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
Cela Scott – Show Stopper
Written By: Michael D. McClellan | Cela Scott takes your breath. A multi-hyphenate badass with roots in Nashville and a career in Hollywood, Scott oozes brashness, confidence, and sophistication in ways that set her apart in an industry teeming with starry-eyed wannabes trying to make their mark. Meet her, and your first reaction is to […]
David Holt – Dream Job
Written By: Michael D. McClellan | Everything changed on Wednesday, March 11, 2020. The week had started with the Golden State Warriors’ decision to host the Brooklyn Nets with no fans at the Chase Center in San Francisco, an unprecedented step aimed and slowing the spread of COVID-19. Asked for his take, LeBron James pushed […]
Dave Berke – Top Gun
Written By: Michael D. McClellan | Dave Berke is all about clearly defined goals. A retired U.S. Marine Corps officer, fighter pilot, and ground combat leader, Berke lives and breathes setting long-range strategic goals to act as his compass, and then filling the journey with the short-range, tactical goals required to make the dream come […]
Melora Hardin – Power Play
Written By: Michael D. McClellan | Melora Hardin is on a roll. The Houston-born actor, who cut her teeth on ‘80s TV shows like Diff’rent Strokes and Magnum P.I. and later rose to fame as Michael Scott’s tightly-wound love interest on The Office, scored a 2016 Primetime Emmy Award nomination for her character Tammy Cashman […]
Mario Andretti – Full Throttle
Written By: Michael D. McClellan | Picasso once said that where others have seen what is and asked why, Picasso himself saw what could be and asked why not. He backed up this bold proclamation by ripping apart conventional art and giving us the jaw-dropping Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. Gone were the whimsical figures and haunting […]
Robert Ray Shafer – Role Player
Written By: Michael D. McClellan | Robert Ray Shafer is perhaps best known for fawning over Phyllis as Bob Vance, Vance Refrigeration in the hit comedy series The Office, but the West Virginia-born actor has played a wide range of roles in a successful career spanning four decades, his resumé dotted with everything from coaches […]