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The Peanuts Collection is a fully authorized, one-of-a-kind illustrated book that celebrates the 60th anniversary of the world's most beloved comic strip characters. A compendium of rare materials from the Charles M. Schulz Museum and family archives, The Peanuts Collection comes in a sturdy slipcase and features high-quality reproductions of original sketches, comics, and photographs from the world of Peanuts. Removable film cels, stickers, and booklets are included, as well as reproduction prints of Peanuts artwork ready for framing. Written by Peanuts aficionado Nat Gertler, with quotes from Schulz family members and a foreword by daughter Amy Schulz Johnson, the text offers insight into the making of the comic strip and its impact beyond the realms of newspapers and books to film, television, and popular culture. The Peanuts Collection is a must-own keepsake for anyone who loves Snoopy and the gang. Find more original interviews @ Mr. Media Radio • Twitter

Actress, cover model and TV host, Lana Tailor has been modeling and acting since the age of 12. The Sudbury native began pursuing her dreams by joining an Improv group, walking in runway shows, and signing up to meet agents from around the world at modeling and acting conventions. It was photographer Gord Scoular who encouraged her to test for “Playboy” and walked her through the process. The very next day, Gord got an e-mail saying, “we want this girl.” Since then, Lana has added a “Playboy” Cover, a Cover for “All American Curves” and over eleven other magazine features to her impressive resume. Lana is the official host for an online Magazine, “Toro Magazine,” in addition to being a lead actress in a HBO/Cinemax series called Lingerie. Lana has also been in several music videos including, “Wanna Be Loved” by Imaan Faith and Colby O’Donis. Find more original interviews @ Mr. Media Radio • Twitter

Patrick Fischler has been all over our televisions these last few years. He was a recurring character in everything from “Mad Men” and “Lost”—when some of the characters time traveled back to the 1970s—to “Southland.” Recently, he was a hotel manager on Showtime’s pot-ty sitcom “Weeds.” He’s also currently appearing in TNT’s “Dark Blue” and Fox’s “Lie To Me.” And he was in episodes of many more great series that are big favorites in our house: “Pushing Daisies,” “Burn Notice,” “Star Trek Enterprise” and even “The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.” with Bruce Campbell. And Fischler is more than just an increasingly familiar face on TV. His film career extends from Mulholland Drive to this summer’s hit Steve Carrell comedy Dinner for Schmucks. In fact, he’s just back from Pittsburgh where he shot One for the Money with Katherine Heigl. Also in the can is Miss Nobody and a role in the Ayn Rand film adaptation of Atlas Shrugged. Find more original interviews @ Mr. Media Radio • Twitter

Threadless.com is the phenomenally successful T-shirt company with more than 4 million tees sold since it began in 2000. It pioneered the online business model of crowd-sourced or community-driven design, in which people submit designs that are voted on by the site’s 1 million users and printed. Over the past 10 years, the company has amassed a vast archive of very cool, very hip, and often very entertaining designs, and Threadless is a spectacular showcase of 400 of the very best T-shirts created by the community—a barometer of art and design over the past decade. Much more than a book of extraordinary graphics, Threadless tells the extremely interesting story that inspired Inc. magazine to hail Threadless.com as “the most innovative small company in America.” There are also profiles of individual designers and “think pieces” from influential admirers, including design guru John Maeda, Jeff Howe of Wired, and bestselling business/marketing writer Seth Godin. Jake Nickell is cofounder of Threadless.com and lives in Boulder, Colorado. Find more original interviews @ Mr. Media Radio • Twitter

Jerry Robinson is one of the living legends of American comics. As a member of the original Batman team, he created the first and most iconic of all supervillains, the Joker, and cocreated Robin, the archetypal sidekick. During the Golden and Silver Ages of comics, Robinson worked on every comic book genre there was, and brought to life his own super heroes such as London, Jet Scott, and Atoman. His artistry also extended beyond comic books into editorial cartooning and popular syndicated newspaper strips such as Still Life and Flubs & Fluffs, as well as magazine and book illustration, fine arts, academia, and humanitarian affairs. Robinson has been an influential teacher, an important curator of cartooning art exhibits, and a tireless champion of artists’ rights. This rich, fully illustrated collection of his work was written in collaboration with the artist himself. Find more original interviews @ Mr. Media Radio • Twitter

From its first issue in April, 1970, the National Lampoon blazed like a comet, defining comedy as we know it today. To create Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead, former Lampoon illustrator Rick Meyerowitz selected the funniest material from the magazine and sought out the survivors of its first electrifying decade to gather their most revealing and outrageous stories. The result is a mind-boggling tour through the early days of an institution whose alumni left their fingerprints all over popular culture: Animal House, Caddyshack, Saturday Night Live, Ghostbusters, SCTV, Spinal Tap, In Living Color, Ren & Stimpy, The Simpsons—even Sesame Street counts a few Lampooners among its ranks. Long before there was The Onion and Comedy Central news shows, there was the National Lampoon, setting the bar in comedy impossibly high! Meyerowitz was a prolific contributor to the National Lampoon for 15 years, during which time he created the iconic Animal House movie poster. With Maira Kalman, he made the “New Yorkistan” cover of the New Yorker, the bestselling cover in that magazine’s history. Find more original interviews @ Mr. Media Radio • Twitter

From its first issue in April, 1970, the National Lampoon blazed like a comet, defining comedy as we know it today. To create Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead, former Lampoon illustrator Rick Meyerowitz selected the funniest material from the magazine and sought out the survivors of its first electrifying decade to gather their most revealing and outrageous stories. The result is a mind-boggling tour through the early days of an institution whose alumni left their fingerprints all over popular culture: Animal House, Caddyshack, Saturday Night Live, Ghostbusters, SCTV, Spinal Tap, In Living Color, Ren & Stimpy, The Simpsons—even Sesame Street counts a few Lampooners among its ranks. Long before there was The Onion and Comedy Central news shows, there was the National Lampoon, setting the bar in comedy impossibly high! For more interviews like this one: http://www.MrMedia.com What is Mr. Media® Interviews? The calm of Charlie Rose, the curiosity of Terry Gross and the unpredictability of Howard Stern! Since February 2007, more than 1,000 exclusive Hollywood, celebrity, pop culture video and audio comedy podcast interviews by Mr. Media®, a.k.a., Bob Andelman, with newsmakers in TV, radio, movies, music, magazines, newspapers, books, websites, social media, politics, sports, graphic novels, and comics! Now in its 9th year! Subscribe FREE on iTunes or mobile devices via the Stitcher app and never miss a show! Twitter • Facebook • Stitcher

Barry Farber landed his own radio show on WINS in New York in 1960, moving to the number one talk station in America, WOR, in 1962. His southern accent made him "easy to zero in on" and by the time Farber left WOR after fifteen years to accept the Conservative Party's nomination for Mayor in 1977, his show occupied more than 25% of the station's entire broadcast week. After losing that election to Ed Koch, Farber joined New York radio station WMCA where he remained for eleven years. Today, "The Barry Farber Show" is heard Monday through Friday over CRN Digital Talk Radio and on Saturday afternoons on the Talk Radio Network. Farber was included by TALKERS MAGAZINE among the top twelve radio talk hosts of all time. His peers named him "Talk Host of the Year" in 1991. There's something about Farber's gentle southern manner that side-steps all hostility to his right-of-center views. A common listener's letter says some version of, "I dislike your political views, but not as much as I dislike missing your show!" Find more original interviews @ Mr. Media Radio • Twitter

Romy Rosemont plays Finn's mom on FOX's Emmy-nominated hit Glee. On film, Romy is a frequent co-star of friend Catherine Keener having appeared in Please Give, Friends with Money, An American Crime and Lovely & Amazing together. Her extensive television credits include recurring roles on CSI, Brothers & Sisters, Prison Break and Swingtown. She is married to character actor Stephen Root, who has appeared in everything from True Blood and The West Wing to NewsRadio and Seinfeld but is probably best know for his work in the cult film favorite Office Space. Find more original interviews @ Mr. Media Radio • Twitter

The first-ever illustrated biography of the master of the thriller, Hitchcock, Piece by Piece, coincides with the 30th anniversary of his death and the 50th anniversary of the release of Psycho. Many of the photographs, from Hitchcock’s own archive, have never been published before, and the package includes removable memorabilia, such as letters, memos, and snapshots, which flesh out this portrait of a film icon. . This book includes all of his more than 50 feature films, as well as his eponymous television series. Author Laurent Bouzereau puts this incredible canon into perspective, examining the master’s life thematically: archetypal anti-heroes; complicated women; charming villains; and something Bouzereau calls “the Hitchcock touch”—elements of film that are, quite simply, Hitchcockian. . Director and producer Bouzereau has collaborated with Martin Scorsese, Mel Brooks, Steven Spielberg, and Clint Eastwood—among other Hollywood legends—on more than 60 documentaries about classic films. Find more original interviews @ Mr. Media Radio • Twitter

Ryan McPartlin stars in NBC’s acclaimed action-comedy series Chuck as Devon Woodcomb, aka Captain Awesome, the handsome and good-natured husband of Chuck's sister, Ellie. . Born and raised in Chicago, McPartlin has gone from achieving success on the football field at the University of Illinois to achieving success on screen with his Midwestern charm. En route to primetime success, McPartlin caught the eye of renowned photographer Bruce Weber, garnering a prime campaign for Abercrombie & Fitch. . It wasn't long before McPartlin parlayed this success into a coveted role on daytime's Passions, which, in turn, led to a lead role in the comedy series “Living with Fran.” Starring as Fran Drescher's younger live-in love, McPartlin also recently romanced Gina Gershon on screen, starring in the acclaimed Lifetime miniseries “Everything She Ever Wanted.” While starring on Chuck, McPartlin has also guest starred on such series as “Mad Men,” “Swingtown” and “CSI: NY,” among others. Additionally, he lends his voice to the lead role of Clutch Powers in the animated feature “Lego: The Adventures of Clutch Powers” Find more original interviews @ Mr. Media Radio • Twitter

Zev Chafets, biographer, Rush Limbaugh An Army of One

Comedian Debi Gutierrez and actor/singer Patrick Muldoon

Keith Powell plays a straight-laced and scholarly writer on NBC's Emmy Award-winning_“30 Rock,” a workplace comedy where the workplace exists behind-the-scenes of a live variety show. Affectionately nicknamed “Toofer” because he is both a Harvard graduate and a minority (two-for-one), his character brings a sophisticated, yet sarcastic style to the writers’ table. Powell, along with the “30 Rock” cast, received an Emmy Award in 2007 and 2008 for Outstanding Comedy Series. Find more original interviews @ Mr. Media Radio • Twitter

December 8, 1980: The Day John Lennon Died is a minute-by-minute account of that tragic day, tracking all of the events leading up to the horrible moment when Mark David Chapman calmly fired his Charter Arms .38 into the rock icon—a shocking act of violence the world is still coming to grips with. “I’ve been carrying this story for 30 years,” author Keith Elliot Greenberg said. “I was five years old when the Beatles appeared on Ed Sullivan, and the first movie I ever asked my parents to see was A Hard Day’s Night. John Lennon never knew me, but I felt that I knew him, and he understood me. Mark David Chapman felt the same way. But because something misfired in his mind, he decided to take John Lennon away from all of us.” Greenberg has produced programs for America’s Most Wanted, 48 Hours, MSNBC Investigates, VH1, the History Channel, and Court TV. The author of more than 30 books, he has written for Maxim, Village Voice, New York Observer, USA Today, US Weekly and Playboy.com. Find more original interviews @ Mr. Media Radio • Twitter