I've been doing RR as long as Will has, just not nearly as many of them.

Just a little behind-the-scenes for you folks: Richard and I talked for almost 2 hours. Sometimes when I do an RR I guide the conversation, but sometimes the actor brings up roles in conversation and we just go there. Masur was in the latter category. That combined with Masur's expansive answers led us to getting to…

All fixed! I always transpose those two initials… Seems like it's an optical trick to a lot of people….

The dude was very laid back, and I didn't sense he was going to talk out of school about many people (he said he's a private guy a few times in the interview). But I think getting his backstory and talking about his methods are pretty interesting. We talked for over an hour, and I think we got on fairly well.

Edward Woodward in "The Equalizer." We spent a few moments trying to figure it out, but that wasn't interesting enough of an exchange to make the cut.

Perfectly understandable Freudian slip on my part. I fixed it.

When the guy is as effusive as Barry is, you don't get to a ton of roles. Also wanted to explore RH and Spin City a lot.

I just tend to mention the next movie in question form. Or in the case of Barry, I just smoothly transition to a title if he mentions it an an answer. He seemed to have a knack for bringing up the role I was going to discuss next.

There were roles I brought up that I haven't seen. American Dad wasn't one of them. Hate to say it's that simple, but it is. I was more interested in his on-camera roles; I'm not as familiar with his VO stuff, though I do like talking to VO people when I can.

Classy.

Not an interloper. I've done RR as long as Will has. Just not as often. Look me up.

Curtis has dozens upon dozens of roles we could have discussed. I couldn't hit every one of them, so I hit the ones I was most interested in speaking to him about — including, believe it or not, ones I haven't seen. Would you rather he talk about American Dad or Moonlighting? Because I'm much more interested in…

Not true. I respect the hell out of VO artists. I spoke to Billy West for 90 minutes in one of my early interviews 9 years or so ago. But the roles I was more interested in was the ones he did on camera. Even when a person sits with you for a long session, as Curtis did, you can only do so many roles — his answers, as…

All I remember back when I was 14-15-16, during the show's peak early years, was that I *hated* all "DiPesto episodes" and thought Viola was annoying. And I didn't think I was the only one. Maybe I was just projecting when I talked to Curtis about it (heh).

Or how about realizing more than one person does these types of pieces, and we each do them slightly differently?

Look me up. I've been writing for AVC and many other places for quite a while. I've even done Random Roles pieces. Will didn't start this feature, as well as he does with it, and it's not exclusive to him.

I don't watch American Dad, so I didn't ask about it. Simple as that.

It's odd… you'd think that with the popularity of country being what it is, Nashville would do better than it did this season. Maybe that's why Blake stuck with country classics for his contestants. "Modern" country is like "alt" rock back in the late '80s. Popular but not popular enough to move the needle.

That's what happens when you only have 30 minutes. In an ideal world, I'd want an hour or more for a Ranom Roles.

Sometimes you have limited time with an interviewee; a really good RR can take an hour or more, but if you only have, say 30 minutes or so, you have to be very judicious. Such was the case with the one I just did, which will be published soon…