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Stacy Collins and Breann McGregor, "Playboy Special Editions" editor and mo
2008-01-05 18:59:00
Guys, Stacy Collins has your dream job. As a managing editor of Playboy special editions, she spends day after day looking at the world?s most beautiful, mostly naked women. Some are in photographs, but many meet her discriminating eye in the flesh. And now that I say that out loud, it?s not hard to understand why she?s in the job and you?re not. Breann McGregor is one of the beauties Stacy works with. They actually spent a lot of time together this past year and will probably be just as inseparable in the coming year considering that Breann was named ?Playboy Special Editions Model of the Year? and ?Playboy?s Cyber Girl of the Year.? She is featured on her own website www.breannmcgregor.net. I?ll say it again cause I know you guys are pre-occupied ? www.breannmcgregor.net.DOWNLOAD THE MP3; LISTEN RIGHT NOW!ALSO AVAILABLE AS A PODCAST ON iTUNES.Subscribe to Mr. Media's RSS Feed.BOB ANDELMAN/Mr. MEDIA: Stacy, let?s start with you right now. What exactly are Playboy Special Editions ,...
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David Simon, "The Wire" creator: Mr. Media Interview, Part 2
2008-01-05 06:44:00
(Return to Part 1)ANDELMAN: Let me ask you this, and this is a basic piece of business, but now I came to the show very late, and I think part of the reason I came to it late was the name. I just couldn?t get my arms around The Wire, so I want to ask you for people who might hear this or read this or haven?t seen it, can you give us kind of the Evelyn Wood breakdown of what the show is about and where the name The Wire came from?SIMON: Sure. The Wire is a double entendre of sorts. It specifically refers to the electronic surveillance methods used by the police to try to undermine and take apart a criminal organization. In the first season, it would have been a drug organization, the second season, it was a smuggling organization, and so forth, but that?s more the literal reason for the title. The title really refers to almost an imaginary but inviolate boundary between the two Americas, between the functional, post-industrial economy that is minting new millionaires every day and cr...
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Mark Tatulli, "LIO" cartoonist: Mr. Media Interview, Part 2
2008-01-05 06:43:00
(Return to Part 1)BOB ANDELMAN/Mr. MEDIA:I have read where you have compared LIO to the character that Haley Joel Osment played in The Sixth Sense in that LIO?s world is real. I mean, that is his world, but is he the only one in his world who kind of lives and functions the way he does, surrounded by the monsters and the robots and animals and aliens?MARK TATULLI:Yeah, I think he is the most at peace with it. In others, people just don?t see those things, you know, they are kind of walking by, or they happen to have their back turned to the situation. It?s kind of like, it?s his reality is just not acknowledged by other people. But they are there, and sometimes, it finds its way into other people?s worlds, too, but for the most part, we go on with our adult lives not seeing the things that kids are just deathly afraid of.ANDELMAN:And you know, I apologize for even asking you to go behind the scenes and talk about some of these things, because I know, if you talk to a comedian, the l...
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Tim Dorsey, "Hurricane Punch" author: Mr. Media Interview, Part 2
2008-01-05 06:42:00
(CLICK HERE TO RETURN TO PART 1)BOB ANDELMAN/Mr. MEDIA: One of the great themes in the book, of course, is media convergence, the idea that McSwirley has an unused video camera in his bag at one point comes into play. I wonder if you could spell ?convergence? for me and use it in a sentence appropriate to the book.TIM DORSEY: Spell convergence?ANDELMAN: Yes.DORSEY: Now I am trying to think of a joke here. It?s basically, convergence. I?m sorry, can we edit this out? I can?t think of a glib line there.ANDELMAN: You want to skip the spelling part, the ?Are You as Smart as a Fifth-Grader? part of the interview?DORSEY: I was just about one synapse away from a joke, and I couldn?t make it in real time there, so?.ANDELMAN: Is convergence a bad thing do you think as you think about it and you look on it?DORSEY: Not in concept, but it can be in execution. I mean, in concept, it can be great. Now we?re playing ?Inside Baseball? with a lot of people who aren?t?.ANDELMAN: Yeah, I know.DORSEY: ...
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David Fury "24" writer/producer: Mr. Media Interview, Part 2
2008-01-05 06:40:00
(RETURN TO PART 1)BOB ANDELMAN/Mr. MEDIA: How does a creative person?s career change after one Emmy, let alone two Emmys?DAVID FURY: Creatively, there?s no change whatsoever. You are exactly? and that?s the funny thing, particularly with ?24.? Right after we won the Emmy, it was right back to work the next day, and you?d never know we just came off a great banner year. We were in the middle of trying to write the next season, and it doesn?t do anything but decorate your family room or living room, wherever you put your statue. Creatively, you?re still the same person, you?re still the same writer trying to do the same things you did before. Frankly, I was never more creatively satisfied than when I was writing for ?Buffy? and for ?Angel ? and working for Joss Whedon -- and there?s somebody who has long deserved an Emmy for what he brought to television. But it doesn?t really change you.ANDELMAN: Are the creative processes that you experienced at ?Lost ? that first season and then at ?...
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John Amato "CrooksandLiars.com" political blogger: Mr. Media Interview, Par
2008-01-05 06:38:00
(RETURN TO PART 1)BOB ANDELMAN/Mr. MEDIA: Well, John, let me ask you this. A lot of the blogs, they simply reprint what?s appeared in the mainstream press, or they just link to other things, but one of the things that I think that?s happened with your site is, you?ve actually done some of your own original reporting, and you?ve gotten interviews, right?JOHN AMATO: Yes.ANDELMAN: How did that start, and how have you come along with that?AMATO: It?s a lot of fun. I mean, there are some bloggers that just offer opinions, and they are quite comfortable, and it?s necessary, and it?s important. Some people will just analyze news or talk about candidates and policy and the direction of different parties, whether they?re Democrats or Republicans . I like to do reporting, and I get a kick out of making phone calls and then asking questions. I have done that a bunch of times, and people are responsive on the other end because people know CrooksandLiars, so they understand that my site is in the...
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Peter Golenbock, "The Mickey Mantle Novel" author: Mr. Media Interview, Par
2008-01-05 06:36:00
(Return to Part 1)BOB ANDELMAN/Mr. MEDIA: It?s kind of that side of sports heroes that we sort of think is there, but we don?t usually hear about it or talk about it.PETER GOLENBOCK: Without a doubt, and the other thing about Mickey, of course, is that when he retired at the end of the ?68 season, he was lost. The man was just lost, and so he lived until 1995, so from ?68 until ?95, he had to get up every morning and try to figure out, what in the world am I going to do today? He was not a very happy man. He was a fearful guy. I mean, he had a very tough childhood. His father was not a particularly nice guy or kind guy. Mickey?s father was very, very tough on him, especially even when he was a child. Baseball became something of a job, and even if Mickey didn?t want to spend the afternoon playing catch or hitting a ball, he really had no choice. This was something? And so Mickey never, ever, felt that anything he ever did was good enough, and that was a large part of what really bot...
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Peter Golenbock, "7: The Mickey Mantle Novel" author: Mr. Media Interview,
2008-01-05 06:34:00
(Return to Part 1)(Return to Part 2)BOB ANDELMAN/Mr. MEDIA: Let?s change gears a little bit. You have written so many books about the Yankees. Do you have a favorite among them?PETER GOLENBOCK: You don?t have favorite books. It?s like children. I mean, each one is a tremendous experience while you are doing it. Dynasty was my first book, was my very, very first book, and that was the one book I did before the age of computers, so from ?72 to ?73, I spent a year in Yankee Stadium with the Yankees researching their archive, a 100,000 newspaper articles. When I got finished with the thing, it occurred to me that I didn?t know any more about the Yankees then than I did when I started. It was an amazing revelation. So I went back to the guy who signed up the book at Prentice-Hall, and I said to him, ?Look, I need to go visit these guys. Will you front me more money to do it?? They originally gave me $2,500, and then he gave me another $2,500. He did it two more times as I kept going and ...
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Ray Billingsley, "Curtis" cartoonist: Mr. Media Interview, Pt. 2
2008-01-05 06:33:00
(Return to Part 1)BOB ANDELMAN/Mr. MEDIA: So you?re not one of those guys who thinks that these strips that have been around for 30 or 40 years, they need to just stop, move out of the way for a younger guy? RAY BILLINGSLEY: Well, no, not as long as they are still pumping out good stuff. That?s one of the reasons why I really like ?Blondie.? ?Blondie? changes with the times. I?ve watched it ever since I was a little kid, and I see all the changes. The artwork is still superior to many that I?ve seen, and the ideas are still there.ANDELMAN: You know, that?s funny. I agree with you on ?Blondie.? As a matter of fact, when you mentioned Dean Young, I was thinking, I can?t remember the last time that there was some other type of Blondie product. I think, ?Boy, this would make a great TV show? sometimes or a great movie, because it has changed. Blondie has gone from just being kind of curvy to kind of busty, and she?s very attractive, and you know the situations are very modern, if you wi...
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2008-01-05 06:32:00
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Eric Deggans, "St. Petersburg Times" critic: Mr. Media Interview, Part 2
2008-01-05 06:30:00
(CLICK HERE TO RETURN TO PART 1)BOB ANDELMAN/Mr. MEDIA: Let?s skip around a little bit. One thing you?ve written a lot about, probably has no value whatsoever, ?American Idol .? Has it jumped the shark with Sanjaya?ERIC DEGGANS: No, not yet. In fact, I did an interview yesterday with Indian-American Magazine, a writer for that publication, and of course, they are interested in Sanjaya, and they asked me that very same question. We are at a weird point in ?American Idol.? First of all, ?American Idol? gets a ton of attention because it is the highest rated show on television, and it?s not only the highest rated show on television, it?s split up into two and sometimes three editions in a week, and every one of those editions becomes the highest rated shows on television. They also feed in a tremendous audience to shows that either precede them or follow them, so for the last few weeks, for example, the top five shows on television that week have all been either ?American Idol? shows or...
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Will Russell and Scott Shuffitt, "I'm A Lebowski, You're A Lebowski" co-aut
2007-12-28 01:26:00
There are a lot of famous uses of the word dude in pop culture. Sean Penn, as Spicoli, in Fast Times at Ridgemont High comes to mind. Or Keanu Reeves in Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure. Party on, dude, indeed. Or there’s the landscape guy I saw this morning parked at the Quickmart who had Palm Dude sloppily stenciled on the side of his pick-up truck. But none of those three rises to the level of the Dude, Jeff Bridges, star of one of the craziest, most-layered Coen Brothers films ever, The Big Lebowski. If you’re not already a fan of the 1998 movie, you want to go out and rent it when we’re done with this edition of Mr. Media. And if you’re already a Lebowski dude yourself, you’re gonna enjoy today’s guests, Will Russell and Scott Shuffitt, founders of Lebowski Fest and authors of the new book, I’m a Lebowski, You’re a Lebowski.DOWNLOAD THE MP3; LISTEN RIGHT NOW!ALSO AVAILABLE AS A PODCAST ON iTUNES.Subscribe to Mr. Media's RSS Feed.BOB ANDELMAN/Mr. MEDIA: So ...

Will Russell and Scott Shuffitt, "I'm A Lebowski, You're A Lebowski" author
2007-12-27 18:33:00
(Return to Part 1)BOB ANDELMAN/Mr. MEDIA: Tell me about achievers. Who is an achiever? What is an achiever?WILL RUSSELL: Achiever: that’s the preferred nomenclature for a fan of The Big Lebowski, kind of like a Deadhead is a Grateful Dead fan. We came up with achiever, which comes from the movie The Little Lebowski Urban Achievers and proud we are of all them. So, yeah, we’ve got these t-shirts. They just say achiever across the front. And people will get their achiever shirts, and then they’ll take their picture wearing their achiever shirt from all different parts of the country and the world. Send them into the website, lebowskifest.com, and we’ve got this gallery of two hundred pictures. It’s just amazing. We’ve got soldiers in Iraq wearing their achiever shirts.SCOTT SHUFFITT: Taj Mahal, the North Pole…RUSSELL: …Toledo, Ohio, all the exotic places.SHUFFITT: Standing on the corner in Winslow, Arizona.RUSSELL: Winslow, Arizona. Yeah. Hating the Eagles.ANDELMAN: Do...
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Will Russell and Scott Shuffitt, "I'm A Lebowski, You're A Lebowski" co-aut
2007-12-27 18:32:00
(Return to Part 2)(Return to Part 1)BOB ANDELMAN/Mr. MEDIA: Let’s give the book a little plug here. And by the way, I want to point out that there are actually four guys credited on the book. In addition to Will Russell and Scott Shuffitt, who are on the phone with us, Bill Green and Ben Peskoe are also co-authors of the book. Tell folks a little about the book, if they haven’t seen it. And particularly anyone who’s listening to this and has gotten this far with us is no doubt a fan of The Big Lebowski. So tell folks a little bit about what’s in it. It’s a lot of interviews and a lot of photos, but what else is in it? What’s most special about the book to you guys?SCOTT SHUFFITT: I think the thing that’s really special about it is just that it’s such a collection of information about the film. Like you said, there are interviews with the actors - John Goodman, Jeff Bridges, John Turturro, Philip Seymour Hoffman and more. We did interviews with the folks that the Coen...

Pete Williams, "The Draft" author: Mr. Media Interview, Part 2
2007-12-21 22:40:00
(Return to Part 1)BOB ANDELMAN/Mr. MEDIA: Where did you find the highest level of naiveté about the draft and all that it entailed? Was it with the college players? Was it with the college coaches, the pro scouts? I mean, I suspect somewhere in there, there are some people operating with very little sense of what they are dealing with.PETE WILLIAMS: Well, certainly the players have to be at the top of that list, but first, there was more of that at the college level than I would have expected. Now, these college coaches, they understand how the world works. They understand these agents are harassing their players all the time, and actually, that?s legal. I mean, an agent can contact any player, freshman, sophomore, junior, or senior, any day of the year so long as he does not provide that player with anything of value. Now, technically, there are rules, state regulations and such, I mean, here in the state of Florida, you supposedly cannot contact a player. Every conversation has to...
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Jeremy Mitchell, Sheaun McKinney, "Nemesis" producer, actor: Mr. Media Inte
2007-12-20 03:52:00
Nemesis is a new Miami-based independent feature film that tells the story of an idealistic young rap star fighting for his own voice against the corrupting influence of the hip-hop industry. A record label discovers him, and he is forced to promote violence and materialism in exchange for fame. The movie dramatizes the hypocrisies of a multi-billion dollar industry that encourages its fans to stay true to the streets. Directed by Lee Cipolla and produced by Jeremy Mitchell and Justin Marx, Nemesis stars Sheaun McKinney as the unlikely gangster rap star, Nemesis, and Marlon Taylor, aka rapper Messiah, as the real gangster rapper, Razor Ric. The soundtrack features original music from fresh and new artists such as Messiah, a Mr. Cheeks protégé, and Suzie Abromeit, already known for her number one single duet with hip-hop star Fat Joe. As for co-producer Jeremy Mitchell, our guest today, he?s worked steadily over the last six years, notably appearing in Harder They Fall, King, Full Ci...
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Jeremy Mitchell, Sheaun McKinney, "Nemesis" producer, actor: Mr. Media Inte
2007-12-20 03:50:00
(Return to Part 1)BOB ANDELMAN/Mr. MEDIA: This is your first producing role, I?m assuming, for doing a feature.JEREMY MITCHELL: It is my first feature producing role, yeah. I?ve produced a couple of short films and such.ANDELMAN: The question that anyone in my position would have to ask is where did you find the money? How did you guys ante up to produce this, and what was the budget?MITCHELL: I can?t give exact details, amounts on that, but I?ll just put it at it was under $1 million, so it was a low-budget affair. We don?t have any huge names in it, but hopefully, they will be soon. We were able to fall into an investor. We had one investor, private investor, locally in Florida, that we were able to approach with the film, and we actually already knew him. And he had seen what we had done in the past, a few of the projects, the short films, and the success we were starting to have and recognition with the different projects. He had seen the trailer for this and the script and boug...
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Oscar Isaac, "PU-239" actor: The Mr. Media Interview, Part 2
2007-12-18 04:09:00
(Return to Part 1)ANDELMAN: Do you have any concerns in taking a role like this? The Russians are not exactly portrayed in the best light here. When you take a role like this, is it a job, or do you think about, “Oh, you know what, someone may not be too happy with the way I’m portraying this guy, or the way the movie is portraying this guy?�ISAAC: I think that would maybe come into my mind if I felt that that was happening in some little way. But I think that it’s less about the Russians and more about, if anything, capitalism. I think it does in a way make the argument that plutonium in the wrong hands is just as deadly as capitalism in the wrong hands, and not to say that the Russians are the wrong hands but this idea that if unchecked, it’s kind of an anything goes mentality. And I think that, for me, the political aspects of it were, that was the strongest as opposed to Russians or crazy gangsters or even the good ones are going to sell plutonium.ANDELMAN: That’s ki...
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James Grippando, "The Pardon" novelist: Mr. Media Interview Classic
2007-12-17 18:02:00
Originally published in Pinellas County Review, January 1995Lawyers. Write one story for the college law review and for the rest of their careers they plan to write the Great American Novel. And for every one who finally gives up that dream, along comes a Scott Turow or John Grisham to inspire another generation of dreamers.For Miami attorney James Grippando, author of the new bestseller, The Pardon (HarperCollins), it was a combination of Turow's best-selling novel Presumed Innocent, and the popularity of NBC-TV's "L.A. Law" that in September 1988 convinced him to devote most nights and weekends to writing his first novel, The Dupree Conspiracy a murder mystery about a wealthy Palm Beach family."I always loved to write," Grippando said in a telephone interview. "But the legal writing I had done was very esoteric stuff. My first publication was about condominium rule-making. Not the kind of stuff people giggle about at cocktail parties."Three years later, the Steel Hector & Davis ...
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Milo Ventimiglia, "Heroes" actor: Mr. Media Interview, Part 2
2007-12-16 15:48:00
(Return to Part 1)BOB ANDELMAN/Mr. MEDIA: It must be hard for both the writers and the actors to be on a show where the expectations are so high. You almost reach a point where, no matter what you do, you?re going to let people down. Is that the case?MILO VENTIMIGLIA: Yeah. You?re damned if you do, you?re damned if you don?t. You just gotta know that, ultimately, the work that you?re doing, the work that you?re putting in, it?s your best efforts, and it?s everybody?s best effort. That being said, though, all those best efforts have to come together in sync. Otherwise, the show doesn?t have a heart.ANDELMAN: Before the writers? strike set in, how much did you know of plot lines for your character going in? And how much do you think that may change going forward with the delay in getting back into production?VENTIMIGLIA: I knew quite a bit. I knew where we were headed, but I also had the luxury of not really having to follow too closely because Peter had amnesia. I went in for a meeti...
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Milo Ventimiglia, "Heroes" actor: Mr. Media Interview, Part 1
2007-12-16 15:24:00
Milo Ventimiglia is not your average save-the-world superhero, although he does play one, Peter Petrelli, on NBC?s hit series ?Heroes .?In real life, he?s an ambitious actor and producer whose company, Divide Pictures, just completed a series of five animated holiday shorts available exclusively on the American Eagle Outfitters website. Milo narrated the first episode, ?Home for the Holidays?; others feature the voices of Kristen Bell , Lil Jon, Adrianne Palicki, and Pete Wentz, the Fall Out Boy.DOWNLOAD THE MP3; LISTEN RIGHT NOW!ALSO AVAILABLE AS A PODCAST ON iTUNES.Subscribe to Mr. Media 's RSS Feed.BOB ANDELMAN/Mr. MEDIA: I hate to pimp for American Eagle Outfitters, but it seems appropriate here. I have to think that any fan of yours -- and ?Gilmore Girls ? for that matter -- is going to love ?Home for the Holidays? because you play yourself. How much fun was that?MILO VENTIMIGLIA: It was a lot of fun. The ?Home for the Holidays? tale was kind of a combination of stories between my...
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Sara Zarr, "Story of a Girl," "Sweethearts" author: Mr. Media Interview, Pa
2007-12-15 23:08:00
(Return to Part 1)BOB ANDELMAN: Why do you think kids get so absorbed by drama at that age? One of the things that kept hitting me was that, for Deanna, she obviously had a hard time seeing that there was any life past the city limits of Pacifica or that she couldn?t escape past those limits. It kind of reminded me of one of the Planet of the Apes films where they had their territory, but they couldn?t go beyond a certain point because it was the great unknown back there, and it was dangerous, and they?d never go past it.SARA ZARR: I don?t know if I can really articulate enough to answer your question, but I do think adolescence is a particular time that is not childhood, and it?s not adulthood, and you are becoming something that you?re going to be, and at the same time, you?re living in occupied territory, basically. You don?t have a lot of control over your life. You?re living on the property and under the roof of other adults who you may or may not respect and/or get along with,...
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Sara Zarr, "Story of a Girl," "Sweethearts" author: Mr. Media Interview, Pa
2007-12-15 21:50:00
Sara Zarr had an experience last night that any author would kill for ? sitting in the audience at the Marriott Marquis Times Square in Manhattan, her first novel, Story of a Girl , a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award for young people?s literature.For a first-time fiction author, such a nomination is remarkable, and it would be fun for both of us to tell you that she won, but it wasn?t meant to be, not this time around.Don?t shed too many tears for Sara, however. She?s young, talented, and has already completed her second young adult title, Sweethearts, due on Valentine?s Day 2008 from Little, Brown.DOWNLOAD THE MP3; LISTEN RIGHT NOW!ALSO AVAILABLE AS A PODCAST ON iTUNES.Subscribe to Mr. Media 's RSS Feed.BOB ANDELMAN: First of all, congratulations on being nominated.SARA ZARR: Thank you very much.ANDELMAN: How are you doing today? Last night must have been a little rough after all the build-up.ZARR: It was fabulous, and it was devastating all at the same time, and it was a r...
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Judge David Young, syndicated TV judge: Mr. Media Interview, Part 1
2007-12-08 13:29:00
Judge David Young is unlike any other TV judge you?ve likely seen before.In a video marketplace with courts of every color and gender and with their focuses ranging from petty crimes and divorce to Texas justice, the Judge David Young show has a gimmick that?s no gimmick.Yep, he?s gay.DOWNLOAD THE MP3; LISTEN RIGHT NOW!ALSO AVAILABLE AS A PODCAST ON iTUNES.Subscribe to Mr. Media 's RSS Feed.BOB ANDELMAN/Mr. MEDIA: Judge, there?s out and then there?s in-your-living-room-five-nights-a-week out. How did you join the ranks of dispensers of video justice?JUDGE DAVID YOUNG: Well, it?s very interesting. I was in my judicial chambers in Miami/Dade County, and I got an email from Sony Television asking me if I would like to talk to them about starring in a television show. And at first, I thought it was one of those emails that you get from Nigeria. I didn?t think it was real. And after I spoke to them, it was indeed real, and it?s been an amazing story actually. I?m just absolutely thrille...
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Judge David Young, syndicated TV judge: Mr. Media Interview, Part 2
2007-12-08 05:40:00
(Return to Part 1)BOB ANDELMAN/Mr. MEDIA: Was there then or has there been, especially now that you?re on TV, was there any hesitation in living your personal and professional life so large?JUDGE DAVID YOUNG: No because I?ve always been out. I?ve always been an open person. I?ve always been in the public eye whether it?s locally -- now it?s nationally -- and I love it. I think I?m making a difference. That?s why I enjoy it, and if I can spread some words of encouragement to not only gays and lesbians but to people in general. If I can make people?s lives better, that?s what I?m all about. That?s what I enjoy doing, improving the quality of people?s lives. If my sexual orientation is going to be a part in it, wonderful.ANDELMAN: I have to ask you this. It?s not really a fair question cause I don?t know that I would ask it of a heterosexual, but does homosexuality affect who you are in court?YOUNG: The only way it affects who I am is I dress better than the straight judges.ANDELMAN: A...
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Mort Walker, "Beetle Bailey," "Hi & Lois" cartoonist: Mr. Media Interview,
2007-11-30 04:54:00
Mort Walker is the dean and -- in some ways -- the curator of American cartoonists.Best known for his long-running strips ?Beetle Bailey ? and ?Hi & Lois,? Walker, 84, is also a bedrock member of the National Cartoonists Society, and he?s the founder and energy behind the National Cartoon Museum.This is the third time I?ve had the pleasure of Mort?s company over the last 20 years. I enjoy interviewing him because he says what?s on his mind, and what?s on his mind is never dull.But just in case my questions aren?t sharp enough for this American comic strip master, I?ve called in reinforcements.Ray Billingsley, creator of the ?Curtis ? strip and an old friend of Walker?s, kindly contributed questions today. So did a newer member of the fraternity, Mark Tatulli, creator of ?Heart of the City? and America?s fastest-growing new strip, ?LIO.?DOWNLOAD THE MP3; LISTEN RIGHT NOW!ALSO AVAILABLE AS A PODCAST ON iTUNES.Subscribe to Mr. Media 's RSS Feed.Mr. MEDIA/BOB ANDELMAN: Mort, welcome t...
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Mort Walker, "Beetle Bailey," "Hi & Lois" cartoonist: Mr. Media Interview,
2007-11-30 04:47:00
(Return to Part 1)Mr. MEDIA/BOB ANDELMAN: Did you have formal art training?MORT WALKER: I used to take art courses until I suddenly got the idea when I was in high school that if I was gonna do a comic strip, which was my lifelong ambition to do, that was what I was preparing for, and I thought, If I just am an artist, I?m gonna have to pay somebody to write my ideas for me. And that means I?ll only make half as much money. I started taking writing courses instead of art courses. I took a couple because they were usually snap courses. I?d always get an ?A,? and I didn?t have to do any homework or anything like that. But after I came to New York and started doing cartoons, I was a top-selling magazine cartoonist in the country in 1948, a year after I got out of college. My art teacher in Missouri University used to hang up my drawings and say, ?An example of fine art in cartooning.? They were trying to get some credit for me.ANDELMAN: Oh, I see. They want the credit.WALKER: Yeah.ANDE...
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2007-11-24 07:00:00
David Michaelis, "Schulz and Peanuts" author: Mr. Media Interview, Part 1 Charles Schulz, creator of the "Peanuts" comic strip with Charlie Brown and Snoopy, is the subject of David Michaelis' controversial new biography. Michaelis is featured in this audio interview (with transcription).
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2007-11-24 07:00:00
David Michaelis, "Schulz and Peanuts" author: Mr. Media Interview, Part 1 Charles Schulz, creator of the "Peanuts" comic strip with Charlie Brown and Snoopy, is the subject of David Michaelis' controversial new biography. Michaelis is featured in this audio interview (with transcription).
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David Michaelis, "Schulz and Peanuts" author: Mr. Media Interview, Part 2
2007-11-21 06:09:00
(Return to Part 1)BOB ANDELMAN/MR. MEDIA: One of the things that struck me was that he never really matured in some ways. Sometimes, we have these feelings when we’re a kid, we have them when we’re a teenager, that we don’t belong, that we don’t fit in, that no one understands us, but most of us sort of grow out of that, and by oh, I don’t know, 47, my age, you kind of feel like you are starting to get the hang of things, but I get the sense that he never did. He had children, and I am sure he loved his children, and he certainly loved his second wife, but as a member of greater society that maybe he just never did quite get it, he never did feel a part of things.DAVID MICHAELIS: I think he was continuously aware that he didn’t quite fit in. I remember a quote that I used as an epigraph where he said, “Cartoonists don’t live anywhere.� I think he had a sense of disconnection from the world and from the world around him, and he was in such an odd place after a certa...
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