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It all started over 15 years ago, when an ordinary guy from Maryland named Frank Warren kaunched a project, to encourage people to share secrets.

Not just ordinary secrets, either. The postcards he started to get, from total strangers, were touching, some
were poignant, some were weird or alarming, some were hilarious.

Soon, Frank had enough material for a book — several books, in fact — a website, a traveling show…

I first met Frank Warren in 2005, when his first book, “PostSecret,” was published.

He is an icon of the American civil rights movement of the 1960s. John Lewis has been at the forefront of the effort.

He was chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) when he helped organize the 1963 March on Washington.

But Lewis paid a price for his activism, often facing violence and nearly being beaten to death.

Today he is in his 17th term representing Georgia’s 5th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives.

February 21, 2020 is his 80th birthday.

This weekend marks the start of the spring 2020 Major League Baseball exhibition schedule.

It was in a spring many years ago that I got to meet and interview one of my boyhood idols: the legendary and once home run king Hank Aaron.

Now, when I was growing up, Ernie Banks of the Cubs was my main man, but Hank Aaron was right up there – and not just because we share a birthday. In 1974, Aaron broke the record that had stood for decades: Babe Ruth’s 714 lifetime home runs. Aaron’s record stood until Barry Bonds broke itt in 2007.

So here now is my interview with Hammerin’ Hank from 1991.

Hank Aaron celebrated his 86th birthday a couple of weeks ago.

Boy, you want to talk about somebody who has REALLY heard everything! For decades, Larry King has been an institution on radio and TV.

He had an overnight radio show that had an audience of millions.

He was on CNN for years and years. He has literally interviewed anybody who’s anybody.

I’ve intervied HIM several times, including this conversation, some thirty years ago.

Larry King celebrated his 86th birthday last November, and is still working. He hosts “Larry King Now” and “Politicking with Larry King,” seen on Hulu and RT America.

Carl Reiner is an American icon — comedian, actor, director, screenwriter, author.

Remember him as Alan Brady on TV’s “Dick Van Dyke Show”?

He’s won nine Emmys, a Grammy, and The Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.

He teamed up for decades with Mel Brooks in the “2000 Year Old Man.”

And he’s the father of actor and director Rob Reiner.

I first met Carl Reiner in 1993 when he wrote a novel called “All Kinds of Love.”

Carl Reiner will be 98 years old in about a month.

Late last month America lost one of its most popular mystery writers.

Mary Higgins Clark first rose to prominence in the mid-1970s with her book, “Where Are The Children?”

In the years that followed, she had dozens of bestsellers, many of which were made into television movies.

I first met Mary in 1989, and over the next 20 years interviewed her 14 times.

This interview is from 1992, a conversation about her life as a writer, and her early rejections.

Who would have thought that coming in second in a primary election could actually seem like you won?

In 1968, Democratic Senator Eugene McCarthy finished such a close second to incumbent Lyndon Johnson that it spelled the end of the Johnson reelection candidacy.

A few days after McCarthy’s surprise second-place showing, Robert F. Kennedy joined the race, and just a couple of weeks later, Johnson dropped out.

I first met Eugene McCarthy in 1987, for this interview.

What can you say about the Hollywood legend Charlton Heston?

He’s been a favorite actor of mine since I was a kid. Ben-Hur. El Cid. The Ten Commandments. Planet of the Apes. Earthquake. Soylent Green (“Soylent Green is people!”)

Who doesn’t have a favorite Charlton Heston film?

I met and interviewed him in 1995 when he wrote his autobiography, In The Arena.

We continue Oscar Week on Now I’ve Heard Everything, on a very sad note.

The legendary Kirk Douglas died yesterday, February 5, at age 103.

I actually had the privilege of interviewing him twice, the first time in 1992 when he wrote a novel about an aging buillfighter and his rebellious son “Miguel.”

Michael?

Listen as Kirk Douglas admits the truth about his work of fiction.

Continuing Oscar Week here on Now I’ve Heard Everything, a 1990 interview with a legendary Hollywood producer.

David Brown was a fixture in Hollywood starting in the early 1950s.

He made his mark starting in the 1970s, producing films like Jaws, The Eiger Sanction, The Sting, Driving Miss Daisy, and dozens of others.

In 1990, Brown won the Irving R. Thalberg Memortial Award for a lifetime of achievement in filmmaking.

He died in 2010 at age 93.