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
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 […]
Art McDonald – Star Power
Written By: Michael D. McClellan |Nobel laureate Arthur Bruce McDonald’s world, much like the solar neutrinos he’s so passionately studied for decades, changed in ways that could only have been theorized until October 6, 2015, when an early morning phone call from Stockholm, Sweden, transformed the unassuming, highly-regarded astrophysicist into a global scientific sensation. McDonald […]
Claudia Wells – Future Girl
Written By: Michael D. McClellan | The on-again, off-again, on-again role of Jennifer Parker happened for Claudia Wells the way many Hollywood roles do, the recipe well-documented and often followed, her place in one of America’s most beloved films immortalized by a pinch of chance, a dash of luck, and a heaping helping of hard […]
Patrick Walker – Difference Maker
Written By: Michael D. McClellan | The stifling summer heat arrives in Charleston the same time Patrick Walker does, both equally hellbent on making history at the 2019 Public Courts Tennis Tournament. Unyielding, oppressive forces each in their own right, it’s the heat that strikes first, the vast area of hot and sultry air swallowing […]
Bill Walton – Grateful Red
Written By: Michael D. McClellan | Bill Walton wins an NBA championship, an NBA Finals MVP Award, and an NBA Most Valuable Player Award before vanishing into rumor, missing three full seasons and playing only 14 games in another, the one-time “Next Great Thing” undone by feet not designed to support a man his size, the pain taking him […]
Patrick Creery – Class Act
Written By: Michael D. McClellan | Patrick Creery is a pro’s pro, which is to say that he’s the kind of actor who commands respect simply by the way he goes about his business, unwavering in his reverence for his craft and those in its orbit, his passion to perform trumped only by his desire […]