Larry Flynt is best known for Hustler magazine, which he founded in the mid-1970s, and for the videos and cable TV channels the grew out of the Hustler brand.
But it turns out Larry Flynt was also an amateur student of history.
Ten years ago, fFlynt and a professional historian co-authored a book called “One Nation Under Ssex: How the Private Lives of Presidents, First Ladies, and Their Lovers Change the Course of American History.
She was Donald Trump’s first wife, from 1977 to 1992. Ivana Trump is the mother of Don Jr, Ivanka, and Eric Trump.
Ivana Trump has also been a professional athlete, a designer, and a novelist. And that’s how I met her in 1993, the year after she and The Donald divorced. She had just published the second in what was to be a series of novels, about a beautiful Czech immigrant named Katrinka.
While we do not even mention the name Donald Trump in this interview, if you know their backstory, you can kind of read between the lines.
So here now, from 1993, talking about her new novel, Ivana Trump:
Economist and Texas Republican politician Dick Armey was first elected to Congress in 1984. By 1995, he has risen to the post of Majority Leader, as the Republican Revolution swept Washington.
He remained in that post until his election defeat in 2002.
The following year, Armey wrote a little book of wit and wisdom called Armey’s Axioms.
So here now, from 2003, Dick Armey:
Dick Armey is 80 now, and works as a consultant and lobbyist.
Long before she was a successful solo act, Cher was half of Sonny and Cher.
Perhaps no married couple in music was popular in the mid-’60s as Sonny and Cher. Sonny Bono wrote hit songs like I’ve Got You, Babe and The Beat Goes On,
Eventually, they even had their own television variety show.
Sonny and Cher went their separate ways in the early ’70s. Sonny became interested in politics, and bwas elected mayor of Palm Springs, California in 1988. And he was elected to Congress in 1992.
I met him in 1991, when he wrote a memoir.
So here now, from 1991, Sonny Bono:
Sonny Bono died in a skiing accident in 1998 at the age of 62
It can be fun, informative, and educational to go back and revisit the things that futurists said years ago. Just, you know, to check and see if they were right.
Kurzweil has been honored by three U.S. presidents, he has 21 honorary doctorates, and has been called the rightful heir to Thomas Edison.
In 1990, I met and interviewed legendary inventor and futurist Raymond Kurzweil. He had written a book called The Age of Tnte Intelligent Machine.
You be the judge — was he right?
So here now, from 1990, Raymond Kurzweil.
Raymond Kurzweil is now 73. Since 2012 he’s been Director of Engineering at Google.
February is, of course, the shortest month of the year. So it occurred to me it might be an appropriate time to share some of my shortest interviews with you.
Normally, I would get 15 to 20 minutes or more with a given celebrity or VIP. But occasionally, because of the constraints of their schedules, I might only get two minutes, or three, or four.
So here now are some of those short takes:
Gtammy-winner Patti LaBelle, literary giants Kurt Vonnegut and John Irving, Oscar-winning actress Kathleen Turner, and Brady Bunch star Maureen McCormick.
Margaret Cho rose to prominence in the mid 1990s, with her TV sitcom All-American Girl. Since then, she’s established herself as not only a talented actress but as a standup comic, fashion designer, and social activist.
I’ve met her and interviewed her twice, about her first two books. This interview was the second one we did, and as you’ll hear, her views seem as current today as they did the day we talked, 16 years ago.
WARNING: What you’re abiyt ti gear is a true story, told by the suvivor of a violent and horrisying attack. You need to know that some of the descriptions are graphic, some of the words used are offensive.
James Cameron was born in 1914 in LaCrosse, Wisconsin. When he was a child, his family moved to Marion, Indiana.
It was there, in the summer of 1930, that James Cameron survived a lynching attempt.
He was a suspect in a robbery-and-murder case in Marion, Indiana along with two older teenagers. Both of them were lynched, and died. Cameron was to be the third victim of the Ku Klux Klan-led mob.
They tied a noose around Cameron’s neck, and death appeared imminent. But just as he was about to be hanged, a mysterious female voice was heard, saying Cameron was innocent.
A star local football player then stepped up, removed the noose and saved Cameron.
He did do prison time, but lived to tell about it.
I met him in the spring of 1994, when he wrote a book about his near-lynching.
So here now, from 1994, James Cameron.
In later years, Cameron became a civil rights activist and founded three chapters of the NAACP in Indiana.
For nearly 20 years Joan Lunden was the co-host of ABC’s Good Morning America. Millions woke up every morning to her cheerful, reassuring, and professional presence.
As a journalist, Lunden interviewed presidents and royalyu. She covered the Olympics. She bungee-jumped.
In 1997. she left the show — and was a bit taken aback by what other people assumed she must have been feeling.
I met her just a little over a year aftrer her last brodcast on GMA. She had written a book called A Bend in the Road is Not The End of the Road.
So here now, from 1998, Joan Lunden:
Joan Lunden is 70 now. Since leaving GMA, Lundern has written eight books. And since 2014 she’s been a special correspondent for NBC’s Today Show.
