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Author Chuck Palahniuk
Interview and portrait of Chuck Palahniuk, a novelist from Clark County, Washington. Chuck’s novel Fight Club was adapted into a motion picture in 1999. (Source: Soft White Underbelly)
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Male Stripper Interview: Meet Masin Knox
Soft White Underbelly interview and portrait of Mason Knox, a male stripper in Las Vegas. (Source: Soft White Underbelly)
Listen to Val Kilmer’s Computer-Generated Voice
Actor Val Kilmer’s voice was taken from him because of throat cancer. Old recordings of his voice have been used to recreate it through the use of a computer. Listen. (Source: Sonantic)
Pimp Interview with ‘Big Memphis’
Soft White Underbelly interview and portrait of Big Memphis, a pimp in Memphis, Tennessee. (Source: Big White Soft Underbelly)
How Did Lyndon B. Johnson Make His Money?
Brian Lamb interviews Pulitzer-prize winning author Robert A. Caro about his in-depth research on President Lyndon B. Johnson.
Target Video: ‘We Were There to Be There’
Taking place as cuts to crucial social services loom under Ronald Reagan, two legendary punk bands come together to perform a show for patients and staff at a psychiatric facility. Captured on tape by seminal video art collective Target Video,…
Notorious: Ghislaine Maxwell
Part 1: Ghislaine Maxwell grows up privileged before meeting Jeffrey Epstein. She is the daughter of a billionaire media mogul. Not only was she was given jobs in her father’s businesses, but she was also given a soccer team and…
The Groovy Origins of the Waterbed
You remember waterbeds. The plush, squishy mattresses. The hours of bouncy fun. It all started with a homework assignment. In graduate school, industrial design student Charlie Hall was tasked with improving human comfort. He thought beds should be more comfortable.…
Author John Cheever Interviewed in 1977 about his novel ‘Falconer’
In an interview with Stephen Banker, John Cheever talks about his novel ‘Falconer.’ Falconer is a 1977 novel by American short story writer and novelist John Cheever.[2][3] It tells the story of Ezekiel Farragut, a university professor and drug addict who is serving time in…
‘First Call’ is About Drinking In Manhattan at 8 AM
A 50-minute documentary about people from Manhattan who liked to drink in bars during the morning. Most New York City bards during that era offered “first calls” ie. the bar opened and would/could serve you alcohol starting at 8 a.m.…
‘FALSE WITNESS’: Did a Doctor Kill His Wife and Two Children? Or was it a bunch of hippies?
Dr. Jeffrey R. MacDonald was convicted of killing his pregnant wife and two daughters in 1970. “False Witness” tells his side of the story. He puts the blame on some hippies supposedly spotted in the area. MacDonald claims they broke…