Mr. Media Interviews By Bob Andelman

From 2011: Dennis Farina was an impact guy. When this prominent actor hit the screen, no matter what the role, he owned it. I don’t know what he was like in real life, but in TV and films alike, he was always bigger than life, as he was in "The Last Rites of Joe May" -- and this interview.

From 2010: If you’re not familiar with Noureen DeWulf,her film and TV appearances include her role in "Ghosts of Girlfriends Past" with Matthew McConaughey and ending with her “Chuck” battle moment. She starred in the 2007 Oscar winning short film, "West Bank Story." She co-starred in "The Back-Up Plan" with Jennifer Lopez, the "The 41-Year-Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall and Felt Superbad About It," "Anger Management" with Charlie Sheen and is currently on "Living Biblically."

My guest today, Stephen Snyder, MD, is a New York sex and couples therapist, psychiatrist, and author of a new book, Love Worth Making: How to Have Ridiculously Great Sex in a Long Lasting Relationship. In it, Dr. Snyder shares real life tales of men and women whose sex lives have hit bumps in the road and how he helped them resolve a wide variety of challenges and complications. The book is more about emotional positions than physical ones.

From 2010: Rob Sachs takes a different approach to teaching you something you don’t already know or understand. On his National Public Radio podcast, “What Would Rob Do?” — now in its fifth year — Sachs tackles the big challenges of the day, such as “What would you do if you clogged the toilet at a friend’s house?” Oh, the horrors of that one. Or consider an example from his show, in which he researched how to successfully eat hot peppers.

Most people are tickled when a Wikipedia page appears and points out their career highlights. But what if Wikipedia had 200 individual pages each devoted to a fictional character created by a single person? I'm not referring to Stan Lee, the Godfather of Marvel Comics, either. Nope, the man with 200 Wikipedia pages to his credit - everyone from Gambit and Cable to Kitty Pryde, Strong Guy and the New Mutants - is Chris Claremont, father of the modern X-Men comics, films, cartoons and TV series.

From 2008: Daniel Pink has made a career of being first on business themes over the last seven years, ever since publication of "Free Agent Nation" in May 2001. His theory then? That more of us will be working for ourselves in the future. Well, it’s now the future, so I’ll ask him whether that came true. He also wrote "A Whole New Mind." But Dan’s newest book may be his greatest leap yet: a manga-style graphic novel titled "The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You’ll Ever Need."

From 2012: David Giuntoli isn’t a household name in every American household… so far. But the star of NBC’s fairytale-derived horror story, “Grimm,” is recognized in just enough A.C. Nielsen monitored homes to make his show this season’s quiet breakthrough. As a Portland, Oregon, detective named Nick Burkhardt, Giuntoli plays the latest in a long line of supernatural detectives policing the strange creatures in his town.

From 2008: Danielle Nicolet is joining the cast of “The Starter Wife” on USA Network this season as Liz Marsh, a new friend of Molly Kagan, the lead character played by Debra Messing. Nicolet's first major role was on the hit series "Family Matters." She was then cast as Samuel L. Jackson's daughter in "National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1" and in the ABC Movie of the Week "The Jacksons: An American Dream." She was also a regular on "3rd Rock From The Sun."

From 2012: If you see only one action adventure film this summer about Mexican drug cartels selling meth and the American fly guys who deliver it via high speed jet prototypes, make it Kill Speed. I was pleasantly surprised by this new indie film by writer, producer, director Kim Bass, which will be released on DVD on June 12. It’s got a solid, compact story, and a smooth intermingling of flying sequences with computer-generated pieces as jets zip through the concrete canyons of downtown Los Angeles.

From 2009: If your name is Rene Syler, this is probably a pretty good week. In the midst of preparing to co-host BET’s live coverage of the Jan. 20th inauguration of Barack Obama, it was announced that Syler—a former co-host of the CBS “Early Show”—would be returning to regularly scheduled television programming as host of a new show, “Live Large, Spend Small.” But that can’t be any more entertaining than the show she does now on her Facebook video log.

From 2009: 6. Excuse me… I’m getting a call on the other line. It’s Bill’s publicist. “What? I can’t ask Bill questions about the Letterman show? But I’m in the middle of the introduction right now… I’m doing one of those Top 10 lists… What? You don’t think that’s a very original idea? But I’m already halfway through… Oh, all right. Fine, fine.” Hmm. As I was saying, Bill Scheft is author of a funny novel titled Everything Hurts. The publisher calls it a novel, anyway; reads to

From 2008: Losing a family member at the tender age of 33 is incredibly tough. It’s even more complicated when that young person lived his existence in a bigger-than-life way, like Chris Farley – and his trials and tribulations are witnessed by millions. In his new book, The Chris Farley Show, Chris’s older brother, Tom Farley, Jr. – with help from co-author Tanner Colby - pieces together his late brother’s life in the form of an oral history with interviews from most everyone who encountered Chri

From 2008: Carolyn Lawrence has been a dancer and an actress, and now she's the voice of several popular animated characters, including two known all over the world: "Cindy Vortex" on The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius and "Sandy Cheeks" on SpongeBob Squarepants, both on Nickelodeon. She's also the voice on "Orel" on Moral Orel.

From 2011: I recently came across a show called the “School of Podcasting.” It’s a long-running podcast hosted by Dave Jackson. And it taught me a big lesson: when it comes to podcasting, I may have five years of experience, but my knowledge is like a single flea on a mangy dog’s back. There is so much to learn! And every time I listen to Dave’s show, I come away a little bit smarter, a little more aware.

Joining me today is Neil Berkeley, director of the elegantly titled documentary, "Gilbert: A Gilbert Gottfried Story." Will you like it? My wife did and she’s never been a Gottfried fan, so I bet you will.

The timing seems perfect to discuss Ethan Siegel’s fascinating new book, "Star Trek Treknology: The Science of Star Trek from Tricorders to Warp Drive." While not the first book of its kind, Treknology is a gorgeous, well-researched and sharply written exploration of where we actually stand on technology to take us where no man has gone before: from transporters, impulse engines and warp drives to holodecks, replicators, and tricorders, the future is closer than ever.

From 2010: You don’t have to be an afternoon soap opera fan to know and appreciate that a giant passed when CBS turned off the power on Guiding Light on September 18, 2009. The show was the longest running drama in broadcast history, having started on NBC Radio in 1937 as a 15-minute serial and moving to CBS Television in 1952. It went on to rack up 16,000 episodes. Joining me today to talk about their the Guiding Light soap are co-stars Kim Zimmer and Robert Newman.

From 2011: Kim Zimmer was with the soap opera Guiding Light for 26 years – more than a third of the 72 years the show was on radio and television. But a look at the picture of her on the cover of her new memoir, I’m Just Sayin’! Three Deaths, Seven Husbands, and a Clone! My Life as a Daytime Diva, doesn’t suggest someone headed for a rockin’ chair. She’s too feisty – based on the content of her book – to ever just fade away.

From 2010: Jamie Beckman’s book, The Frisky 30-Day Breakup Guide. takes women through her own day-by-day recovery method for dealing with a torturous breakup. Has anyone ever done a book that for men? Doubtful. Instead of a spa treatment one day or Godiva chocolates the next, the guy equivalent would say the same thing everyday. Ten letters, starts with an “M, ” ends with “E”…

From 2008: My wife and I love taking vacations in Maine and Vermont. That’s not unusual for Floridians, of course. But it was reading the local paper in Manchester Center, Vermont, probably a decade ago, that I first heard of my next guest. The story was about a performance by a rabbi-turned-standup comedian named Bob Alper. I don’t know if you’ve ever been in a Jewish temple but I have. They’re not naturally funny places. But Rabbi Bob Alper is a naturally funny guy.