I was in college for two years, and just hated it in the '60s.

Whomever you're going to interview, you have to be interested in what it is you want to know from them. You have to be interested in the subject.

Well, in features, and in writing especially, it's often the style of the writer comes in.

And you can't really cover people critically that you're friends with.

Well, a lead is the most important thing about the story.

And so popular culture raises issues that are very important, actually, in the country I think. You get issues of the First Amendment rights and issues of drug use, issues of AIDS, and things like that all arise naturally out of pop culture.

Well, news is anything that's interesting, that relates to what's happening in the world, what's happening in areas of the culture that would be of interest to your audience.