What movie would you want—along with an iPad and electricity —on a desert island?

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What streaming series can’t you stop talking about?

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“ “Imagine this: It’s 25 or so years after Sam Spade has sent Brigid O’Shaugnessy up the river because he wasn’t going to play the sap. Now it’s the early sixties and “The Maltese Falcon”’s private detective is retired and living in a small village in the south of France when six nuns are mysteriously murdered. It’s absurd, of course, except it’s actually the plot of a series on AMC called “Monsieur Spade”…. --Neil Offen

Who’s the most famous person you’ve ever met? How did you meet? How did it go?

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Excerpts:

Melinda Moulton: Michelle Obama….She hugged us tight and looked down into our faces (she is so tall) and told us that we mattered and that we should keep our faith in America.

Chris Harper: We did a profile of Berry Gordy, the founder of Motown. Barbara Walters wasn't in a particularly good mood…because she'd just come from a meeting with OJ's defense team and couldn't convince them to let her interview him….Gordy and I did a duo of "Money, That's What I Want!"

David Mindich:….The bartender…pulled me aside and said, “I want you to bring this drink to Andy Warhol….When I came back the bartender, said, “You idiot! That guy isn’t Warhol!”

Jerry Lanson: I was working with the kitchen crew at The Putney School when Robert Kennedy (the real one, not his son) came walking through, shaking hands.

Mark Kurlansky: "Possibly the most famous was Walter Cronkite. He invited me to his Upper East side apartment and he answered the door himself. In that voice I had heard all my life…”

Marty Appel: The most famous person I ever met will make you smile, Maury Allen.

Neil Offen: …She called him “boy” as often as she could. “Cassius, boy, gotta take a picture with you. C’mon, boy, let’s go take a picture.” “OK,” he said now. “Cheese.” …And just as he said it, Ali turned and bent down to the woman and gave her a big, wet, messy kiss right on the lips.

Mitchell Stephens: …Bill Clinton…We pushed a piece of paper out toward him and he, hurriedly, signed. That extraordinary piece of paper became the subject of perhaps our longest running family dispute: Who the heck lost it?

_{What’s the best live show you’ve ever seen?}

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Excerpts:

Marty Appel: …The Beatles, Shea Stadium, 1966.  Yes I was there.  It was 35 minutes long…

Lew Borman: …I had seen them on Ed Sullivan and I heard they were going to play in Indianapolis as part of their tour….

Brooks Dareff: …Best surprise (tie): Grateful Dead, unannounced, at the Oregon Country Fair in Veneta, Ore.; Eric Clapton, unannounced, filling in for the recently departed Duane Allman, Nassau Colisuem….

SDWilliams; …Lol! When I saw the title about "Best Live Show" I thought it was about television shows, since we grew up in the era of live TV. So . . . "The Howdy Doody Show," because my brother got to be in the actual Peanut gallery once. Really! Forget seeing the Stones, the Byrds, Springsteen...he met Howdy Doody!

Jeanette McVicker: …Keith Emerson literally spinning in mid-air….

Silvia Gambardella: …The Jefferson Airplane at the Fillmore East in the ‘70s, the original Chicago also ‘70s….

Frank Van Riper: Murray, a slight little kid, would always play at our assemblies at PS 90 in the Bronx….

Melinda Moulton: ….A Rod Stewart concert in the Boston Garden. We were tripping on acid…..

Arthur Engoron: …From the first notes, which were the opening to Born on the Bayou….

Mitchell Stephens: …dozens of folding chairs were being hurled at the stage, at Morrison….

Neil Offen: …Bruce Springsteen was playing the Bottom Line….

Does age bring wisdom? Do you have an example.

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Marty Appel: Age does not bring wisdom unless you have kept up with everything those 30 and under know. The wisdom is confined to your own bracket of age 30 to present.

Arthur Engoron: Yes. I think more deeply. I consider more alternatives. I simplify what can be. I have more self-control. I ask myself, "What's the worst that can happen." If it's bad, I don't do it.

Mitch Stephens: Well, I’m less likely to sweat the little things — like whether I said something dumb at the restaurant last night. And that’s not just because I forget many of the little things, including what I said last night. But reconciling myself with the big things – infirmity and death, in particular – may require some more aging.

Neil Offen: If age really brought wisdom I wouldn’t have ignored the crushing pain in my chest that screamed heart attack….