Today's Guest: Tom Jones, singer, TV star, "This is Tom Jones" (EDITOR'S NOTE: This interview with singer Tom Jones, conducted by Mr. Media, Bob Andelman, was originally published in the St. Petersburg Times on May 10, 1985.) "The first time I came here was 1965. 'It's Not Unusual' was number one March the first.... Continue Reading →
Hitler’s Folly? Should have stuck with making art, not war! VIDEO INTERVIEW
Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Bill Plympton by clicking on the video player above! Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience full of professional Nazi hunters who don’t know what a ‘mockumentary’ is but suspect it has clues that will satisfy their lives’ work… in the NEW new media... Continue Reading →
Vicki Lawrence as Carol Burnett’s mother? That’s comedy! VIDEO INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Vicki Lawrence, actress, comedienne, "The Carol Burnett Show," "Mama's Family" Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Vicki Lawrence by clicking on the video player above! Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience full of professional actors who couldn’t keep a straight face around Tim Conway even if he... Continue Reading →
Superman’s pal Tim Hanley on Investigating Lois Lane! VIDEO INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Tim Hanley, author, Investigating Lois Lane, Wonder Woman Unbound Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Tim Hanley by clicking on the video player above! Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience full of young women who changed their initials to L.L. in the hopes of catching Henry Cavill’s eye…... Continue Reading →
Singer John Doe on origins of X, LA punk scene! VIDEO INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: John Doe, singer, co-founder, X, author, Under the Big Black Sun: A Personal History of L.A. Punk Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with John Doe by clicking on the video player above! Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience full of aging punks who no longer take pride... Continue Reading →
X’s Exene Cervenka remembers teen life in St. Petersburg! INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Exene Cervenka, singer, X, co-author, Adulterers Anonymous (EDITOR'S NOTE: This interview was originally published in the St. Petersburg Times [now the Tampa Bay Times] on December 2, 1983. I pulled it from my archives to match with my May 13, 2016, Mr. Media video interview with her former husband and still X collaborator, John Doe. --... Continue Reading →
1260 Oh, Rocky! New Rocky Horror FAQ connects 45 years! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Dave Thompson, author, The Rocky Horror Picture Show FAQ Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Dave Thompson by clicking on the video player above! Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience full of Riff-Raffs, Magentas, Columbias, Brads and Janets – dammit! – far more than one tiny living room... Continue Reading →
Volare! Back to swingin’ school with Bobby Rydell (High)! VIDEO INTERVIEW
Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with singer Bobby Rydell by clicking on the video player above! Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience full of men of a certain age who wish they had spent months of their formative years dancing with Ann-Margaret… in the NEW new media capital of the... Continue Reading →
RIP Darwyn Cooke: 2006 interview with comic book artist
(EDITOR'S NOTE: Yesterday brought the news that one of comics' most inventive and stylized modern artists, Darwyn Cooke,was "receiving palliative care following a bout with aggressive cancer," according to the blog Almost Darwyn Cooke. Fans of his work barely had time to absorb that catastrophic shock when we awoke today {May 14, 2016} and discovered Cooke... Continue Reading →
Howard Stern fave Rachel Butera makes great First Impressions! VIDEO INTERVIEW
Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Rachel Butera by clicking on the video player above! Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience full of 13-year-old boys practicing their Rich Little impersonations for an hour daily for no reason at all… in the NEW new media capital of the world… St.... Continue Reading →