Recent Interviews

We have over 900 interviews in our collection, most of which are available for viewing online. See the most recently uploaded interviews below.

Kim Kimble

Mon, 10/21/2024

In her almost three-hour interview, Kim Kimble talks about growing up in Los Angeles and the inspiration she took from her mother and grandmother, who were both hair stylists. She discusses her early creativity and attending beauty college with the thought that she would eventually want to study fashion – and instead falling in love with hair styling and hair shows. She recounts how volunteering for a stage production of The Five Heartbeats led to a connection to Robert...

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Haim Saban

Wed, 09/25/2024

In his one-and-a-half-hour interview, Haim Saban talks about his childhood in Egypt and Israel, and his early ambition to go into business. He discusses his first foray into the music business: by playing bass and serving as the manager for a Beatles cover band before going on to become a music manager/agent with his own agency. Saban tells the story of moving to Paris and representing the child singer Noam Kaniel, who had many hit records and who recorded the theme song to the animated show...

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Lyn Paolo

Wed, 09/04/2024

In her four-hour interview, Lyn Paolo describes growing up in Sunderland, England in a working-class town and developing an early interest in the movies and Hollywood of the 1960s. She talks about studying English literature and history and becoming a teacher and her decision to move to the United States and Los Angeles. She explains the difficulty of finding work as a teacher and turning to television and film production for work. She then discusses the first television show she worked on...

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Sharon Bialy

Tue, 05/21/2024

In her three-hour interview, Sharon Bialy discusses growing up in Brooklyn, NY and her early love of theater. She shares how she came out to Los Angeles and got her start in casting, how she formed a partnership with Rick Pagano, and talks about several of the early television projects she cast, including The Young Riders, Picket Fences, and The Mind of the Married Man. She recalls how she met Sherry Thomas and how they formed their partnership, which...

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Glenda Rovello

Fri, 05/17/2024

In her three-hour-interview, Glenda Rovello discusses her early interest in design, getting her architecture degree at UT Austin, and how she got her start in production design -- working with Bruce Ryan on several television specials, including The Annual Young Comedians specials and the 1990 MTV Video Music Awards (where Madonna performed "Vogue"). She talks about her work on the John Denver special, Montana Christmas Skies, as well as her design work for The Whoopi Goldberg...

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Fatima Robinson

Thu, 02/22/2024

In her two-and-a-half-hour interview, Fatima Robinson discusses her early interest in dance and hip-hop, and how she got her start dancing in and choreographing music videos. She talks about meeting John Singleton and appearing as an extra in his film Boyz N the Hood, and later working with Singleton when she choreographed the music video for Michael Jackson's "Remember the Time." She describes choreographing music videos for Mary J. Blige, Whitney Houston, Bobby Brown, Brandy...

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Ramin Djawadi

Wed, 02/07/2024

In his three-hour interview, Ramin Djawadi talks about growing up in Germany and his early interest in music. He recalls attending Berkelee College of Music, and how he got his start in film music as an intern at Remote Control Productions, Hans Zimmer's studio. He details his responsibilities as an intern and assistant at the studio, and then describes his big break -- composing a piece of music for a sequence in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. He recounts...

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Eryn Krueger Mekash

Thu, 01/04/2024

In her four-hour-interview, Eryn Krueger Mekash discusses how she became interested in makeup and effects as a child. She talks about attending Sandy Burman's makeup effects school and what she learned from taking a Dick Smith course and Michael Westmore workshop. She outlines her time working for John Buechler, Stan Winston, and Rick Baker in their respective makeup effects shops, and recalls transitioning to more on-set work -- on the Academy Awards, General Hospital, Sabrina...

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Robert Smigel

Thu, 12/07/2023

In his nine-hour interview, Robert Smigel talks about his early life and family and growing up in Manhattan. He recalls wanting to be a comedian from an early age but instead pursuing a career as a dentist (following in his father's footsteps). He details how he started doing stand-up after entering a contest while still studying to be a dentist. He traces his career from comedy writer, to being scouted by Saturday Night Live writers Al Franken and Tom Davis while performing at the...

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Yvette Lee Bowser

Wed, 11/29/2023

In her three-hour interview, Yvette Lee Bowser discusses moving to Los Angeles at age five, her early interest in writing, and attending Stanford University. She shares how she got her start in television -- as an unpaid apprentice writer on A Different World -- and recounts her path to becoming a staff writer and producer on the show. She describes the writers' room on A Different World, recalls pivotal storylines and episodes,...

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