Ranked #1
Brian De Palma on Scarface, Mission: Impossible, and the Movie He Made in College
Brian De Palma on Scarface, Mission: Impossible, and the Movie He Made in College
Brian De Palma's astonishingly diverse hits as a director include Blow Out, Scarface, The Untouchables, The Bonfire of t... Read more
5 May 2020
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33mins
Ranked #2
Farmer Hoggett in the Slammer
Farmer Hoggett in the Slammer
From the humane wisdom of Farmer Hoggett in Babe to the simmering evil of Captain Dudley Smith in L.A. Confidential, Jam... Read more
26 Dec 2017
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45mins
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Ranked #3
The Oscars Series, Day 5: For Sama, This Year's Most Powerful Documentary
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This week, in honor of the upcoming Academy Awards, Here's the Thing brings you a collection of conversations with Oscar... Read more
7 Feb 2020
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33mins
Ranked #4
Itzhak Perlman Cracks Wise
Itzhak Perlman Cracks Wise
The legendary violinist talks about his difficult childhood, stricken by polio in the war-torn early days of Israeli sta... Read more
5 Mar 2019
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42mins
Ranked #5
On a Zoom Call with Woody Allen
On a Zoom Call with Woody Allen
Woody Allen's new book, Apropos of Nothing, starts with a portrait of his father, a tough-guy World War One Navy veteran... Read more
2 Jun 2020
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43mins
Ranked #6
James Caan: Last of the Tough-Guy Movie Stars
James Caan: Last of the Tough-Guy Movie Stars
At the end of the 1950s, James Caan, son of a German-Jewish butcher, had been kicked out of ROTC and was too poor to fin... Read more
3 Sep 2019
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48mins
Ranked #7
Noah Baumbach Gets Personal in Marriage Story
Noah Baumbach Gets Personal in Marriage Story
Director Noah Baumbach is known for messy and realistic family dramas. The Squid and The Whale chronicles divorce within... Read more
10 Dec 2019
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37mins
Ranked #8
Billy Joel, Revisited
Billy Joel, Revisited
Billy Joel has sold more records than The Stones, Bruce Springsteen, and Madonna—though the “rock star thing” is somethi... Read more
25 Dec 2018
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57mins
Ranked #9
Starbucks' Howard Schultz Doesn't Sleep—But Don't Blame the Coffee
Starbucks' Howard Schultz Doesn't Sleep—But Don't Blame the Coffee
Howard Schultz wasn't born into business. A Brooklyn boy whose father worked menial jobs to support the family, Schultz ... Read more
27 Sep 2016
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35mins
Ranked #10
Moby on Living Large and Falling Hard
Moby on Living Large and Falling Hard
Moby had already put out four studio albums when Play was released in 1999. He was solidly into his 30s, playing gigs in... Read more
28 May 2019
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50mins
Ranked #11
Anthony Weiner on Term Limits and Text Messages
Anthony Weiner on Term Limits and Text Messages
This interview was conducted in April 2016, prior to new reports that Anthony Weiner continued to be involved in explici... Read more
10 May 2016
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49mins
Ranked #12
Roseanne's Laurie Metcalf on Lady Bird and Lady Barr
Roseanne's Laurie Metcalf on Lady Bird and Lady Barr
Note: this interview was recorded before Roseanne's tweet and the subsequent cancellation of the show.Alec says he has n... Read more
19 Jun 2018
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41mins
Ranked #13
Molly Ringwald: 'These Films No Longer Belong to Me'
Molly Ringwald: 'These Films No Longer Belong to Me'
For movie fans who came of age in the 1980s, Molly Ringwald is the definitive "it" girl. As the creative inspiration for... Read more
16 Feb 2016
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39mins
Ranked #14
Jeff Daniels Was Supposed to Take Over the Family Lumber Business
Jeff Daniels Was Supposed to Take Over the Family Lumber Business
By 1976, college student Jeff Daniels was pretty sure he didn't want to follow his father into the Michigan lumber trade... Read more
14 May 2019
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50mins
Ranked #15
Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman Take it Slow in Work and in Love
Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman Take it Slow in Work and in Love
Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman are famous for creating iconic TV characters on two beloved sitcoms, "Will & Grace"... Read more
21 Mar 2017
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49mins
Ranked #16
Jane Mayer on Thomas, Trump, and Twitter
Jane Mayer on Thomas, Trump, and Twitter
The New Yorker’s marquee investigative journalist, Jane Mayer has been a thorn in the side of three presidents, two Supr... Read more
30 Apr 2019
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39mins
Ranked #17
How to Run a Small-Town Paper When Your Town Is East Hampton
How to Run a Small-Town Paper When Your Town Is East Hampton
Since 2004, 1300 towns across America have lost local newspaper coverage. 2004 was also the first full year David Rattra... Read more
27 Aug 2019
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35mins
Ranked #18
Michael Eisner Wants a Good Movie to End Quickly
Michael Eisner Wants a Good Movie to End Quickly
Michael Eisner started out in show business the same way everybody else does: by taking tickets at the studio door. But ... Read more
5 Jul 2016
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51mins
Ranked #19
Michael Pollan Tried to Blow Up a Woodchuck
Michael Pollan Tried to Blow Up a Woodchuck
Michael Pollan says that every writer has a "final question," an irreducible topic to which all their work tends. For Po... Read more
24 May 2016
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43mins
Ranked #20
A Fresh Look at the Death and Life of RFK
A Fresh Look at the Death and Life of RFK
June 5th is the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. It was one of the formative events in Alec's... Read more
5 Jun 2018
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36mins