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Since 1996, film journalist Alex Simon has interviewed the biggest names in world cinema. The Hollywood Interview is a collection of those talks, past and present, with the iconic veterans, young iconoclasts, and future innovators of the world's greatest art form.  Each interview is wrapped in an audio backdrop of the artist's work and Alex's filmic commentary.

Nov 8, 2019

Dennis Hopper and Alex discuss big roles; Easy Rider, Apocalypse Now, Blue Velvet and True Romance.  How sobriety was a big part of the Hopper career rebirth.  How Dennis invented the music video.  Film financing and screenwriting.

Dennis Hopper was played by Vernon Scott.  Vernon is an actor and voice actor.  He can be...


Oct 18, 2019

The Hollywood landscape is littered with tragedies, broken promise and self-destruction. Many promising artists stumble once and never recover from that initial fall. In the history of American film, there has never been a phoenix-like story of survival and rebirth quite like that of Dennis Hopper.

Surrounded by some of...


Sep 15, 2019

Patrick Swayze passed ten years ago today, September 14, 2009, at age 57. Of the over 600 people I've interviewed since 1996, Patrick was, by far, the nicest. A real person. No pretense. No diva, movie star nonsense. Just another guy that I was having a chat with. In a time when we see ex-Nazis (and other...


Aug 25, 2019

Even the most seasoned (and jaded) journalists are faced with a subject who brings butterflies to the stomach, akin to what we felt at our first school dance. The prospect of chatting with the iconic Lauren Bacall had this effect on me. It was 2007 and Bacall had just finished work on Paul Schrader’s “The Walker,”...


Jul 26, 2019

Sidney Lumet was the first director I interviewed whose one-sheet posters hung on my wall as a kid. He was an idol, an icon, and an inspiration. I wasn't yet 30 in April 1997, when I met him at The Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills for our interview at the press junket for "Night Falls On Manhattan," one of his...