TVC 650.6: Marc Cushman, author of Long Distance Voyagers: The Story of The Moody Blues , talks to Ed about the emergence of FM radio circa 1972 helped the Moody Blues surge in popularity (and, particularly, the success of "Nights in White Satin," four years after its original release in 1968. Volumes 1 and 2 of Long Distance Voyagers: The Story of The Moody Blues are available now wherever books are sold through Jacobs Brown Media Group. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.co...
Jun 15, 2024•18 min•Season 16Ep. 650
TVC 649.1: From November 2011: Greg Ehrbar discusses the Sherman Brothers' many contributions to Walt Disney Records (above and beyond their Oscar-winning music for Mary Poppins ), including how they helped composer Tutti Camarata develop "the Annette sound" for Annette Funicello, the back story behind "It's a Small World," and, later, their work on Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Charlotte's Web . Richard Sherman passed away on Saturday, May 25 at age ninety-five. Want to advertise/sponsor our show...
Jun 10, 2024•15 min•Season 16Ep. 649
TVC 649.2: Greg Ehrbar discusses the recent Kino Lorber Blu-ray release of Flower Drum Song , the 1961 film adaptation of the Tony Award-winning musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein starring Nancy Kwan, Jack Soo, Miyoshi Umeki, James Shigeta, Juanita Hall, Benson Fong, Reiko Sato, Patrick Adiarte, Kam Tong, Victor Sen Yung, and Irene Tsu. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our pr...
Jun 10, 2024•16 min•Season 16Ep. 649
TVC 649.3: Ed welcomes trailblazing actress, author, and designed Irene Tsu ( Flower Drum Song, Paradise Hawaiian Style, Take Her She's Mine, The Green Berets, Caprice, How to Stuff a Wild Bikini, Down and Out in Beverly Hills ). Irene not only worked steadily in movies and television for more than four decades, but in many instances broke ground for other Asian-American by playing characters that were originally written for other ethnicities (her role opposite Doris Day and Ray Walston in Capri...
Jun 10, 2024•25 min
TVC 649.4: Actress and author Irene Tsu talks to Ed about how composer Oscar-winning Bronislaw Kaper ( Lili, The FBI ) became a lifelong father figure when she first came to Hollywood; what she uses for inspiration when she creates a new water color painting; and why Frank Sinatra was always a much better host than he was a guest. Irene's memoir, A Walter Color Dream: The Many Lives of Irene Tsu, is available now through Bear Manor Media, Amazon.com, and IreneTsu-Entertainment.com Want to advert...
Jun 10, 2024•21 min•Season 16Ep. 649
TVC 649.5: From January 2012: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss the life and career of film and television icon Dabney Coleman ( 9 to 5, Tootsie, Buffalo Bill, The "Slap" Maxwell Story, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman ) on the occasion of his eightieth birthday. Dabney Coleman passed away on Friday, May 17 at age ninety-two. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They're great to...
Jun 10, 2024•15 min•Season 16Ep. 649
TVC 648.1: May 1939 marks the eighty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Issue 27 of Detective Comics , the issue that marked the debut appearance of the Batman character. TV Confidential marks this occasion by playing highlights of some of our conversation with actors who appeared in the Batman television series from 1966. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. Th...
May 20, 2024•25 min•Season 16Ep. 648
TVC 648.2: Nick Santa Maria, co-author of The Annotated Abbott and Costello: A Complete Viewer's Guide to the Comedy Team and Their 38 Films , joins Greg and Ed for a look at the ClassicFlix.com Blu-ray release of The Abbott and Costello Show, Season 2 . Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They're great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please em...
May 20, 2024•17 min•Season 16Ep. 648
TVC 648.3: Nick Santa Maria, co-author of The Annotated Abbott and Costello: A Complete Viewer's Guide to the Comedy Team and Their 38 Films , talks to Greg and Ed about some of the many famous character actors who appear in the second season of The Abbott and Costello Show , including Phyllis Coates, Joan Shawlee, Hillary Brooke, Adele Jurgens, Percy Helton, Karen Sharpe, and Gloria Henry. The Abbott and Costello Show, Season 2 is now available on Blu-ray through ClassicFlix.com. Nick's podcast...
May 20, 2024•18 min•Season 16Ep. 648
TVC 648.4: Ed welcomes back actress, author, and teacher Dee Wallace ( E.T: The Extraterrestrial, The Howling, Born: Giving Birth to a New You ). Topics this segment include what led Dee on the path of self-creation, and how the challenge we all face is creating ourselves consciously, versus by default. Dee's latest book, Born: Giving Birth to a New You , is available wherever books are sold online. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle ad...
May 20, 2024•24 min
TVC 648.5: Actress and author Dee Wallace ( E.T: The Extraterrestrial, The Howling, Born: Giving Birth to a New You ) talks to Ed about some of her acting mentors, which include Charles Conrad, Uta Hagen, and Jeff Corey, and how the acting method taught by Conrad differed from most other approaches to "The Method." Also in this segment: Dee shares some memories of working with Dudley Moore in 10 and with her husband, Christopher Stone, in The Howling . Dee's latest book, Born: Giving Birth to a ...
May 20, 2024•18 min•Season 16Ep. 648
TVC 648.6: Nick Santa Maria, co-author of The Annotated Abbott and Costello: A Complete Viewer's Guide to the Comedy Team and Their 38 Films , talks to Greg and Ed about how the Abbott and Costello cartoon series in 1965 was a boon for Bud Abbott, given his failing health at the time. The Abbott and Costello Show, Season 2 is now available on Blu-ray through ClassicFlix.com. Nick's podcast, Abbott and Costello Meet the Podcast , is available for listening on demand on many streaming platforms. W...
May 20, 2024•11 min•Season 16Ep. 648
TVC 647.1: Ed welcomes back sixties movie historian Tom Lisanti ( Talking Sixties Drive-In Movies, Dueling Harlows: The Race to Bring the Actress's Life to the Silver Screen, Trippin' with Terry Southern: What I Think I Remember, Ryan's Hope: An Oral History of Daytime's Groundbreaking Soap ). Tom's latest book, Carol Lynley: Her Film & TV Career in Thrillers, Fantasy and Suspense , takes a deep dive into the film and television career of Carol Lynley, with a particular focus on her work in ...
May 13, 2024•21 min•Season 16Ep. 647
TVC 647.2: Sixties movie historian Tom Lisanti ( Carol Lynley: Her Film & TV Career in Thrillers, Fantasy and Suspense, Ryan's Hope: An Oral History of Daytime's Groundbreaking Soap ) talks to Ed about how Carol Lynley always brought a depth to her characters that resonated with audiences; how Lynley did a lot of her own stunt work in The Poseidon Adventure , despite her fear of heights; why the character she played in the Night Stalker TV-movie from 1972 was not part of the original source ...
May 13, 2024•27 min•Season 16Ep. 647
TVC 647.5: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Johnny Whitaker, the actor known around the world as Jody Davis on Family Affair , Johnny Stuart on Sigmund and the Sea Monsters , and Tom Sawyer in Disney's musical adaptation of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1973).Topics this segment include the role that John's family played in helping him overcome his drug addiction; the work John does through his nonprofit organization, Paso por Paso, which helps monolingual Hispanics find treatm...
May 13, 2024•21 min•Season 16Ep. 647
TVC 647.6: Johnny Whitaker talks to Ed about his recent visit to the Mark Twain Cave Complex in Hannibal, Missouri, and how he was given the honor of being among the few people allowed to leave their mark in the caves; how thrilling it was to work with Elizabeth Montgomery on Bewitched ; and the story of how Eva Gabor wanted to "adopt" John following his second appearance on Green Acres . Sigmund and the Sea Monsters is among the many classic shows from Sid and Marty Krofft that are now availabl...
May 13, 2024•12 min•Season 16Ep. 647
TVC 647.7: Susan Silver , one of the first female television comedy writers and the author of Hot Pants in Hollywood: Sex, Secrets, and Sitcoms , brings her popular series of three-minute reviews and commentaries, Susan Says , to TV Confidential . This week: Susan shares a few thoughts on her relationship with her mom during this Mother's Day weekend. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast ed...
May 13, 2024•6 min•Season 16Ep. 647
TVC 646.4: Ed welcomes Johnny Whitaker, the actor known around the world as Jody Davis on Family Affair , Johnny Stuart on Sigmund and the Sea Monsters , and Tom Sawyer in the classic Disney musical adaptation of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1973). Sigmund and the Sea Monsters is among the many classic shows from Sid and Marty Krofft that are now available for streaming on demand on the new Sid and Marty Krofft Channel , which you can find on Midnight Pulp , Cineverse , The Dove Ch...
May 06, 2024•25 min•Season 16Ep. 646
TVC 646.5: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with five-time Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, and cultural critic John Barbour ( Real People ) and Carol Hoenig , the collaborator on John's memoir, Your Mother's Not a Virgin . Carol's latest book, The Greatest Reviews I've Ever Read , is a collection of some of John's many film reviews for Los Angeles magazine and KNBC-TV Los Angeles from the 1970s that also includes an ongoing, My Dinner with Andre -like conversation between John ...
May 06, 2024•24 min•Season 16Ep. 646
TVC 646.6: Five-time Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, and cultural critic John Barbour ( Real People , Your Mother's Not a Virgin ) recalls the circumstances that led to Bob Hope's appearance on John's talk show John Barbour's Half-Hour in December 1972, including the touching story of how Hope came to the studio that day by himself and applied his own makeup. Carol Hoenig 's latest book, The Greatest Reviews I've Ever Read , is a collection of some of John's many film reviews for Los Angele...
May 06, 2024•15 min•Season 16Ep. 646
TVC 645.1: Ed welcomes Tony Award-winning actress, director, and novelist Dinah Manoff ( I Ought to Be in Pictures, Grease, Soap, Ordinary People, Empty Nest ). Dinah's new novel, The Real True Hollywood Story of Jackie Gold , gives readers a fast-paced, authentic look at life behind the red carpet while also asking the eternal question, "Does fame really matter?" Topics this segment include how Dinah based Jackie Gold on some of her own experiences dealing with paparazzi (as well as how the nov...
Apr 30, 2024•27 min•Season 16Ep. 645
TVC 645.3: From April 2012: Tony, Donna, and Ed look back at how television covered the riots that broke out in Los Angeles on Apr. 29, 1992. Because Tony and Donna did not live far from the flashpoint of the riots (the intersection of Florence and Normandy in Los Angeles), they had a first-hand view of the chaos that broke out, as it happened. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition o...
Apr 30, 2024•19 min•Season 16Ep. 645
TVC 645.3: From April 2012: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss how TV news in Los Angeles has never been the same since coverage of the riots that broke out in Los Angeles on Apr. 29, 1992. Topics this segment include Rodney King's famous "Can we all get along?" speech, calling for peace; why then-L.A. mayor Tom Bradley insisted that KNBC Channel 4, the NBC-TV affiliate in Los Angeles, pause its coverage at 8pm PT on the night of Apr. 30, 1992 to air the final episode of The Cosby Show ; and how Bill C...
Apr 30, 2024•15 min•Season 16Ep. 645
TVC 645.4: Tony Award-winning actress, director, and novelist Dinah Manoff chats with Ed about being directed by Robert Redford in the Oscar-winning movie Ordinary People (and how she dramatized some of that experience in her novel, The Real True Hollywood Story of Jackie Gold ); how Dinah herself became a director while starring in Empty Nest ; and why Dinah's mother, Oscar-winning actress and pioneering director Lee Grant, often faced an uphill battle as a film director until she found the wor...
Apr 30, 2024•21 min•Season 16Ep. 645
TVC 645.5: Ed welcomes back five-time Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, talk show host, and cultural critic John Barbour ( Real People ) and Carol Hoenig , the collaborator on John's memoir, Your Mother's Not a Virgin . Carol's latest book, The Greatest Reviews I've Ever Read , is a collection of some of John's many film reviews for Los Angeles magazine and KNBC-TV Los Angeles from the 1970s that also includes an ongoing, My Dinner with Andre -like conversation between John and Carol about ho...
Apr 30, 2024•20 min•Season 16Ep. 645
TVC 654.6: Five-time Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, and cultural critic John Barbour ( Real People ) and Carol Hoenig , the collaborator on John's memoir, Your Mother's Not a Virgin talk to Ed about how John was the first critic to review movies on TV news, paving the way for Siskel and Ebert and many, many film critics on television; why John believes that movies are the writer's medium, not the director's; and why, when we learn something that impacts us emotionally, we will never forget...
Apr 30, 2024•19 min•Season 16Ep. 645
TVC 644.2: Greg Ehrbar discusses the Kino Lorber Blu-ray release of A Fish in the Bathtub (1998), an offbeat comedy starring Jerry Stiller, Anne Meara, Phyllis Newman, Bob Dishy, and Judy Graubart that also marks one of the few times that Stiller and Meara performed together on film (other than their series of commercials for Blue Nun wines). Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of ...
Apr 22, 2024•16 min•Season 16Ep. 644
TVC 644.2a: Greg Ehrbar discusses the Kino Lorber Blu-ray release of Alice in Wonderland (1933), the first sound-movie adaptation of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass , featuring an all-star cast that includes Gary Cooper, Cary Grant, W.C. Fields, Edward Everett Horton, Charles Ruggles, Charlotte Henry, Sterling Holloway, and Jack Oakie. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsors...
Apr 22, 2024•7 min•Season 16Ep. 644
TVC 644.3: Greg Ehrbar reviews the Shirley Temple Storybook Collection , a six-DVD set featuring some of the best episodes of her popular Sunday night series, Shirley Temple's Storybook (NBC, 1958-1959, 1960-1961). The DVD collection includes adaptations of such beloved children's classics as The Little Mermaid, Winnie the Pooh, Babes in Toyland, Pippi Longstocking, Kim, The Reluctant Dragon, The Land of Oz , and Madeline , and features such stars as Jonathan Winters, Ray Walston, Martin Landau,...
Apr 22, 2024•15 min•Season 16Ep. 644
TVC 644.4: Ed welcomes game show legend, radio host, actor, and novelist Jim MacKrell ( Celebrity Sweepstakes, The Game Game, Run Maggie Run, Falen: Semper Fi, Down from the Mountain, Last Call with Jim MacKrell ). Topics this segment includes Jim's early career in radio (including being an on-air personality at KXOL/Fort Worth, Texas at the birth of "Top 40" radio); how our ability to communicate with each other is what makes us innately human; and why Jim describes his career path as "I did wh...
Apr 22, 2024•23 min•Season 16Ep. 644
