Peter Sagal is the last person you would expect to be an expert
on being bad. According to Will Doig, Sagal, host of the NPR news-quiz Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me, sounds like “a precise, well-informed newspaper reader
with an enviable vocabulary who doesn't do much of anything wrong.” Nonetheless
Sagal has written a book called The Book of
Vice: Very Naughty Things and How to Do Them. Will Doig spoke to
him about traveling to the dark side.
If you listen to Wait, Wait, reading
this piece will be particularly fun because you can imagine exactly how Sagal
sounds when he says things like “I had this, if you will, body of knowledge about the porn industry
that I found interesting, and it left me, if you will, wanting more.”
After the jump more details on Sagal’s involvement in the making of Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights and how Harvey Weinstein figures in the story.
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