About Harvey's guest:

Today’s special guest, James Naughton, is a highly acclaimed and beloved actor who’s conquered every medium in the world of entertainment.  On the stage, he’s won 2 Tony Awards for his performances on Broadway in “Chicago” and “City of Angels”, for which he also received a Drama Desk Award. And he’s appeared in 5 other Broadway shows including “I Love My Wife”, “Whose Life is it Anyway” and “Democracy”. He also directed 2 plays on Broadway: “The Price” and “Our Town”. And for his performance in “Long Day’s Journey into Night”, he won a Drama Desk Award and a Theatre World Award.

On the big screen, he’s been in many great movies including “The Paper Chase”, “Cat's Eye”, “The Glass Menagerie”, “The Good Mother”, “The First Wives Club”, “The Devil Wears Prada”, “Factory Girl”, “Childless”, “The Word”, and many more. And he’s won numerous prestigious film festival awards for his work in some highly acclaimed short films including “Not the Same Clarence”, “Sit with me While I Die”, and “Silver Sizzle”. 

On television, he starred in “Planet of the Apes”, “Trauma Center”, “Raising Miranda” and “The Cosby Mysteries”, and he’s had recurring roles in “Who’s the Boss”, “Ally McBeal”, “Gossip Girl”, “Hostages” and “The Accidental Wolf”. He’s also guest starred in many classic TV shows including “Mannix”, “Barnaby Jones”, “Designing Women”, “Law & Order”, “Damages”, “Blue Bloods”, “The Affair” and many more. He’s also appeared in some excellent TV movies and miniseries including “Look Homeward, Angel”, “F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Last of the Belles”, “The Bunker”, “Between the Darkness and the Dawn”, “The Romanoffs” and “Command Z”, to name only a few. And believe it or not, I’ve only just scratched the surface when it comes to this man’s monumental career. 

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s special guest, William Sadler, is a multi-award-winning actor who’s delivered dozens of memorable performances in a career spanning 5 decades. 

On Broadway, he originated the role of “Sgt. Merwin J. Toomey” in Neil Simon's Tony Award winning play "Biloxi Blues", for which he was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play.  

On the big screen, he’s perhaps best remembered for his stellar performances in “Die Hard 2”, “Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey”, “Rush”, “The Shawshank Redemption”, “The Green Mile”, “Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight”, “Kinsey”, “Purple Heart”, “August Rush”, “Iron Man 3”, “A Stage of Twilight”, “The Historian”, and the highly acclaimed short film, “Shoot me Nicely”, which won a whole slew of prestigious film festival awards. 

On television, he was “Lieutenant Charlie Fontana” in “Private Eye”, he was “Sheriff Jim Valenti” in “Rosswell”, he was “Darrin Tyler” in “Wonderfalls”, he was “Tony Teresi” in “Power”, he played “Gino Fish” in 6 “Jessie Stone” movies, and of course, every Trekkie knows that our guest was “Director Luther Sloan” in “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine”. He’s also guest starred in dozens of classic TV series including “Newhart”, “In the Heat of the Night”, “St. Elsewhere”, “Roseanne”, “Murphy Brown”, “Law and Order”, “Damages”, “Homeland”, “The Good Fight” and many more.  

And he’s appeared in some great TV movies and miniseries including “The Other Side of Victory”, “Charlie and the Great Balloon Chase”, “Bermuda Grace”, “Witness Protection”, “The Path to 9/11”, “The Pacific”, “When They See Us”, “The Comey Rule” and “Full Circle”, to name only a few. 

And our guest is also a gifted singer-songwriter. His album, “The Kitchen Tapes”, is a wonderful collection of original songs, and all profits from sales of the album go to the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. And he also wrote and recorded an emotionally powerful song called “Thoughts & Prayers”, and the proceeds from that song go to an organization called Sandy Hook Promise, whose mission is to prevent gun violence in schools, homes, and communities. 

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s special guest, Barbara Moresco, may not be famous, but she’s lived a life that could easily be the subject of a Hollywood movie, which makes a lot of sense, because she’s the wife of Academy Award winning filmmaker Bobby Moresco, who appeared on our show a few years ago. He’s best known for the blockbuster movies “Crash”, “Million Dollar Baby”, “Lamborghini”, and soon to be released, “Maserati: The Brothers”. She’s written a memoir entitled, “From Hell’s Kitchen to the City of Angels: Devils and Angels”, which chronicles her turbulent life growing up in the infamous neighbourhood of Manhattan from 38th Street to 56th Street between 9th and 12th Avenues, known as Hell’s Kitchen, also called the Westside. She grew up during the era of the notorious "Westies" mob, and through her book, we get to know a colourful and dramatic cast of characters from her family, Bobby’s family and a wide circle of friends, acquaintances and neighbourhood personalities who made life a continuous roller coaster. This is an entertaining and sometimes shocking book that takes us from the gritty streets of Manhattan to the Hollywood red carpet.

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s special guest, Regina Taylor, is a multi-award-winning, highly acclaimed actress, director, playwright, educator, and activist whose contributions to the arts and to social justice have been nothing short of monumental. As an actress, she’s brought us dozens of unforgettable performances, especially “Lilly Harper” in the groundbreaking TV series, “I’ll Fly Away”, for which she won a Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Drama Series, as well as receiving 2 Emmy Award nominations, 3 NAACP Image Awards, an American Television Award, and TWO Viewers for Quality Television Awards. 

We also remember her as “Judith Bryant” in “The Education of Max Bickford”, “Molly Blane” in “The Unit”, and she portrayed Anita Hill in the 1999 TV movie, “Strange Justice”, for which she won a Peabody Award and a Gracie Award. She also portrayed Michelle Obama’s mother in the 2022 TV series, “First Lady”. On the big screen, she’s appeared in some great movies including “Lean on Me”, “Losing Isaiah”, “Clockers”, “The Keeper”, “A Family Thing”, “Courage Under Fire”, “The Negotiator”, “A Jenkins Family Christmas” and many more. And on television, besides her iconic performances in the shows I’ve already mentioned, she’s guest starred in dozens of classic series including “Law & Order”, “Grey’s Anatomy”, “The Good Fight”, “The Wonder Years”, “The Red Line” and “CSI: Vegas”, to name only a few.  

And she’s also co-starred in some terrific TV movies and miniseries including “Crisis at Central High”, “I’ll Fly Away: Then and Now”, “Children of the Dust”, “Cora Unashamed”, “Dig”, “Justified: City Primeval” and many more. And our guest has also had a spectacular career in the theatre. She was the first Black woman to play “Juliet” in “Romeo and Juliet” on Broadway. And she’s been in 3 other Broadway shows: “Macbeth”, “As You Like it”, and “Drowning Crow”, which she also wrote. She’s a brilliant and celebrated playwright, known for such renowned plays as “Crowns”, “Ooo-Bla-Dee”, “Magnolia”, “The Trinity River Plays”, “Escape from Paradise”, “Bread”, “A Seat at the Table” and “Between the Lines”, to mention only a few. 

The list of accolades and awards our guest has received for her work in theatre over the years is jaw dropping. She’s been the playwright-in-residence at the Repertory Theatre of St. Lewis, she received the Denzel Washington Endowed Chair in Theatre at Fordham University at Lincoln Center, and she’s an artistic associate at The Goodman Theatre in Chicago.  She’s received 4 Helen Hayes Awards, 3 Edgerton Foundation Awards, the Steinberg Award presented by the American Theatre Critics Association, and the Los Angeles Dramalogue Award.  She’s a recipient of the Hope Abelson Award from Northwestern University and the Spirit of Sinai Award from the Sinai Community Institute, and she’s received honorary doctorate degrees from DePaul University, Columbia College and Lake Forest College, in recognition of her strong commitment to social justice through art.

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s special guest, Michael Nouri, is a renowned actor who’s brought us dozens of memorable performances in a prodigious career spanning almost 6 decades. 

On the big screen, he’s appeared in numerous blockbuster movies including “Flashdance”, “The Imagemaker”, “Finding Forrester”, "The Terminal, “Boynton Beach Club”, "Last Holiday”, “Invincible”, "The Proposal", and of course, the popular cult film, “The Hidden”, which earned him numerous prestigious film festival awards. On television, we remember him as “Tom Conway” in “Somerset”, “Count Dracula” in “The Curse of Dracula”, “Kip Zakaris” in “Love and War”, “Elliot Hampton” in “The Young and the Restless”, “Dr. Neil Roberts” in “The O.C”, “Phil Grey” in “Damages”, “Caleb Cortland” in “All my Children”, “Bob Schwartz” in “Yellowstone”, and believe me, I’m just scratching the surface. 

He’s appeared in dozens of iconic TV series including “Law & Order”, “Touched by an Angel”, "The West Wing", “Star Trek: Enterprise”, "CSI: New York", "Law & Order: Criminal Intent", “NCIS”, “The Slap”, and most recently, he can be seen in the current season of everybody’s favourite new TV show, “The Pitt”. And for his performance as “Steve Kazlo” in “Search for Tomorrow”, he received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Actor in a Daytime Drama Series. He’s also appeared in some great TV movies and miniseries including “The Last Convertible”, “The Gangster Chronicles”, “Quiet Victory: The Charlie Wedemeyer Story”, “Shattered Dreams”, “Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke”, “The Assassination of Gianni Versace” and many more. 

And he’s had an illustrious stage career as well. On Broadway, he appeared in “Forty Carats” opposite Julie Harris, and he co-starred in “Victor / Victoria” alongside Julie Andrews, and he also co-starred in the national touring production of “South Pacific”. His other stage credits include "Can Can" opposite Patti LuPone and "Camille Claudel" with Linda Eder. 

And beyond all of that, our guest has a long record of community service. He’s an ambassador for Seeds of Peace, and the Multiple Sclerosis Society, and the National Summit to Advance Education about Africa, and for many years he’s found time to mentor inner-city youth who want to become actors.

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

For more information on Michael Nouri, go to:

http://www.michaelnouri.com/

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Gary Frank, is a well-known and popular actor who’s been immortalized for his portrayal of “Willie Lawrence” on the groundbreaking TV show, “Family”, for which he won an Emmy Award in 1977 for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. 

He also played “Jeff Reid” on “Sons and Daughters”, and he’s guest starred in dozens of classic TV shows including “Ironside”, “The Streets of San Francisco”, “Charlie’s Angels”, “Fantasy Island”, “Hart to Hart”, “Hill Street Blues”, “Murder She Wrote”, “Matlock”, “L.A. Law”, “Star Trek: Deep Space 9”, and many more. He’s also appeared in some great TV movies including “The Gift”, “Enola Gay”, “Unspeakable Acts”, “People Like Us”, “Deliver Them from Evil”, “Getting Up and Going Home”, Untamed Love”, “Death in Small Doses”, “Prison of Secrets”, and the terrific 1997 miniseries, “House of Frankenstein”. 

And now, he’s written a highly compelling, intensely personal and sometimes heart wrenching memoir entitled, “Up From Down: A Journal”, which chronicles his turbulent journey navigating not only the bitter realities of show business, but most importantly, how he overcame his inner demons and substance abuse stemming from a traumatic childhood, which were threatening to destroy his family relationships and career.

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s special guest, Gary Morris, is a highly acclaimed, beloved and multi-platinum singer / songwriter whose beautiful, instantly recognizable voice has captivated music lovers for 5 decades, and made him an international superstar. 

He’s had 15 Top Ten hits and 5 #1 singles including some of my favourite songs, “Headed for a Heartache”, “The Love She Found in Me”, “The Wind Beneath My Wings”, “Why Lady Why”, “Baby Bye Bye”, “I’ll Never Stop Loving You”, “100% Chance of Rain”, “Leave Me Lonely”, “Lasso the Moon”, and of course, his immensely popular duets with Crystal Gayle, “Makin’ Up for Lost Time” and “Another World”. 

He’s been nominated for 13 Academy of Country Music Awards, and he won Song of the Year in 1984 for “The Wind Beneath My Wings”. He’s also received 7 CMA Award nominations, and in 1987 he was nominated for an American Music Award for Favourite Country Male Video Artist. And beyond the recording studio and concert stage, our guest has demonstrated remarkable versatility by conquering Broadway in the lead role of “Jean Valjean” in “Les Misérables”, in which he also starred in the national tour. 

He also sang the role of “Jean Valjean” on the complete symphonic recording of the show, which won a Grammy Award in 1991 for Best Musical Cast Show Album. He also took the opera world by storm in 1984 when he played “Rodolfo” in 'La Boheme' at the New York Shakespeare Festival alongside Linda Ronstadt. Our guest has also had a distinguished acting career. 

On television, he played the blind country singer “Wayne Masterson” on “The Colbys”, and he’s guest starred in numerous TV shows including “Hee Haw”, “The New Mike Hammer”, “Another World” and “Designing Women”. And he starred in and composed the music for the 1995 feature film, “A Place to Grow”, as well as composing the music for the animated children’s movie, “Nine Dog Christmas”. He's also an avid fly fisher, and he has a nonprofit organization that brings wounded military servicemen and women to his Mountain Spirit Ranch in the mountains of Colorado for healing, meditation and refuge.

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

For more information on Gary Morris, go to:

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https://www.youtube.com/@GaryMorrisTV

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s special guest, Terry Fator, is one of the world’s most gifted and accomplished ventriloquists, as well as an amazing comedian, singer and celebrity impressionist, whose meteoric rise to superstardom is nothing short of phenomenal. 

After winning Season 2 of America’s Got Talent in 2007, he quickly became a Las Vegas sensation, signing one of the biggest Las Vegas contracts of all time, not once but 3 times, headlining his own show at the Mirage for 11 record-breaking years, and winning multiple awards including Las Vegas’s Best Show, Best Impressionist, Best All-Around Performer, Best Family Show and Best Overall Show. 

He’s also had hugely successful residencies at the New York, New York Hotel and the STRAT Hotel in Las Vegas, as well as appearing on dozens of TV shows and starring in his own TV specials. 

In 2008, he released a highly compelling, frank and candid memoir entitled, “Who’s the Dummy Now?”, which chronicles the early struggles that helped form the foundation for his successful career. 

He’s also taken his unique blend of comedy, music, and ventriloquism on tour and performed for sold-out audiences all around the world. And now, he’s embarked on a brand-new North American tour called “Pure Imagination”, which is a dazzling, multi-media, immersive production that celebrates his most iconic characters and introduces some new surprises, complete with the hilarious humor, stunning musicality and big heart that have made him a legendary entertainer for nearly two decades. 

And when he’s not performing, he devotes a great deal of time to the Terry Fator Foundation, which raises and administers funds for charities focusing on supporting military service members, veterans, first responders and their families. 

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For more information on Terry Fator, go to:

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About Harvey's guest:

On today’s show, we’ll be celebrating the life and career of the man who will always be known and remembered as the king of late-night television, Johnny Carson, who hosted the Tonight Show for 30 years, from 1962 to 1992. Now even though our guest was only 16 years old when Johnny Carson went off the air, he can easily be described as Johnny’s biggest fan. He hosted The Carson Podcast for 8 years, which received a Webby Award nomination for Best Comedy Podcast, and he’s interviewed dozens of Johnny’s guests, employees, family and friends. He’s a well-known media personality who’s appeared on many major shows including Good Morning America, the Today Show, MSNBC, and the highly acclaimed CNN docuseries, “The Story of Late Night”. And most recently, he’s written a wonderful book entitled, “Love Johnny Carson: One Obsessive Fan’s Journey to Find the Genius Behind the Legend”. The book sets the record straight about who Johnny Carson really was, according to those who knew him best. And he takes us behind the scenes of the Tonight Show and chronicles the most iconic moments on that groundbreaking show.

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Paul Michael Glaser, is a renowned actor, director, writer, producer, artist and humanitarian who is perhaps best known for his portrayal of “Detective Dave Starsky” on the iconic TV series, “Starsky and Hutch”, for which he won numerous awards including a Photoplay Award, a Bravo Otto Award and a TV Land Award.  

He’s also appeared in many other iconic TV shows including “Love is a many Splendored Thing”, “The Waltons”, “The Rockford Files”, “The Mentalist”, “Grace and Frankie”, “Ray Donovan” and many more. He also starred in wonderful TV movies and miniseries including “Princess Daisy”, “Trapped Beneath the Sea”, “The Great Houdini”, “Jealousy”, “Attack on Fear”, “And Never Let Her Go”, “Ladies Night” and many more. On the big screen, he appeared in great movies like “Fiddler on the Roof”, “Butterflies are Free”, “Something’s Gotta Give”, “Phobia” and “Kazaam”, which he also wrote, produced and directed. He also directed “The Running Man”, “The Cutting Edge” and “The Air Up There”. And he’s directed many episodes of classic TV shows like “Starsky & Hutch”, “The Agency”, “Judging Amy”, “Third Watch”, “Las Vegas”, “Criminal Minds” and “Miami Vice”, for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award and a Director’s Guild of America Award.

On Broadway, he was in “The Man in the Glass Booth” and “Butterflies are Free”, and he’s been in dozens of theatrical productions including “Luther”, “Peter Pan”, “Aladdin”, “Twelve Angry Men”, “The Lady’s Not for Burning”, “Henry IV”, “Richard III” and many more.  Our guest has also written a novel entitled, “Chrystallia and the Source of Light”, which is a beautiful story of courage, forgiveness, self-discovery, and ultimately finding love, light and fulfilment. In recent years he’s also become a highly respected artist. And most importantly, he has spent many decades honoring the memory of his beloved wife Elizabeth, and daughter Ariel, through his monumentally important work with the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, for which he has received a whole slew of prestigious honours and Lifetime Achievement Awards for his extraordinary humanitarianism. 

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s special guest, Jon Secada, is a multi-award-winning singer, songwriter and producer whose soulful, romantic voice and beautifully unique fusion of jazz, Latin, R&B and pop, has made him an international superstar for over 30 years, with well over 20 million records sold worldwide. 

He’s given us dozens of hit songs including “Just Another Day”, “Do You Believe in Us”, “I’m Free”, “Angel”, “Sentir”, “If You Go”, “Too Late Too Soon”, “I’m Never Too Far Away”, and many more. He’s one of the first and most successful bilingual artists to achieve international crossover success. He’s written hit songs and collaborated with superstars like Gloria Estefan, Ricky Martin and Jennifer Lopez, and he’s performed with everyone from Pavarotti and Frank Sinatra to Luther Vandross and Olivia Newton-John. 

And most recently, he’s released a wonderful new album called “Fascination”, which is a bilingual tribute to the legendary Nat King Cole.  And let me tell you, the word “versatile” doesn’t even begin to describe our guest. 

He conquered Broadway not once but twice, playing “Danny Zuko” in “Grease”, and then playing the MC in “Cabaret”, as well as starring in a touring production of “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat”. On television, he was a judge for 4 years on “Latin American Idol”, he’s been a guest judge on several other South American TV music competitions, and he was a celebrity contestant on the very first season of “Mira Quien Baila”, which is the Latin version of “Dancing with the Stars”. 

The list of awards and accolades this man has won is jaw-dropping: 3 Grammy Awards, a whole slew of Billboard Music Awards, ASCAP Awards, BMI Awards, an American Music Award nomination - and believe me, I’m just scratching the surface. And our guest is also a bestselling author, whose 2014 memoir entitled “A New Day” touched me deeply because it chronicles his remarkable journey of resilience, courage, embracing change and reinvention, and unwavering devotion to musical creativity and family. 

He’s also been highly recognized for his extraordinary record of public service, in support of arts education in public schools, the fight against AIDS and Hepatitis-C, and with the Make-a-Wish Foundation and the Miami Children’s Hospital. He served on the President’s Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics, and in 2016 he was named Humanitarian of the Year by the Muhammad Ali Foundation.  

He’s also a highly respected educator, having taught at the University of Miami, and now at Florida International University's Wertheim School of Music & Performing Arts.  And if all of that weren’t enough, I can’t help mentioning that in 1993, Rolling Stone named him the Best Male Vocalist, and Playgirl magazine named him one of the 10 sexiest male rock stars on the planet. 

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Joyce Vincent, is a music star who’s best remembered for being part of the iconic pop music group, Tony Orlando and Dawn, who were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2008. The group brought us 16 top 40 hit songs including “Candida”, “Knock Three Times”, “Sweet Gypsy Rose”, “He Don’t Love You Like I Love You”, and of course, their signature song, “Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree”. For 3 years back in the 70s, our guest co-starred in an immensely popular TV variety show along with Tony Orlando and Telma Hopkins, making them the first multi-racial group to host a national TV show.   

After the group disbanded in 1977, our guest continued her music career, and has been one of the most sought-after backup singers, recording and performing with dozens of legendary stars including Dionne Warwick, Freda Payne and Smokey Robinson. In 1979, she sang with Scherrie Payne and Susaye Greene of The Supremes on their album called “Partners”.   

And in 2009, she recorded an album called “Quiet Moon” with a powerhouse group of vocalists called “Tour de Four Force”. And since 2009, she’s been performing all over the world as part of a group called The Former Ladies of the Supremes with Scherrie Payne and Lynda Laurence.  

In 2018 they released a Christmas album called “A Supreme Christmas”.  And in 2019 they released a single called “Unconditional Love”. In 2020, she collaborated with Gerald Greene, Mary Dysart, and Scherrie Payne on a single called "Hallelujah!” 

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s special guest, Peter Gallagher, is a renowned, multi-award-winning actor who’s given us dozens of unforgettable performances. 

On Broadway, he received a Tony Award nomination for his performance in “Long Day’s Journey Into Night”. He won a Theatre World Award for his performance in “A Doll’s Life”. And his portrayal of “Sky Masterson” in “Guys and Dolls” earned him a Drama Desk Award nomination. He’s been in 9 other Broadway shows including “Grease”, “Hair”, “The Real Thing”, “On the Twentieth Century” and most recently, “Left on Tenth”. 

On the big screen, you’ve seen him in many iconic movies like “Summer Lovers”, “Sex, Lies and Videotape”, “American Beauty”, “The Player”, “Malice”, “While You Were Sleeping’, “Burlesque”, “Submission” and “Short Cuts”, for which he and his fellow cast members won a Golden Globe Award and a Venice Film Festival Award for best ensemble. 

On television, we remember him as “Sandy Cohen” on “The O.C.”, for which he was nominated for a Prism Award and 2 Teen Choice Awards. Some of his other memorable television roles are “Dean Stacey Koons” on “Californication”, “Father Phil” on “Rescue Me”, “Director of Clandestine Services, Arthur Campbell” on “Covert Affairs”, “Deputy Chief Dodds” on “Law & Order: SVU”, “Dr. David Hamilton” on “Grey’s Anatomy”, and “Nick Skolka”, Jane Fonda’s boyfriend and eventual husband on “Grace and Frankie”. He’s guest starred in dozens of classic TV shows including “Family Guy”, “How I Met Your Mother”, “The Good Wife”, “Murphy Brown” and “Togetherness” for which he was nominated for a Critics Choice Award for Best Guest Performer in a comedy series. 

And he’s appeared in many highly acclaimed TV movies and miniseries including “Long Day’s Journey Into Night”, “The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial”, “Titanic”, “Path to Paradise: The Untold Story of the World Trade Center Bombing”, “Brave New World”, “The Gathering”, “Cruel Intentions” and many more. 

In 2005, our guest received the P.T. Barnum Award from his alma mater, Tufts University for his exceptional work in the field of media and entertainment. And 2 years later, he received the "Light on the Hill" award at Tufts University, which is given to distinguished alumni who have demonstrated ambition, achievement, and active citizenship. 

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

For more information on Peter Gallagher, go to:

https://www.instagram.com/petergallagher/

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Burton Gilliam, is a highly popular actor who’s been immortalized for his hilarious performance as “Lyle” the railroad supervisor in the classic Mel Brooks movie, “Blazing Saddles”. We also remember him as “Floyd” the desk clerk in “Paper Moon”. And he played the Colt gun salesman in “Back to the Future Part III”. And he was “Roy Bacon” in “Honeymoon in Vegas”. 

He’s also appeared in many more great movies, and some of my favourites are “Thunderbolt and Lightfoot”, “At Long Last Love”, “Farewell my Lovely”, “Hearts of the West”, “Fletch”, “The Getaway”, “88 Hits”, “Drop Dead Sexy”, “Killing Down” and “Return to Vengeance”. On television, he played “Virgil” on “Evening Shade”, and he’s guest starred in dozens of classic TV series including “Cannon”, “The Waltons”, “Charlie’s Angels”, “Alice”, “How the West was Won”, “Soap”, “The Dukes of Hazzard”, “Knight Rider” and “Mama’s Family”, to name just a few. And he’s appeared in a number of terrific TV movies and miniseries including “Remember When”, “The Night That Panicked America”, “The Ransom of Red Chief”, “Dream West”, “North & South: Book 2”, “The Love Bug” and many more.  Before he became an actor, he was a very well-known boxer, and he served as a firefighter in Dallas for 14 years. But for over 50 years, he’s been entertaining audiences with that big smile and unforgettable personality that makes every role he plays so memorable. 

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s special guest, Steve Dorff, is one of the most popular, prolific and successful songwriters and composers of our time. His music is part of the soundtrack of our lives. 

He’s written over 20 iconic top 10 hits recorded by some of the greatest music artists in the world, including “I Cross my Heart” by George Strait, “Through the Years” by Kenny Rogers, “Take Good Care of my Heart” by Whitney Houston, “Higher Ground” by Barbra Streisand, “Miracle” by Celine Dion, “I Just Fall in Love Again” by Anne Murray, “Something Bigger than Me” by Dolly Parton, “You’ve Been Leaving me for Years” by Willie Nelson – and believe me, I’m just scratching the surface. 

In addition to the stars I’ve just mentioned, his songs have been recorded by even more legends like Anthony Newley, Smokey Robinson, Ray Charles, Ringo Starr, Johnny Mathis, Tom Jones, Cher, Dusty Springfield, Melissa Manchester, Garth Brooks and dozens more. 

He’s composed over 40 movie scores including 5 Clint Eastwood movies – and yes, he wrote the title songs from “Every Which Way but Loose” recorded by Eddie Rabbit and “Any Which Way you Can” recorded by Glen Campbell. Some of his other big movies are “Pure Country”, “Tin Cup”, “Honky Tonk Man” and “Babe Ruth”. And he wrote the score for the 2005 TV miniseries, “Elvis” starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers. 

He’s written theme songs and music for classic TV shows including “Growing Pains”, “Murphy Brown”, “Murder, She Wrote” and “Reba”, to name only a few. He’s also composed the music for musical theatre productions including “Josephine: The Josephine Baker Story”, “Lunch”, “Pure Country” and “Say Goodnight”, which is based on the love story of George Burns and Gracie Allen. 

He’s also released 3 wonderful albums: “You Set My Dreams to Music”, “It’s Personal” and “Pacific Sunrise”. The list of awards and accolades our guest has received is jaw dropping. 42 BMI Awards, 11 Billboard Awards, an American Music Award, 3 Grammy Award nominations, 6 Emmy Award nominations, the 2017 NSAI Songwriter of the Year Award, numerous lifetime achievement awards, and in 2018, he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. 

And if all of that weren’t enough, he also wrote a highly compelling and insightful memoir entitled, “I Wrote That One, Too: A Life in Songwriting, from Willie to Whitney”. This book is a must-read for every music lover. It’s an eye opening, poignant, intensely personal and inspirational journey of perseverance, resilience and the uplifting, healing power of creativity and music.  

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Steve Dorff, go to:

https://www.stevedorff.com/

https://www.facebook.com/stevedorffofficialmusicpage/

https://www.instagram.com/stevedorffofficial/

https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/steve-dorff-songbook/

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s special guest, Montel Williams, is a man I’ve admired and respected immensely, since he first began coming into our living rooms in 1991, with his Emmy-award-winning daytime talk show, which educated, enlightened and inspired us for over 17 years. 

The list of accomplishments this man has achieved is nothing short of monumental. He served 22 years in the United States Marine Corps and the US Navy as a Special Duty Intelligence Officer, and received a whole slew of awards, medals and commendations culminating in 2008 with the Navy Superior Public Service Award for his continuous support and recognition of our servicemen and women and their families. 

He was the first African American man to host a syndicated daytime talk show, the Montel Williams Show. And since the show ended in 2009, his career has blossomed and diversified even further. 

As an actor, he’s appeared in many iconic shows including “Perry Mason: The Case of the Telltale Talk Show Host”, “Matt Waters”, “Touched By an Angel”, “JAG”, “The Sopranos”, “My Name is Earl” and “Guiding Light”, which earned him an NAACP Image Award nomination. He also has 2 shows on the Lifetime channel: “Military Makeover”, which transforms the homes and lives of military families across the country; and he’s a co-host of the popular morning talk show, “The Balancing Act”. 

He’s written 9 bestselling books: “Mountain Get Out of My Way: Life Lessons and Learned Truths”, “Life Lessons and Reflections”, “Practical Parenting”, “A Dozen Ways to Sunday: Stories of Hope and Courage”, “Body Change”, “Climbing Higher”, “Living Well: 21 Days to Transform Your Life, Supercharge Your Health, and Feel Spectacular”, “Living Well Emotionally: Breakthrough to a Life of Happiness”, and most recently, “The Sailing of the Intrepid: The Incredible Wartime Voyage of the Navy’s Iconic Aircraft Carrier”. 

Since being diagnosed with MS in 1999, our guest has been a passionate advocate for patients worldwide. He works diligently in support of research and education for MS and traumatic brain injury. He’s an outspoken supporter of “Partnership for Prescription Assistance”, which helps low-income patients get free or low-price prescription drugs. 

He’s a leading advocate for medical cannabis law reform in America, and he hosts a popular podcast called “Let’s Be Blunt with Montel”, which provides education and information on the cannabis industry. He also has another podcast called “Free Thinking with Montel”, which covers a wide range of topics from wellness to veterans’ issues. His commitment to social justice is exemplary. 

He’s executive produced compelling documentaries about pressing social issues like antisemitism, racial profiling, mental health, and the Armenian genocide and persecution of Christians in the middle east. His record of public service is both voluminous and transformative. Over the years he’s been actively involved in charities promoting diversity, the welfare of children, animal rights and the well-being of our military and veterans. He’s worked with the Fisher House Foundation, the Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases, the Research and Recognition Project, and Athletes 4 Care.

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Montel Williams, go to:

http://www.montelmedia.com/

https://www.facebook.com/MontelWilliamsFan

https://www.instagram.com/montel_williams/?hl=en

https://x.com/Montel_Williams

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Judy Norton, is one of the most popular and versatile entertainers of our generation. She’s an actress, singer, writer, director and producer who’s been immortalized for her portrayal of “Mary Ellen Walton” for 9 seasons on the classic, multi-award-winning TV series, “The Waltons”, as well as in the TV movies “The Homecoming: A Christmas Story”, “A Decade of The Waltons”, “A Wedding on Walton’s Mountain”, “Mother’s Day on Walton’s Mountain”, “A Day for Thanks on Walton’s Mountain”, “A Walton Thanksgiving Reunion”, “A Walton Wedding” and “A Walton Easter”. 

But beyond that iconic franchise, our guest has had a long and diversified career. On the big screen, she’s appeared in many movies including “Hansel & Gretel: Warriors of Witchcraft”, “Blood is Thicker”, “Broken: A Musical”, “Out of the Fight”, “Motorvation”, and the critically acclaimed movies, “Finding Harmony”, “Another Day in Paradise” and “Nowhere to Hide”, which she also wrote. 

She’s guest-starred in numerous TV shows like “Felony Squad”, “Millenium”, “Stargate SG-1”, “Cold Squad”, “Higher Ground”, “Ed”, “Beggars and Choosers”, “Bluff”, and many more. She’s also appeared in some great TV movies including “Valentine”, “The Inspectors” and “Off Season”. Our guest also has a distinguished career in theatre, having starred in dozens of critically acclaimed productions including “HELLO DOLLY”, “BLOOD BROTHERS”, “LOVE LETTERS”, “THE SOUND OF MUSIC”, “ANNIE GET YOUR GUN”, and “MOVE OVER MRS. MARKHAM”, as well as writing and directing many shows as artistic director for numerous prestigious theatre companies in North America. In 2009, she directed the highly successful Los Angeles revival of “CABARET”, which was included on Broadway World’s list of favorite shows of the year.

In 2014 she wrote and starred in the original two-character play, “MOMENTS REMEMBERED”, co-starring Don Most from “Happy Days”. 

And let me tell you, our guest also has a beautiful voice. She joined her cast mates from “The Waltons” on the 1999 CD, “A Walton Christmas: Together Again”, and she’s recorded 2 wonderful solo albums – “Reflections”, which is a live recording of her one-woman show featuring a selection of standards and Broadway songs, and “Home for Christmas”, which is a collection of classic holiday songs. 

And if all of that weren’t enough, our guest is a very gifted athlete. If you watched “Battle of the Network Stars” in the late 70s and early 80s, you’ll know she’s a champion in competitive horse jumping, skydiving, skiing and tennis.  

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Judy Norton, go to:

http://www.judynorton.com/

https://www.facebook.com/judynortonproductions/

https://www.instagram.com/officialjudynorton/

https://twitter.com/thejudynorton

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s special guest, Rita Rudner, is a comedy legend. After appearing in the national tour of “Zorba”, and then dancing in 6 Broadway musicals including “Promises, Promises”, “The Magic Show”, “Mack and Mabel”, and “Annie”, she made the courageous move to the world of stand-up comedy, and has never looked back. 

She worked her way up from comedy clubs, concert halls, TV talk shows and sold-out tours, to becoming one of the hottest tickets in Vegas with the longest running solo female comedy act in Las Vegas history. She’s had a whole slew of highly acclaimed TV specials including “Rita Rudner’s One Night Stand”, “Born to be Mild”, “Married Without Children”, “Live From Las Vegas”, “Rita Rudner and 3 Potential Ex-husbands”, and “A Tale of 2 Dresses”. She and her brilliant husband Martin Bergman have collaborated on many groundbreaking projects including 3 multi-award-winning feature films, “Peter’s Friends”, “A Weekend in the Country” and “Thanks, as well as numerous plays including “Tickled Pink”, “Act 3”, “Room 776”, “Staged”, and the musical, “Two’s a Crowd”, which played off-Broadway in New York. 

On television, besides her many appearances on The Johnny Carson show and other major talk shows, she had her own comedy series on the BBC, and for 2 years she had her own syndicated daily show called “Ask Rita”, for which she received a Gracie Allen Award from American Women in Radio and Television. She was also one of the writers of the Academy Award shows for 3 years. 

And if all of that weren’t enough, our guest has written 6 books – 4 hilarious memoirs entitled, “Rita Rudner’s Guide to Men”, “Naked Beneath my Clothes”, “I Still Have it: I Just Can’t Remember Where I Put It: Confessions of a Fifty-something”, and “My Life in Dog Years”, as well as 2 novels - “Tickled Pink” and “Turning the Tables”. And the audio version of “Naked Beneath my Clothes” received a Grammy nomination. 

The list of accolades our guest has received is jaw dropping. In addition to the awards I’ve already mentioned, she won an American Comedy Award in 1990 for Funniest Female Standup Comic. She was named Las Vegas’s Comedian of the Year 9 years in a row. In 2006 she received the Nevada Ballet’s Woman of the Year Award, and in 2017 she was given the Casino Entertainment Legend Award. 

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Rita Rudner, go to:

https://www.ritarudner.com/

https://www.facebook.com/people/Rita-Rudner/100084366042120/

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Paris Themmen, is a former child star who’s been immortalized for his portrayal of the rambunctious and defiant “Mike Teevee” in one of the world’s most popular movies, “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory”, which is a magical, psychedelic fairytale that has captured the hearts of multiple generations. 

Our guest also appeared on Broadway in “Mame” and “The Rothschilds”. As an adult, he’s had a diverse and successful career. He had his own travel agency, he was in real estate, he was in film production and casting, he worked at Disney, he’s been a financial consultant, and from time to time he’s appeared on TV shows and made personal appearances at movie conventions and autograph shows.

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Paris Themmen, go to:

https://wonkashop.com/

https://www.instagram.com/paris_themmen/

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Telma Hopkins, is a legendary music star and actress who rose to international superstardom as a member of the iconic pop group, Tony Orlando and Dawn, who brought us 16 top 40 hit songs including “Candida”, “Knock Three Times”, “Sweet Gypsy Rose”, “He Don’t Love You Like I Love You”, and of course, their signature song, “Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree”. 

For 3 years back in the 70s, our guest co-starred in an immensely popular TV variety show along with Tony Orlando and Joyce Vincent Wilson, making them the first multi-racial group to host a national TV show. After Tony Orlando and Dawn disbanded in 1977, our guest went on to become one of the most popular and beloved TV stars of the last half-century, in a monumental career in which she created dozens of iconic regular and recurring roles including “Isabelle Hammond” in “Bosom Buddies”, “Addy Wilson” in “Gimme a Break”, “Dolores Dixon” in “Getting By”, “Rachel Crawford” in “Family Matters”, “Phyllis Thorne” in “Half & Half”, “Marilyn Person” in “Are We There Yet?”, “Denise Tolliver” in “The Young and the Restless”, and “Ella” in “Clean Slate” – and believe me, I’m just scratching the surface. 

She’s also appeared in many great TV movies and miniseries including “Roots: The Next Generation”, “The Kid With the Broken Halo”, “How to Murder a Millionaire”, “A Family Reunion Christmas”, and let’s not forget that, on the big screen, she played “Freya” in “The Matrix Resurrections” starring Keanu Reeves. And on November 5, 2025, she’ll be launching a brand-new podcast called "Welcome To The Family", which is a “Family Matters” rewatch podcast hosted by our guest and Kellie Williams, who played “Laura Winslow” on “Family Matters”. 

In addition to the Grammy nomination that our guest received as a member of Tony Orlando and Dawn, she’s also received 4 NAACP Image Award nominations, as well as a BET Comedy Award. She also has a distinguished record of public service in working for charitable causes including Caring for Babies with AIDS, Act on Arthritis and the Parent–teacher Association.

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Jennifer O’Neill, is an internationally acclaimed actress, model, author, producer, director, humanitarian and inspirational speaker whom we all fell in love with in 1970 when legendary director Howard Hawks cast her opposite John Wayne in the classic film, “Rio Lobo”.

She was then catapulted into global superstardom in another cinematic masterpiece, “Summer of ‘42”, which led to a string of other great movies including “Such Good Friends”, “The Carey Treatment”, “Lady Ice”, “The Reincarnation of Peter Proud”, “The Innocent”, “The Psychic”, “Scanners”, “Last Ounce of Courage”, “Reagan” and many more. On television, we remember her as “Lady Bobbi Rowan” in “Bare Essence”, “Danielle Reynolds” in “Cover Up”, and she was “Messalina” in the highly acclaimed 1985 miniseries, “A.D.” 

She’s also appeared in a lot of TV movies including “Love’s Savage Fury”, “The Other Victim”, “Chase”, “The Red Spider”, “Glory Days”, “Perfect Family”, “The Cover Girl Murders”, “On Music Row” and many more. And if all of that weren’t enough, she was the model and spokesperson for Cover Girl cosmetics for an unprecedented THIRTY years, and her iconic advertising campaigns have been preserved in the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.  

But far beyond her show business career, our guest has had a monumental impact through her writing, advocacy, humanitarianism, and public speaking. She’s written 2 highly compelling, emotionally powerful and inspirational memoirs: “From Fallen to Forgiven” and “Surviving Myself”, in which she candidly shares her struggles with fame, love, numerous marriages, and a number of personal tragedies. Her incredibly moving book entitled, “You're Not Alone: Healing Through God's Grace After Abortion”, has been a source of wisdom, enlightenment, solace and comfort to millions of women who have experienced what our guest has gone through. 

She’s also written 4 novels: “All That Glitters”, “A Fall Together, “A Winter of Wonders”, and “A Late Spring Frost”.  Our guest is also a renowned advocate for numerous charitable causes. She served as Chairperson for the American Cancer Society. She hosted a TV special from Africa about the HIV epidemic. 

And she runs a hugely beneficial therapeutic program at her horse farm in Nashville, called The Hope and Healing at Hillenglade Foundation, which provides supportive programs to military veterans and first responders suffering from post traumatic stress disorder.

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Jennifer O’Neill, go to:

https://www.jenniferoneill.com/

https://www.facebook.com/OfficialJenniferONeill/

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, John Tesh, is a hugely popular and beloved pianist, composer, singer, broadcaster and author. His meteoric career in journalism catapulted him from being an award-winning CBS News correspondent, to hosting network coverage of major international sporting events like the Olympics and the Tour de France, and eventually becoming co-host of the groundbreaking TV show, “Entertainment Tonight” for 10 years. 

But in 1996, after the massive success of his TV special, “John Tesh: Live at Red Rocks with the Colorado Symphony”, he shocked us all by walking away from “Entertainment Tonight” at the peak of its popularity, to launch a full-time music career that has been nothing short of spectacular. He’s released 44 studio albums, 11 compilation albums, 5 live albums, and many televised concerts, featuring his signature musical style – an irresistible blend of orchestral power and rock energy. Some of his most popular albums are “Live at Red Rocks”, “One World”, “Pure Movies”, “Grand Passion”, “Power of Love”, “Pure Hymns” – and now, his long-awaited, brand-new album, “Sports”, which is his first album of all-new music in 20 years. He’s sold well over 8 million records worldwide, and 4 of his albums have been certified gold. His music has earned him 6 Emmy Awards, a Keyboard Magazine Award and 2 Grammy nominations.  And as a composer, he has the unique distinction of having composed what is widely considered to be the greatest sports theme in television history, “Roundball Rock”, for NBC Sports basketball. 

And beyond all of that, in 1999, our guest and his mega-talented wife, Connie Sellecca, created the immensely popular syndicated radio show, “Intelligence For Your Life”, featuring Connie and their son Gib. In addition to providing great music, the show offers advice and expert opinions on everything from health, finance and relationships, to family and careers. The show is heard on over 300 radio stations around the world, and has an audience of over 40 million weekly listeners. 

And if all of that weren’t enough, our guest has also written 4 insightful and inspirational books, the most recent of which is a highly compelling and emotionally powerful memoir entitled “Relentless: Unleashing a Life of Purpose, Grit and Faith”, in which he shares how he learned to turn obstacles into opportunities, and how his profound faith and steadfast determination enabled him to achieve monumental success AND overcome a terminal cancer diagnosis. 

The list of honours and accolades our guest has received is jaw dropping. In addition to the music awards I’ve already mentioned, he received an Associated Press award for investigative journalism. He’s been inducted into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame AND the National Radio Hall of Fame. And in 2007, he won the Syndicated Personality Show of the Year Award by Radio & Records magazine. And in 1993, he was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about John Tesh, go to:

http://www.tesh.com/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCojUF5lsdsROBEGw8zcfukA

https://www.facebook.com/JohnTesh/

http://www.instagram.com/johntesh_ifyl

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, David Selby, is a highly acclaimed and beloved actor and writer who’s been immortalized for his portrayal of several iconic TV characters. He played the charismatic and intense werewolf “Quentin Collins” on the classic daytime drama, “Dark Shadows”, and of course in the feature film, “Night of Dark Shadows”. He was also the ruthless businessman, “Richard Channing”, on “Falcon Crest”. And before that, he was the cunning and debonair “Michael Tyrone” on “Flamingo Road”. 

But beyond those signature roles, our guest has had a long and diverse career. He was in 4 Broadway productions, and co-starred in the national tour of “The Impossible Years”. On the big screen, he appeared in some great movies like “Up the Sandbox”, “Raise the Titanic”, “Rich and Famous”, “Dying Young”, “Intersection”, “The Girl in Blue”, “The Super Cops”, “Inhale”, “The Great Nick D” and many more. 

He’s also guest starred in dozens of classic TV shows including “The Waltons”, “Police Woman”, “Kojak”, “Touched By an Angel”, “Ally McBeal”, “Mad Men”, “Castle Rock”, “NCIS: New Orleans” and so many more. And he’s appeared in a number of great TV movies and miniseries including “Washington: Behind Closed Doors”, “Telethon”, “The Night Rider”, “Doctor Franken”, “The Black Hole” and “Deck the Halls”, to name just a few. 

And beyond all of that, our guest is a prolific author, playwright and poet. He’s written 10 books: “In and Out of the Shadows”, which is a career retrospective, “My Mother’s Autumn” and “Happenstance”, which are collections of poetry, “The Blue Door” and “Lincoln’s Better Angel”, which are novels that were incorporated into plays, “Promises of Love” and “A Casualty of Indifference”, which are his latest novels, “A Better Place”, which is all about his love for his home state of West Virginia and how his sense of place shapes his view of the world, “My Shadowed Past”, in which he reflects on his time on “Dark Shadows” and “Light and Shadows”, a collection of poems inspired by “Dark Shadows” and its fans. 

Our guest also has a distinguished record of community service. He and his wife Chip ran a summer children's musical theatre in New York for 10 years, and he’s directed numerous youth programs. He’s been inducted into the Cleveland Play House Hall of Fame, and he’s a recipient of the Millennium Recognition Award from The Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, D.C. He’s an honorary member of the West Virginia University Creative Arts Center's Advisory Board, and he’s worked with the Governor's Honor Academy.  He’s received Distinguished Alumni Awards from BOTH of his alma maters - West Virginia University AND Southern Illinois University. 

In 1998, he was the first person to receive a Life Achievement Award from the West Virginia University College of Creative Arts, and in 2004, he received an honorary doctorate from West Virginia University.

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about David Selby, go to:

http://www.davidselby.com/

https://www.facebook.com/davidselbydotcom

https://www.instagram.com/davidselbyofficial/

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Jenifer Lewis, is an immensely popular and beloved, multi-award-winning actress, singer, producer, author and activist who’s conquered every medium in the entertainment world. On Broadway, she appeared in 4 shows including “Eubie” and “Hairspray”, in which she was unforgettable as “Motormouth Maybelle”. She’s also starred in a whole slew of fabulous one-woman shows like “Jenifer Lewis in the Cosmos”, “Jenifer Lewis on the Couch”, “Jenifer Lewis Broke and Freaking Out”, “Bipolar, Bath and Beyond”, and my favorite, “The Diva is Dismissed”, for which she received 2 NAACP Awards. She’s performed at some of the most prestigious concert venues in the world including Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall. She toured with Bette Midler as one of the staggering Harlettes. 

On the big screen, she played Tina Turner’s mother in “What’s Love Got to Do With it?”, she played Whitney Houston’s Mom in “The Preacher’s Wife”, and she’s appeared in great blockbuster movies like “Beaches”, “Sister Act 1 and 2”, “Renaissance Man”, “Corrina, Corrina”, “Cast Away”, “Madea’s Family Reunion”, “Hereafter”, “Christmas on the Square”, and many more. And her instantly recognizable voice is adored by Disney fans for her portrayal of "Flo" in “Cars”, “Cars 2” and “Cars 3”, and as "Mama Odie" in “The Princess and the Frog”. 

And on television, she’s been immortalized as “Judge Rosetta Reide” in “Courthouse”, “Aunt Helen” in “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”, everybody’s best friend “Lana Hawkins” in “Strong Medicine”, and of course, the spicy, saucy, loveable and hilarious grandmother, “Ruby Johnson” in “Black-ish”, for which she was nominated for 2 Screen Actors Guild Awards, a Critic’s Choice Award, a Satellite Award, and 3 NAACP Image Awards, as well as winning 2 Black Reel Television Awards. She’s also guest starred in dozens of classic TV shows like “Murphy Brown”, “Friends”, “Touched by an Angel”, “Girlfriends”, “Boston Legal”, “Meet the Browns” and “I Love That For You”, to name just a few. 

And she’s appeared in a whole slew of great TV movies and miniseries including “Deconstructing Sarah”, “An Unexpected Life”, “The Temptations”, “Jackie’s Back”, “Little Richard”, “It Had to be You”, “History of the World: Part 2”, and many more. 

And if all of that weren’t enough, our guest is also a best-selling author of 2 highly compelling books: the first is a heartfelt, unfiltered and inspirational 2017 memoir entitled “The Mother of Black Hollywood”, and in 2022 she released an equally captivating sequel called “Walking in my Joy in These Streets”, which is one of the funniest, most laugh-out-loud books I’ve ever read. Let me tell you, the chapter about our guest’s rather unusual relationship with wheat grass during her stay at a health spa in California, had me laughing for a week. 

In addition to the accolades I’ve already mentioned, our guest has been nominated for 6 NAACP Image Awards, she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Essence Black Women in Hollywood, she received an Honorary Satellite Award, and the American Black Film Festival honoured her with the Career Achievement Award. And well beyond all of that, she received an honorary doctorate from her alma mater, Webster University in St. Lewis. 

And in 2022, she received a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. And to top it all off, a few years ago, her home state of Missouri honoured her with a star on the St. Lewis Walk of Fame. 

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Jenifer Lewis, go to:

https://www.instagram.com/jeniferlewisforreal/

https://www.facebook.com/JeniferLewisForReal/

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Richard Kline, is a renowned actor, director and acting teacher who became a household name for his portrayal of “Larry Dallas” on the classic TV sitcom: “Three’s Company”. 

We also remember him as “Richie Gray” on “It’s a Living”, “Jeff Spencer” on “His & Hers”, “Dr. Mark Benson” on “The Bold and the Beautiful”, “Jeff Beznick” on “Noah Knows Best”, “Gene Schwartz” on “Inside Schwartz”, and “Judge Angioli” on “Blue Bloods”. On the big screen you’ve seen him in “Liberty Heights”, “Warm Blooded Killers”, “Knight to F4”, “Don’t Think Twice”, “Love, Weddings and Other Disasters”, “180 Days”, “The Mick and the Trick” and many more. 

He’s also guest starred in dozens of classic TV shows including “The Mary Tyler Moore Show”, “Maude”, “One Day at a Time”, “ER”, “Murder, She Wrote”, “Hill Street Blues”, “L.A. Law”, “The Nanny”, “NYPD Blues” and many more. And he’s appeared in some great TV movies and miniseries including “Seventh Avenue”, “Not Just Another Affair”, “Side by Side”, and “Hell Hath No Fury”, to name just a few. 

Our guest has also had a distinguished theatre career. He’s appeared on Broadway in some iconic shows like “The Crucible”, “City of Angels”, “November” and “Waitress”. And he’s appeared in touring productions of “The Rothschilds” and “Wicked”, in which he played the Wizard of Oz. He’s also appeared in highly acclaimed productions of “Death of a Salesman”, “Henry V”, “Love’s Labor’s Lost”, “Titanic”, “The Sting”, and in 1996, he starred in the American premiere of Andrew Lloyd Weber’s musical, “By Jeeves”. 

And when he’s not appearing on stage or in front of the camera, he’s directing television and theatre productions, AND for over 25 years, he's been a highly respected acting teacher. 

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Richard Kline, go to:

https://richardkline.tv/

https://www.facebook.com/richard.kline.12

https://instagram.com/rklinester

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Todd Fisher, is a director, cinematographer, producer, business executive, author and talk show host who also happens to be a member of Hollywood royalty. 

He’s the son of one of the greatest and most beloved cinematic legends of all time, Debbie Reynolds. And his father was the renowned singer Eddie Fisher. He’s also the brother of the immensely popular actress and writer, Carrie Fisher. 

His professional background is in architectural design and sound engineering, and he has extensive experience designing and building sound stages, recording studios, and television facilities. He’s the former CEO and President of the Debbie Reynolds Hotel & Casino, and the Debbie Reynolds Management Company, and he was the CEO and curator of the Hollywood Motion Picture Museum, which was housed at Debbie Reynolds Studios in Los Angeles. 

He is currently CEO of the high-end production company, Hollywood Motion Picture Experience. He directed his mother’s 1991 TV series, “Movie Memories with Debbie Reynolds”, and he produced the highly acclaimed, multi-award winning HBO documentary, “Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds”, which was released several months after the tragic passing of his sister and mother, within 24 hours of each other, in December 2016. 

In 2018 our guest published a highly compelling and intensely emotional, best-selling memoir chronicling his eventful, turbulent and sometimes heartbreaking life with his beloved mother and sister, entitled, “My Girls: A Lifetime with Carrie and Debbie”.  And most recently, he and his wife, actress, hypnotist and mentalist, Catherine Hickland, have a show in Las Vegas as well as on tour, and they host a popular YouTube channel called “Cat and Todd Live”. 

Among the many awards and accolades our guest has received, I want to mention that in 1998, he, his mother and sister won the American Film Institute Platinum Circle Award, given to families whose creative contributions have significantly enhanced the entertainment community. And as you’re about to see, that award is certainly well deserved.

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Todd Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, go to:

http://www.toddfisher.com/

http://www.debbiereynolds.com/

http://www.debbiereynoldsstudiostore.com/

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Kris Van Damme, is an actor, producer, writer, animator and martial artist who made his big screen debut at the age of 3, in “Universal Soldier”, starring his superstar father, Jean-Claude Van Damme. Since then he and his father have worked together in a number of other great movies including some of my favourites, “The Quest”, “Universal Soldier: Regeneration” AND “Day of Reckoning”, “The Eagle Path”, “Assassination Games”,“6 Bullets”, “Welcome to the Jungle”, “Enemies Closer”, “Black Water” and “Darkness of Man”. He was also in “The Philly Kid”, and he’s got 2 movies in post-production, soon to be released: “The Farmer” and “Crime Time”. 

He’s a huge inspiration to fitness enthusiasts, and he’s a passionate supporter of animal rights. 

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Kris Van Damme, go to:

https://www.instagram.com/krisvandammeofficial

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s special guest, Robert Irvine, is an immensely popular celebrity chef, author, entrepreneur, fitness authority and humanitarian who has become a global sensation with his hugely successful TV shows, “Dinner: Impossible”, “Restaurant: Impossible”, “Restaurant Rivals”, “Cheat Day USA”, “The Globe”, “Kitchen Expedition” and “Restaurant Express”. 

Our guest also oversees a whole slew of companies, including restaurants, frozen foods, liquor and protein bars. In addition to having his own free digital magazine that provides inspirational workouts, recipes, and motivational articles, he’s written 5 books: “Mission: Cook”, “Impossible to Easy”, “Fit Fuel”, “Family Table” and his latest book, which I absolutely devoured, entitled, “Overcoming Impossible: How to Lead, Build a Team, and Catapult Your Business to Success,” in which our guest shares the vitally important lessons he’s learned from his vast experience, both in building his own businesses, and helping hundreds of others fix theirs. 

And when he’s not filming his TV show or working overseas with the USO, he goes on tour with a highly entertaining, unpredictable and interactive traveling live show. And one of the most impressive and commendable qualities of our guest is his tireless passion for philanthropy. A significant portion of the proceeds from all of his endeavors go to his own Foundation, which gives back to our servicemen and women and first responders in a variety of ways: training service dogs, making mental health and wellness services available to veterans in need, providing mobility devices for the disabled, and much more. 

For his monumentally important charitable work and public service, our guest has received dozens of prestigious accolades and awards, most notably being named Honorary Chief Petty Officer of the United States Navy and receiving the Medal of Honor Society’s Bob Hope Award. He received the Outstanding Civilian Service Award from the US Army, the Spirit of Hope Award from the US Department of Defense, and in 2023, he was the very first recipient of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Distinguished Citizenship Award. 

He’s also an Ambassador of the Culinary Institute of America, and he received the Culinary Excellence Award from the Culinary Institute of America and the American Tasting Institute.

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Robert Irvine, go to:

https://chefirvine.com/

https://facebook.com/chefirvine

https://www.instagram.com/chefirvine

https://www.youtube.com/robertirvineofficial

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Vernée Watson, is a popular and beloved actress, producer, director, educator and author who’s been dazzling audiences in a spectacular career spanning almost 6 decades. On the big screen, she’s appeared in many great movies including “Cotton Comes to Harlem”, “Norman, Is That You?”, “Death Drug”, “No Turning Back”, “Antwone Fisher”, “Nocturnal Agony”, “Beyond the Heavens”, “A Man Called Jon”, “Clemency”, “The Mandela Effect”, and many more. 

On television, we all remember her as “Verna Jean Williams” in “Welcome Back, Kotter”, “Lucille Banks” in “Carter Country”, “Althea” in “The Big Bang Theory”, “Gloria Tyler” in “Bob Hearts Abishola”, and of course, she played Will Smith’s mother, “Vy”, in the hugely popular sitcom, “Fresh Prince of Bel Air”. 

In the world of daytime dramas, our guest has been immortalized as “Birdie” in “The Young and the Restless”, “Dr. Ella Kraft” in “Days of Our Lives”, and her most acclaimed soap opera role, “Stella Henry” on “General Hospital”, for which she has won TWO Daytime Emmy Awards. She was also the voice of “Dee Dee Skyes” in the animated series, “Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels”, and she was the voice of “Danielle Craig” on the popular sitcom, “Baby Talk”. She has also guest starred in dozens of classic TV series including “Good Times”, “The Jeffersons”, “Hill Street Blues”, “Murphy Brown”, “Married With Children”, “L.A. Law”, “ER”, “The X-Files”, “The West Wing”, “CSI”, “Dexter”, “Two and a Half Men”, “Young Sheldon”, and believe me, I’m only scratching the surface.  

And she’s appeared in a whole slew of wonderful TV movies including “The Boy in the Plastic Bubble”, “Love’s Savage Fury”, “The Violation of Sarah McDavid”, “Hell Hath No Fury”, “Applause for Miss E”, “Home by Spring”, and many, many more. 

Our guest has also written 2 very informative books entitled, “Commercials, Just My Speed” and “Kids in the TV Commercial Biz”, which give practical advice to aspiring actors who’d like to break into the world of television commercials. 

And when she’s not on the set, she’s a highly respected acting teacher at a nonprofit performing arts company in Los Angeles that she co-founded, called The H.E.ART, Heartfelt Education Through the Arts, which provides a healthy, creative environment where aspiring actors, dancers and singers of all ages – and especially young people - can feel inspired and empowered to cultivate their talents. 

In fact, in 2023, she was inducted into the prestigious Gold Circle by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for over 50 years of community service. And if all of that weren’t enough, our guest is also the subject of an excellent and truly inspirational documentary entitled, “You Look Familiar Vernée Watson”, in which she reminisces about her iconic career, and shares many of the life lessons she’s learned along the way.   

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Vernée Watson, go to:

https://www.instagram.com/verneewatson/

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Fionnula Flanagan, is a multi-award-winning and beloved actress who’s brought us dozens of unforgettable performances in a monumental career spanning 6 decades. 

On Broadway, she has twice been nominated for Tony Awards, for her performances in “Ulysses in Night Town” and “The Ferryman”. 

On the big screen, she captivated the whole world with her tour de force, multi-character performances in “James Joyce’s Women”, which she also wrote and produced. You’ve also seen her in many great movies including “Ulysses”, “Youngblood”, “Some Mother’s Son”, “Divine Sisters of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood”, “Transamerica”, “The Payback”, “Kill the Irishman”, “Life’s a Breeze”, “Four Mothers’, “Waking Ned Devine”, for which she and her fellow cast members were nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Ensemble, and “The Others”, for which she won a Saturn Award and received a Satellite Award nomination. 

On television, our guest won an Emmy Award for her performance in the miniseries, “Rich Man, Poor Man”, and she received another Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for her portrayal of “Aunt Molly Culhane” in “How the West Was Won”. She played the mysterious “Eloise Hawking” in “Lost”, she was “Rose Caffee” in “Brotherhood”, she was “Nicky” in “Defiance”, she was “Caro Noonan” in “Smother”, and she’s guest starred in dozens of classic TV shows going all the way back to “Bonanza”, “Gunsmoke”, and “Marcus Welby”, all the way up to “Cagney & Lacey”, “Murder, She Wrote”, “Nip/Tuck” and “Law & Order: SVU”.  

And as all you Trekkies out there know, our guest has a significant connection with Star Trek. She played “Enina Tandro” in “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine”. She was “Dr. Juliana Tainer” in “Star Trek: The Next Generation”. And she played “Vulcan Ambassador V’lar” in “Star Trek: Enterprise”. And she’s co-starred in some wonderful TV movies and miniseries including “Some Women”, “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, “The Legend of Lizzie Borden”, “Mary White”, “A Winner Never Quits”, “Kings in Grass Castles”, “Three Wise Women”, “Redwater”, and many, many more.  

Our guest has been nominated for 6 Irish Film and Television Awards, and she won TWO, for her performances in “Transamerica” and “The Guard”, in addition to receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012 from the Irish Film and Television Academy. 

She’s also a recipient of the Richard Harris Outstanding Talent Award AND the Maureen O’Hara Award. And in 2008, our guest received an honourary doctorate from the University of Galway in her native Ireland.

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Michael Damian, is a highly popular and beloved, multi-award-winning actor, singer, writer, director and producer who’s conquered every medium in the entertainment industry. 

He is of course a superstar in the world of daytime television for his iconic portrayal since 1981 of “Danny Romalotti” on America’s number 1 soap opera, “The Young And The Restless”, for which he’s won 2 Young Artist Awards as well as a Soap Opera Digest Award nomination.  

And we also remember him as “Fly Man” on the hit TV sitcom, “The Facts Of Life”. As a singer and recording artist, he had 8 Top 40 hits and multiple gold records, including his #1 hit song, “Rock On”, and a string of other hits including “She Did It”, “Cover of Love”, “Straight From my Heart”, “What a Price to Pay”, and one of my all-time favourites, “Was it Nothing at all”, which won him a BMI Songwriting Award. And I also have to mention his beautiful duet with Sharon Hendrix, “Bring Back the Christmas Card”. And of course, we all remember his voice from the theme song to the hit TV show, “Saved by the Bell”.  

On the stage, he broke box office records on Broadway and in Los Angeles when he starred in the 1993 revival of “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat", and his work on the cast album earned him a Grammy Award nomination. 

Behind the camera, our guest, together with his brilliant wife, Janeen, has written a dozen movies, which he has gone on to produce and direct, including “High Strung”, “High Strung Free Dance”, “Marley & Me: The Puppy Years”, “Hot Tamale”, “Moondance Alexander”, “The Sweeter Side Of Life” and “Love By Design”, all of which have won a whole slew of prestigious film festival awards. He and Janeen have also brought us some wonderful holiday movies including “A Princess For Christmas”, “The Christmas Waltz”, “Much Ado About Christmas” and “Paris Christmas Waltz”.  And their brand new movie, “The Wrong Paris”, is coming to Netflix on September 12. 

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Michael Damian, go to:

https://www.instagram.com/therealmichaeldamian/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqfN-pdhkZxprCg04emIczA

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, James Morrison, is a highly acclaimed actor, writer, filmmaker and singer-songwriter who’s well remembered for his portrayal of Counter Terrorist Unit Director Bill Buchanan on the blockbuster TV show, “24”, for which he and his fellow cast members were nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series. 

He was also a series regular on “Those Who Kill” and “Space: Above and Beyond”, and he had recurring roles on “Freedom”, “Twin Peaks”, “Private Practice”, “Blue”, “Revenge”, and “Hawthorne”, in addition to guest star appearances in dozens of great TV shows like “Law & Order: SVU”, “NCIS”, “Suits”, “The West Wing”, “Six Feet Under”, “The X-Files” and many more. 

He’s also appeared in some wonderful TV movies and miniseries including “Fatal Vision”, “North & South, Book 2”, “Good Cops, Bad Cops”, “Without Warning”, “The Wonder Cabinet”, and “Seeds of Destruction”, to name only a few. On the big screen, he’s appeared in many terrific movies including “Shadow of Doubt”, “Shadows of the Past”, “The One”, “Catch Me if You Can”, “Jarhead”, “The Jazz Funeral”, “Doubting Thomas”, “Road to Dreamland” and “Relish”, which won a whole slew of prestigious film festival awards. Along with his wife, acclaimed filmmaker Riad Galayini, he’s made three multi-award-winning short films: “Parking”, “Nude Descending”, and “Crossing”, as well as a fascinating and highly compelling documentary called “Showing Up”, which features many iconic actors talking about the audition process. The film is part of the curriculum at more than 200 colleges and universities throughout North America. 

Our guest is also a highly accomplished playwright, having had his plays developed and produced by some of the most prestigious theatre companies in the world.  And as an actor in the theatre, he’s appeared onstage in dozens of celebrated theatrical productions throughout America, in London’s West End and at the Edinburgh Festival, and for his work onstage, he’s received the Los Angeles Drama Critics' Circle Award and 3 Drama-Logue Awards. He also wrote and performed his intensely personal one-man play, “Leave Your Fears Here”, which recounts his beloved son's struggle with and ultimate recovery from brain cancer. 

And if all of that weren’t enough, he’s also a terrific singer and songwriter who’s recorded one of my favourite albums, “Son to the Boy”, which is available on every major streaming platform.

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about James Morrison, go to:

http://www.thejamesmorrison.com/

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Charlene, is a popular singer, songwriter, record producer and author who was the first white female singer to be signed to the Motown label. She’s been immortalized for her hugely popular, worldwide mega-hit song, “I’ve Never Been to Me”, which was originally released in 1977, and then took the world by storm in 1982. And THEN, the song had another resurgence in popularity in 1994 when it was featured in the terrific movie, “Priscilla, Queen of the Desert”. Our guest has released 6 albums, entitled, “Charlene”, “Songs of Love”, “Used to Be”, “I’ve Never Been to Me”, “The Sky is the Limit”, and “Hit and Run Lover”. Some of her other hit singles from back in the 70s and 80s are “It Ain’t Easy Comin’ Down”, “Freddie”, “Hungry”, “Used to Be”, “I Want to Go Back There Again” and “We’re Both in Love With You”. She appeared in the movie, “The Last Dragon”, in which she sang her hit single, “Fire”. Her song, “It Ain’t Easy Comin’ Down” was featured in the movie, “The Last American Virgin”. And her song “I’ve Never Been to Me” has been featured not only in “Priscilla, Queen of the Desert” but in over a dozen other movies and TV shows including “Me Without You”, “This is Us”, “You Were Never Really Here”, “The Simpsons” and “The Flight Attendant”.  

In recent years, our guest has been recording under her actual name, “Charlene Oliver”, and she’s released some great dance hits like “Heard You on the Radio”, “Destiny”, “Fairytale Life”, “California Dreamin’”, “Broken Woman”, “Emotional Scars”, “Why Can’t Time Stand Still”, and a fabulous dance version of her classic hit song, “I’ve Never Been to Me”.  Our guest has also written 3 books: a memoir called “I’ve Never Been to Me”, a children’s book called “The Life and Tails of Herman the Worm”, and a highly compelling Holocaust novel called “Orphan Train”.

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Charlene, go to:

https://youtube.com/channel/UCvo_GSYoUzd-0W2MyZO21MA?si=6tjhfOOHLEWlJrLT

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Michael Ironside, is beloved and highly acclaimed actor, writer, producer and director who’s delivered well over 300 great performances in a distinguished career spanning over 5 decades.  

On the big screen, some of his most memorable blockbuster movies are “Scanners”, “Top Gun”, “Extreme Prejudice”, “Total Recall”, “Free Willy”, “Starship Troopers”, “The Perfect Storm”, “The Machinist”, “The Jazzman”, “X-Men: First Class”, “Turbo Kid”, “The Space Between”, and “Blackberry”. 

He also wrote, directed and appeared in the 1999 movie, “The Arrangement”. On television, he’s appeared in dozens of classic shows including “Hill Street Blues”, “ER”, “Young Blades”, “Vegas”, “Burn Notice”, “Criminal Minds”, “Smallville”, “This is Us”, “Hawaii Five-O”, “Barry”, and of course, he co-starred in the 1984 TV series, “Vee”. And he’s been in a whole slew of terrific TV movies and miniseries including “Vee: The Final Battle”, “Ford: The Man and the Machine”, “The Arrow”, “The Last Chapter”, “The Lizzie Borden Chronicles”, “Tokyo Trial”, and “The Dropout”, to name only a few. 

And in addition to his prodigious career in front of the camera, our guest is one of the most sought-after voice actors in all kinds of shows, and especially in the “Splinter Cell” video game series. He’s received many prestigious accolades for his work, including nominations for Genie Awards, Gemini Awards, Cable Ace Awards, Voice Actor awards and many others. 

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Michael Ironside, go to:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ironside

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Jonelle Allen, is a renowned actress, singer, dancer, director, writer and educator, whom we all fell in love with as “Grace”, the owner of Grace’s café on the highly popular TV series, “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman”. 

We also remember her as “Bessie Freeman” on “Palmerstown, USA”, “Doreen Jackson” in “Generations”, and “Felicia Richardson” in the popular podcast series, “Forever and a Day”. But beyond those iconic roles, our guest has had a diverse and distinguished career. On Broadway, she received a Tony Award nomination for her performance as “Sylvia”, the Princess of Milan, in “Two Gentlemen of Verona”, for which she also received a Drama Desk Award, a Theatre World Award, and New York AND Outer Critics Circle Awards. And her other Broadway credits include the great show, “George M”. 

On the big screen, she’s appeared in many movies including “The Cross and the Switchblade”, “Come Back Charleston Blue”, “Next Time”, “Mr. Barrington”, “Float”, and of course, “The River Niger”, which earned her an NAACP Image Award. 

And on television, besides the shows I mentioned, she’s appeared in many classic series including “Police Woman”, “Barney Miller”, “All in the Family”, “Trapper John, MD”, “Hill Street Blues”, “Cagney & Lacey”, “ER”, “American Crime Story” and many more. And she’s appeared in some great TV movies like “Cage Without a Key”, “Foster and Laurie”, “Vampire”, “Brave New World”, “Victims”, “The Midnight Hour”, and “The Divorce”. And most recently, she’s been a professor in the Theatre of Fine Arts Department at Saddleback College in California.

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Jonelle Allen, go to:

https://www.instagram.com/jonellerallen/

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Tom Santopietro, making his 5th appearance on our show, is a renowned author whose books about the entertainment world are as insightful, entertaining and compelling as the iconic superstars and movies he writes about.  

He’s written 8 bestselling books, including “The Sound of Music Story”, “The Godfather Effect: Changing Hollywood, America and Me”, “The Importance of Being Barbra”, and “Barbara Cook: Then and Now”.  His first appearance on our show was to discuss his fascinating book, “Considering Doris Day”, which is a must-read for every Doris Day fan. He then returned to the show to discuss his groundbreaking book, “Why To Kill a Mockingbird Still Matters”, which provides a brilliant analysis of racism in America, in the context of one of the greatest novels – and movies – of all time.  

The next year, I interviewed him about his wonderful book, “Sinatra In Hollywood”, shining a well-deserved light on Frank Sinatra’s cinematic legacy.  And a few years ago, our guest came back to discuss his terrific book, “The Way We Were: The Making of a Romantic Classic”, which provided the inside story behind the making of one of the most popular romantic dramas of the last 50 years. 

And now, our guest is here with another meticulously researched and exquisitely written book entitled, “Audrey Hepburn: A Life of Beautiful Uncertainty”. The book chronicles the life, career and legacy of one of the world’s most beloved and revered movie stars, fashion icons, and humanitarians, whose talent, elegance, grace, humility, authenticity and concern for the welfare of others, made her a timeless and universal role model, and the ultimate definition of outer and inner beauty. 

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Tom Santopietro, go to:

http://www.tomsantopietro.com/

https://www.facebook.com/tomsantopietro

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/122684.Tom_Santopietro

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s special guest, J. Randy Taraborrelli, making his third appearance on our show, is my favorite celebrity biographer. He’s written 21 books, 17 of which have made the New York Times best seller list. 

His immensely popular biographies about superstars like Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, Elizabeth Taylor, Carol Burnett, Cher, Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Madonna and Beyoncé are widely considered to be balanced, definitive and authoritative. He's also one of the world’s foremost historians about the Kennedy family, having now written 6 books about them. Those books are: “Jackie, Ethel, Joan: Women of Camelot”, “After Camelot: A Personal History of the Kennedy Family, 1968 to the Present”, “Jackie, Janet & Lee: The Secret Lives of Janet AUKINKLOSS and Her Daughters”, “The Kennedy Heirs: John, Caroline, and the New Generation – A Legacy of Tragedy and Triumph”, “Jackie: Public, Private, Secret”, and now, his brand new book entitled, “JFK: Public, Private, Secret”. 

This meticulously researched and highly compelling book is NOT a presidential biography that analyzes every move President Kennedy made as a politician. And the book doesn’t delve deeply into the conspiracy theories about his death. Heaven knows, there are ENOUGH books about all of that. What our guest HAS given us in his latest book, is the chance to FINALLY get to know the real John Fitzgerald Kennedy, not just the dazzlingly captivating politician, but more importantly, Jack Kennedy the son, brother, husband, father, friend and human being that he was in his REAL LIFE, with not only all of his strengths and virtues, but also his flaws and inner turmoil.   

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about J. Randy Taraborrelli, go to:

https://jrandytaraborrelli.com/home/

https://www.facebook.com/j.randy.taraborrelli

https://www.instagram.com/jrandytaraborrelli/

https://www.facebook.com/johnrandallanthony.taraborrelli

https://www.youtube.com/@JRandyTaraborrelli

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Charlene Tilton, is a multi-award-winning actress, singer and producer who is perhaps best remembered for her unforgettable portrayal of “Lucy Ewing” on the phenomenally successful TV series, “Dallas”, for which she received a 2 Young Artist Awards, a Bambi Award, and a TV Land Pop Culture Award. 

But beyond that iconic role, our guest has had a long and diverse career.  On the big screen, she’s appeared in dozens of movies including “Ragin’ Cajun”, “Deadly Bet”, “Center of the Web”, “Detonator”, “Edge of Salvation”, “A Unicorn for Christmas”, “Heaven Sent”, “Ladybug”, “Final Recovery” and many more. And besides “Dallas”, she’s appeared in many classic TV shows including “Happy Days”, “Eight is Enough”, “Police Woman”, “Knots Landing”, “Laverne & Shirley”, “Murder, She Wrote”, and “Married With Children”, to name only a few. You’ve also seen her in a number of TV movies and miniseries including “The Fall of the House of Usher”, “Point of Entry”, “The Michaels”, “Road Less Traveled”, “Second Chance Christmas”, “Starting Up Love”, “A Welcome Home Christmas”, and of course, the 2004 “Dallas” reunion movie, “Return to Southfork”. 

Our guest also has a beautiful voice, as we all heard in the Season 2 episode of “Dallas” called “Runaway”, in which she sang the classic country song, “Silver Threads and Golden Needles”. She also had an international hit song in 1984 called “C’est La Vie”. 

And beyond all of that, our guest is a strong advocate for autism awareness, as an ambassador for Actors for Autism, an organization providing improv and acting workshops for children and adults with autism. She’s also worked with an organization called “You Gotta Believe”, which helps teenaged foster children find permanent families.

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Donna Pescow, is a popular and highly acclaimed actress and director who became internationally renowned for her performance as “Annette” in the phenomenally successful and iconic movie, “Saturday Night Fever”, for which she was nominated for a New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress.  

And of course, she’s well remembered for her starring role in the TV sitcom, “Angie”, which earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actress in a Comedy Series AND a People’s Choice Award nomination for Favourite Female TV Performer.  She also played “Dr. Lynn Carson” in “All My Children”, “Donna Garland” in “Out of This World”, the villainous “Gertrude Morgan” in “General Hospital”, “Dr. Sharon Finkel” in “The Flash”, and of course, “Eileen Stevens” in the very enjoyable, multi-award winning Disney channel comedy series, “Even Stevens”, for which she received 3 Daytime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Performer in a Children’s Series.  

She also appeared in a number of great TV shows like “Trapper John M.D.”, “Fantasy Island”, “Hotel”, “Nash Bridges”, “NYPD Blue”, “The Sopranos”, “Grey’s Anatomy”, and we’ve seen her in many TV movies including “Rainbow”, “Human Feelings”, “The Day The Bubble Burst”, “Dead Husbands”, “Operation Cupcake”, “Welcome to Chippendales” and many more.

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Beatrice Welles, is descended from Hollywood royalty. She’s the daughter of one of the greatest and most influential actors, filmmakers and writers of all time, the legendary Orson Welles.  

Of course, we all know Orson Welles was a genius, simply by watching his monumentally significant movies including, “Citizen Kane”, “The Magnificent Ambersons”, “The Stranger”, “The Lady From Shanghai”, “Macbeth”, “Othello”, “Touch of Evil”, “The Trial” and many more.  

His groundbreaking radio shows, especially “War of the Worlds”, were exceptionally innovative, and still resonate with audiences today.  

And his renowned stage career includes many critically acclaimed productions including “Macbeth”, “Dr. Faustus”, “The Cradle Will Rock”, “Julius Caesar”, “King Lear”, “Native Son”, “Around the World”, and “Moby Dick”, to name just a few.  

Our guest is Orson Welles’ youngest daughter Beatrice, who’s had quite an extraordinary career herself. As a child actress, she worked with her father in his 1965 film “Chimes at Midnight”, and in his 1972 film “Don Quixote”, and in the 1964 TV series, “In the Land of Don Quixote”.  

And as an adult, she’s been a highly successful fashion model, a radio and TV personality, as well as founder of a cosmetics line and designer of handbags and jewelry, in addition to being a well-known animal rights advocate. She also administers the estate of her beloved father, and over the years she’s worked tirelessly to celebrate, honour, preserve and protect his phenomenal body of work and his legacy.  

In 1992 our guest received a Special Award from the National Board of Review for her work with my dear friend, producer Julian Schlossberg, in restoring her father’s magnificent 1951 film, “Othello”. And more recently, she was the executive producer of Orson Welles’ highly anticipated final feature film, “The Other Side of the Wind”, which was finally released on Netflix in 2018.  

And the next year, she facilitated the release of a terrific book entitled, “Orson Welles Portfolio: Sketches and Drawings from the Welles Estate”, which features some of Mr. Welles’ artwork, including costume and set designs, and caricatures. 

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Orson Welles, go to:

https://wellesnet.com/

https://www.facebook.com/Wellesnetcom/

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s special guest, Dyan Cannon, is a beloved, multi-award-winning actress, director, writer, producer, editor and humanitarian who’s been dazzling audiences, both in front of and behind the camera, in a monumental career spanning almost 7 decades. 

She’s the first woman ever to be nominated for Academy Awards both as an actress and a filmmaker. She received her first Academy Award nomination for her wonderful performance as “Alice” in “Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice”, for which she also received 2 Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical, and Most Promising Female Newcomer. And she won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her second Oscar nomination was in the category of Best Live Action Short for her film, “Number One”, which she wrote, directed, produced, edited and scored. The New York Times commended the film as one of the best movies ever made concerning child development.

Her third Oscar nomination was for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as “Julia Farnsworth”, opposite Warren Beatty, in “Heaven Can Wait”, for which she WON a Golden Globe Award and a Saturn Award. She received another Golden Globe Best Actress nomination for her performance in “Such Good Friends”. She also wrote, directed and starred in the highly acclaimed and intensely personal film, “The End of Innocence”, and she’s appeared in many other great movies including “Revenge of the Pink Panther”, “The Anderson Tapes”, “The Love Machine”, “The Last of Sheila”, “Honeysuckle Rose”, “Deathtrap”, “Author! Author!”, “Caddyshack 2”, “Out to Sea”, “Boynton Beach Club” and many more. On television, we all remember her as the intelligent and classy “Whipper Cone” on the hit TV show, “Ally McBeal”, and as the vivacious and free-spirited “Honey Bernstein-Flynn” on the popular sitcom, “Three Sisters”. She’s also guest starred in dozens of classic TV shows including “Have Gun, Will Travel”, “The Untouchables”, “77 Sunset Strip”, “Gunsmoke”, “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In”, “Beverly Hills, 90210”, “Diagnosis Murder” and many more. And she’s co-starred in numerous terrific TV movies and miniseries including “Virginia Hill”, “Lady of the House”, “Having it All”, “Master of the Game”, “Jenny’s War”, “Christmas in Connecticut” and “My Mother the Spy”, to name only a few.  

In 2011, our guest released her riveting and highly compelling, best-selling memoir, “Dear Cary”, which chronicled her incredibly intense and turbulent relationship with her husband, Cary Grant. The book was so tremendously successful, that it was on the New York Times best seller list THREE different times over a period of 4 years. 

And in 2023, our guest was the executive producer of the highly acclaimed miniseries about Cary Grant called “Archie”. 

She also has a podcast called “God’s Table”. And if all of that weren’t enough, our guest is renowned for her humanitarianism, especially in the areas of child welfare, as national spokesperson for the Hemangioma Treatment Foundation, and for Operation Lookout, which is dedicated to finding kidnapped children. And she’s worked with Big Brothers and Big Sisters of America, as well as many other organizations advocating for animal welfare, substance abuse rehabilitation, and California's Special Olympics for physically and mentally challenged athletes. 

And last but certainly not least, in 1983 our guest received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Dyan Cannon, go to:

https://www.instagram.com/therealdyan.cannon/

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Tim Russ, is a highly popular, multi-award-winning actor, director and musician who’s been immortalized for his portrayal of the Vulcan security chief, “Lieutenant Tuvok”, in the blockbuster TV series, “Star Trek: Voyager”. 

In fact, he has the distinction of appearing in FOUR “Star Trek” TV series as well as in the feature film, “Star Trek Generations”. Besides playing “Lieutenant Tuvok” in “Star Trek: Voyager”, he played “Devor” in “Star Trek: The Next Generation”, he played “T’kar” in “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine”, he played a changeling impersonating “Lieutenant Tuvok” in an episode of “Star Trek: Picard”. And in the movie, “Star Trek Generations”, he played a lieutenant on USS Enterprise B.  

But far beyond his work on that iconic franchise, our guest has many talents that encompass a wide spectrum of the performing arts including writing, producing, directing, songwriting, recording albums like "Only a Dream in Rio", "Tim Russ", "Kushangaza" and "Brave New World", and performing with his band, Tim Russ Crew. 

On the big screen, you’ve seen him in many movies including “Live Free or Die Hard,” “Rampart”, “Greyscale”, “The Midnight Sky”, “Nightshade”, “The Star City Murders”, “5th Passenger” and many more.   And on TV, besides the Star Trek shows I mentioned, he’s appeared in dozens of classic series including “Hill Street Blues”, “Thirtysomething”, “The Highwaymen”, “Murphy Brown”, “ER”, “CSI: Miami”, “iCarly”, “Criminal Minds”, “American Horror Story”, “NCIS”, and yes, he played the sarcastic doorman “Frank” in “Samantha Who?”.  

He’s also appeared in many great TV movies and miniseries including “Roots: The Gift”, “Alien Nation”, “The Heroes of Desert Storm”, “Journey to the Center of the Earth”, “Asteroid vs Earth”, “Karma” and many more. And as a director, he brought us feature films like “Star Trek: Of Gods and Men”, “Junkie” and “ A Night at the Silent Movie Theater.” And he’s directed episodes of TV shows including “The FBI Files”, “12-Sided Die” and the award-winning web series, "Bloomers." 

Our guest has won an Indie Series Award, a Telly Award, an Indie Short Fest Award, an Indie X Film Festival Award, 2 Vegas Movie Awards, and an Emmy Award for directing several public service ads. 

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Tim Russ, go to:

https://www.timrusswebpage.com

https://www.instagram.com/trvulcan/

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Rodney Allen Rippy, is an actor, producer, TV personality, radio host, business man and humanitarian who first captured our hearts at the tender age of 3 years old. His over-the-top cuteness, infectious giggle and precocious personality made him an overnight sensation when he became the national spokesperson the popular fast food chain, Jack-in-the-Box. 

He was one of the biggest child stars of the 70s and appeared on many iconic TV shows including “Laugh-In”, “The Six Million Dollar Man”, “Marcus Welby”, “Police Story”, and he had a co-starring role on the Saturday morning children’s show, “The Harlem Globetrotters Popcorn Machine”. And when he guest starred on “The Odd Couple”, HE was the one who first used the phrase, “You’re fired.” 

He also appeared in classic movies like “Blazing Saddles” and “Oh God, Book 2”. As a child, our guest had his own talking doll made by MATTEL, AND he was also a recording artist. In fact, his 1973 hit song “Take Life a Little Easier”, recorded when he was only 5 years old, made him the youngest music artist in history to have a song on the Billboard Charts, a record which STILL has not been surpassed. 

As an adult, our guest has appeared in movies like “Checking the Gate”, “Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star”, “Flowers in the Snow” and “To the Top”, and on TV, you’ve seen him in “Parker Lewis Can’t Lose”, “Howie Goes to Hollywood” and “The Mis-adventures of Camp Elaine”.  He’s also had a successful career in radio broadcasting.

And beyond his show business career, our guest has had his own marketing firm, he’s been a film production executive, and he has his own charitable foundation, the Rippy Foundation, which supports at-risk youth, seniors and veterans.

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Rodney Allen Rippy, go to:

https://rodneyallenrippy.wixsite.com/official-site

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61553337029996

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Fred Mollin, is a true giant in the music world. Although he may not be a household name, I guarantee that you’ve heard his music multiple times and in a variety of mediums. 

He’s a multi-award-winning record producer, musician, songwriter, film and TV composer and music director, who first came to international prominence in the late 70’s when he produced Dan Hill’s albums, most notably “Longer Fuse”, which produced the classic Grammy nominated hit song, "SOMETIMES WHEN WE TOUCH". He went on to make critically acclaimed records with some of the greatest superstars in music history including Jimmy Webb, Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Mathis, Carole King, Billy Joel, Glen Campbell, Linda Ronstadt, Willie Nelson, Natalie Cole, Chris Stapleton – and believe me, I’m just scratching the surface. 

He also spent 17 years as a highly successful composer for television and film, writing scores for major motion pictures like “Hanoi Hilton”, “Fast Company”, “Spring Fever”, “The Fall”, “Friday the 13th: The New Blood AND Jason Takes Manhattan”, as well as for the “Friday the 13th” TV series and many other hit TV shows including “Beverly Hills 90210”, “Hard Copy”, “Outer Limits” and “My Secret Identity”. 

He also composed the music scores for dozens of TV movies including “Amy Fisher: My Story”, “Little Criminals”, “White Lies” and “Daydream Believer: The Monkees Story”, on which he also served as music director. He’s also been the Vice President of A&R for Walt Disney Records and produced a whole slew of children’s lullaby albums under the Disney label, as well as executive producing the blockbuster show and CD, “High School Musical – The Concert”. Our guest has won 3 Juno Awards, a Gemini Award and 5 SOCAN Awards.  

And now, he’s released a highly insightful and terrifically entertaining memoir entitled, “Unplugged: Stories and Secrets from a Life of Making Records, Scoring Film, and Working with the Legends of Music.” 

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Fred Mollin, go to:

http://www.fredmollin.com/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVe6UMbv6ccO6d-djTqAQFg

https://open.spotify.com/artist/0qPfO5FCAsfqK3pgqBSAJR

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Veronica Cartwright, is a highly acclaimed and beloved actress who’s been dazzling audiences her entire life. 

We first saw her as the Kellogg's Girl doing commercials for Corn Flakes, Sugar Smacks and Rice Krispies. At the age of nine, she played Robert Wagner's sister in IN LOVE AND WAR, and a few years later, she played “Violet” on the classic TV series, LEAVE IT TO BEAVER, and, yes, she was the little girl who gave “Beaver” his first kiss. She also played Daniel Boone’s daughter “The Daniel Boone Show”. 

As a child she also appeared in iconic movies like THE CHILDREN'S HOUR, THE BIRDS and SPENCER'S MOUNTAIN. And she guest-starred in numerous classic TV shows including “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, “The Danny Thomas Show”, “Route 66”, “Mannix”, “Family Affair”, “My Three Sons” - and for all you “Twilight Zone” fanatics, our guest starred in the renowned Season 3 episode, “I Sing the Body Electric”. And when our guest became an adult, her career went into overdrive. 

On the big screen, you’ve seen her in over 50 great movies including “Inserts”, “Invasion of the Body Snatchers”, “Alien”, “The Right Stuff”, “False Identity”, “Kinsey”, “The Invasion”, “The Odd Way Home”, “The Field”, “The Ruse” - and she’s made 3 movies with Jack Nicholson: “Goin’ South”, “The Witches of Eastwick”, and “Man Trouble”.  On television, she’s appeared in dozens of classic series including “Miami Vice”, “L.A. Law”, “E.R.”, “The X-Files”, “Chicago Hope”, “Six Feet Under”, “Grey’s Anatomy”, “Eastwick”, “Resurrection”, “Bosch”, and most recently, “A Man on the Inside”, in which she co-stars with Ted Danson. At age 15 she won an Emmy Award for Best Actress in the TV movie, TELL ME NOT IN MOURNFUL NUMBERS. 

And she’s appeared in dozens of other terrific TV movies and miniseries including “Who Has Seen the Wind”, “Prime Suspect”, “Robert Kennedy and His Times”, “Tanner ‘88”, “Hitler’s Daughter”, “Lincoln and the War Within”, “The Lottery”, “The Rat Pack”, and many more. And on the stage, our guest received rave reviews for her performances in THE HANDS OF ITS ENEMY, THE TRIPLET COLLECTION and HOMESTEADERS, each of which earned her a Drama Logue Award for Best Actress. She’s also won a Glitter Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in “Straight-Jacket”, she won a Best Supporting Actress Award at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival for her performance in “Barry Dingle”, she won a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in “Alien”, and she’s received 3 Emmy Award nominations for her extraordinary work in “The X-Files” and “E.R.”. 

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Veronica Cartwright, go to:

http://www.veronica-cartwright.com

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s special guest, James E Hibbard, may not be a household name, but I’m pretty sure you’ve seen him in many classic movies and TV shows. 

In a career spanning over 65 years, our guest has been a highly respected dancer, singer, actor, choreographer, director and teacher. His list of credits is truly jaw dropping. He’s appeared in dozens of iconic movies including “Gypsy”, “Bye Bye Birdie”, “The Swinger”, “Thoroughly Modern Millie”, ‘Hello Dolly”, “Finian’s Rainbow”, “Marriage on the Rocks”, and a staggering total of SIX movies with Elvis Presley: “Viva Las Vegas”, “Kissin’ Cousins”, “Girl Happy”, “Roustabout”, “Spinout”, “Clambake” and “Easy Come, Easy Go”. On television, he’s appeared in a whole slew of classic shows like “The Beverly Hillbillies”, “Batman”, “The Lucy Show”, “MacGyver”, and as a dancer and choreographer, he’s worked on numerous variety shows and TV Specials with Dean Martin, Tom Jones, Paul Anka, Bobby Vinton, Anne Murray, Nancy Sinatra, Ann-Margret, Peggy Fleming, and he even choreographed the 2002 TV movie, “It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie”. 

He’s worked with the greatest legendary stars in history including Mickey Rooney, Donald O’Connor, Julie Andrews, Elvis Presley, Ann-Margret, Diana Ross, Sonny & Cher, Raquel Welch, Tina Turner, James Brown, The Beach Boys, The Mamas and the Papas – and believe me, I’m just scratching the surface. On stage, our guest has worked in productions of “West Side Story”, “Anything Goes”, “Godspell”, “Best Little Whorehouse in Texas”, “Cabaret”, “Little Shop of Horrors”, “Guys and Dolls”, “The Pajama Game”, and he also appeared in the world premiere of the rock opera, “Tommy”, at the Aquarius Theatre in Los Angeles.  

And his most recent film and television appearances include movies like “Wrongfully Accused”, “Angels in the End Zone” and “Good Boys”, and TV movies including “The Swinging Nutcracker”, “Descendants” and “Descendants 3” and “Freaky Friday”, and TV series including “Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist”, “Julie and the Phantoms”, “The Man in the High Castle”, “Batwoman” and “Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies”. 

In 2003, the West Coast Tap Collective honoured our guest with a Lifetime Achievement Award, and in 2004, he received a star on the British Columbia Entertainment Walk of Fame. 

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about James E. Hibbard, go to:

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s special guest, Michele Lee, is a highly popular and beloved, multi-award-winning actress, singer, dancer, recording artist, producer and director who’s conquered every medium in the world of entertainment. 

She’s appeared on Broadway in 6 shows, including “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying”, “Bravo Giovanni”, “Seesaw”, for which she won a Drama Desk Award, an Outer Critics Award AND a Tony Award nomination, and of course, “The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife”, for which she received another Tony Award nomination. She also starred as “Mame” at the Hollywood Bowl alongside Christine Ebersole and Benjamin Platt. And most recently she played “Madame Morrible” on Broadway in “Wicked”.  

And on the big screen, our guest has appeared in a number of great movies including “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying”, “The Love Bug”, “The Comic” and “Along Came Polly”. And on television, our guest has been immortalized for her portrayal of the resilient and compassionate “Karen MacKenzie” on the blockbuster TV series, “Knots Landing”, for which she received an Emmy Award nomination, and she won 5 Soap Opera Digest Awards, as well as the 2009 TV Land Anniversary Award.  

But beyond that iconic role, our guest has appeared in many classic TV shows including “Ben Casey”, “The Red Skelton Show”, “The Carol Burnett Show”, “Marcus Welby”, “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-in”, “Will & Grace”, and many more. And she’s starred in dozens of TV movies and miniseries including “Only With Married Men”, “Dark Victory”, “A Letter to Three Wives”, “The Fatal Image”, “A Murder on Shadow Mountain” and “Scandalous Me: The Jacqueline Susann Story”, which she also executive produced. 

And let’s not forget the 1997 miniseries, “Knots Landing: Back to the Cul-de-Sac”, and the 2005 TV movie, “Knots Landing Reunion: Together Again”.   In 1996, our guest became the first woman EVER to produce, direct, co-write and star in a TV movie, “Color Me Perfect”, for which she was honored with the prestigious Christopher Award, which recognizes artistic works that “affirm the highest values of the human spirit.”

She’s also a recipient of the Gracie Allen Award presented by the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation. And in 1998, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 

And now, our guest is starring in a brand-new podcast, along with her pals from “Knots Landing”, Joan Van Ark and Donna Mills, called “We’re Knot Done Yet”.

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Michele Lee, go to:

https://michelelee.com/

https://www.facebook.com/TheMicheleLee/

https://www.instagram.com/themichelelee

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s special guest, Susan Stroman, is one of the greatest directors and choreographers the theatre world has ever known. 

She’s won 5 Tony Awards for her work in “Crazy For You”, “Show Boat”, “Contact”, and “The Producers”, for which she won TWO Tony Awards, for Best Direction and Best Choreography. She also directed and choreographed the movie version “The Producers: The Musical”, which received 4 Golden Globe Award nominations. 

Some of her other most popular theatrical productions include “Oklahoma”, “The Music Man”, “Bullets Over Broadway” “Big”, “Steel Pier”, “Young Frankenstein”, “The Scottsboro Boys”, “Prince of Broadway”, “Big Fish”, “New York, New York”, “Picnic”, “Left on Tenth”, and believe me, I’m just scratching the surface. Her shows have been produced not only on Broadway, but in London’s West End and in countless national tours. For ten years she choreographed Madison Square Garden’s annual spectacular, “A Christmas Carol”.

She directed and choreographed “The Merry Widow” for the Metropolitan Opera debut. For the New York City Ballet, she created “Double Feature”, a full-length ballet highlighting the music of Irving Berlin and Walter Donaldson, and she also created “For the Love of Duke”, featuring the music of Duke Ellington. 

She won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Classical Music Dance Program for the TV production of “Contact”, and she received an Emmy Award nomination for Liza Minnelli’s TV special, “Liza – Live from Radio City Music Hall”.  And for her work in the feature film, “Center Stage”, she received the American Choreography Award. 

And her latest Broadway musical is SMASH, which opened in April and has been getting rave reviews. The show, which is inspired by the hit TV series of the same name, is a terrific musical comedy about all the backstage pandemonium as opening night approaches for a splashy new show about Marilyn Monroe called “Bombshell”.  

In addition to her 5 Tony Awards, our guest has received 11 more Tony Award nominations, and she’s won a Helen Hayes Award, a Commonwealth Award, 2 Laurence Olivier Awards, 6 Drama Desk Awards, 13 Outer Critics Circle Awards, 2 Lucille Lortel Awards, 6 Fred Astaire Awards, and 3 Lifetime Achievement Awards including the George Abbott Award and the Oscar Hammerstein Award.  And in 2014, she was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame. And I just have to mention that in 2001, our guest was named Woman of the Year by Glamour Magazine.  

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Susan Stroman, go to:

https://www.susanstroman.com/

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Johnny Whitaker, is an actor, filmmaker, educator, addiction counselor and humanitarian whom we all grew up watching and loving on the classic TV series, “Family Affair”, on which he portrayed “Jody”, the brother of “Buffy” and “Cissy” portrayed by Anissa Jones and Kathy Garver, and co-starring Brian Keith and Sebastian Cabot. 

But beyond that iconic role, our guest appeared in the 1966 movie, “The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming”, he originated the role of “Scotty Baldwin” on “General Hospital”, he starred in the 1973 musical version of “Tom Sawyer”, and he starred in 5 Walt Disney films: “The Littlest Angel”, "Snowball Express", "The Biscuit Eater", "Napoleon and Samantha" and "The Magic Pony"  

He also starred in the Sid and Marty Krofft Saturday morning TV show, “Sigmund and the Sea Monsters”, and he appeared as “Zach” in the 2016 reboot of the series.  He guest starred in many iconic TV shows including “Bonanza”, “Bewitched”, “Green Acres”, “Gunsmoke”, “Marcus Welby”, “Adam-12” and many others. He played Santa Claus in the highly acclaimed TV movie, “A Husband for Christmas”. 

And most recently, he played the Bishop in the TV series, “The Last Evangelist”. After overcoming his own struggles with substance abuse, our guest became certified as an Addiction Counselor and Advocate, in addition to writing, directing, teaching and acting. He actually wrote, directed and executive produced a compelling documentary showcasing Portugal's groundbreaking treatment of drug addicts, which focuses on rehabilitation, rather than punitive criminal prosecution, making Portugal a world leader in positive change in drug policy. 

In 1999, our guest received the Former Child Star Lifetime Achievement Award from the Youth in Film Awards.

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Johnny Whitaker, go to:

http://www.johnnywhitaker.com/

http://www.pasoporpaso.org/

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s special guest, Donna Mills, is a highly popular and beloved, multi-award-winning actress and producer who has been immortalized by her unforgettable portrayal of the conniving, scheming “Abby Cunningham” on the blockbuster TV series, “Knots Landing”, for which she won 3 Soap Opera Digest Awards. 

But beyond that iconic role, our guest has brought us dozens of memorable performances in a career that has spanned 6 decades. She appeared on Broadway in Woody Allen’s hilarious play, “Don’t Drink the Water”. On the big screen, she played Clint Eastwood’s girlfriend in “Play Misty For Me”, and she’s been many other great movies like “The Incident”, “Murph the Surf”, “Life Gets in the Way”, “Joy”, “Turnover”, “Origin”, and “Best Mom”, for which she won a Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival Award for Best Supporting Actress.  

On television, besides her work on “Knots Landing”, she played “Jane Miller” in “The Good Life”, she was “Laura Donnelly” in “Love is a Many Splendored Thing”, she was “Victoria Trisk” in “Hilton Head Island”, and she was “Madeline Reeves” on “General Hospital”, for which she won an Emmy Award. 

She’s guest starred in numerous classic TV shows including “Gunsmoke”, “Marcus Welby”, “McMillan & Wife”, “The Six Million Dollar Man”, “Hawaii Five-O”, “Melrose Place”, “Nip/Tuck” and “NCIS”.  She starred in many highly acclaimed TV movies and miniseries including “Woman on the Run”, “He’s Not Your Son”, “Alice in Wonderland”, “The World’s Oldest Living Bridesmaid”, “In My Daughter’s Name”, “The Stepford Husbands”, “Deadly Revenge”, “V.C. Andrews’ Dawn”, and of course, the 1997 miniseries “Knots Landing: Back to the Cul-de-Sac”.   

And in 2005, she reunited with her “Knots Landing” cast mates for the highly anticipated TV special, “Knots Landing Reunion: Together Again”.  And recently, our guest along with Joan Van Ark and Michele Lee launched a brand new podcast called, “We’re Knot Done Yet.” 

And if all of that weren’t enough, our guest is also a passionate advocate for the environment. She co-founded an organization called E C O, which stands for Earth Communications Office, which has been instrumental in numerous initiatives including public awareness campaigns, recycling and energy saving programs. 

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Donna Mills, go to:

https://donnamills.com/

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Donna-Mills/

http://instagram.com/thedonnamills

https://twitter.com/thedonnamills

http://instagram.com/thedonnamills

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s special guest, Jo Dee Messina, is a highly popular and beloved, multi-award-winning country music superstar whose beautiful, powerful and instantly recognizable voice has brought us NINE number one, and SIXTEEN Top 40 hit songs including “Heads Carolina, Tails California”, “You’re Not in Kansas Anymore”, “Lesson in Leavin’”, “That’s The Way”, “Burn”, “Bring on the Rain”, “My Give a Damn’s Busted” and dozens more. 

In fact, she was the first female country music artist in history to have THREE consecutive multi-week, chart-topping songs from the same album: “Bye Bye”, “I’m Alright” and “Stand Beside Me”. She led the way in the resurgence of country music in 90s.  

She’s received 2 Grammy Award nominations, and in 1999 she won the Academy of Country Music Award for Top New Female Vocalist AND she won the Country Music Association Horizon Award. She’s also received SIX MORE ACM and CMA Award nominations, as well as TWO American Music Award nominations for Favourite Country Female Artist.  

She has multiple platinum and gold certified albums, and her digital streams and YouTube views are in the billions and constantly climbing.  And her passionate, high-energy performances at her sold-out live concerts on the biggest stages in the world, are always captivating and unforgettable, because of her authenticity, commitment to her fans, and her open vulnerability on stage.  

She’s currently on a North American tour, but she’s taken time out of her busy concert schedule to speak with me today. 

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Jo Dee Messina, go to:

http://www.jodeemessina.com/

https://www.facebook.com/jodeemessina

https://www.instagram.com/jodeemessina

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Bronson Pinchot, is a highly popular and beloved actor who will forever be immortalized as the naive, optimistic, and loveable “Balki Bartokomous” on the hit TV sitcom, “Perfect Strangers”, for which he received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series, and a People’s Choice Award nomination for Favourite Actor in a new TV series. 

But beyond that iconic role, he’s brought us dozens of iconic performances in movies, on TV and on the stage. On the big screen, you’ve seen him in many great movies including “Risky Business”, “Beverly Hills Cop 1, 3 and Axel F”, “The Flamingo Kid”, “Courage Under Fire”, “The First Wives Club”, “Diamond Zero”, “Mr. Art Critic”, “From a Place of Darkness”, “Virgin Alexander”, “The Strike”, “Clowning”, and many more. 

On television, besides his iconic role in “Perfect Strangers”, he was “Dennis Kemper” in “Sara”, he was “Jean-Luc” in “Step by Step”, he was “Patrick Dalton” in “The Young and the Restless”, he was “Principal George Hawthorne” in “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina”. And for 2 years he starred in his own reality show, “The Bronson Pinchot Project”. And he’s guest-starred on dozens of iconic TV shows like “3rd Rock From the Sun”, “Clueless”, “Law & Order”, “Hawaii Five-O”, “NCIS”, “Ray Donovan”, to name just a few. 

He’s also appeared in numerous TV movies and miniseries including “The Incredible Time Travels of Henry Osgood”, “Jury Duty: The Comedy”, “The Langaleers”, “Merry Christmas, George Bailey” and “The Residence”. On the stage, our guest appeared on Broadway in “Zoya’s Apartment”, “Putting it Together” and “Sly Fox”, and he also starred in the national tour of “Stones in His Pockets”. And if all of that weren’t enough, our guest is an extremely successful voice actor. 

He’s won numerous awards for his portrayal of “Bash” in the highly acclaimed podcast series, “A Voice in Violet”. And he’s narrated well over 400 audio books and received multiple awards, including the prestigious Narrator of the Year Award in 2010 from Audible Dot Com. And that same year, AudioFile Magazine named him the Best Voice in Fiction & Classics. 

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s special guest, Mo’Nique, is a multi-award winning and beloved superstar actress, comedienne, writer and producer, whose brilliant and unforgettable performance in the 2009 movie, “Precious”, earned her an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, as well as over 30 other major prestigious acting awards including a Golden Globe, a BAFTA Film Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, the Film Critics Awards from Los Angeles, New York and Chicago, the Independent Spirit Award, and the Sundance Film Festival's Special Jury Prize, to name only a few. 

Our guest has also appeared in many other great movies including “Hair Show”, “Shadow Boxer”, “Domino”, “Fat Girls”, “Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins”, “Blackbird”, “Interwoven”, “Almost Christmas”, “The Reading”, “The Deliverance”, and many more. 

On TV, she co-starred with Queen Latifah in the highly acclaimed TV movie, “Bessie”, for which she received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress, for her compelling and nuanced portrayal of the legendary blues singer Ma Rainey. She also co-starred with Danny Glover and Whoopi Goldberg in the terrific TV movie, “Good Fences”.  And of course, we all remember her as the boisterous, confident, loveable single mother “Nikki Parker”, in the highly acclaimed, multi-award winning sitcom, “The Parkers”, which ran for 5 seasons. 

And for 3 years, she hosted a highly entertaining reality show called “Mo’Nique’s Fat Chance”, which won a Women’s Image Network Award in 2006 for Outstanding Reality Series. She hosted the first season of the VH1 reality show, “Charm School”. She hosted her own radio show, “Mo’Nique in the Afternoon”. And for 2 years, she hosted her own late night talk show, “The Mo’Nique Show”, which won an NAACP Image Award in 2010 for Outstanding Talk Series.  

And over the years, she’s hosted dozens of episodes of the iconic variety TV show, “Showtime at the Apollo”. She’s also starred in many highly acclaimed TV Specials including “One Night Stand”, “I Could Have Been Your Cellmate”, “Mo’Nique’s Fat Chance: The Road to Paris”, “Mo’Nique and Friends: Live From Atlanta”, and “My Name is Mo’Nique”.  

She’s performed her comedy act on the biggest stages in the world, she’s had a residency in Las Vegas, and in 2001 she was nominated for a Grammy Award for her album, “The Queens of Comedy”. She’s also a best selling author of 3 books: “Skinny Women are Evil: Notes of a Big Girl in a Small Minded World”, “Skinny Cooks Can’t be Trusted”, and “Beacon Hills High: A Novel”. 

She’s won 5 NAACP Image Awards, a Women’s Image Network Award, and 3 awards granted by the Alliance of Women Film Journalists, and in 2010 she received the Gold Derby Award for Best Supporting Actress of the Decade. 

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Mo’Nique, go to:

https://www.therealmoworldwide.com/

https://www.instagram.com/therealmoworldwide/

https://www.twitter.com/moworldwide

https://www.youtube.com/@moniqueworldwide3537

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Andrea Simon, is a multi-award winning writer from York City, whose captivating and historically important book entitled “Bashert: A Granddaughter’s Holocaust Quest” moved me so much that I just had to invite her on our show. In this engrossing book, she tells of her search for her roots, which began in Voŭčyn, a town in Belarus, where her beloved grandmother came from, before creating a new life in America. 

Through interviews, personal testimonies, historical accounts, archival documents and family anecdotes, the book reveals the unprecedented barbarism of the Nazis, and the brutal reality of the massacres of the Jews who were living in Soviet territory occupied by the Germans after June of 1941, and before the Nazis came up with the “final solution” in 1942. 

Although most people think of concentration camps and gas chambers when they think of the Holocaust, the fact is that between 40 and 50 percent of the Jews killed during the Holocaust, were killed by methods other than by being gassed. We’re talking about savagely horrific mass murders, exterminating the Jewish populations of dozens of cities, towns and villages, by being shot in the head and then piled in mass graves in the forest. In particular, our guest uncovered the facts surrounding the massacre on September 22, 1942, of 500 Jews from the town of Voŭčyn, where her family came from, AND the even more shocking and barbaric massacre of 50,000 Jews including 9,000 children, in Bronna Gora, located in a forest between Brest and Minsk.  

The book also deals with the refusal of the Soviets, after the war, to recognize and commemorate the Jewish genocide that took place on their territory.  In 2021 the book was ranked at number one on the Book Authority’s list of the “Best Holocaust Biography Books of All Time,” and in 2023, the book received Honorable Mention for the Eric Hoffer Award in the category of Legacy Nonfiction. 

Our guest has also written several other books, including “Esfir Is Alive” and “Floating in the Neversink”, both of which received numerous prestigious awards.  Our guest has published numerous stories and essays, and she’s received many prestigious literary honors, including the Ernest Hemingway First Novel Contest, two Dortort Creative Writing Awards, the Stark Short Fiction Prize, the Short Story Society Award, and the Authors in the Park Short Story Writing Contest.  

Our guest holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from the City College of New York where she has taught creative writing courses.  She’s also taught courses on “How to Write About Your Family — and Still Talk to Them Afterwards”, and she’s even taught a course on how to write about your mother without guilt. That course led to an anthology published last year called “Here’s the Story … Nine Women Write Their Lives”.

For more interviews and podcasts go to:

https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Andrea Simon, go to:

https://www.andreasimon.net/

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100005598465031

https://www.instagram.com/andrea.p.simon/

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s special guest, Judy Collins, is a legendary, multi-award winning singer, songwriter, humanitarian, activist and author who is universally beloved for her sublime, angelic voice, her imaginative interpretations of traditional and contemporary folk standards, her wonderfully eclectic repertoire, and her bold yet vulnerable, deeply poignant original compositions. 

She’s released over 55 albums, many of which have been certified gold and platinum. And she’s had over 2 dozen hit singles, including “Both Sides Now”, which won a Grammy Award for Best Folk Recording, and has been entered into the Grammy Hall of Fame. Her recording of “Send in the Clowns” earned her a Grammy nomination for Best Pop Vocal Performance, and the song won the Grammy Award in 1976 for Song of the Year. 

And in 2017, her rendition of "Amazing Grace" was selected for preservation by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Her other hit singles include “Someday Soon”, “Chelsea Morning”, “Turn, Turn, Turn”, “Hard Times for Lovers”, “Home Again”, “Fires of Eden”, and many more. She’s received 5 more Grammy nominations, including one for her most recent album, “Spellbound”, for Best Folk Album. 

Her television specials and DVD concerts including “Christmas at the Biltmore Estate”, “Live At The Metropolitan Museum Of Art”, “Live In Ireland” and “Wildflowers in Concert” were highly acclaimed and won numerous awards. She received an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature for her 1974 film, “Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman”.  And she’s received a whole slew of other prestigious awards and accolades including being inducted into the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame, receiving an honorary doctorate, receiving numerous Lifetime Achievement Awards, and being given the Golden Plate Award by the American Academy of Achievement. 

She’s written 9 books: “Trust Your Heart”, “Amazing Grace”, “Shameless”, “Singing Lessons”, “Sanity and Grace: A Journey of Suicide, Survival and Strength”, “The Seven T's: Finding Hope and Healing in the Wake of Tragedy”, “Sweet Judy Blue Eyes: My Life in Music”, “Cravings: How I Conquered Food”, and her brand new book of poetry entitled “Sometimes it’s Heaven: Poetry of Love, Loss and Redemption”.

For more interviews and podcasts go to:

https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Judy Collins, go to:

https://www.judycollins.com/

https://www.facebook.com/judycollinsofficial#

https://www.instagram.com/judycollinsofficial/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCINgh-FrQ7HnVI-90XVtmPw

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Darby Hinton, is a wonderful actor with whom the whole world fell in love when he was only 5 years old, playing Fess Parker's son 'Israel Boone' on the hugely popular and iconic TV show, 'The Daniel Boone Show', which ran for 6 seasons, and had an audience of over 30 million viewers. 

But beyond that unforgettable role, our guest has had a long and diversified career appearing in movies like “Hero’s Island”, “Son of Flubber”, “The Good Guys and the Bad Guys”, “Hi-Riders”, “Firecracker”, “Malibu Express”, “Dark Future”, “Stargames”, “The Contested Plains”, “Wild Faith”, “The Marshal”, for which he won several prestigious film festival awards for best supporting actor, and his latest feature film, “Was Once A Hero”, which has also won a whole slew of film festival awards. 

And on television, he’s appeared in dozens of classic shows including “Mr. Ed”, “Wagon Train”, “Route 66”, “The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet”, “The Big Valley”, “Hawaii Five-O”, “Magnum P.I.”, “Knots Landing”, “Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman”, “Mike Hammer”, “Beverly Hills, 90210” and many more. And for all you soap opera fans, in the mid 80’s, our guest played the evil “Ian Griffith” on “Days of Our Lives”.  He also starred in a number of TV movies and miniseries including “Recipe for Disaster”, “The Last Laugh”, “Texas Rising”, “Home on the Range”, and “Christmas Wishes and Mistletoe Kisses”, to name just a few. 

In 2018, our guest released a wonderful book entitled, “Growing Up Israel: My Life in Pictures”, which documents his early years in show business, his love of acting, and mostly what it was like being a part of the great legacy of Daniel Boone on television.

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Darby Hinton, go to:

https://darbyhinton.com/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/186809262023959/

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, BernNadette Stanis, highly popular actress and author who will always be remembered for her portrayal of the quick-witted, savvy “Thelma Evans”, on the groundbreaking TV sitcom, “Good Times”, developed and executive produced by the legendary Norman Lear, and which ran for 6 seasons in the late ‘70s.  “Good Times” was the first TV show to give us an authentic portrayal of the Black family – a household with 2 loving, devoted, hardworking parents, and 3 positive, motivated children. The show broke barriers and redefined what family, community and success looked like for Black America.  

Our guest was the first Black female teenager to be a regular cast member of a TV show, and because of her talent, charisma, sophistication and grace, her portrayal of “Thelma” had a hugely positive impact not only on the Black community, but on everyone. She became the personification of beauty, intelligence, ambition and success for multiple generations of young women of every race and background.   

In addition to her iconic role in “Good Times”, our guest has appeared in numerous feature films and TV movies including “Land of the Free”, “Hidden Blessings”, “Caution: Heartache Ahead”, “No Regrets”, “The Big Shot”, “Once in a Valentine” and “A Christmas Blessing”. She’s also appeared in many TV shows like “The Love Boat”, “The Cosby Show”, “The Wayans Brothers”, “Black Jesus”, and most recently, she plays “Nee Nee Duncan” in the hit TV series “The Family Business” and “The Family Business: New Orleans”. 

Our guest has also written 5 books: “The Last Night: A Caregiver’s Journey Through Transition and Beyond”, “Situations 101: Relationships: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly”, “Situations 101: Finances: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly”, “For Men Only”, and last year, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of “Good Times”, she wrote a wonderful memoir entitled, “Good Times: Ain’t We Lucky We Got ‘Em: Memoir of an American Sweetheart”, which chronicles her journey from the Van Dyke Projects of Brooklyn, New York, to the bright lights of Hollywood. 

And in 2006, our guest and her fellow cast members from “Good Times” received the prestigious TV Land Impact Award.

For more interviews and podcasts go to:

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To learn more about BernNadette Stanis, go to:

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Audrey Landers, is a popular and beloved actress, singer, writer, director, composer and producer who is perhaps best known for her portrayal of “Afton Cooper” for 8 years on the blockbuster TV series, “Dallas”, and in the 1996 TV movie, “Dallas: J.R. Returns”, and in the 2013 reboot of “Dallas”.  

But beyond that iconic role, our guest has had a highly successful and diverse international career. On the big screen, she starred as “Val” in the movie version of “A Chorus Line”, and her other feature film credits include “1941”, “Tennessee Stallion”, “Deadly Twins”, “Getting Even”, “Freakshow”, “Ghost Writer”, “Last Chance Love”, “Circus Island”, “Deadly Closure”, and many more. 

On television, besides her iconic role in “Dallas”, she played “Heather Lawrence Kane” in “Somerset”, she was “Charlotte Hesser” in “One Life to Live”, she was “Miss Audrey” in “The Huggabug Club”, an award-winning children’s TV show which she also wrote and produced, and she’s appeared in dozens of classic TV series including “Marcus Welby”, “The FBI”, “Happy Days”, “Police Woman”, “Charlie’s Angels”, “Fantasy Island”, “The Dukes of Hazzard”, “Murder She Wrote”, “Burn Notice” and many more. 

And she’s also appeared in a number of great TV movies and miniseries including “The French Connection 3”, “Lucky Chances”, “Love at Sea”, “Murder at the Mansion”, and “Cloudy with a Chance of Christmas”.  And in addition to her acting career, our guest is a multi-gold and platinum recording artist and songwriter, with 10 gold hit singles including some of my favourites: “Manuel Goodbye”, “Little River”, “Playa Blanca”, “Honeymoon in Trinidad”, “Mi Amor”, “Summernight in Rome”, and “Jim, Jeff & Johnny”.  She’s performed at the most prestigious concert venues around the world. And if all of that weren’t enough, our guest is also a major force behind the scenes, writing, producing and directing films, TV series and music videos.  In addition to the immensely successful and influential children’s show “The Huggabug Club”, she coproduced feature films like “Ghost Writer”, “Club Fed”, “California Casanova” and “Circus Island”, which she also wrote and directed.  And together with her brilliant mother, the wonderful Ruth Landers, whom we lost last year, our guest created the Landers STAR Collection, an immensely popular women’s clothing and accessories company. And among the many accolades she’s received over the years, in 2012, our guest was given a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Florida Motion Picture & Television Association.

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Sandy Duncan, is a highly acclaimed and beloved actress, singer and dancer who has been dazzling audiences for 6 decades in every medium of the entertainment world. 

On the big screen, she starred in “Star Spangled Girl”, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. And that same year, she received another Golden Globe nomination for most promising female newcomer for her delightful performance in the Disney movie, “The Million Dollar Duck”. She also appeared in a number of other great movies like “The Cat From Outer Space” and “Never Again”, and she was unforgettable as “Pinocchio” in the wonderful 1976 TV movie, “Pinoccio” co-starring Danny Kaye and Flip Wilson. And of course, we all remember her stellar performance as “Missy Anne Reynolds” in the groundbreaking TV miniseries, “Roots”, for which she received an Emmy Award nomination for outstanding supporting actress. 

She starred in several TV sitcoms, starting with “Funny Face”, for which she received an Emmy Award nomination for outstanding lead actress in a comedy series. She then starred in “The Sandy Duncan Show”. And then, in 1987, she astonished the whole world by achieving something that many people thought was impossible: she took over the lead in Valerie Harper’s TV sitcom, “Valerie”, after Ms. Harper left the show, which was ultimately renamed “The Hogan Family”, and she actually made the show better, and kept it going successfully for a further four seasons, which is a truly remarkable accomplishment that no one else in this business could ever have done unless they had the immense popularity and likeability of our guest.  

She guest starred in many classic TV shows like “Bonanza”, “The Six Million Dollar Man”, “The Bionic Woman”, “Law & Order: SVU”, and she starred in one of my all-time favourite TV movies, “My Boyfriend’s Back” with Jill Eikenberry and Judith Light. She was also a regular on “Hollywood Squares” and numerous TV game shows, and she guest starred on every major variety show including “The Sammy Davis Jr. Show”, “The Jackie Gleason Show”, “The Sonny and Cher Show”, “The Flip Wilson Show”, “Laugh-In” and dozens more. And get this: in the late 70s, our guest received four consecutive nominations for a Photoplay Gold Medal Award for Favourite Variety Star.   

And on Broadway, our guest has had a stellar career, with THREE Tony Award nominations, for her performances in “Canterbury Tales”, “The Boy Friend”, and “Peter Pan”. She won a Drama Desk Award for her performance in “The Boy Friend”, and she received ANOTHER Drama Desk Award nomination for her work in “Peter Pan”. Her other Broadway performances include “My One and Only”, “Chicago” and “Finding Neverland”. She’s starred in numerous national tours of “Peter Pan”, “My One and Only” and “The King and I”. 

And off-Broadway, she won a Theatre World Award for her performance in “The Ceremony of Innocence”. She’s also starred in many theatrical productions including “No, No Nanette”, “Driving Miss Daisy”, “The Glass Menagerie” and many more. 

And if all of that weren’t enough, our guest is a recipient of the prestigious National Rehabilitation Hospital Victory Award, which is given to individuals who exhibit exceptional courage and strength in the face of adversity. And most recently, she received the Medal of Arts Award from her home state of Texas.

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Burt Kearns, is an award-winning producer, director, writer, journalist and author who is renowned for his work in nonfiction television and film, in TV shows like “Breaking the Ice”, “Legsville Oral History”, “Guinness World Records Unleashed”, “Joe Rogan Questions Everything”, “The Secret History of Rock 'n' Roll” with Gene Simmons, “All The Presidents’ Movies”, and many more. He produced the excellent 2001 documentary, “Death of A Beatle”, about the death of John Lennon, and he co-wrote and produced the 2006 movie, “Cloud 9”, starring Burt Reynolds. He’s an Emmy Award winning newswriter, and he served as managing editor and producer of the highly popular TV shows, “A Current Affair” and “Hard Copy”.  

But beyond all of that, our guest is also a highly acclaimed author. He wrote, “Tabloid Baby”, which traces the evolution of the tabloid television genre. He then co-wrote “The Show Won't Go On: The Most Shocking, Bizarre, and Historic Deaths of Performers Onstage”, followed by “Lawrence Tierney: Hollywood's Real-Life Tough Guy”.  

Last year, he appeared on our show to discuss his brilliant bestselling book entitled, “Marlon Brando: Hollywood Rebel”. 

And now, he’s back to talk about his brand new book entitled, “Shemp: The Biography of the Three Stooges’ Shemp Howard: The Face of Film Comedy.” The Three Stooges are widely considered to be the greatest, most successful and most influential slapstick comedy group in modern history, and if you’re a fan of The Three Stooges – and who isn’t? – this extremely well-researched book is an absolute must-read, because the author enlightens us on the incredibly impressive – but until now, largely unexplored - life and body of work of the most misunderstood and the most underrated member of The Three Stooges, Shemp Howard, who was actually a highly accomplished, influential and respected comic actor in his own right.  

Along with his brother Moe and vaudeville comedian Larry Fine, Shemp was an original member of the Three Stooges, but in 1932 he quit the group to pursue a solo acting career. He appeared in over a hundred movies alongside the biggest Hollywood stars, including W.C. Fields, John Wayne, James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich, William Powell, Lon Chaney Jr., Myrna Loy, and the team of Abbott & Costello.  But in 1946, when Curly became too ill to continue working, Shemp gave up a successful film career to help his brothers out by returning to The Three Stooges. 

And what’s really fascinating and compelling about this book, is that, because of his meticulous research, our guest challenges and debunks the “official” version of Three Stooges history, largely promoted by Moe, that’s been repeated for decades. The book shatters many myths and uncovers the surprising and often troubling facts behind the scenes surrounding Shemp’s departure from and return to The Three Stooges, and the circumstances surrounding his untimely death.  But more than anything, the book confirms Shemp Howard’s well-deserved place in cinematic history. 

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Barry Bostwick, is a legendary actor who has brought us dozens of unforgettable performances in a career spanning over 5 decades.  

On Broadway, he originated the role of “Danny Zuko” in “Grease”, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. He got another Tony Award nomination for his performance in “They Knew What They Wanted”, and he WON a Tony Award and got a Drama Desk Award nomination for his performance in “The Robber Bridegroom”. He also appeared on Broadway in “Cock-a-Doodle Dandy”, “Hamlet”, “Soon” and “Nick & Nora”, and he starred in the national tour of “The Pirates of Penzance”.   

On the big screen, while it is certainly true that our guest will forever be immortalized as Susan Sarandon’s straight-laced, all-American boyfriend “Brad” in “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”, there can be no question that his talent, versatility and diverse body of work extend FAR beyond that one phenomenally successful cult classic movie. His many other movie credits include “Megaforce”, “Weekend at Bernie’s 2”, “Project: Metalbeast”, “Spy Hard”, “Evening”, “Holiday Baggage”, “Bedrooms”, “Finding Joy”, “The Field”, and of course, “Movie Movie”, for which he was nominated for a National Society of Film Critics Award and a New York Film Critics Circle Award. 

On television, we all remember him as the childish, vain and outrageously inept mayor “Randall Winston” in the classic TV sitcom, “Spin City”. He’s also appeared in many other iconic TV shows like “Charlie’s Angels”, “Hawaii Five-O”, “Foul Play”, “Scrubs”, “Ugly Betty”, “Ghost Whisperer”, “Nip Tuck”, “Glee”, “Hot in Cleveland”, and he’s had recurring roles in numerous shows like “Law & Order: SVU”, “Cougar Town”, “Research”, “Inside the Extras Studio”, “Still the King”, “Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce” and “The Potwins”. 

He’s also starred in dozens of great TV movies and miniseries including “The Quinns”, “You Can’t Take it With You”, “Scruples”, “Red Flag: The Ultimate Game”, “George Washington”, “A Woman of Substance”, “Till We Meet Again”, “The Last U-Boat”, “Depth Charge”, “A Christmas Miracle”, and last but certainly not least, the multi-award winning miniseries “War and Remembrance”, for which our guest won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor in a historic TIE with his co-star Sir John Gielgud. For more interviews and podcasts go to:

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Holly Cole, is an internationally renowned vocalist and multi-platinum recording artist whose sultry, smoky and sexy, perfect pitch voice somehow defies categorization. 

She has a way of reshaping traditional genres, like jazz, pop and country, into her own unique signature style. She’s been dazzling music lovers for almost 4 decades, first in the Holly Cole Trio, and then as a solo artist. She’s released well over a dozen critically acclaimed albums, and some of my favorites are ‘Blame It on My Youth’, “Don’t Smoke in Bed”, “Temptation”, “Dark Dear Heart”, “It Happened One Night”, “Romantically Helpless”, “Shade”, as well as her 2 fabulous live albums, “Steal the Night: Live at the Glenn Gould Studio”, and most recently, “Montreal”, which captured a very special reunion concert of the Holly Cole Trio recorded at the International Jazz Festival in Montreal. 

And I have to mention her wonderful Christmas compilation album, “Baby it’s Cold Outside and I Have the Christmas Blues”, which should be a MUST in everyone’s holiday music collection.  And now, our guest has released her latest album, “Dark Moon”, in which she delivers her unique signature style and reshapes some of the most iconic standards from the New American Songbook writers including Marty Balin, Peggy Lee, Hal David, Burt Bacharach and Johnny Mercer. 

Our guest has performed at some of the most prestigious music venues in the world, and she has starred in TV specials, most notably in 1993, in a show called “Holly Cole Trio: My Foolish Heart”, which won numerous distinguished awards including 2 Gemini Awards. She has also won 2 Juno Awards, 2 Japanese Grand Prix Gold Disc Awards, AND the highly coveted Ella Fitzgerald Award, joining the ranks of Aretha Franklin, Etta James and Harry Connick Jr.. In fact, she and Diana Krall are the ONLY 2 Canadians to have EVER won this award. 

And if all of that weren’t enough, I’m very proud to say that in 2014, our guest received an honorary doctorate from MY alma mater, Queen’s University.

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Carol Kane, is a legendary multi-award winning actress who’s brought us dozens of memorable performances in a career spanning over 5 decades. 

She received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her stellar performance in “Hester Street”, and she’s appeared in many iconic movies including “Carnal Knowledge”, “Wedding in White”, “The Last Detail”, “Dog Day Afternoon”, “Annie Hall”, “The World’s Greatest Lover”, “The Muppet Movie”, “The Princess Bride”, “Scrooged”, “Joe Versus the Volcano”, and one of my favourite movies in recent years, the highly acclaimed “Between the Temples”, for which she won a New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress. 

On television, we all remember her as “Simka Dahblitz-Gravas”, the quirky and sharp-tongued wife of Andy Kaufman’s character “Latka”, on the classic TV sitcom, “Taxi”, for which she won 2 Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award nomination, and a TV Land Medallion Award. She also portrayed “Lillian Abernathy” in “American Dreamer”, “Annie Caraldo” in “Pearl”, “Gertrude Kapelput” in “Gotham”, “Lillian Kaushtupper” in “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”, “Minny Markowitz” in “Hunters” and “Nana” in “Dinner with the Parents”.  

And she’s guest starred in dozens of classic TV shows including “Laverne and Shirley”, “Cheers”, “Seinfeld”, “Empty Nest”, “Two and a Half Men”, “Law & Order SVU”, and “Chicago Hope”, for which she received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series. She’s also appeared in a number of great TV movies and miniseries including “The Greatest Man in the World”, “An Invasion of Privacy”, “Burning Rage”, “Freaky Friday”, “Noah’s Ark”, and many more. And on the stage, our guest has starred on Broadway in a number of shows including “Harvey” and “Sly Fox”, and she earned a Drama Desk Award nomination for her performance in “The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds”. And she also played “Madame Morrible” in “Wicked”, not only on Broadway, but in numerous productions around the country.  And she’s appeared in over a dozen off-Broadway productions including “Macbeth”, “The Tempest”, “The Exonerated, and “Love, Loss and What I Wore”, to name only a few.

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Linda Purl, is an iconic and highly popular actress and singer who’s been dazzling audiences for over 5 decades. 

On the big screen, she’s appeared in many great movies including “Crazy Mama”, “W.C. Fields and Me”, “Leo and Loree”, “The High Country”, “Visiting Hours”, “Viper”, “The Perfect Tenant”, “Bender”, “Broken Halos”, and “Paul’s Promise”, for which she received numerous prestigious film festival awards. And on television, we all remember her as “Ashley”, Fonzie’s girlfriend in the mega-hit TV series, “Happy Days”. 

She also played Ben Matlock's daughter “Charlene” in the first season of “Matlock”. And she played Pam Beesly's mother “Helene” in “The Office”.  She’s also co-starred in many other TV shows including “Beacon Hill”, “Robin’s Hoods”, “Port Charles”, “First Monday”, “The Oath”, “General Hospital”, “After Forever”, “The Bold and the Beautiful”, and “Claire-ity”, for which she received an Indie Series Award as Best Supporting Actress in a comedy series. 

In addition to dozens of guest starring roles in classic TV shows like “Hawaii Five-0”, “The Waltons”, “Murder, She Wrote”, “Touched by an Angel”, “Homeland”, “True Blood”, “Reckless” and many more, our guest has also appeared in a whole slew of TV movies and miniseries including “Young Pioneers”, “The Flame is Love”, “The Last Days of Pompeii”, “In Self Defense”, “Web of Deceit”, “Incident at Deception Ridge”, “The Story First: Behind the Unabomber”, “Stranger at the Door”, “Maid of Honor”, and “Doomsday Mom”, to name just a few. And on Broadway, our guest starred in “Getting and Spending”, and she played “Aunt Polly” in “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”. 

She’s also appeared onstage in “Seven Deadly Sins, Four Deadly Sinners”, “The Glass Menagerie”, and many other theatrical productions.  And beyond all of that, our guest is a magnificent singer. She’s released 6 albums: “Alone Together”, “Midnight Caravan”, “Up Jumped Spring”, “Taking a Chance on Love”, “This Could be the Start”, and a wonderful live album called “Out of This World”. She appears in concert at the most prestigious music venues in America. And if all of that weren’t enough, she and her partner Patrick Duffy own and operate a company selling Sourdough Starter Kits called “Duffy’s Dough”, and 100% of the profits are donated to charities that are working to eradicate food scarcity and hunger.

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Dan Butler, is a highly popular actor, writer, producer and director who is perhaps best known for his portrayal of “Bob Briscoe”, better known as “Bulldog”, the volatile, macho host of the “Gonzo Sports” radio show” on the blockbuster TV sitcom, “Frasier”.  

And beyond that iconic role, you’ve seen him in many movies including “Longtime Companion”, “The Long Walk Home”, “The Silence of the Lambs”, “Captain Ron”, “I Love Trouble”, “The Fan”, “Enemy of the State”, “Crazy, Stupid Love”, “Blonde”, as well as the multi-award winning short film, “Courage Doesn’t Ask”, and “Karl Rove, I Love You”, which he co-wrote, co-directed, produced and starred in, and which won numerous prestigious film festival awards. 

And on TV, you’ve seen him in many classic shows including “Roseanne”, “Quantum Leap”, “The X-Files”, “Star Trek: Voyager”, “Touched by an Angel”, “Ally McBeal”, “American Dreams”, “Malcolm in the Middle”, “Law & Order: Criminal Intent”, “The Mist” - and yes, last year he made a surprise return appearance as “Bulldog” in the reboot of “Frasier”. 

He’s also appeared in some great TV movies and miniseries including “The Assassination File”, “From the Earth to the Moon”, “More Tales of the City”, “Prayers for Bobby”, to name only a few.  Our guest is also a renowned voice actor. He was the voice of “Mr. Simmons” in the Nickelodeon animated TV series, “Hey Arnold” and in “Hey Arnold: The Jungle Movie”. He was also one of the voices of those lovable canine poker players on “Poker Night”.  

And beyond all of that, our guest has had a very impressive career on the stage. On Broadway, he appeared in “The Hothouse”, “Biloxi Blues”, “Twentieth Century” and “Travesties”. And off-Broadway, he wrote and starred in a highly acclaimed one-man show, “The Only Thing Worse You Could Have Told Me”, for which he was nominated for a Drama Desk Award. He’s also appeared in dozens of other stage productions including “Much Ado About Nothing”, “Waiting for Godot”, “Old Money”, “The Irish Curse”, “When Harry Met Rehab”, “Another Shot”, and many more. 

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Dan Lauria, is a highly popular and beloved actor, writer and producer who became a household name for his portrayal of “Jack Arnold”, the stern, gruff but loving father of “Kevin”, played by Fred Savage, on the hit TV series “The Wonder Years”, for which he was nominated for an American Comedy Award for Funniest Supporting Male Performer in a TV series. 

You also remember him as “Jack Sullivan”, Steve Byrne’s father in another great sitcom, “Sullivan & Son”. And of course, he played “Al Luongo”, manager of the San Diego Padres, in the best TV series ever made about major league baseball, “Pitch”. And he played “Leonard Fero” the angry head coach of the New England Knights basketball team, in yet another TV series about professional sports, “The Hoop Life”. 

But beyond those iconic roles, our guest has brought us countless memorable performances on the stage and screen.  You’ve seen him in many great movies including “Without a Trace”, “9 ½ Weeks”, “Stakeout”, “Another Stakeout”, “Independence Day”, “Wide Awake”, “Total Stranger”, “The Signs of the Cross”, “Miranda’s Victim”, and most recently, he played Tipp O’Neill in “Reagan”. 

On television, in addition to the TV shows I already mentioned, he’s appeared in dozens of classic series including “Hill Street Blues”, “L.A. Law”, “Cagney & Lacey”, “NYPD Blue”, “Touched by an Angel”, “ER”, “Law and Order”, “JAG”, “The Good Wife”, “Shameless”, “This is Us” and many more. 

He’s also starred in a number of terrific TV movies and miniseries including “At Mother’s Request”, “David”, “Quiet Victory: The Charlie Wedemeyer Story”, “The Great Los Angeles Earthquake”, “Overexposed”, “Terror in the Family”, and “From the Earth to the Moon”, to name only a few. 

And on the stage, he’s appeared on Broadway in “Lombardi” and “A Christmas Story: The Musical”. And off-Broadway, he’s appeared in many shows including “Game Plan”, “Dinner with the Boys” and “Just Another Day”, ALL of which he also wrote. 

And if all of that weren’t enough, our guest has also written 3 children’s books in a series called “The Godfather Tales”.

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https://www.instagram.com/realdanlauria/

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Peabo Bryson, is a legendary singer and songwriter who is widely referred to as “the voice of love”.  

In a career spanning 5 decades, this man’s rich, soulful voice has brought us 21 albums, 5 of which have been certified gold, in addition to 8 compilation albums. He’s released 57 hit singles including “Reaching for the Sky”, “I’m So Into You”, “Minute by Minute”, “Let the Feeling Flow”, “If Ever You’re In my Arms Again”, “Show & Tell”, “Can You Stop the Rain”, and of course, he’s recorded some of the greatest duets of the past century including “Gimme Some Time” and “What You Won’t Do for Love” with Natalie Cole, “Here We Go” with Minnie Ripperton, “Make the World Stand Still”, “Tonight I Celebrate My Love” and “You’re Lookin’ Like Love to Me” with Roberta Flack, “Lovers After All” with Melissa Manchester, “You Are My Home” with Linda Eder, “By the Time This Night Is Over” with Kenny G, “We Kiss in the Shadows” with Lea Salonga, and of course we all remember the mega-blockbuster classic duets which earned our guest TWO Grammy Awards: “Beauty and the Beast” with Celine Dion, and “A Whole New World” with Regina Belle, and BOTH of those songs won Academy Awards for the Disney animated feature films, “Beauty and the Beast” and “Aladdin”. 

This man is so phenomenally successful, that he’s the first artist in music history to have separate songs topping FOUR different Billboard charts: pop, R & B, Classical Crossover and Contemporary Jazz.  And if all of that weren’t enough, our guest has also starred onstage in “Raisin”, and he played “The Wizard” in “The Wiz”, and he starred as “Sporting Life” in the Michigan Opera’s 100th Anniversary Production of “Porgy and Bess”.   

He’s currently on a North American tour and then headed to Japan, but he’s taken time out of his very busy schedule to speak with me today.

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Christopher Atkins, is a actor, writer, producer and entrepreneur whose very first movie, “The Blue Lagoon”, made him a global sensation, and earned him a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best New Male Star of the Year, as well as a nomination for a Young Artist Award for Best Young Actor in a Major Motion Picture.  

He’s appeared in many other movies including “The Pirate Movie”, “A Night in Heaven”, “Listen to Me”, “Die Watching”, “It’s my Party”, “Lima: Breaking the Silence”, “True Legends of the West”, “The Color of Water”, “Stained Glass Windows”, “Lake of Fire”, “Attraction to Paris”, and many more. 

And on television, he played “Peter Richards”, the camp counsellor who had a torrid affair with “Sue Ellen Ewing”, in Season 7 of the blockbuster TV series, “Dallas”. He’s appeared in many other TV shows including “Hotel”, “Red Shoe Diaries”, “Suddenly Susan”, “CSI”, and “The Eleventh”, to name a few. And he’s also appeared in numerous TV movies including “Secret Weapons”, “Guns of Honor”, “Dead Man’s Island”, “Angel Flight Down”, “Caved In”, “Blue Lagoon: The Awakening”, “Ladies of the 80s: A Divas Christmas”, and many more.

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

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https://www.instagram.com/christopheratkins1/

https://twitter.com/RealChrisAtkins

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs, is a renowned actor, writer, director and producer who is perhaps best known for his portrayal of “Freddie Washington”, better known as “Boom Boom”, one of the “Sweathogs”, in the classic TV sitcom “Welcome Back Kotter”, in which he co-starred with Gabe Kaplan and John Travolta.  

He also played “Cameron Sanders Sr.” on the popular daytime drama, “A House Divided”, for which he was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor. And of course, we remember him as “Noah” on the groundbreaking 1977 TV miniseries, “Roots”.  And he played Michael Jackson’s father, Joseph Jackson, in the 1992 miniseries, “The Jacksons: An American Dream”, for which he was nominated for an NAACP Image Award. 

He’s also appeared in many other movies including “Claudine”, “Cooley High”, “Youngblood”, “The Annihilators”, “L.A. Heat”, “Southlander”, “A Chance in the World”, “The Perfect Mate”, “The Contract” and many more. And on TV, you’ve seen him in dozens of great shows including “Barnaby Jones”, “Hill Street Blues”, “Alien Nation”, “Diagnosis Murder”, “Roseanne”, “Gilmore Girls”, “Mind Your Business”, to name only a few. And who can ever forget his performance as “Brah Hardy” in the 2023 TV miniseries, “Legacy”? 

And in the late 70s he conquered Broadway, starring in “I Love My Wife”. And if all of that weren’t enough, our guest is also a recording artist. In the late 70s, he released 2 albums, “Lawrence Hilton Jacobs” and “All the Way…Love”.

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https://www.facebook.com/lawrence.h.jacobs/

https://twitter.com/LHJOfficial

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Joanna Gleason, is a highly acclaimed, multi-award winning actress, writer and director whose stellar career and body of work has spanned 5 decades and is still going stronger than ever.  

On the big screen, you’ve seen her in many great movies including “Hannah and her Sisters”, “Heartburn”, “Crimes and Misdemeanours”, “Mr. Holland’s Opus”, “Boogie Nights”, “The Wedding Planner”, “Sex and the City”, “The Women”, “Last Vegas” and many more. 

On television, we remember her as “Morgan Winslow” on “Hello Larry”, “Nadine Berkus” in “Love and War”, “Charlotte St. John” in “Oh Baby”, “Connie Randolph” in Bette Midler’s TV sitcom entitled, “Bette”, “Attorney Jordan Kendall” on “The West Wing”, and “Veronica” in “Sensitive Skin”, in addition to a whole slew of guest starring roles in many TV shows including “Diff’rent Strokes”, “ER”, “Murphy Brown”, “Friends”, “King of the Hill”, “The Good Wife”, “The Affair” and “The Good Fight”, to name only a few. 

And on the stage, our guest has appeared on Broadway in 7 shows including “I Love My Wife”, for which she won a Theatre World Award, “Social Security”, for which she won a Drama Desk Award, “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels”, for which she was nominated for a Tony Award, a Drama Desk Award, and an Outer Critics Circle Award, “A Day in the Death of Joe Egg”, for which she was nominated for a Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award, and of course, her unforgettable performance in “Into the Woods”, for which she WON a Tony Award, a Drama Desk Award and an Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Actress in a Musical. And off Broadway, she won a Drama Desk Award for her performance in “It’s Only a Play”, and she was nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award for her performance in “Sons of the Prophet”. She’s also appeared in many other stage productions including “Fiddler on the Roof”, “Hamlet”, “On a Clear Day You Can See Forever”, and “The Normal Heart”, to name only a few. 

And most recently, our guest has written and directed an excellent feature film called “The Grotto”, which has already won a number of prestigious film festival awards.  The movie tells the story of a woman in the midst of an emotional upheaval, who inherits a half-interest in a struggling nightclub, where she encounters eccentric performers and discovers a heartbreaking secret.

The movie will be released in theatres and on major streaming platforms in the very near future, so please keep an eye out for it. Our guest is currently in New York preparing to star in the World Premiere of Joshua Harmon’s play entitled, “We Had a World”, which will be presented by the Manhattan Theatre Club at the New York City Center Stage 2 from February 25 to April 13, 2025. Our guest has taken time out of her very busy rehearsal schedule to speak with me today.

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Joanna Gleason, go to:

https://www.instagram.com/therealjoannagleason/

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Jonathan Silverman, is a popular actor, producer and director who has brought us many great performances on the stage, as well as in movies and on television.  

On Broadway, he starred in three classic Neil Simon plays: “Brighton Beach Memoirs”, “Biloxi Blues” and “Broadway Bound”.  And he reprised his starring role as “Eugene Jerome” in the movie version of “Brighton Beach Memoirs”. He also played “Stanley Jerome” in the TV movie version of “Broadway Bound”. 

His feature film credits include “Girls Just Want to Have Fun”, “Caddyshack 2”, “Stealing Home”, “Weekend at Bernie’s One and Two”, “Class Action”, “Death Becomes Her”, “Breaking the Rules”, “Swinging with the Finkels”, and “Andover”, for which he won the Audience Choice Award at the Orlando Film Festival. And for his performance in “Snatched”, he was named Best Supporting Actor at the Hoboken International Film Festival. 

And on television, we remember him as “Jonathan Maxwell” on “Gimme a Break”, “Jonathan Eliot” on “The Single Guy”, “Harry Kennison” on “In Case of Emergency”, “Harrison Marlowe” on “Significant Mother”, “Dave” on “Good Girls”, and “Daniel Bennett” on “Moonshine”, in addition to a whole slew of guest appearances on many other great TV shows like “ER”, “Friends”, “CSI Miami”, “Medium”, “Hot in Cleveland”, “Law & Order: SVU” and “Scandal”, to name only a few. 

He’s also appeared in numerous TV movies including “Challenge of a Lifetime”, “For Richer, For Poorer”, “12:01”, “The Inspectors 1 and 2”, “These Old Broads”, “Bobbie’s Girl”, “Jack’s Family Adventure” and many more.  And among the movies he’s directed, he was named Best Director at the L.A. Comedy Film Festival for his 2013 feature film, “Another Dirty Movie”. 

And now he’s co-starring in a new movie called “Feeling Randy”, in which he plays the father of a teenager struggling to come to terms with his sexuality.

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Jonathan Silverman, go to:

https://www.instagram.com/jonnysilverman/

https://x.com/jonny_silverman

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s special guest, Timothy Bottoms, is a highly acclaimed actor who’s brought us many great performances in iconic movies like “Johnny Got His Gun”, for which he received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Most Promising Newcomer.  He also starred in “The Last Picture Show”, “Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing”, “The Paper Chase”, “Operation Daybreak”, “Rollercoaster”, “Texasville”, “Elephant”, “Paradise, Texas” and many more. 

On television, you’ve seen him in dozens of shows, movies and miniseries including “The Story of David”, “The Moneychangers”, “East of Eden”, “Death Game”, “The Face of Alexandre Dumas: The Man in the Iron Mask”, and of course, in the early 90s, he starred in the popular children’s TV show, “Land of the Lost”. 

He’s guest starred in many classic TV shows including “The Twilight Zone”, “That 70’s Show”, “NCIS”, “Grey’s Anatomy”, “Private Practice” and “The Hitchhiker”, for which he won a Cable Ace Award for Best Actor in a Dramatic Series.   

And on the stage, he starred on Broadway in “Fifth of July”. He’s won many awards, including the Grand Jury Prize for Best Supporting Actor at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival for his performance in “Mixed Blessings”. And in 2022, he and his fellow cast members won a Golden Reel International Film Festival Award for their work in the highly acclaimed movie, “Chinaman’s Chance: America’s Other Slaves”. And in 2010, he received the German Independence Honorary Award at the Oldenberg International Film Festival. 

And if all of that weren’t enough, our guest is also an accomplished author, having recently released his first novel entitled, “The Pier”.

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s special guest, F. Murray Abraham, is a legendary, multi-award winning actor who has been dazzling audiences for 6 decades with one unforgettable performance after another.  

On the big screen, you’ve seen him in dozens of great movies including “The Prisoner of Second Avenue”, “The Sunshine Boys”, “All the President's Men”, “Scarface”, “The Name of the Rose”, “Star Trek: Insurrection”, “Mighty Aphrodite”, “An Innocent Man”, “Finding Forrester”, “The Grand Budapest Hotel”, “The Magic Flute” and of course, “Amadeus”, for which he won the Academy Award and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, as well as a BAFTA Award nomination for his brilliant portrayal of the envious composer, “Antonio Salieri”.  

And on television, he’s received 4 Emmy Award nominations – 2 for his work in “Homeland”, one for his voice work in “Moon Knight”, and one for his performance in “The White Lotus”, for which he also won a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Golden Globe Award nomination.  He also received 3 more Screen Actors Guild Award nominations - two for his work in “Homeland” and one for his performance in “The Grand Budapest Hotel”.  And he received an Online Film and Television Association Award nomination for his performance as “C.W. Longbottom” in “Mythic Quest”. 

He’s appeared in many TV movies and miniseries including “Marco Polo”, “Dream West”, “Noah’s Ark”, “The Betrothed”, “A Season of Giants”, “Dead Man’s Walk”, “White House Plumbers” and dozens more. 

And in the world of theatre, our guest has appeared in 13 Broadway shows including “The Man in the Glass Booth”, “The Ritz”, “Macbeth”, “Angels in America: Millenium Approaches” AND “Perestroika”, “Triumph of Love” and “It’s Only a Play”. 

He’s also appeared in over 30 off-Broadway productions. For his work in theatre, he’s won 2 Obie Awards for his performances in “Uncle Vanya” and “The Merchant of Venice”, and he’s been nominated for 3 Drama Desk Awards and 2 Drama League Awards. And if all of that weren’t enough, our guest received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Spoken Word album for “Interview with the Vampire”. He received the John H. Finley Award for exemplary dedicated service to the City of New York, the John Gielgud Award for Excellence in the Dramatic Arts, and in 1990 he received an Honorary Doctorate from Rider University.  And In 2015, he was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.

Our guest is currently in rehearsal for a new off-Broadway production at the Irish Repertory Theatre, called “Beckett Briefs”, and he’s taken time out of his very busy rehearsal schedule to speak with me today. 

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Fred Olen Ray, is a renowned director, producer, screenwriter and author whose body of work includes over 200 feature films in many genres including horror, sci-fi, action-adventure, erotic thrillers, crime dramas, rom-coms and holiday films.  

Some of his most popular movies are “Scalps”, “The Tomb”, “Terminal Force”, “Beverly Hills Vamp”, “Haunting Fear”, “Evil Toons”, “The Shooter”, “Deadly Shores”, “Stage Fright”, to name only a few. And I have to mention the brilliant short film, “Spidora”, for which he won FOUR prestigious film festival awards. 

He’s worked with everyone from Buster Crabbe, Roddy McDowall, Cliff Robertson, John and David Carradine and Martin Landau, to Chevy Chase, George Hamilton, Peter Fonda, Stella Stevens, Troy Donahue, Russ Tamblyn, Steven Segal and many more. Our guest has also produced and directed dozens of Christmas movies including some of my favourites, “A Prince for Christmas”, “A Christmas in Vermont”, “One Fine Christmas”, and “A Royal Christmas Holiday”. 

On television, he produced “Dante’s Cove”, he wrote, produced and directed 28 episodes of “The Lair”, and he won an Emmy award and received 2 more Emmy nominations for his work on “The Bay”. 

In addition, our guest has written 5 books: “Grind Show: Weirdness as Entertainment”, “The New Poverty Row: Independent Filmmakers as Distributors”, “Writing the Perfect Christmas TV Movie”, “Deep Red”, and his latest release, a fascinating, uninhibited and insightful memoir entitled “Hell-Bent for Hollywood: A Director’s Journey”, in which he takes us on his colorful and sometimes turbulent journey from fringe, low-budget filmmaking to a long-running, successful career as a highly respected writer, producer and director.

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Fred Olen Ray, go to:

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s special guest, Victor Garber, is a beloved and highly acclaimed actor who has brought us hundreds of memorable performances in a career spanning over 5 decades.  

On the big screen, you’ve seen him in great movies including “Godspell”, “Sleepless in Seattle”, “Jeffrey”, “The First Wives Club”, “Titanic”, “External Affairs”, “Legally Blonde”, “Milk”, and “Argo”, just to name a few. 

On television, he’s appeared in a whole slew of shows including “Eli Stone”, “Deception”, “Web Therapy”, “Tales of the City”, “Power”, “D.C.’s Legends of Tomorrow”, “The Orville”, “The Flash”, “Family Law” - and of course, we will always remember him as “Jack Bristow” in “Alias”, for which he received 3 Emmy Award nominations. 

Our guest has also co-starred in many terrific TV movies and miniseries including “Charlie’s Aunt”, “Liberace: Behind the Music”, “The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway”, “Dieppe”, “Liberty: The American Revolution”, “Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows”, “The Music Man”, “The Last Templar”, and so many more. Our guest has also had an illustrious career onstage. 

He’s appeared in 16 Broadway shows and received 4 Tony Award Best Actor nominations, for his work in “Damn Yankees”, “Lend Me a Tenor”, “Little Me” and “Deathtrap”. He also starred in the 1998 Tony Award winning Best Play, “Art”, as well as in “Hello Dolly”, “Present Laughter”, “Sweeney Todd”, “They’re Playing Our Song” and many more great shows. The list of accolades and awards this man has received is truly mind-blowing. In addition to the 4 Tony Award nominations I just mentioned, he’s been nominated for 6 Emmy Awards - 3 for his work in “Alias”, 2 for his guest appearances in “Will & Grace” and “Frasier”, and 1 for his portrayal of Judy Garland’s husband Sid Luft in “Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows”.  

He won a Critics Choice Award for his work in “Milk”. He and his fellow cast members have been nominated for THREE Screen Actors Guild Awards for “Titanic”, “Milk” and “Argo”, and they WON for “Argo”. 

And if all of that weren’t enough, our guest has been nominated for 6 Online Film and Television Association Awards, 4 Gold Derby Awards, 3 Gemini Awards, 3 Canadian Screen Awards, 2 Teen Choice Awards, and believe me, I’m just scratching the surface. In 2018 our guest received the Theatre World John Willis Award for Lifetime Achievement. 

And as a proud Canadian, I must mention that in 2013, our guest received a Star on the Canadian Walk of Fame. And in 2022, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Victor Garber, go to:

https://www.instagram.com/therealvictorgarber/

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s special guest, Richard Kind, is a renowned and beloved, multi-award winning actor whose exceptional body of work includes many iconic performances. 

On the big screen, you’ve seen him in dozens of movies including “Mr. Saturday Night”, “Hacks”, “Quicksand”, “The Station Agent”, “A Serious Man”, “The Producers”, “For Your Consideration”, “Argo”, “Tankhouse”, and “Wolfs”, to name just a few. 

And on television, he’s best remembered for playing “Paul Lassiter” in “Spin City”, “Joey Rathburn” in “Luck”, “Sam Meyers” in “Red Oaks”, “Aubrey James” in “Gotham”, “Cousin Andy” in “Curb Your Enthusiasm”, “Captain Stan Yenko” in “East New York”, and of course, “Dr. Mark Devanow” on “Mad About You”, for which he was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award. 

He’s won many prestigious awards for his work in “Andover”, “Auggie”, “A Serious Man”, “Hudson Falls”, “Detours”, and “Yes We Cannabis”.  

He’s also highly acclaimed for his voice work in iconic animated shows like “Tom & Jerry: The Movie”, “A Bug’s Life”, “Garfield: The Movie”, “Toy Story 3”, “Cars 1 and 2”, “Tom Sawyer”, “Inside Out”, “Big Mouth” and “American Dad”.   

And on Broadway, our guest has appeared in numerous shows including “The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife”, “The Producers”, “Sly Fox”, “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels”, “Kiss Me Kate” and “The Big Knife”, for which he won a Drama Desk Award and was nominated for a Tony Award and an Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. 

And from December 11 to January 12, he’ll be starring on Broadway in Simon Rich’s brilliant play, “All In: Comedy About Love”.

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Richard Kind, go to:

https://www.instagram.com/realrichardkind/

https://twitter.com/RealRichardKind

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s special guest, Renée Taylor, is a highly popular and beloved, Oscar nominated, multi-award winning actress, writer, producer and director who has been dazzling audiences for over 60 years. 

We all remember her portrayal of the quintessential Jewish mother, “Sylvia Fine” - Fran Drescher’s mother - on the hit TV series “The Nanny”, for which she received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. But her stellar career and body of work extend far beyond that popular show.  

On Broadway, she starred in 3 plays that she also wrote: “Lovers and Other Strangers”, “It Had to be You”, and “If You Ever Leave Me, I’m Going With You”, which she wrote AND directed . And she was nominated for an Academy Award, along with her beloved husband Joe Bologna, for co-writing the 1970 movie “Lovers and Other Strangers”. She and Joe also wrote and starred in the 1971 movie, “Made For Each Other”, which earned them a nomination for a Writers Guild of America Award for Best Comedy. And they wrote and directed the wonderful 1989 film, “It Had to be You”, based on their Broadway show. They also co-directed and co-starred in “Love is All There Is”. 

And who can ever forget our guest as Ava Braun in Mel Brooks' classic 1967 movie, “The Producers”? She also appeared on the big screen in “The Detective”, “A New Leaf”, “Last of the Red Hot Lovers”, “Lovesick”, “White Palace”, “Delirious”, “Boynton Beach Club”, “The Do-Over”, “How to be a Latin Lover”, and many more great movies. 

On television, besides “The Nanny”, you’ve seen her in dozens of shows including “St. Elsewhere”, “Thirtysomething”, “Daddy Dearest”, “Dream On”, “Everwood”, “Law & Order: SVU”, “How I Met Your Mother”, to name only a few. And she’s appeared in numerous TV movies and miniseries including “A Match Made in Heaven”, “Pandemic”, “Weird Loners”, and “Bedrooms”, which she and Joe Bologna co-wrote, co-directed and co-starred in. She and Joe also co-wrote and co-starred in the 1974 TV movie “Paradise”, for which they received an Emmy Award nomination for Best Writing. And they WON an Emmy Award for writing the brilliant TV movie, “Acts of Love and Other Comedies”.  

And if all of that weren’t enough, our guest is also a best-selling author of a very entertaining book entitled, “My Life on a Diet: Confessions of a Hollywood Diet Junkie.”  And a few years ago, she went on tour with her hilarious one-woman show called “My Life on a Diet”.

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Paul Petersen, is a beloved former child star, pop singer, teen idol, author, spokesman and child rights activist. We first fell in love with him as “Jeff Stone” on “The Donna Reed Show”. 

He also appeared in a number of major motion pictures including “The Monolith Monsters”, “Houseboat”, “A Time for Killing”, “The Happiest Millionaire”, “Journey to Shiloh”, “Mommy’s Day”, “The Portal” and others. And on TV, he’s guest starred in many classic shows including “General Hospital”, “The Virginian”, “Mannix”, “The Flying Nun”, “The Big Valley”, “My Three Sons”, “Lassie”, “Matt Houston”, “Mike Hammer” and many more. 

He’s also starred in numerous TV movies including “Something For a Lonely Man”, “In the Year 2889”, “Gidget Grows Up”, “Scout’s Honor”, and “High School USA”.  Our guest was also a successful recording artist in the 60’s, with a number of hit songs including "She Can't Find Her Keys", "Keep Your Love Locked", "Lollipops and Roses" and "My Dad". 

In the mid-70s, our guest embarked on a writing career. His first book, entitled “High Performance Driving”, teaches drivers to be skillful, safe and efficient. He then published 8 action-adventure novels in a series called “The Smuggler”. And then in 1977 he released a memoir entitled, “Walt, Mickey and Me: Confessions of the First Ex-Mouseketeer”, which is a fascinating and eye-opening account of his tumultuous 3 weeks, at the age of 9 years old, when he was a member of the Mickey Mouse Club TV show hosted by Walt Disney.   

And then, in 1991, following the suicides of former child actors Tim Hovey, Trent Lehman and Rusty Hamer, our guest created a non-profit organization called “A Minor Consideration”, which provides support and assistance to former child stars, and advocates for legislative protection for child celebrities in terms of working conditions and financial security. A Minor Consideration has had a tremendously positive and profound impact in the entertainment industry, and it has given our guest the well-deserved title of “the patron saint of child actors”. And in fact, in 1997 our guest received the Former Child Star Lifetime Achievement Award at the Young Artist Awards.

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To learn more about Paul Petersen, go to:

www.paulpetersen.com

www.aminorconsideration.org

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Nicholas Hammond, is a highly popular and beloved actor, writer and director whom we first fell in love with in 1965 when he played “Friedrich von Trapp”, the eldest son of the von Trapp children, in the classic movie, “The Sound of Music”. 

And of course, we remember him as the very first live action “Peter Parker” – better known as “Spider-Man” – in the 1977 movie “Spider-Man” and the 2 sequels, “Spider-Man Strikes Back” and “Spider-Man: The Dragon’s Challenge”, as well as on the iconic TV show, “The Amazing Spider-Man”.  

But beyond those iconic roles, our guest has brought us many other great performances. On Broadway, at the age of 11, he played Sir Michael Redgrave’s son in “The Complaisant Lover”, and in 1970 he returned to Broadway to star in “Conduct Unbecoming”. 

On the big screen, he appeared in “Lord of the Flies”, “Skyjacked”, “Superdad”, “Emerald City”, “The Black Cobra 2”, “Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles”, “Stealth”, “Turkey Shoot”, “Ladies in Black”, “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”, “Art of Eight Limbs” and many more. And on TV, he’s appeared in dozens of shows including “The Brady Bunch”, “The Waltons”, “Gunsmoke”, “Falcon Crest”, “Dallas”, “General Hospital”, “Murder She Wrote”, “Mirror, Mirror”, “BackBerner”, “MDA”, just to name a few. 

And you’ve seen him in a whole slew of TV movies and miniseries including “Catch-22”, “Rich Man, Poor Man”, “The Martian Chronicles”, “Cyclone Tracy”, “The Challenge”, “Trouble in Paradise”, “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea”, “On the Beach”, “Gallipoli” and many more. And our guest is also a very gifted writer. He co-wrote the TV miniseries “A Difficult Woman” and the TV movie, “Secret Men’s Business”.

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Joel Brokaw, can truly be said to be descended from Hollywood royalty – perhaps not in the traditional sense, because neither of his parents were movie stars. But his father was one of the most successful, powerful and respected agents in the history of Hollywood, Norman Brokaw. 

Throughout his career he represented some of the greatest legendary stars in history, including Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Barbara Stanwyck, Loretta Young, Susan Hayward, Natalie Wood, Kim Novak, Clint Eastwood, Dick Van Dyke, Donna Summer and many more, including Olympic athletes like Mark Spitz, and former President Gerald Ford and his wife Betty Ford. 

He was renowned for his professionalism, integrity, sincerity, enthusiasm and above all, his steadfast loyalty and devotion to his clients. But until now, no one really knew the man behind the sterling professional reputation, because he always shied away from center stage, preferring instead to shine the spotlight on his superstar clients. 

But now our guest, who is Norman Brokaw’s son, has written a highly compelling and insightful book about his father entitled, “Driving Marilyn: The Life and Times of Legendary Hollywood Agent Norman Brokaw.” The book tells the story of Norman Brokaw’s remarkable 60-year journey, beginning in 1943, when at the age of 16, he started working in the mail room at the illustrious William Morris Agency, and then worked his way up to President and then Chairman and CEO of the company.  

Our guest spent 30 years as a publicist in Hollywood, representing many big stars, including Tyler Perry, for whom he ended up ghost writing the #1 New York Times Bestseller, “Don’t Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings: Madea’s Uninhibited Commentaries on Love and Life”. That book, released in 2006, launched our guest into a new and highly successful career as an author, collaborator and ghost writer. 

His other books include “Living with Purpose: An Activist’s Guide to Listening, Learning and Leading”, by Dorothy Height, “It's Never Too Late: Getting Older, Wiser, and Worry Free in Our Golden Years”, by Scott Page, “There's No Traffic on the Extra Mile: Lessons on the Road from Dreams to Destiny” by Ricky Minor, and he co-wrote Florence Henderson’s bestselling memoir, “Life is Not a Stage: From Broadway Baby to a Lovely Lady and Beyond”.  He also co-wrote “Jane's Dust: A Tale of Talc, Deceit, and Death” along with Dr. Ronald E. Gordon. And he co-wrote “Connect - The Ultimate Human Superpower - 38 Remarkable Journeys into the Inner Realm of Mind Power”, together with Sam Beard. And in 2022, he published a delicious memoir entitled, “Perfect Moments”. 

For more information on Joel Brokaw, go to:

https://joelbrokaw.com/

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Bill Medley, is a legendary music superstar whose deep, soulful baritone voice, as one of the Righteous Brothers, changed the face and sound of American music, and ushered in the era of what became known as “blue-eyed soul”. 

The Righteous Brothers brought us dozens of hit songs including “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’”, “Unchained Melody”, “You’re My Soul and Inspiration”, “Ebb Tide”, “Rock and Roll Heaven”, “Just Once in My Life” and many more. And as a solo artist, our guest had numerous hit singles including “I Can’t Make it Alone”, “Brown Eyed Woman”, “Don’t Know Much”, “I Still Do”, and of course, his mega-hit, Grammy Award-winning duet with Jennifer Warnes, “I’ve Had the Time of My Life”, from the “Dirty Dancing” soundtrack. 

Our guest holds the distinction of having had hit records in FOUR different decades. And get this: his song, “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’” is the MOST PLAYED SONG in the HISTORY of American radio. Over the years, his songs have been featured many movies including “Major League”, “The Last Boy Scout”, “Top Gun”, “Ghost” and “Dirty Dancing”, as well as dozens of TV shows. 

And our guest has received many prestigious accolades and awards. As a member of the Righteous Brothers, he received TWO Grammy Award nominations, and he’s been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Vocal Group Hall of Fame and the National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame. And as a solo artist, he received another Grammy nomination in 1972 for his recording of "Freedom and Fear", and in 1988, he and Jennifer Warnes WON the Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group for their magnificent duet, "I've Had The Time of My Life". 

In 2014 our guest released a highly compelling, insightful and very poignant autobiography entitled, “The Time of My Life: A Righteous Brother’s Memoir”. And for the last few months he’s been on a highly successful farewell tour

For more information on Bill Me4dley and The Righteous Brothers, go to:

http://www.righteousbrothers.com/

https://www.facebook.com/righteousbrothersofficial/

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Marilu Henner, is a highly acclaimed and popular actress, producer and best selling author who is perhaps best remembered for her portrayal of “Elaine Nardo” in the hit TV show “Taxi”, for which she received 5 Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress. 

She also played Burt Reynolds’ wife “Ava Newton” on “Evening Shade”, and she was “Aida” in over a dozen Aurora Teagarden Mystery movies. But her body of work extends far beyond those memorable roles.  She’s appeared in numerous shows on Broadway, including the original cast of “Grease”, as well as “Over Here”, “Pal Joey”, “Chicago” and “The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife”. And she starred in many national touring productions including “Annie Get Your Gun”.  

Her feature film credits include “Bloodbrothers”, “Hammett”, “The Man Who Loved Women”, “Johnny Dangerously”, “Chains of Gold”, “Imperfections”, “Life With Dog”, “The Mimic” and “L.A. Story”, for which she was nominated for an American Comedy Award for Funniest Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture. 

On TV, she’s appeared in a whole slew of movies and miniseries including “Dream House”, “Love with a Perfect Stranger”, “Grand Larceny”, “Ladykillers”, “My Son is Innocent”, “Titanic”, “The Governor’s Wife”, “Good Behaviour”, “A Kismet Christmas” and many more. And she’s guest starred in dozens of great TV series including “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, “The Tracy Ullman Show”, “Cybill”, “Providence”, “ER”, “Grey’s Anatomy” and many more.  And she co-starred in an episode of Great Performances called “Grown-Ups”, for which she was nominated for a Cable Ace Award for Best Actress. 

Our guest is also a New York Times bestselling author of TEN wonderful books. My favourites are: “By All Means Keep On Moving”, “Marilu Henner's Total Health Makeover”, “I Refuse To Raise A Brat”, “Party Hearty: Hot, Sexy, Have-a-Blast Food & Fun All Year Round”, “Total Memory Makeover: Uncover Your Past, Take Charge of Your Future”, and her most recent book which I believe EVERYONE needs to read, “Changing Normal: How I Helped My Husband Beat Cancer”, which is an absolute revelation.  

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About Harvey's guest:

If you’re a fan of our show, you’ll be familiar with our very special series called “Gone But Not Forgotten”, where we celebrate the careers and legacies of the greatest cinematic legends of all time. 

Today’s guest, Julie Garfield, is the daughter of one of the most popular, beloved and highly acclaimed actors of the 20th century: John Garfield.  

He received Academy Award nominations and New York Film Critics Circle Award nominations for his performances in “Body and Soul” and “Four Daughters”, for which he also won a National Board of Review Award. His other iconic movies include “They Made Me a Criminal”, “Juarez”, “Daughters Courageous”, “The Sea Wolf”, “Pride of the Marines”, “The Postman Always Rings Twice”, “Humoresque”, “Body and Soul”, “Gentleman’s Agreement”, “Force of Evil”, “The Breaking Point”, and many more.  

He also appeared in over a dozen Broadway shows including “Golden Boy”, “The Big Knife”, “Counsellor-at-Law”, “Peer Gynt” and many more.  In the early 1950’s, during the McCarthy era, John Garfield was victimized and blacklisted, because he adamantly refused to "name names" when he testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee.  

Tragically, he passed away of a heart attack in 1952 at the age of 39, largely brought on by the stress of the persecution he faced as a blacklisted actor. 

Our guest is Mr. Garfield’s only living child, Julie Garfield. She’s had a most impressive career as an award winning actress in the theatre, both on and off Broadway, and in film and television.  And for the past 20 years, she has been focussing exclusively on her career as a prominent artist. Her paintings and drawings have been featured in many prestigious galleries and exhibits, especially in New York City.

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

https://juliegarfield.com/

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Melissa Sue Anderson, is a popular actress who is perhaps best remembered for her Emmy nominated portrayal of “Mary Ingalls” on the iconic TV series, “Little House on the Prairie”. 

In fact, she’s the ONLY cast member of that show to be nominated for an Emmy award in the acting category. But beyond her work on “Little House”, our guest has appeared in a number of feature films including “Chattanooga Choo Choo”, “Dead Men Don’t Die”, and “Happy Birthday to Me”, for which she was nominated for a Young Artist Award.  

She’s also guest starred in dozens of TV shows including “The Brady Brunch”, “Shaft”, “Fantasy Island”, “Murder She Wrote”, “Hotel”, “The Equalizer”, “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, “Burke’s Law”, “Partners” and many more.   And she’s appeared in numerous TV movies and miniseries including “The Loneliest Runner”, “Survival of Dana”, “Midnight Offerings”, “An Innocent Love”, “First Affair”, “Dark Mansions”, “Memories of Manon”, “Earthquake in New York”, “10 Point 5: Apocalypse” and many more. She won a Daytime Emmy Award for her performance in an episode of the ABC After School Special called “Which Mother is Mine”.  

In 1980, our guest won a 'TP de Oro' Award, considered to be Spain's most prestigious award for television, for 'Best Foreign Actress' for her performance in “Little House on the Prairie”. She was also nominated for a Photoplay Award in 1977 for Favourite Child Star, and together with her “Little House” cast mates, she won a Western Heritage Award for Best Fictional Television Drama, and in 1998 she was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame. 

In 2010, she wrote a highly compelling and insightful memoir entitled “The Way I See It: A Look Back at My Life on Little House”. 

And if all of that weren’t enough, in 2008, she was nominated for a TV Land Award in the category of “Favourite Character You Would Pay to do Your Homework for You”.

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Melissa Sue Anderson go to:

https://www.melissasueandersonfan.com/

https://www.facebook.com/Melissa-Anderson-1557500121138285/

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Tim Matheson, is a highly popular and respected actor, director and producer whose portrayal of the smooth talking “Eric Stratton” - better known as "Otter" - in the blockbuster movie, “National Lampoon's Animal House”, made him a household name.  

Some of his other movie credits include “Divorce American Style”, “Yours, Mine and Ours”, “How to Commit Marriage”, “Magnum Force”, “Almost Summer”, “1941”, “To Be or Not to Be”, “Fletch”, “A Very Brady Sequel”, “Van Wilder”, and “The Etruscan Smile”, for which he and his fellow cast members were named Best Ensemble Cast at the Boston Film Festival. 

And on television, he’s brought us numerous memorable characters, including “Jim Horn” on “The Virginian”, “Griff King” on “Bonanza”, “Quentin Beaudine” in “The Quest”, “Dr. Brick Breeland” in “Hart of Dixie”, “Doc Mullins” in “Virgin River”, and of course, "Vice President John Hoynes" on the highly acclaimed TV series, “The West Wing”, for which he received 2 Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series.   

He’s appeared in hundreds of TV shows going all the way back to “Leave it to Beaver”, “My Three Sons”, “Here’s Lucy” and “Ironside”, as well as “Rhoda”, “Hawaii Five-O”, “Cybill”, “Without a Trace”, “Entourage”, “Burn Notice”, “CSI”, “Madam Secretary”, “This is Us”, and dozens more.  And you’ve seen him in a whole slew of TV movies and miniseries. Some of my favourites are “Blind Justice”, “The Littlest Victims”, “Little White Lies”, “Buried Alive”, “The Legend of Calamity Jane”, “Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis”, “Martha Inc.: The Story of Martha Stewart”, “Judas”, and “Killing Reagan”, for which he was nominated for Best Actor at the Critics Choice Television Awards. 

And over the years, our guest has also directed many TV shows and TV movies.  In fact, he directed the pilot episodes for "The Good Guys" and "Covert Affairs."  

AND NOW, he’s released a highly compelling and insightful memoir entitled, “Damn Glad to Meet You: My Seven Decades in the Hollywood Trenches”, in which he shares his remarkable life journey, taking us behind the scenes of his iconic career.

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Tim Matheson, go to:

https://www.facebook.com/TimMathesonOfficial/

https://www.instagram.com/tim_matheson_official/

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Judy Gold, is a highly popular, multi-award winning comedian, actor, writer, podcaster and advocate who has become renowned not only for her versatility and her bold, hilarious and edgy humour and wit, but also for her advocacy on behalf of the LGBTQ+ community, the Jewish community and especially her passion for promoting freedom of speech and artistic freedom. 

On the big screen, she’s appeared in many movies including “The Truth About Santa Claus”, “She Came to Me”, “Tripped Up” and “Love Reconsidered”, as well as some really great documentaries like “The Aristocrats”, “Hysterical”, and Trevor Noah’s brilliant documentary, “The Story of Cancel Culture”, as well as “Making Trouble”, a tribute to female Jewish comedians. 

On television, in addition to her countless appearances on every major talk show, she starred in “World's Dumbest” and “Hollywood Squares”, she co-starred in “All-American Girl”, and she has guest starred in dozens of TV series including “Roseanne”, “The Drew Carrey Show”, “Law & Order”, “Sex and the City”, “Ugly Betty”, “30 Rock”, “Madam Secretary”, and many more. And she’s been in some great TV movies and miniseries including “Here Come the Munsters”, “The Ballad of Lucy Whipple”, “Beat Cops”, “Casting”, “The First Lady”, and the wonderful HBO documentary, “All Aboard: Rosie’s Family Cruise”.   

She also appeared in the Netflix Special, “Stand Out: An LGBTQ+ Celebration”, and she was featured in the Netflix documentary about LGBTQ+ comedians called “OUTSTANDING: A Comedy Revolution”.  She was a writer and producer on “The Rosie O'Donnell Show” earning FIVE Emmy Award nominations and winning 2 Emmy Awards for Outstanding Talk Show. 

She’s had a number of TV Specials on the Comedy Central channel, LOGO and HBO, for which she won the Cable Ace Award.  She's also hosted Comedy Central's “100 Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time”, “Nick Mom Night Out”, and HBO's “At the Multiplex with Judy Gold”, which ran for nearly a decade. And on stage, our guest has starred in a number of critically acclaimed shows including “The Judy Show: My Life As A Sitcom”, “Clinton the Musical”, “Love, Loss and What I Wore”, “Disaster: the Musical”, and 2 shows based on her bestselling books, “25 Questions for a Jewish Mother”, and “Yes I Can Say That: When They Come for the Comedians, We are All in Trouble.” 

She’s also released 3 hilarious comedy albums entitled, “Kill Me Now”, “Conduct Unbecoming”, and “Judith's Roommate Had a Baby”, and if all of that weren’t enough, our guest also hosts a terrific podcast called “It’s Judy’s Show with Judy Gold”.  In addition to her 2 Emmy Awards, she’s been nominated for a Teen Choice Award for Best Comedian, and she was TWICE nominated for The American Comedy Award's Funniest Female Stand-Up Comic.

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Judy Gold, go to:

https://www.facebook.com/TheJudyGold/

https://www.instagram.com/jewdygold/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsCq8MVEsgeXtkZOwe0V9pQ

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Robert Neary, is a highly accomplished actor, singer, writer, producer and director whose remarkable versatility as a performer has brought him great success. 

On the big screen, he’s appeared in “Teen Wolf Too”, “Torch Song Trilogy”, “Last Curtain Call”, and “Independence Day: Resurgence”. 

On TV, he played “Officer Frank Marino” in “General Hospital”, and he has guest starred in dozens of shows including "Fame”, "Criminal Minds", "Sons of Anarchy", "The Closer", "Grey's Anatomy", " Blue Bloods", "Justified", "The Fosters", "FBI: Most Wanted", "Weeds", "Medium" "NCIS", “Hot in Cleveland” and many more. He’s also appeared in a number of TV movies and miniseries including “Flower Girl”, “A Valentine’s Date”, “The Perfect Student”, “Christmas Twister”, “Runaway”, “A Christmas Mystery”, “16 and Missing”, and many more.  

On Broadway he starred in "Smokey Joe's Cafe", and also appeared in “A Bronx Tale: The Musical”. And he co-starred in the national touring production of the Elton John musical, “Aida”. He’s also been a successful solo recording artist. 

And most recently, he’s been starring in a fabulous live tribute show to Neil Diamond, called “So Good: The Neil Diamond Experience”, which is an electrifying concert featuring himself, backed up by the amazing band “The Mystic”, and also featuring his wife, superstar dancer Natasha Neary. Our guest is currently on tour with the show across the country.  AND NOW, the concert has been made into a movie currently available on Amazon Prime, and if you’re a Neil Diamond fan, this TV music special is a must see.

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Robert Neary, go to:

https://sogoodtheneildiamondexperience.com

https://www.facebook.com/therobertneary/

https://www.instagram.com/rneary16/

https://www.youtube.com/@robertneary1255/

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Robert Hays, is a highly popular actor, producer and director who has brought us a number of iconic performances over the years in movies and on television.  

He made his feature-film debut in the landmark 1980 comedy “Airplane!”, playing “Ted Striker”, the traumatized former pilot who must land the plane when the flight crew gets struck by food poisoning. Two years later, he reprised his role as “Ted Striker” in “Airplane II: The Sequel”. 

On television, we remember him as “Brad Benson” on “Angie”, and “Paul Forrester” – better known as “Starman” – on the TV series, “Starman”.  And of course, he was the voice of “Tony Stark” – better known as “Iron Man” - in THREE different TV series: “Iron Man”, “Spider-Man: The Animated Series” and in an episode in Season 1 of “The Incredible Hulk” called “Helping Hands, Iron Fist”. 

In addition to those shows, our guest has appeared in many great movies including “Take This Job and Shove It”, “Scandalous”, “Cat's Eye”, “Fifty/Fifty”, “Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey”, “Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco”, “Dr. T & the Women”, and “Alex in Wonder” and “Nicky’s Birthday Camera”, both of which he also produced.  He’s guest starred in dozens of TV shows including “Marcus Welby”, “The Blue Knight”, “Wonder Woman”, “Laverne & Shirley”, “Touched by an Angel”, “That '70s Show”, “Spin City” and many more. And he’s starred in a whole slew of great TV movies including “The Initiation of Sarah”, “Mister Roberts”, “Murder by the Book”, “Running Against Time”, “Vanished”, “The Abduction”, “30 Years to Life”, and many more.

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Robert Hays, go to:

https://www.instagram.com/robert_hays7

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Julian Schlossberg, is a renowned producer of motion pictures, television and theater, as well as a hugely popular interviewer, educator and author. 

Throughout an illustrious career spanning over 6 decades, our guest has been involved in virtually every aspect of show business. Back in the 60’s, at the age of 22, he started out at the ABC television network in the station clearance department, and then joined the Walter Reade Organization, first as a film syndicator and then in the theater division, becoming the Vice President and Head of Film Acquisition. 

He was then hired by Paramount Pictures, first as Vice President of Worldwide Acquisition, and later as Vice President of Production. In 1978, at the age of 36, he established Castle Hill Productions, which became one of the largest independent film distribution companies in the world.  His film producer credits include “Widow’s Peak”, “In the Spirit”, “No Nukes”, and the 1992 restoration of Orson Welles’ “Othello”. He’s brought us a number of wonderful television specials including “The Lives of Lillian Hellman”, “Elia Kazan: A Director’s Journey”, “Going Hollywood: The War Years”, “Going Hollywood: The 30’s”, “Steve Allen’s Golden Age of Comedy”, and many more.  

And our guest has produced over 45 multi-award winning Broadway and off-Broadway plays, including “Bullets Over Broadway”, “The Unexpected Man”, “Vita and Virginia”, “The Beauty Queen of Leenane”, “Tennessee Williams Remembered”, “Terms of Endearment”, and many more. He also created and produced “Witnesses to the 20th Century”, a fourteen-hour documentary series examining the major historical events of the 20th century through the eyes of many prominent people who lived through it. 

Our guest also co-founded Gold Castle Records, which produced albums by legendary music artists Peter, Paul and Mary, Judy Collins, Joan Baez, Don McLean and others. And if all of that weren’t enough, our guest is also a pre-eminent and celebrated talk show host. 

Starting in 1974, and for 9 years, he hosted “Movie Talk”, a nationally syndicated radio program in which he interviewed hundreds of iconic stars like Bette Davis, Bob Hope, John Huston, Jane Fonda, Anthony Hopkins, Jack Nicholson, Dustin Hoffman, Warren Beatty and dozens more. His show was also televised, and then he created a wonderful podcast, called “Julian Schlossberg’s Movie Talk”, which has recently become a YouTube channel. 

And now, our guest has written TWO fascinating, compelling and entertaining memoirs, “Try Not to Hold it Against Me: A Producer’s Life”, and “My First Book, Part 2”, in which he shares a wealth of insights into the inner workings of show business, and he regales us with captivating stories about the dazzling array of superstars he’s worked with and gotten to know.

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Julian Schlossberg, go to:

https://www.julianschlossbergproducer.com/

https://www.youtube.com/@JulianSchlossbergsMovieTalk

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, John McCook, is a highly popular veteran actor who first gained prominence for his performance as “Lance Prentiss” in “The Young and the Restless”, for which he won a Soapy Award in 1977 for Most Exciting New Actor.  And in 1987, he created the role of “Eric Forrester” in “The Bold and the Beautiful”.  

In fact, he and his fellow cast member Kelly Lang, who plays “Brooke Logan”, are the only two cast members of “The Bold and the Beautiful” who have remained on the show from the very beginning, for 37 years so far.  For his groundbreaking work on that show, our guest has earned 5 Daytime Emmy Award nominations, WINNING an Emmy Award in 2022 for Outstanding Performance by a Lead Actor in a Drama series, as well as a Soap Hub Award. He’s also received 2 Soap Opera Digest Award nominations, and an Online Film and Television Association Award nomination. 

And over the years, since 1993, our guest has returned from time to time to “The Young and the Restless” in the role of “Eric Forrester”.   But in addition to his work in soap operas, our guest has appeared in dozens of other TV shows including “Dragnet”, “Too Close for Comfort”, “Three’s Company”, “Hart to Hart”, “Dynasty”, “Magnum P.I.”, “Alice”, “Hill Street Blues”, “LA Law”, “Newhart”, and many more. 

He’s also appeared in some great TV movies and miniseries including “Once Upon a Brothers Grimm”, “Tourist”, “Robert Kennedy and His Times”, “Indie”, “Cathedral Canyon”, “David’s Dinosaur” and “Candy Coated Christmas”.

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about John McCook, go to:

https://www.instagram.com/johntmccook/

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Lance Bernard Bryant, is a current member of one of the greatest, most popular and beloved legendary music groups in history: The Platters. 

Founded in 1952 by bass singer Herb Reed, The Platters brought us 40 hit singles, including the classic songs, “Only You”, “The Great Pretender”, “My Prayer”, “Twilight Time”, “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes”, “Harbor Lights”, “Enchanted”, “Winner Take All”, “The Magic Touch”, and many more. The Platters was the first Black group to reach international superstardom, with over 80 million records sold worldwide.  

They’ve been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Vocal Group Hall of Fame and the Grammy Hall of Fame. And their classic hit songs “Only You” and “The Great Pretender” have been included in the Grammy Museum list of the greatest songs of the 20th century. They were the only act to have 3 songs included on the “American Graffiti” soundtrack, which is widely credited with igniting an oldies revival throughout the world in the mid-1970s. 

And the global love affair with the music of The Platters just keeps growing. In fact, their music is so phenomenally popular, that on Spotify ALONE, their songs are streamed more than 3 million times every month. And despite a tumultuous history spanning decades of racism, unscrupulous identity theft and legal battles, and despite the passing of all the original members, the Platters as a group has endured and evolved and thrived over 7 decades, thanks to Herb Reed’s successor, Fred Balboni Jr., who has worked tirelessly to preserve and honour the legacy of this monumentally important group, which continues to bring their magnificent timeless music to concert halls throughout the world.  

They are currently on a North American tour. And our guest is Lance Bernard Bryant, one of the 4 current members of The Platters, who’s taken time out of his very busy touring schedule to speak with me today.

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To learn more about The Platters, go to:

https://theplatters.com/

https://www.facebook.com/ThePlattersOfficial

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Sam Irvin, is a multi-award-winning filmmaker, screenwriter, author and educator whose love of horror movies as a child made him determined to meet and get to know the people who made those movies. 

As a young teenager he produced a hugely popular fan magazine called “Bizarre”, dedicated to celebrating and promoting horror movies and the people who made them. Through a combination of ingenuity, tenacity, luck, and sheer force of will, he was able to meet, interview and sometimes befriend dozens of legendary stars including Vincent Price, Ingrid Pitt, Peter Cushing, Jane Seymour, Christopher Lee, Diana Rigg, Robert Morley, Michael York, and many others.  And get this – by the time he was 13, he had already met a whole slew of big stars – everyone from George Burns, Jane Russell and Natalie Wood, to Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis and Robert DeNiro. 

The fascinating journey of his remarkable youth as a self-proclaimed “professional groupie”, is the subject of his memoir entitled, “I Was a Teenage Monster Hunter: How I Met Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and More.” The book is a must-have for horror movie fans, because it contains the full text of his fabulous interviews with members of horror movie royalty at the pinnacle of their popularity.  

Our guest began his filmmaking career as an assistant to legendary director Brian DePalma, working on the classic movies “The Fury” and “Dressed to Kill”. Since then, he has directed over 50 films including “Elvira’s Haunted Hills”, “Guilty as Charged”, “Oblivion”, “Out There”, “Acting on Impulse”, “Backlash: Oblivion 2”, “Magic Island”, “Fatal Acquittal”, and “Kiss of a Stranger”, which he also wrote. For television, he’s directed “Strip Mall”, “From Here on OUT”, “My Sister is so Gay”, and “Dante’s Cove”. He also co-produced the Academy Award winning movie, “Gods and Monsters”, as well as “The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy”, and the brilliant “Home Movies”, directed by Brian DePalma. 

And if all of that weren’t enough, he wrote the acclaimed biography “Kay Thompson: From Funny Face to Eloise”, which led to being a consultant on Liza Minnelli’s Tony Award winning Broadway show, “Liza’s At the Palace”. 

He’s also written 3 other books: “The Epic Saga Behind FRANKENSTEIN: THE TRUE STORY”, which provides a fascinating account of the making of the groundbreaking 1973 TV movie; he’s written a novel entitled, “ORBGASM: An Erotic Pulp Sci-Fi Satyricon”; and he wrote a hilarious children’s book called “Sam's Toilet Paper Caper!” He has also taught graduate courses on filmmaking at USC, and over the years he has won FOUR prestigious Rondo Awards.  

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Sam Irvin, go to:

https://www.facebook.com/sirvinprod/

https://www.instagram.com/sam_irvin_director/

https://twitter.com/SamIrvin8

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqZVZjIHCCZ35-8qu-HTqpA

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s show is all about an artist who is widely considered to be America’s greatest musical poet laureate and visionary, Bob Dylan. 

He is an artist of transcendent historical importance, both as a cultural hero and an anti-hero. His songs have become part of our cultural DNA. In 1986, a groundbreaking book entitled “Bob Dylan: No Direction Home” was written by the renowned New York Times music critic, Robert Shelton, whose very first article about Bob Dylan brought him national attention and launched him as a celebrity. The book is uniquely insightful, because it’s much more than a biography. It’s an eyewitness account, because Mr. Shelton was a close friend of Bob Dylan’s, and he was there for all of the pivotal events in Dylan’s career in the first half of his life.  This book comes as close as any book can, to finding the essence of the real Bob Dylan, and pierces through all the myths about this elusive artist. Mr. Shelton not only conducted an extensive and profound interview with Bob Dylan - he is the ONLY person EVER to have interviewed Dylan’s parents. Sadly, Mr. Shelton passed away in 1995, but in 2011, a much more complete version of the book was published, which included many parts that were left out of the original edition. 

And now, a brand new edition is being released, thanks to our guest. She is a renowned journalist, broadcaster and author whose work has been featured in the most prestigious publications around the world.  She’s a contributing editor to theartsdesk.com, she’s a contributor to The New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians, she was a founding trustee of the Desmond Elliott Prize for first novels, she served as Editor of the business weekly, “Publishing News”, she was the founding Editor of “Book Brunch”, the online bulletin and website for the publishing industry, she has lectured at numerous universities, and as a broadcaster, she has interviewed everyone from Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, to Leonard Cohen, Judy Collins, Janis Ian, André Previn, Vanessa Redgrave and Joan Baez. 

In fact, several years ago she wrote a highly compelling biography of Joan Baez entitled, “Joan Baez: The Last Leaf”. In 2018 she founded The Village Trip, a celebration of arts and activism in Greenwich Village and the East Village in Downtown Manhattan, and she currently serves as Joint Artistic Director of that event.  But today, she’s hear to talk about the brand new edition of “Bob Dylan: No Direction Home”.

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Elizabeth Thomson, go to:

https://www.lizthomson.co.uk/

https://www.facebook.com/thevillagetrip/

https://twitter.com/TheVillageTrip

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Candace Bushnell, is a best-selling novelist, journalist, TV producer, and, most recently, the star of her own one-woman show. 

She’s the celebrated author of “Sex and the City”, which formed the basis for the phenomenally successful TV show that aired for 6 seasons on HBO, followed by 2 hugely popular movies, and the re-boot TV series “And Just Like That”, currently in production for its third season.  

She has also written NINE other internationally bestselling books: “Four Blondes”, “Trading Up”, “Lipstick Jungle”, “One Fifth Avenue”, “The Carrie Diaries”, “Summer and the City”, “Killing Monica”, “Is There Still Sex in the City”, and “Rules for Being a Girl”.  Her books, “Lipstick Jungle” and “The Carrie Diaries” were BOTH made into TV series for two seasons.  

Back in the 90s, our guest had her own reality show called “Sex, Lives and Video Clips”. Since then, she had an interview program on Sirius Satellite Radio called “Sex, Success and Sensibility”, which explored women’s careers and relationships. She then had a 4-part web-series called “The BROAD ROOM”, which took a humorous look at women in the workplace. And THEN, she created her own BRILLIANT one-woman show called “True Tales of Sex, Success, and Sex and the City,” where she takes the audience on a whirlwind tour of New York City, from Studio 54 to the Lipstick Jungle and beyond, sharing her remarkable stories of fashion, literature and sex while pouring cosmos in Manolos. This highly acclaimed show started out off-Broadway in New York and got rave reviews. She has taken the show overseas, to a number of countries, and as far away as South Africa, and she is currently on tour in the US, playing to sold out audiences and getting standing ovations.  And in December, she’s taking the show to Australia. She is the winner of the 2006 Matrix Award for books, and a recipient of the Albert Einstein Spirit of Achievement Award. She’s a frequent guest on ALL of the major talk shows, and she’s constantly in demand because of her intelligence, warmth, wit, fearlessness and immense likeability. 

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Candace Bushnell, go to:

https://www.candacebushnell.com/

https://www.facebook.com/Candace-Bushnell

https://www.instagram.com/candacebushnell/

https://twitter.com/candacebushnell

https://www.youtube.com/user/CandaceBushnellVid

https://www.pinterest.com/candacebushnell/

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Tom Amandes, is a renowned actor who is perhaps best remembered for his portrayal of “Elliot Ness” in the 1990’s hit TV show “The Untouchables”, and as “Dr. Harold Abbott” in “Everwood”.  But over the past 4 decades he’s brought us dozens of other memorable roles.  

On the big screen, he played Geena Davis' boyfriend in “The Long Kiss Goodnight”, and he was Abraham Lincoln in the 2013 movie, “Saving Lincoln”. Some of his other movies include “Second Chances”, “Brokedown Palace”, “Dirty Deeds”, “Bonneville”, “Lucky”, “The Bachelors”, “A Million Little Pieces”, and the terrific short film “Imagine”, for which he was named Best Supporting Actor at the Filmed in Utah Awards, and he was nominated for the Award of Excellence at the Winter Film Awards. 

On television, he’s had recurring roles in numerous shows including “The Pursuit of Happiness”, “The Guardian”, “Parenthood”, “Chicago Fire”, “Spin City”, “Scandal”, “Promised Land”, and “Perry Mason”. He’s also starred in some great TV movies and miniseries like “Because Mommy Works”, “From the Earth to the Moon”, “Down Will Come Baby”, “If You Believe”, “When Good Ghouls Go Bad”, and “A Neighbour’s Deception”. And he’s guest starred in dozens of classic TV shows including “Murphy Brown”, “Roseanne”, “The Larry Sanders Show”, “ER”, “Family Law”, “NYPD Blue”, “Curb Your Enthusiasm”, “Grey’s Anatomy”, and many more.  

Our guest has also starred in many theatrical productions including "Translations", "The Playboy of the Western World" "What the Butler Saw", "Candida" "The Courtship of Carl Sandburg", “At Home at the Zoo”, and many more.  Over the years, our guest has received numerous accolades, including the 2011 Award for Excellence in the Arts, bestowed upon him by his alma mater, DePaul University in Chicago.

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s special guest, Marsha Mason, special guest is a legendary and beloved actress and director whose iconic career and body of work over the past 6 decades has brought us dozens of unforgettable performances. 

On Broadway, she appeared in 8 shows including “Cactus Flower”, “The Good Doctor”, “The Night of the Iguana”, “Steel Magnolias”, and “The Roommate”. Her list of theatre credits is spectacular, and she’s starred in everything from Shakespeare and Ibsen to Arthur Miller, Lillian Hellman and of course, Neil Simon - and everyone in between. Her performance off-Broadway in "Little Gem" earned her an Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Play, and her starring role in the 1999 revival of “The Prisoner of Second Avenue” in London, earned her a Grammy Award nomination for Best Comedy Album. 

But there’s no question that she became a global superstar for her work in the movies. She’s received FOUR Academy Award nominations for Best Actress, for her performances in “Cinderella Liberty”, “The Goodbye Girl”, “Chapter Two” and “Only When I Laugh”. She’s won 2 Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress for her work in “Cinderella Liberty” and “The Goodbye Girl”, and she received 2 more Golden Globe Award nominations for her work in “Chapter Two” and “Promises in the Dark”.  She’s also appeared in many other great movies including “Audrey Rose”, “Max Dugan Returns”, “Heartbreak Ridge”, “Stella”, “I Love Trouble”, “Nick of Time” and “Bride and Prejudice. 

On television, she starred in her own sitcom called “Sibs”, and she received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for her performance as “Sherry” on “Frasier”. You’ve also seen her in many other shows including “Lipstick Jungle”, “The Good Wife”, “Madam Secretary” and “Grace and Frankie”, and in TV movies and miniseries like “The Good Doctor”, “Lois Gibbs and the Love Canal”, “Trapped in Silence”, “Dinner at Eight”, “The Long Shot”, and one of my all-time favourites, “Life With Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows”. 

In the year 2000, our guest released a compelling and highly revealing, profoundly intimate memoir entitled, “Journey: A Personal Odyssey”, which chronicled her professional, personal and spiritual path which ultimately took her from the heights of Hollywood fame to a new life focussing on physical and emotional wellness in New Mexico. In addition to the myriad of accolades and awards she has received over the years, including a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Gulf Coast Film Festival, our guest was inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame. She is constantly in demand not only as an actress, but as a highly respected theatre director and educator. 

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Marsha Mason, go to:

https://www.facebook.com/p/Marsha-Mason-100045054425880/

https://www.instagram.com/realmarshamason/

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, John James, is a beloved actor who is perhaps best remembered for his portrayal of “Jeff Colby”, the “loving but unloved” husband of “Fallon” on the mega-hit TV series “Dynasty”, earning a Golden Globe Award nomination. 

He also played “Jeff Colby” in the spin-off series, “The Colbys”, earning 2 Soap Opera Digest nominations. And he returned as “Jeff Colby” one last time in the 1991 miniseries, “Dynasty: The Reunion”.  

But in addition to that iconic role, our guest has had a long and diverse career. His movie credits include “Icebreaker”, “Peril”, “Illegal Aliens”, “The Lost Day”, “Evil at the Door”, “My Son Hunter”, “Find Her” and “Axcellerator”, for which he and his fellow cast members won the Rising Tide Award at the Boston Science Fiction Film Festival.  

And on TV, he portrayed “Tom Bergman” in “Search for Tomorrow”, and he was “Jeff Martin” in “All my Children”, and on “As the World Turns”, he was “Dr. Rick Decker”. He’s also appeared in many other shows like “Fantasy Island”, “The Love Boat”, “Touched by an Angel”, “A Friend in the Woods” and “Tales.  And he has co-starred in many TV movies including “He’s Not Your Son”, “Haunted by Her Past”, “Perry Mason: The Case of the Ruthless Reporter”, “Partners in Love”, “Lightning: Fire From the Sky”, “Christmas Camp” and “Christmas in Tune”.  And he’s also had an extensive career in the theatre.

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about John James, go to:

https://www.instagram.com/johnjames_jj/

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s special guest, Dick Cavett, is not only a legendary television personality, talk show host and author. He is the reason I wanted to be an interviewer – he’s my inspiration, my role model and my American Idol.  

From 1968 to 2007, on a variety of TV networks and in different formats, our guest hosted one of the world’s most popular TV talk shows. With his keen intellect and unique wit, he set the bar for intelligent, sophisticated conversation with the world’s greatest legendary stars. He was known as “the thinking man’s talk show host”, and his show offered a forum for controversial opinions and issues ranging from feminism, domestic and international affairs, to the Vietnam war. 

The Dick Cavett Show became a home away from home for the top stars from the world of movies, television and sports. And of course, through him, we got to know the greatest comedy legends of all time.  

Our guest has written a number of bestselling books, starting in 1974 with “Cavett”, followed by “Eye on Cavett” in 1983. And then he released “Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets”, which is a fascinating collection of essays written by our guest for the New York Times when he had a popular online column. And most recently, he released “Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks”, in which he introduces us to the fascinating and iconic characters who have crossed his path over the years – everyone from Stan Laurel and Elizabeth Taylor to Muhammed Ali and James Gandolfini.  

Over the years our guest has had many extraordinary moments. He's hosted Saturday Night Live. He’s made cameo appearances in “Cheers”, “A Nightmare on Elm Street 3”, “Beetlejuice”, “Forrest Gump” and “Apollo 13”. He’s done voiceover work on “The Simpsons”. On Broadway, he appeared in “Otherwise Engaged”, and he was the narrator in “Into the Woods” and in the Broadway revival of “The Rocky Horror Show”. And every fan of the legendary pop group ABBA knows about his highly memorable interview with the entire group for his 1981 TV special, “Dick Cavett Meets ABBA.”  

Throughout his illustrious career our guest has earned 9 Emmy Award nominations and won 2 Emmy Awards, along with a Cable Ace Award. He was also nominated for 6 Photoplay Awards for Favourite Variety Star, and in 2016 he won the Spirit of Katharine Hepburn Award. 

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Morgan Brittany, is a highly popular actress, author and political commentator who first won our hearts as a child star in the role of “Baby June”, Natalie Wood’s sister, in the classic 1962 movie "Gypsy". 

She was also one of the schoolgirls in the classic Alfred Hitchcock film, “The Birds”. And a few years later, she played one of the kids in the blended family parented by Henry Fonda and Lucille Ball in another classic movie, “Yours, Mine & Ours”. 

As a child, she also appeared in “Gunsmoke”, “The Twilight Zone”, “Daniel Boone”, “Lassie”, “Dr. Kildare”, “The Andy Griffith Show”, “My 3 Sons”, and dozens of other iconic TV shows.  And as an adult, she’s had an even more spectacular career. She’s perhaps best known for her portrayal of the beautiful and conniving “Katherine Wentworth” on the super-popular primetime drama series, "Dallas".  And of course, we also remember her as the ambitious magazine writer “Kate Simpson” on “Glitter”, and she’s also appeared in many other great TV shows and movies including “The Amazing Howard Hughes”, “The Initiation of Sarah”, “In Search of Historic Jesus”, “The Dream Merchants”, “Mothers and Daughters”, “Legend of the Spirit Dog” and “LBJ: The Early Years”, for which she won a Peabody Award. 

And get this: she’s the only actress to have portrayed the legendary Vivien Leigh THREE TIMES – first in 1975 in the classic film, “The Day of the Locust”, then the following year in the feature film "Gable and Lombard", and then in 1980 in the TV movie "The Scarlett O'Hara War". 

Our guest has also been a highly sought-after political commentator as part of a series called “Politichicks”, and she’s co-authored 2 bestselling books, "What Women Really Want", and "PolitiChicks: A Clarion Call to Political Activism", which features a compelling collection of essays from many of the writers and activists featured on the PolitiChicks.com website. 

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Morgan Brittany, go to:

http://morganbrittany.com/

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s special guest, William H. Macy, is a renowned and highly acclaimed, beloved actor, writer, director and producer whose stellar and prolific body of work includes some of the most iconic movies and TV shows ever made. 

His most popular movies include “Mr. Holland’s Opus”, “Fargo”, “Ghosts of Mississippi”, “Boogie Nights”, “Air Force One”, “Pleasantville”, “Happy, Texas”, “Magnolia”, “Jurassic Park 3”, “The Cooler”, “Seabiscuit”, and so many more.   On TV, you’ve seen him in dozens of shows including “ER”, “Sports Night”, “Versailles” and “Law & Order”, in which he appeared in the pilot episode. 

And of course, who can ever forget him as the hopelessly exasperating “Frank Gallagher” on the mega-hit TV series “Shameless”, for which he received a whole slew of awards in addition to being nominated for 6 Emmy Awards and 2 Golden Globe Awards. 

And he’s starred in some of my favourite TV movies and miniseries including “The Awakening Land”, “The Cradle Will Fall”, “The Water Engine”, “A Slight Case of Murder”, “The Wool Cap”, “Reversible Errors”, “The Dropout” and many more. The list of accolades that our guest has received is jaw dropping.  

He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his unforgettable portrayal of “Jerry Lundergard” in “Fargo”. He’s been nominated for 5 Golden Globe Awards and 15 Emmy Awards, and he’s won 2 Emmys – both were for his work as a writer and lead actor in the highly acclaimed TV movie “Door to Door”.  He’s received 12 Screen Actors Guild Award nominations and won 4 – one for his performance in “Door to Door”, and 3 for “Shameless”. 

He’s received 11 Satellite Award Nominations and won 5, for his work in “A Slight Case of Murder”, “Happy Texas”, “Door to Door”, and “Shameless”. He’s won dozens of prestigious film festival awards including the Maverick Tribute Award, the John Cassavetes Award, the Stanley Kramer Social Artist Award, and he’s been inducted into the Online Film and Television Association Hall of Fame, in addition to receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, John Shea, is a highly acclaimed and beloved actor, writer, producer and director who’s been entertaining audiences on stage, in movies and on television in a stellar career spanning 5 decades. 

Of course, we all remember him as “Hank Zaret” on “W-I-O-U”, “Lex Luthor” in “Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman”, “Harold Waldorf” in “Gossip Girl”, “Thomas Eckart” on “Agent X”, and “Adam Kane” on “Mutant X”, for which he was nominated for a Gemini Award for Best Actor.  

But well beyond those roles, our guest has demonstrated remarkable versatility and has delivered a whole slew of memorable performances in every medium. On Broadway, he appeared in “Romeo and Juliet”, “End of the World” and “Yentl”, for which he received a Theatre World Award. And he received a Drama Desk Award for his performance in "American Days", and an Obie Award for his performance in "The Dining Room". 

In London’s West End, he starred in “The Normal Heart” and “Long Day’s Journey Into Night”, and at Carnegie Hall, he appeared in “The Soldier’s Tale”.   

On the big screen, he’s appeared in many movies including “Hussy”, “Missing”, “Windy City”, for which he was named Best Actor at the Montreal International Film Festival, “Honeymoon”, “Once We Were Dreamers”, “Honey I Blew Up the Kid”, “The Insurgents”, “An Invisible Sign”, “The Trouble with the Truth”, and “Southie” (1998) and “Grey Lady”, both of which he co-starred in, co-wrote and directed.  

And on television, in addition to the shows I already mentioned, you’ve seen him in “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, “The Hitchhiker”, for which he received a Cable Ace Award nomination, “Sex and the City”, “Law & Order”, “The Good Wife”, “Madam Secretary”, “Blue Bloods” and many more. And he’s co-starred in numerous great TV movies and miniseries including “Family Reunion”, “Kennedy”, “Hitler's S.S.: Portrait in Evil”, “A Case of Deadly Force”, “The Impossible Spy”, “Notorious”, “Ladykiller” and of course, the multi-award winning miniseries “Baby M” (1988), for which he won a well-deserved Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor. 

And if all of that weren’t enough, our guest is also a founding member of the Nantucket Film Festival, and he’s the Artistic Director Emeritus of the Nantucket Theatre Workshop.

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https://www.instagram.com/theofficialjohnshea/

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Robby Benson, is a popular and beloved show business veteran who has literally done it all from the time he was a child star. He’s an actor, director, writer, composer, lyricist, educator, filmmaker and best selling author. On Broadway, he appeared in “Zelda”, “The Rothschilds” and “The Pirates of Penzance”.  

In the movies, you’ve seen him in “Jeremy”, which earned him a Golden Globe nomination for Most Promising Newcomer. He also starred in “Lucky Lady”, “Ode to Billy Joe”, “One on One”, which he also wrote, “Ice Castles”, “Tribute”, “The Chosen”, “Running Brave”, “Modern Love”, which he also wrote and directed, and many more. And of course, he’s been immortalized as the voice of “Beast” in the Disney blockbuster Oscar-winning movie, “Beauty and the Beast”.  

 On television, he’s appeared in dozens of shows, movies and miniseries including “Death Be Not Proud”, “The Last of Mrs. Lincoln”, “The Death of Richie”, “Our Town”, “Two of a Kind”, for which he received a Golden Globe nomination, “Homewrecker”, “Precious Victims”, “American Dreams”, “Brave New World”, “A Feeling of Home”, and most recently, he can be seen in Season 2 of the popular Apple TV hit series, “Severance”. 

Our guest has also directed over a hundred episodes of top 10 TV shows including “Ellen”, “Friends”, “Dharma & Greg”, “The Naked Truth”, “Sabrina The Teenage Witch”, “Evening Shade” and “Dream On”, for which he was nominated for a Cable Ace Award for Best Director of a Comedy Series. 

As a composer, he’s written many movie scores, and together with his wife, the brilliant music superstar Karla DeVito, he co-wrote the hit song “We are Not Alone” from the movie, “The Breakfast Club”, AND the wonderful song “Nobody Makes Me Crazy” recorded by Diana Ross on her “Swept Away” album. Our guest also wrote the libretto and composed the music for the critically acclaimed musical, “Open Heart”.  

Our guest is also an award-winning professor of filmmaking, having taught at The University of Utah, the University of South Carolina and NYU. And if all of that weren’t enough, he's written TWO best selling books – a novel entitled, “Who Stole The Funny?”, and a highly compelling and very poignant memoir entitled, “I’m Not Dead Yet”, which chronicles not only his amazing career, but his miraculous journey as a survivor of FOUR open heart surgeries. 

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Burton Cummings, guest is a legendary singer, songwriter, and recording artist whose stellar body of work over almost 6 decades, is timeless.  His voice is widely considered to be one of the greatest and finest voices in the history of rock music. 

As lead singer and songwriter for “The Guess Who”, he recorded a string of international hit singles including “American Woman,” “These Eyes,” “Laughing,” “No Time,” “Share the Land,” “No Sugar Tonight,” “Clap for the Wolfman”, and many more great songs, all written or co-written by our guest. The Guess Who was the first Canadian group to reach #1 on the Billboard charts, and they were the first to have a platinum-selling album in the U.S., with sales of more than a million records.  

After the group disbanded in 1975, our guest embarked on an even more spectacular solo career, with a whole slew of hit singles and gold records including “Stand Tall,” “I’m Scared,” “My Own Way to Rock,” “I Will Play a Rhapsody,” “Timeless Love,” “Break It to Them Gently,” “Dream of a Child,” and “You Saved My Soul”, which earned him a Genie Award when it was featured in the movie, “Melanie”, in which he co-starred. His brilliant 1978 album, “Dream of a Child” became the first quadruple platinum-selling album by a Canadian artist. He has also published 2 volumes of poetry. 

The list of accolades this man has received is truly jaw dropping. He’s won 5 RPM Awards, 6 Juno Awards, 22 SOCAN Awards and 3 SOCAN Classic Awards, 3 BMI America Awards, and the Genie Award that I already mentioned. He's received an honorary doctorate from Brandon University in his home province of Manitoba, and he’s also been named to the Order of Manitoba. 

And in 2009 he was named an Officer of the Order of Canada. He’s received TWO stars on Canada's Walk of Fame – one as a member of The Guess Who, and one as a solo artist. He’s been inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame AND the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, and he’s the recipient of the SOCAN lifetime achievement award.  And although he is a global superstar and a member of rock ‘n’ roll royalty, here in Canada he is our very own national treasure and a living legend.  He’s currently on a North American tour playing to sold out audiences, but he’s taken time out of his very busy schedule to appear on our show.

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Jim J. Bullock, is a highly popular actor who is perhaps best remembered for his portrayal of the goofy but hunky geek “Monroe Ficus” on the hit TV sitcom “Too Close For Comfort”, and as the narcoleptic “Prince Valium” in the classic Mel Brooks movie “Spaceballs”.  

But beyond those signature roles, he’s had a long and diverse career. On the big screen, you’ve seen him in many movies including “Switch”, “Get Your Stuff”, “Kissing Jessica Stein”, “10 Attitudes”, “Circuit”, “Role/Play”, and “Ron and Laura Take Back America”, for which he and his fellow cast members won an Idyllwild International Film Festival Award for Best Ensemble Cast. 

And on television, besides “Too Close for Comfort”, he’s appeared in dozens of shows including “ALF”, “Seinfeld”, “Roseanne”, “The Bold and the Beautiful”, “Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide”, “Glee” and many more great shows. He also co-hosted “The Jim J. and Tammy Faye Show” with Tammy Faye Bakker. And of course, he was very entertaining on game shows like “Battlestars”, “The New Hollywood Squares”, “Match Game”, “Body Language” and “I’ve Got a Secret”.  

And on the Broadway stage, our guest starred in “Hairspray” as “Wilbur Turnblad”, a role he also played in the national touring production. AND he also co-starred in the national tour of “Kinky Boots”, playing “George”, the factory manager. 

And if ALL THAT weren’t enough, our guest was also the voice of the lead character, “Adam Seymour Duckstein” in the groundbreaking animated series, “Queer Duck”.  

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s show is all about a highly acclaimed and beloved legendary actor who captivated the world in dozens of movies including “Death Race 2000”, “Cannonball”, “Bound for Glory”, “Armed Response”, “Thunder and Lightning”, “The Serpent’s Egg”, “Gray Lady Down”, “Deathsport”, “Circle of Iron”, “The New Swiss Family Robinson”, and the classic Quentin Tarantino movies, “Kill Bill: Volumes 1 and 2”. 

And of course, on TV he was immortalized for his portrayal of “Kwai Chang Caine” on the classic hit series “Kung Fu” and “Kung Fu: The Legend Continues”.  

Our guest had a 6 year relationship with David Carradine, and she was married to him from 1998 to 2001. She was also his manager during that time, and she is widely credited for motivating Mr. Carradine to achieve sobriety and revitalize his career. 

Following his untimely and shocking death in 2009 in a Bangkok hotel room, apparently caused by “auto-erotic asphyxiation”, our guest wrote a fascinating, compelling and eye-opening, bestselling book about her tumultuous, chaotic, exasperating and intensely passionate relationship with David Carradine. The book was revised in 2014 to incorporate the conclusions she reached following her own personal investigation into the bizarre circumstances of this enigmatic superstar’s mysterious death.  

Our guest has had a long and multi-faceted career in the entertainment industry, not only as an actress, but also working behind the scenes as a manager, writer and publicist, and she’s also a strong and devoted advocate for animal welfare.

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Marina Anderson, go to:

https://www.marinaanderson.net/

https://www.facebook.com/marinaanderson1

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guests, Joan Kramer and David Heeley, are two of the most respected and highly acclaimed documentary filmmakers of our generation – or of any generation. They have produced illustrious profiles of some of the greatest legendary stars in the history of show business. 

Their prestigious body of work, which has aired over the years on PBS, TCM, TNT, Starz and other TV networks, includes THREE programs about Fred Astaire: “Fred Astaire: Puttin’ on His Top Hat”, “Fred Astaire: Change Partners and Dance”, and “The Fred Astaire Songbook”, hosted by Audrey Hepburn. They produced TWO programs about Katharine Hepburn – the first in 1981, entitled, “Starring Katharine Hepburn”, and the second in 1993 entitled, “Katharine Hepburn: All About Me”. And in 1985, they brought us “The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn.”  

Some of their other renowned programs include, “Judy Garland: The Concert Years”, hosted by Judy’s daughter Lorna Luft, “James Stewart: A Wonderful Life”, hosted by Johnny Carson, “Bacall on Bogart”, which is a tribute to Humphrey Bogart hosted by Lauren Bacall, “Fonda on Fonda”, hosted by Jane Fonda, paying tribute to her father Henry Fonda, “The John Garfield Story”, “The Adventures of Errol Flynn”, and TWO monumentally important documentaries about Hollywood studios: “The Universal Story”, honouring the 80th birthday of Universal Studios, hosted by Richard Dreyfus, and “The Lady With the Torch”, in honour of the 75th anniversary of Columbia Pictures, hosted by Glenn Close. 

And let’s not forget the terrific profile they produced in 1984 about Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, which aired on ABC’s 20/20.   Their programs have received 5 Emmy awards, 20 Emmy nominations, and dozens of other national and international honors.  

And in 2015 they wrote a wonderful book entitled “In the Company of Legends”, which is a must-read for EVERY fan of the Golden Age of Hollywood. This fascinating book takes us on the remarkable journey of their professional partnership, and we learn what really happened behind the scenes with all the big stars they worked with while making their many brilliant documentaries.

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Ernest Lee Thomas, is a beloved actor, producer and author who is perhaps best known for his portrayal of “Roger Thomas” – better known as "Raj" - on the immensely popular sitcom “What's Happening!!”, and the equally popular sequel, “What's Happening Now!!”. And of course, we all loved him as “Mr. Omar” on “Everybody Hates Chris”.  

But beyond those iconic roles, our guest has had a long and distinguished career.  He starred on Broadway in “Love For Love” and “The Member Of The Wedding”. On the big screen, you’ve seen him in dozens of movies including “A Piece of the Action”, “Malcolm X”, “Paroled”, “Funny People”, “The Pastor and Mrs. Jones”, “Revenge”, “79 Parts”, “Loved to Death”, “The Gods 2: The Dark Side”, and the multi-award winning short film, “Earworm”, for which he won a Best Actor award at the Indie Horror Film Festival.  

And on television, besides the shows I already mentioned, he appeared in the highly acclaimed miniseries “Roots”, and on popular TV shows including “The Jeffersons”, “Baretta”, “In the Heat of the Night”, “Soul Food”, “The Steve Harvey Show”, “Are We There Yet”, “Diarra from Detroit”, and the wonderful TV movie “The Lost Souls Café”.  Our guest has also written 2 highly inspirational, poignant and uplifting books: “Conversations with my Mother: Food for the Mind, Body and Soul”; and a wonderful memoir entitled, “From Raj to Riches: Overcoming Life Through Faith”.  

And coming in September, our guest will be appearing in the new animated series "EVERYBODY STILL HATES CHRIS" which will make its debut on the Comedy Central channel. I’m delighted to welcome Ernest Lee Thomas to our show.

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Adrian Zmed, is an iconic and beloved actor, singer, TV personality, producer and director who is well remembered for his portrayal of “Officer Vince Romano” in the highly popular TV show, “T.J. Hooker”. 

And of course, we all know and love him as the leader of the T-birds, “Johnny Nogerelli” in “Grease 2”, and as the hilarious “Jay O’Neill” in the hit movie “Bachelor Party” co-starring Tom Hanks.  But our guest has had a long and diverse career that goes well beyond those 2 memorable roles. 

On the big screen, he appeared in “The Final Terror”, “Eyewitness to Murder”, “The Other Woman”, “Unconditional Love”, “The Drone Virus”, “The Craving Heart”, and many more great movies.  And on TV, in addition to “T.J. Hooker”, he appeared in dozens of TV shows including “Starsky & Hutch”, “Goodtime Girls”, “Hotel”, “Murder She Wrote”, “Diagnosis Murder”, “Passions”, “Lady Dynamite”, “Larry The Cable Guy’s Christmas Spectacular” and many more shows, in addition to hosting “Dance Fever” for 2 seasons.  

And on the stage, our guest has had a very special and unique connection with the legendary record-breaking musical, “Grease”. He played “Danny Zuko” on Broadway and in national touring companies multiple times. And he also starred on Broadway in “Falsettos” and “Blood Brothers”, and in the national touring company of “Chicago”. In 1992, he appeared Off-Broadway in the musical version of “Eating Raoul”, and he has starred in many other theatrical productions including “Same Time Next Year”, “Little Shop of Horrors”, “Jesus Christ Superstar”, “Godspell”, “La Cage Aux Folles”, “Children of Eden”, “The Ark”, and “Surf: the Musical”.  

Our guest is also a recording artist. His voice is featured on the soundtracks and cast albums for the movies and shows he’s been in. And in 1984 he released his own self-titled solo album.  And if all of that weren’t enough, our guest also teaches master classes in film technique and gives musical theatre workshops in Los Angeles and New York.

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Adrian Zmed, go to:

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Phil Morris, is a popular actor who’s brought us a great many memorable performances. 

On the big screen, you’ve seen him in “Star Trek 3: The Search for Spock”, “Dark Planet”, “Legal Deceit”, “Wag the Dog”, “Jekyll Island”, “Abominable”, “Cry of the Butterfly”, “Ghosts of the Ozarks” and he’s the voice of “Dr. Joshua Sweet” in “Atlantis: The Lost Empire”, and he’s the voice of “Vandal Savage” on “Justice League: Doom”, for which he and his fellow cast members won 2 Behind the Voice Actors Awards. 

And on television, he’s well known for his portrayals of “Tyrone Jackson” on “The Young and the Restless”, “Grant Collier” on “Mission: Impossible”, “Walter” on “Melrose Place”, “Jackie Chiles” on “Seinfeld”, “Chief Purser Will Sanders” on “Loveboat: The Next Wave”, “Martian Manhunter” in “Smallville”, “John Creighton” in “Bosch Legacy”, “Silas Stone” in “Doom Patrol”, and “Delroy Jones” in “Love That Girl”, for which he was nominated for 2 NAACP Image Awards.  He’s also the voice of “Doc Saturday” in “The Secret Saturdays”, and his voice can be heard in a whole slew of animated series and video games. 

He’s also guest starred in dozens of other iconic TV shows including “Hart to Hart”, “Webster”, “Knight Rider”, “Cheers”, “Murder, She Wrote”, “Beverly Hills 90210”, “Will & Grace”, “CSI Miami”, “Hot in Cleveland”, “Young Sheldon”, and many more.

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Phil Morris, go to:

https://www.instagram.com/thephilmorris/

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Peter K. Ackerman, is descended from Hollywood royalty. He grew up in the 1960s, as close as anyone can, to the world of classic television, at the height of his parents’ careers. 

His father was the legendary television producer Harry Ackerman, who brought us many classic TV shows including “I Love Lucy”, “Hazel”, “Dennis the Menace”, “The Donna Reed Show”, “Leave it to Beaver”, “Bewitched”, “The Flying Nun, “Gidget”, and many more shows.  

And his mother is the popular and beloved Emmy-nominated actress Elinor Donahue, who starred in many classic TV shows. She played “Betty Anderson”, the eldest child on “Father Knows Best”, she was “Ellie Walker” the pharmacist on “The Andy Griffith Show”, she played Felix Unger’s girlfriend “Miriam Welby” in “The Odd Couple”, she was “Kate Honeycutt” in “Days of our Lives”, she played “Gladys Peterson” in “Get a Life”, and every fan of “Star Trek: The Original Series” knows her as “Nancy Hedford” from the season 2 episode entitled “Metamorphosis”. She also guest starred in many other popular TV shows including “Newhart”, “Happy Days”, “Friends” and “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman”. And who can ever forget her as “Bridget”, the nice saleslady in the department store who helps Julia Roberts in “Pretty Woman”?  

Our guest has had a fascinating career, first following in his parents’ footsteps, as an actor, then in production for TV commercials, music videos featuring iconic stars like Madonna, Aerosmith, Janet Jackson and Peter Frampton, and then in television production, working on classic shows like “Full House” and “Friends”, before leaving show business and finding his true calling in the church, and becoming an Episcopal priest in 2007.  

He’s here to discuss his brand new book – which I absolutely loved - entitled, “Mom, Dad, Me and Classic TV: Growing Up with Classic Television’s Harry Ackerman and Elinor Donahue”.  

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Carlyn Montes De Oca, is an award-winning author, acupuncturist, nutritional consultant and expert in the animal-human health connection. Her best-selling book entitled “Dog as My Doctor, Cat as My Nurse: An Animal Lover’s Guide to a Healthy, Happy Life”, reveals how our loving bonds with our beloved cats and dogs positively impact every part of our well-being – mind, body, and spirit. She then produced 2 more books: “Paws For the Good Stuff: A Dog Lover’s Journal”, and “Paws For the Good Stuff: A Cat Lover’s Journal”. 

And now she’s released an emotionally powerful and highly compelling book entitled, “Junkyard Girl: A Memoir of Ancestry, Family Secrets, and Second Chances”.   The book was triggered by the astonishing revelation by our guest in 2019 at the age of 57, when she discovered through a DNA test that she was NOT the biological child of the parents who raised her. Through the book, she shares the riveting and poignant account of her turbulent journey towards the ultimate understanding and acceptance of the true meaning of family, a sense of identity and belonging, and the discovery of forgiveness, healing and self-affirmation.

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Marsha Warfield is highly popular actress and comedienne who is perhaps best known for her portrayal of the tough, wise-cracking, no-nonsense bailiff “Roz Russell” on the classic sitcom “Night Court.” 

She also played “Dr. Maxine Douglas” in “Empty Nest”, and “Toni Wilson” in “9-1-1”, and she’s made guest appearances on dozens of other TV shows including “The Richard Pryor Show , “Riptide”, “Family Ties”, “Cheers”, “Touched by an Angel” and many more. And yes, she was the voice of the mail carrier in “The Addams Family”.  

And in the early 90s, she even hosted a wonderful talk show of her own, “The Marsha Warfield Show.” She’s also appeared in many great movies including “Doomsday Rock”, “Caddyshack 2”, “Anything for Love”, “Mask”, “They Call me Bruce”, “The Marva Collins Story”, “Miracles Across 125th Street”, “A Holiday I Do” and many more. 

But in my opinion, the best way to experience the brilliant talent of our guest, is when she’s being her hilarious and insightful self, on stage, doing stand-up comedy. And she’s been doing that a long time. She won the San Francisco International Comedy Competition in 1979. She’s made dozens of appearances on late night talk shows and comedy specials including, “Comic Relief”, “An Evening at the Improv”, “The Comedy Store”, “Funny Women of a Certain Age”, and most recently, the Netflix documentary, “Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution.”  

And who can ever forget her classic comedy album, “This is Not Gross, This is Important”, in which she provides a no-holds-barred exploration of the subject on everyone's mind: sex. She’s got a fabulous web-show on YouTube called “Midnight in the Marsha-verse”, in which she shares her trademark wit and wisdom with celebrity guests in thought-provoking and insightful conversations. 

She’s currently on tour, performing to sold out audiences, and she’s funnier than ever, tackling a wide variety of issues including everything from politics, the realities of being a Black gay woman, and her love affair with pizza.

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Marsha Warfield, go to:

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https://www.youtube.com/c/MarshaWarfieldComedian

#MarshaWarfield  #harveybrownstoneinterviews

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Andrew Stevens, is a highly respected actor, writer, songwriter, producer, director, author, educator and film company executive.    The fact that he has show business in his blood comes as no surprise, given that he’s the son of screen legend Stella Stevens.  

On the big screen, you’ve seen him in “The Boys in Company C”, which earned him a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Male Newcomer, and he also received the Star of Tomorrow award from the National Association of Theatre Owners.  He also appeared in “Shampoo”, “The Fury”, “Death Hunt”, “The Seduction”, “Double Threat”, “Pop Star”, “Missionary Man”, and many more.   

On TV he appeared in dozens of shows and movies including “Once an Eagle”, “Topper”, “Code Red”, “Hollywood Wives”, “Hotel”, “Dallas”, and many more.  He’s also written many screenplays and composed numerous songs for movies and TV shows.  He's directed over a dozen feature films, including world premieres on HBO and SHOWTIME, as well as multiple episodes of popular TV series.   

But beyond all of that, our guest is one of the most prolific and successful producers in Hollywood.  He has co-founded and run numerous film production companies, and is currently President and CEO of Andrew Stevens Entertainment and Stevens Entertainment Group.   He’s produced hundreds of enormously successful feature films including “The Whole Nine Yards”, “Angel Eyes”, “The Pledge”, “City by the Sea”, “The Big Kahuna”, “Green Dragon”, “Get Carter”, “The Marksman”, “Black Dawn”, and dozens more.    

As an educator, he created a fully accredited Associate of Applied Arts college degree program in Motion Picture Production, which formed the basis of an online certificate program called “Foolproof Film School”, based on his best selling 2014 book entitled, “Foolproof Filmmaking: Make a Movie That Makes a Profit”.  His other books are “Producing for Profit: A Practical Guide to Making Independent and Studio Films”, and “Screenwriting for Profit: Writing for the Global Marketplace.”  

And if all of that weren’t enough, our guest also serves on the board of directors of the International Film and Television Alliance, and until recently served as Chairman of the Independent Producers Association.

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Andrew Stevens, go to:

https://andrewstevens.info/

https://www.facebook.com/andrewstevensffilm

https://twitter.com/astevensent

https://www.youtube.com/user/astevensent/videos

#AndrewStevens   #harveybrownstoneinterviews

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Patrika Darbo, is a multi-award winning actress, producer, director and author who is perhaps best remembered for her portrayal of the sexy, cunning and manipulatively domineering “Nancy Wesley” on the immensely popular daytime drama, “Days of Our Lives”, for which she won a Soap Opera Digest Award, as well as nominations for a Daytime Emmy Award and an Online Film and Television Association Award.   

Her other major soap opera role was on “The Bold and the Beautiful”, in which she portrayed “Shirley Spectra”.  She won a Prime Time Emmy Award for her performance in “Acting Dead”, and she won an Indie Series Award AND a Daytime Emmy Award nomination for her work in “Studio City”.  

She won another Indie Series Award for her performance in “Indoor Boys”.  She’s received 6 more Indie Series Award nominations - 3 for her portrayal of “Mickey Walker” in “The Bay”, 2 nominations for her performance as “Dorothy Nolan” in “Ladies of the Lake” and “Ladies of the Lake: Return to Avalon”, and another nomination for her portrayal of “Dr. Freed” on “Miss Behave”, which she also produced and directed.   She’s appeared in dozens of classic TV shows including “Diff’rent Strokes”, “St. Elsewhere”, “Step by Step”, “Seinfeld”, “Married With Children”, “The Big Bang Theory”, “Gilmore Girls”, “Desperate Housewives”, “Dexter” and many more.   

And who can forget her portrayal of Roseanne Barr in the 1994 TV movie “Roseanne and Tom: Behind the Scenes”.  On the big screen, you’ve seen her in “Leaving Normal”, “In the Line of Fire”, “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil”, “Corrina Corrina”, “Speed 2: Cruise Control”, “Mr. & Mrs. Smith”, “Charlie Wilson’s War”, and many more great films.  And yes, she provided the voice of one of the sheep in “Babe”.   

And get this - our guest was named by TV Guide as one of the sexiest stars of 1999, and a few years later, she released an entertaining, insightful and inspirational memoir entitled, “365 Glorious Nights of Love and Romance”, in which she shares her life experiences, life lessons, and many tips for building confidence, a winning attitude, and a positive approach to life, so we can all be and feel beautiful and sexy.   

And well beyond her stellar career as an actress and author, our guest has a long and distinguished history of community service.  She was on the Board of Governors of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and she currently serves on the Performers Group Executive Committee.  She’s on the Executive Board of the Thalians, established by my dear friend Ruta Lee and the late Debbie Reynolds, whose mission is devoted to helping the brave men and women of the American military heal the wounds of war, both physical and mental.  She’s also worked for many years with the Elks, and she’s renowned for her support of charities helping veterans, animals and children.   

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Patrika Darbo, go to:

https://www.facebook.com/PatrikaDarbo/

https://www.instagram.com/darbopatrika/

https://twitter.com/patrikadarbo

#patrikadarbo   #harveybrownstoneinterviews

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Richard Karn, is a popular actor, producer and author who is perhaps best known for his portrayal of “Al Borland”, the master plumber, licensed contractor, best friend and co-host of Tim Allen's character “Tim Taylor” on the classic, long-running TV sitcom, “Home Improvement”.   He absolutely immortalized the phrase, “I don’t think so, Tim”.    He also starred as “Arthur Piller” in “Control”, “Fred Peters’ in “PEN 15”, and he also executive produced and co-starred with Tim Allen in 2 reality shows, “Assembly Required”, and “More Power”.   In addition to all of that, our guest was the host of two game shows: “Family Feud” and “Bingo America”.  He’s also written 2 books:  House Broken: How I Remodeled My Home For Just Under Three Times the Original Bid”, and “Handy at Home: Tips on Improving Your Home From America’s Favorite Handyman.”  And most recently, he is the executive producer and star of the brand new TV series, “Once a Mormon.”

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Richard Karn, go to:

https://www.instagram.com/officialrichardkarn/

https://x.com/therichardkarn

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Ed Begley Jr., is a renowned actor, producer, director, playwright, author and environmental advocate who’s brought us many unforgettable performances in a stellar career that spans over 5 decades.  

You’ve seen him in dozens of movies including “Battlestar Galactica”, “Goin’ South”, “Cat People”, “Eating Raoul”, “The Accidental Tourist”, “She-Devil”, “Best In Show,”, “For Your Consideration”, “Whatever Works”, “Pineapple Express”, “Book Club”, and “A Mighty Wind”, for which he and his fellow cast members won a Florida Film Critics Circle Award, as well as nominations for a Phoenix Film Critics Society Award and a Gold Derby Award for Best Ensemble Cast.  

On television, he is perhaps best known for his portrayal of Dr. Victor Ehrlich on the long-running hit series, “St. Elsewhere,” for which he received six Emmy Award nominations and a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.  He’s also known for playing “Steve Fletcher” on “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman”, “Gil Buckman” on “Parenthood”, “Dr. Jesse James” on “Kingdom Hospital”, “Hiram Gunderson” on “Six Feet Under”, “Stan Sitwell” on “Arrested Development”, “Dr. Grant Linkletter” on “Young Sheldon”, and “Clifford Main” on “Better Call Saul”, for which he and his fellow cast members received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble.  

And he’s starred in numerous highly acclaimed TV movies including “Elvis”, “In the Best Interest of the Child”, “World War 2: When Lions Roared”, “Incident at Deception Ridge”, “Georgia O’Keefe”, “Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight”, and “Recount”.    

Our guest is also extremely well known and highly respected for his advocacy and activism in raising public awareness about the need to save our planet, conserve our resources, protect the environment and live a sustainable, eco-friendly and green lifestyle.  He’s written 3 books on that subject: “Living Like Ed: A Guide to the Eco-Friendly Life”, “Living Green”, and “Ed Begley Jr.’s Guide to Sustainable Living”.  And together with his wife Rachelle and daughter Hayden, he created TWO reality TV series: “Living With Ed” and the multi-award winning show, “On Begley Street”.  And he and Rachelle also host a popular podcast called “Begleyesque”.   He also has a line of eco-friendly household cleaning products that we’re going to hear about today.  

And if all of that weren’t enough, our guest has also written a fascinating and highly entertaining memoir entitled, “To the Temple of Tranquility:  And Step on It.”  And I should also acknowledge that, for 16 years, he served on the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Ed Begley Jr., go to:

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#EdBegleyJr   #harveybrownstoneinterviews

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Felipe Rose, is an original member of one of the most phenomenally popular and beloved music groups of all time:  The Village People, who brought us many unforgettable hits we just couldn’t stop singing and dancing to, including “YMCA”, “San Francisco”, “In the Navy”, “Macho Man”, “Go West”, “Everybody Is a Star in Hollywood”, “I Am What I Am”, and many more.  

They had some of the biggest hits of the 70s, and of course, the Village People starred in the classic 1980 movie, “Can’t Stop the Music”.  Our guest was dressed as an Indigenous American, along with his bandmates Alex Briley, the military man, David Hodo, the construction worker, Randy Jones, the cowboy, Glen Hughes, the leather man, and lead singer Victor Willis, who was sometimes a cop and sometimes a naval officer.  

The Village People had enormous success, with 25 gold and platinum records, an American Music Award, 2 Billboard Music Awards, a George M. Cohan Entertainer of the Year Award, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.  And in 2020, the American Library of Congress inducted the song “YMCA” into the National Recording Registry, which preserves audio recordings considered to be "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."  

In addition to his work with the Village People, our guest has had a great solo music career, recording singles including “Trail of Tears”, "We're Still Here," “Red Hawk Woman”, "Going Back to My Roots," “Dance Again” - and now, his brand new single, “That’s What You Are”.   

This single, which was released on June 21, is now available on every major music streaming platform.  Our guest has won 5 Native American Music Awards and in 2008, he was inducted into the Native American Music Hall of Fame.

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Felipe Rose, go to:

https://www.feliperose.com/

https://www.facebook.com/FelipeRoseFanClub

https://www.instagram.com/feliperoseofficial/

https://twitter.com/FelipeRoseFanc1

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsFswLfPoVnj3U2IX9ijlAg

https://www.tiktok.com/@feliperoseofficial

#FelipeRose    #harveybrownstoneinterviews

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s special guest, Brenda Vaccaro, guest is a legendary actress whose many unforgettable performances spanning over 6 decades on the stage, in the movies and on TV have brought her world wide acclaim.   

She won a Theater World Award in 1962 for her Broadway debut in "Everybody Loves Opal".  She then received 3 Tony Award nominations for her performances on Broadway in "Cactus Flower," "How Now, Dow Jones," and "The Goodbye People."  

She received a Golden Globe Award nomination in 1970 for Most Promising Female Newcomer for her very first movie role in “Where It’s At”.  For her performance in “Midnight Cowboy”, she received Best Supporting Actress nominations for a Golden Globe Award AND a Laurel Award.  

And a few years later, she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress, and she WON a Golden Globe Award for her brilliant portrayal of “Linda” in “Once is not Enough”.  She earned a Saturn Award nomination for her work in “Capricorn One”.   

And she’s co-starred in many other great movies including “I Love My Wife”, “Going Home”, “The House By the Lake”, “Airport ‘77”, “The First Deadly Sin”, “Love Affair”, “The Mirror Has Two Faces”, “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” and one of my all-time favourite romantic comedies, “Boynton Beach Club”.   For her work on television, she won an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress in “The Shape of Things”.  

And she received 3 more Emmy Award nominations for her work in “Sara”, “The Golden Girls” and the highly acclaimed mini-series, “You Don’t Know Jack”, for which she also won a Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress AND a nomination for an Online Film and Television Association Award.   

Her television credits also include “Judgment: The Trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg”, “Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones”, “A Long Way Home”, “Paper Dolls”, “Gypsy”, and many more shows.   And of course, she’s renowned for her voice work in “The Smurfs”, “The Critic” and “Johnny Bravo”.   In 1992, our guest was named the "Queen of Brooklyn" at the Welcome Back to Brooklyn Festival.  And in 2001 she received an Outstanding Achievement Award from the Los Angeles Italian Film Association.

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Brenda Vaccaro, go to:

https://www.instagram.com/officialbrendavaccaro/ 

#BrendaVaccaro    #harveybrownstoneinterviews

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Dean Butler, is a beloved actor, producer and director who has been immortalized for his unforgettable portrayal of “Almanzo Wilder”, the innocent and pure-hearted young man who won “Laura’s” heart and married her, on one of the most cherished and treasured television series ever made, “Little House on the Prairie”, which is celebrating the 50th anniversary of its debut in 1974.   

Our guest also appeared in the 3 “Little House” movies, “Look Back to Yesterday”, “The Last Farewell”, and “Bless All the Dear Children”.  He also wrote, produced and directed the 2008 video, “Almanzo Wilder: Life Before Laura”.  And he produced and directed the 2015 video, “Little House on the Prairie: The Legacy of Laura Ingalls Wilder”.  

And in 2012 he co-produced the hugely popular PBS Music Special, “Pa’s Fiddle: The Music of America”.  And yes, he and his co-star Melissa Gilbert have the singular distinction of having won the 2006 TV Land Award for the Most Memorable Onscreen Kiss, which warmed everyone’s hearts, and still resonates in all of our memories.   But our guest has had a highly successful career that has gone well beyond his work on “Little House”.    

He co-starred in the TV movie “Forever”, and the ground-breaking 1985 LGBTQ feature film, “Desert Hearts”.  And he’s also remembered for his portrayal of “Moondoggie”, Gidget’s husband, in the TV movie “Gidget’s Summer Reunion”, which generated the TV series “The New Gidget”.  And he had a recurring role as Buffy’s father “Hank Summers” in the hit TV show, “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”.   

Our guest has also had a distinguished stage career, having appeared on Broadway in “Into the Woods”, which ran for 11 months, and he starred in “West Side Story” in a highly acclaimed tour of Japan.  

And if all of that weren’t enough, he’s had a highly successful career as the producer of the immensely popular interview program, “FAIR-ER-TY”, which ran for 10 seasons on the NBC Golf Channel.  

And now our guest is releasing his brand new memoir entitled “Prairie Man: My Little House Life and Beyond”.  This is an illuminating, intimate and poignant book in which our guest shares his personal journey of family, relationships, a diverse career, and the remarkable experience of being part of a legendary show which is so deeply entrenched in American pop culture.  

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Dean Butler, go to:

https://deanbutler.com/ 

https://www.instagram.com/officialdeanbutler/

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#DeanButler    #harveybrownstoneinterviews

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Susan Seaforth Hayes, is a highly popular and beloved actress who is, of course, best known for her longstanding portrayal of “Julie Williams” on the hugely successful daytime drama series, “Days of Our Lives”, for which she has received 6 Daytime Emmy Award nominations.  In fact, she is the only actor to have appeared on the show for ALL SEVEN DECADES that it has been on the air.  

She is also well-known for her recurring role as “Joanna Manning” on “The Young and the Restless”, and as "District Attorney Patricia Steele" on “Sunset Beach”.  In addition, our guest has appeared in dozens of other TV shows including “The Loretta Young Show”, “Hawaiian Eye”, “The Young Marrieds”, “The FBI”, “Dragnet”, “Ironside”, “Matlock” and many more.   

Our guest and her dear husband and co-star, the mega-talented and multi-award winning actor, the late, great Bill Hayes, whom we lost last January, were without question, television’s greatest love story, appearing as Doug and Julie Williams on “Days of Our Lives” for over 50 years, which was definitely the longest running romance in television history.  

They became the very first – and still remain the only - soap opera actors in the world to appear on the cover of Time Magazine in its January 12, 1976 issue.   And this superstar couple have written 2 best selling books – a novel entitled, “Trumpet”, and a memoir entitled, “Like Sands Through the Hourglass”, which is widely considered to be the best book ever written about daytime television.  

They also hosted the wonderful website, SOAP OPERA SECRETS DOT COM.  And in 2018, the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences presented our guest and her husband Bill Hayes with Lifetime Achievement Awards at the 45th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards.

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Susan Seaforth Hayes, go to:

https://twitter.com/DaysHayes

https://www.soapoperasecrets.com

#SusanSeaforthHayes    #harveybrownstoneinterviews

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Jenny O’Hara, is a renowned and highly popular actress who’s brought us many memorable performances on stage, screen and television in a career that spans over 6 decades.   On Broadway, she appeared in “Dylan”, “Promises, Promises”, “The Fig Leaves are Falling”, “The Iceman Cometh” and “The Odd Couple”.  On the big screen, she’s appeared in “Career Opportunities”, “Angie”, “Mystic River”, “Matchstick Men”, “Forty Shades of Blue”, “Two Weeks”, “Extract”, “Killing Eleanor”, “Devil”, “We are Gathered Here Today”, and many more.  And on television, she is perhaps best remembered for 5 iconic roles: “Dixie Randazzo” in “My Sister Sam”, “Janet Heffernan” in “The King of Queens”, “Nita” in “Big Love”, “Dot” in “The Mindy Project” and “Bryna” in “Transparent”.  But beyond those shows, she has appeared in dozens of classic TV series including “The Rockford Files”, “Barnaby Jones”, “St. Elsewhere”, “The Facts of Life”, “Murphy Brown”, “Beverly Hills 90210”, “Big Love” and many more.  She’s also starred in some great TV movies including “Good Against Evil”, “Black Beauty”, “Blind Ambition”, “The Women’s Room”, “Blinded by the Light”, “Another Woman’s Child”, “A Mother’s Prayer”, “An Unexpected Life”, and so much more.  

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Jenny O’Hara, go to:

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0641266/ 

#JennyOHara    #harveybrownstoneinterviews

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Steve Garey, is a renowned, 2-time gold record winning pianist, vocalist and recording artist who has a very prestigious connection to 2 show business legends:   Liberace and Frank Sinatra.   

He was selected by Liberace to be his very last protégé, and he is the only protégé of Liberace’s to receive the endorsement and support of the Board of Directors of The Liberace Foundation and the Liberace Estate.   

And the other superstar with which our guest shares an illustrious history is the Chairman of the Board, the one and only Frank Sinatra, who chose our guest, when he was only 20 years old, to be his piano accompanist.  Our guest began his career in the 1970s as a child prodigy, performing concerts throughout the world, which led to a successful career in nightclubs as well as in films and on television.   And in 1981, Mr. Showmanship himself, Liberace selected our guest as his last and final protégé.  

He studied with Liberace for the last six years of his life.  Our guest has performed at the most prestigious venues around the world, and besides performing with Liberace and Frank Sinatra, he’s worked alongside dozens of superstars including Rosemary Clooney, Dinah Shore, Bernadette Peters, Johnny Mathis, Debbie Reynolds, Jane Russell, John Travolta and many more.  

With his incredibly versatile repertoire, which includes everything from the Jazz Classics, Pop and Country Music to the great American Songbook, our guest has given Command Performances for 5 American Presidents in addition to a number of Crown Monarchs in Europe, Asia and the Middle East.  He’s been featured in Cosmopolitan Magazine, the Hollywood Reporter, and on the cover of both TV GUIDE and the American music industry publication "The Score” magazine".   

He’s also a Contributing Editor to Keyboard World Magazine, and he continues to serve as a consultant on books and film projects regarding both Liberace and Frank Sinatra.

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Steve Garey, go to:

https://www.stevegarey.com/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo1NG_K9BzWTHNcamlaSavw 

https://twitter.com/stevegarey

#SteveGarey    #harveybrownstoneinterviews

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Susan Anton, is a highly popular, multi-talented international star who’s been dazzling audiences for over 4 decades in television, film, theater, recordings and concert venues.  

She received a Golden Globe nomination for her very first performance in a feature film, “Golden Girl”, followed by “Spring Fever”, “Cannonball Run 2”, “Lena’s Holiday”, “New Jersey Turnpikes”, “Playing With Fire”, “Painter”, and many more.  On television, she’s hosted 2 variety shows, “Presenting Susan Anton”, and “Mel & Susan Together”, co-starring Mel Tillis, earning her a Photoplay Award nomination in 1979 for Favourite Variety Star, and Time Magazine named her one of the most promising faces of 1979.  

She’s appeared in hundreds of TV shows and movies over the years including “The Great American Beauty Contest”, “The Girl Who Saved the World”, “Stop Susan Williams”, “Hotel”, “Quantum Leap”, “Baywatch”, “Law & Order: SVU”, “Family Friends”, and many more – not to mention her dozens of appearances on every major awards show, variety show and talk show.  On Broadway, she appeared in “Hurlyburly” and “The Will Rogers Follies”, and she’s also starred onstage in “All Shook Up”, “Hairspray”, “They’re Playing Our Song”, and the hilarious comedy, “A Couple-a-White Chicks Sitting Around Talking”.  

And for 7 years, she starred in the The Great Radio City Music Hall Spectacular with the legendary Rockettes in Las Vegas.  As a recording artist, she had a top 10 country hit with her song “Killing Time”, and a Gold record for her hit, “Foxy”.   

She has shared the stage with dozens of legendary entertainers including Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Tom Jones, Lou Rawls, Placido Domingo and many more.  And she toured with country super star Kenny Rogers.   Our guest is also a successful producer.  

She and her husband, director Jeff Lester, have a production company, Big Picture Studios, which has brought us some great award-winning films, including “The Last Real Cowboys”, starring Billy Bob Thornton, and the documentary “Speed of Life”.   And if all of that weren’t enough, our guest also hosted a wonderful talk show on Retro TV called “Idol Chat”, which reunited cast members from classic films, TV shows and music.  

She has also been a strong supporter of the She Angels Foundation, which consists of a panel of successful business women who finance and mentor female entrepreneurs to launch their unique ideas into the business world.  

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Susan Anton, go to:

https://www.susananton.com/ 

https://facebook.com/SusanAntonOfficial 

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#SusanAnton   #harveybrownstoneinterviews

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Zoro, is a world-renowned rock, R&B, and hip-hop drummer, who is widely referred to as “the minister of groove."   

He has spent over 4 decades performing with many music superstars including Lenny Kravitz, New Edition, Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons, Bobby Brown, Sean Lennon, Lisa Marie Presley, French superstar Vanessa Paradis and Philip Bailey of Earth, Wind & Fire.  He’s been voted the number one R&B drummer in the world numerous times by Modern Drummer Magazine and Drum Magazine.  

He’s also a highly accomplished author of 4 books about music: “The Commandments of R&B Drumming”, “The Commandments of Early Rhythm and Blues Drumming”, “The Big Gig: Big Picture Thinking for Success”, and “The Commandments of the Half-Time Shuffle”.  In addition, he is an immensely influential and inspirational educator and motivator, with a passion for helping people achieve their potential and attain success.  He’s the author of a highly popular book entitled, “SOAR: 9 Proven Keys for Unlocking Your Limitless Potential”.   

And today, he’s here to talk about his brand new book, which I absolutely loved, entitled, “Maria’s Scarf: A Memoir of a Mother’s Love, a Son’s Perseverance, and Dreaming Big”.  This is an incredibly heartfelt and heart wrenching autobiography, chronicling our guest’s tumultuous journey as the fatherless, bi-racial child of a Mexican immigrant single mother, who somehow managed to raise her 7 children in an atmosphere of love, courage, faith, tenacity and optimism.  From the impoverished and notorious streets of Compton in South-Central Los Angeles, to the harsh realities of rural Oregon - this is a man who, thanks to his mother’s many sacrifices and unbreakable resilience, overcame countless almost insurmountable obstacles of abject poverty, racism and adversity.  

He was an insecure little boy who grew up longing for the love and approval of an absent father, and struggling with identity, self-worth and craving a sense of belonging.  Thanks to the love and guidance of his mother, and the unshakable bonds that kept his family together, he ultimately harnessed and channelled his pain, anguish and ambition, together with his love of music and rhythm, to become one of the world’s most successful and respected drummers.  This book is so poignant, so uplifting and inspirational, that I just HAD to invite the author, Zoro to our show.

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Zoro, go to:

https://zorothedrummer.com/

http://www.facebook.com/zorothedrummermusic

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http://www.twitter.com/zorothedrummer

http://www.youtube.com/superfunkyfan

#Zoro    #harveybrownstoneinterviews

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Jackie Evancho, is a highly popular and beloved singer-songwriter who became a worldwide sensation at the age of 10 years old when she dazzled television audiences in 2010 with her beautiful, angelic voice, on Season 5 of America’s Got Talent.   

Since then, she’s had a phenomenal multi-gold and platinum career, with 9 studio albums, 8 of which went to number 1, 3 number 1 live albums and DVDs, 30 top 20 singles, 3 highly acclaimed PBS concert specials, and 3 EPs, including her latest EP just released, entitled “Solla”.  She’s performed with some of the biggest names in music including David Foster, Placido Domingo, Tony Bennett, Barbra Streisand, José Carreras, Andrea Bocelli and many more.  

She has had many firsts in her spectacular career.  She was the youngest top-10 debut artist in US history, as well as being the youngest top-5 debut artist in the history of the UK, and she holds the record for being the youngest platinum selling solo recording artist in history.   Her albums have been on the Billboard Charts for a cumulative  total of more than 500 weeks.  She’s performed at the top concert venues in the world, and she is also the youngest person ever to give a solo concert at Lincoln Center in New York City.   

And now, at the age of 24, our guest has moved well beyond her life as a child prodigy, and has evolved into a mature singer-songwriter, expressing her unique brand of creativity and artistry by telling her truth musically, most recently by collaborating with Smash Mouth’s founding member and principal songwriter, Greg Camp, who produced her most recent EP, “Solla”.   

Throughout her career, music critics from around the world have been falling over themselves searching for the appropriate superlatives to describe our guest’s amazing voice, using words like “magical”, “miraculous”, “flawless”, “celestial”, “superhuman”, “angelic”, but I think Gia Tolentino of The New Yorker magazine said it best when she described our guest’s voice as “supernaturally blissful”.   

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To learn more about Jackie Evancho, go to:

https://www.jackieevancho.com/

https://www.instagram.com/officialjackieevancho/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCUOIPyrBN1uW8B_-p1VisQ

https://music.apple.com/us/artist/jackie-evancho/334346533

https://open.spotify.com/artist/7FukyKMUPL10mDN9LgAngI

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Linda Ambrus Broenniman, has quite a fascinating and important story to tell.  She and her 6 siblings were raised by her parents, Julian and Clare Ambrus, who were highly respected doctors in Buffalo, New York.  

Although she and her siblings were given very few details of her family history, she knew that her parents had immigrated to America from Hungary in 1949, and her paternal grandmother came from Hungary to live with them in 1956.  And she knew that her parents were Catholic, and that’s how she was raised.   

Then, in 1983, at the age of 27, she learned, quite by accident, that her father and his family were Jewish.   And then a miracle happened.  Following a house fire in 2011, a box full of important documents and photographs, that had been hidden away, somehow survived.  The contents of that box launched our guest on a quest – an intensive search to uncover her family history, through a meticulous and arduous process of examining gravestones, newspaper ads and a myriad of government, school and synagogue records.  

Her search for the truth, beginning in the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the 1700’s, ultimately allowed her to piece together the astonishing saga of her Jewish ancestors – the Politzer family – a family of doctors, lawyers, entrepreneurs, writers, musicians, art collectors, and philanthropists.  She learned of their remarkable struggles, bravery and resilience in surviving religious persecution, wars, epidemics, economic upheavals, and of course, the Holocaust perpetrated by Nazi Germany in World War 2.  

Our guest has written a compelling book, entitled “The Politzer Saga”, which not only honours the memories of her lost family and shows us how finding our roots can help anchor your own place in the world.   But more importantly, she’s illuminated the history of the Jewish community in Hungary over 300 years, showing us the destructive power of hatred, dehumanization, and injustice - a powerful story encompassing issues that, sadly, still resonate today.  

The Politzer Saga is also the subject of a permanent Exhibit which was launched in August 2021 at the Rumbach Synagogue in Budapest.

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To learn more about Linda Ambrus Broenniman, go to:

https://politzersaga.com/

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Patrick Cassidy, is a popular actor and singer who’s been dazzling the world of stage and screen with his remarkable talent, charisma and versatility for over 4 decades.  

And his talent comes as no surprise, given that he is a member of Hollywood royalty.  He’s the son of the beloved and legendary entertainers Jack Cassidy and Shirley Jones.   

His body of work in musical theatre is incredibly impressive.  On Broadway, he starred in “The Pirates of Penzance”, “Annie Get Your Gun”, “Aida”, “42nd Street” and “Leader of the Pack”, which earned him a Tony Award nomination for Best Actor.  He’s also starred in national tours of some of those shows I just mentioned, and in fact he won the National Broadway Theatre Award for Best Actor in a Touring Musical for his performance in “Aida”, before playing the role on Broadway.  

He originated the role of “The Balladeer” in the Off-Broadway production of Stephen Sondheim's “Assassins”.  And he has starred in numerous other theatrical productions including “The Sound of Music”, “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat”, “The Robber Bridegroom”, “Company”, and “The Threepenny Opera”, for which he was nominated for the Garland Award for Best Actor.   On the big screen, he’s appeared in “Off the Wall”, “Nickel Mountain”, “Fever Pitch”, “Love at Stake”, “Man of Her Dreams”, “A One Time Thing”, and of course, the brilliant, groundbreaking Oscar-nominated movie, “Longtime Companion”.  On television, you’ve seen him in many movies, TV series and miniseries including: “Midnight Offerings”, “Angel Dusted”, “Dress Gray”, “Dirty Dancing”, “Napoleon & Josephine”, “Hitler’s Daughter”, “Ruby & The Rockits” and many more.   

Our guest is also the artistic director of the renowned Studio Tenn Theatre Company in Franklin, Tennessee.  

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To learn more about Patrick Cassidy, go to:

https://www.instagram.com/patrickcassidyofficial/

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Burt Kearns, is an award-winning producer, director, writer, journalist and author who is perhaps best known for his work in nonfiction television and film -- most recently as a creator and executive producer of the popular sports docuseries, “Breaking the Ice”.   

He’s also worked on many other series and specials including “Who Do You Believe?”, “Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura”, “Guinness World Records Unleashed”, “Joe Rogan Questions Everything”, “TIME Presents: Celebrities on Trial”, “The Secret History of Rock 'n' Roll” with Gene Simmons,  “All The Presidents’ Movies”, and “El Chapo & Sean Penn: Bungle in the Jungle”.  

His film credits  include the documentaries “Death of A Beatle”, about the death of John Lennon, and “The Seventh Python”, for which he won the Las Vegas Film Festival Golden Ace Award.  He also co-wrote and produced the feature film, “Cloud 9”, and he produced “High There”, for which he won the Cannabis Film Festival Viewers' Choice Award.  He’s an Emmy Award winning newswriter, and he served as managing editor and producer of the highly popular TV shows, “A Current Affair” and “Hard Copy”.  

Our guest is also a highly acclaimed author.  His first book, “Tabloid Baby” traces his instrumental role in the evolution of the tabloid television genre.  He and Jeff Abraham then co-wrote “The Show Won't Go On: The Most Shocking, Bizarre, and Historic Deaths of Performers Onstage”.  That book was followed by “Lawrence Tierney: Hollywood's Real-Life Tough Guy”.  

And now he’s here to talk about his brand new book entitled, “Marlon Brando: Hollywood Rebel”, which canvases the profound and pervasive impact that Marlon Brando had, not only on the acting community, but on Western society and popular culture, because of his artistic and personal decisions.

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To learn more about Burt Kearns, go to:

http://www.burtkearns.com/

https://twitter.com/tabloidbaby

https://www.instagram.com/tabloidbaby/

https://marlonbrandobook.com/

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Sheena Easton, is an iconic and beloved, multi-gold and platinum singer, recording artist and actress who’s been dazzling the world for over 4 decades, selling over 20 million records worldwide, winning 2 Grammy awards, a Billboard Music Award, 4 more Grammy Award nominations and an American Music Award nomination.  

She was the first – and still the only – artist in Billboard history to have a top 5 hit on all five major Billboard charts: Pop, Adult Contemporary, Country, R&B and Dance.  She’s recorded 15 studio albums containing 55 hit singles, and she’s also been featured in 14 hit soundtrack albums.  

She’s brought us a string of mega hits including “Morning Train”, “We’ve Got Tonight”, “For Your Eyes Only”, “You Could Have Been With Me”, “Modern Girl”, “Telephone”, “Strut”, “Almost Over You”, “The Lover in Me”, and dozens more.   She’s recorded hit single duets with Prince, Kenny Rogers, Luis Miguel, Barry Manilow, and she’s worked with everyone from David Foster and L.A. Reid to Babyface and Nyle Rodgers.   

Our guest is also a highly accomplished actress, having appeared in “Body Bags”, “Highlander”, “Brisco County”, “Outer Limits”, “Young Blades” and many more TV shows and movies.  And yes, she appeared in 5 episodes of “Miami Vice”, and she played “Caitlin Davies“, who ended up marrying “Sonny Crockett”, played by Don Johnson.    And if all of that weren’t enough, our guest has starred on Broadway in “Man of La Mancha” and “Grease”, and in London’s West End, she starred in “42nd Street”.   

Over the years our guest has had numerous hugely successful Las Vegas residencies, and she was recently inducted into the Las Vegas Hall Of Fame.  She is currently on a concert tour, performing for sold out audiences throughout the world.

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To learn more about Sheena Easton, go to:

https://sheenaeaston.com/ 

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Alonso Duralde, is a renowned film critic, journalist, author and podcaster whose movie reviews and commentaries have brought him great respect, both within the film industry and among the general public.  

He’s held a number of prestigious positions, including artistic director at the USA Film Festival in Dallas, arts and entertainment editor at The Advocate magazine, film critic for MSNBC.com, senior film critic for The Wrap, and featured critic for Rotten Tomatoes. He co-hosted the T Y T Network program “What the Flick”, and he’s been a writer and editor for The Village Voice, Movieline, and Detour Magazine.  

Currently, he’s the Chief US Film Critic for The Film Verdict.  In 2005 our guest wrote a great book entitled, “A Hundred and One Must-See Movies for Gay Men”.  Five years later, he published another really fun book called “Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas”, which highlights the best – and worst – movies of the Yuletide season.  A few years ago he followed that up with another wonderful book that he co-authored, entitled, “I’ll Be Home For Christmas Movies”.   

And now, he’s released his brand new book published by TCM entitled, “Hollywood Pride: A Celebration of LGBTQ+ Representation and Perseverance in Film”.  This meticulously researched and beautifully written book reveals the fascinating and often suppressed history of the evolution of queer culture on film, spanning from the dawn of cinema, through the “pansy craze” of the 1930s, the Red Scare of the ‘50s, the New Queer Cinema of the ‘90s, all the way up to today, chronicling the evolution of LGBTQ+ storytelling.  

This comprehensive book is entertaining and insightful, and highlights the most important, groundbreaking movies, and showcases the achievements not only of the actors, but also the writers, directors, producers, and others behind the scenes, whose achievements defined and exemplified the best of the film industry.    

Our guest is a member of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and the National Society of Film Critics, and he currently co-hosts THREE highly popular podcasts: “Linoleum Knife”, “Maximum Film” and “Breakfast All Day”.  He’s also appeared on CNN, PBS, TCM, ABC, in addition to being featured in numerous documentaries.   

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Alonso Duralde, go to:

https://www.instagram.com/alonso.duralde

https://www.thewrap.com/author/alonso-duralde/

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Steve Guttenberg, is a member of Hollywood royalty, and a multi-award winning actress, singer, journalist, producer and humanitarian who is most definitely following in the groundbreaking footsteps of her father, the legendary director and producer, Stanley Kramer, because she’s having a stellar career that exemplifies what it means to make a significant difference in the world.    

Her film credits include “Going Shopping”, “Hollywood Dreams”, “What Just Happened?”, “Little Fockers”,  “Turnover”, for which she won the Best Supporting Actress Award at the Love International Film Festival, “Fate’s Shadow: The Whole Story”, for which she was named “Best Supporting Actress” at the Actors and Directors International Film Festival, “Rings of the Unpromised”, for which she won 5 prestigious film festival awards - 4 for Best Supporting Actress and one for Best Ensemble, and the multi-award winning “Mother’s Day Memories”, which won 4 distinguished film festival awards.  

On television, you’ve seen her in many shows including “Child of the 70s”, “Larry King Live”,  “Actors Entertainment”, “Meet the Biz”, and “Call me Kate”, the wonderful Netflix documentary about her godmother and namesake, the legendary Katharine Hepburn.   On the stage, our guest has starred in 4 popular one-woman-shows, and she won awards for her roles as Helen Keller in “The Miracle Worker” and Anne Frank in “The Diary Of Anne Frank”, as well as starring in “David And Lisa”, “Great Expectations”, “The Lark” and “The Vagina Monologues”.  

She’s also a very gifted singer, and has recorded a wonderful album called “Gemstone”, featuring songs by Mick Jagger.  

In 2009, she founded a Cinema Series called “Kat Kramer’s Films That Change the World”, showcasing movies that raise awareness about highly relevant and thought-provoking social issues like women’s equality, animal welfare, bullying, school violence and much more.  Our guest has received many honours including the Compassion Award from the Braveheart Women, and a Golden Spirit Award from the Atomic Age Cinema Fest.  

In 2015 she established the Hunt For Humanity Award in honour of actress and activist Marsha Hunt, which is given to an actor or filmmaker who uses their voice for social change.  She’s a founding board member of the Palm Springs International Comedy Festival, and she serves on the advisory boards of the LA Press Club and the Los Angeles Women's Theatre Festival.  And if all of that weren’t enough, I can’t resist mentioning that in 1990, our guest was Miss Golden Globe.

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To learn more about Steve Guttenberg, go to:

https://katharinekramer.com

http://www.katkramersfilmsthatchangetheworld.com/ 

https://www.facebook.com/katharine.kramer.92/

https://twitter.com/katharinekramer

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s special guest, Steve Guttenberg, is a beloved and multi-award winning actor, producer, director and author who’s brought us dozens of memorable performances in classic movies including “The Boys From Brazil”, “Diner”, “Cocoon”, “Short Circuit”, “Bedroom Window”, “Surrender”, “Three Men and a Baby”, “Roe v. Wade” and of course, the four great “Police Academy” movies.  

He also wrote, directed, produced and starred in “PS Your Cat is Dead”.  And for his performance in “A Novel Romance”, he won a Best Actor Award from the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival.   

On TV you’ve seen him in many shows and movies including “To Race the Wind”, “Miracle on Ice”, “The Day After”, “Veronica Mars”, “Law and Order: Criminal Intent”, “Sons of Liberty”, “Ballers”, “The Goldbergs” and “Party Down”, for which he was nominated for a Gold Derby Award for Best Guest Comedy Actor.   And of course, we all remember his amazing performances on Season 6 of “Dancing with the Stars”.  

And on the stage, he starred in “The Boys Next Door” in London's West End, and “Prelude to a Kiss” and “Honeymoon Motel” on Broadway, as well as “Furthest From The Sun”, “Henry the 4th” and numerous other theatrical productions.  He earned a Daytime Emmy Award nomination for producing an episode of the CBS Schoolbreak Special called “Gangs”.  And in 2011, he received a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.   

And if all of that weren’t enough, our guest is also a best selling author.  His first book, “The Guttenberg Bible”, is a comedic account of his first 10 years in the film industry.  He then wrote a terrific children’s book called “The Kids from DISCO”, and on May 21, his brand new book, entitled, “Time to Thank:  Caregiving for my Hero”, will be released.  The book is a heartwarming and at times heart wrenching memoir of our guest’s unbreakable bond with his wise, loving and devoted father – his hero – as he chronicles his newfound role as a caregiver in his father’s final years, reflecting on their eventful life together, and the enduring impact of their extraordinarily close relationship.  Our guest is also a renowned philanthropist.  

He started the Guttenhouse Project, which provides housing in Los Angeles for foster care youth when they turn 18.  He also organized a campaign to provide glasses for children whose families cannot afford vision care.  In fact, the Entertainment Industry Foundation selected him to be Ambassador for Children's Issues, because of his work on behalf of children and the homeless.   In addition, he has served as an honourary board member of the Lymphatic Education & Research Network.  And he’s also a passionate advocate for animal welfare, through his work with the Fun Paw Care organization.   In 2008, he received the Tony Randall Lifetime Achievement Award for his work in the entertainment industry, as well as his community service.  

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Steve Guttenberg, go to:

https://www.facebook.com/steveguttenbergofficial

https://www.instagram.com/steveguttenberg/

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Chris Lemmon, an actor, producer and author who’s appeared in many movies including “Airport ‘77”, “Seems Like Old Times”, “Uncommon Valor”, “Swing Shift”, “Cannonball Run 2”, “Weekend Warrior”,  “Lena’s Holiday”, “Roe vs Wade”, and 2 very special movies, “That’s Life” and “Dad”, in which he appeared with his legendary father, 2-time Academy Award winner Jack Lemmon, who’s been immortalized in movies like “Mr. Roberts”, “Save the Tiger”, “The Apartment”, “Irma LaDouce”, “The Odd Couple”, “The China Syndrome”, “Glengarry Glen Ross”, and of course, the greatest comedy film of all time, “Some Like it Hot”.  

In fact, our guest portrayed his father in a re-enactment of his time on the set of “Some Like it Hot”, in the Marilyn Monroe biopic, “Blonde”.    

On television, our guest has brought us many memorable roles including “Checko” in “Brothers and Sisters”, “Richard Philips” in “Duet” and “Open House”, “Jeff Cameron” in “Knots Landing”, and “Martin Brubaker”, better known as “Bru”, in “Thunder in Paradise”.  On the stage, he’s starred in “Barefoot in the Park”, “Shay”, “Love Letters”, and his highly acclaimed one-man show “Twist of Lemmon”, based on his best selling, highly compelling and heartwarming 2006 memoir entitled, “A Twist of Lemmon: A Tribute to my Father”.   

He also wrote, produced and hosted the wonderful documentary film, “Magic Time”, which is all about the brilliant artistry of Jack Lemmon.

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Chris Lemmon, go to:

https://www.stonemanorproductions.com

https://www.instagram.com/therealchrislemmon/ 

www.youtube.com/@stonemanorproduction

#ChrisLemmon    #harveybrownstoneinterviews

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s special guest, Tina Sinatra, is a member of Hollywood royalty.  She’s the youngest child of the most beloved vocalist and entertainer of all time – Frank Sinatra.  

As an actress, she appeared in a number of TV shows including “Romeo and Julia ‘70”, “It Takes a Thief”, “Adam-12”, “Mannix” and “Fantasy Island”.  But she has devoted most of her life and career to managing, advancing and honouring the spectacular legacy and body of work of her father’s monumental career.  

She was the executive producer of the fabulous, star-studded TV Special “Sinatra 75: The Best is Yet to Come”, celebrating her father’s 75th birthday.   She also executive produced the highly acclaimed miniseries, “Sinatra” which was nominated for 9 Emmy awards and won 2, in addition to winning a Golden Globe Award for best television miniseries.  And she served as executive producer on the TV movie “Young at Heart” and was a producer of the 2004 remake of the movie “The Manchurian Candidate”.  

In addition, our guest has been instrumental in a number of initiatives and projects which have kept Frank Sinatra’s historic contribution to pop culture relevant and current, such as establishing the Frank Sinatra Hall at the USC Campus, arranging for her father’s film, TV and audiotape collection to be donated to the UCLA archives, and orchestrating a terrific Grammy museum exhibit called “Sinatra: An American Icon”, which toured across America.  

She’s been involved in bringing us wonderful multimedia concert productions at Radio City Music Hall and the London Palladium, as well as the Twyla Tharp dance extravaganza “Come Fly Away”, which had hugely successful runs on Broadway and in Las Vegas.  In her role as senior Board member of Frank Sinatra Enterprises, which manages the licensing and usage of her father’s name, likeness, recordings and films, she’s been a tremendous support in the creation of the Emmy-nominated, 2-part HBO documentary “Sinatra: All or Nothing at All”.  

She was instrumental in the launch of the immensely popular Siriusly Sinatra channel, which is channel 70 on SiriusXM, as well as the iconic Sinatra Bar and Lounge in Nashville, AND the exciting new show, “Sinatra: The Musical”, which made its world premiere last year in England.  

And if all of that weren’t enough, she wrote a highly compelling, insightful and poignant New York Times Bestselling book entitled, “My Father’s Daughter: A Memoir”, which was revised in 2015 to commemorate Frank Sinatra’s 100th birthday.  

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Tina Sinatra, go to:

https://www.sinatra.com/ 

https://www.instagram.com/tinasinatra.rp

#TinaSinatra    #harveybrownstoneinterviews

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s special guest, Stacy Keach, is a legendary actor who’s given us dozens of unforgettable performances in a career that spans over 6 decades.  

He’s widely considered to be America’s finest classical actor, having tackled the most challenging Shakespearean roles including Hamlet, Richard the 3rd, MacBeth, King Lear and Henry the 4th.  He has starred in many other highly acclaimed theatrical productions including “Incident at Vichy”, “The Country Wife”, “MacBird”, “Indians”, “Long Day’s Journey Into Night”, “Deathtrap”, “The Kentucky Cycle”, “Other Desert Cities”, “Death of a Salesman”, “Art” and “Love Letters”.  

On the big screen, he’s appeared in dozens of great movies including “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter”, “Doc”, “Fat City”, “The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean”, “The New Centurions”, “Up in Smoke” and the sequel, “Nice Dreams”, “That Championship Season”, “Escape from L.A.”, “American History X”, “W”, “The Bourne Legacy”, “Nebraska”, “Gold”, and many more.  

And on television, aside from his groundbreaking role as everybody’s favourite private detective, “Mike Hammer”, we also remember him in “Die Gang”, “Titus”, “Prison Break”, “Lights Out”, “Crowded”, “Man with a Plan”, and “Blue Bloods”.  He’s also starred in many renowned miniseries including “Jesus of Nazareth”, “The Blue and the Gray”, “Princess Daisy”, “Mistral’s Daughter”, “Hemingway”, “Blackbeard”, “Meteor”, and “Tokyo Trial”.  And who can forget his wonderful audio podcast series, “The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas”.   

In 2013 he wrote a highly compelling, fascinating and insightful memoir entitled, “All in All:  An Actor’s Life On and Off the Stage”.   

The list of awards and accolades this man has received is jaw-dropping.  He’s won 4 Drama Desk Awards, 3 Vernon Rice Awards, 2 Helen Hayes Awards, a Hollywood Film Award, a Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award, a Mary Pickford Award, the German Independence Honorary Award and a Star of Excellence at the Oldenburg Film Festival.  He has received Lifetime Achievement Awards from the San Diego Film Festival and the St. Lewis International Film Festival.  

In the year 2000, he received the prestigious Millennium Recognition Award from Shakespeare Theatre Company for his outstanding contribution to classical theatre.  In 2012 he became George Mason University’s first Heritage Professor of Stage and Screen.  

In 2015, our guest was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame.  And in 2019, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.  

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To learn more about Stacy Keach, go to:

http://www.gostacykeach.com/ 

https://www.facebook.com/stacy.keach.9/ 

https://www.instagram.com/stacykeach/

https://twitter.com/stacykeach1

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaPJQh5a5MoyqaERgkmXt3A/featured

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Lesley Nicol, is a beloved actress from England, whose show-stopping portrayal of “Mrs. Patmore” on the iconic television series “Downton Abbey”, and the 2 feature films that followed, has contributed enormously to the popularity and success of that wonderful show.  

She and her fellow “Downton Abbey” cast members received 3 Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series.  But beyond “Downton Abbey”, our guest has done much, much more in her remarkable career.   

On stage in London’s West End, she played “Rosie” in the original production of the international smash hit show, “Mama Mia”.  She originated the role of “Kath” in “Our House”, based on the music of Madness.  She played “Little Buttercup” in the revival of “HMS Pinafore”.  And she originated the role of the nosy neighbour, “Auntie Annie”, not only in the play, “East is East”, but also in the multi-award winning 1999 film and in the sequel, “West is West”.   On television, besides “Downton Abbey”, she’s appeared in dozens of series, mini-series and TV movies including “The Practice”, “The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe”, “Staying Alive”, “Casualty”, “Shameless”, “The Bill”, “Heartbeat”, “Hot in Cleveland”, “The Catch”, “Beecham House”, and many more.   And you may also recognize her as “Aunt Tea” from a series of TV commercials for Tetley tea.   Our guest is also very well known for her dedicated service to several important charities.  She is a UK Ambassador for “Animals Asia”, which is devoted to ending the barbaric practice of bear bile farming, and to improving the welfare of animals in China and Vietnam.  She is also an ambassador for Medical Detection Dogs, which trains dogs to detect human disease and to assist people to manage complex medical conditions.  

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Lesley Nicol, go to:

http://www.lesleynicol.co.uk/

https://twitter.com/lesley_nicol

#lesleynicol   #harveybrownstoneinterviews

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s show deals with the issue of religious institutions discriminating against the LGBTQ+ community.    Our guest, Pastor Ruth Schmidt, was a senior director at the Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California, until she was fired for refusing to sign the school’s mandatory statement of faith, which prohibits affirmation of same-sex marriage.   

When she first entered Fuller as a student in 2016, she did sign the statement of faith.  And she signed it again in 2022, this time as an employee, pursuant to Fuller’s policy of requiring senior staff members to sign the statement annually.  I should point out that there are court rulings throughout the United States, permitting discrimination by religious institutions against gay students and employees, and this was most recently seen in October 2020, when the court affirmed the Fuller Seminary’s right to expel 2 students for being in same-sex marriages.   

Getting back to our guest, when she was required in 2023 to re-sign the statement, she realized that it would be wrong for her to do that, given her imminent ordination into the United Church of Christ, which DOES accept marriage for same-sex couples.   And she ALSO came to the realization that it was ethically wrong and hypocritical for the Fuller Theological Seminary, which prides itself in being multi-denominational, to make money from denominations that affirm same-sex marriage, but at the same time, compel its students and employees to sign a homophobic statement of faith, and to dismiss those who refuse to do so.   

As a result of our guest being fired, and the groundswell of support she received, not only from students and faculty at Fuller, but from the community at large and the media, the Board of Trustees at the Fuller Theological Seminary created a task force to reconsider its policies relating to human sexuality, and the school has now proposed new sexuality standards for the students, but NOT for staff and faculty.   

So there is still much work to be done.  

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To learn more about Ruth Schmidt, go to:

https://www.instagram.com/rutheschmidt/ 

https://twitter.com/ruthschmidt

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s special guest, Deborah Presley Brando, has lived a life that most of us could never possibly imagine, in the shadow of one of the greatest superstars of all time – Elvis Presley.   

Although many people still believe that Elvis had only one child, Lisa Marie, who passed away tragically last year at the age of 54, the fact is – and this has been confirmed by an order of the Tennessee Court of Appeal - Elvis had another child, our guest, born on March 4, 1956.  

Our guest’s mother, Barbara Jean Lewis, met Elvis in 1954, before he became famous, through his cousin Gene Smith, when she was 14 years old.  She had a romantic relationship with Elvis in the summer of 1955, when she spent several weeks with him on tour in Mississippi.  Elvis and Barbara were very much in love, and when Elvis learned of the pregnancy, he invited Barbara to come to Memphis and live with his parents.  Barbara did visit Elvis in Memphis, but his manager, Colonel Tom Parker, fearing the impact on Elvis’ career and public image of being seen in the company of a pregnant 16-year-old girl, persuaded Barbara to return home to her family in North Carolina.  Barbara married a man by the name of Don Yandel prior to having the baby, and she kept the identity of our guest’s father a secret from her for many years, until 1977, when, at the age of 21, she finally told her daughter the truth.  

She also told our guest that Elvis had been a part of her life until she was 4 years old, and that he sent gifts and money throughout her childhood.   

In the 80s our guest became good friends with the one person besides her mother, who was able to confirm the details that I’ve just mentioned:  Elvis’ cousin and best friend Gene Smith, who was Elvis’ driver and who was with him constantly, including during the time of Elvis’ relationship with Barbara.   In fact, Gene Smith provided a crucial affidavit in the court case launched by our guest, leading to the judicial finding that our guest is, indeed, the biological daughter of Elvis Presley.    

Our guest has written a fascinating and compelling book entitled “Memoirs of a Starseed Child: Elvis, Marlon, Christian and Me”, in which she shares her heart wrenching and sometimes traumatic journey through a difficult childhood, her quest to learn the truth about her paternity and to be acknowledged and validated for who she is, and several complicated relationships including her marriage to Marlon Brando’s late son Christian.  

Our guest has also written a children’s book entitled, “Creations of the Goddess Maylaya: An American Fairy Tale”, and she’s had a varied career, not only as a writer, but as a special education assistant working with autistic children, and as an artist and a curator for an art gallery.

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To learn more about Deborah Presley Brando, go to:

https://www.facebook.com/deborah.presley.98/

https://www.instagram.com/deborahdelainepresley/

https://twitter.com/devidelaine

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s special guest, Bryan Batt, is an award-winning actor, author and businessman who is perhaps best known for his portrayal of the closeted art director Sal Romano on the mega hit TV series, “Mad Men”, for which he won 2 Screen Actors Guild Awards along with his fellow castmates for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series.   

But he’s done much, much more than that.   On Broadway, he’s appeared in many shows including “Cats”, “Starlight Express”, “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat”, “Beauty and the Beast”, “Sunset Boulevard”, “Saturday Night Fever”, “Seussical”, “The Scarlet Pimpernel” and “La Cage Aux Folles”.   

On the big screen, you’ve seen him in “Jeffrey”, “Funny People”, “Brawler”, “B-Side”, “12 Years a Slave”, “Parkland”, “The Runner”, “LBJ”, “American Reject”, “High Tide”, “Easy Does It”, and many more movies.  He also starred in the highly acclaimed short film, “The Palooka”, for which he earned 2 Best Actor Award nominations from the Massachusetts Independent Film Festival.  

And on TV, besides his memorable performance in “Mad Men”, he’s appeared in dozens of shows including “Ghost Whisperer”, “Ugly Betty”, “Law & Order: Criminal Intent”, “NCIS”, “Scream: The TV Series”, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”, “East Siders” and many more.  

He’s also written 3 bestselling books: a fascinating memoir entitled “She Ain’t Heavy, She’s My Mother”, “Big, Easy Style: Creating Rooms You Love to Live In”, which is a beautiful book about interior design and home décor, and “Pontchartrain Beach: A Family Affair”, about the famous New Orleans amusement park founded by his grandfather.  And if all of that weren’t enough, our guest and his husband Tom are the owners of an extremely popular home furnishings and gift shop in New Orleans, called “Hazelnut”.   

Our guest is passionate in his support of charities and civic organizations in New York City and New Orleans, especially his more than 30-year relationship with Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.   He’s a recipient of the Isidore Newman Distinguished Alumnus Award, and on April the 13th, he will be the honoree at the New Orleans Film Society Gala.  

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To learn more about Bryan Batt, go to:

https://www.facebook.com/bryan.batt.1/ 

https://www.instagram.com/bryan_batt/

https://hazelnutneworleans.com/ 

https://twitter.com/Bryan_Batt 

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 About Harvey's guest:

Today’s special guest, Jim Wilson, is a multi-award winning composer, pianist, concert and recording artist who has just released a fascinating, entertaining and insightful memoir entitled, “Tuned-In: Memoirs of a Piano Man: Behind the Scenes with Music Legends and Finding the Artist Within”.   

As a young man, he moved from his home in Texas to Los Angeles to pursue a career as a songwriter, musician and performer.  But his ambitions took a major detour when his sideline job as a piano tuner blossomed into a hugely successful career as a piano technician for some of the greatest music artists of our generation, including Burt Bacharach, Elton John, Phil Collins, Quincy Jones, Bruce Springsteen, Carole King, Paul McCartney, Lionel Richie, David Foster, Dan Fogelberg – and believe me, I’m just scratching the surface.   

Our guest got to know many of his legendary clients very well, and through his book, we get an up-close-and-personal glimpse into their lives off-stage.  Following the sudden death of a dear friend, and with the encouragement of music superstar Dan Fogelberg, our guest made the life-altering decision to confront his insecurities and anxieties, emerge from the sidelines and follow his dreams and step into the limelight as a music artist in his own right.  

And what a career he’s had.  He played keyboards, served as music director, and was frequently the opening act on tour for Stephen Bishop for 16 years.   He’s recorded 10 piano-featured instrumental albums, 4 of which have hit the Billboard Top 20: “Northern Seascapes”, “Cape of Good Hope”, “Remembrance” and his beautiful tribute album to the late Dan Fogelberg, entitled, “Leader of the Band”.  Some of my other favourite albums are “My First Christmas With You”, “Playing Favourites”, and “My Mother’s Son”.  

Our guest has had 2 PBS specials: “Cape of Good Hope and Other Musical Portraits”, and “Jim Wilson: A Place in my Heart”.  And his music has been streamed close to 80 million times by fans around the world.  He was elected to the Board of Governors of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, and he was recently made a “Lifetime Member” of the Recording Academy.   

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Jim Wilson, go to:

https://jimwilsonmusic.com/

https://www.facebook.com/jimwilsonmusic

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https://twitter.com/jimwilsonmusic

https://www.youtube.com/user/JimWilsonian

https://open.spotify.com/artist/7BfVtwOGofJ7r3I8GIBuGf?si=3fc94bcce4344c6c

https://music.apple.com/us/artist/jim-wilson/6668521

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s special guest, Gordon Thomson, is an iconic actor who’s brought us some very memorable performances in a career that spans 6 decades.   He is perhaps best known for his portrayal of the evil, yet dashing “Adam Carrington” on the blockbuster TV series, “Dynasty”, for which he received nominations for a Golden Globe Award and 3 Soap Opera Digest awards.  

But his body of work extends FAR beyond “Dynasty”.   On the big screen, he’s appeared in a number of great movies including “Explosion”, “Leopard in the Snow”, “The Intruder”, “Man of Her Dreams”, “Little Miss Sunshine”, “Poseidon”, ““Afterburn / Aftershock” and “The Experience”.   

And on television, besides his role on “Dynasty” and a whole slew of guest appearances and made-for-TV movies, we remember him as “Aristotle Benedict White” on “Ryan’s Hope”, “Mason Capwell” on “Santa Barbara”, for which he received a Soap Opera Digest Award nomination, “A.J. Deschanel” on “Sunset Beach”, “Walter” on “Days of our Lives”, “Preston Regis” on “DeVanity”, for which he received 2 Indie Series Award nominations, and “Maximillion Winterthorne” on “Winterthorne”, for which he received another Indie Series Award nomination.   

And on the stage, our guest has performed in everything from Shakespeare to Ibsen.  He’s starred in “The Fantastiks”, “Godspell”, “King John”, “Love's Labours Lost”, “The Imaginary Invalid”, “A Month in the Country”, “Loot”, “Eastern Standard” and many more plays.   

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s special guest, Barry Williams, is one of the most instantly recognizable and beloved actors of our generation, who became known throughout the world as America’s most reliable big brother, “Greg” on the iconic TV show “The Brady Bunch”.  

Although the original sitcom ended in 1974 after 5 seasons, “The Brady Bunch” has had phenomenal longevity and success.  There were 7 different TV series, 2 full length feature films, 5 TV specials, a concert tour, 3 record albums, a stage play, a reality series, and countless Brady Bunch merchandising items and collectibles that are still very much in demand, especially the Brady Bunch lunch bucket.   And get this: since its premiere on September 26, 1969, “The Brady Bunch” has NEVER been off the air.  The show has been broadcast in almost every country on earth, and each of the original 117 episodes has aired over 100,000 times, and for many years it’s been the highest rated program EVER on Nick at Night.   

But well beyond “The Brady Bunch”, our guest has had a long and impressive career as an actor, singer, musician, dancer and producer.  He’s appeared in dozens of classic TV shows including “Run For Your Life”, “Gomer Pyle”, “Mod Squad”, “Adam-12”, “Mission Impossible”, “Police Woman”, “Three’s Company” and many more.  He had recurring roles as “Hannibal” in “General Hospital” and “Dean Strickland”, also known as “The Dean Machine”, in “Hollywood 7”.  And WHO can ever forget him on Season 32 of “Dancing with the Stars”, and Season 8 of “The Masked Singer” as one of “the Mummies”.  

He starred on Broadway in ”Romance, Romance” and  “Pippin”, and he appeared in stage productions of  “Grease”, “The Sound of Music”, “West Side Story” and “City of Angels”.  On top of all that, he’s a gifted singer and guitar player, and he plays in a band called “Barry Williams and the Travel-eers”, featuring his beautiful wife Tina.   

His New York Times bestselling book entitled, “Growing Up Brady: I was a Teenage Greg”, is now in its 3rd edition, and was made into a TV movie, which he co-wrote and co-executive produced.   The book highlights the relationships, the behind-the-scenes stories, and especially the people who made “The Brady Bunch” so special to multiple generations around the world.   

In 1994 our guest was nominated for a Cable Ace Award for Best Performance in a Comedy Special.  And he’s received 4 TV Land Award nominations, and in 2007, he and his fellow Brady Bunch castmates won the TV Land Pop Culture Award.  In 1989 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award as a former child star from the Young Artist Foundation.

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Barry Williams, go to:

https://barrywilliamsofficial.com/

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https://www.facebook.com/realbradybros

https://www.facebook.com/BarryWilliamsandTheTraveliers/ 

https://www.instagram.com/thebarrywilliams/

https://twitter.com/MrBarryWilliams

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s special guest, Barbara Bain, is a beloved actress who is perhaps best known for her portrayal of undercover agent “Cinnamon Carter” on the classic TV series, “Mission: Impossible”, for which she became the first actress in television history to receive 3 consecutive Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series.  

She also received a Golden Globe Award nomination and a Photoplay Award nomination for Best Female TV star.  She also created the iconic role of “Dr. Helena Russell” in the classic British science fiction series “Space: 1999” and the made-for-TV movies “Alien Attack”, “Destination Moonbase Alpha”, “Cosmic Princess” and “Journey Through the Black Sun”.   

And over the years we’ve seen her in dozens of TV shows including “The Dick Van Dyke Show”, “Perry Mason”, “Get Smart”, “Moonlighting”, “Murder, She Wrote”, “Diagnosis Murder”, “CSI” and many more.  Her movie credits include “Savage”, “Skinheads”, “Panic”, “Bel Air”, “Trapped”, “Political Disasters”, “Nothing Special”, “On the Rocks”,  “American Gun”, for which she received a DVD Exclusive Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress, and 3 of my favourite  short films: “Reconnected”, for which she received a Best Actress nomination at the Madrid International Film Festival; “Take My Hand”, for which she won 3 prestigious film festival awards; and “Pacific Edge”, for which she won Best Actress Awards at the Golden Door International Film Festival AND the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival.   And I can’t resist mentioning her hilarious performance as “Dr. Olga Schmetner” in the 1981 TV movie, “The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan’s Island”.   

On the stage, she’s won Los Angeles Critic's Circle and DramaLogue Awards for her performances in "Wings", "Happy Days" and "The Chairs".   

And in 2016 she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.  

And if ALL OF THAT weren’t enough, out guest founded a children’s literacy program through the Screen Actors Guild called "Book Pals", which initially had hundreds of actors reading to school children in major cities across America.  And now it’s an online program called “Storyline Online”, so kids all over the world can choose a famous actor to read them a story.

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Barbara Bain, go to:

https://twitter.com/thebarbarabain

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s special guest, Bruce Davison, is an iconic, multi-award winning actor who’s brought us dozens of unforgettable performances in a stellar career that spans almost 6 decades.   

He earned an Academy Award nomination and WON a Golden Globe Award and a whole slew of prestigious film festival awards for Best Supporting Actor for his quiet, finely nuanced, painfully tender performance as “David”, the lover and caretaker of a life partner ravaged by AIDS, in the groundbreaking film, “Longtime Companion”.   His other movie credits include “Last Summer”, “Six Degrees of Separation”, “Abnormal Attraction”, “The Crucible”, “Apt Pupil”, “X-Men”, “X-2”, “Runaway Jury”, “Captors”, “Short Cuts”, for which he and his fellow cast members won a Golden Globe Special Award AND a Venice Film Festival Award for their work as an ensemble, and “Displacement”, for which he won a Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival Award for Best Supporting Actor.  And of course, we all remember him from the cult classic horror film “Willard”, in which he bonded notoriously with a herd of rats.   

On television, you’ve seen him in hundreds of shows including “Harry and the Hendersons”, “Hunter”, “The Practice”, “Seinfeld”, “Knight Rider”, “Ghost Whisperer”, ”Mozart in the Jungle”,  “Designated Survivor”, “The Fosters”, ”1923”,  ”Bosch Legacy”, and “Glow and Darkness”.   And who can ever forget him as the villainous Senator on “Ozark” and the wise judge on “Lincoln Lawyer”?  And he was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for his performance in “Touched By an Angel”.  

On the stage, he starred on Broadway in "Tiger at the Gates", “The Elephant Man” and “The Glass Menagerie”, as well as at the Lincoln Center in the cast of "King Lear."  And he portrayed Clarence in "Richard III" at the New York Shakespeare Festival.      He’s also starred onstage in "The Skin of Our Teeth," "The Little Foxes", "A Life in the Theatre," “Love Letters”, “How I Learned to Drive” and “Streamers”, for which he won the Los Angeles Drama Critics Award.  He received a second Los Angeles Drama Critics Award for his performance in the multi-award winning play "The Normal Heart".   

Our guest is also an Emmy nominated director for his work on the 2001 TV movie, “Off Season”.   In 2012 our guest received an Honorary Satellite Award, and in 2018 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Action on Film International Film Festival.

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To learn more about Bruce Davison, go to:

https://www.instagram.com/bruce.davison/ 

https://twitter.com/bruce_davison

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About Harvey's guests:

Today’s guest, Michael Fishman, is a multi-award winning actor, writer, producer and director who first captured our hearts as “D.J. Conner” on the long-running TV sitcom, “Roseanne”, and its spinoff series, “The Conners”, winning a TV Land Award, a Young Artist Award and a Young Star Award nomination.  

He’s also appeared in a number of other TV shows including “Seinfeld”, “Walker, Texas Ranger”, and most recently in the TV movie “Abducted by my Teacher:  The Elizabeth Thomas Story”.    He also wrote and produced many episodes of Roseanne Barr’s talk show, “The Roseanne Show”, and he created, wrote, produced and directed numerous episodes of the TV show, “Fish’s Call Sheet”.  

He’s also directed multiple projects including 5 episodes of “The Conners”.   In addition, he’s produced feature films including “A Place in the Field”, and “Available: A Modern Day Fairy Tale”, which won the Best Romantic Comedy Award at the Indie Gathering International Film Festival.  He also produced 4 episodes of the 2015 TV miniseries, “Halsnoy”.   

His passion as a producer and director is to tell relatable, visceral and uplifting stories that feature complex and varied characters, and that celebrate our diversity and inclusivity as a community.  Our guest is a true renaissance man.  In addition to being an actor, writer, producer and director, he’s also been an athlete, coach, teacher, bounty hunter and rescue diver.

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To see more about Michael Fishman, go to:

https://www.facebook.com/ReelMFishman/ 

https://www.instagram.com/reelmfishman/ 

https://twitter.com/reelmfishman

#ReelMFishman    #harveybrownstoneinterviews

About Harvey's guests:

Today’s guest, Todd Bridges, is an actor, director and producer who rose to international stardom as one of the most popular and beloved child stars of the 70s and 80s.  He first captured our hearts as “Loomis” on the TV show “Fish”, and then as “Willis Jackson” on “Diff’rent Strokes”.  

He’s also appeared in dozens of movies including “Thursday the 12th”, “The Sounds of Silence”, “Turning Point”, “Dead Ringer”, “Nightblade”, “Hospital Arrest”, “Hope for the Holidays”, “Cheer Bloody Murder” and many more.  And on television, in addition to his iconic work on “Fish” and “Diff’rent Strokes”, he appeared in the groundbreaking miniseries “Roots”, as well as on “Little House on the Prairie”, “The Waltons”, “The Facts of Life”, “Circle of Pain”, “The Young and the Restless”, “Everybody Hates Chris”, and many more TV shows and movies.  

But behind that beautiful smile and charismatic talent as an actor, and enormous likeability, this is a man who has had to overcome a number of exceedingly difficult traumas and obstacles, including child abuse and betrayal of the worst kind, as well as police harassment, racism, wrongful prosecution, and vicious treatment by the tabloid press while he was struggling to overcome a very severe and debilitating substance abuse addiction.   

In 2010, he wrote a highly compelling, heart wrenching and unforgettable memoir entitled, “Killing Willis: From Diff’rent Strokes, to the Mean Streets, to the Life I Always Wanted”, in which he chronicles his tumultuous and gut-wrenching journey, from the heights of superstardom to the depths of despair, through his addiction, criminal court prosecutions and long road to rehab, recovery and healing, and to rebuilding the highly successful career and family life he is now enjoying and so richly deserves.   

Our guest has given so much back to the community.  In 1992 he founded the Todd Bridges Youth Foundation, and in 2010 he became the official spokesperson for ICDC College’s Alcohol and Drug Counselling Program.  Through his work as an addiction counselor and founder of the Society for Ethical Addiction Treatment, he has helped thousands of people conquer their drug and alcohol addictions and live positive, constructive lives.  And I can tell you, as a retired criminal court judge who knows only too well what this man has been through, it’s truly an honor to have him here with us.

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To see more about Todd Bridges, go to:

https://realtoddbridges.com/

https://www.facebook.com/todd.bridges2/

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https://twitter.com/ToddBridges

https://www.seatsociety.org

http://toddbridgesyouthfoundation.org

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Kent McCord, is a beloved actor who is forever remembered for his portrayal of “Officer Jim Reed” on the classic TV shows, “Adam-12” and “Dragnet 1967”.  

And he’s appeared in dozens of other TV shows including “The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet”, “Galactica 1980”, “Unsub”, “SeaQuest 2032”, “Renegade”, “Silk Stockings”, “JAG” and “Farscape”.    He’s also appeared in many feature films and TV movies including “The Young Warriors”, “The Outsider”, “Breakout”, “Airplane 2: The Sequel”, “Nashville Beat”, “Return of the Living Dead 3”, “Tides of War”, and many more.  

And get this, he’s the only actor to have appeared in FIVE Elvis Presley movies.  He was a member of the Screen Actors Guild National Board of Directors for 11 years, and in 1999 he received the Ralph Morgan Award in recognition of his devoted service to the membership.  And in the year 2000, he and his “Adam-12” co-star Martin Milner received the LAPD Historical Society's Jack Webb Award for their support of the Los Angeles Police Department.

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

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About Harvey's guests:

Today’s guest, John Rubinstein, is a highly acclaimed, multi-award winning actor, composer and director whose illustrious career and body of work have made him a respected and beloved icon.  

He made his Broadway debut starring in “Pippin”, for which he won a Theatre World Award, followed by “Children of a Lesser God”, for which he won a whole slew of awards including a Tony and a Drama Desk Award.  He also starred in “The Caine Mutiny Court Martial”, for which he received a Drama Desk Award nomination, “M. Butterfly”, “Love Letters”, “Ragtime” and “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”.  Off-Broadway, he starred in “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead” and “Counsellor at Law”, for which he received the Lucille Lortel Award for Best Lead Actor in a Play, as well as nominations for both the Outer Critics' and Drama League Awards.  

He’s appeared in over 200 movies, TV shows, made-for-TV movies and miniseries.  Some of his most popular feature films are “Getting Straight”, “The Boys From Brazil”, “Someone to Watch Over Me”, “Another Stakeout”, “21 Grams”, “The Candlelight Murders” and “Being the Ricardos”.  On TV you’ve seen him in dozens of TV shows including “Family”, for which he received an Emmy Award nomination, “Crazy Like a Fox”, “Bureau of Alien Detectors”, “Star Trek Enterprise”, “The Young and the Restless”, “Desperate Housewives”, “Dear White People”, “Claws” and many more.   

His TV movies include “The American Clock”, for which he received a Cable Ace Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor, “M.A.D.D.: Mothers Against Drunk Drivers”, “The Gift of the Magi”, “Norma Jean and Marilyn”, and “Liberace”.   And some of his noteworthy miniseries are “The French Atlantic Affair”, “Roots: The Next Generations”, “The Two Mrs. Grenvilles”, “When we Rise”, “Feud”, and “Headless: A Sleepy Hollow Story”.  

He’s directed many stage productions, including “Les Liaisons Dangeureuses”, “Macbeth”, “Wait Until Dark”, “Brigadoon”, “Guys and Dolls” and many other shows.  Our guest is also a brilliant composer, which comes as no surprise, given that he’s the son of the greatest pianist of all time, in my opinion, Arthur Rubinstein.  And he’s the grandson of the renowned Polish violinist, conductor and composer Emil Młynarski.  

He’s written the music scores for a number of movies and TV shows including “Jeremiah Johnson”, “The Candidate”, “Family”, “The Ordeal of Patty Hearst”, “Johnny Belinda”, “China Beach” and “A Walton Wedding”.  And believe me, I’m just scratching the surface of this man’s prodigious body of work.

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To see more about John Rubinstein and the film, go to: 

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0748270/

https://www.playbill.com/person/john-rubinstein-vault-0000020233

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About Harvey's guests:

Today’s guest, Michelle Danner, is a highly acclaimed, multi-award winning actress, filmmaker and world renowned acting coach.  

On the stage, she starred in over 30 plays and musicals including Tennessee Williams’ “The Rose Tattoo”, “House of Yes”, “Bright Ideas”, “Ibsen's Ghosts”, and “One White Crow”.  She’s also directed many award winning stage productions including “The Night of the Black Cat”, “Mental the Musical”, “You’re on the Air”, and “Jane Fonda in the Court of Public Opinion.”    

On the big screen, she’s appeared in several movies by other directors, including “Reach” and “Ovation”, as well as in many of her own movies, including “How to Go Out on a Date in Queens”, “Hello Herman”, “The Bandit Hound”, “Bad Impluse”, and “The Runner”.  Her movies have won a staggering 56 awards at some of the most prestigious film festivals in the world.  

She’s here to discuss her latest film, entitled “Miranda’s Victim”, which in my opinion, is an absolute masterpiece.  

The movie tells the true story of the origins of the “Miranda warning”, which the police must give to every criminal suspect and accused person, that they have the right to remain silent, and that anything they say can be used against them in a court of law.  Until our guest made this movie, most people had no idea about the circumstances behind the landmark 1966 US Supreme Court ruling in the Miranda case – circumstances involving the horrific kidnapping and rape by Mr. Miranda, of Patricia Weir in Phoenix, Arizona in 1963.  

This riveting movie, starring Abigail Breslin, Andy Garcia, Donald Sutherland, Luke Wilson, Ryan Phillippe and Kyle MacLachlan, tells the jaw dropping story of the many astonishing twists and turns throughout the groundbreaking court case, from the perspective of Ms. Weir, the victim.  The movie, which is available for streaming on Hulu, has won 15 film festival awards, and has been universally praised not only by film critics, but also by leading members of the legal profession and justice system.  

In addition to being a highly acclaimed stage director and filmmaker, our guest is also a renowned acting coach.   She’s given acting workshops around the world and she’s worked with many A-list actors including Donald Sutherland, Henry Cavill, Gerard Butler, Penelope Cruz, Andy Garcia, Salma Hayek and many others.  She teaches classes at the Michelle Danner Studio and the Los Angeles Acting Conservatory.  She’s also the Founding Director of the Creative Center for the Arts, where she has served as Artistic Director for more than 20 years.  

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To see more about Michelle Danner and the film, go to: 

https://www.michelledanner.com/

https://www.facebook.com/michelledanneracting

https://www.instagram.com/michelledannerla/

https://twitter.com/actingclassla

#MichelleDanner   #harveybrownstoneinterviews

About Harvey's guests:

Today’s guest, Randy Schmidt, is a brilliant author, screenwriter and producer who’s here to discuss his brand new, multi-award winning documentary feature film about one of the greatest female vocalists in the history of pop music:  Karen Carpenter, who with her brother Richard, formed a duo, “The Carpenters”, and became the #1 American music act of the 70s.   

The movie is called “Karen Carpenter: Starving for Perfection”, and it chronicles not only her spectacular career, but also, what was going on behind closed doors:  her quest for perfection, resulting in low self-esteem, a disappointing love life, and a battle with anorexia, which resulted in her tragic death in 1983 at the young age of 32.   We hear about Karen’s personal struggles in her own voice through never-before-released recordings—and through the voices of legendary stars who knew her and were inspired by her music, including Carol Burnett, Olivia Newton-John, Suzanne Sommers, Kristin Chenoweth, Carnie Wilson and others.    

The movie, which is now available on the EVENTIVE.ORG streaming platform, is a captivating, revealing, and unvarnished documentary providing astounding new insight into Karen Carpenter’s tragically short life and enduring musical legacy.    Our guest, who wrote and produced this movie, is a best selling author who’s written 3 books about the Carpenters:  “Little Girl Blue: The Life of Karen Carpenter”, “Yesterday Once More: The Carpenters Reader”, and “Carpenters:  An Illustrated Discography”.  

He’s also published 2 books about Judy Garland, entitled “Judy Garland on Judy Garland: Interviews and Encounters”, and “Becoming Judy Garland”.   And in 2018 he released a great book entitled, “Dolly on Dolly:  Interviews and Encounters with Dolly Parton.”  

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To see more about Randy Schmidt and the film, go to: 

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Today’s special guest, Ann-Margret, is a legendary actress, singer, dancer, and recording artist who’s been dazzling audiences for over 6-decades.  

On the big screen, she starred in many iconic films including “Pocketful of Miracles”, “State Fair”, “Bye Bye Birdie”, “Viva Las Vegas”, “Carnal Knowledge”, “Tommy”, “The Cincinnati Kid”, “I Ought to be in Pictures”, “52 Pick-Up”, “Grumpy Old Men”, “GRUMPIER Old Men”, “Queen Bees” and many more.  

On television, you’ve seen her in dozens of sitcoms, variety shows, TV specials, movies and miniseries including “Who Will Love My Children”, “The Two Mrs. Grenvilles”, “Life of the Party”, “A Streetcar Named Desire”, “Perfect Murder, Perfect Town”, “Blonde”, and of course, her recurring roles in “Ray Donovan” and “The Kominsky Method”.  

She headlined in Las Vegas for decades and has toured all over the world with her exciting live show.  She’s received 2 Academy Award nominations and 2 Grammy Award nominations, and she’s won 5 Golden Globe Awards, an Emmy Award, 2 Photoplay Awards and 3 Golden Apple Awards.  And for her contributions to the film industry, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.  

She’s recorded 14 albums, including her latest album released earlier this year, entitled, “Born to be Wild”, featuring guest appearances from Joe Perry, Pete Townsend, Cliff Richard, and our recent guest Pat Boone among many others.  

Our guest’s longstanding commitment to the men and women of the American military is well known and admired by all.  In the 60s she toured 3 times with the USO to Vietnam and Southeast Asia, performing for tens of thousands of servicemen.  In 2003, the USO honored her with its Spirit of Hope award, and in 2005, she appeared at the Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada, to welcome troops home from Iraq and Afghanistan.  

And now, she’s produced a new Ann-Margret perfume, available online at ANNMARGRETPERFUME.COM, with all profits going to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund.  Last year, she was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Nevada.  And she’s also been awarded the highest honor from her native Sweden.  

She’s a Commander of the Royal Order of the Polar Star.  And most recently, she received the Living Legend Award from the Women's Image Network.  And if all of that weren’t enough, let me add that Empire magazine ranked our guest as number 10 on its list of the 100 Sexiest movie stars all time.

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