Please join us this weekend on TV CONFIDENTIAL for special encore presentations of our conversations with actors George Chakiris, Ruta Lee, Will Ryan, and Nick Santa Maria, airing Dec. 3-5 at the following times and venues:
WBRT AM 1320 and FM 97.1
Bardstown, KY
Friday 12/3
9am ET 6am PT
Listen Live at WBRTCountry.com
Share-a-Vision Radio
San Francisco Bay Area
Friday 12/3
7pm ET, 4pm PT
10pm ET, 7pm PT
Click on the Listen Live button at KSAV.org
or listen to us on the KSAV TuneIn channel
RadioSlot.com
San Francisco, CA
Friday 12/3
10pm ET, 7pm PT
Saturday 12/4
11pm ET, 8pm PT
Sunday 12/5
11pm ET, 8pm PT
with replays Monday thru Friday 11am ET, 8am PT
Click on the Talk Slot button at RadioSlot.com
WTCA 1050 AM and FM 106.1
South Bend/Plymouth, IN
Saturday 12/4
6am ET, 3am PT
Streaming at am1050.com
or listen to us on the WTCA TuneIn channel
WKXO AM 1500 and FM 103.5
Lexington-Fayette/Richmond/Berea, KY
Saturday 12/4
8am ET, 5am PT
Streaming at Facebook.com/1035wkxo
KZFX HD-3 93.7 FM
Ridgecrest/California City, CA
Saturday 12/4
Noon ET, 9am PT
Streaming at KZFXRadio.wixsite.com/kzfx
KSCJ Talk Radio 1360 AM and 94.9 FM
Sioux City, IA
Saturday 12/4
4pm CT, 2pm PT
Sunday 12/5
6pm CT, 4pm PT
Streaming at KSCJ.com
or listen to us on the KSCJ TuneIn channel
KZLS 1640 AM The Eagle
Oklahoma City/Enid, OK
Saturday 12/4
6pm CT, 4pm PT
Streaming at 1640TheEagle.com
or listen to us on the KZLS TuneIn channel
Indiana Talks
Huntington, IN
Saturday 12/4
8pm ET, 5pm PT
Sunday 12/5
10am ET, 7am PT
Click on the player at IndianaTalks.com
or listen to us on the Indiana Talks TuneIn channel
KFMO AM 1240
Park Hills/Farmington/St. Louis, MO
Saturday 12/4
9pm CT, 7pm PT
Click on the player at KFMO.com
or listen to us on the KFMO TuneIn channel
WON 920 The Apple
Brooklyn, NY
Saturday 12/4
10pm ET, 7pm PT
Streaming at WONNewYork.net
Bull 99.1 FM and KIKO AM 1340
Apache Junction/Mesa/Phoenix, AZ
Saturday 12/4
8pm MT 7pm PT
Sunday 12/5
6pm MT 5pm PT
Streaming at TheRadioRanchAZ.com
WLAD AM 800 and FM 94.1
Danbury, CT
Sunday 12/5
5am ET, 2am PT
Also streaming at WLAD.com
or listen to us on the WLAD TuneIn channel
KSCO AM-1080 and FM-104.1
San Jose, Santa Cruz and Salinas, CA
Sunday 12/5
9am ET, 6am PT
Also streaming at KSCO.com
or listen to us on the KSCO TuneIn channel
KOMY AM-1340
La Selva Beach and Watsonville, CA
Sunday 12/5
9am ET, 6am PT
Hear us online on the KOMY TuneIn channel
CROC Radio
Kimberley, British Columbia, Canada
Sunday 12/5
7pm ET, 4pm PT
Streaming at CROCRadio.com
or listen to us on the CROC Radio TuneIn channel
KPLT 1490 AM and 96.3 FM
Paris, TX
Sunday 12/5
8pm CT, 6pm PT
Streaming at EastTexasRadio.com/stations/kplt/
or listen to us on the KPLT TuneIn channel
WLEA AM 1480 and FM 106.9
Hornell/Elmira-Corning, NY
Sunday 12/5
9pm ET, 6pm PT
Streaming at WLEA.net
WDIG AM 1450
Dothan, AL
Sunday 12/5
10pm ET, 7pm PT
Streaming at WDIGRadio.com
or listen to us on the WDIG TuneIn channel
Rattler 97.3 FM and KBSZ AM 1260
Apache Junction/Mesa/Phoenix, AZ
Sunday 12/5
8pm MT 7pm PT
Streaming at TheRadioRanchAZ.com
KHMB AM-1710
KHMV-LP 100.9 FM
Half Moon Bay, CA
Sunday 12/5
9pm PT (Mid ET Mon 12/6)
Click on the Listen Live button at KHMBRadio.com
or listen to us on the KHMB/KHMV TuneIn channel
KLTF 960 AM
St. Cloud/Little Falls, MN
Sunday 12/5
Late night
Streaming at FallsRadio.com
or listen to us on the KLTF TuneIn channel
PassionateWorldTalkRadio.com
A member of the Truli Media Group
Ann Arbor, MI ~ Boston, MA ~ Chicago, IL ~ Melrose, FL ~ Los Angeles, CA
Various times throughout the week on PassionateWorldTalkRadio.com
and the PWR channel on TuneIn
This week’s show will include encore presentations of our April 2021 conversations with entertainment legends Ruta Lee and George Chakiris. Both Ruta and George will take part in a special celebrity authors forum next week at the Hollywood Museum (more on that below).
Ruta Lee’s career as an entertainer spans more than six decades, beginning with the screen versions of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and Witness for the Prosecution—two films that are still considered among the best motion pictures ever made—plus appearances on many of the most popular and beloved TV shows ever made, including The Twilight Zone, The Lucy Show, The Andy Griffith Show, Murder She Wrote, The Fugitive, and Perry Mason. Ruta also co-hosted the game show High Rollers with Alex Trebek—making her one of the first females to host a network TV game show—plus she has hosted several talk shows of her own, and appeared as a panelist on many other game shows, including Match Game, The Dating Game, and The Hollywood Squares. When she wasn’t busy in front of the camera (or appearing in such stage productions as Peter Pan, Hello Dolly, Steel Magnolias, and The Unsinkable Molly Brown), Ruta has worked tirelessly behind the scenes of The Thalians, the first Hollywood charity dedicated to the treatment of mental health patients, and which now also helps our veterans through their partnership with UCLA’s Operation Mend.
Ruta’s memoir, Consider Your Ass Kissed, is the story of how a young girl—the daughter of Lithuanian immigrants—became one of the most legendary entertainers in Hollywood history through hard work and determination. A treasure trove of authentic memories about the Golden Age of Entertainment (including her work opposite such leading men as Clint Eastwood, Burt Reynolds, Charles Bronson, James Garner, Fred Astaire, Robin Williams, Howard Keel, Bob Crane, and Frank Sinatra), Consider Your Ass Kissed also includes the inspiring story of how Ruta convinced Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev to release her 92-year-old Lithuanian grandmother from the Soviet Union in 1964 so that she could live her remaining years in America—and be reunited with her daughter, Ruta’s mother, for the first time in thirty-six years. Ruta Lee will join us in our second hour.
Consider Your Ass Kissed is available right now at Amazon.com. Autographed editions of Ruta’s book are available exclusively at LarryEdmunds.com.
Also this week: We’ll play Part 2 of our conversation with George Chakiris, the Academy Award-winning actor known around the world as Bernardo, the leader of The Sharks, in the iconic 1961 screen adaptation of West Side Story. George will share a few more behind-the-scenes stories about the making of West Side Story, plus we’ll ask him about some of his other notable movie, stage, and TV roles, including starring opposite Elaine Stritch in the national stage production of Company; playing legendary composer and virtuoso pianist Frederic Chopin in the acclaimed PBS miniseries Notorious Woman; and starring opposite Barbara Carrera as Nicholas, Angelica Nero’s scheming cohort, in the “dream season” of Dallas. George Chakiris will join us in our first hour.
My West Side Story: A Memoir by George Chakiris is available in hardcover and as an eBook from Lyons Press and includes a wonderful back cover quote from George’s co-star, dear friend, and fellow Oscar winner from West Side Story, Rita Moreno.
Ruta Lee, George Chakiris, Dee Wallace, Anson Williams, Geri Jewell, John Barbour, Joyce Bulifant, Hank Garrett, and Kathy Garver are among the many celebrities who are scheduled to participate in the Hollywood Museum’s inaugural Celebrity Authors Forum, which will take place Saturday, Dec. 11 from 11am to 4pm. Click here for details and more information.
Also in our first hour: We will pay tribute to Will Ryan, the actor, voice artist, songwriter, and musician who passed away on Friday, Nov. 19 at age 72.
Nick Santa Maria (left) and Will Ryan as Biffle and Shooster
A longtime contributor to Disney films and Walt Disney Records, Will Ryan also starred as Sammy Shooster, opposite Nick Santa Maria as Benny Biffle, in The Misadventures of Biffle and Shooster, the Rondo Award-nominated DVD collection of original, authentically-made, side-splittingly hilarious 1930s-style comedies—written, produced, and directed by Michael Schlesinger—starring the greatest comedy team, Biffle and Shooster, that never actually existed.
Will, Nick, and Mike made several appearances on TV Confidential over the past three years. To honor Will’s memory, this week’s show will feature a replay of one of our favorite segments: A conversation from August 2019 in which Will and Nick not only appeared in character as Biffle and Shooster, but discussed the boys’ often overlooked, but nonetheless significant television career of the 1960s. You’ll be amazed at just how many legendary TV moments that Benny and Sammy almost helped create. Will Ryan and Nick Santa Maria will join us as Biffle and Shooster in our first hour.
TV CONFIDENTIAL: A radio talk show about television
Fri 9am ET, 6am PT on WBRT AM 1320/FM 97.1 (Bardstown, KY)
Fri 7pm ET and PT on Share-a-Vision Radio, KSAV.org and CX Radio Brazil
Fri 10pm ET, 7pm PT, Sat/Sun 11pm ET, 8pm PT on RadioSlot (San Francisco, CA)
Sat 6am ET, 3am PT on WTCA 1050 AM and 106.1 FM (South Bend/Plymouth, IN)
Sat 9am ET, 6am PT on WKXO 1500 AM and 103.5 FM (Lexington-Fayette/Richmond/Berea, KY)
Sat Noon ET, 9am PT on KZFX FM (Ridgecrest/California City, CA)
Sat 4pm CT, 2pm PT and Sun 6pm CT, 4pm PT on KSCJ 1360 AM and 94.9 FM (Sioux City, IA)
Sat 6pm CT, 4pm PT on KZLS-AM 1640 (Enid/Oklahoma City, OK)
Sat 8pm ET, 5pm PT and Sun 10am ET, 7am PT on Indiana Talks (Huntington, IN)
Sat 9pm CT, 7pm pm PT on KFMO-AM 1240 (Park Hills/Farmington/St. Louis, MO)
Sat 10pm ET, 7pm PT on 920 WON The Apple (Brooklyn, NY)
Sat 8pm MT and PT and Sun 6pm MT and PT on Bull 99.1 FM and KIKO AM 1340 (Apache Junction/Mesa/Phoenix, AZ)
Sun 5am ET, 2am PT on WLAD-AM 800 and FM 94.1 (Danbury, CT)
Sun 9am ET, 6am PT on KSCO-AM 1080 (San Jose/Santa Cruz/Salinas, CA)
Sun 9am ET, 6am PT on KOMY-AM 1340 (La Selva Beach/Watsonville, CA)
Sun 6pm CT, 4pm PT on KLTF-AM 960 (St. Cloud/Little Falls, MN)
Sun 7pm ET, 4pm PT on CROC Radio (British Columbia, Canada)
Sun 8pm CT, 6pm PT on KPLT AM and FM (Paris, TX)
Sun 9pm ET, 6pm PT on WLEA AM and FM (Hornell/Elmira-Corning, NY)
Sun 10pm ET, 7pm PT on WDIG AM (Dothan, AL)
Sun 8pm MT and PT on Rattler 97.3 FM and KBSZ AM 1260 (Apache Junction/Mesa/Phoenix, AZ)
Sun 9pm PT, Mon Mid ET on KHMB-AM and FM (Half Moon Bay, CA)
Various times throughout the week on the Entertainment Channel at Passionate World Talk Radio
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