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Harvey Brownstone Interviews Candy Spelling, Multi-Tony Award Winning Producer, Author and Philanthropist Jun 15, 2022

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Candy Spelling, Multi-Tony Award Winning Producer, Author and Philanthropist

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s special guest is a woman who truly exemplifies the terms self-motivation, self-reinvention, self-affirmation and ultimately, what it means to make a real difference in the world.

For 38 years she was simply known as the wife of the most prolific writer and producer in television history, Aaron Spelling, who ran Hollywood’s largest and most successful production company. He brought us such iconic TV shows as “The Mod Squad”, “Starsky & Hutch”, “Charlie’s Angels”, “Fantasy Island”, “The Love Boat”, “Dynasty”, “Beverly Hills 90210”, and many more. As the wife of one of Hollywood’s most powerful executives, our guest’s entire identity was wrapped up in being his collaborator, cheerleader, executive assistant, housekeeper, trophy wife, companion and support – not to mention, a very involved mother of 2 children.

After her husband died in 2006, she found herself at a profound crossroads, and over the course of the next few years, her transformation has been nothing short of astounding.

She’s written 2 best selling books, “Stories from Candyland”, and “Candy at Last”. She executive produced and starred in 2 highly successful HGTV mini-series about selling her world famous Hollywood mansion, “Spelling Manor”, AND designing and furnishing the condo she moved into after she sold the Manor.

If that weren’t enough, she’s become an enormously successful, multi-Tony award winning producer of 14 Broadway shows including “Promises Promises”, “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying”, “The Colour Purple”, “Tina: The Tina Turner Musical”, “Moulin Rouge: The Musical”, and her latest smash hit multi Tony nominated shows, “Mr. Saturday Night” and “MJ: The Musical”, which just won 4 Tony awards. And she’s actively involved in numerous civic and charitable activities, as one of America’s most beloved philanthropists. And of course, she spends as much time as she can with her 7 beautiful grandchildren, who affectionately call her “Candy Gram”.

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Harvey Brownstone Interviews Melba Moore, Legendary Singer, Actress and Recording Artist Jun 07, 2022

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Melba Moore, Legendary Singer, Actress and Recording Artist

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest is Melba Moore, the iconic, award-winning music superstar who’s been dazzling audiences with her incredibly beautiful and soulful 5-octave voice since she burst on the scene in the late 60s in the original cast of the Broadway musical, “Hair”.

She then was one of the first Black women to win a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical, for her performance in “Purlie”. She’s hosted 2 television variety shows and appeared in hit movies like “All Dogs Go to Heaven” and “The Fighting Temptations”. She was the first African American woman to play “Fantine” on Broadway in “Les Miserables”. But ultimately, it’s her FABULOUS voice that earned her THREE Grammy nominations and made her a music legend in songs like “Lean On Me," “This Is It," “You Stepped Into My Life," “Read My Lips”, "Love's Comin' At Ya," "Livin' For Your Love," "Falling", and "A Little Bit More" her #1 duet with Freddie Jackson. She’s recorded 28 spectacular albums, including 2 sensational live albums, and a beautiful duet album entitled, “The Gift of Love”. And NOW, she’s released her BRAND NEW album entitled, “Imagine”. She’s received numerous awards including a Drama Desk Award, the Ellis Island Award, the Artist Guild Award, and the NAACP Spingarn Award. She’s been inducted into the Official Rhythm & Blues Music Hall of Fame. And her 5-decade career is being honoured with displays at the Grammy Museum, and the Smithsonian.

In August, she’ll be presented with the Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award by President Joe Biden.

“Music is what God allows me to do," declares Melba Moore. Born into a musical family, music chose Melba. “Music was a centerpiece in my family. My parents were musicians and so were many of my aunts and uncles." Melba’s father is the legendary big band leader Teddy Hill and her mother, Bonnie Davis, had a #1 hit on the R&B charts with the song “Don’t Stop Now."

Melba Moore’s produced version of “Lift Every Voice and Sing" which was entered into the United States Congressional Record as the official Negro National Anthem in 1990, was just named an ‘American Aural Treasure,’ by the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress for Ms. Moore’s co-produced recorded rendition of the anthem.

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Harvey Brownstone Interviews Harriet Schock, Multi-Award Winning Singer / Songwriter Jun 03, 2022

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Harriet Schock, Multi-Award Winning Singer / Songwriter

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest is Harriet Schock, a renowned, multi-award winning singer / songwriter and multi-platinum recording artist and performer, whose haunting melodies and introspective lyrics have delivered some of the most beloved songs in popular music. Songs like “Hollywood Town”, which was recorded by Manfred Mann. And “First Time on a Ferris Wheel”, the signature song for Carl Anderson. And “Ain’t No Way to Treat a Lady”, which scored a top 10 hit AND a Grammy nomination for Helen Reddy. And I can’t resist mentioning her first recorded composition, “That’s the Way It is With You”, the 1973 hit song recorded by The Partridge Family.

As a vocalist, singing her own emotionally moving ballads with her crystal clear voice, this brilliant artist has recorded 7 highly acclaimed albums, including “Hollywood Town”, “Rosebud”, “American Romance”, “Breakdown on Memory Lane”, and my favorite, her live album “From Fairfax to Pasadena”. Her songs have been recorded by everyone from Nancy Wilson and Roberta Flack to Lee Greenwood, Johnny Mathis and Smokey Robinson. Her music has been heard in movies like “The Last Dragon”, “Delta Force 2”, “Phantom of the Opera”, and “Lambada”, AND in TV shows including “Trophy Wife”, “The Secret Garden” and “Matters of the Heart”. She was named by Cashbox magazine as the Best New Female Artist – not once but TWICE.

And NOW, she’s the subject of a brand new documentary currently in production, entitled “Hollywood Town: The Harriet Schock Story”.

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Harvey Brownstone Interviews Mark Sendroff, Superstar Entertainment “Lawyer to the Stars” Jun 01, 2022

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Mark Sendroff, Superstar Entertainment “Lawyer to the Stars”

About Harvey's guest:

It’s often said that show business is 10% “show” and 90% “business”. So lawyers play a HUGE role in the entertainment industry.

Today’s guest is Mark Sendroff, one of the most respected and accomplished entertainment lawyers in America.

He's commonly referred to as “the lawyer to the stars”, because his client list is a veritable who’s who in the world of theatre, film, television and music, including Linda Lavin, Frank Langella, Lucie Arnaz, Bob Mackie, Marc Shaiman, AND some of the giants in the business who are no longer with us, including Bette Davis, Rosemary Clooney, Rex Harrison, Barbara Cook and so many more. He represents writers, directors, musicians and choreographers of such Broadway shows as “Kinky Boots”, “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical”, “Hairspray”, “Rock of Ages”, “The Full Monty”, “Legally Blonde”, and dozens more, including the upcoming Broadway musicals, “Some Like it Hot” and “Smash”.

He’s represented the stars of TV shows like “The Nanny”, “Two and a Half Men”, and “Black-ish”. He’s a much sought-after speaker and lecturer at law schools, and he was named “Broadway’s Top Legal Eagle” by Broadway World.com. And he’s been on the New York Times prestigious list of Super Lawyers every year since 2010.

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Lucie Arnaz, Star of Stage, Screen, TV, Recording and Concert Artist, Daughter of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz May 31, 2022

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Lucie Arnaz, Star of Stage, Screen, TV, Recording and Concert Artist, Daughter of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s special guest, Lucie Arnaz, first appeared as Kim Carter, on her legendary mother’s wonderful TV show, “Here’s Lucy”. For 6 seasons, she was America’s favourite teenager, singing and dancing not only with her fabulous Mom, Lucille Ball, and her brother, Desi Arnaz Jr., but with everyone from Ginger Rogers to Wayne Newton to Donny Osmond.

On the big screen, she won a Golden Globe nomination for her performance opposite Neil Diamond and Sir Lawrence Olivier in “The Jazz Singer”. She also co-starred in “Billy Jack Goes to Washington”, “Second Thoughts”, “Down to You”, “Wild Seven”, and the thought-provoking and multi-award winning film, “Smoking Non-Smoking”. She starred in numerous TV movies including “Who Killed The Black Dahlia?”, “Washington Mistress”, “The Mating Season”, “Who Gets The Friends?” and “Abduction of Innocence”.

On Broadway, she played the unforgettably wacky Sonia Wolsk, in “They’re Playing Our Song”, which earned her The Los Angeles Drama Critic’s Circle Award, the Theatre World Award, and the Outer Critic's Circle Award. She’s also starred on Broadway in “Lost in Yonkers”, “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels” and “Pippin”. She’s demonstrated incredible versatility on the stage, in dozens of productions ranging from “Seesaw” to “Whose Life Is It Anyway?”, “Vanities”, “My One and Only”, “The Witches of Eastwick” and so many more great shows. As a vocalist, she dazzled us with her albums entitled, “Just in Time”, “Latin Roots” and “Lucie Live at FINESTINE’s at the Niko”. And if that weren’t enough, she’s a spectacular nightclub and concert artist, most recently performing for sell-out crowds in her hit show, “LUCIE ARNAZ: I GOT THE JOB! SONGS FROM MY MUSICAL PAST”.

In 1993, she won an Emmy Award for her documentary TV special about her parents entitled, “Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie”. In 2001, she got ANOTHER Emmy nomination for “The I Love Lucy 50th Anniversary Special.” And most recently, she appeared in the highly acclaimed, intensely emotional Amazon documentary about her parents, entitled, “Lucy and Desi”.

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Harvey Brownstone Interviews Shane Stanley, Award-Winning Producer/Director of “Double Threat” and many other films May 27, 2022

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Shane Stanley, Award-Winning Producer/Director of “Double Threat” and many other films

About Harvey's guest:

Today we’re welcoming back Shane Stanley, a multi-award winning and highly respected filmmaker who first came to international attention at the age of 16 when he won his first Emmy Award. Last time he was here, we talked about his blockbuster hit movie “Gridiron Gang”, and his more recent movies including, “My Trip Back to the Dark Side”, “Mistrust”, “The Untold Story” and “Break Even”.

We also discussed his superb book entitled, “What You Don’t Learn in Film School: A Complete Guide to Independent Filmmaking” – which I said then, and I’m telling you again now, is a must-read for ANYONE who aspires to achieve success in ANY field.

Today, we’re here to talk about our guest’s much-anticipated BRAND NEW movie entitled, “Double Threat”. It’s a highly entertaining action comedy thriller about a vivacious young woman with a split personality, who has ruthless mobsters on her tail, and who becomes entangled with a mild-mannered man on a sentimental cross-country journey.

“Double Threat” will be available on most streaming services starting on June 3.

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Harvey Brownstone Interviews Rick Marcelli & Robin Bragg-Marcelli, Authors, “Hide Your Love Away: An Intimate Story of Brian Epstein as Told by Larry Stanton” May 27, 2022

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Rick Marcelli & Robin Bragg-Marcelli, Authors, “Hide Your Love Away: An Intimate Story of Brian Epstein as Told by Larry Stanton”

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s show is about one of the most brilliant, successful, and yet enigmatic and tragic figures in the history of show business: Brian Epstein, the man responsible for the phenomenal success of the world’s greatest rock and roll band: the Beatles.

Brian Epstein was by far the most important and successful music artist manager of his time, and he ran a rock and roll empire. But what the public didn’t know, is that he was a tormented, lonely, emotionally fragile gay man desperately trying to hide his secret personal life, and to cope with the constant threat of gay bashing, blackmail, extortion, and even criminal prosecution – because homosexuality was a serious criminal offence back then. Brian Epstein died in 1967 of a drug overdose at the age of 32. And there’s been much speculation about the circumstances of his death.

Our guests, Rick Marcelli and Robin Bragg-Marcelli, have written a fascinating book on behalf of their close friend, who was first a lover, and then a very close friend of Brian Epstein’s for the last 4 years of his life. The book is entitled, “Hide Your Love Away: An Intimate Story of Brian Epstein as told by Larry Stanton”. Our guests are well known in the entertainment industry and have had impressive careers in artist management and producing.

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Harvey Brownstone Interviews Legendary Actor, Producer and Author, Robert Wagner May 26, 2022

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Legendary Actor, Producer and Author, Robert Wagner

About Harvey's guest:

Robert Wagner is one of the most popular and successful stars in the entertainment industry, boasting three hit television series and an impressive list of both feature and television films. He has acted in over 100 films and made hundreds of television appearances in his 70+ year career.

As a young man under contract to 20th Century Fox, Robert Wagner was cast by Darryl F. Zanuck in With a Song in My Heart. Although the part lasted a scant minute, his performance as a crippled soldier responding to the song of Susan Hayward’s Jane Froman brought immediate public reaction to the studio. Spencer Tracy saw his performance in Beneath the Twelve Mile Reef and requested Wagner for the role of his son in Broken Lance. Tracy was so impressed with Wagner, he cast him again as his brother in The Mountain. A small sample of Wagner’s numerous film credits includes Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, The Pink Panther, The Curse of the Pink Panther, Midway, The Towering Inferno, Banning, Harper, Prince Valiant, The True Story of Jesse James, and All the Fine Young Cannibals. He starred with Joanne Woodward in her film debut, A Kiss Before Dying. Antonio Banderas directed Wagner in Crazy in Alabama. In the 1990s, he was introduced to a new legion of fans with the role of Number Two, the villainous henchman to Dr. Evil, the archenemy of Mike Myers’ title character in the Austin Powers trilogy.

On television, Wagner starred in three long-running series. He was nominated for an Emmy for his role as suave cat-burglar Alexander Mundy in It Takes a Thief with Malachi Throne and Fred Astaire. He portrayed con man-turned-detective Pete Ryan in Switch with Eddie Albert and Sharon Gless. And Wagner became a fan favorite as the debonair and charming millionaire/amateur detective Jonathan Hart in Hart to Hart with Stefanie Powers.

Other illustrious television performances include starring with Jaclyn Smith in the top-rated miniseries, Windmills of the Gods — based on Sidney Sheldon’s best-selling novel; Angie Dickinson in the miniseries Pearl; Audrey Hepburn in Love Among Thieves; Lesley Anne Down in Indiscreet; and Elizabeth Taylor in There Must Be a Pony, which he also executive-produced. He appeared alongside such notable names as Philip Casnoff, Kyle Chandler, Cathy Lee Crosby, Leslie-Ann Down, and Billy Dee Williams in North and South: Book 3, Heaven and Hell. Sir Laurence Olivier chose Wagner to star with him in the television adaptation of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Wagner’s wife, the late Natalie Wood, co-starred with them.

In addition to his film and television ventures, Robert toured the world performing in A.R. Gurney’s Love Letters with Stefanie Powers. They were the first to launch the tour internationally. After his tour with Powers ended, Wagner enjoyed the play so much, he continued performing it at charity events and around the world with his wife, actress Jill St. John.

Away from the acting world, Robert Wagner has long been a fan of golf and boasted a five handicap. He once beat professional golfer Sam Snead in a head-to-head competition. Footage of this win is posted in the Video section of this page under Additional Videos.

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Harvey Brownstone Interviews Eduardo Goncalves, Founder of The Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting, Conservationist, Activist and Author May 19, 2022

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Eduardo Goncalves, Founder of The Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting, Conservationist, Activist and Author

About Harvey's guest:

Did you know that, every 3 minutes, a defenceless animal is killed by a trophy hunter?

Last year we featured filmmakers Lynn Santer and James Ganiere to discuss their award-winning film, “Land of the Free: In the Shadows”, which exposes the horrors and monstrosity of the so-called “sport” of trophy hunting of endangered species.

Today’s special guest is Eduardo Goncalves, the world’s foremost expert, author and advocate in the battle to ban this barbaric “recreational activity” engaged in by the super rich.

In 2018, he established an organization called “The Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting”. He rapidly made trophy hunting the biggest animal welfare and conservation issue in Britain. His investigations have exposed how some of the world’s most endangered species are being cruelly killed by the thousands, simply for fun.

Our guest has brought together politicians, the media, public figures, the business community and the general public, in support of a ban on trophy imports into the UK. And now, he’s leading an international campaign, to abolish trophy hunting and ban trophy imports across the world.

He’s written many books, including

× “Trophy Hunters Exposed: Inside the Big Game Industry”

× “Killing Game: The Extinction Industry”

× “Trophy Leaks: Trophy Hunters and Industry Secrets Revealed”

× “Undercover Trophy Hunter: Britain’s Top 20 Hunters Revealed” and

× The Fox, the Hound and the Human

He’s a renowned conservationist, and he coordinated the World Wildlife Federation’s “One Planet Living” initiative, which developed the first global footprint calculator for consumers.

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Harvey Brownstone Interviews Renowned Actor/Writer, Jim Piddock, Author of “Caught With My Pants Down and Other Tales from a Life in Hollywood” May 18, 2022

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Renowned Actor/Writer, Jim Piddock, Author of “Caught With My Pants Down and Other Tales from a Life in Hollywood”

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s special guest is Jim Piddock, a hardworking and popular actor who’s instantly recognizable from his performances in such memorable movies as “Independence Day”, “Lethal Weapon 2”, “The Prestige”, “Kill Your Friends”, “You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger”, and “The 5-Year Engagement”.

And who can ever forget him as the straight-laced British commentator working opposite Fred Willard in Christopher Guest’s brilliant film, “Best in Show”? He also starred in several Broadway shows including “Present Laughter”, “Design for Living” and the original production of “Noises Off”. And he’s appeared in dozens of TV shows including “Mad About You”, “The Drew Carey Show”, “Lost”, “Two and a Half Men”, “Friends”, “ER”, “Modern Family”, “Castle”, and so many more.

He was also in the award-winning HBO series “From the Earth to the Moon”, and he starred in the CBS miniseries “The Women of Windsor”. He’s also a highly successful writer and producer, who’s created movies and TV shows including “Too Much Sun”, “A Different Loyalty”, “The Man”, “Tooth Fairy”, and he co-wrote and starred in the HBO series “Family Tree” and “Mascots” for Netflix.

If that weren’t enough, our guest is a superb and compelling raconteur, who recently released a highly entertaining and refreshingly frank and candid memoir entitled, “Caught With My Pants Down and Other Tales from a Life in Hollywood”. This insightful, candid, and often hilarious book is an absolute MUST-READ for anyone having an interest in what really goes on in the world of show business.

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