Oprah interview
Winfrey interviews Jackson about the amusement park in his backyard, the creation of the moonwalk, and the amount of charities that he has donated to for disadvantaged children.
They can’t sit up and these beds, they are hospital beds, you push a button, you go up or you go down and they are able to watch. We have a magic show, we show the current films, there’s cartoons, anything you know, anything so they can escape to that world of magic that they don’t have a chance to experience, the world I was deprived of when I was little.
Mister Rogers interview
Rogers is interviewed by Hall on The Arsenio Hall Show. They talk about his concern for kids today, how he sees the value in each person, and healing through television programs.
If we could through television programs, as well as every other imaginable program, let people know that each one of them is precious.
Jamie Gertz interview
Gertz is interviewed by Hall on The Arsenio Hall Show. They talk about being raised as an actress, the death of Katherine Hepburn, and the birth of her first child.
Being an actress you’re so concerned with yourself and how do I look, how am I looking in the scene and it’s all about you. Then this person comes and you have to feed them, you have to cloth them, you have to change them and they don’t care.
Richard and Judy interview
Groening is interviewed by Richard and Judy in the United Kingdom. They talk about his original film short and the way The Simpsons used to look and how they traced Groening’s original sketches.
Lisa’s the only one in all of Springfield you feel is going to really grow up and escape and have a really good life.
Elton John and Bernie Taupin interview
John & Taupin are interviewed by Hall on The Arsenio Hall Show. They talk about Taupin’s writing for John, what songs are their favorite and what inspires them to create songs. John:
To be honest with you, when you first write a song and you give birth to the song, that gives you chills.
Neil Diamond interview
Diamond is interviewed by Hall on The Arsenio Hall Show in Los Angeles, California. They talk about how he got permission from his mom to write his new album, if his real name is Neil Diamond, and having a holiday in his name.
We decided it was Neil Diamond day…it was actually a whole week. So he gave to me and the press took pictures of it and I said Mister Mayor does this means that I can close the schools for tommorrow ’cause I want to give my kid a day off?
Halle Berry interview
Berry is interviewed by Hall on The Arsenio Hall Show. They talk about the pressure of living up to beautiful woman, being fired initially for a role and going for Ms. Ohio and losing.
The director said that he’s sick and tired of the role of beautiful black women being played by light skinned women.
Jennie Garth interview
Garth is interviewed by Hall on The Arsenio Hall Show. They talk about her fans responding to their mail and her role on the show as a whore.
It’s a lot of fun. I have a good time. I have a really good time doing it. I grew up in such a very different way than my character did on the show.
Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Waits plays Renfield, Count Dracula’s bug-eating minion, in this Francis Ford Coppola adaptation of Bram Stoker’s novel, Dracula. Count Dracula comes to Victorian England seeking his reincarnated love, now engaged to Jonathan Harker. Co-starring Gary Oldman, Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, and Anthony Hopkins.
I did not actually eat the bugs. And I’ll say that because I’ve lied to other people and told them I did eat the bugs. I didn’t want anybody to think I didn’t have the courage to eat insects. What I really did was put ’em in my mouth and give them kind of a funhouse ride. Uhhh – move them around, let them walk along the jagged cliff of my teeth. And then I brought them back out again. A lot of them wanted to buy a ticket and go right back in for another ride. It was only mealworms – but there were a lot of spiders. I was working with insects. I’ve been in show business for 25 years, and I’m working with insects.
Paul Reiser interview
Reiser is interviewed by Hall on The Arsenio Hall Show. They talk about his role on Mad About You, arguing over silly things and the first joke he ever wrote.
I remember the first time I ever went up on stage and luckily you don’t know how bad you really are, if you knew you wouldn’t show up.
Chuck Norris interview
Norris gives an interview on The Arsenio Hall Show. They talk about his debut role as a more evil character and a bully scene that he wrote in the script.
I wrote this particular scene in the script and I was trying to think, what can I write to encourage this boy to handle this situation.
Celine Dion interview
Dion is interviewed by Hall on The Arsenio Hall Show. They talk about why she decided to become a singer, her collaboration with Patti Labelle, and the hardest thing about speaking English.
I did an interview by phone with Australia…I didn’t understand a word. The whole interview, like a half an hour interview, I have to say, honestly, I didn’t understand a word.
Trans World Sport interview
Serena and Venus practice at the Rick Macci Tennis Academy in Florida. They express future dreams and practice with their father and coach, Richard Williams. Richard:
Serena will probably be a better player than Venus.
Death Becomes Her interview
Willis gives an interview to Bill Todd. They talk about his role in Death Becomes Her, the mask that he had to wear and how he emerged as an actor in the film Die Hard.
It amazes me when I get spotted. I try to keep a low profile when I go out ’cause I wouldn’t recognize me.
Macho Man Randy Savage interview
Savage is interviewed by Hall on The Arsenio Hall Show. They talk about his wardrobe, his dolls that are selling to the fans, and his message to children.
I was wild but I was shy at the same time but I worked hard and I played hard and I just want to tell all the kids out there, all the Macho maniacs to stay in school and say no to drugs.
Martin Lawrence interview
Lawrence is interviewed by Hall on The Arsenio Hall Show. They talk about his character in Boomerang, and hanging out with Eddie Murphy.
I just thought I never would be working with him so, but to hang out…if you notice I look real fat in Boomerang, man.
TLC interview
TLC TBoz, Left-Eye and Chili are interviewed by Hall on The Arsenio Hall Show. They talk about how Left Eye got her name, their ages, and why they used condoms in their videos. Left-Eye:
Now you can call me a feminist rapper if you want to. I’m not one, but we’re a singing group and I’m the rapper.
Shatner, Nimoy interview
Shatner & Nimoy are interviewed by Hall on The Arsenio Hall Show. They talk about how Trekkies prefer to be called Trekkers, and about the 25th anniversary tour. Nimoy:
We did three cities it went extremely well, and it was videotaped, and we’re doing six more cities.
Madonna and Rosie O’ Donnell interview
Madonna and O’ Donell are interviewed by Hall on The Arsenio Hall Show. They talk about the embarrassing times they have had together, and how Madonna is protected by O’Donnell:
I knew we were friends when Madonna started sharing her candy with me.
Bill Clinton interview
Clinton is interviewed by Hall on The Arsenio Hall Show. They talk about his interest in playing music, being an Elvis fan, and meeting with communities in South Central California.
This country has been around for more than two hundred years because more than half the time the people have been right and have elected the kind of leadership we needed to move our country through crisis periods.
