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)
- Force of Nature – The Andrew Panay Interview - September 26, 2026
- Mario Andretti – Full Throttle - February 4, 2024
- Tim Russ – Star Trek: Voyager - July 25, 2021
Michael Fairman – Force of Nature
Written By: Michael D. McClellan | To underestimate Michael Fairman is to do so at your own risk. Drop him on a red carpet and he outshines the cabal of nervous journalists fidgeting around him; throw a high-profile tribute package his way and he turns it into high art; give him a show to produce […]
Doc Hendley – Rebel With A Cause
Written By: Michael D. McClellan | The Sahara has changed, but it remains a desert without compromise, the largest and most oppressive on earth. There is no place as dry and hot and hostile. There are few places as huge and as wild. It is roughly the size of the United States, 3.6 million square […]
John DeDakis – Storyteller
Written By: Michael D. McClellan | Write what you know. That shopworn idiom has served many an author well, launching the prolific careers of modern-day novelists such as John Grisham, who pivoted from law and legislature to pen The Firm, and Agatha Christie, who grew up hooked on Sherlock Holmes, and whose 78 crime novels […]
Ciaran Byrne – Class Act
Written By: Michael D. McClellan | Ciaran Byrne has travelled a great distance from the Northern Ireland of his childhood to New York City, where he lives today, but that doesn’t mean the builder-turned-actor has forgotten his homeland, or dismissed the tanks and guns and bloodshed as a dreamlike series of unfortunate events, or chalked […]
Maggie Mailer – In A Pickle
Written By: Michael D. McClellan | The creative team at Mailer Tuchman Media is on a roll. Fresh off the success of its 2020 psychological thriller DieRy, starring the resplendent Claudia Maree Mailer as social media influencer Marie Clark, MTM continues tapping into the post-Millennial zeitgeist with a series of projects that are at once […]
Kathy Mattea – Dream Chaser
Written By: Michael D. McClellan | West Virginia’s sweetheart may have moved to Nashville way back in 1978, but her love of the Mountain State runs deep, her connection to it unbreakable, the memories of it fueling some of her most personal work. Her life leading up to that point was dotted with prescient moments […]