Now I've Heard Everything

If you’ve read Michael Lewis’s book “The Blind Side,” or have seen the Academy Award-winning movie based on the book, you know about Michael Oher, the virtually-homeless Memphis teenager, who went on to become a college All-American football star and first-round draft pick by the NFL’s Baltimore Ravens.

I met and interviewed him in 2011.

In his book “I Beat the Odds” Oher fills in his backstory — the crack-addicted mother, the nearly-dozen brothers and sisters who often had to fend for themselves, the feared social workers who he now realizes were often reduced to tears in their efforts to help him and his family.

But there’s a whole lot more you don’t know about Michael Oher — and some of what you think you know may be wrong.

Back in my parents’ day, men with a tattoo had probably been in World War Two. The only women with tattoos were found in a circus or carnival.

But times have changed and now two decades into the 21st century it seems like everybody is getting some ink.

Many are getting tats from one of the country’s best-known artists, Kat Von D. And in two interviews with her about a decade ago, I learned so much about ink, and about Kat Von D.

November 16, 2010 Orlando, Florida

Dolly Parton

Orange County Convention Center

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The ageless Dolly Parton will be 74 in a few days. Today on Now I’ve Heard Everything my 1994 interview with this music and entertainment icon.

The occasion for my interview was the publication of her autobiography, “Dolly.” This interview took place in her hotel room at The Four Seasons in Washington, D.C.

Yes, you read that right — I was in Dolly Parton’s hotel room. (But so was her entourage, the media escort, and my then-wife.)

Today,. three-term former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who is now a candidate for president of the United States.

I talked with him in 1997, when he wrote a book called, “Bloomberg on Bloomberg.”

We talked about his entrepreneurial skills, and why he never envisioned being presi

Season Two of Now I’ve Heard Everything starts with my 2010 interview with comedian Sarah Silverman.

She was a nearly-20-year show business veteran by the time I talked with her for her book The Bedwetter.

And watch my daughter Krissie’s short interview with Sarah the same day: