Anomaly gets celebrities to play Ping Pong

The celebrity interview magazine is a time-honored if often shallow institution. The time is right to spice it up a bit. That’s what James Cooper, a creative at Another Anomaly (the spin-off of regular Anomaly), hopes to do with Celebrity PingPong. The magazine, created by Cooper and a class he taught at Miami Ad School, features interviews with artists, actors and writers while they show off their paddle skills. The idea came to Cooper, a self-described "Ping Pong nerd," as a way of getting interviewees to relax and open up.