Bob Andelman Interviews

The Daily Cartoonist (TDC), launched in 2005, is one of the fastest growing news blogs for professional cartoonists. While it has primarily focused on newspaper cartooning (comic strips and editorial cartooning), it has coverage has grown to include webcomics, movies and animation, and magazine gag cartoonists. Alan Gardner is the writer and editor of TDC. He put himself through college as an editorial cartoonist for his college papers as well as The Herald Journal - a daily paper in Northern Utah.

Eric Deggans, TV critic of the St. Petersburg Times and blogger (The Feed) and Aaron Barnhart, TV critic of the Kansas City Star and blogger (TV Barn) join Mr. Media to talk about the likely highs and lows of the fall TV season. Your comments and questions welcome in the webchat or by phone: 646-595-3135

You just can’t pigeonhole Billy Bob Thornton. Think about the movie roles he’s most famous for and see what, if any, connection there is: Carl in Sling Blade; Hank Grotowski in Monster’s Ball; Morris Buttermaker in Bad News Bears; Coach Gaines in Friday Night Lights, and my favorite, Willy in Bad Santa. Who would figure that the guy who portrayed so many varied and somewhat disturbed characters had a musical soul too? But last fall, Billy Bob Thornton’s fourth CD, Beautiful Door, was released. It’s a collection of original, contempor

Jerry Scott has become a superstar of the cartooning world. As co-creator of Baby Blues and Zits, he is one of just four cartoonists in history to have two daily comics strips running in more than 1,000 newspapers each. In 1995, Jerry got to know Jim Borgman while their flight was delayed on the tarmac of Atlanta’s Hartsfield Airport waiting for a blown tire to be changed. A year later they created Zits on the front porch of a cabin in Sedona, Ariz. When longtime friends Rick Kirkman and Jerry first discussed doing a comic strip about paren

There’s a reason why XM and Sirius satellite radio play Rabbi Bob Alper’s bits several times daily, often sandwiched between Bob Newhart and Bill Cosby: Bob’s unique background…he’s an ordained rabbi who served congregations for fourteen years and holds a doctorate from Princeton Theological Seminary…prepared him well for a 20-year comedy career that’s intelligent, sophisticated, and 100% clean. BobAlper.com

The WB is back as a premium, ad-supported, video-on-demand, interactive and personalized network – to the public. It features full episodes of fan-favorite series that have shaped popular culture and inspired devoted followings over the past decade, including the previously announced Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Everwood, Friends, Gilmore Girls, The O.C., One Tree Hill, Roswell, Smallville, Veronica Mars, Angel, Babylon 5, Firefly, In Living Color, The Loop and MADtv. Original series include work from McG and Josh Schwartz.

John Darnton, author of Black & White and Dead All Over has worked for forty years as a reporter, editor, and foreign correspondent for The New York Times. He was awarded two George Polk Awards for his coverage of Africa and Eastern Europe, and the Pulitzer Prize for his stories that were smuggled out of Poland during the period of martial law. He is a best-selling author whose previous novels include Neanderthal and The Darwin Conspiracy.

If you want to see where the future of media is going, just ask Steve Rosenbaum to draw you a map. He's following a path that he single-handedly charted starting back in 1993 when he developed, created and produced the groundbreaking MTV UNfiltered. Networks like CBS, A&E, and HBO all counted on Rosenbaum to help them explore and deploy user-generated video in programming. But while his resume may detail a long list of historical firsts, Rosenbaum is more focused on where video is headed. Today, his latest company is Magnify.net, the fastest growing user-generated video network on the web. Magnify.net boasts 40,000 partner sites and one million page views a day.

Brett DelBuono co-stars alongside Benjamin Bratt on the new A&E hit series, The Cleaner. He starred opposite Rosario Dawson in The Revolution and was featured in the short film The Casket. DelBuono’s most recent work was opposite Christopher Walken and George Lopez in Balls of Fury. He'll join Mr. Media for conversation about the show, making a career as a teen actor in Hollywood, and, of course, take your questions live!

Steam tells the story of three different generations of women who tap into their personal strengths via relationships; the women are linked through a steam room they visit at their local gym. Starring Ruby Dee (A Raisin in the Sun), Ally Sheedy (WarGames), and Kate Siegel (Toward Darkness); directed by Kyle Schickner. Schickner was a football player at Rutgers University until a Women’s Studies class and his passion for theater led him to start FenceSitter Productions, an Off-Off-Broadway production company. Yearning to reach a larger audience, Schickner moved his company to LA and changed the name to FenceSitter Films.

EATS.com is a social networking site for food enthusiasts that launched this April. Since then, the site’s user-ship has grown over 500%, with nearly 15,000 members and over 100,000 visitors per month. Eats Magazine has sleek neighborhood editions in New York, Miami, and D.C as well as on colleges across the country, totaling 18 publications with a combined circulation of 600,000. Eats has a loyal fan base of hot young foodies and celebrity chefs in the top metro markets around the country.

Run and tell the kids! Carolyn Lawrence, the actress who voices cartoon characters such as "Sandy Cheeks" on SpongeBob SquarePants and "Cindy Vortex" on Jimmy Neutron, is coming to Mr. Media! A native of Baltimore, Maryland, Lawrence began her career as a dancer and transitioned into acting before becoming the go-to-girl for voice-overs. carolynlawrence.com

Catherine Taber will star in the feature film Star Wars: The Clone Wars as Padme Amidala. She will continue playing this character in the fall as a series regular on the TV program "The Clone Wars" (Cartoon Network, TNT). Taber made her feature film debut starring in The Girls' Room. Daily Variety hailed her as "winning, empathetic and intimate." Taber also stars in sci-fi video games such as Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, X-Men Legends II

Despite limited advertising - a single billboard one block from the original Clearwater, FL, restaurant featured waitress Lynne Austin and the line, "Fun, fun, fun till Daddy takes your T-bird away" - Hooters became an instant sensation. Ed Droste, one of the six co-founders and a marketing genius, is still involved as the now international chain celebrates its 25th anniversary in October 2008.

Paul Hertzberg has created and heads one of the leading independent production and distribution companies in the entertainment industry. With a focus on quality product at a reasonable cost, CineTel has enjoyed continued success throughout its 28 year history, and the result is a track record of more than 165 films and a production slate which continues to grow.CineTelFilms.com