Debi Gutierrez, who has been all over your TV in recent years, hosting the PBS series “A Place Of Our Own,” “Clean House” on Style and most recently, “Hidden Agenda” on the Game Show Network, GSN. DEBI GUTIERREZ podcast excerpt: "I come out guns blazing... I talk about things between married couples--that's where I... Continue Reading →
573 Don’t be sedated before finishing I Slept with Joey Ramone PODCAST INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Legs McNeil, co-author, I Slept with Joey Ramone: A Punk Rock Family Memoir Joey Ramone wasn’t really Joey Ramone. Most people know that the “Ramones” name was for the stage, although few sought out and became their stage persona more completely than the former Jeffry Hyman, a spindly, troubled boy from Queens.... Continue Reading →
Private eye Steven Gore puts spying to use in debut novel, Final Target! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Steven Gore, novelist, Final Target Steven Gore already had a pretty good career going for himself when he sidestepped into the world of mystery novelist. Let me quote from Gore’s own description of his life, before publishing his debut novel, as a globetrotting private eye: “It was a career that took me, among... 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 →
Author Pete Williams beats a Core Performance out of Mr. Media! VIDEO INTERVIEW
Mr. Media is recorded live from the NEW new media capitol of the world and hometown of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Tampa Bay Lightning, Tampa Bay Storm, Tampa Bay Rowdies and, oh yeah, the American League East leading Tampa Bay Rays… Tampa Bay, Florida! If you’re a pro or college football fan and... Continue Reading →
Hey, Heather Brewer! Is book five the end for Vladimir Tod? PODCAST INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Heather Brewer, novelist, The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod The whole vampire chic thing passed me by. Not just the Twilight movies and the HBO series “True Blood,” either—I never got hooked on Joss Whedon’s “Buffy the Vampire Series,” either. Vampires? Yuck? I think the last vampire movie I enjoyed was the Dracula... Continue Reading →
Shark Tank big fish Daymond John returns to brand Mr. Media! PODCAST INTERVIEW
You know you’re in for a fun read when the author opens his book by quoting both Nolan Bushnell—the creator of the “Pong” videogame and “Chuck E. Cheese” Pizza restaurants—and Jay-Z. And Daymond John does not disappoint after that. DAYMOND JOHN podcast excerpt: "I think that the Tiger Woods brand was built on one... Continue Reading →
80 comedians walk into a bar… wind up in film, I Am Comic! VIDEO INTERVIEW
Jordan Brady has been on stage, told the jokes, suffered the hecklers and luxuriated in the belly laughs. He also knows the pitfalls of standup comedy and comedians. So who better to chronicle their lives than one of their own? I just finished watching I Am Comic, Brady’s funny, fast-moving tribute to the... Continue Reading →
‘High Society’ reality TV bout: Devorah Rose v. Tinsley Mortimer! (2010 Audio Interview)
Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of movie extras best known for walking through scenes in Gosford Park… in the new new media capitol of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida! I’m, like, totally up on Manhattan society—of the 1980s. If they were ever mentioned in Spy magazine, I know who they are... Continue Reading →
Baby Boomer Bust? A book by branding expert Roger Chiocchi! PODCAST INTERVIEW
The post-war baby boom is becoming something else, more than half a century later. But is that something else a bust? In his new book, Baby Boomer Bust?—and the title ends in a question mark—Roger Chiocchi (pronounced KEY-o-key) says it may be a problem that the average baby boomer nearing retirement only has $68,000... Continue Reading →