Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Jeff Klinkenberg by clicking on the video player above! Every major daily newspaper has a few journalists whose work consistently rises above all others. And there is an even smaller group of these top-notch reporters whose legends are beyond reproach and who are held in the... Continue Reading →
Lari White’s big break was singing with Robin Gibb in 1984! INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Lari White, country singer (NOTE -- I received the sad news tonight that country singer Lari White died today -- January 23, 2018 -- of a rare form of advanced peritoneal cancer. I had the good fortune to meet Lari way back in July 1984, when I was a correspondent in the Clearwater... Continue Reading →
Tell Me a Story, Tamara Lush! And make it sexy! VIDEO INTERVIEW
Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Tamara Lush by clicking on the video player above! Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience full of real women who no longer believe any real men will ever match up to the super-studs in the romance novels they read by the dozens… in... Continue Reading →
Catching up with country music singer Lari White! INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Lari White, country music singer "Champagne" Music Video (full color) from LariWhite. (Originally published in Two-Step, May 1994; UPDATE: Sadly, Lari White died of cancer on January 23, 2018.) When Lari White says she's had a pretty great year, she's not kidding. The Dunedin High School and University of Miami graduate's first... Continue Reading →
AP reporter heats up passions in first novel, Hot Shade! VIDEO INTERVIEW
Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Tamara Lush by clicking on the video player above! Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience full of sex-starved, consenting young adults who are getting crazy from the heat… in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida! To paraphrase the 39th... Continue Reading →
My close encounter with Yogi Berra, 1985! ESSAY
Today: A special memory of Bob Andelman -- Mr. Media -- sharing a one-of-a-kind moment with the late New York Yankees great Yogi Berra. Pull up a chair, kids, and I'll tell you about my close encounter with Yogi Berra, who passed away yesterday. In the fall of 1984, New York Yankees owner (and long-time Tampa resident)... Continue Reading →
Tom French asks: Are you a good neighbor? INTERVIEW
(The following Tom French profile by Bob Andelman appeared in Tampa Bay Life in 1991.) Are you a good neighbor? If a loud, agonizing cry from the house next door woke you from a sound sleep tonight, would you call the police or shrug it off? That's the challenge Tom French first put to readers... Continue Reading →
Dirt: Novelist Tony Doris describes corrupt Miami developers! VIDEO INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Tony Doris, Palm Beach Post reporter and author of the novel Dirt. Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Tony Doris, Palm Beach Post reporter and author of the novel Dirt, by clicking on the video player above! Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of Miami realtors, politicians... Continue Reading →
Say it loud! Say it proud! I read OBITCHuary by Stephanie Hayes! VIDEO INTERVIEW
Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Stephanie Hayes by clicking on the video player above!Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of not so carefully disguised reporter and editor stereotypes… in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida! Sometimes I introduce my guests based on a... Continue Reading →
Alligators in B-Flat haunt journalist Jeff Klinkenberg! VIDEO INTERVIEW
Watch this exclusive video interview with Jeff Klinkenberg by clicking on the video player above!Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of people who can turn almost anything on four legs into a backwoods, candlelit, gourmet meal for two -- (cue the Deliverance soundtrack) … in the NEW new media capital... Continue Reading →