Pop culture interview grab bag

This blog has run an eclectic range of interviews; the subjects relate to film, TV, music, literature, animation, and other aspects of pop culture. I will continually add to this list.

film

• The kids who played young Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah in the opening flashback scene of Splash. 
• The actor who played singer Marvin Berry in Back to the Future. 
• The actress who played the student Bill Murray tests/flirts with at the beginning of Ghostbusters.
• Footloose actors: Ariel's boyfriend, Ren's friend, Ren's uncle, Ariel's friend, the younger of Ren's cousins, Sarah Jessica Parker's stand-in. 
• The actor who played Argyle, the limo driver, in Die Hard.
• The actress who co-starred in director Steven Spielberg's first commercial release, the short film Amblin' (1968).
• The actress who played Elsie, the older of the two cousins, in FairyTale: A True Story.
• The photographer who took the last published photos of actress Amanda Peterson (Can't Buy Me Love). 

TV

• An oral history of 1980s sitcom Family Ties, as told by its guest stars.
• An oral history of the 1990s drama My So-Called Life, as told by its guest stars.
• Child actors who appeared on the original The Twilight Zone (1959-1964).
• One of the duo who sang the radio single version of the Happy Days theme song.
• The cast of the "Whassup!" commercial campaign for Budweiser beer (1999-2002).
• The cast of "The Bloodhound Gang" detective segment from 3-2-1 Contact.

music

• Dozens of '80s music video ingénues. Round 2.
• Singer/songwriter Mick Smiley, whose song "Magic" was in Ghostbusters.
• Singer Karla DeVito, whose song "We Are Not Alone" drove the dance sequence in The Breakfast Club. 

literature 

• Actress Ally Sheedy, who published She Was Nice to Mice, a novel for children, when she was a child herself.
• The reclusive author of the 1987 debut novel Memoirs of an Invisible Man (no interview).
• Children's authors read aloud bad reviews of their own books (not interviews but revealing nonetheless).
• The author of David and the Phoenix, a cult favorite middle grade novel from the '50s.
• The author/illustrator of Little Gorilla, a classic picture book from the '70s.
• The creator/artist of the successful Anti-Coloring Book series.
• The creators of Stone Soup, the long-running literary magazine written and drawn exclusively by young people.

animation

• Voice actors of Peanuts TV holiday specials. 
• Voice actors/songwriters of first seasons of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
• Granddaughter of Bill Lutz, writer of season 1 of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
• Songwriters and singers of Schoolhouse Rock.
• The girl who voiced Tuffy/Nibbles in 1950s Tom and Jerry cartoons.

superheroes

• Scores of '70s and '80s superhero performers.
• Two granddaughters (#1, #2) of the creator of Wonder Woman.
• The singer of the 1981 hit song "Theme from The Greatest American Hero (Believe It or Not)."
• The grandson of a man who may have visually inspired Clark Kent. 
• The lead singer of the theme song of the first season of the 1970s Wonder Woman show.
• A female writer of the 1970s Wonder Woman show.
• The first (known) person to play Bill Finger in a production (in this case, a play).
• The two men who broke the story of Superman's co-creators living in poverty and obscurity.
• Almost a dozen writers/artists from the Golden/Silver Age of Comics.
• Superman II actress Leueen Willoughby.
• Superman II actress Robin Pappas.
• The man who convinced the comics community that there would be a Wonder Twins movie. 
• The brother and representative of the late author of the critically-praised 1979 YA novel The Kryptonite Kid.
• The man who wrote Bob Kane's autobiography. (No, it wasn't Bob Kane.)
• The 1990 Flash show (no interview).

 

plus

• A mother who runs a playroom that is also a nonfiction library.
• A teacher who is also a ghost hunter.