“Hey, you grow up as an artist in a big city, as James Dean said, you’re going to have one arm tied behind your back if you don’t accept people’s sexual flavors. You know, when I was a kid out here in L.A., I was homeless, I didn’t have any money and I was living [...]
Here’s nearly 25 minutes of Ian Fleming interviewing Raymond Chandler in 1958. It starts like this: Fleming: Well, the first thing, really, is to define what we’re supposed to be talking about. I think the title of what we’re supposed to be talking about is English and American thrillers. What is a thriller? To my mind [...]
Maske, over at Uproxx, got a few minutes of phone time with Charlie Day from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia for a wide-ranging interview: Speaking of which, my friends have an ongoing debate over what milk steak actually is and what it consists of. Do you have any idea about that? (Laughs) Milk steak is [...]
Stand By Me is easily one of my favorite childhood movies and when push comes to shove, I’ll easily include it on my list of top ten favorite movies. Wil Wheaton spoke with NPR’s All Things Considered on the movie’s 25th anniversary. Listen to the interview, it’s pretty great.
Rachel Brown got to sit down with fantasy author George R.R. Martin to talk shop about the latest book in his fantasy saga A Song of Ice and Fire, which is the basis for HBO’s Game of Thrones. How do you view A Dance with Dragons‘s place within the larger narrative of A Song of Ice [...]
It’s kind of impossible to not like The Chairman of the Board. If they ever build a Mt. Rushmore for “cool” he would be choice numero uno. In 1965, CBS News spent six months with Sinatra, exploring what it is exactly that made him so cool — getting unprecedented access to both his recording career [...]
Oh boy, break out the tissues. Here’s the story of Bethany Lansaw and her husband, Don, who were right in the path of the massive tornado that destroyed Joplin, Missouri last week. In order to save his wife’s life, Don used his body to protect Bethany from debris and died from his injuries. The part [...]
Nozlee Samadzadeh talks to “a panel of experts about food styling photography and the art of arranging spaghetti strands.” Here are the photographers on styling beforehand and using photoshop afterward: Deb K.: To be honest, most shoots that I work on (especially for cookbooks and magazines) are very organic: We make the food, we shoot [...]
Vanity Fair goes inside the Playboy empire: When Hugh Hefner opened the first Playboy Club, in 1960, he was selling men the chance to walk into the pages of his magazine: the swinging-bachelor-pad décor, the carefully garnished cocktails, and, above all, the cantilevered, cottontailed Bunnies. For the women wearing ears, the payoff was entirely different. [...]
Leaving aside the off-putting cheesy opening and graphics of this video, it’s pretty remarkable to listen to a bunch of teenagers interview old people who were gay growing up in the 1950′s. It’s a remarkable history, if only, because we often don’t think about this or we make the assumption that all gay people were [...]
