Now I've Heard Everything

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

About 100 years ago, an advertising executive had an idea. A book club, that would send members new books every month. If that sounds like a familiar idea, you've just heard the story of the Book Of The Month club. Ernest Hemingway was among the first authors the club featured. Later, BOMC helped launch the careers of writers like Margaret Mitchell and Nelson DeMille. The editor in chief of th...

Tomorrow is Major League baseball's opening day, the first day of the 2023 season. On the first day of a 162 game schedule, every team is in first place. Any team can win the world series. And a batter can hit /400, and a picture can have a no-hitter. The world is full of possibilities . On the Opening Day roster for the St. Louis Cardinals in 1946 was a rookie catcher named Joe Garageola. Tha...

Do you ever watch the Food Network? If so, you know who Ina Garten is. But long before she became the channel's most popular host, Garten worked in the White House, in the Office of Management and Budget. That is, until the opportunity to buy a small rspecialty food store in New York's Hamptons opened up. She kept the store's name, Barefoot Contessa, and grew it very successfully. When...

Today, March 24th 2023, would have been comedian Louie Anderson's 70th birthday. I first met Louie in 1989, when he published a book of letters to his alcoholic father, a book called Dear Dad. We talked again about that book a couple of years later, and then in 1993 I interviewed him again, for his book called Goodbye Jumbo, Hello Cruel World. Louie struggled with his weight, and his self-imag...

In 1993, the term "woke" had not been invented yet. But a prominent law professor nominated for a high position in the US government Saw her nomination done in by what we would now know as "anti-woke" sentiment. Her name was Lani Guinier. President Bill Clinton nominated her to be assistant attorney general for civil rights. That's, of course, when closer scrutiny of her pa...

In recent months you could argue that Florida has become the de facto ground zero for book banning in schools. Hundreds of titles, ranging from the extreme to the innocuous, have been deemed unsatisfactory for students in Florida public schools. Recently, the school board in Martin county, Florida banned 20 books by best-selling author Jodi Picoult. Her books are best sellers because she directly...

Ask any serious fan of science fiction who the three most influential authors of the genre of the 20th century were. They will likely say Arthur c. Clarke, Robert Heinlein, and Isaac Asimov. In a career that spanned more than half a century, Asimov wrote  or edited over 500 books. And even though he was primarily known for his science fiction, Asimov also wrote mysteries and fantasy and non-f...

The U.S. space program was launched, so to speak, in 1959, when the first seven Mercury astronauts were named. These pioneers laid the groundwork for the Gemini, Apollo, and space shuttle missions that would follow in coming years and decades. Among those seven was a 36-year-old test pilot named Wally Schirra. Over the next few years he would become a household name, along with those like John Gle...

In the early 1960s you would have been hard pressed to find an entertainer who was hotter, more popular, and more in demand than singer and actress and Margaret. The young star, born in Sweden as Ann Margaret Olsen, captivated everyone's attention.  With her combination of Scandinavian beauty, a youthful s*******, at a sort of undercurrent of danger, it's easy to see why Ann-Margret quickly b...

In the summer of 1992, then US senator Al Gore from Tennessee was thrust into a much more visible public role, when Bill Clinton selected him as his running mate on the Democratic ticket. That was also about the time Gore published his first book about the environment, a volume called Earth in the balance And that's how I met Al Gore, just a few weeks before he was nominated to be vice president....

After a long and unexpected break due to illness, Now I’ve Heard Everything resumes its 3-times-a-week schedule starting Monday March 6.

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Perhaps no one personified the folk music trend of the 1960s like Peter, Paul and Mary. With a repertoire that included not only their own songs but covers of songs by Pete Seeger and Bob Dylan, Peter Paul and Mary became superstars. One of their most enduring hits was the wildly popular, to this day, Puff the Magic Dragon. But it wasn't until 2007 that the story of Puff the Magic Dragon was turne...

Once upon a Time three staffers for a United States Senator decided to put on a little Christmas show, just a little thing with song parodies and skits, just for entertainment. They're little show was a hit and they endd up putting on that show for a few other small private groups. Before long, a few other Hill staffers join them and they're little events. Became bigger events more organized event...

Ever since there have been movies in America -- that's over a hundred years now -- people have been putting together their lists of their favorite movies. Their favorite classic movies. Some 30 years ago Bob Dorian, the longtime host on American Movie Classics (now known simply as AMC) assembled a list of  the greatest "classic" movies.   Now  these weren necessarily 't classic" in...

Last week the United States Supreme Court overturned the nearly 50-year-old Roe vs Wade decision, which afforded women the constitutional right to an abortion. That was a court battle fought, and one, by a young Texas attorney. In fact, Sarah Weddington was only 27 when she argued the case before the high Court on behalf of her client, the pseudonymous Jane Roe.. When 20 years later, Sarah Wedding...