December 2010
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#10. CRAIG CARUSO - "An inventor."
Truthfully, when I think of someone who is an inventor, my mind goes immediately to the Nickelodeon cartoon ‘Rugrats’ from my childhood. It’s not a leap; the father on the show, Stu Pickles, was an inventor. He’d comically bungle about with pieces of inventions and when he’d finally finish something, it’d always go haywire. It was a funny device for ...
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#68. JEFF MACKINNON - "Someone who’s been on 'The...
After a little while of talking to Jeff MacKinnon, I ask if he’s one of those guys who is “dumbly charismatic.” I have a real way with words in conversations, if you guys haven’t figured that out about me yet. Luckily, Jeff laughs.
“I’d like to think I’m charmingly charismatic,” he replies.
I groan. “That’s exactly what that guy would...
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#17: RONEN VERBIT - "Someone who takes naked...
“There are two types of girls — ones who will let you photograph them naked and ones who will let you photograph them naked from the neck down,” Ronen Verbit tells me. “There is no third type that I’ve encountered. Every time a girl asks, ‘But how do you make the girls comfortable?’ they’re saying, ‘Do that with me. Make me comfortable...
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#6. EITAN LEVINE - "Someone who is remaining a...
For this interview, I knew it’d be easy to find a female choosing to save herself for marriage, so naturally, because I like to make things difficult for myself, I decided I wanted to interview a guy. But first, let’s take a step back.
Two weeks ago, a Youtube music video of a Yeshiva University acapella group called ‘The Maccabeats’ went viral. The catchy lyrics and...
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#88: BRIAN FOLEY - "A working clown."
Brian Foley is very serious for a clown.
We meet up at OKI, a cheap, delicious Japanese restaurant in Queens, a part of New York I almost never go to. At first, he doesn’t recognize me because we’d only spoken through e-mail and Brian was expecting a young man, “Gabe.” (“That hasn’t happened to me since elementary school,” I say and he laughs.)
Brian...
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#40. ALAN COREY - "Someone who was on a reality...
Alan Corey is the king of reality television.
Okay, maybe not quite. But he has mastered the system of getting cast and making good TV. Corey, 32, has been on everything from the scandalous and cheesy dating show ‘Change of Heart’ to the pinnacle of all human achievement, ‘The Jerry Springer Show.’
“You’re like the walking ’90s,” I say.
Alan...
NO FUN GABY DUNN: Behind the Scenes, 100... →
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Not us; my dad doesn’t have any gray hair, that jerk.
Three of the four 100 Interviews I did in Florida last week, I took my dad along with me.
Having pizza lunch in Union Square with my friend Nick at a place between our two offices, I told him I was going to be conducting some…
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100 INTERVIEWS NAMED BEST TUMBLR BY THE VILLAGE...
OH HEY GUYS WHAT’S UP NOTHING MUCH EXCEPT….
I WON A GODDAMN VILLAGE VOICE AWARD WITHOUT EVEN KNOWING IT.
Oh, how did I do that? Let me tell you, it took some real skill. Thanks to Sean McCarthy from the wonderful ‘The Comic’s Comic’ for the “Congratulations!” message because without that I would have never known I’d won!
Hats off to the Voice...
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#21b. STEPHANIE CARCIERI - "An amputee." (PART II)...
Steph Carcieri is a lot of fun. I meet up with her and a friend of hers at a restaurant in Boston and when my boyfriend comes to pick me up afterward, I practically fling myself into his car, shouting, “THAT AMPUTEE GOT ME DRUNK.”
It is not my finest moment.
Stephanie is 22 years old and a pretty, thin girl with curly orange/red hair. She was born with a congenital defect that only...
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#21: WADE BERSTLER - "An amputee." (Part I)
Wade Berstler woke up in a hospital room.
He blinked his eyes open and his gaze rested on a metallic “Get Well Soon” balloon at the foot of his bed. The balloon turned slowly, the reflective surface floating to face him.
“I saw toes on the right side and no toes on the left,” he says. “That’s when I buzzed for the nurse.”
Wade is a really, really...
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#72. LAURA POER - "Someone who has been to jail."
When Laura Poer was 23 years old, she was in drunk driving accident that killed her best friend.
She doesn’t remember who was at the wheel of the dune buggy but the two had been drinking and joyriding all day, switching off the helm as they went. She remembers getting out at a bowling alley and standing under the bright marquee, discussing who should drive.
The next thing she remembers...