Mr. Media Radio

Image via WikipediaBy BOB ANDELMANPicture this: I’m looking up to my left in a thoughtful pose, my right index finger gently tapping against my lower lip. Outwardly, I’m introducing my guests, “Scrubs” TV stars Donald Faison—a.k.a., Turk—and ...

BY BOB ANDELMANHank Rosenfeld found the kind of book writing job that guys like me salivate over. He met Irving Brecher, a brilliant and funny writer from the Golden Age of Hollywood comedy, and spent hours recording stories from Irv about everyone from ...

BY BOB ANDELMANI was stuck in the car a few weeks ago, waiting to pick my wife up at work, tuning around the Sirius Satellite Radio dial, looking for a few laughs. I had already heard the Howard Stern show earlier in the day and went a few clicks past ...

BY BOB ANDELMANI was a little nervous when I received an email from Jane Friedman, the publisher of Writer’s Digest magazine and books. She was responding to my interview with one of her authors, Mike Sacks, the author of And Here’s the Kicker: ...

BY BOB ANDELMANThe really funny thing about Judy Tenuta?Pretty much everything. And she’s actually quite a lovely woman, as you can see from the photos on her website—JudyTenuta.com. I wanted to get that out of the way now, before she reminds me of ...

BY BOB ANDELMANDrew Waters possesses the kind of body that other men can only wish to emulate and women dream of well, you know.He grew up in Texas and gave up a track & field scholarship at Rice University to join the Navy. While still serving his ...

By BOB ANDELMANAlison Brie is a supporting actress on two hit series—“Community” on NBC and “Mad Men” on AMC. Not bad for a young woman whose previous acting resume is still thin enough as to include performances in community theatre shows at a ...

BY BOB ANDELMANI’m not a big advocate of cheating to get ahead in life.But let’s face it, these are not normal times. So I’m willing to consider options that were previously anathema to a good two-shoes like myself.Enter Jeff Kreisler, an old ...

By BOB ANDELMANHow well do you know your own father?If your stepmother died under suspicious circumstances and everyone around you harbored the belief that your father murdered her, could you stand by him no matter what?I hope, for your sake, that it’s ...

BY BOB ANDELMANTim Pilcher has a dirty mind!That’s what some people think, no doubt. He did just publish the edition Erotic Comics: A Graphic History and it is filled with cartoon images of men, women, aliens and even a cat dancer engaged in all manner ...

By BOB ANDELMANOne of the delightful surprises of last spring’s crop of replacement TV shows was a quiet little romantic comedy called “Castle” on ABC. It stars Nathan Fillion as Richard Castle, a police procedural novelist who gets permission to ...

By BOB ANDELMANI’m gonna be honest with you—I’m far more interested in talking with Guillermo Diaz about his last role—as, curiously, “Guillermo”—in “Weeds,” in which he played Mary Louise Parker’s drug dealer, teacher, friend, ...

By BOB ANDELMANI lived in a pretty male-centric world most of my life, idolizing certain baseball players, rock stars and even a writer or two.But when my daughter was born back in ’96, I made a marked effort to learn more about women who she might one ...

By BOB ANDELMANThink about seeing your life flashing before your eyes.Got the picture?Now think about Rick Fox’s life flashing before your eyes. First round NBA draft pick by the Boston Celtics in 1991.  Seven years—and three world ...

Flash Gordon. Has there ever been a cooler name or a cooler action hero anywhere?I can’t remember exactly when during the 1960s I first saw the old Universal serials repeated on television featuring Buster Crabbe as Flash, but I was hooked for life. As ...

By BOB ANDELMANJohn Hawkes is best known for his role as Sol Star, the co-owner of the hardware store and best friend of the sheriff on the beloved, cocksucker HBO series “Deadwood.”Hey—I don’t write these intros, folks, they just sort of write ...

By BOB ANDELMANI could put up a bit of a fuss, but what’s the point? My guest today, Air America morning radio host Lionel, is waaaaay smarter than me. I’m not going to offer any pretense that I can battle him to even a draw in a battle of wits: I ...

BY BOB ANDELMANI met cartoonist Howard Cruse in March 2004 at the Ringling School of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida. He was one of the featured guests at the college’s “Comics Summit on Diversity,” an event that included Mary GrandPre, ...

By BOB ANDELMANWho would have ever guessed that the art of the deal--the essence of how business gets done in America--would make compelling television?If you don't like the genre of reality business competition on TV, blame Mark Burnett, the creator of ...