Bill B MY NAME IS BILL W screenwriter 1990 Alcoholics Anonymous Talk at Burns Tennessee

Bill B. of New York,NY
Wrote Script to Movie
MY NAME IS BILL W.
at New Life Lodge
Burns, TN ~ January 5,1990

   • A real good AA Talk.
   •  This guy is a Real Alcoholic.
   •  He tells a vivid drunkalogue.
   •  A newspaper writer drunk who hit a really low bottom.
   •  How he recovered and his life and friendships in Alcoholics Anonymous.
   •  He talks about recovery.
   •  How in his drinking days he was always trying to get even.
   •  In recovery his sponsor told him to get even but not with those who wronged him but with his family and those he loved.
   •  To get even with them that loved him when he had hated even his own self
   •  Towards the end of the talk he discusses his friendship with Lois Wilson.
   • He mentioned that Bills Lifestory would make a great movie script.
   • Lois said other had wanted to do it but she turned them down.
   • She would help him write the script.
   •  Lois granted him many long interviews at Stepping Stones.
   •  I have heard both positive and negative reactions to the movie but according to him it was done with Lois' blessing and she enjoyed it.
   • Overall a good AA talk with the inside scoop on the story behind the MY NAME IS BILL W movie.