Levar Burton Talks Books

    The actor on 30 years of Reading Rainbow and future apps

    LeVar Burton resonates strongly with three different age-groups. There's the old folks who remember him as Alex Haley's shackled African ancestor Kunta Kinte from Roots. Then there are the sci-fi geeks, who aren't bound by age (or space, if you ask them) and know LeVar as Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge on Star Trek: The Next Generation. Then there's the many millions who grew up watching him host PBS' Reading Rainbow and owe their love of reading and literature to him.

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    Zander Schloss' Career Opportunities

    Punk legend waxes nostalgic about Repo Man and his life in music.

    Zander Schloss was a lanky grocery store clerk playing in a funk band when a British UCLA film school graduate named Alex Cox cast him as "Kevin the Nerd" in the 1984 quasi punk, sci-fi cult classic Repo Man. Equally known for its' soundtrack, Repo Man has enjoyed nearly as much notoriety among rank and file punks for showcasing seminal bands Black Flag, The Plugz, Suicidal Tendencies and the Circle Jerks-Schloss would eventually join the latter.

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    Lone Eagle Don Felder Speaks

    Legendary guitarist on new records, friends, and the road to forever.

    Nearly five decades after Glen Frey started calling him "Fingers", Felder continues to make important music. In 2008, he became a New York Times bestselling author with Heaven and Hell: My Life in the Eagles (1974-2001), and has been on the road promoting his second solo album Road to Forever. We recently talked to Don about his fruitful career and his lifelong love affair with music.

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    Ross Mathews Mans Up

    The E! Network star on memoirs and his inner 65-year-old woman.

    Ross Mathews was instantly likeable the moment he first opened his mouth on national television. First as "Ross the intern" on The Tonight Show, and then as a frequent roundtable guest on Chelsea Lately, Mathews' wide-eyed reportage of all things celebrity has made him friends and fans the world over. Now, add author to a growing list of accomplishments as his memoir, Man Up: Tales of My Delusional Self-Confidence, hits shelves this week. The 200 plus page book is an enjoyable romp through Mathews obsessive life of pop-culture fandom, which started in the unlikely farm town of Mt. Vernon, Washington, and includes juicy stories of famous friends, coming out of the closet, and life in Hollywood.

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    Actor/Author Ken Baumann

    The Secret Life star talks BBQ, Beckett, and other addictions.

    Actor Ken Baumann is the living embodiment of the oft-used (often abused) cliché "there's a lot more to him than meets the eye." For the past five years, the 23-year-old fresh-faced actor has played the teenaged Ben Boykewitch on the ABC series, The Secret Life of the American Teenager but his off-screen pursuits belie any shallow, pretty boy, actor stereotypes which often ring true for young twenty-something's bopping around Hollywood.

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    Gilda Radner Remembered

    Gilda’s Club name-changes has late star’s loved ones talking.

    In late November a newspaper reporter phoned Gene Wilder to tell him that a Wisconsin chapter of Gilda’s Club—the renowned cancer support center named for his late wife, comedienne and original Saturday Night Live cast-member Gilda Radner who lost her battle to ovarian cancer at 42–is changing its name to accommodate younger patients unfamiliar with the organization’s namesake.

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