All I did was ask
Subtitle: conversations with writers, actors, musicians, and artists
By: Terry Gross
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Hyperion
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 353
ISBN-13: 9781401300104; 9780786888207
Subjects: Interviews; Artists
Description: The award-winning host of National Public Radio's Fresh Air presents a selection of her interviews with some of the most celebrated actors, musicians, writers, artists, and comics of the day.
Table of contents: title: Don't do it / Nicolas Cage; title: Like a skinny boxer / Chris Rock; title: Being square / John Updike; title: A man's voice / Johnny Cash; title: Lift everything up / Charlie Haden; title: Erotic cheese and crackers / Mary Karr; title: A new gift / Andre Dubus and Andre Dubus III; title: The craft itself / Uta Hagen; title: Use the disadvantage / Michael Caine; title: Right in the gut / Mickey Spillane; title: You will not find the word "lesbian" / Ann Bannon; title: We all die / Walter Mosley; title: A family courtesy / Mario Puzo; title: Make sense of it later / George Clinton; title: Bootzilla twenty-seven hours a day / Bootsy Collins; title: Dissonance / Nick Hornby; title: In the junkyard / Grandmaster flash; title: Alive in a coffin / Paul Schrader; title: A difficult place to grow up / Jodie Foster; title: I never told jokes / Albert Brooks; title: Beauty gone berserk / Divine; title: Kissing and licking boots / Mary Woronov; title: To iron a shirt / Joyce Johnson; title: So what? / Larry Rivers; title: Not to think / Sonny Rollins; title: Send the salami / Hal David; title: Like raw meat / Isabella Rossellini; title: A little out of whack / Dennis Hopper; title: The way people look / Chuck Close; title: It gets harder / Frank Stella; title: Mom, dad, I want to be a tap dancer / Conan O'Brien; title: Nothing else would matter / Eric Clapton; title: A large feminine side / Steven Tyler and Joe Perry; title: Too much for you to take / Gene Simmons; title: Dramatic beats / Samuel L. Jackson; title: Stop acting / Dustin Hoffman; title: In that hurricane / James Baldwin; title: A place of protection / Carol Shields; title: A fraudulent angel / Maurice Sendak.