Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth Interview with Legendary Actor, William H. Macy

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. 

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

To learn more about William H. Macy, go to:

https://www.instagram.com/williamhmacy/

https://x.com/williamhmacy

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth Interview with Acclaimed Actor, John Shea, “Lex Luthor” – “New Adventures of Superman”

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.

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

To learn more about John Shea, go to:

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

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth Interview with Peter K. Ackerman, Author, Son of Classic TV Producer Harry Ackerman and Actress Elinor Donahue

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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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with the son of the Legendary Audrey Hepburn, Sean Hepburn Ferrer 

About Harvey's guest: 

Today’s guest, Sean Hepburn Ferrer, is the son of one of the most talented, respected, revered and beloved cinematic legends and humanitarians:  Audrey Hepburn.    

In classic films like “Roman Holiday”, “Sabrina”, “War and Peace”, “Funny Face”, “Love in the Afternoon”, “The Nun’s Story”, “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”, “The Children’s Hour”, “My Fair Lady”, “Wait Until Dark” and many more, Audrey Hepburn dazzled, inspired and enchanted us.  And she captivated our hearts with her iconic beauty, vulnerability, sincerity and incomparable empathy, which underscored and motivated everything she did.    

She received 5 Academy Award nominations and won the Oscar for Best Actress for “Roman Holiday”.  And after her passing, the Academy bestowed the Jean Herscholt Humanitarian Award upon her, posthumously, which our guest accepted on her behalf.   

Audrey Hepburn was one of the first people to be an EGOT winner.  She won an Oscar, a Grammy, an Emmy, and 2 Tony Awards.  She also won dozens of other awards including 3 BAFTA Awards and 3 Golden Globe Awards, including the Cecil B. DeMille Award.  And the American Film Institute named her the third greatest female screen legend of all time.   She was the first celebrity to have her own fragrance, called “L’interdit”, created by Givenchy in 1967.   But beyond all of that – beyond her iconic beauty, glamour, fashion sense, elegance and warmth, there was Audrey Hepburn the monumentally generous humanitarian.  She was the truly the walking definition of “the milk of human kindness”.  She never forgot that, immediately after the war, an organization which later became UNICEF, brought food, medicine and clothing to her community in Holland, where she lived as a child during the Nazi occupation.   

And so, in the last 6 years of her life, as a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF, she made numerous trips to the world’s most impoverished and war-torn countries, especially in Africa, advocating passionately and tirelessly on behalf of the children being devasted by disease, famine and genocide.  President George Bush Sr. presented her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in recognition of her contribution to humanity.  And if you go to the UNICEF Headquarters in New York, you will see a beautiful statue called “The Spirit of Audrey”.   

Our guest, who is the son of Audrey Hepburn and the iconic actor, director, producer and writer, Mel Ferrer, has had a successful career in the film industry for many years.  Shortly after his beloved mother passed away in 1993, he and his brother Luca created he Audrey Hepburn Children's Fund, a charity that continues the humanitarian work and honours the legacy of his dear mother.  He’s been touring the world with his exhibition, entitled "Intimate Audrey", raising funds for his non-profit organization.   In 2003, he released a wonderfully poignant book entitled, “Audrey Hepburn:  An Elegant Spirit: A Son Remembers”, and all of his royalties went to the Audrey Hepburn Children’s Fund.  And in 2020, he and his wife Karin, published “Little Audrey's Daydream”, a children's book about his mother’s childhood in Nazi-occupied Europe. Proceeds from the book benefit the European Organisation for Rare Diseases. 

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

To see more about Sean Hepburn Ferrer, go to:

https://twitter.com/ferrerhepburn

https://www.instagram.com/seanhepburnferrer/

Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Jeremy Kagan, Acclaimed Director, Screenwriter, Producer, Author & Educator

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Jeremy Kagan, is a highly acclaimed director, screenwriter, producer, author and educator, whose feature film credits include “Scott Joplin”, “Heroes”, “The Big Fix”, “The Chosen”, which won 3 Jury Prizes at prestigious international film festivals, “The Sting 2”, “The Journey of Natty Gann”, which was the first American film to win a Gold Prize at the Moscow Film Festival, “Golda’s Balcony”, and the exceptionally powerful and compelling movie entitled “SHOT”, which is a must-see film about gun violence in America.  

Some of my favourite of his TV movies are “Katherine”, “Courage”, “Descending Angel”, “Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8”, which won an ACE Award for Best Dramatic Special, “Roswell: The UFO Cover-Up”, which got a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best TV movie, “Color of Justice”, “Bobbie's Girl”, and “Crown Heights”, which earned him the Directors Guild of America Robert B. Aldrich Achievement Award, and a nomination for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Children’s Programs, AND for which he won an NAACP Image Award AND the Humanitas Award for "affirming the dignity of every person".  

He also produced and directed the internationally acclaimed 10 part TV series entitled, “The ACLU Freedom Files”, which won a Special Recognition Award at the Washington Independent Film Festival.   In addition, he’s directed dozens of TV shows including “Columbo”, “Picket Fences”, “Chicago Hope”, for which he won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing, “Ally McBeal”, “Family Law”, “The West Wing”, for which the Online Film and Television Association nominated him for Best Direction of a Drama Series,  AND he directed the pilot for “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman”.  This man’s contributions to the film industry have been monumental.  

He created the Change Making Media Lab, which fosters positive social and environmental change by producing award-winning films dealing with pressing social issues.  He served as the Artistic Director of Robert Redford's Sundance Lab.  And he’s been on the National Board of the Directors Guild, where he is Chairperson of its Special Projects, providing members with educational, cultural and technological information.  Our guest is also an accomplished author.  His books entitled, “Directors Close Up”, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 contain fascinating interviews with renowned film directors.  He also wrote a mesmerizing and inspirational book about his near-death experience, called “My Death: A Personal Guidebook”.  

And he’s written an interactive eTextbook called “Keys to Directing”. He’s a Professor at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, and he’s taught master classes on filmmaking throughout the world.  He’s a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, The Television Academy, The Writers Guild, and The Directors Guild.  

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

To see more about Jeremy Kagan, go to:

https://www.facebook.com/jeremypkagan/

https://www.instagram.com/jeremypkagan/

https://twitter.com/ainsof

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with David Fantle & Tom Johnson, Authors, “C’mon, Get Happy: The Making of Summer Stock”

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guests,  David Fantle & Tom Johnson, are co-authors who last appeared on our show to discuss their landmark book entitled, “Hollywood Heyday: 75 Candid Interviews with Golden Age Legends”.   The interviews contained in that book were conducted when our guests were mere teenagers living in Minnesota, visiting Hollywood in the hopes of meeting movie stars.  And boy, did they ever!  

Since then, our guests have gone on to have distinguished careers.   David Fantle has been interviewing, writing, and speaking about Hollywood’s Golden Age stars for 45 years, and he’s an adjunct professor of film at Marquette University.  Tom Johnson is a former senior editor at Netflix, and he’s written movie reviews and features for many publications including E! Online, Movie-phone, and People magazine. His writing has been recognized with a Minnesota Newspaper Association achievement award and a National Hearst Foundation award.  

They’re here today to discuss their brand new book entitled, “C’mon, Get Happy: The Making of Summer Stock”.   This well-researched and illuminating book chronicles how Judy Garland’s last MGM movie, and her 3rd and final film with co-star Gene Kelly, was conceived, cast and filmed, despite the troubled atmosphere of drama and heartache, and the sometimes overwhelming obstacles and challenges surrounding the production.  

The book is jam-packed with little-known and newly uncovered details about the people in front of and behind the cameras, and it examines the enduring legacy of the movie, including some fascinating insights provided by Judy Garland’s daughter Lorna Luft, Gene Kelly’s daughter Kerry Kelly Novick, and other celebrities including Savion Glover, Ben Vereen, Tommy Tune and Michael Finestine.   

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

To see more about David Fantle and Tom Johnson, go to:

https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/C/C-mon-Get-Happy

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with MAJOR., Music Sensation & Actor

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, MAJOR., is a  phenomenally talented singer, songwriter, actor and humanitarian whose magical voice took the world by storm with his debut multi-platinum hit song entitled “Why I Love You”, which Stevie Wonder called “the wedding song of the year” and went to #5 on the Adult R & B Billboard Chart.  

He’s released 4 stunning albums, containing some of my favourite songs including “Keep On”, “Better With You In It”, “Honest”, “I’ll Keep My Faith”, “A Mother’s Love”, a brilliant reimagining of “Whole World in His Hands”, and his latest single, “Baby Will You Love Me”, from his newly released EP entitled, “The Hope of My Soul”.  His music has had almost a BILLION digital streams, and his live concerts in the most prestigious venues in America are consistently sold out.    

Our guest is also an accomplished actor, who’s appeared on TV in “Masters of Sex”, Legend”, “Star”, “Dear Santa, I Need a Date”, and the highly acclaimed miniseries, “Genius: The Aretha Franklin Story”, in which he portrayed the legendary Curtis Mayfield.   

And if all of that weren’t enough, our guest created a groundbreaking charitable organization, the MAJOR DOT HOPE Foundation, which has the crucially important mandate of instilling, inspiring and amplifying HOPE through entertainment, civic engagement, community development, youth engagement, confidence coaching, philanthropy and much more.   And he’s released 2 spoken word albums that form the philosophical basis for the Foundation.   His music and his message are inspirational, and relatable, and filled with positivity and hope.  

This man, who’s often referred to as “the Hope Dealer”, is well on his way to becoming a legend.  He’s been nominated for a Grammy, 2 Soul Train Awards, and 8 NAACP Image Awards – and believe me, there’s much more to come in this remarkable man’s future.

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

To see more about MAJOR., go to:

http://nowthatsmajor.com/

http://instagram.com/nowthatsmajor

http://twitter.com/nowthatsmajor

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUogGsOyTyN0PcxpiYZBGAA

https://open.spotify.com/artist/2YjrvPxeToeP8MyPH2Viky

https://music.apple.com/us/artist/major/1116275275

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Rena Lipiner Katz, Author, “A Life Inherited:  Unraveling the Trauma of a Second Generation Holocaust Survivor”

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Rena Lipiner Katz, has written a compelling and insightful book about a subject that’s near and dear to my heart.  It’s a memoir entitled, “A Life Inherited:  Unraveling the Trauma of a Second Generation Holocaust Survivor”.  

Born in New York and raised by parents whose lives were irrevocably shaped by the trauma they endured during World War 2, she grew up in the shadow of the atrocities of the Holocaust.  It’s well known that the terror that Holocaust survivors experienced, delivered to MY generation, an overabundance of fear and anxiety, and a predisposition to feel stress.  

Our guest grew up believing that the price of her parents’ survival, and indeed, of her own birth, was a life of sorrow, anxiety and guilt.  In her book, she explores how her parents’ childhood trauma as Holocaust victims, fundamentally shaped her emotional and physiological development.  She chronicles her journey and  her determination to forge a life separate from the legacy of the Holocaust, which she refers to as her “scorched birthright”.  But in order to do that, she had to first understand how her vicarious absorption of her parents’ horrific experiences during the war, impacted her world view, her relationships, and the myriad of choices she made as a child, wife and mother.  

She shares with us, in a very personal way, what it means to be a 2nd generation Holocaust survivor, and how she unravelled and ultimately healed the trauma of her inherited past, and eventually triumphed over tragedy and despair, and found a life filled with meaning, peace of mind and love.

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

To see more about Rena Lipiner Katz, go to:

https://wilburanddolce.com

https://www.amazon.ca/Life-Inherited-Unraveling-Second-Generation-Holocaust/ 

https://twitter.com/rena4nyc

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Harvey Brownstone continues his conversation with Louise Sorel, on her Triumphant Return to "Days of Our Lives"

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Louise Sorel, is making her 2nd appearance on our show.   

Last Spring, while she was busy filming her highly anticipated return as “Vivian Allamain” on the popular daytime drama series, “Days of Our Lives”, she took time out from her filming schedule to grant me an interview.  That interview immediately went viral and was covered by over 25 media outlets.  And now, the episodes that this beloved actress was filming back in the Spring, are now being aired on TV.   I’ve been inundated by thousands of fans, requesting that we invite her back to our show to continue our conversation, and she has graciously agreed.

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

To see more about Louise Sorel, go to:

https://fr-ca.facebook.com/Louise-Sorel-377801885588638/

https://twitter.com/louisesorel

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0814798/

#louisesorel   #DaysofOurLives  #harveybrownstoneinterviews

Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Scott Page, Renowned Musician with Supertramp, Toto and Pink Floyd

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Scott Page, is a renowned musician who’s toured and recorded with the legendary bands Supertramp, Toto and Pink Floyd.  

He’s also worked with a wide variety of music artists including David Cassidy, Gorky Park, David Lee Roth, and Hang Dynasty.    But what makes him even more fascinating, are his innovative business ventures in the world of technology, post-production, interactive multi-media, software development, distribution services, and cyberspace management enhancement for content creators.   

For over 30 years he’s been at the leading edge of technology entrepreneurship in the entertainment industry.  In 1987 he founded an audio and video post-production company called Walt Tucker Productions, that produced projects for The Rolling Stones, Bon Jovi, Janet Jackson, Garth Brooks, and many other music stars.  Then, in 1993, he co-founded a company called 7th Level, which created educational entertainment software called “Tuneland” featuring Howie Mandel, and its flagship product, the interactive musical CD/ROM, “Monty Python’s Complete Waste of Time”.  

In 2004, he co-founded the New Media Broadcasting Company, which developed interactive distribution services for content creators and consumers, and created a communications platform connecting diverse audiences, artists and content owners through a collaborative online network.  In 2011, he created a company called Direct To Care, which provided an online social business and presence management network for healthcare professionals.  

And in 2014, he launched GetYourOPI, an online presence management company, focusing on improving cyberspace presence for individuals and entities through analysis of their existing results on internet search engines.  He served as CEO of Ignited Network, a start up music accelerator based in Los Angeles.  And currently, he’s the CEO of THINK-EXP, a  company which is revolutionizing the entertainment industry with technological innovations creating one-of-a-kind, live immersive concert experiences.  

Our guest is also a philanthropist, and he’s used his music to raise millions of dollars for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

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

To see more about Scott Page, go to:

https://www.instagram.com/iamscottpage/

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Randal Kleiser, Internationally Renowned Director 

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s special guest, Randal Kleiser, is an internationally renowned and highly acclaimed director who became a global sensation with the release of his very first feature film, “Grease”, which still remains one of the highest grossing and most beloved movie musicals of all time.   

He also directed “The Boy in the Plastic Bubble”, “The Blue Lagoon”, “Summer Lovers”, “Honey I Blew up the Kid”, “Getting It Right”, “White Fang”, “Shadow of Doubt”, and one of my all-time favourite movies, “It’s My Party”, and the critically acclaimed play, “The Penis Chronicles”.    

For almost 40 years, our guest has been at the forefront of experimenting with technology, digital cinematography and virtual reality, which can be seen not only in some of his feature films, like “Flight of the Navigator” and “Red Riding Hood”, but also at the Disney theme parks, where, for 10 years, his amazing 3-D movie entitled, “Honey, I Shrunk the Audience”, was one of the most popular attractions.  He also wrote and directed the Virtual Reality series “Defrost” which was featured at Sundance AND the Cannes Film Festival.  And for many years he’s been a member of the Science and Technology Committee of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.  

Our guest is also a much sought-after educator, and he regularly teaches and lectures at film schools and film festivals.  He created an online and DVD course of his former teacher Nina Foch’s class, entitled, “The Nina Foch Course for Filmmakers and Actors”.  He received an honourary doctorate from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco.   And if all of that weren’t enough, our guest is also an author.  

In 2019, he released his first book entitled, "Grease: The Director's Notebook", which is a retrospective look at the making of this classic film.  And now, he’s released his fascinating new book, entitled “Drawing Directors”, in which he reveals his unique talent for sketching, using a technique called “blind contour drawing”.  The book contains candidly drawn sketches, personal anecdotes and comments about the work of some of his favourite directors, including Billy Wilder, Robert Wise, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorcese, Spike Lee, Quentin Tarantino, Clint Eastwood, and many more, including my dear friend Henry Jaglom, who recently appeared on our show.

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

To see more about Randal Kleiser, go to:

https://www.randalkleiser.com/

https://www.facebook.com/randalkleiserofficial

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0459170/

#RandalKleiser  #harveybrownstoneinterviews

Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Charles Busch, Award-Winning Playwright and Drag Performer, Author, “Leading Lady: A Memoir of a Most Unusual Boy”

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Charles Busch, occupies a unique and highly acclaimed place in the world of entertainment.   

He’s a playwright, actor, director, novelist, cabaret performer and drag legend, whose characters evoke the great cinematic actresses of the golden age of Hollywood.   As a young man, his ambition was to have his own theatrical troupe, and write camp, movie-inspired comedies in which he could play the leading lady in drag.  and that he did.   

He’s written and starred in over 25 plays including “The Divine Sister”, “The Lady in Question”, “Red Scare on Sunset”, “The Tribute Artist”, “The Confession of Lily Dare”, and one of my all time favourites, “Pardon my Inquisition or Kiss the Blood Off my Castanets”, starring our guest in the dual roles of the tempestuous spitfire prostitute Maria Garbanzo and her look-alike, the tragic noblewoman the Marquesa del Drago.  And I can’t resist mentioning his hilariously camp and heartwarming classic Christmas show, “Times Square Angel”, which has been performed annually for over 30 years.    

But there can be no question that in the world of theatre, our guest is best known for 2 of his hit plays: “Vampire Lesbians of Sodom”, which is one of the longest running plays in the history of Off-Broadway; and his smash long-running Broadway hit, “The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife”, which earned a Tony Award nomination for Best Play, and won our guest the Outer Circle Critics’ Award for playwrighting.    

He also wrote and starred in the film versions of his plays, “Psycho Beach Party” and “Die Mommie Die”, which won him the Best Performance Award at the Sundance Film Festival.  

He also directed the film, “A Very Serious Person” starring Polly Bergen, which won an honorable mention at the Tribeca Film Festival.   

On television, for two seasons, he appeared as “Nat Ginzburg” on the highly acclaimed HBO series “OZ”.   He’s a well-respected expert in film and theatre history, and he’s appeared as a guest programmer and in numerous documentaries for Turner Classic Movies, and he’s lectured and conducted master classes at many colleges and universities throughout America.   

He's a 2-time MAC award winner, and in 2003, he received a special Drama Desk Award for career achievement as both performer and playwright.  He also received the Flora Roberts Award for Sustained Achievement in the Theatre by the Dramatists’ Guild.   He is also the subject of the acclaimed documentary film “The Lady in Question is Charles Busch”.  And his CD, “Charles Busch Live at Feinstein’s 54 Below”, is one of the best cabaret albums out there - an absolute joy from beginning to end.     

As an author, he wrote an auto-biographical novel in 1995 entitled, “Whores of Lost Atlantis”.   And now, finally, he’s released his captivating, witty, insightful and poignant memoir entitled, “Leading Lady: A Memoir of a Most Unusual Boy”, in which he recounts a life as a trailblazer, lived with authenticity and purpose.

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

To see more about Charles Busch, go to:

https://www.charlesbusch.com/

https://www.facebook.com/charlesbusch.page 

https://www.instagram.com/chasbusch/  

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Bill Boggs, Award Winning TV Talk Show Host, Producer, Journalist, Author & Public Speaker

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Bill Boggs, 4-time Emmy-award winning TV talk show host, producer, journalist,  author and public speaker.   He’s hosted numerous TV shows including the New York-based “Midday Live with Bill Boggs” and “Weekend Today”.  

He was the host and executive producer of the syndicated FOX-TV series, “Comedy Tonight”.   And he was the founding executive producer of Court TV, AND executive producer of the groundbreaking Morton Downey Jr. Show.  In the food/media world, our guest is a legend.  He created and hosted the PBS TV show, “Home Cooked Classics”.  He helped launch the Food Network and pioneered the first-ever national restaurant review show, “TV Diners”, AND he created the long-running hit show, “Bill Boggs Corner Table”.  

He also had an enormously popular one-man Off Broadway show called, “Talk Show Confidential”, which ran for six years.   He’s interviewed many of the most notable personalities of our time—including celebrities, world leaders, business tycoons, writers, athletes, celebrity chefs, and many more.   

He’s also a highly accomplished author.  His first book, entitled “At First Sight”, is a novel that’s been optioned for a Hollywood movie.  In 2007 he published a highly acclaimed book entitled, “Got What it Takes?: Successful People Reveal How They Made It to the Top”, which contains candid interviews with 44 leaders in the world of entertainment, business and sports, including Sir Richard Branson, Clive Davis, Norman Lear, Diane Von Furstenberg, Renee Zellweger - and yes, even Donald Trump.  

Three years ago he published a hilariously satirical novel entitled, “The Adventures of Spike the Wonder Dog”, about an adorable English Bull Terrier with a politically incorrect sense of humor and a heart of gold, who rises to fame on his master's TV talk show and on social media.  And now, he’s released the laugh-out-loud but razor-sharp satirical sequel entitled, “Spike Unleashed: The Wonder Dog Returns”, in which the fiercely loyal Spike and his faithful master Bud continue their hilarious antics.  These books demonstrate that our guest is indeed a master of social commentary.  

You’ve seen him on “The Today Show”, “Good Morning America”, “Fox and Friends”, PBS “My Generation”, and dozens of other TV shows.  

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

To see more about Bill Boggs, go to:

https://www.billboggs.com

https://www.facebook.com/billboggs/

https://twitter.com/RealBillBoggs

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

https://www.instagram.com/realbillboggs/

#BillBoggs   #harveybrownstoneinterviews

Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth Interview with Carlyn Montes De Oca, Author, “Junkyard Girl: A Memoir of Ancestry, Family Secrets, and Second Chances”

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/

To learn more about Carlyn Montes De Oca, go to:

https://animalhumanhealth.com/

https://www.facebook.com/carlynmontesdeoca/

https://twitter.com/carlynmdo

https://www.instagram.com/carlynmontesdeoca/

https://www.youtube.com/user/carlyn555

#CarlynMontesDeOca  #harveybrownstoneinterviews

Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Randy Edelman, Renowned Film Score Composer & Songwriter

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest,  Randy Edelman, is a renowned, multi-award winning composer, musician, producer and singer-songwriter, whose body of work is truly monumental.  

As a solo artist, he’s recorded 16 albums and had numerous hit singles including “Uptown Up-tempo Woman”, “Concrete and Clay” and “Nobody Made Me”.   But most of his classic songs became huge hits for some of the greatest music stars of all time.  Everyone from Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney and Shirley Bassey, to Petula Clark, the 5th Dimension, and Kool and the Gang, have recorded his songs.  

Some of his biggest hits include “Weekend in New England” by Barry Manilow, “I Can’t Make Music” by The Carpenters, “Isn’t it a Shame” by Patti LaBelle, “Down in the Everglades” by Willy Nelson, “If Love is Real” by Olivia Newton-John, “Blue Street” by Blood, Sweat and Tears, “The Laughter and the Tears” by Dionne Warwick, and of course, “Sunny Days”, recorded by his mega-talented wife, Jackie DeShannon.   

And if that weren’t enough, our guest is also one of the most highly acclaimed composers for movies and television, having written over 100 soundtracks for movies, including “My Cousin Vinny”, “The Mask”, “Ghostbusters 2”, “Twins”, “Kindergarten Cop”, “Six Days Seven Nights”, “Dragonheart”, “Beethoven”,  “Anaconda”, “Diabolique”, “Gettysburg”, “Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story”, and “Last of the Mohicans”.  Some of the TV shows and series he’s scored include “MacGyver”, “Backdraft 2” for Netflix, and “Citizen X” for HBO. And believe me, I’m just scratching the surface of this man’s compositions.  

He’s received some of the most prestigious awards including an Emmy Award, 13 BMI Awards including their highest honor, the Richard Kirk Award for Outstanding Career Achievement, the Composer and Lyricist’s Guild Lifetime Achievement Award, and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Cincinnati.  In addition, he received nominations for a Golden Globe Award AND a BAFTA  Award for “Last of the Mohicans”, and nominations for the Saturn Science Fiction Award for “Dragonheart”, and a Gold Spirit Best Comedy Award nomination for “Leap Year”.   His live show entitled “A Life in 80 Minutes” played to sold out audiences and got rave reviews.  

He’s written a musical entitled “Short Cut” about the construction of the Panama Canal.  And he has a new album coming out, entitled “Can’t Be Killed By Any Conventional Means”.  AND his brand new single entitled “Everything is Possible”, on which he collaborated with legendary rapper Grandmaster Melle Mel, is now available for streaming.

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

To see more about Randy Edelman, go to:

https://www.randyedelman.com/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQPOMaKamdeM6_yfNYIO4yg

https://open.spotify.com/artist/3shMd6Vll0mOcviQ3hrk8m?autoplay=true

https://music.apple.com/ca/artist/randy-edelman/3297021

#RandyEdelman   #harveybrownstoneinterviews

Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Lewis J. Stadlen, Legendary Broadway, Movie & TV Actor

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest,  Lewis J. Stadlen, is a Broadway legend and highly respected actor who’s been dazzling audiences for over 50 years.  

He starred in 14 Broadway shows, including “Minnie’s Boys”, for which he won a Theatre World Award and a Drama Desk Award, “Candide”, which earned him a Tony Award nomination for Best Actor in a Musical, “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum”, which earned him a 2nd Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actor in a Musical, “The Sunshine Boys”, “The Female Version of the Odd Couple”, “Laughter on the 23rd Floor”, “The Front Page”, and “The Man Who Came to Dinner”, which earned him a Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play.   

On the big screen, he appeared in numerous films including  “Portnoy’s Complaint”, “Serpico”, “The Verdict”, “To Be or Not to Be”, and “In & Out”.  And on TV, you’ve seen him in dozens of shows including “Benson”, “Law & Order”, “The Sopranos”, “Curb Your Enthusiasm”, “Damages” and “Smash”.  

He’s worked with everyone from Hal Prince, Shelley Winters, Mickey Rooney, Donald O’Connor and Henry Fonda, to Mel Brooks, Nathan Lane, Rita Moreno, Hal Linden, Richard Dreyfus, Christine Baranski, and dozens more.  He’s starred in 9 national touring companies of beloved shows including “Fiddler on the Roof”, “Guys and Dolls”, “Oklahoma”, “The Producers”, and the 2018 revival of “Hello Dolly”, which forms the subject of his brand new book, “Save Me a Seat: On the Road with Hello Dolly!”  

This is a wonderfully entertaining account of our guest’s year on the road, in a 26-city tour with the national company of “Hello Dolly”, in which he played “Horace Vandergelder” alongside the one and only Betty Buckley as “Dolly Levi”.   This engrossing book is full of great anecdotes and insights about the theatre world, as well as many astute observations about the state of America’s urban culture, hotels, restaurants, baseball teams, and the realities of life on the road.   This is our guest’s SECOND book.  

His first book, is a wonderful memoir published in 2009, entitled, “Acting Foolish”, which is a refreshingly frank, insightful and sometimes hilarious exploration of his remarkable journey as an actor.

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

To see more about Lewis J. Stadlen, go to:

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0821139/ 

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=lewis+stadlen&crid=3T335JBHR122M&sprefix=lewis+stadlen%2Caps%2C120&ref=nb_sb_noss_1

#LewisJStadlen   #harveybrownstoneinterviews

Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Bruce Sudano, Singer-Songwriter, Recording Artist, Husband of Donna Summer 

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest,  Bruce Sudano, is a renowned singer-songwriter and recording artist who’s written classic hit songs for many of the music world’s biggest superstars including Michael Jackson, Dolly Parton, Reba McEntyre and of course, his beloved late wife, the magnificent Donna Summer.   

In the late 60’s, he co-founded the band “Alive N Kickin”, which had the hit song “Tighter Tighter”.  He then co-founded the band “Brooklyn Dreams”, scoring a hit single with the song “Music, Harmony and Rhythm”, and they also appeared in the movie “American Hot Wax”, performing as “The Planotones”.  

He recorded 4 albums with “Brooklyn Dreams”, and their final album, “Won’t Let Go”, included the title track for the movie “The Hollywood Knights” starring Tony Danza, Michelle Pfeiffer and Fran Drescher.  In the late 70s, his whole world changed when he met and fell in love with Donna Summer, and they got married in 1980.  Their collaborations led to a string of hits including “Take it to the Zoo”, “Heaven Knows”, “Bad Girls”, “Lucky” and “On My Honour”, and he co-wrote 4 songs on Donna Summer’s “She Works Hard for the Money” album.   

For 2 decades he toured with Donna Summer, playing keyboards and singing background vocals in her band.   He’s written or co-written many classic hit songs including “Ball of Fire”, “Starting Over Again”, which was a #1 hit record for Dolly Parton, and later recorded by Reba McEntyre.  He also wrote the Grammy-nominated hit, “Tell Me I’m Not Dreamin”, recorded by Michael Jackson and his brother Jermaine.  And he wrote "Closest Thing to Perfect", which was the title track for the movie “Perfect”, starring John Travolta and Jamie Lee Curtis.  

As a solo artist, he’s recorded 9 albums, including “Fugitive Kind”, “Rainy Day Soul”, which earned him the New Music Weekly Adult Contemporary Artist of the Year award, “Life and the Romantic”, which produced the hit song, “It’s Her Wedding Day”, which won the New Music Weekly Adult Contemporary Song of the Year award, “The Burbank Sessions”, “21st Century World”, “Spirals, Volumes 1 and 2”, which he wrote during the pandemic, “Ode to a Nightingale”, and of course, the beautiful album entitled “With Angels on a Carousel” released in 2014, honoring the legacy of his beautiful wife Donna Summer.   

He was also heavily involved in the highly acclaimed 2018 Broadway musical:  “Summer: The Donna Summer Musical.”   

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

To see more about Bruce Sudano, go to:

https://www.brucesudano.com/ 

http://www.facebook.com/brucesudanomusic 

https://instagram.com/brucesudano 

https://twitter.com/brucesudano

https://www.youtube.com/BruceSudanoMusic

https://open.spotify.com/artist/603Q8uOwTjPYqTTBfwF8pZ

https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/bruce-sudano/478094

https://www.amazon.com/Bruce-Sudano/e/B000APT2EK

#BruceSudano  #DonnaSummer   #harveybrownstoneinterviews

Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Charles Kirsch, Host, “Backstage Babble” Podcast

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest,  Charles Kirsch, is a 15-year old superstar whose phenomenal knowledge and passion for the world of Broadway theatre has made him one of the most popular and respected podcast interviewers in America.  

He fell in love with Broadway shows at the tender age of 7, and when he was 10 years old, he started a blog called “Broadway Baby”.   And 3 years ago, this young man, who was barely entering adolescence, launched his hugely popular podcast, “Backstage Babble”, which, so far, has presented over 150 in-depth interviews with legendary stars  including Carol Burnett, Joel Grey, Ed Asner, Harvey Fierstein, Chita Rivera, Marc Shaiman, Hal Linden, Bob Mackie and dozens more.   

The level of sophistication, research, professionalism and poise that this young man demonstrates as an interviewer, is nothing short of jaw-dropping.   And get this:  he has single-handedly organized reunions on zoom, of the casts and production teams of 3 Broadway shows: “Follies”, “Applause”, and “On the Twentieth Century”, which have brought him legions of viewers on his YouTube channel.  

He’s also produced live versions of his show,  featuring Broadway and cabaret stars at the renowned “54 Below” nightclub  in New York, and he’s hosted 5 game night benefits for the non-profit organization “Dancers Over 40”.  He is a voting member of the Drama Desk, and a contributor to Cast Album Reviews, Encore Magazine, and he wrote a chapter about the Broadway show “Annie” in the new book, “50 Key Stage Musicals”.

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

To see more about Charles Kirsch, go to:

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100083157977219

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsS2yFOjeB4oDLBOd8t7TjA 

https://cbroadwaypodcast.podbean.com/

#CharlesKirsch   #harveybrownstoneinterviews

Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Jeff Lieberman, Writer, Director, Producer, “BELLA! This Woman Belongs In The House”

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest,  Jeff Lieberman, is an award-winning journalist, producer and filmmaker whose documentary films have won him world wide acclaim.  

His 2013 film entitled “Re-emerging: the Jews of Nigeria” got rave reviews at the world’s most prestigious film festivals and was proclaimed by critics as one of the must-see documentaries of the year.   In 2015 he released his celebrated film entitled, “The Amazing Nina Simone”, which had a hugely successful theatrical run in 10 countries and is widely considered to be THE definitive cinematic tribute to this legendary music artist.  

And now, our guest is about to release a monumentally important film about the first and the greatest female trailblazer in the history of American politics: the unstoppable force of nature known as Bella Abzug.  In 1970, when America – and the world – was a patriarchy ruled by men, Bella Abzug challenged the status quo, running a groundbreaking grass roots campaign from the streets of Manhattan, that elevated her all the way to the halls of Congress from 1971 to 1977. With her irrepressible energy, fearless Bronx swagger, and captivatingly blunt oratorical frankness, she was determined to break up the “old boys’ club”, and that she did.  She battled for women’s rights, seniors’ rights, children’s rights, gay rights, racial equality - in fact, she fought for civil rights for everyone.  She fought vigorously against the Vietnam War.   She endured the mounting forces from both the right and the left, and the powers of the Nixon Administration, the CIA, FBI, and of course, the media.  The film is entitled, “Bella:  This Woman’s Place is in the House”, and it won the prestigious Library of Congress Ken Burns Prize for Film.  

This fascinating and compelling film includes never-before-seen home movies, audio diaries, newly-discovered news footage, and interviews with Hilary Clinton, Barbara Streisand, Shirley MacLaine, Lily Tomlin, Gloria Steinem, Marlo Thomas, and many more.   There can be no question that Bella Abzug paved the way for future generations of female leadership, not only in politics, but in EVERY field.   And thanks to our guest, the whole world is FINALLY going to know this amazing woman once and for all.

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

To see more about Jeff Lieberman and Bella Abzug, go to:

http://www.bella1970.com/

https://www.re-emergingfilms.com/

https://www.facebook.com/BellaDocumentary/

https://twitter.com/belladocfilm 

https://www.instagram.com/belladocfilm/

#JeffLieberman   #harveybrownstoneinterviews

Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with  J. Randy Taraborrelli, New York Times Bestselling Author, “JACKIE, Public, Private, Secret”

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest,  J. Randy Taraborrelli, making his highly anticipated return to our show, is my favorite celebrity biographer.  

He’s written 20 books, 16 of which have made the New York Times best seller list.  His immensely popular biographies about superstars including 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 written screenplays for television mini-series based on his books, including “The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe” and “The Kennedys After Camelot”.   

He’s written extensively about the Kennedys, in his books entitled “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, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill”, “The Kennedy Heirs: John, Caroline, and the New Generation – A Legacy of Tragedy and Triumph”, and NOW, his brand new book entitled, “Jackie:  Public, Private, Secret”, which has just become his latest New York Times Best Seller.  

In this superbly researched and highly compelling book, we finally get to know the real Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, who was undoubtedly one of the most famous and fascinating women of all time.  Our guest pierces through the glamorous, enigmatic and imperious aura of mystery that has always surrounded this woman, who’s become something of a mythological figure.  And he reveals not just the intelligent, well-educated, cultured and beautifully dazzling woman we saw in the media -  but more importantly, we get to know Jackie the daughter, sister, wife, mother, grandmother, co-worker and friend that she was in her real life. 

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

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

https://jrandytaraborrelli.com/

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

https://twitter.com/JRTaraborrelli

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

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

#J.RandyTaraborrelli    #harveybrownstoneinterviews

Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with the Daughter of Legend, Rose Marie, Georgiana Guy Rodrigues

About Harvey's guest:

If you’re a fan of our show, you’ll know that one of our most popular features is our “Gone But Not Forgotten” series, featuring interviews with family members of some of the greatest Hollywood stars of all time.  

Today, we’re welcoming Georgiana Guy Rodrigues, the only child of a beloved actress, singer and comedienne whose spectacular career on stage, screen, radio, television and nightclubs spanned nine decades: the fabulous Rose Marie.  

Starting at the age of 3, she began performing as “Baby Rose Marie” in vaudeville, and at the age of 5 she had a 7-year contract with NBC, which led to a hugely successful radio and movie career.  

But she’s perhaps best remembered for her iconic role on TV as the bombastic “Sally Rogers” on “The Dick Van Dyke Show”.  She also played Doris Day’s sidekick “Myrna Gibbons” on “The Doris Day Show”, and for 14 years she was the top center square on the popular TV game show, “The Hollywood Squares”.  

And she appeared in hundreds of TV shows – often numerous times – in shows like “The Monkees”, “The Hollywood Palace”, “The Dean Martin Show”, “S.W.A.T.” and “Murphy Brown”.  She was also the subject of the highly acclaimed 2017 documentary “Wait For Your Laugh.”   

And now, to commemorate Rose Marie’s 100th anniversary, a brand new CD is being released by Sepia Records, entitled, “ROSE MARIE SINGS: THE COMPLETE MERCURY RECORDINGS & MORE”.  This very special compilation CD features Rose Marie’s 29 classic recordings of showtunes, standards and novelty songs from 1938 to 1966, including previously unreleased tracks, with liner notes written by our guest, including photos from the family archives.  Rose Marie’s legions of fans have been waiting a long time for this CD.  

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

To see more about Rose Marie, go to:

https://missrosemarie.com/index.htm 

https://www.facebook.com/MissRoseMarie

https://www.youtube.com/holdtheroses

#RoseMarie   #harveybrownstoneinterviews

Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Bob Gunton, Legendary Actor, Star, “The Shawshank Redemption”

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s special guest, Bob Gunton, is a veteran actor whose prolific body of work over the past 5 decades has created some of the most memorable roles in movies, on television and on the Broadway stage.  

On the big screen, he brought us “Chief George Earle” in "Demolition Man", “Mr. Pease” in “Delores Claiborne”, “Pritchett” in “Broken Arrow”, medical school dean Dr. Walcott in "Patch Adams", Cecil Dobbs in “The Lincoln Lawyer”, and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance in "Argo".  

But the one role, more than any other, that has guaranteed him cinematic immortality, is his chilling portrayal of the despicable Prison Warden “Samuel Norton” in "The Shawshank Redemption".  

On television, in addition to many guest appearances on shows like “Miami Vice”, “L.A. Law”, “CSI”, “Nip/Tuck”, “Boston Legal”, “Law & Order: SVU”, “The Blacklist”, and dozens more, he played Governor George Wallace in “Unconquered”, he played Tommy Dorsey in the 1992 miniseries “Sinatra”, he played President Woodrow Wilson in “Iron Jawed Angels”, he played President Nixon in “Elvis Meets Nixon”, and he played President Roosevelt twice: once in the TV movie, “Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long”, and again in the miniseries “World War 2: Behind Closed Doors”.  

He also had recurring roles, as Dr. Leonard Schrader on “Hothouse”, “Judge Homer Conklin” in “Courthouse”, “Mayor Smith” in “Peacemakers”, “Noah Taylor” in “Desperate Housewives”, the Secretary of Defense, then Chief of Staff, then Secretary of State “Ethan Kanin” on “Twenty-Four”, “Leland Owlsley” in "Daredevil", “General William Collins” in “Royal Pains”, and “Jeremiah Davis” in “Trial and Error”.   

And if all of that weren’t enough, our guest is a Broadway superstar.  He originated the role of “Juan Perón” in the Broadway premiere of Evita, receiving a Tony Award nomination AND a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical.  And he played the title role in the Broadway revival of “Sweeney Todd”, earning a second Tony Award nomination, and nominations for an Outer Critics Circle Award and a Drama Desk Award.  

His other Broadway credits include “King of Hearts”, for which he received a Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical, “How I Got That Story”, for which he won an Obie Award, a Clarence Derwent Award, and a Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Actor in a Play, “Big River”, for which he received a Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical, and “The Great Ostrovsky”, for which he received a Barrymore Award Nomination for Excellence in Theatre.

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

To see more about Bob Gunton, go to:

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0348409/

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

http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/78189%7C0/Bob-Gunton/

#BobGunton    #harveybrownstoneinterviews

Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Jeffrey Richman, Legendary TV Writer/Producer, “Frasier”, “Modern Family”, “Uncoupled”

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s special guest, Jeffrey Richman, is a highly acclaimed writer and producer who’s brought us some of the most iconic and beloved television shows of our generation, including “Wings”, “Stark Raving Mad”, “Frasier”, “Stacked”, “Back to You”, “Desperate Housewives”, “Rules of Engagement”, “Modern Family” and many more.  

He wrote many episodes from the shows I’ve just mentioned, and he also wrote 2 of Barbra Streisand’s TV concert specials: “Streisand: Live in Concert” and “Streisand: Back to Brooklyn”.  

And in 2010, he wrote the 82nd Annual Academy Awards show, for which he received an Emmy Award nomination.   The list of accolades and awards this man has received is truly jaw-dropping.  For his work on “Frasier”, he won an Emmy Award for Best Comedy Series.   And for his work during 10 seasons of “Modern Family”, he won 5 Emmy Awards, including 1 for outstanding script, 3 Writers Guild Awards, 3 Producers Guild Awards, an American Comedy Award, and a Golden Globe Award for Best Comedy Series.   

He’s currently the co-creator and executive producer of a wonderful series called “Uncoupled”, starring Neil Patrick Harris, now going into its second season on Showtime.

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

To see more about Jeffrey Richman, go to:

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

#JeffreyRichman   #harveybrownstoneinterviews

Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with NaTasha Yvette Williams, Tony Award Nominated Broadway Star, "Sweet Sue" from “Some Like It Hot”

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s special guest, NaTasha Yvette Williams, is currently taking Broadway by storm in her spectacular Tony Award-nominated portrayal of “Sweet Sue”, who most definitely puts the HEAT in the smash hit musical, “Some Like it Hot”.  

In addition to her Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Musical, she received an Outer Critics Circle Award nomination for Outstanding Featured Performer in a Broadway Musical.   Our guest is a Broadway veteran, having appeared in 7 other Broadway shows including “The Color Purple”, “The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess”, which earned her and her fellow cast members a Grammy Award nomination for Best Musical Theatre Album,  “A Night With Janis Joplin”, “Waitress”, “Tina: The Tina Turner Musical”, “Chicago”, and “Chicken & Biscuits”.   

She’s also appeared in the national tours of “Xanadu”, “The Drowsy Chaperone”, the Elvis musical “All Shook Up”, “Seussical the Musical”, and “Cinderella”.  And she’s starred in Regional productions of many shows including “Hairspray”, “Ain’t Misbehavin’”, and “Mahalia: A Gospel Musical”.  

She won an Audelco Award for Outstanding Performance in a Musical for playing “Grandma” and “Spirit of the Booty” in “Bella: An American Tall Tale”.   On the big screen, she appeared in “Sweet Little Lies”, “Alice”, and “Better Nate than Ever”.  And on TV, you’ve seen her in “Orange is the New Black”, “Madam Secretary”, “New Amsterdam”, “FBI”, “The Good Fight”, “Harlem”, “Partner Track”, “Run the World”  - and of course, who can ever forget her magnificent 2015 television performances as “Queenie” in “Live from Lincoln Center” and “Glinda” in “The Wiz: Live!”.  

In addition to her Broadway cast albums, she’s released 2 solo albums of beautiful standards, “How Deep is the Ocean”, and “For My Mother”.   And she’s appeared in concert with the New York Philharmonic and numerous symphony orchestras across America.   

After seeing “Some Like it Hot” during my recent trip to New York, I became OBSESSED with getting this FABULOUS woman to appear on our show.  And today, despite her grueling performance schedule, she has graciously agreed to grant me this interview.

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

To see more about Joel Thurm, go to:

https://www.instagram.com/natashayvettewilliams/

https://open.spotify.com/artist/53sTxOQ5mNoqYdxO1heLUk

#NaTashaYvetteWilliams   #harveybrownstoneinterviews

Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth Interview with Marsha Warfield, Renowned Actress & Comedienne, Roz from “Night Court”

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:

https://www.marshawarfield.com/

http://www.facebook.com/MarshaWarfieldsComedyCafe

https://twitter.com/MarshaWarfield

https://www.instagram.com/marshawarfield/

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

#MarshaWarfield  #harveybrownstoneinterviews

Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Joel Thurm, Casting Director, Author, “Sex, Drugs and Pilot Season: Confessions of a Casting Director”

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Joel Thurm, is a show business veteran whose name you may not know, but whose work you have most definitely seen and loved.  

For over 40 years, he was one of the most sought-after, powerful and respected casting directors in Hollywood.  Starting in the early 70’s, as a casting director at CBS, then casting TV shows for superstar producer Aaron Spelling, then becoming Senior Vice President of Talent and Casting at NBC for 10 years, and also serving as Vice President of Television Talent at Paramount Studios, our guest helped create entertainment that has brought countless hours of joy to millions of people around the world.  

On the big screen, he was responsible for casting 3 mega-hit movies:  “Grease”, “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” and “Airplane”.  And in the world of television, he cast dozens of hugely popular TV series including “Taxi”, “Fantasy Island”, “The Bob Newhart Show”, “Starsky & Hutch”, “Charlie’s Angels”, “Cheers”, “Miami Vice”, “The Golden Girls”, “Seinfeld”, “L.A. Law”, “Hill Street Blues”, “Night Court” and believe me, I’m just scratching the surface.  He produced and cast the Emmy award winning TV movie, “The Boy in the Plastic Bubble” starring John Travolta, as well as the 5-time Emmy award winning miniseries, “The Lives of Benjamin Franklin”, starring Melvyn Douglas and Michael Learned, and the Emmy award winning TV movie “The Gathering” starring Ed Asner and Maureen Stapleton, as well as the 1988 TV remake of “Inherit the Wind” starring Kirk Douglas and Jason Robards, which won 3 Emmy awards.   And my favourite of all his TV movies is “An Early Frost”, starring Gena Rowlands and Ben Gazzara, which was the first movie about AIDS, winning 4 Emmy awards.  

He was responsible for launching the careers of countless stars including Nick Nolte, John Ritter, David Hasselhoff, Amy Irving, James Woods, Lorenzo Lamas, Danny DeVito, Christina Hendricks and dozens more.  And get this: HE was the one who cast Ted Danson in “Cheers”, and he was the one who cast the wonderful Georgia Engel to play Ted Baxter’s wife in “The Mary Tyler Moore Show”.  

And now, he’s written a fascinating, entertaining and insightful memoir entitled, “Sex, Drugs and Pilot Season: Confessions of a Casting Director”.

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

To see more about Joel Thurm, go to:

https://www.joelthurm.com/

https://www.instagram.com/joelthurmphotos/

#JoelThurm    #harveybrownstoneinterviews

Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Singing Legend Peggy Lee’s Granddaughter, Holly Foster Wells

About Harvey's guest:

One of the most popular features of our show is our “Gone But Not Forgotten” series, celebrating the careers and legacies of the greatest stars who are no longer with us.  

Today’s guest, Holly Foster Wells, is descended from show business royalty.  She’s the granddaughter of one of the most popular and beloved music artists of all time: the fabulous Peggy Lee, whose contributions to the world of popular music and jazz were monumental.  

Over her 7-decade career, she recorded over 1100 songs and released over 50 albums, with over a hundred top 100 hit singles, including “Somebody Else is Taking My Place”, “Why Don’t You Do Right”, “Golden Earings”, “Riders in the Sky”, “Is That All There Is”, “Lover”, and of course, everybody’s favourite, “Fever”, for which SHE came up with that distinctive arrangement, AND she wrote new lyrics.   

As a matter of fact, Peggy Lee was an extraordinary songwriter, who wrote or co-wrote over 270 songs, including her hits “Little Fool”, “What More Can a Woman Do”, “I Don’t Know Enough About You”, “It’s a Good Day”, and “Manana”.  For the Disney movie “Lady and the Tramp”, she co-wrote ALL of the original songs, and she supplied the singing and speaking voices of 4 characters.  She also wrote songs for many other movies, including “Anatomy of a Murder”, “The Jazz Singer”, “The Rawhide Years”, “Johnny Guitar”, “Tom Thumb”, “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter”, “The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming”, “Walk, Don’t Run”, and many more.  She appeared in 10 movies including “Stage Door Canteen”, “The Powers Girl”, “Jazz Ball”, “Mr. Music”, “The Jazz Singer”, and my personal favourite, “Pete Kelly’s Blues”, for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress, and the Audience Award for Most Promising Female Personality of 1955.  

Ms Lee received 13 Grammy Award nominations including 1 win, plus a Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award.  She was the first female recipient of 2 awards from the Songwriters Guild of America: the Aggie Award, for her composing skills, and the President’s Award, for her support of young, emerging songwriters. In 1990 she won the ASCAP Pied Piper Award, and 2 years later she was inducted into the Songwriters’ Hall of Fame.  She received 2 honorary doctorates, a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and in 2020 the ASCAP Foundation established the Annual Peggy Lee Songwriter Award.  

Peggy Lee was a creative powerhouse, who directed her life and career on her own terms.  But for her millions of fans, it’s all about her quietly captivating voice, that continues to resonate with audiences of all ages.

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

To see more about Peggy Lee and Holly Foster Wells, go to:

https://www.peggylee.com/

https://www.facebook.com/misspeggylee/

https://www.instagram.com/peggyleeofficial/

https://twitter.com/peggyleemusic

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWfdzpDGBCOOWxWVR0fLVNw

#PeggyLee   #harveybrownstoneinterviews

Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Phyllis Taylor, Life Coach, Mediator, Motivational Speaker, Author, “The Prison Lady: True Stories and Life Lessons From Both Sides of the Bars”

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Phyllis Taylor, is a remarkable woman who reinvented herself in a most innovative and unique way, following her retirement from a 30-year career as a paralegal, technical writer and training specialist at a major law firm.   

After attending one of Oprah Winfrey’s public speaking engagements, she decided to become a volunteer in prisons, where, for the past decade, she has worked with countless male and female inmates to develop their self esteem, anger management, problem solving skills, positive thinking, and a variety of life skills and coping mechanisms to help them in the rehabilitative process.   

Her unique combination of interpersonal skills, compassion, common sense and a huge heart, made her an immensely popular and sought-after personality within the jail system, and she was even awarded “Volunteer of the Year” at one of Canada’s largest women’s prisons.   

Her experiences in the jails, and the many insights she learned not only about the correctional system, but from the prisoners she worked with, are the subject of her fascinating book entitled, “The Prison Lady:  True Stories and Life Lessons From Both Sides of the Bars”.    

This is an entertaining, moving and inspirational book full of empathy and profound perceptions about an almost totally neglected and forgotten segment of society.  Her book resonated with me on multiple levels, not only because of my 26 year career as a family and criminal court judge, but because this woman has  articulated so beautifully, the key to what it means to live a meaningful and purposeful life.  

In addition to her work in prisons and as a writer, she’s a certified life coach, mediator and motivational speaker. But in my opinion, she’s much, much more than that.  She’s a HEALER.

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

To see more about Phyllis Taylor, go to:

https://www.facebook.com/phyllis.sharon.taylor

#PhyllisTaylor   #harveybrownstoneinterviews

Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Rob Word, Entertainment Industry Legend, Host, “A Word on Westerns”

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Rob Word, is an entertainment industry legend.  

He started out as a cinematographer and editor for ABC News, then became a TV programmer and movie host, then became a Program Director, and has gone on to hold senior executive positions at PaxTV Network, Orion, Hal Roach Studios, Filmways, and as a senior producer and creative consultant for Columbia TriStar, Lionsgate, MGM-UA, GetTV and Starz/Encore Media. 

He’s overseen the production and development of dozens of prime time TV series including Young Blades, Hercules, Midnight Run, Dragon, Bad Sci-Fi, and he even created and produced “The Laurel and Hardy Show” for the Comedy Channel.  His TV movie producing credits include “Attack of the Killer B Movies”, “The Adventures of William Tell”, several Robin Hood movies, “Secret of the Black Dragon”, and the Emmy nominated TV movie, “An Ozzie and Harriet Christmas”.  But his real passion is his love of WESTERNS.  

He’s one of the founders, and producer, of the Motion Picture and Television Fund's prestigious Golden Boot Awards.  He’s written and produced top-rated TV movies and specials like “Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone”, “Western Round-Up” starring Roy Rogers, and he produced 13 episodes about John Wayne in “Young Duke: The Series”.  He also executive produced the brilliant episode about Roy Rogers on A&E's "Biography" series.  

He has a phenomenally successful YouTube channel, A WORD ON WESTERNS, which is devoted to preserving, documenting and honouring the history of western films and TV shows.  

Since 2014 he’s been broadcasting weekly shows featuring interviews with filmmakers and performers, most of which are conducted at The Autry Museum of the American West in Los Angeles.   He’s produced over 300 episodes spanning every aspect of the Western genre, including beloved TV shows like Bonanza, Gunsmoke, The Big Valley and The Lone Ranger, and he's conducted many interviews about iconic legends like Wyatt Earp, John Wayne, Roy Rogers, James Arness, Joel McCrae, Clint Eastwood and many more.  

He’s interviewed dozens of stars, and people who were associated with them.  His YouTube channel has 150,000 subscribers and well over 26 MILLION views, with thousands more added every day.  His thoroughly prepared and highly compelling interviews are widely considered to be THE definitive source of information for researchers, historians, students, and fans of America's Western genre.  

And if that weren’t enough, he’s also produced and hosted numerous live events celebrating Westerns, featuring A-list celebrities, and he’s been honored for his contributions to films with a Golden Boot Award, a plaque at the Lone Pine Film Festival, and he’s a member of The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the Screen Actors Guild and the Writers Guild of America.

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

To see more about Rob Word, go to:

https://www.facebook.com/rob.word.9/

https://twitter.com/robwordtv

https://www.instagram.com/robwordtv/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSSazWWPRQK6eAqxBq1Q3yA

#RobWord  #harveybrownstoneinterviews

Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Harry Hamlin, Superstar Actor & Author, “Full Frontal Nudity:  The Making of an Accidental Actor”

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s special guest, Harry Hamlin, is a beloved, highly acclaimed actor who’s brought us many memorable performances throughout his 4-decade plus career.  

On the big screen, he got a Golden Globe Award nomination in 1979 for New Star of the Year, for his performance opposite George C. Scott in “Movie Movie”.  

He went on to star in many movies including “Clash of the Titans”, “Making Love”, “Under Investigation”, “Shoot or Be Shot”, “Immigrant”, “The Fourth Noble Truth”, “The Unattainable Story”, “No Alternative”, and most recently, “80 For Brady”.   

And on TV, in addition to his performances as “Reese Hardin” on “Movie Stars”, “Aaron Echolls” on “Veronica Mars”, “Professor Chandler” on “Army Wives”, “Walter” on “Glee”,  “Jonathan Dalton” on “Graves” and “Cortland Mayfair” on “Mayfair Witches”, he will forever be remembered for his portrayals of “Ned Lishman” on “Shameless”, “Jim Cutler” on “Mad Men”, for which he got an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series, and of course,  “Michael Kuzak” on “L.A. Law”, for which he received 3 Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Drama Series.  

And in 1987, People Magazine named him the Sexiest Man Alive.   

On the stage, he’s appeared on Broadway in Clifford Odette’s “Awake and Sing” and Tennessee Williams’ “Summer and Smoke”.  And he’s starred in numerous Shakespeare plays, earning a Helen Hayes Award nomination for his performance as Henry V at the renowned Shakespeare Theater Company in Washington.   

In 2010, he released a memoir entitled, “Full Frontal Nudity: The Making of an Accidental Actor”, which is a highly entertaining account of his rather unusual, and at times, raucous, adventures as a young student before his film and television career began.  

He graduated from Yale with degrees in Drama and Psychology, and subsequently received a Master of Fine Arts in acting from The American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco.  

And if all of that weren’t enough, our guest is also the co-founder of TAE Technologies, which is at the leading edge of developing anatronic fusion power, which is a clean, safe and inexpensive way of providing electricity to the world.  

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

To see more about Harry Hamlin, go to:

https://www.instagram.com/harryrhamlin/

https://twitter.com/HarryRHamlin

https://tae.com/

#HarryHamlin   #harveybrownstoneinterviews

Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with David Friedman, Composer, Musical Director, Author, “The Thought Exchange” 

About Harvey's guest: 

Today’s guest, David Friedman, is a film and theatre composer, songwriter, conductor, author and teacher whose list of accomplishments is truly staggering.   

After spending several years conducting musicals on Broadway including “Grease”, “Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” and “Song and Dance”, he went to Hollywood, where he was the Conductor and Vocal Arranger on many Disney classic films including “Beauty & The Beast”, “Aladdin”, “Pocahontas” and “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”.    

He wrote music and lyrics for Disney’s “Aladdin and the King of Thieves”, and he spent 13 years as Music Supervisor and Vocal Arranger of “Beauty & The Beast” on Broadway.    His off-Broadway hit, “Desperate Measures” won the 2018 Drama Desk, Outer Critics’ Circle and Off Broadway Alliance Awards.  He’s also co-written many other highly acclaimed shows, including “Scandalous”, “Chasing Nicolette, which won the Barrymore Award for best score, “Nellie Bly”, and “Money Talks”, as well as his beloved Christmas Oratorio, “King Island Christmas”, which has had over 50 productions around the world, and which won a Frederick Loewe Award and Dramatists Guild Award.  And his show entitled, “Listen to my Heart: The Songs of David Friedman”, has also been performed throughout America and globally.   

He's written numerous classic hit songs, including “Help is on the Way”, “My Simple Christmas Wish” and “Let the Music Play”, all of which have won MAC Awards for Song of the Year.  His multi-platinum-selling songs have been performed by everyone from Diana Ross, Barry Manilow and Petula Clark, to Allison Krauss, Laura Branigan, Lainie Kazan – and of course, the magnificent, late, great Nancy LaMott, for whom our guest produced ALL of her albums and DVDs.   

For 10 years he appeared on the Today Show every month, performing his songs live with some of Broadway’s brightest stars.  His songs have been used to raise money for charitable organizations, for children’s hospitals, Breast Cancer Awareness, and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.    

He’s released 2 CD’s, entitled “A Different Light” and “Let Me Fly”, in which he sings his own songs.   In 1997 he received a Backstage Bistro Award for Composer of the Year AND a Johnny Mercer Award for Songwriter of the Year.  And in 2012 he received a Special Lifetime Achievement Award at the MAC Awards.    

And if ALL OF THAT weren’t enough, he’s become renowned for his work in metaphysics and human potential exploration, with his #1 best selling book entitled, “The Thought Exchange: Overcoming Our Resistance to Living a Sensational Life”.  A new 20th anniversary edition of the book was just released.   The book formed the basis for a critically acclaimed documentary film directed by Usher Morgan, called “The Thought Exchange”.  Since then, our guest has written 4 more books, entitled, “The Healing Power of Negative Thoughts and Uncomfortable Sensations”, “It’s all Inside”, “We Can Be Kind – Healing Our World One Kindness at a Time”, and “Help is on the Way”.  And he has TWO more books on the way. 

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

To see more about David Friedman, go to:

http://thethoughtexchange.com/

https://www.facebook.com/thethoughtexchange

https://twitter.com/ThoughtExchnge

#DavidFriedman  #harveybrownstoneinterviews

Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Polly Gibbons, Renowned Jazz Singer / Songwriter

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Polly Gibbons, is an internationally renowned singer from England who’s rich, powerful, soulful voice delivers a unique jazz fusion that incorporates her R & B, gospel, jazz, funk and blues influences.   

She’s been twice-nominated as "Best Jazz Vocalist" by the BBC and Jazz FM, and the London Sunday Times described her jazz vocals as “vintage R&B with shades of Aretha Franklin”.  With her raw, smouldering voice that’s full of heat, she conquered the London jazz scene at the age of 17.   

And since then, she’s become a regular at the legendary jazz club, Ronnie Scott’s in London.  She’s performed at Royal Albert Hall, opening for George Benson and Gladys Knight, and in 2018 she had a residency at New York's legendary Birdland Jazz Club.  She’s performed on tour across the USA, Europe and Asia, from Java Jazz in Indonesia to the Montreal Jazz Festival and the Pittsburgh Jazz Festival.   

In 2014, renowned producer George Klabin signed her to his record label, Resonance Records in Los Angeles, where she’s recorded 3 highly acclaimed albums: “Many Faces of Love”, “Is it Me?”, and “All I Can Do”.  On June 30, she’ll be releasing her 9th studio album entitled, “As It Is”, containing 10 original songs composed by our guest, who not only produced the album – she accompanied herself at the piano, supported by a great team of musicians.  The songs on the album feature heartfelt stories of personal struggle and resilience, with magnificent vocals, always characterized by this brilliant singer’s wit and grace.  

In describing this woman’s voice, we need go no further than Peter Quinn of Jazzwise Magazine, who proclaimed her “a truly exceptional, once-in-a-generation talent, possessing a voice of such sizzling intensity and raw emotion, that you could fry an egg on it.”

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

To see more about Polly Gibbons, go to:

https://www.pollygibbons.com/ 

https://www.facebook.com/pollygmusic/

https://twitter.com/PollyGMusic

https://www.instagram.com/PollyGMusic/

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

https://open.spotify.com/artist/5HHILDuntfU7shOCmCECyF?si=B5GiF9l8TvKUWuLe7ngokA&nd=1

https://soundcloud.com/pollygibbonsofficial

#PollyGibbons  #harveybrownstoneinterviews

Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Rabbi Steve Leder, Rabbi, Author, Scholar & Media Personality

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Rabbi Steve Leder, is a highly respected rabbi, author, scholar, community leader and media personality.  

He’s the senior rabbi of Wilshire Boulevard Temple, which is the oldest and one of the largest Jewish congregations in Los Angeles, serving over 2,400 families at 3 campuses.  

He’s written 5 bestselling books: “The Extraordinary Nature of Ordinary Things”, “More Money Than God: Living a Rich Life Without Losing Your Soul”, “More Beautiful Than Before: How Suffering Transforms Us”, “The Beauty of What Remains”, and “For You When I Am Gone: Twelve Essential Questions to Tell a Life Story”.  There’s also a journal entitled “For You When I am Gone”, which is a step-by-step guide to writing your ethical will.   

Our guest is a fellow in the British-American Project, which is an international gathering of over 1,200 leaders and influencers from a broad spectrum of worldviews.  He’s received the Louis Rappaport Award for Excellence in Commentary by the American Jewish Press Association.  

Our guest is an ambassador for the Jewish community and has been at the leading edge of building mutual understanding and trust between Jews, Christians and Muslims.  In fact, his synagogue hosts the largest annual gathering of Muslims and Jews in Los Angeles every year to honor the end of Ramadan.  And he received the Kovler Award from the Religious Action Center in Washington, D.C. for his work in fostering meaningful dialogue between the African American and Jewish communities.  

He’s written essays in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and Time Magazine.  And he’s appeared in dozens of TV shows including “The Today Show”, “CBS This Morning”, “Politically Incorrect”, “The Steve Harvey Show”, and many others. He’s the subject of the highly acclaimed documentary film “Restoring Your Tomorrow” and get this: his sermon on capital punishment was included in an award-winning episode of “The West Wing”.   Newsweek Magazine TWICE named him one of the ten most influential rabbis in America.

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

To see more about Rabbi Steve Leder, go to:

https://www.steveleder.com/

https://www.facebook.com/RabbiSteveLeder 

https://www.instagram.com/steve_leder 

https://twitter.com/Steve_Leder

#SteveLeder  #harveybrownstoneinterviews

Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with John McDaniel, Renowned Composer, Conductor, Musical Director & Producer

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, John McDaniel, is a renowned composer, conductor, musical director and producer who became a household name in the late 90s when he appeared on the Rosie O’Donnell Show as Rosie’s musical director and lovable sidekick for 6 seasons, for which he received 5 Daytime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction and Composition, and winning 2 Emmys for Best Talk Show.  

He’s been the Musical Director for many Broadway shows including “Grease”, “Chicago”, for which he won the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Musical Direction, “Brooklyn, The Musical”, which he also produced, “Taboo” starring Boy George, and “Annie Get Your Gun”, starring Bernadette Peters - and subsequently Reba McEntire - which won the 1999 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical, and for which he won a Grammy Award as producer for Best Musical Show Album.  

He also conducted the 1993 reunion of the original Broadway cast of “Company” in concert at Lincoln Center, as well as the U.S. tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Starlight Express”.  He was the arranger and Musical Director for Patti LuPone’s live concert on Broadway, and he also produced the album.  

He’s been the musical director and orchestrator for numerous TV specials, including – most recently – the fabulous Carol Burnett 90th Birthday Special on NBC, which was the most watched TV show of the week.    He’s recorded 4 solo albums, including my personal favourite, “John McDaniel Live at Joe’s Pub”.  

He also produced and conducted a wonderful CD entitled “The Maury Yeston Songbook”, featuring performances by Tony Award winners Betty Buckley, Sutton Foster, Christine Ebersole and  many others.  

And his collaborations with renowned British singer Barb Yungr, have produced 2 popular albums - "Come Together", featuring songs from The Beatles, and "Float Like a Butterfly", celebrating the songs of Sting.   

In 2000, he received the Board of Director’s Award from the Manhattan Association of Cabarets.  He’s been a special guest conductor for numerous symphony orchestras throughout the country, and he frequently performs in concert all across America and around the world, working with artists like Audra McDonald, Jessie Mueller, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Christine Ebersole and many more.   

And currently, the immensely successful production of Bonnie & Clyde in London’s West End, features orchestrations by our guest.

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

To see more about John McDaniel, go to:

http://johnmcdaniel.com/

https://www.facebook.com/John-McDaniel-125288137482952/

https://twitter.com/therealjohnmcd

https://www.instagram.com/johnmcd123/

https://johnmcdaniel.com/listen/#amazon

#JohnMcDaniel #harveybrownstoneinterviews

Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Matt Baume, Podcaster and Author, “Hi Honey, I’m Homo: Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture” 

About Harvey's guest: 

Today’s guest, Matt Baume, is a writer, podcaster, and video-maker whose work focuses on pop culture and issues of particular interest to the LGBTQ+ community.   

His popular online YouTube series, “Culture Cruise”, explores surprising behind-the-scenes stories from film and television history.  And his podcast interview show, “The Sewers of Paris”, is about how queer people's lives are shaped by our favorite books, movies, music, and shows.   

He’s also known for his shows “Weekly Debrief” and “Marriage News Watch”.  And he’s the co-creator of the comedy podcast & live show “Queens of Adventure”.    

His first book, entitled “Defining Marriage: Voices From a 40-year Labour of Love”, chronicles the compelling personal stories of the most prominent pioneers and champions  who fought for the legalization of same-sex marriage.    

And today, he's here to talk about his brand new book entitled, “Hi Honey, I’m Homo: Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture”.   The book gives us an informative and entertaining analysis of how, starting in the early 70s, situation comedies like “All in the Family”, “Soap”, “Barney Miller”, “Cheers”, “The Golden Girls”, and many more American TV shows, used comedy as a medium to deliver provocative and progressive messages and lessons about bigotry, tolerance and sexuality.   From the hidden and subtle metaphors in “Bewitched”, to the studio politics on shows like  Ellen DeGeneres’ sitcom, and “Friends”, to the groundbreaking triumphant victories on “Will and Grace”, and “Modern Family”, the book shows us that positive media depictions of minorities on TV shows, have a demonstrable real-life impact in shaping public attitudes, fostering tolerance, acceptance and empathy.    

Our guest was nominated for a GLAAD award for journalism, and his work has appeared in dozens of media outlets including National Public Radio, Rolling Stone, The Advocate, and many more.  The New York Times referred to his work as “thoughtful, thorough, informative and funny,” and I agree wholeheartedly. 

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

https://www.mattbaume.com/

http://www.facebook.com/mattbaume 

https://twitter.com/MattBaume 

http://instagram.com/mattbaume 

http://www.youtube.com/mattbaume

http://toot.io/@mattbaume 

#mattbaume   #harveybrownstoneinterviews

Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth Interview with Andrew Stevens, Actor, Producer, Director & Author

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:

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Roy Rogers & Dale Evans’ Granddaughter, Julie Rogers Pomilia, Author, “Your Heroes My Grandparents”

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Julie Rogers Pomilia, is the granddaughter of one of the most beloved couples in the history of show business – the King and Queen of the Westerns, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans.   

They co-starred in 88 movies.  They had a radio show for 9 years, and starting in the 50’s, they were on TV almost continuously, starting with the Roy Rogers Show, the Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Show, Happy Trails Theatre, and they appeared in dozens of variety and talk shows and award shows throughout their lives.  They recorded over 400 songs and sold millions of records.  

Roy Rogers was the #1 Western box office star for 11 years in a row, from 1943 to 1954.  He has FOUR stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, for his contribution to TV, radio, music and the movies.  And he’s the only performer to have been inducted TWICE into the Country Music Hall of Fame, once as part of the Sons of the Pioneers, and the 2nd time as an individual performer.  He was so incredibly popular back in the 50s and 60s, that there were over 400 toys and merchandising items with Roy Rogers’ name on them.   There was even a chain of Roy Rogers Restaurants.  

And Dale Evans was an immensely successful star in her own right.  She wrote their iconic theme song, “Happy Trails”, which was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2008, and was named one of the top 100 western songs of all time by the Western Writers of America.   And get this:  Dale Evans also wrote the classic Sunday School song, “The Bible Tells Me So”.  She also wrote 29 books, including her mega-best seller, “Angel Unaware”, inspired by their child Robin, who was born with Down Syndrome, and who died 2 days before her 2nd birthday.  

Dale Evans has 2 stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, for her work in movies and on television.   Although WE knew Roy Rogers and Dale Evans as the King and Queen of the Westerns, our guest knew them as simply, Grandma and Grandpa.  

She’s just released a wonderful, heartwarming book entitled, “Your Heroes, My Grandparents: A Granddaughter’s Love.”  The book gives us an intimate look at who Roy Rogers and Dale Evans really were, not only as superstars, but especially as devoted partners, parents of 9 children, and grandparents of 16 children.   

Our guest is an elementary school teacher who’s spent the last 20 years travelling across the country, to western festivals, fairs and rodeos, to sing, tell stories, sit on panels, ride in parades, and meet with fans to honour and celebrate the legacy of her beloved grandparents and keep their memory alive.  She and her 2 sisters sang and performed around the country in a group called “The Rogers Legacy”, and she co-hosted a popular radio show called “Around the Barn”.  And she and her husband Gino run the Gino Pomilia Baseball Camp every summer in Larkspur, California.    And for many years she’s ridden horseback in the Pasadena Rose Parade on New Year’s Day.

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

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Jerry Mitchell, Multi-Award Winning Director and Choreographer, Author, “Backstage Pass”

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Jerry Mitchell, is a multi-award winning director and choreographer who’s brought us some of the most beloved and iconic musicals in the past 40 years.  

After dancing in Broadway shows including “Will Rogers Follies”, “Brigadoon” and “On Your Toes”, he’s gone on to choreograph dozens of shows on Broadway, in London’s West End, and for touring productions.  He choreographed the world premiere of the musical “Jeckyll & Hyde”.  He was the choreographer for many Broadway shows including “The Full Monty”, “Hairspray”, “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels”, “Legally Blonde”, “Pretty Woman: The Musical”, and “Kinky Boots” and “On Your Feet”, which he also directed.   He choreographed the Broadway revivals of “Grease”, “You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown”, “The Rocky Horror Show”, “Gypsy”, and “La Cage Aux Folles”.  He’s been nominated for 8 Tony Awards and won 2 for Best Choreography, for “Kinky Boots”, and “La Cage Aux Folles”, for which he also won a Drama Desk Award and an Outer Critics Circle Award.   

He’s also received 4 Laurence Olivier Award nominations, 6 more Drama Desk Award nominations, and 3 more Outer Circle Award nominations.  In addition to his work in the theatre, our guest directed the movie versions of “Kinky Boots:  The Musical” and “Legally Blonde: The Musical”.  

He was also the choreographer for a number of movies including “Scent of a Woman”, “In & Out”, “The Object of My Affection”, “One True Thing”, and “Hedwig and the Angry Inch”.  On TV, he’s choreographed numerous shows including the 2004 Tony Awards, the 2016 live performance of “Hairspray”, and he got an Emmy Award nomination and WON an American Choreography Award for his work on “The Drew Carey Show”.   

In Las Vegas, he created, directed and choreographed “Peep Show”, the longest-running live show at Planet Hollywood.   

And on top of ALL THAT, this incredibly generous man created, and for many years directed, the hugely popular annual “Broadway Bares” burlesque and comedy extravaganza, for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, a vitally important fundraising organization within the theatre community, that has raised over 25 million dollars for AIDS related causes across America.  

If you’re not familiar with “Broadway Bares”, you MUST GET our guest’s wonderful book about this annual show, entitled “Backstage Pass”.   

AND, in recognition of his dedication and contributions to Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, as well as his 3 decades of volunteer service through the arts, our guest will be receiving the prestigious Isabelle Stevenson Award at the upcoming Tony Awards on June 11.   

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

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Susan Silver, Author, “Hot Pants in Hollywood: Sex, Secrets and Sitcoms”

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Susan Silver, is a show business trailblazer.  She was one of the first women to have a successful career as a television comedy writer, in an industry overwhelmingly dominated by men.   

Back in the late 60s’, and despite being the youngest runner up for a prestigious Writers Guild Award for a script she’d written in graduate school, the only open door for a female writer in Hollywood was as a secretary.  She worked her way up to be producer of a TV show starring comedian Mort Sahl, and then got hired as a casting director on the groundbreaking TV show, “Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In”.  When the show’s producer, George Schlatter, refused to allow a woman to join his writing team – offering her a job as a writer’s assistant instead - she pivoted into the world of TV sitcoms, and never looked back.  

She wrote for some of the most iconic shows of all time, including The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Bob Newhart Show, Maude, The Partridge Family, The New Dick Van Dyke Show, Square Pegs, and many more.  In fact, our guest wrote the episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show called “The Square Shaped Room”, which won Ed Asner an Emmy Award.  She also wrote TV movies including “The Couple Takes a Wife” starring Paula Prentiss and Bill Bixby, and “The Girl Who Came Gift Wrapped”, starring Karen Valentine and Farrah Fawcett.   

She’s one of the founding members of “Women in Film”, and she’s taught comedy writing at the Television Academy, and lectured at the Paley Center, and at numerous universities.   She’s appeared on TV many times, on CNN, HLN and The Today Show to name only a few.  She’s had her own weekly radio commentary on Robin Hood Radio called “Susan Says”.  And she’s written op-ed columns for The New York Times – AND for 4 years she wrote a highly entertaining column about dating, called “The Search For Mr. Adequate”, on NEW YORK SOCIAL DIARY DOT COM.   

And FINALY, in 2017, she released her brilliant, hilarious, sometimes salacious, and very insightful memoir entitled, “Hot Pants in Hollywood: Sex, Secrets and Sitcoms”.   This book was such an enjoyable read, that I hated to get to the last page.    And let me tell you:  the episode describing a highly unusual medical “event” resulting from a particularly satisfying encounter with a vibrator, is most definitely worth TEN TIMES the price of the book.

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

To see more about Susan Silver, go to:

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Nelson Mandela’s Personal Assistant, Zelda La Grange, Author, “Good Morning, Mr. Mandela: A Memoir”

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Zelda La Grange, has had the most remarkable and life-altering career working side by side with one of the greatest and most beloved statesmen in history: Nelson Mandela.  

She grew up in apartheid South Africa as a white Afrikanner, in a world of white supremacy and black oppression, separation and segregation.  Black and white people were not allowed to socialize or congregate in any way outside of an employment relationship.  And people of colour were not allowed to vote.  

Our guest was raised to embrace the concept of apartheid.   But her perspectives, attitudes and beliefs – and in fact, her entire life – were totally transformed, starting in 1994, when at the age of 23, she began working as a typist in the office of South Africa’s 1st democratically elected Black President, Nelson Mandela – the man who was the voice of the oppressed, and who personified the liberation struggle, having spent 27 years in prison.   

Over the course of almost 20 years, our guest served President Mandela in various capacities, both during and after his Presidency, going from typist to Assistant Private Secretary, to Private Secretary, to Manager and Spokesperson for his office, until his death on December the 5th, 2013.   She accompanied him on dozens of official visits and personal appearances, to virtually every corner of the globe.  

In 2014, she published her highly acclaimed, deeply moving and compelling memoir entitled, “Good Morning, Mr. Mandela”.  

She not only shares some of the most memorable moments during her time at Mr. Mandela’s side – but MOST IMPORTANTLY, this is an inspiring story of love and hope, in which she candidly explains the monumental impact that Nelson Mandela had on her life, and more specifically, on her personal transformation from a believer in apartheid to a believer in full equality for all people.  

In 2014, her book was named the International Bestseller of the Year, and it’s been translated into 13 languages.  Our guest has received many awards for her dedication and service to Mr. Mandela, including the 2008 Woman of the Year Award by the South African Press.  

And she’s one of the most sought-after speakers on the international lecture circuit, having given inspirational and motivational presentations at the most prestigious conferences and events throughout the world.  She’s also co-hosted a national TV talk show in South Africa.  

And in 2019 she co-produced a documentary about Nelson Mandela entitled, “Madiba: A Glorious Human Achievement”.   She was also a guest curator to an international exhibition on the life and times of Nelson Mandela that has been touring internationally for the past 5 years.

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

To see more about Zelda La Grange, go to:

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Linda Evans, Multi-Award Winning Actress & Star of “Dynasty”

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s special guest, Linda Evans, is a beloved, multi-award winning actress, author and public speaker who’s been dazzling the world with her talent, warmth, grace, spirituality – and yes, her legendary beauty - since she first came into our homes on TV as Barbara Stanwyck’s daughter “Audra Barkley” in “The Big Valley”.  

She’s also appeared in a number of classic movies including “The Klansman” with Richard Burton, “Avalanche Express” with Lee Marvin, and “Tom Horn” with Steve McQueen.  And yes, that was HER playing “Sugar Kane” in “Beach Blanket Bingo”.  She also made 2 “Gambler” movies with Kenny Rogers, and she co-starred in the highly acclaimed TV mini-series “North and South Book 2: Love and War”.  

But there can be no doubt that our guest has been forever immortalized for her unforgettable portrayal of the glamorous and highly likeable “Krystal Karrington” on the blockbuster TV series, “Dynasty”, for which she received a  Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a TV Drama Series, and was nominated 4 more times for Golden Globe Awards, as well as receiving an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series.   She also won 5 People's Choice Awards as Favorite Actress in a Drama Series.  

In 1987, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.  And in 1991, she delighted her loyal fans by resuming her role as “Krystle Karrington” in the TV miniseries, “Dynasty: The Reunion”.  In 2006, she reunited with her castmates for the TV special,  “Dynasty: Catfights and Caviar”.  

In 2006, she and Joan Collins starred in a fabulous play called “Legends”, which I got to see in Toronto, at the beginning of their 9-month sold-out tour.  

And then, in 2009, the whole world was rooting for her in the British cooking competition reality show, “Hell’s Kitchen”, which she won.  And most recently, she can be seen in “Swan Song”, co-starring Jennifer Coolidge.  

In 2015, she released an entertaining, poignant, spiritually uplifting and delicious memoir entitled, “Recipes for Life: My Memories”.   I’ve described the book as “delicious” because it includes some of our guest’s favourite recipes.  And let me tell you: if you’re a foodie like me, her famous artichoke dip, her crab and lobster cakes with mustard beurre blanc, her baked ham, her potatoes with cheese and garlic, and her lemon soufflé with raspberry sauce are EASILY worth TEN TIMES the price of the book.

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

To see more about Linda Evans, go to:

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with David Arquette, Renowned Actor, Producer, Director And Former Wrestler

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s special guest, David Arquette, is an immensely popular actor, producer, director and former wrestler who’s been dazzling us for years with his charismatic performances, personality and creativity.  

On the big screen, we all know and love him as “Dewey Riley” in the iconic “Scream” movies, for which he won a Teen Choice Award and 2 Blockbuster Entertainment Awards.  He won a 3rd Blockbuster Entertainment Award for his performance in “Never Been Kissed”.  He’s also co-starred in many other movies including  “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”, “Airheads”, “Wild Bill”, “Beautiful Girls”, “The Grey Zone”, “A Foreign Affair”, “Once Upon a Time in Venice”, and “On Sacred Ground”.  

And he won a Best Supporting Actor Award from the Southampton International Film Festival for his memorable performance in “Saving Flora”.  He also wrote, produced, directed and appeared in one of my all-time favourite comedy horror movies, “The Tripper”.   

On TV, you’ve seen him in dozens of shows including “The Outsiders”, “Parenthood”, “Double Rush”, “In Case of Emergency”, “Sigmund and the Sea Monsters”, “Cleaners”, for which he won 2 prestigious Best Actor Awards - and of course, he was the voice of “Skully” in the beloved Disney Channel animated series, “Captain Jake and the Never Land Pirates”, for which he won a “Behind the Voice Actor Award”.  

He’s also executive produced many TV shows including  “Dirt”, “Cougar Town”, and the popular game show “Celebrity Name Game”, for which he received a Daytime Emmy Award nomination in 2017.  

His appearance in the movie “Ready to Rumble”, launched his professional wrestling career, in which he won the WCW World Heavyweight Championship, and culminated in the fascinating 2020 documentary, “You Cannot Kill David Arquette”.   

In addition to ALL THAT, our guest owns the rights to the beloved “Bozo the Clown” character and has launched a number of projects to keep Bozo’s legacy alive, and to promote the joyful and healing benefits of humour.

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

To see more about David Arquette, go to:

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Tina Cole, Singer, Actress & Author, “My Three Lives: A Memoir”

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s special guest, Tina Cole, is a singer and actress who can truly be considered a member of show business royalty, for several reasons.  

First of all, she’s the daughter of Yvonne King of the legendary King Sisters, who were hugely popular big-band singers, and the 1st female vocal group to sing in 4 part harmony.  And her father was the iconic pianist, orchestra leader and musical director Buddy Cole, who worked with some of the greatest singers of all time and recorded the soundtracks of over 1,000 movies.  

Secondly, she’s a member of America’s First Family of Song -  the legendary King Family, which entertained audiences throughout the 60s and 70s with their own TV series and 17 TV specials.   

And thirdly, she will forever be remembered as the beautiful, sweet-natured Katie Douglas, in one of the greatest TV sitcoms of all time: “My Three Sons”.  When she joined the cast of that show in its 8th season as Robbie Douglas’ fiancée, and then his wife, she became an international sensation, receiving more fan mail than any other actor in any of Don Fedderson’s many TV productions.  

And she won Photoplay Magazine’s People’s Choice Award for the Most Promising Actress.  And get this: the episode of “My Three Sons” where Katie Douglas gave birth to triplets, was the number one show in the Nielsen Ratings for that week.  Our guest has been entertaining audiences since she was a toddler.  

In addition to performing on TV and on tour with The King Family, and as a member of the immensely popular “Four King Cousins”, and her iconic role on “My Three Sons”, she had a recurring role on “Hawaiian Eye” opposite Robert Conrad and Troy Donohue.  

She guest starred in TV shows including “The Lucy Show”, “To Rome With Love”, “Adam-12” and many more.   And when you thought you were listening to Raquel Welch singing on her 1970 TV Special, you were actually hearing the voice of our guest!   

She’s appeared in a number of theatrical productions including “I Do, I Do”, “The Boyfriend”, “Trail of Dreams”, and “Chemical Imbalance”, and for 10 years she played Ethel Mertz in an “I Love Lucy” tribute show.  For her stellar performance in the 2014 movie, “See Me”, she won the Vanguard Award at the Sacramento Film Festival.  

And in 2014, she received the Golden Halo Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Motion Picture and Television Industry.   AND NOW, she’s released her long-awaited autobiography entitled, “My Three Lives: A Memoir”, which takes us on an engaging, nostalgic, heartfelt – and sometimes heartbreaking – but ALWAYS uplifting and inspirational, journey through her multi-faceted career, her personal relationships, and her enormously strong bond with her beautiful family.

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

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Richard Jay-Alexander, Renowned Producer and Director

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Richard Jay-Alexander, is an internationally renowned producer and director of some of the greatest Broadway shows, musical theatre productions, and concert tours of our generation.   

He’s been instrumental in bringing some of the most wonderful Broadway shows to audiences throughout North America, including “Les Miz”, “Miss Saigon”, “Oliver”, “Song and Dance”, and “Amadeus”, to name only a few.   

He’s worked with some of the greatest music artists of all time, including Barbra Streisand, Julie Andrews, Johnny Mathis, Bette Midler, Bernadette Peters, Ricky Martin, Betty Buckley, Donna McKechnie and dozens more, on their concerts, TV specials and albums.  

His career has taken him to the greatest performance venues in the world – everywhere from the Royal Albert Hall and Festival Hall in London, and the biggest arenas in the world, to the Sydney Opera House, Carnegie Hall, The Metropolitan Opera House, The Hollywood Bowl, and the big theatres in Las Vegas.  

As a writer, he’s contributed lyrics to projects for Disney, he’s written the liner notes for the albums of many classic musicals, and his interviews with dozens of legendary stars for Broadwayworld.com are pure magic.  He’s directed the Chaplin Awards for Film at Lincoln Center, honouring iconic stars like Robert Redford, Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman and Helen Mirren.  

He’s produced Grammy-nominated recordings and cast albums.  And in addition to all of his professional activities, he is one of the most passionate and dedicated philanthropists in the entertainment world  In fact, he’s absolutely ferocious about giving back.  He’s a long time Board member of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, and has directed many benefit shows, not only for that organization, but for many other causes that are near and dear to his heart, including animal welfare, the Make-A-Wish Foundation, The Actor's Fund, the National Asian Artists Project, Broadway Dreams, and Hollywood's Motion Picture and Television Fund.  

He’s also very active in teaching and mentoring young talent, and he’s been the camp director of Kristin Chenoweth's Broadway Bootcamp.

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

To see more about Richard Jay-Alexander, go to:

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Louis Gossett Jr., Legendary Actor, Author & Humanitarian

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s special guest, Louis Gossett Jr., is one of our most beloved and respected actors, who’s been thrilling audiences with his iconic performances since he first conquered Broadway at the age of 17 in “Take a Giant Step”, followed by “The Desk Set”, “Golden Boy”, “The Zulu and the Zayda”, and “My Sweet Charlie”.    

He also starred on Broadway in “A Raisin in the Sun”, and then made his film debut in the 1961 movie adaptation of the play.   His unforgettable portrayal of “Fiddler” in the groundbreaking miniseries “Roots” earned him an Emmy Award for Outstanding lead actor.  And of course, who can ever forget him as Sgt. Emil Foley in “An Officer and a Gentleman”, for which he won the 1983 Academy Award AND Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor, making him the first Black actor to win in that category.    

Besides his Emmy Award for Roots, he got 7 more Emmy Award nominations for his work in “The Sentry Collection Presents Ben Vereen: His Roots”, “Backstairs at the White House”, “Palmerstown, USA”, “A Gathering of Old Men”, “Touched By an Angel”, “Watchmen” and “Sadat”, for which he was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award.  And he got another Golden Globe Award nomination for his performance in “The Josephine Baker Story”.   

He's had 3 Daytime Emmy Award nominations, and won the award for Best Children’s Special, for “In His Father’s Shoes”.  He’s been nominated 6 times for NAACP Image Awards and won twice.  And in 1992, he was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.   Very soon, we will all get to see him in his latest role, as “Mister” in the musical film version of “The Color Purple”.   

In addition to his illustrious acting career, our guest is an accomplished writer, producer, director and musician – and perhaps most importantly, he’s a social activist, educator and humanitarian, dedicated to eliminating racism and fighting injustice wherever it exists, in all its forms.  

In 2010 he released his riveting memoir entitled "An Actor and a Gentleman," chronicling not only the many triumphs of his monumental career, but also the heartbreaking and sometimes insurmountable obstacles he confronted and overcame as a working actor, and especially as a Black man in America.  

In 2006, he founded The Eracism Foundation, which is a nonprofit organization dedicated to eradicating racism, fostering cultural diversity, historical enrichment, education and anti-violence initiatives.

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

Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Millicent Martin, Veteran Stage, Screen and TV Star 

About Harvey's guest: 

Today’s guest, Millicent Martin, is a beloved and iconic actress and singer whose 7-decade career spans every medium in the world of entertainment.   

After some early theatre work in her native England, she made her Broadway debut in 1954 alongside Julie Andrews in “The Boyfriend”.  She’s also starred on Broadway in the original production of “42nd Street”, and “Side by Side by Sondheim”, for which she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical.   

She received a second Best Actress Tony Award nomination for her starring role in the musical, “King of Hearts”.   In London’s West End, she starred in “Expresso Bongo”, “The Crooked Mile” and “The Card”.  And over the years, she’s starred in a number of other shows in London, including the Sondheim musical “Follies” and “Gigi”.  In movies, she’s appeared in “Nothing But the Best”,  “Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines”, “Stop the World – I Want to Get Off”, “Alfie” and “The Last Word”.    

And on television, she became a household name in the UK, first on the enormously popular BBC hit series “That Was the Week That Was”, for which she won a BAFTA TV Award in 1964 - and then, for 3 seasons, as the star of her own TV series, “Mainly Millicent”, for which she won a TV Society Award.   

On American television, you’ve seen her in dozens of shows, playing memorable characters like “Harriet Conover” in “Downtown”, “Gladys Moon” on “Moon and Son”, “Lili Faversham” on “Days of Our Lives”, “Gertrude Moon”, Daphne’s mother, on “Frasier”, and most recently, as Joan-Margaret, on “Grace and Frankie”, co-starring Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin.  She’s also had guest starring roles on “The Drew Carey Show”, “Will & Grace”, “Modern Family”, “Hot in Cleveland”, “2 Broke Girls” and many others.    

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

Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth Interview with Liberace Protégé, Steve Garey, Part 2

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s returning 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:
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https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo1NG_K9BzWTHNcamlaSavw 
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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Sir Tim Rice, Legendary Lyricist and EGOT Winner 

About Harvey's guest: 

Today’s very special guest, Sir Tim Rice, is a man whose monumental contributions to the world of musical theatre can hardly be overstated.   

His collaborations with composer Andrew Lloyd Webber on the phenomenally successful and beloved shows, “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat”, “Jesus Christ Superstar” and “Evita”, brought him worldwide acclaim, as one of the greatest and most innovative lyricists of the modern age.    

He went on to co-write “Blondel” with Stephen Oliver, and “Chess”, with Benny Anderson and Bjorn Ulvaeus from ABBA.  With Sir Elton John, he wrote “The Lion King”, “Aida”, and “The Road to El Dorado”.   

He collaborated with Alan Menken on “Aladdin”, “King David”, and the theatrical production AND live action re-make of “Beauty and the Beast”, which is the highest-grossing live action musical of all time.   

He co-wrote a musical called “Heathcliff”, based on Emily Bronte’s “Wuthering Heights”, which produced a wonderful album featuring Sir Cliff Richard and the late Olivia Newton-John.   

And with composer Stuart Brayson, he co-wrote the musical production, “From Here to Eternity”, based on the 1953 James Jones novel.    This man’s list of accomplishments is nothing short of jaw-dropping.    His shows have broken box office records in the West End, on Broadway, and around the world.    

Many of his songs have become global #1 hits, including “Jesus Christ Superstar”, “I Don’t Know How to Love Him”, “Don’t Cry for me Argentina”, “I Know Him So Well”, “Someday Out of the Blue” – and he even wrote the lyrics to my favourite song from a James Bond movie, “All Time High”, from “Octopussy”, recorded by Rita Coolidge.    

And speaking of #1 hits, he’s won THREE Academy Awards and THREE Golden Globe Awards for his songs “A Whole New World” from “Aladdin”, “Can You Feel the Love Tonight” from “The Lion King”, and “You Must Love Me”, from the 1996 movie, “Evita”.  He received 2 more Oscar nominations for “Circle of Life” and “Hakuna Matata” from “The Lion King”.  He’s been nominated for 9 Tony Awards and won 3 – 2 for “Evita” and 1 for “Aida”.  In fact, “Evita” was the 1st British musical to win the Tony award for Best Musical.  He’s been nominated for 12 Grammy awards, and won FIVE.   

And, in 2018, when he won an Emmy award for the live TV performance of “Jesus Christ Superstar”, he became an EGOT winner, one of only 18 people in the world to have won the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony awards.   He’s been inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and the American Theatre Hall of Fame.  And in recognition of his work in film and theatre, he was inducted as a Disney Legend.  He’s received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.   

And last but most certainly not least, in 1994 he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth the 2nd. 

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Country Music Superstar Lynn Anderson’s Personal Manager, Michael Dempsey  

About Harvey's guest: 

If you’re a fan of our show, you’ll know that one of our most popular features is our “Gone But Not Forgotten” series, in which we pay tribute to legendary stars who are no longer with us.   Today, we’re honouring one of the most beloved and iconic female recording artists and performers in the history of country music:  Lynn Anderson.    

She recorded 52 albums and 72 singles, 50 of which were top 40 hits,18 reached the Top-10, and 12 captured the No. 1 spot.  She was known for songs like “You’re My Man”, “How Can I Unlove You”, “Keep Me in Mind”, “What a Man My Man is” - and of course, her phenomenal worldwide crossover smash hit in 1970, “Rose Garden”.   That song made her an international superstar, and a trailblazer.   

In fact, she was the first female country artist to have a #1 record worldwide, she was the first female country performer to appear on The Tonight Show, and she was the first female country performer to headline at Madison Square Garden.  Her multi-platinum “Rose Garden” album was the highest grossing album by a female recording artist for 27 years until Shania Twain broke that record in 1997.  

 Lynn Anderson won a Grammy Award, 2 Academy of Country Music Awards, an American Music Award, 3 Billboard Magazine Awards, a Country Music Association Award, and a People’s Choice Award.  She was also named Artist of the Decade by Record World, and in 2019 she was inducted into the Western Music Association Hall of Fame AND the North American Country Music Association Hall of Fame.  In 2002, Country Music Television named her one of the "40 Greatest Women of Country Music", and Rolling Stone included her on their list of the "100 Greatest Country Artists of All Time".   

She’s such a legend, that she’s even had a ROSE named after her by the American Rose Society.    

Today’s guest, Michael Dempsey, started out as president of Lynn Anderson’s official fan club at the age of 18.  He then became her accountant, then her booking agent for over 10 years, and finally, he was her manager for the last 12 years of her life, until she passed away unexpectedly from a heart attack in 2015 at the age of 67.  But most of all, he was Ms. Anderson’s very dear friend and closest confidant.

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

To see more about Lynn Anderson, go to:

https://www.lynnandersonrosegarden.com/

https://www.facebook.com/LynnAndersonOfficial

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1438216589737872

https://www.instagram.com/lynnandersonofficial/

http://youtube.com/c/lynnandersonrosegardentv

https://twitter.com/LynnAshow

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

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Bill Mumy, Renowned Actor, Musician, Writer and Author, “Danger, Will Robinson: The Full Mumy, A Memoir” 

About Harvey's guest: 

Today’s special guest, Bill Mumy, is an actor, musician and writer, who’s been entertaining the world since he was 5 years old.   

In fact, he was by far the most successful, recognizable and popular child star in the 60’s and 70’s.  He appeared in dozens of TV shows including “The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet”, “Bewitched”, “The Twilight Zone”, “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, “The Fugitive”, and many more.    

But he’s best remembered for playing “Will Robinson” on the iconic, classic TV series, “Lost in Space”, which holds a permanent place in pop culture history.   

He starred in 4 Disney movies and appeared in many other films including “A Child is Waiting”, “Dear Brigitte”, “Palm Springs Weekend”,  and “Bless the Beasts & Children”.  In fact – and this is really jaw-dropping – this man worked with more legendary superstars by the time he hit puberty, than most A-list actors ever do in their entire lives.  He worked with everyone from Red Skelton, Loretta Young, Franchot Tone, June Allyson, to Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Jackie Gleason – and yes, even Brigitte Bardot.   

And get this:  in a highly publicized interview, Jimmy Stewart said that our guest was the ONLY child actor he’d EVER worked with who was worth a damn.  What a compliment!   

As an adult, he’s appeared in many movies like “Papillon”, “Sunshine”, “The Twilight Zone movie”, “Double Trouble”, “Hard to Hold”, and the 1st “Captain America” feature film.  And on TV, he’s appeared in “The Rockford Files”, “Star Trek: Deep Space 9”, “The Adventures of Superboy”, ”Matlock”, “Diagnosis Murder”, and he played “Lennier” for 5 seasons on “Babylon 5”.    

And of course, EVERY “Lost in Space” fan was OVERJOYED to see him appear as “the real Dr. Smith” in the 2018 Netflix reboot of “Lost in Space”.    

Throughout his life, he’s been a highly accomplished and popular musician, both as a solo artist AND as a member of several bands, including “Redwood”, “The Generators”, “Action Skulls” and “Barnes & Barnes”, whose song, “Fish Heads” became a worldwide hit.  He’s released over a dozen albums.  And he got an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction and Composition.    

Besides being an actor and musician, he’s had a prolific voiceover career, and he narrated over 50 episodes of A & E Biography.  He was even the voice of Farmers Insurance for 11 years.  He’s created and written numerous comic books, screenplays and novels.  And for 4 years, he produced, wrote and hosted his own weekly radio show.    

And now, FINALLY, he’s released his highly anticipated memoir entitled, “Danger, Will Robinson: The Full Mumy: A Memoir”, which gives us a very insightful, honest and entertaining look not only at his multi-faceted career, but more importantly, we get to know him as a son, grandson, husband, father, grandfather and human being. 

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

To see more about Bill Mumy, go to:

http://www.billmumy.com/

https://www.facebook.com/bill.mumy/

https://www.instagram.com/officialbillmumy/

https://music.apple.com/ca/artist/bill-mumy/122971703

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