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Since 2006 Mignon Fogarty -- known to fans of her podcast as Grammar Girl -- has been guiding us through the complicated, arcane, and often fascinating world of language, usage, and grammar/.

In this 2999 interview we talked about her book The Grammar Devotional, a daily primer on proper language. Why does it matter what you say and how you say it, as long as people know what you meant? Why do even well-educated people commig grammar gaffes? And what is your personal pet peeve

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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.

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The beer that redefined American beer.

Not many entrepreneurs are able to turn a hobby into a multi-million dollar business, but one who did it was a guy named Pete Slosberg. In 1986 he and a partner set up Pete’s Brewing Company, and created a craft beer they called Pete’s Wicked Ale.

In this interview we talk about his entrepreneurial experience -- and his legal fight with Anheuser-Busch.

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You may also enjoy my interviews with former Maker\s Mark CEO Bill Samuels and cookie entrepeneur Wally "Famous" Amos

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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 John Wayne, Orson Welles, Cary Grant, and Jimmy Stewart.

This is my 2004 interview with Peter Bogdanovich about his book Who the Hell's in I.

You may also enjoy my interviews with directors Robert Evans and Barry Levinson

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Did you D.A.R.E. to stay away from drugs?

Former LAPD Deputy Chief Glenn Levant was one of the dounders of tue Drug Abuse Resistance Education, or D.A.R.E. program launched in 1983.

In this interview from 1998, Levant talks to parents whose kids will be faced with peer pressure to try sometrhing dangerous or illegal. But did D.A.R.E. work? Levant shares a startling statistic.

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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.

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As UConn and San Diego State battle it out tonight for the NCAA men's basketball title, today we are revisiting an interview I did a few years ago with the coach of a team that won one of the most thrilling NCAA victories ever.

Jim valvano was coach at North Carolina State when the team won the 1983 title in a thrilling game.

But by the end of the 1980s, valvano was out as NC State coach.

I met him in early 1991, when he wrote a book about his coaching experience.

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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 the book of the month club is a powerful executive, and from 1988 to 1994, that position was held by British-born

Brigitte Weeks.

She brought a deep experience in publishing to the position.

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.

That year Joe played in his first, and only, World Series. He was a major leaguer for nine seasons, playing for the Cardinals, the Pirates, the Cubs, and the Giants.

But after his retirement from the game, Joe Garagiola found another career in which he had much greater success.

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 I met Ina Garten in 1999, she had finally been persuaded to write a cookbook, which turned out to be far, far more popular than even her publisher had hoped.