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On Interviewing Michael Jackson's Official Biographer

Interviewing J. Randy Taraborelli by Josh Cohen Around this time last year, I was Facebook friends with the man who I would eventually introduce to the audience as "someone of considerable significance". That man is J. Randy Taraborelli. We had a mutual friend in David Gunther whom I knew from my boxing days at West Side boxing in Eden Prairie. Mr. Taraborelli knew him from his Brazilian Jujitsu classes out in California. I had watched Taraborelli ad infinitum it seems growing up. After all, he was one of Michael Jackson's good friends through several decades and his official biographer. I was a fan of the King Of Pop's in the truest sense of the word. I was a fanatic . At my brother's wedding in 2012, I did a solo dance when "Billie Jean" came on. Yes, I moon-walked. Yes, it was damned good. Taraborelli was my go-to on everything Michael during my childhood. Through Michael, I became a fan of Taraborelli. So when he accepted my Facebook req...

Interview with James Reston Jr. - Iconic Author and Playwright

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Reston was an assistant to U.S. Secretary of the Interior,  Stewart Udall  (1964–1965) and served in the  U.S. Army  (1965–1968) as an intelligence officer. He was a lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina (1971–81). [1]  Reston is a Senior Scholar at the  Woodrow Wilson Center  in Washington D.C. [2]  and has been a fellow at the American Academy in Rome and a resident scholar at the Kluge Center at the  Library of Congress . Reston is the author of 17 books, three plays, and numerous articles in national magazines. His works of both fiction and non-fiction cover a wide range of historical and political topics. Five of his works,  Galileo: A Life ,  The Last Apocalypse ,  Warriors of God ,  Dogs of God , and  Luther's Fortress  have been translated into thirteen foreign languages.  Warriors of God  was an international best seller. The Last Apocalypse was a main ...

Diagnosed Psychopathic Narcissist Tries To Control And Manipulate Me! Josh Speaks with World Renowned Narcissism Expert, HG Tudor

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  HG Tudor is an educational YouTuber whose channel exists to provide better public education about narcissism. Tudor is a pseudonym, as the creator chooses to protect his real identity. He says he does this because he is a diagnosed narcissistic psychopath, and revealing this would cause problems in his personal and professional life.  Tudor's work has, according to multiple testimonies on his site and channel, helped many people understand that they had been in a toxic or abusive relationship with a narcissist and escape. He is credited, in some instances, with saving lives. People who support his channel are often informally known as "Tudorites". Although he is a prolific YouTuber, Tudor is not a full time professional. He has a separate professional life, which he seldom discusses for fear it would compromise his identity. However, he frequently mentions that in the course of his work, he has met many famous people. Examples include Rowan Atkinson, Meghan Markle and ...

"The 'Burbs" Star Discusses Tom Hanks, Linda Hamilton and Chad Smith!

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Cory Danziger is an actor, political activist, and conceptual artist.  As an actor, his most notable role was as Dave Peterson, the son of Tom Hanks' and Carrie Fisher's characters in the 1989 cult film  The 'Burbs . For his role he was nominated for a Young Artist Award in the Best Young Actor Starring in a Motion Picture category. That was his third nomination for the award,  the other two being Best Young Actor Starring in a TV Movie, Pilot or Special for his performance in  Married to the Mob  (1988) and Best Young Actor, Featured, Co-starring, Supporting, Recurring Role in a Comedy or Drama Series or Special for the  Beauty and the Beast  television series, his 1987 acting debut. [ citation needed ] In 1990, he appeared as the character Jake Potts in an episode of  Star Trek: The Next Generation  entitled "Brothers". His most recent role came in 2007, after a gap of fourteen years, as the voice of "...

Interview with Rapper Cowboy Coder To Discuss His New Album, "Code Rage"

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   Before recording “Code Rage”, Cowboy Coder lived in Texas, with a day job working as an independent IT consultant for the past fifteen years. His debut album discusses what it was like having one foot in the music world, and the other in the ever-changing world of startups, featuring songs like “B01” (detailing the 2001 tech bust), “Linux Administrator” (a stark analysis juxtaposing office politics with archetypal hardcore Linux CTOs), and “3rd Generation” (a collab with Cowboy Coder’s producer and friend MC Lars, which uses and demonstrates musical history as a metonymy for the evolution of code).   When COVID both necessitated and obviated Cowboy Coder's need to continue the day-to-day grind of creating enterprise solutions for Fortune 500 companies, he moved to Puerto Rico and dove deeper into his creative calling, writing an album that combines elements of country, punk, hip-hop and even EDM. Connecting with MC Lars at a show in Austin in February...

Interview with Variety Writer and Fellow Movie Nerd, Jenelle Riley

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  Jenelle Lynn Riley   is an American screenwriter, actress, journalist, and producer. Riley wrote the 2015 short film  Warning Labels , directed by  Jennifer Morrison , and is the host of  Variety ' s  Actors on Actors , for which she has won a  Daytime Emmy Award  and two  Los Angeles Emmy Awards . She is also an editor for  Variety [2]  and contributor to  The Huffington Post . [3]  She wrote and directed the award-winning play "A Kind of Love Story" which had its world premiere at  Sacred Fools Theater Company  in Los Angeles. She is the regular host of career conversations for the  SAG-AFTRA Foundation , where she has conducted lengthy interviews with various actors. Source:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenelle_Riley https://variety.com/author/jenelle-riley/

Interview with "Swimming With Sharks" Director, George Huang

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George Huang  is an American filmmaker.  In addition to working on his own films, he also contributes work to other independent  filmmakers , including  Robert Rodríguez .   In 1992,   Columbia   acquired the distribution rights to the film   El Mariachi   by   Robert Rodríguez . As the film was being prepared for release, Rodriguez struck up a friendship with the young studio assistant with whom he shared a love of film. As Rodriguez, a native and resident of   Austin, Texas , had no   L.A.   residence, he stayed at Huang's apartment. Rodriguez – known for his money-saving and high-quality  filmmaking  techniques – was amazed by Huang's blasé attitude toward the way his superiors spent millions and millions on the production of a single motion picture. Huang, believing his own original stories would never be told, shared some story ideas with Rodriguez, who promptly told his new friend and roommate that he ...