Today's Guest: Bethenny Frankel, reality TV star, "Real Housewives of New York City," "Bethenny Ever After" Give Real Housewives star Bethenny Frankel her due: she knows how to build a brand and milk it for everything it’s worth. When life gives you or me lemons, we make lemonade. When life gave Bethenny a role... Continue Reading →
Ramona Singer gives Mr. Media the Housewives business! PODCAST INTERVIEW
The rest of the ladies may be “The Real Housewives of New York,” but Ramona Singer is the real businesswoman of the Big Apple. Kelly Bensimon may have shown her family jewels in the pages of Playboy, but fellow “Housewife” Ramona Singer has used her fame to pursue a more traditional route to success.... Continue Reading →
Cartoonist Gahan Wilson draws picture of 50 years with Playboy! PODCAST INTERVIEW
In my mind, I’ve been associated with Playboy for roughly 40 years—I was roughly 10 when I discovered my dad’s box of old magazines in a cardboard box on top of the standup cedar wardrobe in the attic. Hello, Miss May, 1966! “Discovered” may not be the right word—at 10, I was finally mischievous... Continue Reading →
Jeff Wilser recites The Maxims of Manhood to Mr. Media! PODCAST INTERVIEW
If you’re old enough to remember dumbass books such as Real Men Don’t Eat Quiche—or my own Why Men Watch Football—then you know there have been a lot of cheap attempts to make money off the good nature of good men. But not by Jeff Wilser. This guy actually knows what he’s talking about.... Continue Reading →
Playboy’s Breann McGregor sings. What else do you guys need? PODCAST INTERVIEW
Guys, Stacy Collins has your dream job. As a managing editor of Playboy special editions, she spends day after day looking at the world’s most beautiful, mostly naked women. Some are in photographs, but many meet her discriminating eye in the flesh. And now that I say that out loud, it’s not hard... Continue Reading →
86 Chip Rowe, Playboy Advisor and Fringe Ziner! INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Chip Rowe, editor, The Book of Zines, Chip's Closet Cleaner, columnist, Playboy Advisor Originally published July 14, 1997 Chip Rowe is an expert in two fields. The first is sex. Every month he spends his days researching, studying and writing about the most obscure and most obvious elements of physical intimacy for one, two... Continue Reading →
Caught naked! Mr. Skin checks out Mr. Media! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Guys, Mr. Skin watches movies so you don’t have to. Forget the days of wading through plot and dialogue just to get to the moment where Phoebe Cates pops open her bikini top in Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Or when Sherilyn Fenn gets randy in Two Moon Junction. Mr. Skin, via his website... Continue Reading →
76 Bob Andelman, "Baby Media" father: Mr. Media Essay Classic
Originally published April 28, 1997 Funny how much a baby changes your life. Forget about changing diapers and crying, spitting up formula on your favorite clothes or demanding your attention when it's least convenient. That's all quite secondary to the joy seven-month-old Baby Media brings to our lives. No, what surprises me are the many... Continue Reading →
64 Editor Clare McHugh drops everything, talks Maxim with me! INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Maxim magazine editor Clare McHugh. Originally published March 31, 1997 Does America really need another men's magazine? Do men need another 172 pages every month or so telling us how to behave, how to get lucky more often, how to pick wine, who's hot and what's not? If subsequent issues of a new... Continue Reading →
53 Tell Me You Love Me, Hawaii Five-0 actress Michelle Borth! PODCAST INTERVIEW
The ironic thing about Michelle Borth’s role as Jamie, a woman whose fiancé won’t commit to monogamy in the new HBO series "Tell Me You Love Me," is that she is the kind of sexy, intoxicating woman that could probably drive the best-intentioned married man to cheat on his wife. BOB ANDELMAN/Mr. MEDIA: I was... Continue Reading →