Tom Sturges. Photo by Zack Schwartz
Tom Sturges on why the music industry is a great big playground
Original Airdates: Dec. 19-22, 2025
TVC 719.4: Ed welcomes Tom Sturges, son of Academy Award-winning writer/director Preston Sturges, one of the top executives in the music industry, and the author of such books as Every Idea is a Good Idea, A Good Divorce Begins Here, and Preston Sturges: The Last Years of Hollywood’s First Writer-Director. Tom’s latest book, Men Explained… Finally, is a humorous, totally unscientific, and yet often very wise look at the male species that reveals such universal Man Truths as Why All Men are Really Fourteen Year-Old-Boys, Why Men Are Like Whales, Why All Men Have Three Basic Needs, and Why Every Problem in the World Can Be Solved with Duct Tape. Topics this segment include how Tom’s thirty-five years in the music business have helped him develop many of the observations about men that appear in Men Explained… Finally; how the key to survival for most men comes from their ability to compartmentalize; and why the goal of Tom’s book is to help men have better relationships with the women in their lives. Men Explained… Finally is available wherever books are sold through Centimilla Press.
Shaquille O’Neal from his 1993 music video “What’s Up Doc (Can We Rock)?”
Tom Sturges, Preston Sturges, and Shaquille O’Neal
Original Airdates: Dec. 19-22, 2025
TVC 719.5: Tom Sturges talks to Ed about how his father, Preston Sturges, embodied some of the “man truths” that Tom writes about in his new book, Men Explained… Finally; how Tom came to work with NBA star Shaquille O’Neal when O’Neal became a rap artist; and what Tom looks for when determining whether a new song has what it takes to become a hit record. Men Explained… Finally is available wherever books are sold through Centimilla Press.
