Mr. Media Interviews By Bob Andelman

From 2012: How to describe Minsky’s art? Maybe by example:• For a celebration of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-four, he constructed a bookbinding with an LCD monitor built into the leather cover and a miniature video camera hidden within. • The Geography of Hunger is encased by what looks like human teeth. Message received, right?• A collection of works by poet Patti Smith, titled Babel, is held together with safety pins, the symbol of the early punk movement.

From 2010: If you’re enjoying Mr. Media on video, you already know that the camera loves America Olivo. For those of you listening to the radio version of the show, open a new window on your browser and search “America Olivo” on Google and “Images.” Go ahead, you know you want to. Playboy readers will recognize her as the magazine’s June 2009 cover girl in a delightfully ripped white t-shirt alongside the apt headline, “America the Beautiful.”

From 2011: America Olivo is full of surprises.The first time she was on the show, ostensibly to promote a new movie called Circle, she did the interview from the basement of the Foxwoods Theatre on Broadway. Upstairs, rehearsals were underway for a new musical directed by Julie Taymor and featuring music by Bono and The Edge. You may have heard of it: “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.”

From 2015: I knew I wanted to talk to Chelsey Reist when I watched her 4-minute “sizzle” reel on IMDB.com. The first time, I watched with the sound off and it made me laugh. In a good way. This ambitious young actress has been in every kind of stereotypical role old Hollywood puts someone of her age and gender into, from slutty woman in danger to seductress, from lesbian to straight – and back again.

From 1983: The most difficult part of talking with comedian Don Novello was deciding if he was going to be Novello or the prodigal bad boy of the gospel, Father Guido Sarducci. I assumed he could be both, or just Novello. Please eavesdrop on some of our opening banter.

From 2011: For many years, original Batman artist Jerry Robinson was one of the forgotten men in comics. Little known within the industry for all the years he toiled in obscurity, drawing and creating Batman comic books under the byline of the character’s creator, Bob Kane, Robinson emerged from the shadows to become a celebrated and recognized talent in his own right.He is perhaps best known as the actual creator of the greatest supervillain ever, The Joker, and Robin the Boy Wonder.

NOTE: Rose Marie, comedienne and co-star of "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and "The Doris Day Show," died today, December 28, 2017 at age 94. She was truly one-of-a-kind and I greatly enjoyed my time with her as you can hear during this 2012 podcast interview! -- Bob Andelman

From 2010: The first time Jimmy Barrett appeared in a second season episode of AMC’s Emmy Award-winning series “Mad Men,” was like a sock in the jaw. Who was this 1960s potato chip shilling, insult comedian? Why was he so rude all the time? And how dare he shake up ad man Don Draper’s world? Every time Barrett—played to crunchy perfection by actor Patrick Fischler—was in an episode, he turned the show upside-down and inside-out. So, of course, Draper slept with his wife!

From 2011: Candy Golde had me at “Bun E. Carlos.” If this band is intriguing enough for the drummer of Cheap Trick to take a flyer on, who am I not to be curious? The band, which includes John Stirratt of Wilco, Rick Rizzo of Eleventh Dream Day and my guest, Nick Tremulis, made its debut at South By Southwest in Austin this past March. Its self-titled debut EP, Candy Golde, is now available for download on iTunes and Amazon.

From 2009: Sam Haskell was suspended and subsequently resigned as CEO of the Miss America Organization on December 23, 2017, following the release of emails in which he and other leaders of the organization allegedly criticized past winners in coarse terms. This interview was originally posted June 2, 2009.

From 2010: But what would you make of discovering Mrs. McClusky as your Wisteria Lane next-door neighbor? As played by two-time Emmy Award-winning actress Kathryn Joosten on the long-running ABC dramedy, “Desperate Housewives,” she might be your best friend, babysitter, confident or worst nightmare. In this hysterical interview, she talks about "Desperate Housewives," switching careers late in life and also shares her thoughts on Academy Award winning actress Helen Mirren's ta-tas. Really.

From 2010: One of the best resources for the established or wannabe book author is still keeping a copy of Jeff Herman’s Guide to Book Publishers, Editors, & Literary Agents on your desk. The 2012 edition is hot off the press. I have recommended Herman’s book to authors in much the same way I recommend the Writer’s Market from Writer’s Digest to freelance writers interested in exploring article writing. Both are invaluable desktop references, one best for books, one for articles.

From 2011: Eila Mell’s new book, New York Fashion Week: The Designers, The Models, The Fashions of the Bryant Park Era, does a brilliant job of capturing the atmosphere and changing styles and faces of the event since it was centralized in 1994 at one location. She breaks down each year in easy to digest buckets, include the overriding fashion theme, the trends, a snapshot of the scene, its fresh faces and celebrity attendee photographs.

KYLE BORNHEIMER podcast excerpt: "When I met Alyssa Milano, she was already one of the smartest people I ever met in terms of her enlightened views on social and political matters, and the industry we're in. She's a pretty stellar human being. What she's been able to communicate through social media is something a lot of people are feeling right now. I'm glad she's saying it. There is a culture in our industry that has to change, of rich, powerful men that think they're entitled to something."

(From 1984) When executives at Fantasy Records decided the time was ripe to re-release their entire catalog of early Dave Brubeck recordings, they found a surprise in their vaults. “The first 10 or 12 LPs on Fantasy Records are all me because I started the company,” Brubeck recalled recently. “The young guys that I would talk to hardly knew. They were really amazed when they found the first recordings which started the company (of) my trio, the octet or the quartet.”

A great music backstory might combine a beautiful young singer such as  Emii, whose wild new pop fantasy video, “Mr. Romeo,” features Snoop Dogg with a mythology that includes working in a comic book store by day and fronting a metal band by night. She’s a Jim Lee-drawn heroine come to life! Don't miss Emii singing "Mr. Romeo" a capella during this interview's exclusive live performance!

If you only see one madcap road comedy about step-brothers this year – and you’ve already seen the one Will Farrell made with John C. Reilly – check out Elijah’s Ashes, starring Ari Schneider and my guest today, Ryan Barton-Grimley. Elijah’s Ashes has everything you could ask for:• A possible suicidal dad• A straight brother and a gay brother who hate each other• The straight brother having gay sex• The gay brother nearly having straight sex• A possible act of necrophilia • A

"Dark Matter" starred Melissa O’Neil, Anthony Lemke, Alex Mallari Jr. and Jodelle Ferland with Roger Cross and Zoie Palmer as “Android.” Joining me today is Joe Mallozzi, co-creator with Paul Mullie of the graphic novel on which “Dark Matter” is based. He helped fans and the cast of the Raza, the home ship of the show, to mount a major effort to convince Netflix or MGM to produce a fourth season.

From 2009: I love a good tradeshow. There’s something about all the people with common interests, gathered together in one location, eating overpriced, stale concessions while trading information and experiences, attending educational seminars, gossiping about their industry… That’s why I’m hoping that come October 2009, I’ll be one of the thousands in Las Vegas attending BlogWorld & New Media Expo.

From 2009: Whoever cast the new NBC show “Trauma”—airing Monday nights at 9 p.m.—must have done some market research when it came to Aimee Garcia, at least based on what I learned about her within my own household. Besides being a beautiful, talented young actress, she is immediately recognizable among several constituencies. My 13-year-old son knows her from watching endless repeats of “The George Lopez Show” this summer, where Aimee played “Veronica,” Lopez’s “spoiled brat niece”—m