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Details interview: Matt LeBlanc

Saturday, January 22nd, 2011

Matt LeBlanc Gets Wise to the Game

With a smart new Showtime series, Episodes, the 43-year-old actor formerly known as Joey Tribbiani has finally found a way to turn his signature role to his advantage

Originally appeared in February 2011 issue of Details

DETAILS: You grew up in blue-collar Newton, Massachusetts. When did you realize you wanted to be an actor? Matt LeBlanc: I went to New York to visit a friend and was walking down Park Avenue—this sounds so made-up—and this really pretty girl was walking towards me. As she walked by, I turned to look at her ass, and she turned to look at mine. We both started laughing, and we got to talking, and it turned out she was an actress on her way to a soap-opera audition. She introduced me to her manager.

DETAILS: We’ve become so used to a certain image of you that some people seem surprised by the graying hair. Matt LeBlanc: I started going gray in my early twenties. I remember on Friends, in the very beginning, putting the stuff on the sides. Then it became a full shampoo job. People are saying, “Oh, he’s going for the George Clooney thing.” I’m not going for the George Clooney thing—I’m getting old. I’m going for the inevitable. Click to continue »

Sharon Stone is Shameless

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

A friend just told me she just received her June  More magazine, whose cover story on Sharon Stone I had the pleasure of writing. The whole piece isn’t online yet, but here’s the lede (and a photo by Brigitte Lacombe):

Sharon Stone: Why I'm ShamelessSharon Stone is shameless. The actress considers it a skill to have no shame. She thinks everyone should try it, though she cautions that if you’re female, shamelessness can cost you. Her refusal to feel guilty, she says, has gotten her labeled difficult, or worse.

“I’m like a Prohibition-era flapper. I’m like a juke-joint hussy,” Stone says over lunch at an Italian restaurant near Beverly Hills. But better to be called names than to be pressured into not being herself. Feeling ashamed, she says, “is not an organic state of being, so shamelessness is closer to godliness. You have to put shame down.”

Viggo Mortensen: Actor, Poet, Publisher, Man – LA Magazine

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

An email exchange with Viggo Mortensen on the subjects of hope, endurance, and human nature.

Originally appeared in Los Angeles Magazine December, 2009

BY: Amy Wallace

He has been nominated for an Oscar (for the 2007 mystery Eastern Promises) and was declared a bona fide sex symbol (after his turn in the 2005 crime drama A History of Violence). He’s starred in three of the biggest-grossing movies of all time (The Lord of the Rings trilogy in 2001, 2002, and 2003). But Viggo Mortensen has always been motivated more by collaboration than celebrity. His new film, The Road, is an adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about survival in a postapocalyptic world of cannibalism and other unimaginable horrors. As “The Man,” Mortensen navigates this devastated landscape with his son (played by 11-year-old newcomer Kodi Smit-McPhee). We exchanged e-mails with the actor, poet, publisher (of the L.A.-based Perceval Press), and polyglot (he speaks Danish and Spanish, among other languages) on the subjects of hope, endurance, and human nature. Click to continue »

Jerry Lewis – Esquire

Sunday, January 1st, 2006

What I’ve Learned

Originally published in Esquire,  January 1, 2006

Jerry Lewis: Comedian, 79, Las Vegas

INTERVIEWED BY: Amy Wallace

Hey, Penny! Forty-three years, Penny’s been in my office. She’s something else. She doesn’t let me get away with anything. Penny, bring me an orange soda, honey. You haven’t done a goddamn thing all day.

I will tell you about interviews: I’ve had them run from two and a half minutes to nine hours. Rarely anything in between. If I get to an interview and I can see they’re not that interested, I tell them, “Since the surgery, I get these heart spasms.” And they’re gone.

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Jodie Foster – Los Angeles Magazine

Friday, March 1st, 2002

Los Angeles Magazine / March 1, 2002

INTERVIEWED BY: Amy Wallace

Jodie Foster sums it up: she’s focused, she’s critical, she’s downright mathematical. After so many movies, she knows how things work and why they don’t.

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