Friday, July 19 marked the tenth anniversary of the passing of Emmy Award-winning actor and entertainment icon James Garner. TV Confidential marks this occasion by replaying our special program-length tribute to Jim that originally aired in August 2014, featuring highlights from some of our conversations with the people who knew and worked with him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Friday, July 19 marked the tenth anniversary of the passing of Emmy Award-winning actor and entertainment icon James Garner. TV Confidential marks this occasion by replaying our special program-length tribute to Jim that originally aired in August 2014. In this segment, we hear from Emmy winners Roy Huggins (creator of Maverick , co-creator of The Rockford Files ) and Stephen J. Cannell (co-creator of The Rockford Files ) and legendary film director Budd Boetticher. Learn more about your ad choi...
Friday, July 19 marked the tenth anniversary of the passing of Emmy Award-winning actor and entertainment icon James Garner. TV Confidential marks this occasion by replaying our special program-length tribute to Jim that originally aired in August 2014. In this segment, Jon Winokur (co-author of The Garner Files , Jim's memoirs of his career in film and television) talks to Ed about Jim's lifelong passion for racing, and how Garner uses his chapter on racing to open up about other topics that he...
Friday, July 19 marked the tenth anniversary of the passing of Emmy Award-winning actor and entertainment icon James Garner. TV Confidential marks this occasion by replaying our special program-length tribute to Jim that originally aired in August 2014. In this segment, we hear more from Jon Winokur, co-author of The Garner Files , Jim's memoirs of his career in film and television. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
Friday, July 19 marked the tenth anniversary of the passing of Emmy Award-winning actor and entertainment icon James Garner. TV Confidential marks this occasion by replaying our special program-length tribute to Jim that originally aired in August 2014. In this segment, we hear from Garner himself, in the form of two rarely heard interviews: an appearance on Here's Hollywood (NBC, 1960-1962) and a 1996 radio appearance on The Ronn Owens Program (KGO-AM, San Francisco). Learn more about your ad c...
TVC 654.1: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with music journalist and music historian Jon Burlingame ( Music for Prime Time: A History of American Television Themes and Scoring ). Jon's latest book, Dreamsville: Henry Mancini , Peter Gunn, and Music for TV Noir , is a combination history of Peter Gunn (NBC/ABC, 1958-1961) on television; biography of Grammy Award-winning and Academy Award-winning composer Henry Mancini; and discography of all of the original music that Henry Mancini ...
TVC 653.2: Music journalist Jon Burlingame ( Music for Prime Time , Dreamsville: Henry Mancini , Peter Gunn, and Music for TV Noir ) talks to Ed about how Blake Edwards came to develop Mr. Lucky (CBS, 1959-1960) for television, including how Edwards originally wanted Ricardo Montalban to play the title character and how Ross Martin wasn't signed to play Andamo just before production began. Dreamsville: Henry Mancini , Peter Gunn, and Music for TV Noir is available from BearManor Media. Learn mor...
TVC 654.3: Music journalist Jon Burlingame ( Music for Prime Time , Dreamsville: Henry Mancini , Peter Gunn, and Music for TV Noir ) talks to Ed about the strange, but true broadcast history of Mr. Lucky (CBS, 1959-1960), including how the ill-conceived mandate from the show's sponsor, Lever Brothers, to change the concept of Mr. Lucky midseason ultimately drove producer Blake Edwards to remove his name from the series. Dreamsville: Henry Mancini , Peter Gunn, and Music for TV Noir is available ...
TVC 654.4: Music journalist Jon Burlingame ( Music for Prime Time , Dreamsville: Henry Mancini , Peter Gunn, and Music for TV Noir ) talks about Henry Mancini's work in motion pictures, including how Mancini proved that a great composer could also be a great songwriter (which he did, with "Moon River"). Dreamsville: Henry Mancini , Peter Gunn, and Music for TV Noir is available from BearManor Media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
TVC 654.4: Music journalist Jon Burlingame ( Music for Prime Time , Dreamsville: Henry Mancini , Peter Gunn, and Music for TV Noir ) talks about Henry Mancini's work in motion pictures, including how Mancini proved that a great composer could also be a great songwriter (which he did, with "Moon River"). Dreamsville: Henry Mancini , Peter Gunn, and Music for TV Noir is available from BearManor Media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
TVC 653.1: Bruce Dern biographers Robert Crane and Christopher Fryer talk to Ed about Dern's famous appearance in The Cowboys (in which he played the man who kills Wayne's character halfway through the picture) and the actor had to navigate a schedule conflict over production of another movie, Silent Running , so that he could film that pivotal scene. Other topics this segment include Beyond Where the Buses Run , the anthology of short story anthologies to which Bob and Chris both contributed; h...
TVC 653.2: Bruce Dern biographers Robert Crane and Christopher Fryer talk to Ed about why Dern worked frequently in television in the 1960s—even when he was making movies like The War Wagon with John Wayne—because casting directors from both industries always knew to keep an eye on him. Other topics this segment include the nearly fatal lung injury Dern suffered in 1967 while filming an episode of Run For Your Life ; the secret behind Bob and Chris' longtime writing partnership; and the backstor...
TVC 653.3: Robert Crane and Christopher Fryer tell Ed how Bob's experience working with director Paul Schrader on Auto Focus (Schrader's depiction of the Bob Crane murder case) spurred Bob to work with Chris in telling his own account of what happened in their book Crane: Sex, Celebrity, and My Father's Unsolved Murder . Other topics this segment include a poignant memory that Bruce Dern shared about working with James Garner on Support Your Local Sheriff that captures the essence of both Garner...
TVC 653.4: From June 2014: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss how TMZ's coverage of the death of Michael Jackson on June 25, 2009 put TMZ on the map as a credible news source. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
TVC 654.5: Ed welcomes back esteemed music journalist and music historian Jon Burlingame ( Music for Prime Time: A History of American Television Themes and Scoring ). Jon's latest book, Dreamsville: Henry Mancini , Peter Gunn, and Music for TV Noir , is a combination history of Peter Gunn (NBC/ABC, 1958-1961) on television; biography of Grammy Award-winning and Academy Award-winning composer Henry Mancini; and discography of all of the original music that Henry Mancini composed for both Peter G...
TVC 654.6: Music journalist Jon Burlingame ( Music for Prime Time , Dreamsville: Henry Mancini , Peter Gunn, and Music for TV Noir ) discusses some of the many innovations that Blake Edwards and Peter Gunn brought to network television (including "night for night" shooting, one year before Quinn Martin would make that into an art form), and how the romance between Peter Gunn and Edie Hart was very provocative for its time. Dreamsville: Henry Mancini , Peter Gunn, and Music for TV Noir is availab...
TVC 652.1: Ed welcomes Joel Thurm, former Vice President of Talent and Casting for both Paramount Television and NBC, and one of the most accomplished and most respected casting directors in the film and TV industry. Joel's memoir, Sex, Drugs, and Pilot Season: Confessions of a Casting Director , provides both a backstage look at the boardrooms of New York and the executive suites in Hollywood (particularly during the 1970s, '80s, and '90s) and a history of how TV casting decisions were often ma...
TVC 652.2: Legendary casting director Joel Thurm shares a few stories about his experience working with CBS executive Ethel Winant in the early 1970s, including how he discovered Georgia Engel for The Mary Tyler Moore Show ; how he lobbied both CBS and MTM to cast Farrah Fawcett-Majors to play Bill Daily's girlfriend on The Bob Newhart Show ; and how Joel became responsible casting every segment of the Bicentennial Minutes (1974-1976). Joel's memoir, Sex, Drugs, and Pilot Season: Confessions of ...
TVC 652.3: From June 2014: Tony, Donna, and Ed provide a brief rundown of the circumstances surrounding the murder of Hogan's Heroes star Bob Crane on June 29, 1978. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
TVC 652.4: Ed welcomes back Robert Crane and Christopher Fryer, co-authors of Jack Nicholson: The Early Years (the first authorized filmography of Oscar winner Jack Nicholson, covering Nicholson's early film career through 1974), Bruce Dern: Things I've Said, But Probably Shouldn't Have: An Unrepentant Memoir (a three-way collaboration between Dern, Bob, and Chris), and Crane: Sex, Celebrity, and My Father's Unsolved Murder . Topics this segment include how Bob and Chris to first connected with ...
TVC 652.5: Film historians Robert Crane and Christopher Fryer talk to Ed about how they first connected with Bruce Dern while researching Jack Nicholson: The Early Years and how that led to a series of subsequent interviews with Dern for various publications over the ensuing thirty years, culminating with their collaborating with Dern on his memoir. Both Jack Nicholson: The Early Years and Bruce Dern: Things I've Said, But Probably Shouldn't Have: An Unrepentant Memoir are available from Univers...
TVC 652.6: Bruce Dern biographers Robert Crane and Christopher Fryer talk to Ed about "Dernseys," a phrase that Jack Nicholson coined to describe Dern's unerring knack for knowing what a character might say, or might think, in any given scene, regardless of whether it's in the pages of the script. Jack Nicholson: The Early Years and Bruce Dern: Things I've Said, But Probably Shouldn't Have: An Unrepentant Memoir are available from University Press of Kentucky . Learn more about your ad choices. ...
TVC 651.1: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Marc Cushman, author of Long Distance Voyagers: The Story of The Moody Blues, a two-volume, total-immersion experience into the six-decade career of The Moody Blues, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame group that not only was the first rock group to champion the "concept album," but influenced such other groups as Yes, Deep Purple, and ELO. Volume 1 of Long Distance Voyagers covers the formation of The Moody Blues, their breakthrough in th...
TVC 651.2: Marc Cushman, author of Long Distance Voyagers: The Story of The Moody Blues , talks to Ed about the many contributions of Ray Thomas to the sound of the Moody Blues (including his trilogy of songs at the end of the Long Distance Voyager album), and why the Moody Blues took a hiatus from each other around 1974. 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 cho...
TVC 651.3: Marc Cushman, author of Long Distance Voyagers: The Story of The Moody Blues , talks to Ed about some of the many parallels between Ray Thomas of The Moody Blues and George Harrison of The Beatles (particularly with regard to the albums of their respective bands) and how Keys to the Kingdom , the Moody Blues album released in 1991, both marked a return to the band's roots and reflected how the band saw itself in the overall landscape of music. Volumes 1 and 2 of Long Distance Voyagers...
TVC 650.1: Ed welcomes award-winning screenwriter, director, producer, and documentary maker Marc Cushman, author of These Are the Voyages, a three-volume history of Star Trek: The Original Series. Marc's latest book, Long Distance Voyagers: The Story of The Moody Blues is a two-volume, total-immersion experience in the six-decade career of The Moody Blues, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame group that was the first rock group to champion the "concept album," which they did with Days of Future Passe...
TVC 650.2: From June 2014: Tony, Donna, and Ed look back at June 17, 1994, the night of the famous low-speed white Bronco police chase that captivated television audiences, and how TV news coverage of the O.J. Simpson murder case continues to impact us today Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
TVC 650.2: From June 2014: Tony, Donna, and Ed look back at June 17, 1994, the night of the famous low-speed white Bronco police chase that captivated television audiences, and how TV news coverage of the O.J. Simpson murder case continues to impact us today Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
TVC 650.4: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with 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 ). Topics this segment include how Irene got her independent spirit from her mother; why faith has always been central to Irene's life; and the story of the pilgrimage that Irene made to the Dheera in New Delhi circa 1968 to meet her ...
TVC 650.5: Actress and author Irene Tsu shares a few memories of working with Raymond Burr on both Perry Mason and Ironside and with James Garner on "Irving the Explainer," the famous episode of The Rockford Files that was also directed by James Colburn. 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
