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)
- Mario Andretti – Full Throttle - February 4, 2024
- Tim Russ – Star Trek: Voyager - July 25, 2021
- Maeve Press – Everything’s Gonna Be Okay - May 23, 2021
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 […]
Robert Parish – The Chief
Written By: Michael D. McClellan | His NBA journey begins during the US Bicentennial and ends 21 seasons later, during Bill Clinton’s second term as President. He arrives as disco is heating up, plays through the Michael Jackson-dominated ‘80s, and is still balling when Tupac is gunned down on the Vegas Strip in ‘96, winning […]
Keb’ Mo’ – Storyteller
By: Michael D. McClellan | The blues was born at the turn of the twentieth century, in the Mississippi Delta and other regions of the Deep South, a reminder of hard times brought on by the burdens of slavery, the Great Depression, and just being black. Those who played the blues did so from a place of […]
Gerald Webb – From Scratch
Written By: Michael D. McClellan | Gerald Webb arrived in Hollywood the way you might expect, landing in Playa del Rey with the same dreams that others have packed into well-worn suitcases countless times before him, the odds stacked overwhelmingly against his outsized ambition, an unforgiving film industry primed to grind him up and spit […]
Karen Allen – Risk Taker
Written By: Michael D. McClellan | We all crave the familiar. There is something tranquil and comforting about our own routines, whoever we are, wherever we live, whatever they may be. That’s how we as humans are wired. Take French-American artist Louise Bourgeois, for example. Turns out that the immensely creative Bourgeois was “very habitual,” […]
Kurt Patino – Career Builder
Written By: Michael D. McClellan | It turns out that Confucius got it right, and Kurt Patino is living proof. The Chinese philosopher, who once posited that if you choose a job you love, you’ll never have to work a day in your life, could have easily had Patino in mind when he dropped those […]