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Harvey Brownstone Interviews Jane Blasio, Author of “Taken at Birth: Stolen Babies, Hidden Lies, and My Journey to Finding Home” Feb 18, 2022

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Jane Blasio, Author of “Taken at Birth: Stolen Babies, Hidden Lies, and My Journey to Finding Home”

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest has written one of the most shocking books of deceit and trauma that I’ve ever read.

Knowing that she was adopted, she began searching at the age of 18, for her birth family. What should have been a simple process to access her adoption records, turned into a gut-wrenching 30-year investigation and ordeal, because she discovered that she had been sold as a newborn baby in McCaysville, Georgia, by the town’s local doctor, Thomas Hicks, who had built up a lucrative business of selling babies. Sometimes the mothers were in trouble and willingly gave their babies away. And sometimes, the doctor lied to the mothers, told them their babies had died, and then sold them to desperate couples who couldn’t have children of their own.

Over 200 babies were illegally sold or given away by Dr. Hicks in the 1950s and 60s. In 1997 our guest broke this story to the media, which launched a deluge of birth mothers and illegally adopted children searching for the truth.

In 2019, the TLC television channel produced a 3-part documentary series called “Taken at Birth” about this story. And last year, our guest released her book, entitled “Taken at Birth: Stolen Babies, Hidden Lies and my Journey to Finding Home”.

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Harvey Brownstone Interviews Curtis Stigers, Award Winning Singer / Songwriter Feb 17, 2022

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Curtis Stigers, Award Winning Singer / Songwriter

About Harvey's guest:

Curtis Stigers is an American jazz singer. He achieved a number of hits in the early 1990s, most notably the international hit, "I Wonder Why" (1991), which reached No. 5 in the UK and No. 9 in the US.

Stigers was born in Hollywood, California and grew up in Boise, Idaho. He started his music career as a teenager, playing in rock and blues bands, as well as receiving an education in clarinet and saxophone in high school in Boise. He acquired much of his motivation for pursuing jazz from jam sessions led by Gene Harris at the Idanha Hotel. His song "Swingin' Down at Tenth and Main" is a tribute to those times with Harris. After receiving his diploma, he moved to New York City, intending to become a rock musician. But he spent more time in jazz clubs singing and playing saxophone.

Arista released his debut album, which achieved multi-platinum sales. His combination of rock and soul was also popular on the soundtrack to the movie The Bodyguard, which contained his version of "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding" by Nick Lowe. Concord Jazz released Baby Plays Around, an album of that included Chris Minh Doky and Randy Brecker. He recorded several more jazzy albums for Concord before turning to the country flavor of Let's Go Out Tonight with cover versions of songs by Steve Earle, Richard Thompson, and Hayes Carll.

He has worked with Elton John, Eric Clapton, Prince, Bonnie Raitt, Rod Stewart, The Allman Brothers Band and Joe Cocker. He sang a duet with Julia Fordham on her re-recording of "Where Does the Time Go?" on the 1998 compilation album The Julia Fordham Collection.

His song "I Wonder Why" reached No. 5 on the UK Singles Chart and No. 9 on the United States Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1991, while "You're All That Matters to Me" reached No. 6 as the follow-up single in the UK. In 2006, Stigers participated in the BBC Television show Just the Two of Us, where he sang with journalist Penny Smith. He was one of the soloists at a concert celebrating the MGM musical during the 2009 Proms season. His song "This Life" was for the American television show Sons of Anarchy. He also sang "John the Revelator" for the season one finale.

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Harvey Brownstone Interviews Gilles Marini, Internationally Acclaimed Actor Feb 15, 2022

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Gilles Marini, Internationally Acclaimed Actor

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Gilles Marini exploded onto the scene as "Dante", the Casanova living in the beach house next door to Kim Cattrall's "Samantha" on the Sex and the City (2008) movie, a role which has earned him international recognition. Though people went to the theatres to see Carrie, Samantha, Miranda and Charlotte, they left with one thing on their mind....Gilles's shower scene.

Gilles has been seen on television on Ugly Betty (2006), Dirty Sexy Money (2007), Criminal Minds (2005), Windfall (2006) and in several soap operas, including The Bold and the Beautiful (1987) and Passions (1999). His recent film credits include "One and the Other" (L'Une et L'Autre (2007)), Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007) and The Boys & Girls Guide to Getting Down (2006).

Gilles has appeared in many television commercials and print ads for companies like Budweiser, Clairol, Coca Cola, Ross, Chrysler, Fila, GNC, Infiniti, Mervins, Avon, Lord and Taylor, Robinsons May, etc.

Gilles was born in Grasse, France. After working as a baker in his father's bakery since he was 8-years-old and graduating from high school, Gilles joined the French army and was stationed in Paris, where he acted as a fireman for the famous Brigade des Sapeurs Pompiers de Paris. It was in Paris where Gilles met Fred Goudon, a famous photographer who introduced Gilles to the world of modeling. After fulfilling his military duties, Gilles decided to go to the United States to learn English while working as a model.

In his spare time, Gilles enjoys playing soccer as part of a neighborhood team. He also teaches martial arts to his son, Georges Marini.

Gilles currently resides in California with his wife Carole, son Georges, and daughter Juliana.

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Harvey Brownstone Interviews Mel Tormé’s Son, Steve March-Tormé, Singer / Songwriter Feb 04, 2022

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Mel Tormé’s Son, Steve March-Tormé, Singer / Songwriter
About Harvey's guest:
Steve was born in New York City to the multi-talented Mel Tormé and the former model/actress, Candy Tockstein. They were divorced when Steve was young, and Candy married Hal March, an actor/comedian best known as the host of NBC-TV’s The $64,000 Question Show, but who also starred on Broadway in Neil Simon’s Come Blow Your Horn. An avid baseball player and fan growing up in Westchester County, N.Y., Steve's dream was to play for the Yankees. He was a devoted fan who listened to games on the radio in the basement of his family home. Following every game, he’d switch to the Top 40 music stations and sing along with such artists as The Four Seasons, Nat King Cole, The Temptations, Ricky Nelson, and Gene Pitney. With his natural ear for harmonies, his favorite quickly became and remains The Beatles. By the age of 12, he knew that he wanted to be a performer, and at 13 he earned his first paycheck fronting his own band. After his family moved to Beverly Hills, he continued to develop as a musician and his influences grew to include Joni Mitchell, James Taylor, Todd Rundgren, and Steely Dan.
Steve recorded his first LP, Lucky, for United Artists Records, supporting it with a 20-city, national concert tour. Upon returning to California, he produced and sang on Liza Minnelli’s Columbia Records release Tropical Nights, which became a favorite of New York dance clubs.
He spent three years as the featured vocalist on ABC-TV’s $100,000 Name That Tune and also hosted two Los Angeles-based television shows, Video 22 (a precursor to MTV) and Box Office America.
Steve’s first solo project after Full Swing was his CD Swingin’ at the Blue Moon Bar & Grille, recorded with a crackerjack big band. It also features a duet between Steve and Mel (“Straighten Up and Fly Right”) and showcases an improvised scat lesson between father and son. That disc was followed up by The Night I Fell For You, featuring an alluring arrangement of the Lerner & Loewe classic “On the Street Where You Live,” and a number of Steve’s original tunes, many penned with longtime collaborator, pianist and musical conductor Steve Rawlins. Those two releases were followed up by The Essence of Love, a collection of some of the most romantic, well-crafted standards ever written, including “Blue Skies,” “Stardust,” “Every Time We Say Goodbye,” and a playful duet with jazz icon Diane Schuur on “The One I Love Belongs To Somebody Else.” His current jazz CD, So Far (on iTunes, cdbaby.com, and amazon.com), combines the most popular material from his first three CDs into one “best of” recording.
Steve’s latest CD, Inside/Out, goes back to his roots as a singer/songwriter, words and music written by Steve, on which he not only sings but plays keyboards and guitar.
Because a natural interest exists in hearing Steve sing the songs his dad was known for, he did a 28-city cross-country tour for Columbia Artists Mgt. Inc. (CAMI) entitled Tormé Sings Tormé. Steve is proud to have had the opportunity to pay tribute to his father in a show featuring a ten-piece band playing the extraordinary arrangements penned by Marty Paich exclusively for Mel and including a multimedia presentation of photos and video clips.
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Harvey Brownstone Interviews Melissa Doman, Author of “Yes You Can Talk About Mental Health at Work” Feb 02, 2022

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Organizational Psychologist, Melissa Doman, Author of “Yes You Can Talk About Mental Health at Work”

About Harvey's guest:

Melissa worked for years as a clinical mental health therapist in private practice, employee assistance programs, and university settings. She transitioned from the clinical sector into organizational psychology for a crucial reason. Countless people who came to see her for counseling had something unfortunate in common — they felt they couldn’t be open about their struggles at work. So, she left the clinical sector to make an impact at the source — the workplace.

Melissa has spoken, presented, and consulted for organizations and Fortune 500 companies across industries and around the world, including clients like: Microsoft, Estée Lauder, Salesforce, Siemens, Janssen, Charlotte Tilbury, Bumble and bumble, Legal & General, and more. She has been featured as a subject matter expert by the BBC, CNBC, digital publications, local television shows, international and national conferences, summits, and mentoring programs. After a decade of fieldwork, Melissa compiled all of her training, field experience, and expertise into her new book: Yes, You Can Talk About Mental Health at Work…Here’s Why (And How To Do It Really Well). She also served as the consulting subject-matter expert for the manuscript and wrote the foreword for the soon-to-be-released Beat Stress at Work: How to Balance Your Ambition With Your Anxiety by Mark Simmonds.

Melissa is a prominent thought leader in the United States, United Kingdom, and the European Union. Having lived abroad in South Korea, England, Australia and traveled to 45+ countries, she calls upon her global experiences to inform how she works with companies around the world. She uses these experiences to highlight how cultural differences and personal experiences impact how we perceive mental health, stress, and mental illness. And, how we bring these beliefs into work.

Melissa also holds an M.A. in Counseling Psychology from Adler University and a B.A. in Sociology with a minor in Communications from The George Washington University. While in clinical practice, she held several licenses at the state and national level and achieved certification through a Stanford University-sponsored program as a Chronic Disease Self-Management Educator.

Her goals are simply this - to use her background and experience to:

Equip people, companies, and leaders to constructively talk about mental health and mental illness in the workplace.

Help them build the skillset, mindset, and behaviors to do this.

Have realistic and constructive conversations about it.

Put mental health in the workplace at the forefront of everyone's minds around the world.

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Harvey Brownstone Interviews Doris Day’s Longtime Employee, Syd Wood, Author, “To Doris with Love, from Woody Day: My Days with Doris Day” Jan 30, 2022

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Doris Day’s Longtime Employee, Syd Wood, Author, “To Doris with Love, from Woody Day: My Days with Doris Day”

About Harvey's guest:

Syd devoted 20 years of his life, living and working with the incomparable superstar, Doris Day. He started out in England as a devoted fan, but after meeting Miss Day and developing a friendship with her, she convinced him to come to America to work for her. He was a jack-of-all-trades. He cared for her pets, cleaned her house, did her gardening, took care of her pool and even helped dye her hair. He helped her move from Beverly Hills to her beloved home in Carmel, California, where he witnessed many changes in her life and was a constant source of support and comfort to her. Theirs was much more than an employment relationship. They were best friends who relied and depended on each other during good times and bad. He’s just released a sentimental and nostalgic book, entitled, “To Doris With Love, from Woody Day: My Days with Doris Day”.

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Harvey Brownstone Interviews Larry Fuller, Legendary Broadway Choreographer & Director Jan 30, 2022

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Larry Fuller, Legendary Broadway Choreographer, Director & Dancer

About Harvey's guest:

Larry Fuller is an American choreographer, theatre director, dancer, and actor.

Fuller began his career as a dancer/actor, performing in the Carousel revival at New York City Center in 1957, and going on to appear in the original Broadway productions of "West Side Story" (as a Jet swing), “The Music Man”, Redhead, Kean, Bravo Giovanni, Donnybrook, No Strings, and Funny Girl, with Barbra Streisand. He would go on to recreate the original Carol Haney choreography for the American touring and London West End productions of Funny Girl. Additional touring productions Fuller has directed and choreographed include "The Music Man", “I Do! I Do!”, “Kismet”, and “On a Clear Day You Can See Forever”.

In Europe, Fuller has directed and choreographed productions of West Side Story in Vienna and Nuremberg, created Jazz and the Dancing Americans for the Opera House Ballet in Graz, Austria and the Theatre an der Wien in ((Vienna)) and directed the European premieres of Leonard Bernstein's Candide and On the Town and George Gershwin's Girl Crazy. He also directed and choreographed on London's West End the mid-1980s hit multi-media musical "((Time))" and "((Marilyn, the Musical))" , European tour of Jesus Christ Superstar (1992). In 1997 he directed and choreographed JFK: A Musical Drama in Dublin, Ireland.

Television audiences have seen Fuller's choreography on The Ed Sullivan Show, and he has staged and choreographed both the Tony and Emmy Awards telecasts twice.

Fuller's Broadway credits as a choreographer include On the Twentieth Century, Merrily We Roll Along, and A Doll's Life. He has been nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Choreography twice, for his work in Sweeney Todd and Evita, which also garnered him a Tony nod. He won two NY Drama Desk Awards for "Sweeney Todd" and "Evita" and the L.A. drama desk award for his choreography in "Evita". He choreographed the original West End production and directed and choreographed the 2004 US national tour as well.

Fuller had a romantic relationship with fellow choreographer/director Michael Bennett for many years. The 1996 documentary “On Your Toes . . . The Making Of - Director/Choreographer Larry Fuller documents the making of the musical production "On Your Toes" with the Stuttgart Ballet Company in 1990.

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Harvey Brownstone Interviews Don Knotts’ Daughter, Karen Knotts, Actress and Author of “Tied Up In Knotts, My Dad and Me” Jan 25, 2022

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Don Knotts’ Daughter, Karen Knotts, Actress and Author of “Tied Up In Knotts, My Dad and Me”

About Harvey's guest:

Karen Knotts is an American actress and stand-up comedian and daughter of comedy genius Don Knotts.

During her childhood and her teenage years, she and her father often "butted heads" over her desire to enter show business: "I always wanted to be an actress, even when I was young, but he said, 'No, that's not a good life for a child." She went on to say that he supported her "100 percent in the end". She studied at Beverly Hills High School, followed by USC School of Cinematic Arts.

Knotts works as a stand-up comic and SAG/AFTRA actor. Her one-woman show, "Tied Up in Knotts", is the story of growing up with her comedian father. It was directed by Andersen Gabrych. She performed it at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2008. She also performs standup comedy on the road. Her television and film credits include Return to Mayberry, An Occurrence at Black Canyon, One of Our Own, and the Vice Academy series.

Knotts also writes for the stage; her one-woman play Roger and Betsy was nominated for the Merce Awards in 2009. She has written two plays, Dates from Hell the Musical, and a farce, But We Open Tonite.

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Harvey Brownstone Interviews Kathy Garver, Star of “Family Affair”, Author of “Surviving Cissy: My Family Affair of Life in Hollywood” Jan 21, 2022

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Kathy Garver, Star of “Family Affair”, Author of “Surviving Cissy: My Family Affair of Life in Hollywood”
About Harvey's guest:
Today’s guest is a veteran actress whose film career began at the age of 8, when she appeared in “The Night of the Hunter” and “The Ten Commandments”. She is most fondly remembered for her role as “Cissy” in the long-running classic TV show, “Family Affair”. Her film appearances include “Sweet November”, “The Princess Diaries”, and “Mom, Murder and Me”. She’s guest starred in dozens of TV shows going all the way back to “Our Miss Brooks” and “Father Knows Best”, and including such memorable shows as “The Big Valley”, “Matlock”, and “Nash Bridges”. On stage, she’s starred in highly acclaimed productions of “My Fair Lady”, “Sunday in New York”, “The Glass Menagerie”, “Voice of the Turtle”, “A Midsummer’s Night Dream” and “The Trojan Women”.
She’s a popular voiceover artist, and created many iconic voices including “Pepper” in the Chuck Norris Karate Kommandos TV series, and “Firestar” in the “Spiderman and His Amazing Friends” TV show. She’s also one of the most sought-after audiobook narrators, and so far, she’s recorded more than 80 audio books, and she’s won 6 prestigious Audie awards. If that weren’t enough, she’s written 5 best selling books: “The Family Affair Cookbook”, “Surviving Cissy: My Family Affair of Life in Hollywood”, “X-Child Stars: Where Are They Now”, “Holiday Recipes for a Family Affair”, and “The Family Affair Scrapbook”.
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Harvey Brownstone Interviews David Fantle and Tom Johnson, Authors of “Hollywood Heyday: 75 Candid Interviews with Golden Age Legends” Jan 17, 2022

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with David Fantle and Tom Johnson, Authors of “Hollywood Heyday: 75 Candid Interviews with Golden Age Legends”

About Harvey's guests:

Today’s guests have done something not only remarkable, but jaw droppingly unique. In 1974, when our guests were teenagers in Minnesota, they saw the MGM movie “That’s Entertainment”, and fell in love with classic Hollywood movies. In the summer of 1978, fresh out of high school, these star struck kids travelled to Los Angeles, and were somehow able to convince Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly to meet with them for an interview. That experience opened the door to dozens more interviews with the greatest Hollywood legends of all time, including Lucille Ball, Milton Berle, Bob Hope, George Burns, Jimmy Cagney, Charlton Heston, Vincente Minnelli, Gregory Peck and many more. Those interviews are compiled in a book entitled, “Hollywood Heyday: 75 Candid Interviews with Golden Age Legends”. These interviews are nothing like anything you’ve ever seen. Somehow, these unassuming young men were able to get the most iconic superstars to open up in a way that no one else has ever been able to do. And THAT’S what makes their book so special.

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