“Wherever there’s a chance to make crazy dollars, because baseball is a crazy financial piggy bank, of course things are going to get a little corrupt.”
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Rapper Eve on Essence Music Festival, Her New Album and the Next Generation of Female MCs
“I need another word for frustration. I’ve completely gone past frustration 100 times.”
Charting a New Course: Q&A with Education Visionary Deborah Kenny
“It’s just very strange to have a good thing come from a bad thing”
RuPaul on Drag U, Ron Paul, and Lipsyncing for his Life
He might be the world’s most famous drag queen, but RuPaul knows he’s not the queen of drag. “That’s Cher,” he says. “She’s the queen of all drag of all time!” Here, the 51-year-old TV host—whose makeover show, …
Q&A: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter Writer on Literary Mashups and the Movie that Shouldn’t Exist
“It’s a high-octane summer action movie, and that didn’t come easily to me”
Benjamin Walker on Becoming an Axe-Wielding President in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
“If you wanted to compare him to a superhero, I guess you’d have to compare him to Batman”
Director Lynn Shelton on Breaking the Hollywood Glass Ceiling and Making Emily Blunt Blush
Filmmaker Lynn Shelton made her name as a mumblecore mainstay with movies like 2009’s Humpday—which, like many of her films, was made in the Pacific Northwest with a small cast and a heavy reliance on improvisation. Her latest …
Ice-T on His Rap Documentary, the Feud with Pop and the Future of Hip Hop
The rapper and actor Ice-T is celebrating some big anniversaries in 2012: 25 years since his album Rhyme Pays was the first hip-hop record to bear the now-familiar “explicit content” sticker, and 20 since his rap-rock band’s …
Prometheus Star Michael Fassbender on His Robotic Role and Why He Believes in Aliens
Michael Fassbender has had a busy couple of years. In 2011 alone, he played everything from a sex addict in Shame and Carl Jung in A Dangerous Method to X-Men’s Magneto and Jane Eyre’s Rochester. And now he’s adding a new kind of …
Lyle Lovett on Breaking With His Record Label and the Joys of Facebook
It’s been 27 years since Lyle Lovett signed his first (and only) record contract. But after four Grammys and 14 albums that have successfully mixed country, folk, blues and even gospel, the singer has decided to strike out on …
From Gun-Toting Black Panther to Ivy League Professor
In 1968, Jamal Joseph was a Bronx high-school student on his way to college. But it was the turbulent 1960s and, radicalized by the times, he joined the militant Black Panthers. Joseph’s new book, Panther Baby (Algonquin) tells …
Q&A: Charlie Brown Christmas Producer Lee Mendelson
This interview originally ran on December 25, 2010.
Lee Mendelson is a first-rate storyteller, which isn’t a surprise seeing as he’s been doing it for more than 50 years. An award-winning television producer, Mendelson is the …
Director Wim Wenders On Filming the Work of Pina Bausch in 3-D
Wenders spent 20 years trying to figure out how he could bring the experience of a live Pina show to the screen. When 3-D returned in popularity, he saw his chance.