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Harvey Brownstone Interviews Legendary TV Talk Show Host, Dick Cavett Sep 12, 2024

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth Interview with Legendary TV Talk Show Host, Dick Cavett

About Harvey's guest:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Harvey Brownstone Interviews Movie & TV Star, Morgan Brittany, Dallas’ “Katherine Wentworth” Sep 05, 2024

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth Interview with Movie & TV Star, Morgan Brittany, Dallas’ “Katherine Wentworth”

About Harvey's guest:

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

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

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

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

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

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Harvey Brownstone Interviews Legendary Actor, William H. Macy Aug 30, 2024

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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.

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Harvey Brownstone Interviews Acclaimed Actor, John Shea, “Lex Luthor” – “New Adventures of Superman” Aug 28, 2024

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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.

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Harvey Brownstone Interviews Renowned Actor & Director, Robby Benson Aug 27, 2024

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth Interview with Renowned Actor & Director, Robby Benson

About Harvey's guest:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Harvey Brownstone Interviews Music Superstar, Burton Cummings Aug 23, 2024

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth Interview with Music Superstar, Burton Cummings

About Harvey's guest:

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

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

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

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

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

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Harvey Brownstone Interviews Jim J. Bullock, Renowned Stage, Screen & TV Actor, Star, “Too Close For Comfort” Aug 21, 2024

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth Interview with Jim J. Bullock, Renowned Stage, Screen & TV Actor, Star, “Too Close For Comfort”

About Harvey's guest:

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

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

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

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

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

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Harvey Brownstone Interviews Marina Anderson, Ex-Wife, Author, “David Carradine: The Eye of My Tornado” Aug 20, 2024

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth Interview with Marina Anderson, Ex-Wife, Author, “David Carradine: The Eye of My Tornado”

About Harvey's guest:

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

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

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

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

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

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Harvey Brownstone Interviews Joan Kramer and David Heeley, Renowned Documentary Filmmakers, Authors, “In the Company of Legends” Aug 17, 2024

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth Interview with Joan Kramer and David Heeley, Renowned Documentary Filmmakers, Authors, “In the Company of Legends”

About Harvey's guest:

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

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

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

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

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

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Harvey Brownstone Interviews Ernest Lee Thomas, Renowned Actor, Star of “What’s Happening!!” & “Everybody Hates Chris” Aug 14, 2024

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth Interview with Ernest Lee Thomas, Renowned Actor, Star of “What’s Happening!!” & “Everybody Hates Chris”

About Harvey's guest:

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

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

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

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

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