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AMI's Mustache Interviews
The American Mustache Institute's award winning collection of in-depth celebrity and quasi-celebrity interviews
If you are a longtime reader of Sports Illustrated, you know Jack McCallum. He joined the magazine’s staff in 1981, primarily writing about basketball, but over the years has reported on a variety of sports-related topics ranging from baseball chatter to electronic football. McCallum is also the author of Seven Sconds or Less: My Season [...]
As much as it might pain us to admit it, the most notable physical trait about this month’s interviewee might not be his mustache, although both impressive and fear-inducing in its own right. Instead, it might be his distinctive running gait, which earned him the nickname “The Penguin” from his former manager, Hall-of-Famer Tommy Lasorda. [...]
To get an accurate read on the fate of civilization and prepare for the coming apocalypse, who else would we turn to than a writer for “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart?” Rob Kutner, who is such a writer, is more importantly the author of “Apocalypse How, Turn the End Times into the Best of [...]
Dan Steinberg of the Washington Post who is best known for his DCSportsBOG blog is a friend to the mustached American. Sure, he doesn’t always sport one, but he writes about them with great frequency. He just got back from the Olympics and we had a lot to discuss. So without a further string of [...]
It’s always nice to talk to someone who’s walked with the Gods of his profession, but yet, still clearly has a sense that what’s he’s accomplished isn’t that important in the overall scope of things. And when that person has a rich, luxurious mustache and a clear commitment to the mustached American race – well [...]
If you are not a fan of Louisville-based band My Morning Jacket, you probably should be. If not because MMJ has an eclectic, diverse sound – then maybe it’s simply because lead singer Jim James, a freshly minted Mustached American after struggling with beard weevils for years, is clearly AMI’s type of guy. James [...]
There’s a solid young actor on the scene today. No, not ALF, a.k.a. Gordon Shumway, as he peaked in the 1980s before his self-titled show was shamefully cancelled. No, this actor is a 31-year-old from Queens, New York, named Hemky Madera. Hemky, who’s name means, “extra large loins made from hemp,” began his acting career [...]
Justin Fox, a clean shaven mutant but friend to the mustached American, is a business and economics columnist for TIME magazine. Before joining the magazine in January 2007, he spent more than a decade writing and editing for Fortune magazine, where he was the chief economics writer, but also covered topics ranging from international business [...]
Ron Jeremy has been a larger than life figure ever since he appeared in Playgirl in October 1978. “The Hedgehog” is a pop icon, he’s very smart and awfully funny, and while he’s better known for the fact that he’s performed in nearly 2,000 adult films, he is simply the product of an upper-middle class [...]
Because we are the bravest organization in the history of mankind, the American Mustache Institute has a close familiarity with some of the top reporters and editors in the news media. Of course, it also may have something to do with the fact that some of our administrators have been arrested for harassment after sending [...]
Music fans are no doubt familiar with Dave Navarro, formerly of Jane’s Addiction and The Red Hot Chili Peppers. And in Feburary 2008, one of Navarro’s press agents — Jason DeMata — set up an interview. The moment arrived and Dave was on the line. We were excited and asked him the first question (below). [...]
Most people either love or hate Norman Chad. Publishers Weekly said, “Chad is a hilariously funny TV sports critic whose philosophy is that if something is worth doing, it’s worth doing to excess.” A knucklehead named Drew, on the Pardon The Interruption Blog Spot wrote this about Chad, “I have to admit that I haven’t [...]
You know Harry Shearer. You may not know you know Harry, but you know him. An actor, author, director, satirist, musician, radio host, playwright, multi-media artist and record label owner – his talents are in the heads of millions worldwide thanks to his voice work for The Simpsons where he plays characters Mr. Burns, Smithers, [...]
One of the most beloved entertainers and pop icons from the Disco era, multi-platinum recording artist and American Music Award winner Randy Jones is best known as the cowboy in Village People. Renowned entertainment writer Liz Smith’s choice of all the Village People to achieve individual fame, lately Jones’ profile has been elevated due his [...]
While USA Today’s Craig Wilson no longer wears a mustache, he has certainly demonstrated that he is a friend of the mustached American. And for that matter – the mustache humanoid. Wilson is a popular feature writer and columnist, perhaps best known for his “The Final Word” column which he’s written at USA Today for [...]
If you’ve watched national television over the past 35 years, more than likely, you are familiar with Pat O’Brien. O’Brien has hosted The Olympic Games, Superbowls, NBA championship series’ and the World Series – and that’s just his sports resume. You also might remember him from his hosting days on “Access Hollywood” and O’Brien now [...]
Never one to shy away from a special, if not odd, honor for his personal style, Alexander Antebi accepted an exclusive invitation be one of fifty members of Beard Team USA to compete in the 2007 World Beard and Mustache Championships in Brighton, England September 1, 2007. Representing the U.S. in the “Imperial Mustache” (the [...]