Dennis visits the Hollywood apartment of film lover Michael Dougherty to talk about last year's movies with Michael and film reviewer Glenn Gaylord from the Glenn On Film blog on tumblr. Dennis shares his annual Unsung 10, which are movies that are on no one's 10 Best or Oscar lists but that he really enjoyed...like Kong: Skull Island for example and It . Glenn and Michael share their favorites of the year and celebrate specific "Moments Out of Time," specific scenes or images from films that wi...
Feb 13, 2018•1 hr 33 min
Dennis visits the Valley Village home of his pal Matt Zarley to interview Matt's good friend, actor Nathan Lee Graham who is in town from New York to shoot the new Fox sitcom L.A. to Vegas , in which he plays a seen-it-all flight attendant named Bernard. Nathan talks about auditioning for the show, how the airplane set works, working with Dylan McDermott (and in one episode Dermot Mulroney), getting the uniform just-so, his dream guest star and his dream episode, which is coming up soon and invo...
Feb 08, 2018•1 hr 19 min
Dennis visits the Silver Lake-ish home of Joel Craig, the man behind the new graphic novel Journey to Gaytopia, which is about two broke LA actors who have just been cast on "The Julianne Moore and Madonna Half-Hour Comedy Hour" but during filming Madonna gets kidnapped by Faye Dunaway's evil twin Mae Dunaway who lives in a parallel universe and the boys have to go and rescue Madonna. Joel talks about the inspiration for the novel, how text and the visuals come together, why he loves Julianne Mo...
Feb 01, 2018•44 min
Dennis visits the Hollywood Hills of playwright, filmmaker and performer Del Shores to discuss his new one-man play "Six Characters In Search of a Play," which opens in Los Angeles on February 25th at the Celebration Theatre. He breaks down the six different characters he depicts in the piece, including a monkey-obsessed lesbian, a favorite aunt, an actress hellbent on dying before Trump takes office, a mouthy waitress, a closeted Southern gay man and his own mother who also happened to be his h...
Jan 24, 2018•1 hr 18 min
Dennis visits the Valley Village home of his dog park buddy, actor Jack McGee who leaves LA in a few weeks to go to New York where he will be appearing in his first Broadway play, The Iceman Cometh starring Denzel Washington. Jack talks about the out-of-nowhere audition that came his way when he happened to be on the east coast, what he's doing to prepare and being "stunned, elated, thrilled and petrified at the same time." He also talks about his long career in film and television, from playing...
Jan 16, 2018•1 hr 29 min
Dennis heads down the 5 Freeway to Orange, CA to visit the office/studio of Kc Wayland, creator of the popular zombie-themed audio drama "We're Alive," which is heading into its sixth season with a 7th already in development. Kc talks about the original idea for the series, his techniques for working with actors, building an enthusiastic fan base with no paid advertising and the frustration of getting his thunder stolen by TV's "The Walking Dead" shortly after launching his first season. He also...
Jan 11, 2018•1 hr 5 min
A year ago this week, we lost both Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds. For the final Dennis Anyone of 2017, Dennis shares the tape from the few minutes he got to spend with both of them in their natural habitat, Carrie's Coldwater Canyon home. FROM DENNIS: "In 1994, I interviewed Carrie for Detour Magazine about her book Delusions of Grandma . I spent over two hours at her Coldwater Canyon home--we actually did the interview in her bed--and near the end, Debbie Reynolds showed up for a mother-dau...
Dec 28, 2017•13 min
Dennis visits the Silverlake apartment of Kit Williamson and John Halbach who co-executive producer the Emmy-nominated web series Eastsiders, which just launched its third season on VOD. At the moment, the married couple's place is like a bustling Santa's workshop, with huge bags full of envelopes to send to the show's Kickstarter supporters. They discuss where the original idea for the series came from, the challenges of creating a show about romantic relationships when you're actually in one, ...
Dec 15, 2017•1 hr 39 min
Dennis visits the home of actor-photographer of Bryan Dechart for this podcast which happened after Bryan shot promo shots of Dennis for his new Lifecast venture. Bryan talks about how he got into taking pictures, shooting 52 portraits in 52 weeks and traveling to Wyoming to experience the recent eclipse from the Path of Totality. He also talks about making multiple trips to Paris to star in the upcoming video game Detroit: Become Human. Other topics include: his most influential teacher, his bi...
Dec 06, 2017•27 min
Dennis visits the Glendale, CA home of Kristine Oller who makes her living as a "change strategist." People come to her when they want to make some kind of a shift in their lives and she helps them do it. She talks about how she came to have that job, the attributes that make her well-suited for it and why she finds it so fulfilling. She also talks about her past incarnation as a professional organizer, why she was good at it, the 'Spark Joy' phenomenon, working with hoarders and whether or not ...
Nov 29, 2017•1 hr 53 min
Dennis pays a pre-Thanksgiving visit--pumpkin pie and all--to the Silver Lake home of actor-writer Rob Elk who co-wrote and starts in the outrageously funny long-running play "Bob's Holiday Office Party." Also on hand are his co-writer and co-star Joe Keyes and actor Mark Fite who has been playing the UFO-obsessed would be thespian Marty in the show since the get-go 22 years ago! They talk about the small midwestern hometowns that inspired the play, how the play began as a long improv, making th...
Nov 23, 2017•54 min
Dennis visits the Hancock Park-ish apartment of Elizabeth Liang, the writer and sole cast member of the show "Alien Citizen: An Earth Odyssey," about her usual upbringing as a "third culture kid," growing up all over the world, from Guatemala to Costa Rica to Panama to Connecticut to Morocco to Egypt. She talks about the essay the led to the show, the unique pressures of being the only cast member, filming the show for a DVD, what her family thinks of the show, taking on the show on the road to ...
Nov 15, 2017•48 min
Dennis visits the Silver Lake apartment of actor-writer-producer Terry Ray to discuss his hotel room-set play "Electricity," which is currently playing to packed crowds in an actual hotel room at INNDulge in Palm Springs. Terry talks about what inspired him to write the play, how acting in an actual hotel room instead of a theater changed his performance, onstage nudity, aging four decades throughout the play and hanging out with his audience after around the hotel. Terry also talks about doing ...
Nov 08, 2017•1 hr 12 min
Dennis visits the West Hollywood apartment of actor Emerson Collins who along with writer-director Del Shores produced the new film A Very Sordid Wedding, which is now available on DVD and VOD. Emerson talks about the major barnstorming promotional tour he's been on for the last few months, his against-type role as a serial killer in the film, playing scenes opposite Leslie Jordan and the Starbucks fix he has to have no matter what city he's in. He floats a theory about the traits that unite Sor...
Nov 01, 2017•1 hr 28 min
Dennis sits down with two of the men behind the acclaimed new film "God's Own Country," about a isolated gay man living and working on his family's farm on the north of England who hires a Romanian migrant worker to help out on the farm and sparks fly. Writer-Director Francis Lee talks about returning to the area he had grown up in to make his gay romance, the reaction of the locals, his rules about costuming and camera movement and his approach to directing his actors through physically and emo...
Oct 25, 2017•37 min
Dennis visits the LA LGBT Center's Davidson/Valentini Theater to talk to Jon Imparato and Adam Silver, producers of the powerful play "Exit Strategy," about one Chicago high school's fight for survival. Adam also stars in the show as school's in-over-his-head Vice Principal. The pair talk about what drew them to the play, how they found their powerhouse cast, why the show speaks so powerfully to this moment, and why Chicago actors rock. They also talk about the gay content in the show, playing b...
Oct 18, 2017•37 min
Dennis visits the L.A. home of comedy icon Julie Brown to talk about the L.A. return of her hit stage show "The Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun: The Musical," recording the 1984 EP "Goddess in Progress" that featured the song, playing a teenager when she's well into her 20's and how she approaches that in the era of mass shootings. She also discusses the origins of her iconic "Truth of Dare"-parody "Medusa: Dare to Be Truthful," what her son thinks of her comedy, her first writing credit on an Oliv...
Oct 08, 2017•1 hr 30 min
Dennis visits the downtown L.A. headquarters of N2N Bodywear to talk to the man who founded the company 20 years ago Andrew Makay. Andrew talks about the turquoise bikini he bought in Acapulco that started it all, the swimwear/underwear fetish that inspired the company, the mistakes he made when he was starting out, Chinese counterfeiters who are ripping him off, going from a storefront in West Hollywood to an online operation, the chore of naming stuff, the items that have always sold well, shi...
Sep 29, 2017•1 hr 20 min
On his last day in Key West, Florida in August, Dennis visits the home of local writer and publicist Carol Shaughnessy to hear her recall the extraordinary tale of legendary local treasure hunter Mel Fisher and his 16-year quest to find sunken Spanish treasure off the coast of Key West. Carol talks about her personal connection to the story, the everyday artifact they found that captured her imagination, what happened after the big discovery, the resulting Supreme Court case and how the story ex...
Sep 22, 2017•48 min
From Dennis: This week, I had planned to post a collection of short interviews I did with the people I met on my recent press trip to Key West, Florida for Man About World magazine. Then Hurricane Irma happened. One of the people I met and interviewed while I was there was Cody White who runs a small tour company with his husband Ryan called Nomadic SUP (SUP stands for stand-up paddleboard, which is the type of tour the company specializes in). Our group didn't get to go out on the water because...
Sep 15, 2017•23 min
Dennis visits the Koreatown office of Tommy Honton, who along with his business/writing partner Don DeLeon, is opening a new escape room in L.A. called Stashhouse, which takes place in a drug dealer's swanky apartment. Tommy talks about the soul-sucking corporate job he had before deciding to get into the escape room game, his favorite parts of the creation process, the escape room tropes he tries to avoid and why he thinks escape rooms have exploded at this particular time in our culture. He al...
Sep 06, 2017•1 hr 32 min
Dennis hits the Los Angeles premiere of Del Shores' new film "A Very Sordid Wedding" in Beverly Hills to talk to Del about getting the film made, the joys of fan art and the moment in the film that makes him laugh no matter how many times he's seen it. Dennis also talks to producer and co-star Emerson Collins about playing a bad boy, herding cats on the set and why accounting's a drag. Actress Ann Walker talks about attending screenings where fans turn up in drag and tells us something about Del...
Aug 29, 2017•20 min
Dennis visits the downtown LA loft apartment of Jeffrey Vail to talk about his job as Forest Supervisor of Angeles National Forest and San Gabriel Mountains National Monument. Jeffrey talks about what it's like to oversea over 300 employees and 700,000 acres, his favorite photo op in the forest, the rumored rivalry between Smokey the Bear and Woodsy Owl and that he had a moment with a deer that made him feel like a certain British dame (see title). He also discusses working with Hollywood on hav...
Aug 26, 2017•1 hr 1 min
Dennis heads to West Hollywood to interview Barney Cheng, the writer, director and co-star of the new LGBT-themed movie "Baby Steps," which hit VOD on August 15th. Barney talks about his inspiration for the story, landing Grace Guei AKA "the Meryl Streep of Asia" to play his mother, shooting in Weho, Tawain and India, the scene where he had to cry on camera, the six-month odyssey of getting the film made and the film's Ang Lee connection. He also discusses the reaction to the film when it screen...
Aug 15, 2017•1 hr 3 min
Dennis visits the West Hollywood apartment of his favorite yoga teacher Jame Ferree to talk about his recent travels (Miami, Cambodia, Thailand, Bali), how he got into yoga, why he loves it, how teaching it continues to move him and his new series of online classes Vinyasa Vault. Jake talks about being gang-rushed by kleptomaniac monkeys in Bali, not driving a car for seven months, how yoga brought up buried emotions that surprised him, taming the negative voices in his head through yoga, giving...
Aug 10, 2017•1 hr 51 min
Dennis visits the Actors Fund offices in Los Angeles to interview financial mentor and actor Miata Edoga who Dennis met when he took Miata's life-changing six-week course called "Managing Cash Flow for Actors." Miata talks about coming to L.A. to pursue a career in acting and ending up working eleven part time jobs and still being broke and the moment of crisis that inspired her to get a handle on her finances. She also talks about the myth of the struggling artist and the idea that if you aren'...
Aug 04, 2017•1 hr 21 min
Dennis welcomes actor-singer-lawyer Kathleen Antonia Tarr to his Noho condo to talk about going from pursuing a career in show business in Los Angeles to being a professor at Stanford. She talks what she loves about teaching, what the kids are like these days and why grading papers isn't that bad. She discusses her time in L.A., landing a gig on "House," doing a commercial for Cialis and what made her want to leave L.A.. Dating comes up as well and Kathleen explains the application process she i...
Jul 27, 2017•59 min
Dennis visits the Hollywood apartment of performer John Cantwell, the retro pop culture-obsessed man behind Cajun inbred drag goddess Love Connie, star of the current stage show "Love Connie Xtreme Makeover Greatest Hist Vol. 1." John talks about the origins and evolution of Connie, discovering that women are empowered by Connie's fierceness, how he/Connie might fare on "RuPaul's Drag Race," how he conceives his shows, what makes up Connie's DNA and the 80's music video he wishes he could insert...
Jul 19, 2017•1 hr 27 min
Dennis goes to the Sunset Tower Hotel in West Hollywood to chat with Philadelpia-based author Michael Callahan about his fun new novel "The Night She Won Miss America." Michael recounts the amazing true story that inspired his novel; of Betty Cooper, Miss America 1937, who ran away with her male escort on the same night she won the crown. He also discusses his lifelong obsession with beauty pageants, his favorite Miss America, bullshit talents like giving a speech and playing the marimba, the pa...
Jul 12, 2017•1 hr 8 min
Documentary filmmaker Jeffrey Schwarz returns to the podcast to discuss is new film "The Fabulous Allan Carr" about the legendary, larger-than-life producer of Grease, Can't Stop the Music, the Broadway musical La Cage Aux Folles and the 1989 Oscars where Rob Lowe sang "Proud Mary" with Snow White. Jeffrey talks about what drew him to Carr as a film subject, Allan's crazy, drug-fueled parties, his passion for making and remaking stars like Marlo Thomas and Ann-Margaret, how Allan helped "The Dee...
Jul 05, 2017•1 hr 34 min
