Anchor Ted Koppel describes the many times he didn't get a position he applied for at major networks and recounts how he finally got his start in news radio. Continue reading
Ted Koppel remembers when he became the anchor on Nightline and shares his emotional reaction to news of the promotion. Continue reading
J.B. Bernstein and pitcher Rinku Singh describe how their real life success story was discovered by Disney and was made into an inspirational sports movie. Bernstein and Singh also explain what it was like to see actors portray them on screen in “Million Dollar Arm.”
Actress Ingrid Bergman pays tribute to actor and director Orson Welles at the 3rd American Life Achievement Award ceremony in 1975, saying that he created a masterpiece at the age of 24 and has lived under the burden of living up to that iconic film. Continue reading
Hal Douglas, a voice-over artist famous for his thousands of movie trailers and TV commercials, explains how his voice is hard for engineers to work with and discusses the different type of work he enjoyed working on. Continue reading
Bob Dylan talks about why he doesn't like to be around a lot of people, how his music describes himself, and how he wants to be remembered in this interview from the 80s. Continue reading
Members of the band Flyleaf talk to Blender.com after going on a humanitarian trip to Rwanda, the country where a brutal genocide took place in 2004, with approximately 800,000 people killed. Continue reading
On February 7, 1978, Ronald Reagan roasts Frank Sinatra on an episode of The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast, a program that aired periodically and involved having well known people “roast” – or make jokes at the expense of – a celebrity. Continue reading
Audrey Hepburn, who played Eliza Doolittle in the 1964 film, explains the production history of My Fair Lady while actors Julie Andrews, Nancy Olson, Kitty Carlisle Hart, and Bud Widney share their memories of the creation of the musical. Continue reading
See the dedication speech Franklin D. Roosevelt gave at the official opening of the National Gallery of Art on March 17, 1941. Continue reading
