at the Bone. The characters included Emily Dickerson (who he wants Laura Linney to play), Walt Whitman, and John Henry. April 8-10, McCormick works on the screen play for Shower of Gold a commentary on the nature or burden of fame. He then describes the three act ninety-minute play hand drafted four days later titled Game Plan which has three characters and takes place in Houston, Texas. The goal of this play is to change the behavior of corporate America.  A day later McCormick states that he dictated the notes to finish a 90-minute two act play titled The End of a Perfect Eon which is about Voyager 1 the spacecraft which launched with a golden record on it. On April 17 McCormick worked on Bojo Lane, a radio script first written in 1955, which he was going to send to BBC's Play of the Week. On April 18 and 19 he dictated notes for the play Hellhound on My Trial, titled after a song by Robert Johnson. McCormick states that the book and play do not overlap and that it is finished but needs editing.