September 04, 2007
TALKING WITH THE PENGUIN
Hard to believe, but I've already clocked 11 Table Conversations podcasts in my brief stint online. I've bantered about Good Swift Kick In The Nuts candy bars with Janeane Garofalo, pushed the limits of personal space invasion with Paula Deen and talked about FHM photo spreads with Cat Cora.
The podcasts are a lot of fun to do, probably because I know that almost no one is listening. There isn't as much pressure to make them perfect, so I can ask whatever I want and raise the ass quotient to it's highest possible level. Plus, audio services director Lisa Reuter compensates for my many deficiencies. What that woman can do with audio editing software is nothing short of miraculous.
The latest victim guest: actor, director and producer Danny DeVito, who just opened an Italian steakhouse called DeVito South Beach in Miami Beach.
During our chat, DeVito talked about the food he grew up with in Asbury Park, N.J., about how his wife Rhea Pearlman converted him to carnivore from vegetarian and about how he came to be in the restaurant business.
Oh, and he talks with real awe and lust-filled reverence for the chance he had to rub up against Michelle Pfeiffer's vinyl-covered bod when he played the Penguin to her Catwoman in "Batman Returns."
You can find the entire roster of podcasts either at the Feedburner archive or by subscribing to it at iTunes.