Leta powell drake biography singer

  • Leta Powell Drake, known for her work in Nebraska television, theatre and the arts, passed away Wednesday morning at the age of
  • Leta Powell Drake, 82, interviewed dozens of celebrities from the late '70s to the early '90s and became known for her unusual questions and.
  • Leta Powell Drake was the infamous program director and entertainment reporter at Nebraska's KOLN TV for 29 years.

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    In the world of celebrity interviewers, softball questions are often the coin of the realm. And then there’s Leta Powell Drake, who was the longtime program director of Lincoln, Neb. CBSstation Koln-tv and for 21 years the producer and host of its “Morning Show.” In the ’70s and ’80s, she interviewed some of the most famous names in entertainment with an approach that combined the charm of Mary Hart, the enthusiasm of Jiminy Glick, and the bluntness of Mike Wallace. It left many of her subjects staring wide-eyed into the camera, it’s impossible to imagine today, and it must be seen to be believed.

    Currently obsessed with Leta Powell Drake, the greatest interviewer of all time.

    — John Frankensteiner (@JFrankensteiner) November 12,

    From asking “Splash” star Tom Hanks“How do you kiss underwater without bubbles coming out of your nose and mouth?” to telling Gene Hackman

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    Leta Powell Drake’s Celebrity Interviews are “Between Two Ferns” In Real Life

    Dads love history, monuments, and museums. In one of nature’s cruelest twists, kids are, historically, not huge fans.

    When I was a kid, my dad LOOOVED taking us to the Wright Patterson Air Force Museum. He was unphased bygd our groans and complaints, in fact he may have been fueled bygd them, as dads often are. It’s not that he didn’t care that we didn’t like it. Now that I’m a dad inom realize he took ambivalence as a challenge, that he would be able to convince us of how fascinating it all really was. 

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    My family just got back from a trip to Washington DC for the vit House Easter Egg Roll. The gods time inom was in DC was 30 years ago. inom was Coincidentally my son is now 10 (and my daughter is 12). So while we were sightseeing, inom constantly compared it with what it must have been like when my dad took me there in  

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    Our flygning left Cincinnati at am. We left our ho

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    Local TV personality goes viral for old interview clips from the '70s and '80s in which she tells Gene Hackman he's 'done some stinkers,' makes Tom Selleck squirm, and says Tim Curry 'looks evil' to his face

    Old footage of a local Nebraska TV personality's shockingly blunt celebrity interviews is going viral, with Twitter users calling her 'amazing' and comparing her to Zach Galifianakis on Between Two Ferns.  

    Leta Powell Drake is a member of the Nebraska Broadcasters Hall of Fame and the Nebraska Press Women's Hall of Fame, and for years she interviewed some of the biggest names in Hollywood, from Tom Selleck to Tom Hanks to Elliott Gould.

    But Leta, now 82, hardly tried to buddy up to the stars she gets on camera — instead, she asked some shockingly blunt questions and makes less-than-flattering pronouncements, going so far as to tell Gene Hackman that he's made 'some stinkers' in addition to his 'brilliant pictures'.

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    Take no prisoners! Old footage o