It's what I tried to point out in the interview; I hope I did. I think I did the same thing when I interviewed Stanhope for the AVC earlier this year (or last year… the first 6 months of 2012 have been a blur).

It's what I tried to point out in the interview; I hope I did. I think I did the same thing when I interviewed Stanhope for the AVC earlier this year (or last year… the first 6 months of 2012 have been a blur).

It didn't look nearly as joyful and beautiful on the air as it must have looked to Penn and crew as they saw it live. It might have been the editing, but then again, most of the BMG's stuff loses its impact when viewed on a screen instead of in person.

He still calls himself Stevie. When I answered the phone when he called, the first words out of his mouth were "This is Stevie."

I brought up the "Billyburg isn't that gritty anymore" thing to MPK when I was up in the scrum asking him questions. He insists that's what it's like. I think Todd's observation about it was best: compared to where MPK usually is in Manhattan, pretty much all of Brooklyn is crime-ridden, gritty, and full of hipsters.…

The Portlandia screener had a featurette where they talked about their friendship, and they mentioned that they knew each other from Fred's drummer days. That's where I got the story.

Perhaps you're thinking of Bill Hader?

I bet a lot of that 37 are ones that I've done… the first Q&A I did for AVC in 2011 was Bruce Vilanch, for goodness sakes…

+1, which is all I have to say about that.

A part of the interview that I cut out was when I mentioned to Rachael that I've been to the restaurant near Rutgers where Batali started, a college hangout called Stuff Yer Face. He even mentioned the place on her show. She laughed her ass off when I mentioned it.

It was a funny episode, but I bet the NBC brass was pissed that Paul Simms and company didn't want to play along.

Yep, duck is right. We fixed it. I must have heard it wrong while transcribing it.

I talk to him about it in my AVC interview with him from about a month or so ago.

The CASCAL people were nice enough to set this up with Andrew, so I asked him about endorsing the product in as gentle a way as possible. He did a pretty good job of making his answer fairly natural and not pitch-tastic.

I'd rather he be sincere and honest in an interview than schticky. Why would you want to read an interview filled with jokes and not get any insight into the real person behind those jokes?

That's what I said when I submitted it (heh).

Read some of my responses to the other comments. This was not an ideal interview situation, by any means.

Oh, but I did… I asked him if he thought the movie was promoted wrong, as I remembered the ads making it out to be a goofy sports comedy when it had more dramatic moments than advertised. His response? "I think it
did. It’s tough to bring it back to the topic, you know." I just decided to move on at that point.

I think you've got something there. I'll call the stone's publicist, Ms. Jennie Brickwall.

Like I said above, 36 minutes, had to cover Scarface, and it took a few repetitive questions to get more than just the usual "the cast was great" stories out of him. It was just a tough one to do, though Mr. Loggia was a great sport for hanging in there with me.