interview
10/29/2007
Owen Wilson and Wes Anderson: Artist On Artist
It's been about two months since Owen Wilson's baffling suicide attempt, and maybe it's the split-screening enabling him to speak with Wes Anderson remotely, but he seems so sad and fragile here. It doesn't help that whoever is behind the Myspace Artist-on-Artist series is clearly shouting out questions for Wilson to parrot back to Anderson. But even if the two collaborators were able to speak freely -- about The Darjeeling Limited, about their own lives -- one imagines that Owen would still be a little disconnected from the proceedings. A little lost.
09/17/2007
Fall Out Boy Patrick Stump Talks Sniffing Panties for NGTV
Actually, Fall Out Boy lead vocalist Patrick Stump only speaks rather briefly about sniffing panties in this segment of NGTV.com's Tour Bus Diaries. And he's only doing it to make a point about women who throw their panties onstage at concerts. He's not writing a song about it or anything. But he does do a bit of demonstrative sniffing, which is fun.
Other topics include the new album, pranks on other bands, free gifts, and why Stump's astonishingly tight jeans aren't as health-threateningly "nut hugging" as you might fear. Well, that's a load off my mind.
No Good TV has carved itself a niche as the online home of uncensored celebrity interviews and videos. Mostly, it's a place for celebs to talk about their upcoming projects while making dirty jokes and saying "fuck" a lot. Which, when you cover everyone from Akon to Andy Dick to the cast of "Hairspray," is pretty fun.
Plus, I think we all learned a little something about throwing our panties onstage.
08/10/2007
Michael Cera/Jonah Hill Interview Goes Superbad
Continuing the trend of grassroots viral campaigns (a la Knocked Up), here the stars of Superbad are provoked into an on-camera meltdown by a relentless press junket interviewer -- or are they? Probably not, since the interviewer happens to be Shaun of the Dead director Edgar Wright, who also did the faux trailer “Don’t” for Grindhouse.
Although the trend of fake interviews and cast freak-outs is becoming prevalent, the reactions of Michael Cera and Jonah Hill are so realistic we had to take another look. However, there’s an subtle tongue-in-check quality to the interview, and Jonah and Michael are in Superbad character (Wright even admits, “It’s like in the--he’s like he is in the film.”), and the gratuitous reprise “What does it mean to be Superbad?” brings it all together.
07/26/2007
Merry Miller "interviews" Holly Hunter
I'm not above the slightly unseemly pleasure of schadenfreude. But sometimes you see something that goes right past "basking in someone else's embarrassment" and into "just darn sad."
In this clip, I feel bad for Merry Miller, and I feel bad for Holly Hunter, and I feel bad for the people who produce "What's the Buzz." I even feel bad for the intern fetching Merry Miller her coffee, who knows that when given the chance to interview an Oscar-winning actress, she wouldn't feel the need to say "we love the show" five times in the space of a four minute interview.
Then again, maybe if that intern had been more on top of the coffee situation, Merry Miller wouldn't have choked so badly. Ah, hindsight.
03/27/2007
Viera on Ice
You might think you're up for the challenge of being a talk show host. After all, how difficult is it to talk to people? The answer to this question, though, depends on the venue. Just ask Meredith Viera.
During this Today Show segment at the Rockefeller Center rink, Viera manages a little bit of on-ice pirouetting with guest Will Ferrell before going into a complex plugging-Ferrell's-new-movie/sliding-underneath-Ferrell's-legs double-axel combination.
Does the lady let a little thing like getting stuck in Ferrell's crotch stop her? No, she does not. It's only when she hits her head on the ice that she needs a break -- and she still manages to sign off for commercials.
Sure, Meredith Viera makes talking mid-glide look easy. But that's how you know she's a pro.