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Gloria Steinem Would Be So Proud (Esquire)
2008-05-24 13:42:00
"Equal opportunities for everyone on the planet. If women are going to prostitute themselves, men should as well. There should be more male hookers. And eighteen-year-old women should demand satisfaction from their men."-- Actress Radha Mitchell, explaining to Esquire 's Matthew Belloni, what she means by saying she's a feminist. She is one of the magazine's "Women We Love" in the June 2008 issue.Her new movie is The Children of Huang Shi. Amazon.com Widgets
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Links for 2008-05-23 [Digg]
2008-05-24 07:00:00
Tom Farley, Jr., THE CHRIS FARLEY SHOW co-author: Mr. Media A lively podcast interview with the late SNL comedian Chris Farley's older brother, Tom. Tom co-authored the new biography, "The Chris Farley Story," and is chairman of the Chris Farley Foundation.
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Katy Chevigny, ELECTION DAY, DEADLINE documentary filmmaker: Mr. Media Inte
2008-05-24 01:50:00
Katy Chevigny makes award-winning documentary films such as Arctic Son, Innocent Until Proven Guilty, Nuyorican Dream, Brother Born Again, and Outside Looking In: Transracial Adoption in America. Her credits also include the acclaimed film Deadline , an investigation into Illinois Governor George Ryan?s commuting of death sentences. After premiering at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, the film was broadcast on NBC. Quite honestly, I know you may not recognize the titles, but if you?re interested in independent film and documentaries, she?s the kind of woman whose work and thoughts you?ll find quite interesting.Chevigny's latest project is called Election Day. It documents the 2004 U.S. elections, from 11 locations, including a Native American reservation in South Dakota and polling stations in Florida. It will debut on the PBS series "P.O.V." on July 1.She is currently in post-production on The Dishes, the story of a punk rock band that juggles family and careers in Chicago. Through...
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Tom Farley, Jr., THE CHRIS FARLEY SHOW co-author: Mr. Media Audio Interview
2008-05-22 22:05:00
Losing a family member at the tender age of 33 is incredibly tough. It?s even more complicated when that young person lived his existence in a bigger-than-life way, like Chris Farley ? and his trials and tribulations are witnessed by millions.In his new book, The Chris Farley Show , Chris?s older brother, Tom Farley, Jr. ? with help from co-author Tanner Colby - pieces together his late brother?s life in the form of an oral history with interviews from most everyone who encountered Chris. This includes family and friends from his youth, on through the ?Saturday Night Live? family, and people from his hit movies, including Tommy Boy, Black Sheep, and Beverly Hills Ninja.The book is an easy, breezy read, and was excerpted last month in Playboy.You can LISTEN to this interview by clicking the BlogTalkRadio.com audio player below!Open in your default playerDetach into a separate window Amazon.com Widgets
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Hot Girl in the Comics Shop
2008-05-22 04:56:00
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Richard Brody, EVERYTHING IS CINEMA: THE WORKING LIFE OF JEAN-LUC GODARD bi
2008-05-19 21:42:00
I studied French New Wave cinema in college. Took it twice, in fact, in Professor Robert Ray?s class at the University of Florida. Little-known fact ? my degree is actually in Film Studies.Anyway, I loved the French New Wave films from the late ?50s and early ?60s. What I didn?t care for was the over-inflated discussion that followed each screening.I?d watch the movies, in awe of the storytelling, the jump cuts, the women, the casual sex ? you get the idea. But when the lights came up, Professor Ray always insisted on going deep into the meaning and motivation of the filmmaker.So here I am, Mr. A Mile Wide and an Inch Deep, about to welcome the esteemed film critic of The New Yorker magazine and author of the new book, Everything Is Cinema : The Working Life of Jean Luc-Godard. It?s a fascinating look at the best of the best of French New Wave, the auteur behind Breathless, A Woman is A Woman, La Chinoise, King Lear, and many more. And it made me wish I was more patient back in Profe...
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David Hajdu, THE TEN-CENT PLAGUE author: Mr. Media Audio Interview
2008-05-17 22:20:00
Run for your lives!Hide the women and children!There?s a Ten-Cent Plague loose upon this fine land!My guest today, David Hajdu, is the author of a new book that ? at the very least ? probably has the best title of the year, The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America.In this book, Hajdu looks back at a hysterical period in American history ? one of many, to be sure ? when comic books were considered such a threat to our way of life that the industry nearly vanished.Hajdu is also the author of Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn, and Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina. He teaches at the Graduate School of Journalism with another friend of the Mr. Media podcast, Sree Sreenivasan ? and is the music critic for The New Republic.You can LISTEN to this interview by clicking the BlogTalkRadio.com audio player below!Open in your default player Amazon.com Widgets
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The O'Reilly Factor - Somebody is F-ing with Bill O'Reilly
2008-05-17 22:00:00
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A Beautiful Thing, But Outlawed in Most States
2008-05-16 13:29:00
"I?ve played a lesbian like three times and I?ve been the most asexual lesbian in history. I wouldn?t sign up for that experience if I wasn?t ready for every aspect of that character. When you sign up to play a character, you sign up to play every aspect of that character?s life. And if she?s going to have a love interest, what?s the point of having two gay characters if you don?t get to see them for who they are. If that means kissing, making out, or making love, let?s show it!"- Gabrielle Union , co-star of the summer movie Meet Dave and guest star on recent episodes of "Ugly Betty ," answering Men 's Fitness interrogator Elizabeth Sanchez's curiosity about her willingness to get into a little girl-on-girl action in the movies. Amazon.com Widgets
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THE TEN-CENT PLAGUE! Author David Hajdu Live on Mr. Media, Friday, May 16,
2008-05-16 03:15:00
David Hajdu, author of the bestseller The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America, will be the live guest on the Mr. Media podcast on Friday , May 16 at 1 p.m. EST.The one-hour show is broadcast live over BlogTalkRadio.com and takes listener calls. There is also an accompanying web chat.Listeners can catch the interview live - or later as a downloadable archive - by clicking here! Amazon.com Widgets
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Frenemies (Draft Magazine)
2008-05-15 13:50:00
"I remember with Jennifer, the oddest thing was there was a tremendous death threat against me the whole time I was dating her, but I never once felt frightened by it. I think she was thrown off by it, though."- Tate Donovan , co-star of the FX series "Damages ," recalling his experience dating Jennifer Aniston in Draft magazine. Poor bastard.
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Smoke and Mirrors (Cigar Aficionado)
2008-05-14 13:26:00
"Maybe because a cigar gives you a natural pause, you start to examine whatever it is you're trying to articulate and maybe somehow, for a moment, have the illusion that you're being more articulate than you are. It's not bad, the illusion being articulate!"- Armand Assante, the actor who starred in one of Mr. Media's all-time favorite films, The Mambo Kings. He is featured in the Cigar Aficionado cover story, "Hollywood's Tough Guy," by someone whose byline does not appear in the magazine or online. (Bet there's a good story lurking there, too.)
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Sandra Beckwith, "The Do(o)little Report" editor: Mr. Media Interview Class
2008-05-13 21:53:00
Originally Published February 3, 1997If you've seen the NBC sitcom "Men Behaving Badly," Sandra Beckwith says you're already familiar with her field of study.The editor of The Do(o)little Report , a bimonthly newsletter that answers the musical question, "Why can't a man be more like a woman?," says the TV show touches the same nerve as her newsletter's popular "Stupid Men Tricks" column."When the commercials for 'Men Behaving Badly' started running last summer, it reminded me of my 'Stupid Men Tricks,' " Beckwith says. "I can't tell you how many people have seen the show and asked if it was based on my newsletter. The trick where the man dries his underwear in a microwave oven? For all I know, the producer does this himself."Coincidentally, Harvey Myman, an executive producer of "Men Behaving Badly," is a subscriber and fan of The Do(o)little Report. "I subscribed to it at the same time I was reading a lot of books on the subject," Myman says. "It speaks to the fact that bo...
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What the ??? (Sue Simmons/CollegeHumor.com)
2008-05-13 19:45:00
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Freaks Need Love, Too (Harper's Bazaar)
2008-05-13 13:10:00
"I think that less is better, especially as you get older. Too much makeup on an older woman can really make you look like a freak"- Julianne Moore , talking fashion with Harper 's Bazaar 's Amy Larocca for the cover story "Portrait of a Lady."
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"I am Iron Man, Yadda-Yadda" (Starlog)
2008-05-13 03:30:00
"I was so geared up when I did Comic-Con. I was putting on the (Tony Stark ) suit in the restroom when Avi (Arad) walks in. So I'm in there with him, in this big can, and I'm in the handicapped stall putting on these boots, and Avi tells me, '(The trailer) played really good on Thursday.' I just said, 'Wow,' but I was thinking, 'I've never heard of people's careers being enhanced and forwarded in a convention room restroom.'"- Robert Downey Jr ., who plays the title character in Iron Man and his alter ego, Tony Stark, in the summer's big movie, recalling his first sense that the movie might be a hit. He was interviewed for the story "The Man in the Iron Man Mask" by Pat Jankiewicz in Starlog magazine. Amazon.com Widgets

Katherine Fugate, ARMY WIVES, Lifetime TV show creator: Mr. Media Audio Int
2008-05-12 03:43:00
The last thing we need in our house is another serial TV commitment. But then someone turned me on to ? late, I know ? Lifetime?s ?Army Wives.?I am soooo screwed.If you?re already a fan of the first year drama, you already know it?s sort of like ?Desperate Housewives? on an Army base. It?s also the most successful series in the Lifetime cable channel?s history.If you?re not familiar with the show, check it out. The series is based on Under the Sabers: The Unwritten Code of Army Wives, a book by Tanya Blank. It?s full of sex, lies, booze, and bitches.And I mean that in a purely professional sense.Hell, it?s even got a wife who isn?t a wife at all, but a dude married to a woman who is a lieutenant colonel.All of which is a brief introduction to my guest, Katherine Fugate, the creator of ?Army Wives,? which launches its second season on Lifetime on June 8. Katherine is also the niece of TV legend Barbara Eden, star of ?I Dream of Jeannie? and a few million grown-up men?s fantasies.You...
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Legs McNeil, PLEASE KILL ME, THE OTHER HOLLYWOOD author: Mr. Media Audio In
2008-05-10 20:23:00
When Spin magazine started, its staff included two fascinating characters. First was Bob Guccione, Jr., the magazine?s founder and namesake son of the publisher of Penthouse.And then there was Spin?s senior editor, Legs McNeil.Legs McNeil!?!What the hell kind of stupid name was that for a journalist? I mean, I grew up with kids named "Plinky," "Jiggs," and "Doine," but "Legs"?Well, let me tell you, that guy Legs McNeil could write. Some months, the only copy worth reading in Spin was under his byline.It wasn?t until years later that I learned that in the early 1970s, McNeil was a co-founder, with John Holmstrom and Ged Dunn, of Punk Magazine, which gave name to an entire musical generation.McNeil has since written two remarkable non-fiction books, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk, and The Other Hollywood : The Uncensored Oral History of the Porn Film Industry He?s also involved in a new documentary series unspooling across VH1, Spike, and the Sundance Channel in Ma...
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Philip Shenon, THE COMMISSION: THE UNCENSORED HISTORY OF THE 9/11 INVESTIGA
2008-05-10 05:48:00
I think everyone remembers where they were when they first heard about the planes flying into the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon. For our generation, it?s that horrifying moment that matches up with when other generations remember the Kennedy assassination or the bombing of Pearl Harbor. But where were you when the horror of the Bush Administration?s handling of 9/11 began settling in? Its inability to scramble jets that fateful day or the President staying in an elementary school, reading to children about a goat rather than getting up and showing some leadership capabilities? Where were you when the Administration resisted a proper investigation of the attack on America? Philip Shenon, an accomplished and long-time reporter for The New York Times, has written a book that every American should read. The Commission : The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation is, of all things, a beautifully-written journey into the not-so-bipartisan investigation into the governme...
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Daniel Pink, THE ADVENTURES OF JOHNNY BUNKO, FREE AGENT NATION author: Mr.
2008-05-09 01:07:00
Daniel Pink has made a career of being first on business themes over the last seven years, ever since publication of Free Agent Nation in May 2001. His theory then? That more of us will be working for ourselves in the future.Well, it?s now the future, so I?ll ask him whether that came true.He also wrote A Whole New Mind, about the the move from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age.But Dan?s newest book may be his greatest leap yet: a manga-style graphic novel titled The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You?ll Ever Need. For my not-so-Japanese-media-savvy friends, what the Japanese call manga, Americans call comic books.Click on the BlogTalkRadio Audio Player to listen to this interview!open separate window© 2008 by Bob Andelman. All rights reserved.
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'Spirit' moves up release to Dec. 25! (Hollywood Reporter)
2008-05-07 15:26:00
Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson star in the filmBy Carolyn GiardinaMay 6, 2008, 10:52 PMHollywood ReporterLionsgate has moved up the nationwide release of its comic adaptation "The Spirit" -- written and directed by Frank Miller -- to Dec. 25.The film, based on the comic book series created by the late Will Eisner, was originally slated to open Jan. 16, 2009.Also slated to open on Dec. 25 are Disney's "Bedtime Stories" and Fox 2000 Pictures' "Marley & Me."Of the move, Lionsgate president of theatrical films Tom Ortenberg said: "Comic-Con fans (in New York in March) resoundingly confirmed what we felt in our bones about 'The Spirit': this is a great film and an irresistible piece of entertainment. ... For all of us, it was an easy decision.""The Spirit" stars Gabriel Macht, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Eva Mendes , Sarah Paulson, Stana Katic, Dan Lauria, Jaime King, Paz Vega and Louis Lombardi. Odd Lot Entertainment and Lionsgate are production partners.Internation...
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Bob Balaban, RECOUNT, BERNARD AND DORIS, actor, director: Mr. Media Audio I
2008-05-01 00:30:00
(Mr. Media is on vacation this week, so we're rewinding to some of the podcast's earlier, most popular interviews to catch up new listeners!)No matter what role he?s in, Bob Balaban always makes an impression, from Steven Spielberg?s Close Encounters of the Third Kind to playing the President of NBC on ?Seinfeld.? And the same is now true of his work as a director, in Bernard and Doris, starring Susan Sarandon and Ralph Fiennes, now showing on HBO. He's also in another new HBO film, Recount.Click on the BlogTalkRadio Audio Player to listen to this interview!open separate window © 2007 by Bob Andelman. All rights reserved.
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Milo Ventimiglia, HEROES actor: Mr. Media Audio Interview REWIND
2008-04-30 05:41:00
(Mr. Media is on vacation this week, so we're rewinding to some of the podcast's earlier, most popular interviews to catch up new listeners!)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.Click on the BlogTalkRadio Audio Player to listen to this interview!open separate window CLICK HERE TO READ A TRANSCRIPT OF THE ENTIRE INTERVIEW!© 2007 by Bob Andelman. All righ...
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Stephan Pastis, PEARLS BEFORE SWINE, cartoonist: Mr. Media Audio Interview
2008-04-29 03:07:00
(Mr. Media is on vacation this week, so we're rewinding to some of the podcast's earlier, most popular interviews to catch up new listeners!)Stephan Pastis is a big fan of Ricky Gervais , creator of "The Office" and "Extras," and Larry David, co-creator of "Seinfeld" and creator of "Curb Your Enthusiasm." He also loves him some Cheryl Hines. As a matter of fact, I think the only reason I landed him on the show today is because I interviewed the "Curb Your Enthusiasm" co-star, and that gets him one degree closer to her.Pastis? ?Pearls Before Swine? comic strip has twice been named Best Newspaper Comic Strip of the Year by the National Cartoonists Society, in 2004 and again in 2007, and it is that funny and that weird.Well, Zeeba neighbors, prepare yourself for Stephan Pastis.LISTEN to STEPHAN PASTIS NOW!ALSO AVAILABLE AS A PODCAST ON iTUNES.Subscribe to Mr. Media's RSS Feed.CLICK HERE TO READ A TRANSCRIPT OF THE ENTIRE INTERVIEW!
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David Simon, THE WIRE, HBO show creator: Mr. Media Audio Interview Rewind
2008-04-29 02:45:00
(Mr. Media is on vacation this week, so we're rewinding to some of the podcast's earlier, most popular interviews to catch up new listeners!)Today, it?s January 26, 2007, and I am sitting across from David Simon, creator of the critically-acclaimed and Peabody Award-winning HBO series, The Wire. We are speaking at The Inn at the Bay in St. Petersburg, Florida, where Simon spent the last week working with students at Eckerd College. The fiftieth episode and fourth-season finale of The Wire aired just a few weeks ago, and the fifth season goes into production in March, so Simon is hopefully enjoying a vacation of sorts.I am an admitted late-comer to The Wire, having seen my first episode just last September in a New Jersey hotel room. I was struck by the show?s tension and extraordinarily tight script and character development, which has often been overshadowed by better-known HBO shows, such as The Sopranos and Deadwood. If you like those shows and you haven?t already caught The Wi...
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Paula Garces, HAROLD and KUMAR: ESCAPE FROM GUANTANAMO BAY, actress. Mr. Me
2008-04-27 16:13:00
Paula Garces? lovely features may be familiar to you if you saw such movies as Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, Clockstoppers, or Man of the House with Tommy Lee Jones. She also flirted with Meadow?s boyfriend on ?The Sopranos? and has guest-starred on ?CSI: Miami.? She was also promoted to series regular for the upcoming fifth and final season of ?The Shield .?In April, she?ll be in a Harold and Kumar sequel, Escape from Guantanamo Bay . I?m laughing just thinking about that. Today I?ve invited Paula on the show to talk about her current project in which she voices the lead character in Red Princess Blues: Animated. We?ll also be joined momentarily by the film?s producer, Alex Ferrari of Numb Robot Studios.Click the BlogTalkRadio.com audio player below to LISTEN to this interview!open separate window
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Robert Schimmel, CANCER ON $5 A DAY, author, standup comedian: Mr. Media Au
2008-04-23 18:55:00
I tried my hand at stand-up comedy twice in college, once as a freshman at the University of Miami and again a year later at the University of Florida. And no, I wasn?t so bad at Miami that I was asked to leave. They were a lot more subtle than that. Anyway, I gave up that dream early. It?s a tough, humiliating life, not for me. Now, Robert Schimmel, on the other hand, is one of the best stand-up comedians of his generation. He, like Richard Belzer before him, is the guy other comedians watch and measure themselves against. He is naturally funny and naturally crude, rude, and not recommended for listeners under the age of 18. That?s my way of saying if you?re too young to drink or if you?re easily offended, tune out now. The button-down mind of Bob Newhart this definitely is not. These days, Schimmel is still out doing his job making people laugh, but there is a twist. In 2000, when his career was reaching new heights, he was diagnosed with Stage III non-Hodgkins Lymphoma, cancer. ...
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WILL EISNER & PS MAGAZINE Expert Roundtable Discussion: Mr. Media Interview
2008-04-22 17:14:00
In the pantheon of comic book masters, Will Eisner ?s name is at or near the top of pretty much everyone?s list. He was there at the birth of the genre in the late 1930s ? he famously turned down a submission from Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster of a comic book about a character named Superman. Will suggested they go back to art school in Cleveland and get a little better at his craft.Eisner himself is best known as the creator of an enduring but little known character called "The Spirit." This is a big year for The Spirit, with a major motion picture written and directed by Frank Miller currently in post-production and scheduled for release in January 2009.Eisner is also known as the grandfather of the graphic novel for producing one of the genre?s earliest and most enduring works, 1978?s A Contract With God.I spent three years with Eisner, interviewing him and researching his life for the biography, Will Eisner: A Spirited Life, which was published by M Press/Dark Horse in 2005.There ...
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Jeff Kreisler, MY WALL STREET JOURNAL, INDECISION 2008, comedian, writer: M
2008-04-21 23:37:00
Joining me today is one of the executive editors of My Wall Street Journal - which he will insist is a parody, but seems true enough to me.Jeff Kreisler?s name may not be familiar to you, but if you?re a fan of comedy, you?ve certainly seen or heard his work. He writes for Comedy Central?s Indecision 2008, has a syndicated business humor column and video, "Funny Money," via Jim Cramer?s TheStreet.com, is author of the forthcoming book, Get Rich Cheating, and has joined the staff and cast of a new show from the creator of "The Daily Show."You can get a taste of what we?re talking about at www.WSJParody.com.You can listen to this interview by clicking the BlogTalkRadio.com audio player below!open separate window
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Get Smarter with Steve Carell (Wired)
2008-04-21 22:54:00
"Remember, it's always better to have a cursory knowledge of a lot of things than to actually know a lot about any one thing. This is called a liberal arts education."- Steve Carell, who plays Maxwell Smart, Agent 86, in this summer's big comedy remake Get Smart , offering to Wired magazine's Nancy Miller 10 ways to attain Carell-level smarts.. Amazon.com Widgets
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