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She heard Trump's "you're fired" twice. Omarosa was one of the contestants on Season 1 of "The Apprentice," the reality show hosted by Donald Trump. Later, she worked for Trump in the WhiteHouse. In this 2008 interview, Omarosa offers her advice to women who want to get ahead in business. Her counsel: know when to be a b***h. Get The Bitch Switch by Omarosa You may also...

Medgar Evers's widow carries on the fight. 60 years ago tonight a white supremacist and KKK leader gun down a civil rights leader named Medgar Evers outside his own home, leaving his wife Myrlie a widow at age 30. In this 1999 interview, Myrlie Evers Williams explains why her husband's senseless death didn't beak her, and how she has made the most of her God-given strengths. Get Watch...

His courage helped end homophobic FBI hiring. During a 20-year FBI career, Frank Buttino became one of the agency's most trusted agents. But he had a secret – he was gay. And eventually that cost him his job. In this 199 3. Interview Buttino discusses his life as a closeted gay man in the FBI, and how his coming out opened the door for many others.. Get A Special Agent by Frank Buttino You may...

"Sex And The City" is 25. It was this week in 1998 that HBO viewers were introduced to Carrie Bradshaw and her friends, in the series Sex And The City. It's creator, journalist Candace Bushnell. Bushnell had a lifelong ambition to be a novelist. In this 2003 interview, she talks about her first published novel. Get Trading Up by Candace Bushnell You may also enjoy my interviews with...

The Olympic champion who was an eyewitness to an American tragedy. Rafer Johnson won the gold medal in the decathlon at the 1960 Olympic games. He later had a very successful career as an actor. And in the 1960s, he became politically active. He was in the kitchen at the ambassador hotel that night in June, 1968 when Robert f. Kennedy was assassinated. As you'll hear in this 19 98 interview.....

An iconic Congresswoman's memoir. Pat Schroeder wa the first woman elected to Congress fromColorado, in 1972. She served 24 years in the House, becoming one of its most influential members. In this 1998 interview, Schroeder reflects with humor and perceptiveness on her years in Congress -- and how a tearful exit from the 1988 presidential race helped define her political career. Get 24 Years o...

The plot twist that turned an actor into a novelist. Ron McLarty had a decades-long successful career as a character actor, on Broadway and on television. But this 2005 interview was not about his acting, it was about his first published novel. And how he got there, with the help of people including Stephen King.. Get The Memory of Running by Ron McLarty You may also enjoy my interviews with two o...

The lasting impact of the Vietnam war in America. Former Vietnam war correspondent. Laura Palmer was so moved by memorabilia that family members and friends leave at the Vietnam veterans memorial in Washington. She wrote a book about it. In this 1988 interview about her book shrapnel in the Heart, Laura Palmer talks about the years long effects of the war on those left behind. Get Shrapnel in The...

He saved his life by cutting off his own arm. Aron Ralston was an experienced rock climber in 2003, when a bizarre accident left him literally trapped between a rock and a hard place in a remote canyon in Utah. In this 2005 interview, Ralston describes his 6-day ordeal, his near death, and what has changed about his life since then. Get Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Aron Ralston You may also...

How an FBI profiler profiles. The FBI today routinely profiles sexual predators. One of their first sex crimes profilers was Roy Hazelwood. In this 1999 interview, Hazelwood talks about some of the most notorious cases he worked on during his long career with the FBI. Get The Evil That Men Do by Roy Hazelwood You may also enjoy my interviews with profiler Pat Brown and Ted Bundy's last lawyer...

Beyond Catwoman and Santa Baby. During a career that spanned more than six decades, Eartha Kitt established herself as a premier singer, actress, even a voiceover artist in her later years. In this 2001 interview, Kitt discusses her secrets of staying youthful and vibrant. Get Rejuvenate!: (It's Never Too Late) by Eartha Kitt You may also enjoy my interviews with Ralph Cooper and Adam West For...

The real life prosecutor who inspired a hit TV series. Linda Fairstein helped establish the first sex crimes unit in the Manhattan district attorney's office in the 1980s. Her work inspired "Llaw & Order SVU.". I in this 1996 interview, we talk about Linda Fairsein's first crime novel, a mystery introducing the character of Manhattan sex crimes prosecutor Alexandra Cooper. Ge...

What is your world like, when you can't see your world? Poet and professor Stephen Kuusisto was born blind 68 years ago. Today he is a leading advocate for the visually disabled. In this 1998 interview, we discuss Kuusisto's autobiography, a book called Planet of The Blind, and what life without vision is like. Get Planet of the Blind by Stephen Kuusisto Get Body, Remember by Kenny Fries G...

Stories inspired by her mother made her a best-selling author. Amy Tan's 1989 novel The Joy Luck Club was based largely on the wisdom her mother and her contemporaries had brought to America from China. In this 1990 interview, Tan reflects on her mother's life, their relationship, and the incredible well of consciousness she tapped into for her book. Get The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan You ma...

She has the Buns of Steel. Since the 1990s Tamilee Webb has been one of America's most prominent and most popular fitness experts. In this 1995 interview, Webb explains why physical fitness goes way beyond moving your arms and legs, and involves using your mind, as well Get Step Up Fitness Workout by Tamilee Webb Visit Tamilee Webb's website You may also enjoy my interviews with Jenny Crai...

A silent movie star speaks out. Douglas Fairbanks Jr made his movie debut 100 years ago this month, in a silent movie called Stephen Steps out. Even long after the silent movie era had ended, Fairbanks was a major motion picture star. In this 1988 interview, Fairbanks talks about his career, his family, and the future motion pictures. Get The Salad Days by Douglas Fairbanks Jr You may also enjoy m...

Behind the closed doors of Buckingham Palace. Since 1981, British journalist and author Andrew Morton has been covering the royal family. Tomorrow, May 6, is coronation day for King Charles III. In this 1991 interview, Andrew Morton describes what private life inside Buckingham Palace is like. Get Inside Buckingham Palace by Andrew Morton For more vintage interviews with celebrities, leaders, and...

Yabba dabba doo! True stories from the Flintstones. Animator- director Joseph Barbera was half of the Hanna-Barbera cartoon team, which created some of America's most famous cartoon characters. In this 1994 interview, Barbera reveals the origins of cartoons like the Flintstones - and the spin-off series that never got made because it was too ahead of its time. Get My Life in Toons by Joseph Ba...

Dead Man Walking made her, and her cause, famous. Roman Catholic Sister Helen Prejean started her prison ministry in 1981. In 1993 she published her book Dead Man Walking, which has since been made into a movie and even an opera. In this 1993 interview, we learn what motivates, angers, and saddens Sister Helen. Get Dead Man Walking You may also enjoy my interviews with William Kunstler and Polly N...

Why can't the GOP attract young voters? Margaret Hoover was born into a political family, but didn't get into political activism herself until her mid 20s. In this interview from 2011, we talk about why the GOP needs to attract young conservatives. Have the problems she talks about here gotten any better for the Republicans? Get American Individualism You may also enjoy my interviews with...

Come look for your lost shaker of salt with Jimmy Buffett. His 1977 song “Margaritaville” is a pop music icon, and established Buffett's career. In this 1989 interview, we talk about the song, the way of life itt depicts, the people he's met and the stoiries they've told hm -- and why he loves Alabama. " target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Get Tales From Margaritaville Get The Jim...

They said she was too old and ugly.l She sued. In 1981. Christine Craft was working as a television news anchor for a station in Kansas City, Missouri. Six months into her two-year contract, she was demoted from the anchor desk, because of the findings of a focus group. As she tells in this 1988 interview, she then sued the station. Get Too Old, Too Ugly, and Not Deferential to Men You may also en...

Tthe war correspondent who has dodged a lifetime of bullets. Peter Arnett became a major television personality during the Persian Gulf war in 1991, with his reporting from Iraq for CNN. Arnett won the Pulitzer prize for his reporting from Vietnam for the associated press. He spent decads covering wars. In this 1994 interview Arnett talks about his memoir, Live From The Battlefield. Get Peter Arne...

Profiles of a Hollywood All-Star team. Peter Bogdanovich did a little bit of everything in Hollywood. He was a writer, an actor, a film historian, a director -- I think he even got coffee sometimes. He directed The Last Picture Show, Paper Moon, What's Up Doc, and a host of others. And along the way he met a number of Hollywood legends, the people he calls the original movie stars. People like...

Why do animals think and behave and react in the ways they do? Animal behaviorist Temple Grandin has spent a lifetime finding answers. And for her, the journey has been a personal one, as well. Grandin is autistic, and has found that animal behavior is not unlike that of some people with autism. I first met her in 2005, when she published her book Animals in Translation. Animals in Translation