Here’s a little late Friday fun for y’all. Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen has posted a fascinating interview with William Shatner, one of the only luminaries around where it’s not at an insult to play a clip of his work and ask if he was serious or not. The two of them have a great discussion about Shatner’s journey to finally being able to fully embrace his Star Trek legacy along with a fun tangent about the Esperanto-only movie Incubus. There’s also a clip from his new album of his spoken-word interpretation of David Bowie’s “Major Tom.”

If there’s one thing that Muammar Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi is known for (that isn’t being a ruthless dictator who’s suppressed his people for decades), it’s his totally kicking styles! And, while The Daily Show and every other comedy program that tackles current events has been getting tons of mileage out of his many interesting looks lately, an unused NBC pilot handled it in a unique way back in 1986. The video, now available online, shows Today’s Nancy Foreman using clips of Gaddafi to do a hilarious little fashion show in one of the best pieces of classic Gaddafi humor since the National Lampoon tried to spell his name right.

I was ecstatic last night when I read that Presidents Bush and Clinton would be participating in a panel this spring. As I read more about it, I grew surprised and a bit skeptical. As a regular columnist covering New York City panels, I’ve grown to expect that the speakers will reveal extremely little. So [...]

Hundreds of Regina Spektor fans squeezed inside the book store, as if at a concert: People cheered, held cameras overhead, sang along with Spektor’s songs, and one fan cried out “We love you, Regina” during the panel discussion. It was incredibly disruptive, but also reflective of attendees’ restlessness and boredom while listening to the panel.

Kurt Andersen , who got his start editing at the Harvard Lampoon has since edited and contributed to an impressive list of publications — Time, New York and The New Yorker, to name a few. He has also founded a few titles of his own, Spy and Inside magazines among them. Kurt has written non-fiction and [...]

Public radio host and media maven Kurt Andersen is using a forward-thinking approach to promote his new book Reset: blogging about current issues and headlines in the context of the book’s thesis for Time.com. Call it book excerpting 2.0.

Keith Kelly reported that John Huey, the Editorial Director of Time Inc had “assembled a high-level SWAT team of in-house and external experts to revamp Fortune. “Sound familiar? Its because he’s used the same team to re-design Entertainment Weekly and Money, with little to no impact. What’s going on at Time Inc.?