Show No. 415: Remembering Charlotte Rae and Ron Satlof
Original Airdate: Aug. 17-20, 2018
First hour: From October 2010: Television producer and director Ron Satlof (McCloud, Misconceptions, Perry Mason Returns) talks to Ed about working with Martin Scorsese early in his career as a second A.D. on Mean Streets and how Scorsese’s meticulous preparation had an enormous influence on Ron’s later career as a director and independent filmmaker. Also in this hour: This being Elvis week, we salute the King with a replay of our August 2017 conversation with actor Michael Dante about working with Elvis in Kid Galahad and their friendship that lasted until
Presley’s death. Second hour: From October 2015: Ed welcomes actress Charlotte Rae (The Facts of Life, Diff’rent Strokes, Car 54, Where Are You?). Also in this hour: Sixties film historian Tom Lisanti, author of Talking Sixties Drive-In Movies, talks to Ed about the evolution of “The Elvis Movie.”