Category: Interviews

Interview: Maria Thayer »

So, I read you were hand-picked by Amy Sedaris to play everyone’s favorite “little redheaded spitfire,” Tammi Littlenut, on “Strangers With Candy.” Please tell the story.
I was in a play where I had one scene, no lines. I just screamed and talked to myself, and was basically as weird as I could be, completely [...]

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Interview: Bennett Madison »

Bennett Madison is the author of the indispensable I Hate Valentine’s Day as well as the novels Lulu Dark Can See Through Walls and Lulu Dark and the Summer of the Fox. I spoke to him about his first book in 2005.
This year I definitely count the Valentine’s Day card I get from my mom [...]

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Interview: Joel Stein »

As a journalist, have you ever been embedded? If not, where would you like your employers to embed you?
A month ago, the editor of Time, Jim Kelly, asked if I wanted to be embedded and I asked him if HE were coming on to me. Then I found out what it [...]

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Interview: Jim Gaffigan »

Full Disclosure: Being completely unprepared for this interview with comedian Jim Gaffigan, I just jotted down some questions from my latest issue of Cat Fancy Magazine.
How long have you been breeding?
I’d like to say since I was 16, but more like 24. I did practice a lot before that.
Do you prefer breeding or [...]

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Interview: David Silverman »

David Silverman is an Emmy-Award-winning animator, director and producer who has worked on “The Simpsons,” “Monsters, Inc,” “Ice Age,” and much, much more.
{Editors note: I’m fairly certain Zank used a “Do you put off a sexy vibe?” quiz ripped from a Cosmopolitan Magazine I found on his desk. Our apologies.}
When someone tells [...]

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Interview: Tim Heidecker & Eric Wareheim »

Whether portraying a completely stoned Batman and Robin battling Cat Woman (not the sexy villainess, just a disgusting bag lady with too many cats), roller blading in Central Park or narrating European porn with bad accents, Tim and Eric slyly and slowly suck you into to their surreal world of dead-pan silliness and budget-conscious video [...]

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Interview: Craig Wedren »

I must say your new band Baby is a very good looking group of people. Did you use the NSYNC method of putting the group together?
Hardly. I just happen to have hot friends who rock.
Please give us blurb (that might appear on a CD sticker) to describe your sound.
BABY is Future Roller Metal. It [...]

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Interview: Todd Barry »

Who was the coolest actor you have worked with? Actress?

Catherine [...]

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Interview: Kitten Natividad »

Francesca “Kitten” Natividad was born in Juarez, Mexico, just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. Her start in Hollywood came when she was a teen, working in a domestic capacity for another kitten, Miss Stella Stevens. It was in the Stevens household that Kitten decided she wanted to be in movies, too. She [...]

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