Behold the raw, celebrity-bewildering power of Nebraska TV legend Leta Powell Drake

There are few aspects of the entertainment industry more on-the-surface demoralizing than the celebrity junket, an industrial assembly line of day-long interviews in which famous people are asked to be professionally charming for 8 straight hours, while journalists in desperate need of a good quote dare them to say something interesting for a change. Even for the greatest interviewers, and the gamest stars, the whole process tends to be exhausting bordering on spiritually destructive. But for those in need of little emotional refreshment—whether you’re trapped in your own personal junket hell, or just life in general—we’d like to direct you to the work of Nebraska entertainment journalist and new personal hero Leta Powell Drake, a woman who never met a famous person she wouldn’t ask, “Hey, why are your eyes so weird?”