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A 2019 Vulture interview with filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan vs. a 1984 Paul Wilkes interview with poet/publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
A 2024 BOMB Magazine interview with novelist Kristopher Jansma vs. a 1999 INDEX Magazine interview with artist Lisa Ruyter.
A 2020 The Wire interview with musician Paul Minton vs. a 1997 Interview Magazine interview with musician Prince Rogers Nelson. || Raymond Cummings
As mass taste and intelligence continue to plummet, any interest in arts outside the mainstream are mistaken for snobbery.
The comedians he promotes are as annoying as a midnight car alarm.
A 2008 Vice interview with writer/editor Lewis Lapham vs. a 2012 Filmmaker interview with activist/professor Angela Davis.
Winter Lost might satisfy the cravings of those who like their Dungeons and Dragons as literature, not as larping or gaming.
A 1977 Interview Magazine interview with actress Shelley Duvall vs. a 2001 Paris Transatlantic interview with musician Keith Rowe.
His latest Netflix special is another flop.
A 2024 Esquire interview with actor Dan Aykroyd vs. a 2002 Pitchfork interview with musician Alan Vega.
A 2019 Art Spiel interview with artist Altoon Sultan vs. a 2021 Rolling Stone interview with actor LeVar Burton.
A 2003 Index Magazine interview with radio DJ John Peel vs. a 1990 Grand Royal Magazine interview with musician Wendy Carlos.
Banana for scale.
The mainstream media spent several decades going bananas over Koko the gorilla’s dubious sign-language skills.
Fame—one of the most dangerous drugs on the market—can be bought cheaply on social media.
Nearly a century later, a hate-filled society is back (but never really left).
Los Angeles can nourish you. Or destroy you.
Looking at this TV sketch, I could swear.
Self-absorbed journalists love to gush about how “fun” people are.
One dinner to cover the life and legacy of gay icon Charles Busch.
My intense experience of Lorene Cary's play Ladysitting.
The King of All Media rails against his and Letterman's employer, NBC, just a year before they indeed fired him.
An Entertainment Tonight profile of the actress around the release of Tim Burton's Beetlejuice.
The American icon talks about her new film Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, her long-running Netflix series Stranger Things, and more in this interview with Josh Horowitz.
The actress talks about working with Woody Allen on Anything Else in this September 17, 2003 interview.
The actress talks about her new film Buffalo '66 in this July 26, 1998 interview.
The artist is joined by old friend Milla Jovovich on the phone for a genial and warm conversation.
Don Rickles, Joan Rivers, and more remember Carson on the day he died, January 23, 2005.
The late French icon talks to Cavett about the movies and more in this August 11, 1970 interview.
The actress talks about her iconic collaboration with David Lynch last week in North Bend, Oregon.