Mr. Media Interviews By Bob Andelman

Today's Guest: Lisa Roth, co-creator, creative director, Rockabye Baby MusicOrder Rockabye Baby Music: http://amzn.to/2ap6g3ILISA ROTH podcast excerpt: "We do it with great care, great pride, from the sound of the recording to the artwork. It's something the original artists can be proud of. We're not making fun; we're huge fans."Key interview moments:• 6:30 Lisa Roth, co-creator and creative director of Rockabye Baby Music, talks about the care that is put into converting pop, rock, metal and hip-hop tunes into soothing lullabies for babies;• 13:50 Roth reveals that Aerosmith's "Dude Looks Like a Lady" is one of her favorite conversions and discusses the evolution of baby music;• 19:08 Ever wondered what it might be like to grow up with Van Halen lead singer David Lee Roth as your older brother?Subscribe to Mr. Media for FREE on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=MrMediaRadioFor more interviews like this one: http://www.MrMedia.com What is Mr. Media® Interviews? The calm of Charlie

Today's Guest: Jeremy Redleaf, co-writer, co-director, co-star, producer, 3rd Street BlackoutJEREMY REDLEAF podcast excerpt: "The budget for '3rd Street Blackout' was less than a house in the middle of nowhere.”Download "3rd Street Blackout": http://amzn.to/29JpJp6Key interview moments:• 4:22 "3rd Street Blackout" co-auteur Jeremy Redleaf explains how he met his writing and acting partner Negin Farsad;• 11:20 Redleaf reveals the budget for the indie comedy.Subscribe to Mr. Media for FREE on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=MrMediaRadioFor more interviews like this one: http://www.MrMedia.com What is Mr. Media® Interviews? The calm of Charlie Rose, the curiosity of Terry Gross and the unpredictability of Howard Stern! Since February 2007, more than 1,000 exclusive Hollywood, celebrity, pop culture video and audio comedy podcast interviews by Mr. Media®, a.k.a., Bob Andelman, with newsmakers in TV, radio, movies, music, magazines, newspapers, books, websites, social media, politics,

Today's Guest: James Sheehan, novelist, The Law of Second Chances, The Mayor of Lexington Avenue, The Lawyer's Lawyer Order The Law of Second Chances by James Sheehan from Amazon.com by clicking on the book cover above. I met James Sheehan at a St. Petersburg Times Festival of Reading event back in 2005. I was there promoting my new biography of Will Eisner and he was riding a wave of excellent reviews for his first novel, The Mayor of Lexington Avenue. As we got talking, however, we realized we had met before – through our dogs. Turns out, Jim and his wife literally live around the corner from me. I walk my dogs several times a day, and his dogs had figured out a way of tunneling under the fence. They didn’t know how to get back once they were loose, however, so my wife and I returned them to the Sheehan’s yard more than once over the years. Jim Sheehan, author of The Law of Second Chances[ They’ve got a new fence now, so that doesn’t happen as often. A few weeks back, Jim and I met up again. He was on his

Today's Guest: Craig Pittman, author, The Scent of Scandal, Oh, Florida, journalist, Tampa Bay Times  Order from Amazon.com by clicking the book cover above! Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of Phragmipedium experts whom I wouldn’t trust to guard the bougainvillea I’ve been growing in the backyard… in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida! Craig Pittman’s beat at the Tampa Bay Times is covering Florida’s environment in all its politically skewed glory. Want to know how an oil spill could impact the Gulf of Mexico and the Sunshine State’s beaches? Pittman’s the guy to read. So it might seem like the intrigue over a single orchid’s origins and rightful ownership would be a little under his radar. But, investigative journalist that he is, Pittman smelled a good mystery lurking behind the lush tropical setting of Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota, Florida. CRAIG PITTMAN audio excerpt: "By making this big, splashy discovery that would get some headlines, the (o

Today's Guest: David Sterritt, author, The B List: The National Society of Film Critics on the Low-Budget Beauties, Genre-Bending Mavericks, and Cult Classics We Love Order from Amazon.com by clicking the book above! Just a few weeks ago I was telling my wife about the scariest movie I ever saw: Tales From the Crypt. This 1972 gore fest came replete with a psycho Santa and a beating heart – left in a crumpled up letter, as I recall. I was 12 when I saw it at the State Theater in New Brunswick , NJ, with my friend, Robert Douglas. That movie scared the living shit out of me. First and only time I ever moved to the back of the theater and felt like I might vomit. Gave me nightmares not for days, but years. I mention it now because it is one of the “gems” featured in a new book, The B List, edited by David Sterritt and John Anderson. What is the mark of a great ‘B’ move? Is it scaring the crap out of 12-year-old boys? That’s one of the questions I’ll ask my guest, David Sterritt, chairman of the National Societ

Today's Guest: Mike Sacks, author. And Here's the Kicker and Poking a Dead Frog: Conversations with Today's Top Comedy Writers Order 'And Here's the Kicker' by Mike Sacks from Amazon.com by clicking the book cover above! I wouldn’t mind spending a day or two in the shoes of Mike Sacks. During the day—and probably quite a few nights—he is a mild-mannered writer for Vanity Fair magazine. When he’s not doing that, he’s been interviewing some of the smartest, funniest writers around for his new book, And Here’s the Kicker: Conversations with 21 Top Humor Writers On Their Craft. Mike Sacks Audio Excerpt: "A lot of them are shy and socially awkward. They get used to you and know you do your research. But if I met them at a party, it would have been a car wreck." As a writer myself, this book was irresistible to me; the chance to eavesdrop on Sacks’ Q and A with the guys—and one woman—behind everything from “The Office,” Borat and “Saturday Night Live” to MAD magazine, The Onion and M*A*S*H. Even if you’re not a wr

Today's Guest: Geefwee Boedoe, documentary film director, Let's Pollute Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of whiny consumers sitting through this interview just long enough to see what free stuff Oprah is going to hand out… in the new new media capitol of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida! Scene from 'Let's Pollute' by Geefwee Boedoe[/caption] Apparently, Geefwee Boedoe watched a lot of filmstrips back in elementary school. You know the kind I’m talking about. The ones that broke down every complicated issue from understanding the Constitution to what a molecule is and could explain away any topic in about six minutes with simplistic animation and catchy but somewhat silly musical jingles. This young director learned his lessons well, turning the medium upside-down and inside-out for his 2010 Academy Award-nominated Best Animated Short, Let’s Pollute. GEEFWEE BOEDOE podcast excerpt: "For me, Let's Pollute was a personal thing. I had a whole list of other ideas, but this one rose to the top

Today's Guest: Joe Perry, guitarist, Aerosmith (EDITOR'S NOTE: September 10th is Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry's birthday and I'm using it as an excuse to dig way back in my archives to share my December 13, 1984 telephone interview -- and subsequent December 24, 1984 print review/interview for the St. Petersburg Times. As is often the case with these old interviews, the audio is not great. And Joe spoke at a whisper no matter how often I asked him to speak up. But I spent 40 minutes talking to the man, y'know? And while I wasn't as well versed in the band as I am now, fans may enjoy it. Or hate it. -- Bob Andelman) Rocks: My Life in and out of Aerosmith by Joe Perry. Order your copy today by clicking on the book cover above! JOE PERRY excerpt: "Right now, a lot of people like Motley Crue are walking around, saying to the press, 'We're the baddest, grossest guys .. .' Let them talk about it, let them make fools of themselves.I just keep my door closed."   JOE PERRY excerpt: "'Walk This Way' was written in a

Order Motherhood to Otherhood: Step Up to a New You by Julia Roberts by clicking on the book cover above! Today's Guest: Julia Roberts, author, Motherhood to Otherhood Guys, get lost. This one is for the ladies. And ladies, I know what you’re thinking – who does Mr. Media think he is? Oprah? Hell, he’s not even Tyra! Why should I give up some of my valuable time to hear him talk about surviving motherhood? But ladies, I respect the work it takes to give birth and raise a child. And I think you deserve all the help you can get in putting your life back on track after the baby is born and is on its way to childhood. That’s why I’ve invited life coach Julia Roberts to the show today. No, not that Julia Roberts! She’ll talk about “unpregnancy” and her recent book, Motherhood to Otherhood: Step Up to a New You. So put the kids down for a nap, pull out a bottle of red wine, and let’s get down to girl talk. Or, um, whatever you call it. Julia Roberts Website • Facebook • Twitter • Order Motherhood to Otherhood from

Today's Guest: Actor Kyle Bornheimer, star of "Worst Week" on CBS. Actor Kyle Bornheimer, star of "Worst Week" on CBS (December 15, 2008) The only person who doesn’t find the new CBS TV sitcom “Worst Week” hysterical is the person who isn’t watching it. Last night, less than 45 minutes before his marriage to Melanie, Sam managed to set his in-laws swimming pool on fire. Don’t ask me how—just believe it was the latest fall out of your seat laughing moment on a show that thrives on calamitous humor. Joining me today is the star of “Worst Week,” Kyle Bornheimer. The show airs on CBS on Mondays at 9:30 p.m. If you haven’t seen his show—and what are you waiting for? Kyle may still be a familiar face; he’s been in training for this role as a perpetual one-shot guest star in everything from episodes of "Will & Grace” and “Weeds” to “Breaking Bad” and "Jericho." And who could forget him in the episode of “Girlfriends" titled, “What’s Black-a-Lackin’?” He's also starring in a movie due out this spring called She

Today's Guest: Sergio Aragones, legendary MAD magazine cartoonist, creator, "Groo" Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of MAD cartoonist Sergio Aragones fans dressed up for Halloween as Groo the Wanderer… in the NEW new media capitol of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida!  Order MAD’s Greatest Artists: Sergio Aragones: Five Decades of His Finest Works by clicking the book cover above! (2010) My first issue of MAD magazine was purchased near the checkout counter at a Stop & Shop supermarket in my hometown of North Brunswick, New Jersey, in July 1970. I’ll never forget the cover: a parody of the summer’s big hit, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, featuring a couple of actors named Redford & Newman. I no longer have it, but I suspect that that was my first exposure to legendary artist Sergio Aragones. SERGIO ARAGONES audio excerpt: "I did about 20 Pocket Books for MAD with new material. The characters are what sell the book. I thought, 'Why not draw myself on every cover? That way they

Today's Guest: Josh Alan Friedman, blues singer, guitarist, Sixty, Goddammit   Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Josh Alan Friedman by clicking on the video player above!  Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience full of bad mothereffers in sheep’s clothing… in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida! Sixty, Goddammit by Josh Alan Friedman. Order your copy today by clicking on the album cover above! Thinking of asking singer-songwriter Josh Alan Friedman how 60 is treating him? Not sure that’s such a good idea – even if he did title his first new album in 15 years, Sixty, Goddammit. Hard to believe the former New Yorker – he’s been a somewhat unlikely Texas transplant for years – hasn’t produced a new record in that long. Could that be true? JOSH ALAN FRIEDMAN podcast excerpt: "I don't think anybody has an acoustic guitar sound like mine. And does what I do on acoustic guitar. I focused on that for 'Sixty, Goddammit'; very laser-beamed in on what I do best." Fri

Today's Guest: Raquel Welch, actress, One Million Years B.C., The Wild Party, Three Musketeers; author, Beyond the Cleavage Order 'One Million Years B.C.' starring Raquel Welch, available from Amazon.com by clicking on the DVD above! Order from Amazon.com by clicking the book cover above! (2010) Raquel Welch is… well, c’mon, she’s Raquel Welch! Beautiful, funny, enigmatic and smart, she will always be the epitome of the American sex symbol for several generations of men. The lasting image of Raquel for me will always be of her bodice-bursting work in Three Musketeers. I was too young then to know her as Loana in One Million B.C., although the poster of her in a prehistoric, pre-PETA, doeskin bikini did make a certain impression later. RAQUEL WELCH audio excerpt: "I was never interested in that (nude pictures of myself). It's not the kind of thing I was seeking out. Lots of fans send pictures of bikinis that are wet (to be autographed) and I replace them with something else." Today she’s promoting her new b

Today's Guest: Cartoonist Mort Walker, dean of American comic strip creators, creator of Hi & Lois, Beetle Bailey. (FROM 2007) Order Beetle Bailey: The Daily & Sunday Strips 1966 by Mort Walker, available from Amazon.com by clicking on the book cover above![/caption] Mort Walker is the dean and -- in some ways -- the curator of American cartoonists. Best known for his long-running strips “Beetle Bailey” and “Hi & Lois,” Walker, 84, is also a bedrock member of the National Cartoonists Society, and he’s the founder and energy behind the National Cartoon Museum. This is the third time I’ve had the pleasure of Mort’s company over the last 20 years. I enjoy interviewing him because he says what’s on his mind, and what’s on his mind is never dull. But just in case my questions aren’t sharp enough for this American comic strip master, I’ve called in reinforcements. Ray Billingsley, creator of the “Curtis” strip and an old friend of Walker’s, kindly contributed questions today. So did a newer member of t

Today's Guest: Gene Colan, legendary Marvel Comics artist, Daredevil, Dracula, Howard the Duck, Iron Man Order from Amazon.com by clicking the book cover above (2008) Anybody who tells you that one comic book looks just like the next doesn’t know what they’re talking about. It doesn’t take much effort to tell Jack Kirby’s blocky drawings from Steve Ditko’s otherworldly stylings, for example, or, in more modern terms, the dark, detailed pencils of Frank Miller from the brighter, livelier sketches of Jim Lee. And few of those guys produce anything like the work of “Gentleman” Gene Colan. Colan’s contribution to the industry date back to the 1940s, but he was one of the artists who, in the 1960s and ‘70s, defined Marvel Comics and characters such as Daredevil, Dracula, Iron Man, and even Howard the Duck. His richly drawn images looked like they took a lot longer to do and required much more care and patience than those of many of his contemporaries. Put another way, you could escape into a Gene Colan 32-page co

Today's Guest: Scott Gerber, author, Never Get a Real Job Never Get a Real Job by Scott Gerber. Order your copy today by clicking on the book cover above! Scott Gerber puts into words what a lot of people need to hear: Not everybody is going to succeed in Corporate America – and more than a few of you are foolish to even try. He’s not calling you a loser – that would be your father’s job. He’s saying there is another way to go about pursuing a job, a career, a life – something that fits you best, but doesn’t necessarily fit into your parents’ definition of a job. Scott Gerber, author, Never Get a Real Job SCOTT GERBER audio excerpt: "Nobody even talks about why young people now more than ever need to be entrepreneurial. It blows my mind! What rock are these people living under?"  In his new book, Never Get a Real Job, Gerber presents an unorthodox approach to the working life. As a guy who has always gone his own way – but for two very short-lived jobs working for someone else – I enjoyed his candor and his

Today's Guest: Michael Chiklis, star, "No Ordinary Family," "The Shield," "The Commish," and as John Belushi in Wired and as Ben Grimm/The Thing in Fantastic Four Michael Chiklis, the star of ABC’s new superhero dramedy “No Ordinary Family” knows a thing or three about playing a hero. His first ABC series, "The Commish," featured Chiklis as a police commissioner, the kind that kids looked up to and donut shop owners enjoyed supporting in their neighborhoods. MICHAEL CHIKLIS audio excerpt: "We don't know what we're going to be able to achieve from a technical standpoint at the end of this season. The special effects are constantly leaping forward exponentially. The sky's the limit. Literally. I could definitely see 'No Ordinary Family' going out in 3-D. After that? I guess it's hologram. I'll be projected in the middle of your living room instead of on the wall."  And what greater superhero is there than Ben Grimm, the rocky “Thing” that Chiklis portrayed in two live-action movies about the original Marvel Com

Today's Guest: Guy Kawasaki, entrepreneur, former Apple evangelist, author of Enchantment, Reality Check. I defy you to pick any page in a Guy Kawasaki book – any page at all – and not come away a little smarter, a little inspired, or at least a little entertained. And that’s setting the bar pretty low; I found there was often too much of a takeaway when I read his last two books, Reality Check last year and his latest, Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions. GUY KAWASAKI audio excerpt: "I'm just a social media whore-- what can I tell you? The important thing is that you give the illusion you're working hard!"  You can LISTEN to this interview with GUY KAWASAKI, author of ENCHANTMENT and REALITY CHECK, by clicking the audio player above! His wife might think he needs to take out the garbage or otherwise help out more around the house, but as a reader and a fan, I think Kawasaki does too much already. He’s making the rest of us look lazy based on his productivity. There are the books – ten

Today's Guest: Scott McEwen, co-author, American Sniper (with Chris Kyle); novelist, Ghost Sniper (with Thomas Koloniar), lawyerOrder 'Ghost Sniper' by Scott McEwen with Thomas Koloniar: http://amzn.to/29H3l3ESCOTT McEWEN podcast excerpt: "One of my most vivid memories of Chris Kyle is just how humble a guy he really was. And how much he loved to joke around and shoot the breeze with people. He was just a normal guy; a very intense warrior, but one of the funnest guys I ever drank with in my life."Key interview moments:• 14:17 Ghost Sniper novelist Scott McEwen talks about the future of his anti-hero, Gil Shannon;• 26:00 A progress report on the first 'Sniper Elite' film, coming from Sony;• 33:00 McEwen remembers his friend, Chris Kyle, with whom he co-authored the bestselling memoir, American Sniper.Subscribe to Mr. Media for FREE on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=MrMediaRadioFor more interviews like this one: http://www.MrMedia.com What is Mr. Media® Interviews? The calm of Cha

Today's Guest: Kevin Willmott, writer, director, star, 'Destination: Planet Negro'; co-writer (with Spike Lee), 'Chi-Raq'Download 'Destination: Planet Negro': http://amzn.to/29MFy0cKEVIN WILLMOTT podcast excerpt: "The budget for 'Planet Negro' was $5,000. Five-thousand dollars! Everybody worked for free. What I spent the $5,000 on was meals. The cinematographer is a professor I work with; he built the spaceship. The robot was built by another buddy. He built it from stuff he had lying around. It took two years to make the movie. And I play one of the leads because I knew I would always show up!"Key interview moments:• 6:10 Destination Planet Negro writer/director/star Kevin Willmott explains how he made his movie for just $5,000;• 19:00 A lifelong fan of 1950s sci-fi films, Willmott always loved seeing astronauts in leather jackets;• 27:00 Willmott talks about crossing paths with Spike Lee and how they came to co-write Chi-Raq.Subscribe to Mr. Media for FREE on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_cen