Today's Guest: Laurent Bouzereau, film producer, director, author, Hitchcock: Piece By Piece Psycho. Vertigo. Rear Window. The 39 Steps. It’s hard to imagine that an entire generation has grown up without Alfred Hitchcock as one of our leading, active filmmakers. The man was so imaginative, so inventive, so… unpredictable, that even on the rare occasion... Continue Reading →
Today's Guest: Nat Gertler, author, The Peanuts Collection: Treasures from the World's Most Beloved Comic Strip When you’re done reading your favorite comic strip today, wouldn’t it be cool to have some lasting ephemera to put on your desk, in your school locker, in the kitchen or on your nightstand? Something that will remind... Continue Reading →
Today's Guest: Sharrie Williams, author, The Maybelline Story and the Spirited Family Dynasty Behind It Cosmetics are almost incidental in The Maybelline Story, an irresistible new business and family history book by an heir to the Williams family legacy, Sharrie Williams, and her co-author, Bettie Youngs. If you loved watching the old prime time soap... Continue Reading →
Today's Guest: Andrew Farago, curator, Cartoon Art Museum, author, Looney Tunes Treasury My brother Ira was a Popeye fan. Me? Looney Tunes all the way. I lost hours of my youth watching Bugs, Daffy, Elmer, Porky, Tweety, the Road Runner, Sylvester and Marvin over and over again the way my son once watched The Bear... Continue Reading →
Today's Guest: Romance novelist Tracy Anne Warren, author of Wicked Delights. Before I bring on today's guest, historical romance novelist Tracy Anne Warren, let me describe my strategy for reading any historical romance novel with which I might be presented. YAWN. Sorry, Tracy, but it's true. And I'm sure I'm not the only guy who... Continue Reading →
Certain days in all of our lives we can’t help but remember. I was sitting at my desk here in St. Petersburg with “The Today Show” on in the background when the first plane flew into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. I was in my kitchen in Gainesville, Florida, on March... Continue Reading →
Today's Guest: Robert Knight, rock 'n' roll photographer Maybe you don’t already know the name of legendary rock ‘n’ roll photographer Robert Knight. But by the end of this half-hour, you won’t be able to forget him. Knight shot the last photographs of guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan before his fateful plane crash. He took... Continue Reading →
Today's Guest: John E. Oden, author, Life in the Ring: Lessons and Inspiration from the Sport of Boxing Including Muhammad Ali, Oscar de la Hoya, Jake LaMotta, George Foreman, Floyd Patterson, and Rocky Marciano Little known fact: Shortly after my daughter was born, I took private boxing lessons for almost two years at the 4th... Continue Reading →
Today's Guest: James Sullivan, author, 7 Dirty Words: The Life and Crimes of George Carlin George Carlin’s career had a funny arc. A high school dropout, he started as a pretty straight-arrow radio disc jockey in the 1950s, developed a stand-up comedy act with fellow DJ Jack Burns—later famous as half of Burns and Schreiber—and... Continue Reading →
Today's Guest: Robert K. Elder, author, Last Words of the Executed. I don’t know that the world was bouncing on its heels, waiting impatiently for someone to finally collect the last words of men and women subject to the death penalty in the United States, but now that we have it, Robert K. Elder’s... Continue Reading →
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