PAUL COLLINS PRESENTS:
"Mack Dunstan's Inferno"Mack 'Max' Dunstan has played Moses, Marc Anthony, Ben-Hur, President Andrew Jackson, and Long John Silver. He has starred in The Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur, El Cid, 55 Days in Peking, Planet of the Apes, Omega Man, and Soylent Green, to name a few. Sadly, in this age of social media, reality television, and political correctness, today's generation know him only for his hard right point of views and his outspoken nature.
Mack Dunstan's Inferno was written as a satirical, fantasy work, where Mr. Dunstan succumbed to Alzheimer's, went through the death process, and descended into hell, where he met victims of his pro-gun policy. Collins was a fan of Mack Dunstan. This manuscript was actually inspired when the author viewed Michael Moore, who challenged Mr. Dunstan in Bowling for Columbine. The author did not support Mr. Moore's penchant for skewing the facts, or promoting his own agenda, but has acknowledged the filmmaker for providing the inspiration for Mack Dunstan's Inferno.
Collins was never a fan of filmmaker Michael Moore. In fact he was utterly appalled and disgusted to hear how Mr. Moore accepted the academy award. The American Academy awards were about Gucci shoes, who was wearing what, and who's sleeping with whom. It was never about social issues. Collins never understood how a movie director could become infamous through documentary film making. Only in America!
Initially Mack Dunstan's Inferno was considered for a play, but in June of 2004 a story in the newspaper motivated him to make Mack Dunstan's Inferno into his next manuscript.
According to the media reports, a twenty-year-old Canadian woman went to New York to meet her fiance's parents. She never made it to her destination. According to the subsequent police investigation, the victim arrived in New York, and twenty-four hours later was found stripped to her underwear and dead in a dumpster. She was shot six times. Her murder was never solved, nor mentioned in the media again. This innocent person had dreams too and like everybody else has a right to walk the streets and be free of violence.
The next day, Collins began to write his next manuscript, which then accumulated over time. The story began with Mack Dunstan going through and experiencing the death process. As he journeyed, he met Virgil, who guided him through hell, heaven, and eventual illumination. In his journey, Mr. Dunstan met the many victims of his pro-gun policy. Many were Hispanic and African-Americans, all of whom were from the poorer classes. It was in this scenario of the underworld; Mr. Dunstan was confronted with the many sad and tragic stories, leaving him to go through the process of expurgation of guilt, anger, and elimination of the ego. Mr. Dunstan, however, did meet a lot of celebrities in his journey of the underworld. Some were from the silent era, golden age of cinema, and classic, American TV shows. Mack Dunstan's Inferno was not only a satire on those who enjoy distinction in the modern era, but a parity, or update, of The Divine Comedy. Within in the perimeters of fiction, Collins satirized and the so-called pillars of the communities and media darlings. He lampooned present actors, dead actors, present/past members of the political and business elite. Therefore, instead of mentioning long, dead ancient figures of history, Collins sketched in Kelsey Grammar, Sally Struthers, or JK Rowlings.
As he proceeded through the project, the manuscript took on the many qualities and aspects that were gleaned from The Upanishads and The Western Book of the Dead. Instead of applying a dogmatic, Christian point of view, the author used the story to present the teachings of Hinduism and Buddhism. Find out more by reading Mack Dunstan's Inferno, where sci fi adventure fantasy and religious superstitions will collide.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Paul Collins was born in Toronto, Ontario Canada. Collins is a freelance commercial director. In 2002, he directed a documentary about youth violence called Just Talk. Its world premiere was at the Final Cut Short Film Screenings DJ & VJ Sets in the city of Brighton in the fall of 2003. Collins has written Prescience Rendezvous (out of print), King without an Empire, and Mystery of Everyman's Way. Mack Dunstan's Inferno is his next paperback. He has also written several short stories for www.angiesdiary.com . Check out www.myspace.com/authorpaulcollins .
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