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"FacebookPinterest\n\nBeing the host of a podcast is a lot like being the hostess of a restaurant. You have to be charming, you need to show up on time, and you should make sure the laminated list of drink specials and appetizers is prominently placed when you see people to their table. Oh, and you can't steal mozzarella sticks from guests. I learned this rule the hard way!\n\nHere are six other things I've learned in the time I've spent as the host of my weekly podcast, How Was Your Week? With Julie Klausner. Oh\u2014and by the way, I'm Julie Klausner. Just right this way\u2014I'll show you to your table.\n\n1. Always Accept An Invitation To Sally Kellerman's House\n\nHere's what happens when you go over to Sally Kellerman's house, as I did, to interview her for Episode 11. The golden-throated star of \"MAS*H\" and Back to School will greet you at the door of her beautiful home in the Hollywood Hills, barefoot and holding a freshly cut bunch of roses in one hand, a set of garden clippers in the other. There will be a feather in her hair and she'll be wearing jeans and purple eye shadow. She will look like one million dollars. Then, she'll offer you a glass of water and be otherwise totally gracious and kind while she walks you past the sitting room with the floral couch and coffee table in it, and into the glass-enclosed seating area that overlooks her lovely garden. She will then lavish you with anecdotes about Robert Altman and Rodney Dangerfield and otherwise fascinate you, before giving you a tour of her recording studio, in which she fooled around with vocal tracks for her new jazz album, Sally, before recording it professionally. You will leave feeling like you are walking on air, or at least high on the kind of drugs only the good filmmakers had access to in the 1970s.\n\n2. Neko Case Has a Crush on Michael Palin\n\nWhen I first met rock star Neko Case, to interview her for Episode 8, I knew she was a fellow redhead and animal lover. I knew she'd gone to art school and toured with the New Pornographers and had some theories about how unfair it is that male musicians get groupies throwing themselves at them after every show, whereas lady songstresses are merely barraged with autograph hounds who don't know how to pronounce your name and will call you a See You Next Tuesday if you won't sign a CD you know is going to end up on eBay anyway. What I did not know was how the flame of her loins and the strings of her heart-place burned and plucked, respectively, for the sweet company of one Michael Palin, of Monty Python fame. Apparently it was his stuttering performance as Kuh-Kuh-Kuh-Ken in A Fish Called Wanda that did it for her. May she one day get to meet him and cuh-cuh-cuh-consummate her unrequited love for Mr. Palin, or at least duet with him on a kick-ass cover of \"The Lumberjack Song.\"\n\n3. Patton Oswalt is Trying to Write More About the Things He Loves\n\nAny blogger can tell you how easy it is to be funny when you're tearing apart something you hate. But comedian Patton Oswalt told me on Episode 6, that he made a conscious decision to focus on writing about things that made him happy, during a time in his life when he was doing a lot of \"sitting in coffee shops and snorking down soy lattes and just commenting.\" In a pretty inspirational differentiation between the \"creative versus critical\" dilemma that a lot of writers deal with, Oswalt said, \"There's a part of me that always reminds myself: 'Be the guy that creates the things that get referenced rather than the guy that makes the references.' \" He added, \"\"What I'm trying more and more to do is write about things I love rather than 'The Seventeen Dumbest Blah.'\" In a Search Engine Optimized world fueled by haters with a wireless connection, that is no small feat.\n\n4. Jack\u00E9e Has All The Hottest Gossip\n\nThe first thing I noticed about Jack\u00E9e, when I interviewed her for Episode 12, was that her skin and breasts are sort of too beautiful to really deal with. My eyes pretty much rejected how good she looked in person. Pretty shortly after that, Jack\u00E9e admitted to having bought a coconut cake at the bakery near our location before noon (\"scaaaandalous,\" she acknowledged), and warning me that she may have to shop at the Vivienne Westwood boutique after our interview, because it was located across the street (\"that's not faaaair\"). Soon after that, I got the scoop on Arnold Schwarzenegger's infidelity\u2014he and Maria Shriver had only separated a day before she and I met\u2014before anyone else knew about his love child. So, if you want to know what's going to be on the cover of US Magazine in two weeks, meet Jack\u00E9e on Melrose, near the good shops, and keep her talking.\n\n5. According to Joan Rivers, Elizabeth Taylor \"Didn't Like Women Too Much.\"\n\n\"Hello, hello, Hello\u2014skip, skip, skip\u2014hello, hello \" was Joan Rivers's impersonation of Elizabeth Taylor at a dinner party with three women and five men in attendance. Was Liz competitive with other women? You bet, according to Rivers, who sat down with me in her Upper East Side apartment for Episode 5. \"[Taylor] ignored you. She loved men, men loved her. One of those 'Men's women.' She couldn't be bothered with women.\" This was during the '70s and '80s, when Rivers's regular dinner party clique included Roddy McDowall, Vincent Price, and even Sir Laurence Olivier, whom she idolized when she was growing up as an aspiring actress. Rivers's late husband, Edgar Rosenberg, was her British liaison into the world of across-the-pond celebs, so Rivers would hobnob with limeys on a regular basis. But that's not to say she ever held back in talking shit about British legends. What did Joan have to say about her one-time TV sidekick, Peter Cook? \"A son of bitch, dead of alive.\"\n\n6. If Ira Glass Weren't The Host of This American Life, He'd be a Professional Poker Player\n\nThe world of podcasting is inherently incestuous. Behold; WTF host Marc Maron on Tom Scharpling's Best Show, why Ira fears leftovers, how the two first met (she wrote him a letter; he thought she was Audrey Hepburn), and, finally, what Ira would do for a living if he could no longer host his show. Apparently, he'd be a Vegas card shark! Is that correct slang for \"professional poker player?\" Forgive me\u2014I'm better-versed in NPR terminology."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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