Interviewing Celebrities

How Not to Interview a Famous Person

Una LaMarche | Posted 05.25.2011

Una LaMarche

There is the fantasy that during an interview, a celebrity will totally spark with you and you will become BFFs and/or lovers, and the interview will just fly because you are having so much fun. No.

Photographing Julia Child

EllynAnne Geisel | Posted 11.17.2011

EllynAnne Geisel

Between nibbles of a simple luncheon, Ms. Child complimented me on my interview preparedness, noting I hadn't asked the usual media litany -- What's the funniest thing that ever happened to you?