Stan Lee Interview

Interview from the 1990s JEFFREY GOLDSMITH: A lot of mainstream directors have been signed up to direct films based on your characters over the next few years, but Marvel characters have been animated before, right? STAN LEE: Yes, but not too satisfactorily. I was disappointed by the Captain America movie. I was disappointed by The…

William Gibson Interview

William Gibson Interviewed back in the 1990s by Jeffrey Goldsmith William Gibson wrote the only sci-fi novel ever to win the Hugo, Nebula and Philip K. Dick Awards – Neuromancer – thereby definitively establishing a subgenre. Cyberpunk. Before this world of techno dirt yet had a name, Mr. Gibson went to the movies, to Blade…

John Lurie Interview

JOHN LURIE INTERVIEWED BY JEFFREY GOLDSMITH BACK IN THE DAYS OF FISHING WITH JOHN John Lurie has been out of sight for a while. As the leader of the Lounge Lizards, and now the John Lurie National Orchestra, he blows a mean sax, as featured in Jim Jarmusch’s little known first feature, Permanent Vacation. Then…

Famous Cupcakes

There’s plenty of room in the world of cupcakes to become a famous maker, or baker. And there’s nothing stopping you, short of a muffin pan, an oven, a grain, a fat, a sweetener. I say that factiously. Magnolia Bakery in New York was the first place I noticed the advent of the celebrity cupcake,…