A West Virginia native, Michael D. McClellan's celebrity interviews appear on his web site, FifteenMinutesWith.Com, and include superstars Pharrell Williams and Vince Gill; Nobel Prize winners Art McDonald and Takaaki Kajita; Grammy winners Al Jarreau, Melissa Manchester, Keb Mo, and Big Daddy Kane; racing legend Mario Andretti; NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Jim Kelly; and NBA legends Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Julius Erving, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
Latest posts by Michael McClellan (see all)
- Kathy Mattea – Dream Chaser - December 28, 2020
- Garrett Marcantel – “12 Dates of Christmas” - December 11, 2020
- David Tong – Real Genius - December 7, 2020
Kathy Mattea – Dream Chaser
Written By: Michael D. McClellan | West Virginia’s sweetheart may have moved to Nashville way back in 1978, but her love of the Mountain State runs deep, her connection to it unbreakable, the memories of it fueling some of her most personal work. Her life leading up to that point was dotted with prescient moments […]
Garrett Marcantel – “12 Dates of Christmas”
Written By: Michael D. McClellan | In 1965, Maria von Trapp (Julie Andrews) stepped into Schloss Leopoldskron in Salzburg, Austria and fell in love in The Sound of Music. Fifty-five years later, Garrett Marcantel and two others hope to do the same in 12 Dates of Christmas, streaming now on HBO Max. Marcantel, who is […]
David Tong – Real Genius
Written By: Michael D. McClellan | David Tong’s office has a view of the courtyard where Sir Isaac Newton once lived, and just beyond that, the location of the famous apple tree that gave birth to Newton’s theory of gravitation. Tong, like Newton, is a fellow of Trinity College, and his gig as theoretical physicist […]
Lauren Swickard – A California Christmas
Written By: Michael D. McClellan | Lauren Swickard just saved Christmas. In a year that has seen Broadway shuttered, Wimbledon cancelled, and the Tokyo Olympics postponed, the last thing any of us needed was a Christmas season without fresh, high-quality, feel-good Christmas content to consume. Swickard, the multihyphenate powerhouse behind A California Christmas, has delivered […]
Sofia Mattsson – Fearless
Written By: Michael D. McClellan | Borta bra men hemma bäst. Sofia Mattsson is the living embodiment of this uniquely Swedish proverb, the Stockholm-born, Los Angeles-based actor thriving in a year of chaos and confusion, amping up the buzz on her Ava Carrington line of high quality handbags at a time when her soap, General […]
Tom Heinsohn – Old School
Written By: Michael D. McClellan | His arrival in Boston coincided with that of a certain shot-blocking, game-altering, paradigm-shifting center named Bill Russell, his considerable basketball talent overshadowed by the dazzling ball handling of fellow Holy Cross alum Bob Cousy and the dead-eye marksmanship of the gifted Bill Sharman. There would soon be other marquee […]