Mr. Media Interviews by Bob Andelman

Today's Guest: Jim McBride, founder, MrSkin.com Mr. Skin fast forwards to the good stuff! Jim McBride is a man’s man—if the man in question likes ogling topless and bottomless actresses on TV and films. McBride does all that and, even better, is well-paid to do it, separating him from the rest of us slobs who are mere hobbyists by comparison. You probably know McBride better by his nom de skin, Mr. Skin, as in MrSkin.com, the web site he created and now runs with a staff of skintrepreneurs. He’s also a weekly contributor to the Howard Stern Show on Sirius satellite radio. This is McBride’s third visit to Mr. Media Radio, The first two times around, he was here to promote his books, Mr. Skin's Skincyclopedia: The A-to-Z Guide to Finding Your Favorite Actresses Naked and Mr. Skin's Skintastic Video Guide: The 501 Greatest Movies for Sex & Nudity on DVD. Today, he’s joining me to reveal the winners of MrSkin.com’s 11th Annual Anatomy Awards. And don't miss the video clip below celebrating one of this year’s big winners, Academy Award-winning actress Helen Mirren, who gets this year's Lifetime Skinchievement Award. Mr. Skin Website • Facebook • Twitter • Order Mr. Skin's Skincyclopedia: The A-to-Z Guide to Finding Your Favorite Actresses Naked from Amazon.com Mr. SKIN podcast excerpt: "Eva Amurri had an incredible year. She was voted best nude scene from television for her great striptease in Californication. This is Susan Sarandon's daughter. She has the Sarandon breasts and she showed them off a few times. She also was the winner of best nude daughter of a famous mother. She's a nip off the ol' block."  Mr. Media also interviewed Mr. Skin in 2007 and 2009 and on video in 2011 Mr. Skin 2012: Part 1 of 2 Mr. Skin 2012: Part 2 of 2 Order 'Mr. Skin's Skincyclopedia: The A-to-Z Guide to Finding Your Favorite Actresses Naked' from Amazon.com by clicking on the book cover above! Kicking Through the Ashes: My Life As A Stand-up in the 1980s Comedy Boom by Ritch Shydner. Order your copy today by clicking on the book cover above!   The Party Authority in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland!

Today's Guest: Jim McBride, adult website entrepreneur, MrSkin.com Guys, Mr. Skin watches movies so you don’t have to. Forget the days of wading through plot and dialogue just to get to the moment where Phoebe Cates pops open her bikini top in Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Or when Sherilyn Fenn gets randy in Two Moon Junction. Mr. Skin, via his website at www.mrskin.com and his just released second book Mr. Skin’s Skintastic Video Guide, The 501 Greatest Movies for Sex and Nudity on DVD, can tell you alphabetically exactly how far to fast-forward just to get to the good parts. Skin time, what body parts are exposed, size, skin color, hair color, you get the idea. Mr. Skin is nothing if not thorough. And for those who think there must be a finite supply of these moments, let me just say that today alone Mr. Skin added seventy new pictures and twenty-one video clips to his archive. It’s a dirty job, but someone’s got to do it. Mr. Skin Website • Twitter • Facebook • YouTube • Wikipedia Order 'Mr. Skin's Skincyclopedia: The A-to-Z Guide to Finding Your Favorite Actresses Naked,' available from Amazon.com by clicking on the book cover above! Order 'Celebrity Skin,' available from Amazon.com by clicking on the DVD above! Order 'Knocked Up (Unrated)' starring Seth Rogen, available from Amazon.com by clicking on the DVD cover above! Kicking Through the Ashes: My Life As A Stand-up in the 1980s Comedy Boom by Ritch Shydner. Order your copy today by clicking on the book cover above!     The Party Authority in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland!

Today's Guest: Jim McBride, adult film website entrepreneur, MrSkin.com   Part 1 of 2 Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of Anatomy Award nominees who can’t figure out why the studio is so darn chilly today… in the new new media capitol of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida! The 83rd Annual Academy Awards may have been a bit of a snore, but there is nothing dull or flat about the 12th Annual Mr. Skin Anatomy Awards! Usually, we can count on Mr. Skin to fast-forward to the best parts in TV and film. But at this time of year – not at all coincidental to the Oscars, Skin and his staff of skinvestigators single out the year’s greatest flashes of female skin. There are our usual favorite categories, of course – best breast, best butt, best full frontal, best Wet T-Shirt and of course, Breast Picture. But this wouldn’t be the Anatomy Awards if Mr. Skin didn’t add new, one-of-a-kind categories to recognize each year: • Best Nude Parasailing: Piranha 3-D • Best Nude in an Apron Scene Leonor Watling, Mirrors 2 • Best Naked and Dead: Christina Ricci, After Life • Best Glowing Boobs: Lola Davidson, The Caretaker • Best Network Nip-Slip: Leven Rambin, ABC’s "Scoundrels" • Best Network Butt Crack: Lisa Edelstein, "House, M.D." Mr. Skin has a way with words that makes Hugh Hefner seem illiterate. You can see scenes from all the shows and movies we discuss by signing up for a premium membership at MrSkin.com. Mr. Skin Website • Facebook • Twitter • Order Mr. Skin's Skintastic Video Guide from Amazon.com • Order Mr. Skin's Skincyclopedia: The A-to-Z Guide to Finding Your Favorite Actresses Naked   Part 2 of 2   Order 'Mr. Skin's Skincyclopedia: The A-to-Z Guide to Finding Your Favorite Actresses Naked,' available from Amazon.com by clicking on the book cover above! Order 'Mr. Skin's Skintastic Video Guide: The 501 Greatest Movies for Sex & Nudity on DVD,' available from Amazon.com by clicking on the book cover above! Kicking Through the Ashes: My Life As A Stand-up in the 1980s Comedy Boom by Ritch Shydner. Order your copy today by clicking on the book cover above!   The Party Authority in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland!

Today's Guest: Jim McBride, adult website entrepreneur, MrSkin.com Order 'Mr. Skin's Skincyclopedia: The A-to-Z Guide to Finding Your Favorite Actresses Naked' by clicking the book cover above! Here’s a statement of fact I think we can all agree upon: Heterosexual men like to look at naked women. We also like to see fully and partially clothed women and imagine them naked. That, in truth, is often more satisfying, in a strange but true fashion. MR. SKIN podcast excerpt: "Over 2,000 new nude scenes have happened since January 2005. So I said, 'It's time for a second edition.' That's kind of the reason this book is 688 pages. It's like half the size of the health care bill." And let’s not forget that we also enjoy doodling pictures of naked women and sharing these doodles wih our equally compelled brethren. Hugh Hefner and Bob Guccione figured this out. Howard Stern did, too. And then there was Jim McBride, the cheerful young dude who makes a living cataloging and capturing the moments when our favorite film and TV actresses—and many more women we’ve never heard of—slip a nip or more out of their clothes for all to see. Call it Celebrity Twin Peaks, if you must. Mr. Skin, as McBride is best known, is an empire-builder himself, with his website, MrSkin.com, radio appearances on the Howard Stern Show on Sirius Satellite Radio, and now the second edition of his valuable library reference,  Mr. Skin’s Skincylopedia—now in its second edition. Mr. Skin Website • Facebook • Twitter •  Order Mr. Skin's Skincyclopedia Kicking Through the Ashes: My Life As A Stand-up in the 1980s Comedy Boom by Ritch Shydner. Order your copy today by clicking on the book cover above!     The Party Authority in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland!

Today's Guest: Jim McBride, founder, MrSkin.com Mr. Skin fast forwards to the good stuff! Jim McBride is a man’s man—if the man in question likes ogling topless and bottomless actresses on TV and films. McBride does all that and, even better, is well-paid to do it, separating him from the rest of us slobs who are mere hobbyists by comparison. You probably know McBride better by his nom de skin, Mr. Skin, as in MrSkin.com, the web site he created and now runs with a staff of skintrepreneurs. He’s also a weekly contributor to the Howard Stern Show on Sirius satellite radio. This is McBride’s third visit to Mr. Media Radio, The first two times around, he was here to promote his books, Mr. Skin's Skincyclopedia: The A-to-Z Guide to Finding Your Favorite Actresses Naked and Mr. Skin's Skintastic Video Guide: The 501 Greatest Movies for Sex & Nudity on DVD. Today, he’s joining me to reveal the winners of MrSkin.com’s 11th Annual Anatomy Awards. And don't miss the video clip below celebrating one of this year’s big winners, Academy Award-winning actress Helen Mirren, who gets this year's Lifetime Skinchievement Award. Mr. Skin Website • Facebook • Twitter • Order Mr. Skin's Skincyclopedia: The A-to-Z Guide to Finding Your Favorite Actresses Naked from Amazon.com Mr. SKIN podcast excerpt: "Eva Amurri had an incredible year. She was voted best nude scene from television for her great striptease in Californication. This is Susan Sarandon's daughter. She has the Sarandon breasts and she showed them off a few times. She also was the winner of best nude daughter of a famous mother. She's a nip off the ol' block."  Mr. Media also interviewed Mr. Skin in 2007 and 2009 and on video in 2011 Mr. Skin 2012: Part 1 of 2 Mr. Skin 2012: Part 2 of 2 Order 'Mr. Skin's Skincyclopedia: The A-to-Z Guide to Finding Your Favorite Actresses Naked' from Amazon.com by clicking on the book cover above! Kicking Through the Ashes: My Life As A Stand-up in the 1980s Comedy Boom by Ritch Shydner. Order your copy today by clicking on the book cover above!   The Party Authority in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland!

Today's Guest: Johnny Van Zant, lead singer, Johnny Van Zant Band, Lynyrd Skynyrd This is the telephone recording of my May 1983 interview with Johnny Van Zant, who was then leader of his own Johnny Van Zant Band and today has stepped in to be the frontman of Lynyrd Skynyrd, the classic rock band created by his late brother Ronnie Van Zant. (Brother Donnie Van Zant is best known for his band, .348 Special.) Johnny Van Zant Wikipedia • IMDB Lynyrd Skynyrd Website • History Site • Facebook • Twitter • Instagram • YouTube • Google+ • Wikipedia • MySpace Kicking Through the Ashes: My Life As A Stand-up in the 1980s Comedy Boom by Ritch Shydner. Order your copy today by clicking on the book cover above!   The Party Authority in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland!

Today's Guest: Bob Eckstein, author, The History of the Snowman Order The History of the Snowman by Bob Eckstein, available from Amazon.com by clicking on the book cover above!   Cartoon by Bob Eckstein My guest today is Bob Eckstein, author of The History of the Snowman and a humor columnist and cartoonist. But first, I’d like to set the tone for this interview by reading from a poem that Bob found on a needlepoint throw pillow sold at a garage sale: I made a snowman as perfect as can be, I thought I’d keep it as a friend, and let it sleep with me. I made it some pajamas, And a pillow for its head. Then last night he ran away, But first he wet the bed. Bob Eckstein Website • Facebook • Twitter • The History of the Snowman website Order The History of the Snowman from Amazon.com Kicking Through the Ashes: My Life As A Stand-up in the 1980s Comedy Boom by Ritch Shydner. Order your copy today by clicking on the book cover above!     The Party Authority in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland!

Today's Guest: Jeanne Martinet, author, Life Is Friends: A Complete Guide to the Lost Art of Connecting in Person Order 'Life Is Friends: A Complete Guide to the Lost Art of Connecting in Person' by Jeanne Martinet, available from Amazon.com by clicking on the book cover above!   Order 'The Art of Mingling' by Jeanne Martinet, available from Amazon.com by clicking on the book cover above! I knew there was something missing in my life since it became Facebook-, Twitter-, Orkut- Bebo- and instant messaging-centric, but I couldn’t quite put my finger on what. Turns out, it’s people! You know, real life, high-fiving, handshaking, backslapping, refrigerator-raiding friends, neighbors and family. Jeanne Martinet, the author of The Art of Mingling, just published a new book, Life Is Friends. I suspect it will become one of those gems that is found on everyone’s bookshelf—or e-book reader—in the future. It’s a lively read and full of great anecdote advice. Jeanne Martinet Website • Facebook • Twitter • Order Life is Friends from Amazon.com Order 'A Daily Dose of Innocence' by John Hutton, available in paperback or e-book from Amazon.com by clicking on the book cover above!     The Party Authority in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland!

Today's Guest: Lisa McMann, YA novelist, Wake, Fade, Gone, The Unwanteds Order 'The Wake Trilogy: Wake; Fade; Gone' by Lisa McMann from Amazon.com by clicking the books above! This is gonna take a minute. It was the last day of our first family vacation in two years and the three of us were unwinding in the enormous Barnes & Noble bookstore in Burlington, Vermont. My 13-year-old son Charlie found two young adult novels she wanted to buy, both of which his friends had already read and enjoyed. The first was The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan, which looked like it was cast in the mode of the Harry Potter books, a series that Charlie has read over and over and over. The second was a dark and somewhat frightening looking book titled Wake by Lisa McMann. It’s subtitle: “Your dreams are not your own.” I was dubious; my kid finds the sight of blood unsettling and isn’t a fan of violence or gore. But it was technically age-appropriate and it meant reading something other than texts on his phone, so okay. LISA McMANN audio excerpt: "When I finished writing Wake, I almost immediately started writing Fade. I know that wasn't necessarily smart. But I felt like the story wasn't finished, so I wanted to write it for me. Then I thought, 'There could be more.'"    Mr. Media (Bob Andelman) and young adult author Lisa McMann at Inkwood Books in Tampa He loved both books and consumed them in the next two days. Back home, a few days later, he came over to my desk, holding Wake and asked, “What’s your agent’s name?” “Michael Bourret,” I said. With a triumphant look in his eye, he pushed Wake in front of me, open to the Acknowledgements page. I read it and smiled: “Warmest gratitude to my fantastic agent, Michael Bourret, who believed in Janie and me…” Small world. This week, Gone, the third and final book in the Wake trilogy, completing the adventures of teenage dream catcher Janie Hannagan, hits the shelves of bookstores everywhere. It’s quite a wild ride. Lisa McMann Website • Facebook • Twitter • Pinterest • Blog • Order The Wake Trilogy from Amazon.com Order Will Eisner: A Spirited Life (2nd Edition) by Bob Andelman, available from Amazon.com by clicking on the book cover above!   The Party Authority in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland!

Order Captain Abu Raed, a film by Amin Matalqa, available from Amazon.com by clicking on the DVD cover above!   Today's Guest: Amin Matalqa, director, Captain Abu Raed Amin Matalqa made a movie after being challenged by David Pritchard, an executive producer for “The Simpsons” and “King of the Hill.” There’s much more to the story than that, of course, but let me just add a few choice hints. Pritchard told the Jordanian writer and director to make it a comedy, something in which Charlie Chaplin would have wanted to star. And you know what? That’s exactly the film that Captain Abu Raed is. And watch for it in your city; Captain Abu Raed will be in limited, but expanding release across the United States this summer. Amin Matalqa LinkedIn • Facebook • IMDB • Twitter • Order Captain Abu Raed from Amazon.com Amin Matalqa returned to Mr. Media in August 2013 as director of the Disney soccer film, The United! Video interview below...   Kicking Through the Ashes: My Life As A Stand-up in the 1980s Comedy Boom by Ritch Shydner. Order your copy today by clicking on the book cover above!     The Party Authority in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland!