Fashionedits.com turned the tables and got up close and personal with this journalistic expert of celebrity style, fashion, music, and gossip, ending with a `Rapid Fire’ session – Listen in:

WALTER GREENE: You’ve been chronicling Pop Culture for over 20 years. Was this book your ultimate dream?

GEORGE WAYNE: Tis true, GW has been the astute arbiter of our popular culture for decades and counting. And of course, it is any writers dreams to have a book published.

WG: Why did it take so long?

GW: As with any grand project there are moments when you feel the world is against you and I would never get this book published. The process seemed like an eternity mostly because I had to deal with bulldog lawyers from not only Conde Nast but also from the publisher Harper Collins. I had to get permission from each and every person in this book, and that took forever! But as the adage goes: `we serve no wine before it’s time.’ And, honey bunny, GW has served up the best vintage with this well received and much-acclaimed book! So, if you have not already – time is now to get on Amazon.com and order this book.

WG: Were these your favorite interviews?

GW: I was happy to have many of my favorite interviews included in this book. Some of the classic GW Hall of Fame Classic Moments with the likes of Carrie Fisher and Joan Rivers and Kate Moss and Donatella Versace are some of my favorites that made it into this compendium. Of course, there were some celebrities who ran the other way when I approached to have them in the book. Mark Wahlberg (I will never forgive him) for not wanting to be in this book. And 50 Cent and Arianna Huffington and Jon Bon Jovi also demurred being part of this legacy. But, I know why they said no. Those stories will be told, at some other point in time.

WG: Your introductions were a combination of information, hilarious situations, smart and poignant.

GW: The introductions are incredibly poignant and special, and, another reason why the book took so long to write because I had to go scour all of my archives and find all my notes and diaries from over 30 years to make sure I had all the facts and dates correct. That was the greatest thrill. Because ever since I moved to Manhattan on a one-way ticket from Atlanta, Georgia after college at the University of Georgia, I have made sure to jot and document everything! All those noted and archival data were so very integral to the completion of this book. I write down everything. My tiny apartment in the West Village is nothing but a bed and filing cabinets everywhere containing all my valued archives. Magazines, filing cabinets filled with notebooks and photographs and a bed and a desk. This is my humble hovel! “Lilliput!” Hahahaaaa.

WG: What is your favorite story in the book?

GW: SO many great anecdotes in the book, but, lately I’ve been feeling wistful and nostalgic, and, being also incredibly grateful that I have that amazing interview and moment with Donatella Versace in this book. I have been watching that FY show; `The Assassination of Gianni Versace and it’s been so hard to watch – so hard. It has brought back a flood of memories of my time being lucky enough to spend the most unforgettable lunches and dinner parties at Casa Casuarina on Ocean Drive at that Versace Villa. Gianni was the most generous, most amazing man. You know this fashion business is full of the most ghastly, asshole people who are so full of themselves. Gianni Versace was nothing like that. Such an incredible man and Gianni was the biggest gossip! He loved regaling an audience over lunch with the funniest gossip about Princess Diana and Anna Wintour and Karl Lagerfeld…he was just amazing. I have been shedding a lot of tears of late. I hate to admit that I have been watching this FX TV show on his murder, but I have. It’s like rubbernecking a bad car accident – You hate to look, but at the same time you just can’t look away.

WG: OK- let’s talk about some lighter stuff – It’s time for our `Rapid Fire’ line of questions – Favorite New York Fashion Week hangout?

GW: My favorite New York Fashion Week hangout is unquestionable, the iconic Pier 59 Studios, where I am privileged to be able to call my office. It’s where GW spends his days writing and taking in all the fashion whirl popping around him. Today, for instance, I’m checking out the supermodel Karlie Kloss as she swans out of the vast Studio C on set while shooting the next fashion campaign for Swarovski. And, is that the fashion designer Jason Wu swing by on his way to his own studio shoot? Yes, it most certainly is my home away from home.

WG: What’s your guilty pleasure?

GW: My favorite guilty pleasure is the oxtail and rice & peas from one of my favorite restaurants – Negril Village. That, and the fact that I love champagne way too much!

WG: What trait do you least like about yourself…and what do you like most about yourself?

GW: What I least like about myself is that some days I do not want to leave my bed. I love to sleep. I love my beauty rest. I hate being out of bed.

WG: Which celebrity who has been deceased would you have liked to interview, and what would you ask him or her?

GW: One dead celebrity I wish I had interviewed was designer Coco Chanel, and, I would love to have asked her about her love affair with the gorgeous Nazi she supposedly not only had an affair with but also spied for. Were you a Nazi sympathizer Coco Chanel? That would have certainly been one of my first questions to her.

WG: Which Television host/hostess do you most admire? What do you think of Meghan McCain on The View?

GW: I love Wendy Williams. She’s done very well for herself. GW is not a fan of any of the Meghan’s – Mc Cain or Kelly.

WG: Who is your favorite fashion model and why?

GW: My favorite model is unquestionably the latest fashion superstar Kaia Gerber! I am so happy and so proud of my friends Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber and this beautiful girl they have gifted the world who will undoubtedly be the post-millennial supermodel for years to come.

WG: You have fun doing your interviews. Has this always been a conscious effort?

GW: I love my job. Of course, I love doing interviews. I would like to think that George Wayne is the modern master of celebrity Q&A. I have remastered, reinvented and refined the art form of the celebrity Q&A. I have no equal.

WG: What’s next for GW?

GW: What’s next on the agenda you ask? Well – I have just been approached by a legendary Television production house in Los Angeles, who want to create a documentary TV show revolving around GW. So far, that initial contractual conversation and such has begun. I am also well into working on my first novel and my third book which will be my roman-a-clef FRICTION. I have not sold that to a publishing house yet but I hope to have great news on that front by spring.