A West Virginia native, Michael D. McClellan's celebrity interviews appear on his web site, FifteenMinutesWith.Com, and include superstars Pharrell Williams and Vince Gill; Nobel Prize winners Art McDonald and Takaaki Kajita; Grammy winners Al Jarreau, Melissa Manchester, Keb Mo, and Big Daddy Kane; racing legend Mario Andretti; NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Jim Kelly; and NBA legends Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Julius Erving, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
Latest posts by Michael McClellan (see all)
- Tim Russ – Star Trek: Voyager - July 25, 2021
- Maeve Press – Everything’s Gonna Be Okay - May 23, 2021
- Jonathan Lynn – Star Man - May 16, 2021
Claudia Maree Mailer – Rising Star
Written By: Michael D. McClellan | Picture this: Even in a crowded Instagram universe teeming with bombshell influencers, Claudia Maree Mailer stands out. The England-born, New Zealand-raised, New York-based actor is a revelation, and not because every waking moment is a carefully choreographed photo shoot, the resulting content served up for the voyeuristic consumption of […]
Vince Gill – Straight Shooter
Written By: Michael D. McClellan | Vince Gill wasn’t born with a guitar in his hands, but the country music legend damn sure didn’t waste much time getting acquainted with one. Gill, who’s racked up 21 Grammy Awards (and counting), more than any other male performer in the history of country music, began plucking around […]
Joseph Poliquin – Dream Weaver
Written By: Michael D. McClellan | Joseph Poliquin didn’t so much kick open the door to an acting career as he maneuvered his way through it, as if a willing participant dropped into one of those escape rooms, the kind that rewards instinct and improvisation rather than sheer force of will. It helps that the […]
Meissa Hampton – Principled Actor
Written By: Michael D. McClellan Meissa Hampton has something to say. The award-winning actor is also an awarded poet who also happens to make socially significant (and award-winning) documentary films, her creative energy an amalgamation of Seimetz, Sappho, and the incomparable Barbara Kopple. With coronavirus raging and masks a political hot-button, Hampton is unwavering in […]
Eric Braeden – Despicable V
Written By: Michael D. McClellan |Victor Newman wasn’t supposed to hang around the fictional town of Genoa City, Wisconsin, this long. The conniving businessman first appeared on CBS’s The Young and the Restless way back in 1980, when he was written into the plot for an eight-to-twelve week run. That was more than long enough […]
Ed Asner – Staying Power
Written By: Michael D. McClellan | Born 17 days after the stock market crash that plunged the United States into the Great Depression, it’s fair to say that acting legend Ed Asner has seen it all. A winner of 7 Primetime Emmy Awards, making him the most honored male performer in television history, Asner has […]