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Harvey Brownstone Interviews Butch Leake, Former Member of “The Drifters” Sep 21, 2022

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Butch Leake, Former Member of “The Drifters”

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Butch Leake, is part of popular music history.

From 1970 to 75, he was part of one of the greatest male vocal groups of all time: The Drifters, who brought us so many hits, including “Money Honey”, “There Goes My Baby”, “This Magic Moment”, “Save the Last Dance for Me”, “Up on the Roof”, “On Broadway”, and “Under the Boardwalk”.

Since their creation in 1953, the Drifters have sold a staggering 240 million singles and 140 million albums. During our guest’s time with the Drifters, they recorded 3 albums containing the hit songs, “Down on the Beach Tonight”, “Kissing in the Back Row of the Movies”, Love Games”, and “There Goes my First Love”, which topped the British and European charts in the early 70s.

In 1975, our guest left the group to pursue a solo career, and formed his own record and production company, Superbad Records, with DJ star Freddie Mack in the UK. He recorded 2 hit songs for that label: “You’re Like Magic” and “Let’s Take a Chance”, followed by “Give to the Ones we Love”, which he wrote and recorded as a fundraiser for the British Heart Transplant Trust.

He’s performed in nightclubs and concert halls all over the world, as a solo artist AND as part of The Drifters Legends. And he’s the CEO of “The Drifters Legends Clubhouse”, which has published 3 of his books about The Drifters Legends. He’s also a photographer, a video and graphic design artist – and he hosts his own podcast on the Clubhouse Radio platform.

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Harvey Brownstone Interviews Michael O’Neill, Renowned Actor, Co-star of Netflix Series, “Echoes” Sep 20, 2022

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Michael O’Neill, Renowned Actor, Co-star of Netflix Series, “Echoes”

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Michael O’Neill, is one of the most respected, hardworking and sought-after actors in America.

You’ve seen him on the big screen in many popular movies including “Sea of Love”, “Lorenzo’s Oil”, “Seabiscuit”, “Transformers”, “J. Edgar”, “Dallas Buyers Club”, “The Legend of Bagger Vance”, and many more. He’s been in dozens of TV shows including “L.A. Law”, “The X Files”, “NYPD Blue”, “The West Wing”, “Grey’s Anatomy”, “NCIS Los Angeles”, “Bates Motel”, “Scandal”, and “This is Us”, to name only a few.

Most recently, he co-starred with Alfre Woodard in the critically acclaimed movie “Clemency”, which won the Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize”. He played “Senator Roland Folks” in the multiple award-winning TV series, “Rectify”. He played “Larry Mills” in the NBC TV series “Council of Dads”. And he played “Senator Mitchell Chapin” in Season 2 of “Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan”, now appearing on Amazon Prime.

You can also see him on Netflix in “The Stand at Paxton County”. AND, he’s now co-starring with Michelle Monaghan and Matt Bomer in the brand new Netflix limited series entitled, “ECHOES”.

Last year, he won a Best Actor award at the Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema for his performance in the short film, “Cold Call”.

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Harvey Brownstone Interviews Jim Meskimen, Actor, Comedian and Impressionist Sep 17, 2022

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Jim Meskimen, Actor, Comedian and Impressionist

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Jim Meskimen, is a popular, hardworking and muti-talented actor, comedian, impressionist, voice artist and educator who’s been entertaining us for four decades.

You’ve seen him in many critically acclaimed movies, including “Apollo 13”, “How the Grinch Stole Christmas”, “Frost/Nixon”, “EdTV”, “Magnolia”, “There Will Be Blood” and many others. He’s appeared in dozens of TV shows including “Whose Line is it Anyway”, “Friends”, “Two and a Half Men”, “Criminal Minds”, “Hot in Cleveland”, “Parks and Recreation”, “The Big Bang Theory”, “This is Us”, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”, and so many more.

Most recently, his career is on fire. He’s co-starring with Sean Penn and Julia Roberts in the miniseries entitled “Gaslit”, now airing on the Starz network.

He’ll be seen in the upcoming season of “Hunters”, starring Al Pacino and Carol Kane, on Amazon Prime.

And he’ll have a recurring role in a brand new series from the creator of “Schitts Creek”, called “The Big Door Prize”, which will be airing on Apple TV. And if THAT weren’t enough, his voice is featured on hundreds of best selling video games. And if you watch TV, you’ll recognize him playing Colonel Sanders on those popular KFC commercials.

And he plays President George Washington crossing the Delaware Turnpike in that funny GEIKO commercial. On top of all of that, he’s got a brand new online acting course that I’ll be asking him about. There is simply nothing this man can’t do.

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Harvey Brownstone Interviews Dean Friedman, Singer / Songwriter /Author Sep 14, 2022

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Dean Friedman, Singer / Songwriter /Author

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Dean Friedman, is a singer-songwriter who burst onto the music scene in 1977 with his irresistible hit single, “Ariel”.

Since then he’s had numerous hit singles including “Woman of Mine”, “Lucky Stars”, “Lydia”, “Rocking Chair” and “McDonald’s Girl”. He’s recorded 19 terrific albums, including “Well, Well, Said the Rocking Chair”, “The Treehouse Journals”, “Submarine Races”, “Squirrels in the Attic”, “Words and Music”, “12 Songs” and one of my personal favourites, “Dean Friedman in Concert: Shepherd’s Bush Empire”.

His latest album, entitled “American Lullaby”, is a collection of deeply moving and thought-provoking songs reflecting our guest’s personal reflections and philosophies about the current state of America. His songs fearlessly touch on a broad range of topics, including the pandemic, the environment, racism, sexism, and of course, the calamity surrounding American politics.

His songs have been covered by bands including The Barenaked Ladies, Ben Folds Five, Ariel Pink, The Tone Rangers, and The Blenders. He's written, performed and produced the theme music to several TV series including Boon, Nick Arcade, and Eerie, Indiana. He also composed, performed and produced the soundtrack to the 1990 cult horror film, “I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle”, in which he performs the popular track, "She Runs on Blood, Not Gasoline".

And if THAT weren’t enough, this exceptionally multi-talented man wrote a groundbreaking book on synthesizers, as well as a guide to songwriting, and a hilarious book entitled, “A Musician’s Guide to Surviving the Great Recession”. And he’s even dabbled in the world of video games.

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https://www.deanfriedman.com/

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Harvey Brownstone Interviews Toni Tennille, Pop Music Legend Sep 14, 2022

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Toni Tennille, Pop Music Legend of Captain and Tennille, Stage Star

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s special guest, Toni Tennille, is a popular music legend. She’s a fabulous singer, songwriter and musician whose beautiful voice first took the world by storm in the seventies, in the musical duo “Captain and Tennille”.

Their first big hit, “Love Will Keep Us Together”, was the number 1 song of 1975, and won a Grammy Award for Record of the Year. A quick succession of 14 mega-hits followed, including:

“The Way I Want to Touch You”

“Shop Around”

“Do That To Me One More Time”

“Lonely Night”

“I’m On My Way”

“Can’t Stop Dancin’”

“You Never Done it Like That”, and of course,

“Muskrat Love”.

In addition to her 9 studio albums as part of “Captain and Tennille”, our guest recorded 6 solo albums, including “More Than You Know”, “All of Me”, “Do It Again”, “Never Let Me Go”, “Things Are Swingin'”, and my all-time favourite, “Incurably Romantic”.

She and her former husband, Daryl Dragon, hosted their own prime time TV variety show, as well as 3 television specials. And then, a few years later, she hosted her own daytime talk show. She’s toured all over the country, singing the Great American Songbook with symphony orchestras. And in 1997, she starred in the highly acclaimed national tour of “Victor/Victoria”.

She also wrote a deeply poignant, best selling book entitled, “Toni Tennille: A Memoir”, in which she candidly shares her emotional evolution and some very important life lessons.

And now, she’s preparing for the stage role of a LIFETIME. From November 3 to the 20th, she’ll be starring in HELLO DOLLY at the Yavapai College Performing Arts Center in Prescott, Arizona.

This is a woman whose voice brings warmth, emotion and accessibility to EVERY performance and EVERY song she sings.

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Harvey Brownstone Interviews Luke Yankee, Playwright, Author, “The Art of Writing for the Theatre: An Introduction to Script Analysis, Criticism and Playwriting” Sep 11, 2022

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Luke Yankee, Playwright, Author, “The Art of Writing for the Theatre: An Introduction to Script Analysis, Criticism and Playwriting”

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s special guest, Luke Yankee, is a highly accomplished playwright, director, producer and author, who last appeared on our show to discuss his wonderful memoir, “Just Outside the Spotlight: Growing Up with Eileen Heckart”, which I’ve said before and I’ll say again, is the BEST celebrity memoir I’ve ever read.

Our guest studied at the Juilliard School of Drama, NYU, Circle in the Square and Northwestern. And he holds a Masters of Fine Arts degree in playwriting and screenwriting from the University of California Riverside. He’s written many critically acclaimed plays that have been produced all over the country, including “A Place at Forest Lawn”, The Lavender Mafia”, “The Man Who Killed the Cure”, “The Last Lifeboat”, and my favourite, “Marilyn, Mom & Me”, which won the prestigious Stanley Award for Drama this year.

Our guest has been the assistant director for SIX Broadway plays, and he’s directed and produced Off-Broadway AND at regional theatres throughout the country and abroad. He served as the Producing Artistic Director of the Long Beach Civic Light Opera in California, AND the Struthers Library Theatre in Pennsylvania. He’s also a highly sought-after guest director, and he teaches playwriting at California State Fullerton, and Chapman University.

He’s here to discuss his brand new book, entitled “The Art of Writing for the Theatre: An Introduction to Script Analysis, Criticism and Playwriting.” The book provides practical advice for aspiring playwrights and theatre critics. In addition to the wealth of instructive material, the book contains fascinating pearls of wisdom from interviews the author conducted with 18 internationally acclaimed playwrights, lyricists, librettists and critics.

The book is rapidly becoming required reading in university theatre courses, but as you’re about to find out, the book is of interest not only to those aspiring to write for the theatre, but to every theatre lover, because it provides illuminating insights into the creative process.

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Harvey Brownstone Interviews Jamie deRoy, Multiple Tony Winning Broadway Producer Sep 07, 2022

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Jamie deRoy, Multiple Tony Winning Broadway Producer

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s special guest, Jamie deRoy, is a show business tour de force, whose list of achievements is nothing short of jaw-dropping.

In addition to her work as an actress, in movies like “Goodfellas” and “Raging Bull”, and on TV shows like "Alice” and "Knight Rider," and on stage in hit shows including “The Threepenny Opera” and “The Drunkard”, our guest is perhaps best known as one of the greatest Broadway and off-Broadway producers in theatre history.

She’s co-produced over 80 Broadway shows and over 50 off-Broadway shows, and so far, she’s won a staggering TEN Tony Awards. She’s brought us a multitude of unforgettable Broadway shows including “Death of a Salesman”, “Ragtime”, “Mr. Saturday Night”, “Company”, “Tina: The Tina Turner Musical”, “To Kill a Mockingbird”, “Angels in America”, “Fiddler on the Roof”, “Ain’t too Proud”, and that’s just scratching the surface. She co-produced TWO brilliant documentary films, entitled “Broadway: The Golden Age”, and “Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age”. In addition to her Tony awards, she’s won a HUGE number of accolades including 10 Drama League Awards, 9 Drama Desk Awards, 9 MAC Awards, 3 GLAAD Media Awards, 2 Broadway World Audience Choice Awards, and enough lifetime achievement awards to fill a truck.

If that weren’t enough, our guest is one of the most generous and beloved philanthropists in the entertainment industry. For over 30 years, she’s been entertaining New York audiences with her cabaret series and TV show entitled “Jamie DeRoy and Friends”. Her cabaret shows benefit the Entertainment Community Fund, and specifically, the Jamie DeRoy and Friends Cabaret Initiative, a program to assist people in the cabaret industry with medical and other needs.

She’s also produced NINE wonderful CD’s in the “Jamie DeRoy and Friends” series.

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Harvey Brownstone Interviews Razid Season, Filmmaker, “Kaddish” Sep 02, 2022

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Razid Season, Filmmaker, “Kaddish”

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Razid Season, is one of the most intriguing and promising up and coming filmmakers in America.

When I learned that a young filmmaker from Bangladesh, now living in New York, had made a movie about the Holocaust, in Yiddish, I knew that I had to not only see the film. I had to invite the filmmaker on our show. This short film, which has English subtitles, is entitled, “Kaddish”, and it’s now publicly available for streaming on our guest’s website. So far, the movie has won TEN prestigious film festival awards, and it’s been screened at dozens of film festivals all over the world.

Our guest completed his Masters in Fine Arts degree in Film, and won a filmmaking scholarship from the US State Department. Under that scholarship, he made a documentary called “Battle For Speech”, about the rise of radical Islam in Bangladesh. His other films include “Statue of an Angel”, about a struggling, undocumented South Asian immigrant who learns his only son has joined a radical terrorist group back home. His next film was “Chase”, about a Syrian refugee who is interrogated because of a suspicious money transfer. After that, he made “Maze”, about a married Middle Eastern woman who manifests a latent desire to be freed from patriarchal bondage.

Our guest has a passion for making films that deal with humanitarian issues, and that increase the visibility of minority communities whose voices are rarely heard in mainstream media.

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Harvey Brownstone Interviews Stewart Pearce, Princess Diana’s Voice, Presentation and Life Coach, Author, “DIANA The Voice of Change” Aug 31, 2022

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Stewart Pearce, Princess Diana’s Voice, Presentation and Life Coach, Author, “DIANA The Voice of Change”

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s special guest, Stewart Pearce, was Diana’s voice, presentation and life coach.

Today is August 31, 2022, and we are commemorating the 25th anniversary of the tragic passing of Diana, Princess of Wales. We all know that Diana was an extraordinarily luminous individual, who touched the hearts and souls of billions of people, not only by radiating graciousness and charisma, but because of her unique healing energy. After her divorce from Prince Charles, Diana embarked on a journey of personal empowerment and spiritual development. To help fulfil her destiny, she actively sought out teachers, coaches and mentors, one of the most important of whom is today’s guest, who literally helped Diana find her authentic voice, so she could shape and project her message of empathy, kindness, compassion and love.

Stewart’s wondrous and highly inspirational book, entitled, “Diana: The Voice of Change”, has recently been updated in a brand new commemorative edition to mark the 25th anniversary of Diana’s passing. The book explains how our guest helped Diana evolve from a fragile, bulimic victim, to a dynamic, strong, uplifting woman in control of her life, who became the universally adored “Queen of People’s Hearts”. The book contains vocal, physical and emotional techniques that Diana learned, and that we can all use in our own journeys of empowerment and enlightenment. Our guest started out as an actor and teacher specializing in voice and theatre studies.

He was the head voice coach at the prestigious Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London. And then, through a revelation which he calls “The Alchemy of Voice” – which is also the title of his first book - his work took on a spiritual dimension, as he learned to attune the personality of the voice with the breath of the soul. For many years he served as the Resident Master of Voice at the Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London, and the Head of Voice at the Drama Centre London. He’s been a coach for many prominent individuals in the political and corporate world. And he’s worked with numerous well-known actors including Vanessa Redgrave, Michelle Williams, Hugh Bonneville, Mark Rylance and many others.

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Harvey Brownstone Interviews Scott Eyman, Golden Age of Hollywood Celebrity Biographer Aug 26, 2022

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Scott Eyman, Golden Age of Hollywood Celebrity Biographer

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Scott Eyman, is one of America’s most respected and prodigious authors, whose books are beloved by film buffs, because he specializes in the golden age of Hollywood.

He’s written 16 highly acclaimed books, including definitive biographies of Mary Pickford, Cary Grant, John Ford, Ernst Lubitsch, Louis B. Mayer, Cecil B. DeMille, and John Wayne. He co-wrote THREE books with screen legend Robert Wagner, including his deeply moving memoir, “Pieces of My Heart: A Life”. And one of my personal favourites, is “Hank and Jim: The Fifty-Year Friendship of Henry Fonda and James Stewart”.

His very first book, now in its 7th edition, entitled, “Flashback: A Brief History of Film”, co-authored with Louis Giannetti, became an instant classic, and is required reading at film schools everywhere.

His latest book is entitled, “20th Century-Fox: Darryl F. Zanuck and the Creation of the Modern Film Studio”. He was a Pullitzer Prize finalist and has won multiple awards including the Richard Wall Memorial Book Award for his book about Cecil B. DeMille, and the National Board of Review William K. Everson Award for Film History, for his prolific body of work.

He lectures extensively at museums and film festivals around the world. And he's provided commentaries on DVDs of many classic movies. You’ve seen him on Turner Classic Movies, and he’s written for the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, and practically every film magazine in existence. And somehow, he also has time to be an adjunct professor of film history at the University of Miami.

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https://www.scotteyman.com/

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