Articles published in Rolling Stone

 

18. Prince Talks (2)

Cover story, article + interview; He does it again five years later after first interview
Oct 18, 1990, n589, p56(6)

17. Dice, Drinks and a Degree

University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Oct 4, 1990, p144(4)
optioned by Bender-Brown Productions, Quentin Tarantino's television company

16. You Got to Blurb Somebody

Bob Dylan's rabbi Manis Friedman, who turned Dylan back into a Jew from an Evangelical Christian, elicits the only book blurb Dylan has ever given (for a book on morals and marriage)
Oct. 1990

15. Emily Lloyd's Star is Rising in America, but ... is America Ready for a Star like Emily Lloyd?

England's ingenue who became a star staying "Up yer' bum!" in "Wish You Were Here," on location filming "In Country" with Bruce Willis, who proves himself quite an ass
Oct 5, 1989, n562 p94(4)

14. Rock & roll summer: a coast-to-coast guide to hot fun in the summertime

Includes related interviews with rock and roll personalities; directory
July 13, 1989, p14(18)
David Jones, David Koen, Chris Mundy, Jim Ohlschmidt, David Wild, Steve Matteo, Sheila Rogers, Jeffrey Ressner, Mike Betzold, John Morthland, Janie Matthews, Parke Puterbaugh, Deborah Mitchell, John Colapinto, Bill Cosford, Leslie Goldberg, Jeff Hannusch, Clodagh O'Connell, Brant Mewborn and Neal Karlen

13. Louder Than Words

(strike at Gallaudet University, only liberal arts college for deaf students in the country, home of "Deaf President Now!" movement, the most successful student-led campus insurrection in history. (Rolling Stone Neal Karlen. Rolling Stone, March 23,1989, p133(5)

12. Slugging it out

Baseball movie "Eight Men Out, " written and directed by John Sayles; A history of hideous baseball movies, pegged to the opening of Sayles's most excellent film of the 1919 Black Sox scandal where he plays Ring Lardner
films_Criticism, interpretation, etc.
June 16, 1988, p75(3)

11. Do you wanna trance

Tom DeLuca;the country's leading hypnotist
March 24, 1988, p124(5)

This course is a joke: Ohio University's stand-up professor teaches comedy for credit. (Mel Helitzer) Neal Karlen. Rolling Stone, Sept 24, 1987 p106(4). Adlai Stevenson's speechwriter (when rumors that Stevenson was gay were being spread by Eisenower, Helitzer came up with the line, "if he stops lying about me, I'll stop telling the truth about him," now a tenured professor at Ohio University, teaches a comedy class where the final is a show where students perform there own acts. (Example: "There's a new movie out about Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker. It's called "Children of an Even Lesser God.")

10. "Bad Nose Bees"

San Jose Bees minor league baseball team; Baseball's last outlaw team, with the blackballed Steve Howe, Mike Norris, Derrell "The Junkyard Dog" Thomas, Ken Reitz, Darryl Sconiers, and Harry Steve.
July 17, 1986 p95(5)
Neal Karlen. Rolling Stone,
Also reprinted in Scribners "The Armchair Book of Baseball 2," an anthology of baseball writing from 1880-1986, and "The Complete Armchair Book of Baseball," 1994

9. Cher

cover story, for her starring role in "Mask"
Rolling Stone 1986

8. Stand-up guy

Comedian Jay Leno;Before Letterman, before The Tonight Show, just a comedian
July 3, 1986 p43(3).

7. Prince Talks: The Silence is Broken

Cover story; The purple guy breaks his long silence
Sept 12, 1985 p24(8).

6. Prince's Women: Wendy and Lisa

Cover story
1985

5. Jamie Lee Curtis gets serious

Cover story on the star of the new film "Perfect," about a Rolling Stone reporter (John Travolta who sells out his main source to make his boss happy
July 18, 1985 p34(5)

4. School for Scandal

Brown University Prostitute Scandal
1984

3. Paulina: Hot and Smart

Paulina Porizikova
1984

2. Satin Dolls

First African-American headlining act in Ringling Bros. Barnum and Baily Circus 1984

1. Edheads come together at Edstock for love of a horse, of course.

Fan club for Mr. Ed, the talking horse
Sept. 13, 1984 p76(1)