All I did was ask : conversations with writers, actors, musicians, and artists

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.

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Main Author: Gross, Terry.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Hyperion, 2004.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Don't do it / Nicolas Cage
  • Like a skinny boxer / Chris Rock
  • Being square / John Updike
  • A man's voice / Johnny Cash
  • Lift everything up / Charlie Haden
  • Erotic cheese and crackers / Mary Karr
  • A new gift / Andre Dubus and Andre Dubus III
  • The craft itself / Uta Hagen
  • Use the disadvantage / Michael Caine
  • Right in the gut / Mickey Spillane
  • You will not find the word "lesbian" / Ann Bannon
  • We all die / Walter Mosley
  • A family courtesy / Mario Puzo
  • Make sense of it later / George Clinton
  • Bootzilla twenty-seven hours a day / Bootsy Collins
  • Dissonance / Nick Hornby
  • In the junkyard / Grandmaster Flash
  • Alive in a coffin / Paul Schrader
  • A difficult place to grow up / Jodie Foster
  • I never told jokes / Albert Brooks
  • Beauty gone berserk / Divine
  • Kissing and licking boots / Mary Woronov
  • To iron a shirt / Joyce Johnson
  • So what? / Larry Rivers
  • Not to think / Sonny Rollins
  • Send the salami / Hal David
  • Like raw meat / Isabella Rossellini
  • A little out of whack / Dennis Hopper
  • The way people look / Chuck Close
  • It gets harder / Frank Stella
  • Mom, Dad, I want to be a tap dancer / Conan O'Brien
  • Nothing else would matter / Eric Clapton
  • A large feminine side / Steven Tyler and Joe Perry
  • Too much for you to take / Gene Simmons
  • Dramatic beats / Samuel L. Jackson
  • Stop acting / Dustin Hoffman
  • In that hurricane / James Baldwin
  • A place of protection / Carol Shields
  • A fraudulent angel / Maurice Sendak.