Last night’s SNL Wes Anderson spoof [previous post] reminded me that it’s been almost exactly 20 years since I tapped out the very first Wes Anderson-and-Owen Wilson interview, which came out of a phoner that happened a while before this 11.7 L.A. Times Calendar piece was seen. The wheels of newspaper journalism turned fairly slowly back then. It could take as long as two or three weeks for a 750-word article to happen — initial pitch, library research, interviewing, writing the piece, editing, an occasional re-write and re-edit and finally the physical publishing. And then you’d buy a few copies and cut out the article with scissors, and then make copies at Kinkos. The process is a teeny bit faster these days.
And speaking of 20 years ago…
