Interview Jane Pauley In her three-hour interview, Jane Pauley discusses her early life in Indiana, including her many awards for high school speech and debate competitions. She describes her interest in politics and how it led first to her job, as a correspondent at WISH-TV news in Indiana, and later to her appointment...
Interview Tom Freston In his three-hour interview, Tom Freston discusses his early years and education, and his first professional job in advertising, which he left after two years. He recalls traveling through Europe and Asia before starting a lucrative clothing export business in Afghanistan and India, and returning...
Interview Debbie Allen In her two-hour interview, Debbie Allen discusses her beginnings in the entertainment industry. She talks of dancing and her Tony nomination for her role as "Anita" in West Side Story , and winning the Drama Desk Award. She recounts her various roles on television, including an appearance on Good...
Interview Lowell Ganz In his nearly four-hour interview, Lowell Ganz recalls how The Dick Van Dyke Show impacted his desire to become a writer and work in television. He talks about his early writing partnership with Mark Roth and how they got on the writing staff at The Odd Couple . He details writing under the...
Interview Michael Patrick King In his three-hour interview, Michael Patrick King discusses his path from Scranton, PA to Hollywood and New York. He describes finding his way from actor, to stand-up comedian, to writer, and offers advice to aspiring writers and producers. King details working as a story editor on Murphy Brown ,...
Interview Av Westin In his three-hour-and-fifteen-minute interview, Av Westin (1929-2022) talks about his early work in network radio news as a copy boy for Edward R. Murrow and his transfer to television news. He recalls co-creating the groundbreaking CBS Morning News with Mike Wallace , as well as his relationship...
