Today's Guest: Milt Larsen, co-founder, The Magic Castle Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience that includes my late Uncle Abe, who taught me everything I know about making quarters appear from behind the ears of pretty girls… in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida! Who... Continue Reading →
Merlin’s Bradley James: Off with Mr. Media’s bloody head! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Bradley James, star, "Merlin" Merlin exists to protect Prince Arthur, the young Pendragon, until he becomes king and magic is returned to the realm. Life in the days before Camelot were complicated that way. BRADLEY JAMES podcast excerpt: "Anthony Head and I play father and son. And it seems to be that... Continue Reading →
Lovely Katie McGrath brings the pain to Merlin on TV! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Katie McGrath, actress, "Merlin," "Supergirl" Katie McGrath plays Lady Morgana in the new NBC dramatic import, “Merlin.” The shows airs every Sunday at 8 p.m. Katie is a relative newcomer to acting, as I understand it, although American audiences may have seen her in an episode of Showtime’s popular drama, “The Tudors,”... Continue Reading →
Merlin’s King, Anthony Head, refuses to bow before Mr. Media! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Anthony Head can’t escape his past. I know that, because when I posted a note on Facebook a few days ago that I’d be interviewing Anthony, it took less than a minute for Gina Vivinetto to respond with two words: “Ack! GILES!” I wasn’t entirely sure if that was good or bad, but when... Continue Reading →
Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files draw a graphic crowd! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Novelist Jim Butcher, author of The Dresden Files. I am NOT the world’s biggest Harry Potter fan. The only book in the series that I’ve read is the first, which my wife and I took turns reading aloud to my daughter when she was just learning to read herself. Since then, they’ve... Continue Reading →
Masked Magician unmasked by Mr. Media: It’s Val Valentino! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Val Valentino, The Masked Magician There are all kinds of magic. There is the classic Harry Houdini practice of pre-technology stunts that utterly baffled crowds. And there is the David Copperfield school of big stage, TV magic that leave crowds equally mystified but suspicious that they’ve been somehow conned. There are... Continue Reading →
74 Sex, magic, wizardry… novelist Jim Melvin’s Death Wizard Chronicles! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Jim Melvin has been a friend of mine for more than twenty years and, for as long as I’ve known him, his driving interest has been writing an epic fantasy series, something that might find shelf space alongside J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy. But life kept getting in the way. He was... Continue Reading →