Bob Andelman Interviews

A fifth generation Texan who taught family living, New York Times best-selling author Jodi Thomas chooses to set the majority of her novels in her home state, where her grandmother was born in a covered wagon. Thomas will release the third book in her Whispering Mountain series, TALL, DARK, AND TEXAN on Oct. 28. February is the release for the anthology GIVE ME A COWBOY and April is the release for the second book in her Small Texas Town series REWRITING MONDAY. Web Site

The original idea for mediabistro.com was cooked up in 1994, when Laurel Touby—then a freelance business writer and Glamour magazine contributor—and a friend decided to host a mixer for media people. About 20 editors, writers, and other content creators came to that original party at Jules Bistro in the East Village. Attendees bought their own drinks and enjoyed casual after-work bonding in the company of like-minded people. The parties quickly grew, and soon Laurel had 4,000 of New York's top media talent on her

Boingo Wireless, Inc. is the global market leader in Wi-Fi. Boingo makes it easy for consumers to enjoy Wi-Fi access on their laptop or mobile device at more than 100,000 hotspots worldwide – including airports, hotels, cafes and metropolitan hot zones – with a single account. Through its Concourse Communications Group, LLC subsidiary, Boingo operates wired and wireless networks at 23 of the top 100 North American airports.

Dumbocracy: Adventures with the Loony Left, the Rabid Right and Other American Idiots (The Disinformation Company, September 2008) follows Marty Beckerman's escapades with extremists on both sides of the spectrum and shows how they're equally dangerous to the First Amendment. Whether it's banning free speech to protect people's feelings or to enforce theocratic morality, these radicals have no use for our civil liberties. But I expose their tactics--and their never-ending hypocrisies--with comical, over-the-top glee, which w

Gary Scott Thompson is the show runner and executive producer of the reinvented 1980s classic, "Knight Rider". The creator and executive producer of NBC's hit series "Las Vegas," Thompson was also the writer of such feature films as The Fast and the Furious starring Vin Diesel, the sequel 2 Fast 2 Furious, Hollow Man with Kevin Bacon and the cult classic Split Second. Spending much of his childhood in American Samoa, Thompson first gained exposure to the world of entertainment as an actor, s

Everybody makes mistakes, but for Tim - a self-conscious young guy living in New York - just getting out of bed in the morning could be the worst decision he makes all day. No matter the situation, life's little challenges always manage to demand the most offensive solutions, which wouldn't be such a problem if he weren't continually caught red-handed. From the mind of Steve Dildarian—the Clio-winning ad man behind Budweiser's famous 'Lizards' campaign"'The Life and Times of Tim" follows this everyday working guy

One of every seven people in the United States can trace their family back to Brooklyn, New York—all seventy-one square miles of it; home to millions of people from every corner of the globe over the last 150 years. Now, through In the Country of Brooklyn, Peter Golenbock, the author of the acclaimed book Bums: An Oral History of the Brooklyn Dodgers, returns to Kings County to collect the firsthand stories of the life and times of the people of Brooklyn—and how they changed the world. The nostalgic myth that is Brooklyn is all about egg creams and stick

Oscar Isaac co-stars in Body of Lies alongside Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe. It was directed by Ridley Scott. He discusses the movie in the latter part of this interview, which was recorded in November 2007 to promote his then new HBO film, PU-239 PU-239 co-stars Paddy Considine. Based upon a short story by Ken Kalfus, PU-239 tells the story of a devoted father and husband -- Paddy Considine -- in post- Soviet Russia who labors in a deteriorating nuclear plant. After being exposed to a deadly dose of radiation while trying to avert a plant disaste

The world's nerdiest secret agent is back! "Chuck", the one-hour action-comedy series about Chuck Bartowski (Zachary Levi)--a computer geek who is catapulted into a new career as the government's most vital secret agent. When Chuck opens an e-mail subliminally encoded with government secrets, he unwittingly downloads an entire server of sensitive data into his brain. Now, the fate of the world lies in the unlikely hands of a guy who work

Donal Logue plays Capt. Kevin Tidwell as he joins the cast of NBC's returning drama series "Life". In 2000, Logue starred in The Tao of Steve, the story of a larger-than-life, philosophizing Lothario. His other film credits include Sneakers, Gettysburg, Little Women, Jerry Maguire, Blade, Runaway Bride, Reindeer Games, The Million Dollar Hotel, The Patriot, Comic Book Villians, Confidence, Just Like Heaven and The Groomsmen." Logue's previous notable television credits include "The Knights of Prosper

Chris Young is an investment broker from Pasadena, CA, and a contestant on the NBC series "America's Toughest Jobs." He is an Italian sound bite from the word go. He's got the rhythm, the swagger, the 'bada bing' plus the sign-of-the-cross/kiss the gold chain at every turn. He can talk the talk, but can he walk the walk. He's 49 and wondering if he's verging on a mid-life crisis. Yes, his wife just went through menopause, which he'll talk about on-camera, but he has a great life: beautiful wife, two gorgeous sons, a big, comfortable house, a rockin' Harley and two nice cars. This guy isn't looking for a change in jobs, but he is looking for some challenges. His ego and bravado have him wondering if he still has it. Elements won't bring him down unless he gets hurt. That's his only concern. As he said, he can bench press 435 pounds, but he doubled his life insurance for this adventure. His thing - with age comes experience. He said lasting in this competition will be about endurance and fear. He'll use verbal jabs to intimidate people and talks smack all the time.

David Alan Basche stars as Kenny in the USA Network original series “The Starter Wife.” Basche will simultaneously be seen recurring opposite Brooke Shields, Kim Raver and Lindsay Price in the NBC series “Lipstick Jungle” adapted by the Candace Bushnell (“Sex and the City”) novel of the same name. He will reprise his role from season one as Raver’s arrogant boss, Mike Harness. On the big screen Basche can be seen in The Wedding Weekend, in which he stars with Molly Shannon, and I’ll Believe You, leading a fun cast including Fred Willard, Chris Elliot, Ed Helms and Patrick Warburton; both of which were recently in theaters around the nation. Additionally, he worked with acclaimed feature director Paul Greengrass, playing passenger Todd Beamer (famous for the last words “let’s roll”) in Universal’s Oscar nominated film UNITED 93. Basche also stole Tom Cruise’s wife in Steven Spielberg’s War of the Worlds, and can be seen flirting with Julia Roberts in Steven Soderbergh’s film Full Frontal. On TV, Basche starred in the Emmy nominated Showtime film "Carry Me Home" with Jane Alexander, spent two seasons on NBC’s “Three Sisters,” and starred in Alan Ball’s series “Oh Grow Up” on ABC. He played Wilbur in Fox's ill-fated remake of “Mr. Ed,” and has had recurring roles on ‘Frasier,” “Miss Match,” and Denis Leary’s “Rescue Me.”

Danielle Nicolet is Liz Marsh in the USA Network original series "The Starter Wife." Nicolet's first major role was on the hit series "Family Matters." Scheduled to be a guest star role, the episode won the highest ratings in the series history and the producers made the role recurring over the next year. Hollywood took notice and she was then cast as Samuel L. Jackson's daughter in the screwball comedy National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1, Disney's You've Got To Do Something and in the ABC Movie of the Week "The Jacksons: An American Dream." Nicolet was a regular on the NBC hit show "3rd Rock From The Sun," co-starred opposite Melanie Griffith in the thriller "Shadow of Doubt" and starred opposite CCH Pounder in the political drama "Race." Additionally, Nicolet worked opposite John Savage in "Where Truth Lies" as a suicidal teenager and as a drug addicted teenage prostitute in MTV's "Runaway."

Webs.com (Freewebs) claims traffic of more than 30 million visitors a month and 20,000 new sign-ups a day. It is one of the big boys in the build-your-own website space —and was just named #5 on the Technology Fast 50. The company is repositioning and adding social media features, evolving into a home for social websites or social publishing. CEO Haroon Mokhtarzada joins Mr. Media to talk about his company's success to date and where he plans to lead Webs.com in the days ahead.

On September 16th, 2008, seven years after September 11th, Brian Michael Jenkins—one of the world's leading authorities on terrorism— published a book called Will Terrorists Go Nuclear? It explores the threats posed by nuclear terrorism. Jenkins has been advising the military, government and prestigious think tanks on the dangers of escalating terrorism for more than thirty years and is currently a senior advisor to the president of the Rand Corporation. Some of the issues that he explores in the book include: nuclear weapons as instruments of coercion or of pure destruction; Are those we label religious fanatics constrained by political and strategic calculations; If a nuclear attack took place on American soil, what life and death decisions would the President be forced to make. Jenkins covers Al Qaeda in his book as well as the scenarios and plots covered in movies and novels. He separates real and imagined dangers and gives a level headed analysis of the situation. Web Site