Yvette Nicole Brown, COMMUNITY, DRAKE & JOSH TV star: Mr. Media Radio Interview

By BOB ANDELMAN

Yvette Nicole Brown has been on TV shows opposite Hugh Laurie, William Shatner and Larry David, and in movies opposite Scarlett Johansson, Jennifer Hudson, Eddie Murphy, Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr., and Gerald Butler.

Heck, she started her career by signing a contract as a Motown recording artist.

But when my daughter saw her in the cast of Community alongside Chevy Chase—who she loved in Christmas Vacation—all that mattered was—she was on Drake & Josh!

AUDIO EXCERPT: "I knew that Joel McHale was very, very smart and very funny. And I read the script. When your body has an involuntary reaction to something on a written page--it was like a no-brainer. Then you find out Chevy Chase is involved, the Russo Brothers directed it--okay, I'm in. It was an easy decision to make."

So Yvette Nicole Brown—star of Drake & Josh AND the new NBC Thursday night sitcom Community, airing Thursday nights at 8 p.m.—welcome to Mr. Media.







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Tom Farley, Jr., THE CHRIS FARLEY SHOW co-author: Mr. Media Audio Interview

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.

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Chris Gore, "Film Threat" editor: Mr. Media Interview Classic

Originally published in 1996

No more "Casting Couch" tales from would-be starlets.

No more midnight prank calls to Chevy Chase about non-existent films. And instead of crashing film festivals, Chris Gore will be sponsoring them. These are just some of the changes readers will note when Film Threat magazine returns to newsstands in September.

What Spy magazine was to the New York establishment in the 1980s, Film Threat was to the Hollywood film community. Gore, then a film student, started the irreverent magazine on a Xerox copier in Detroit in 1985. It fast developed a loyal, if sometimes illiterate, following. Letters to the editor — "hate mail," Gore called them — were published as they arrived, handwritten, packed with misspellings and bad attitude.



He went Hollywood in 1989 and sold the magazine two years later to Larry Flynt's LFP Publications. Over the years, Gore developed several new magazines for Flynt, the publisher of Hustler, including Film Threat Video Guide, Wild Cartoon Kingdom and Sci-Fi Universe, among others. A falling out with Flynt caused Gore to resign last fall and briefly pursue a career as a developer of films and CD-ROM games.

"I didn't leave Film Threat," Gore says. "I left Flynt."

Why?

"Go see the movie," is all he'll say, referring to the upcoming film The People vs. Larry Flynt, starring Woody Harrelson as Flynt and Courtney Love as his wife, Althea.

Flynt canceled Film Threat this summer and sold the rights to it and Wild Cartoon Kingdom (which will relaunch next spring) back to Gore.





Gore is excited about his return to publishing what he calls "America's #1 Independent Movie Magazine." The publication has traditionally paid tribute to directors such as John Waters (Polyester, Cry-baby, Pink Flamingos), Quentin Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction) and whoever Gore may anoint "the flavor of the
month."

"The original mission of Film Threat was to be an alternative movie magazine, a reaction to Premiere, to champion alternative films — midnight movies, underground and adult films," he says. "And unlike when we started a decade ago, there's now a large consumer demand for
alternatives."

Gore, now a ripe old 30 and writing a book about Film Threat's infamous stunts and acerbic history, promises that his magazine, which once declared all-out "war" on establishment
rival Premiere, has matured. "Film Threat's attitude is retained but the magazine has grown up," he says. "A lot of that prankster stuff will be there, but below the surface; we won't burn our bridges so easily."

© 2007 by Bob Andelman. All rights reserved.

Dick Cheney: I'm Chevy Chase, And You're Not

"Well, I'm vice president and they're not."

-- Dick Cheney, telling Newsweek's Richard Wolffe how he responds to growing criticism about his job performance from a chorus of former government insiders such as Colin Powell, Brent Scowcroft and the late Gerald Ford. "The story's headline: "The Man Without Doubt."