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Coming soon to TV CONFIDENTIAL: Actress, singer, and comedienne KAT KRAMER on her recent return to stand-up comedy, and how her upcoming show at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, in many ways, brings her career full circle. Kat will perform stand-up at the Hollywood Roosevelt on Friday 10/29. See the events page at TheHollywoodRoosevelt.com for tickets and more information
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Tagged Adwin Brown, American Sign Language, ASL, Beverly Todd, Billy Preston, Blair Williamson, Buddy Hackett, Carlos Carascas, Charlie Chaplin, Charlie Watts, Child of the '70s, Crescent Drive, Crescent Drive Hollywood, CSI, director Linda Palmer, Donna Mills, Down syndrome, Ed Asner, Elina Madison, Ellen Gerstein, Frances Rye, Friars Club, Gemstone, Grace and Frankie, Halloween Obsessed, Halloween Obsessed documentary, HMP Celebrity Showcase, Hollywood Media Professional YouTube, Hollywood Media Professionals, house on Crescent Drive, Isabella Blake-Thomas, It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, Jamie Brewer, Jane Fonda, Julia Silverman, Karen Kramer, Karen Sharpe Kramer, Kat Kramer, Kat Kramer comedy, Kat Kramer Comedy Chateau, Kat Kramer Ed Asner, Kat Kramer Halloween comedy, Kat Kramer Halloween Hollywood, Kat Kramer haunted house, Kat Kramer Hollywood Roosevelt, Kat Kramer Karen Kramer, Kat Kramer Karen Sharpe Kramer, Kat Kramer Katharine Hepburn, Kat Kramer Lily Tomlin, Kat Kramer Palm Springs Comedy Festive, Kat Kramer Sandy Hackett, Kat Kramer Stanley Kramer, Kat Kramer's Films That Change the World, Katharine Kramer, Lily Tomlin, Long Beach, Louis Jourdan, Lucille Ball, Martin Short, Mick Jagger, Milton Berle, My Duet with Mick, Pacific Pioneer Broadcasters, Palm Springs, Palm Springs International Down Syndrome Film Festival, paranormal experiences, Party Doll, Paul Guilfoyle, Paul Guilfoyle CSI, Paul Guilfoyle Turnover, Peter Sellers, Phyllis Diller, Primitive Cool, Riker Lynch, Rolling Stones, Sandy Hackett, Say You Will, Sidney Poitier, Skin Walkers, Stanley Kramer, The Defiant Ones, Theodore Bikel, Tony Curtis, Tracey Ullman, Turnover, Turnover Linda Palmer, Turnover movie, Wind a Go
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Podcast of TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 413 with guests Barbara van Orden, Sam Medina and Geoffrey Mark is now available online for listening on demand
Show No. 413 with guests Barbara van Orden, Sam Medina and Geoffrey Mark Original Airdate: Aug. 3-6, 2018 First hour: Actor, writer and director Sam Medina (Preacher, From Dusk to Dawn: The Series, Kickboxer: Vengeance, Kickboxer: Retaliation) talks to Ed … Continue reading →
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Tagged A Biography of the Legendary Ella Fitzgerald, A Tisket A Tasket, Ant-Man, Antoine Fuqua, Army Wives, Axel, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, Barbara van Orden, Bertolt Brecht, Billie Holliday, Bobby Darin, Buddy Hackett, Can't Buy Me Love, Capital Records, Carol Burnett, Centennial Birthday Edition, Chick Webb, Code Name the Dragon, comprehensive biography, Count Basie, Crawford, Cung Le, Debbie Reynolds Main Stage, Decca, Diana Washington, Dr. Martin Luther King, Dragon Eyes, Duke Ellington, Edward Zwick, El Portal Theatre, Ella, Ella Fitzgerald, Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation, First Lady of Song, Frank Sinatra, From Dusk to Dawn: The Series, Geoffrey Mark, Grammy Award-nominated, Great American Songbook, Hey Jude, High How the Moon, Hurricane Katrina, Jazz at the Philharmonic, John Travolta, Karen Carpenter, Kickboxer Crawford, Kickboxer: Retaliation, Kickboxer: Vengeance, L.A.'s Next Great Stage Star competition, Let’s Be Cops, Louis Armstrong, MacGyver, Mack the Knife, Marilyn Monroe, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Campbell, Mel Torme, Michael Sterling, Mile 22, Morey Amsterdam, Nat King Cole, NCIS: Los Angeles, New Orleans, Nies Hora, Norman Granz, Oliver Stone, Pablo, Peter Berg, Playboy Clubs, Preacher, radio host, rags to riches, Razor Charlie, Robert Rodriguez, Samarai Guy, Savages, Savoy Ballroom, show business raconteur, singer, Soupy Sales, The Baytown Outlaws, Too Close for Comfort, Tracers, Treme, Ultimate Symbol, Verve, Welcome Back Kotter
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Barbara van Orden, Sam Medina and Geoffrey Mark: Next on TVC
Singer/actress Barbara van Orden, actor Sam Medina and music and TV historian Geoffrey Mark will join us this weekend on TV CONFIDENTIAL, airing Aug. 3-6 at the following times and venues: Share-a-Vision Radio San Francisco Bay Area Friday 8/3 7pm … Continue reading →
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Tagged A Biography of the Legendary Ella Fitzgerald, A Tisket A Tasket, Ant-Man, Antoine Fuqua, Army Wives, Axel, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, Barbara van Orden, Bertolt Brecht, Billie Holliday, Bobby Darin, Buddy Hackett, Can't Buy Me Love, Capital Records, Carol Burnett, Centennial Birthday Edition, Chick Webb, Code Name the Dragon, comprehensive biography, Count Basie, Crawford, Cung Le, Debbie Reynolds Main Stage, Decca, Diana Washington, Dr. Martin Luther King, Dragon Eyes, Duke Ellington, Edward Zwick, El Portal Theatre, Ella, Ella Fitzgerald, Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation, First Lady of Song, Frank Sinatra, From Dusk to Dawn: The Series, Geoffrey Mark, Grammy Award-nominated, Great American Songbook, Hey Jude, High How the Moon, Hurricane Katrina, Jazz at the Philharmonic, John Travolta, Karen Carpenter, Kickboxer Crawford, Kickboxer: Retaliation, Kickboxer: Vengeance, L.A.'s Next Great Stage Star competition, Let’s Be Cops, Louis Armstrong, MacGyver, Mack the Knife, Marilyn Monroe, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Campbell, Mel Torme, Michael Sterling, Mile 22, Morey Amsterdam, Nat King Cole, NCIS: Los Angeles, New Orleans, Nies Hora, Norman Granz, Oliver Stone, Pablo, Peter Berg, Playboy Clubs, Preacher, radio host, rags to riches, Razor Charlie, Robert Rodriguez, Samarai Guy, Savages, Savoy Ballroom, show business raconteur, singer, Soupy Sales, The Baytown Outlaws, Too Close for Comfort, Tracers, Treme, Ultimate Symbol, Verve, Welcome Back Kotter
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Coming soon to TV CONFIDENTIAL: Barbara van Orden on working on Frank Sinatra, Morey Amsterdam, Soupy Sales and John Travolta, plus how she is helping nurture young talent (just as Sinatra once helped her) through L.A.’s Next Great Stage Star competition. Now in its twelfth year, this year’s competition is currently taking place every Monday evening at the El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood through Aug. 27
L.A.’s Next Great Stage Star 2018, presented by Princess Cruises, celebrates its twelfth anniversary year with live competitions every Monday evening through Aug. 27 on the Debbie Reynolds Main Stage at the historic El Portal Theatre, 5269 Lankershim Blvd., North Hollywood, CA, … Continue reading →
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Tagged Barbara van Orden, Buddy Hackett, Debbie Reynolds Main Stage, El Portal Theatre, Frank Sinatra, John Travolta, L.A.'s Next Great Stage Star competition, Michael Sterling, Morey Amsterdam, Playboy Clubs, Soupy Sales, Welcome Back Kotter
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Podcast of TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 404 with guests Neil Sandilands, Lili Bordan and Lisa Hackett is now available online for listening on demand
Show No. 404 with guests Neil Sandilands, Lili Bordán and Lisa Hackett Original Airdate: May 11-14, 2018 First hour: Actress Lili Bordán (Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome, The River, Max’s Midnight Movies) talks to Ed about filming the crime thriller … Continue reading →
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Tagged A Man for All Seasons, Academy Award-winning director, Afrikaans, American Girl: Grace Stirs Up Success, apple jack's, Apple Jacks bar, arch villain, Autism, Ava Gardner, Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome, Becca Kelly, biopic, Book Club, Buddy Hackett, Buddy Hackett: Live and Uncensored, Cable Ace Award, cable television, Candice Bergen, Carol Burnett, Casablanca, Celia, certified Autism Movement Therapist, Clifford Devoe, comedy pioneer, Craig T. Nelson, Curtiz, Diane Keaton, Dick Gautier, Die Ballade van Robbie de Wee, Don Johnson, earliest TV appearances, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Elaine Joyce, Everybody Comes to Rick's, Falcon Lake, Fifty Shades of Grey, Frank and Ava, Frank Sinatra, Fred Zinnemann, Freestyle Digital Media, future stars, FX series, Golden Age of Television, Guidance Autism, Hackett Entertainment, Hannah Strauss, Hap and Leonard, HBO, High Noon, historic town, Hollywood Squares, Home Box Offie, House, Humphery Bogart, Impresario, independent films, indie movies, Ingrid Bergman, Iraqi War veteran, Irene Lee, Irene Lee Diamond, It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, Jack Paar, Jane Fonda, Johnny Carson, la honda, Lexa, Lili Bordan, Lisa Hackett, Live and Uncensored, live comedy specials, live or die in la honda, live sitcoms, Mary Steenburgen, Max Liebman, Max's Midnight Movies, Michael Curtiz, Neil Sandilands, network TV series, Norman Fell, Northern California, Paco, Paul Lynde, pescadero state beach, season finale The Flash, Shopoopi, South Africa, stand-up comics, Stanley, Stanley Peck, Sundance TV, Television Confidential, television pioneer, The 100, The Americans, The CW, The Flash, The Love Bug, The Music Man, The River, The Thinker, The Tonight Show, Titus, TV Confidential, Victoria Vic Taylor, Virginia Madsen, Warner Bros. story editor, Your Show of Shows
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The Thinker, The Dancer, and Buddy Hackett’s Daughter: Next on TVC
Actors Neil Sandilands and Lili Bordan will join us this weekend, along with Lisa Hackett, daughter of Buddy Hackett, on a brand new edition of TV CONFIDENTIAL, airing May 11-14 at the following times and venues: Share-a-Vision Radio San Francisco … Continue reading →
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Tagged A Man for All Seasons, Academy Award-winning director, Afrikaans, American Girl: Grace Stirs Up Success, apple jack's, Apple Jacks bar, arch villain, Autism, Ava Gardner, Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome, Becca Kelly, biopic, Book Club, Buddy Hackett, Buddy Hackett: Live and Uncensored, Cable Ace Award, cable television, Candice Bergen, Carol Burnett, Casablanca, Celia, certified Autism Movement Therapist, Clifford Devoe, comedy pioneer, Craig T. Nelson, Curtiz, Diane Keaton, Dick Gautier, Die Ballade van Robbie de Wee, Don Johnson, earliest TV appearances, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Elaine Joyce, Everybody Comes to Rick's, Falcon Lake, Fifty Shades of Grey, Frank and Ava, Frank Sinatra, Fred Zinnemann, Freestyle Digital Media, future stars, FX series, Golden Age of Television, Guidance Autism, Hackett Entertainment, Hannah Strauss, Hap and Leonard, HBO, High Noon, historic town, Hollywood Squares, Home Box Offie, House, Humphery Bogart, Impresario, independent films, indie movies, Ingrid Bergman, Iraqi War veteran, Irene Lee, Irene Lee Diamond, It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, Jack Paar, Jane Fonda, Johnny Carson, la honda, Lexa, Lili Bordan, Lisa Hackett, Live and Uncensored, live comedy specials, live or die in la honda, live sitcoms, Mary Steenburgen, Max Liebman, Max's Midnight Movies, Michael Curtiz, Neil Sandilands, network TV series, Norman Fell, Northern California, Paco, Paul Lynde, pescadero state beach, season finale The Flash, Shopoopi, South Africa, stand-up comics, Stanley, Stanley Peck, Sundance TV, Television Confidential, television pioneer, The 100, The Americans, The CW, The Flash, The Love Bug, The Music Man, The River, The Thinker, The Tonight Show, Titus, TV Confidential, Victoria Vic Taylor, Virginia Madsen, Warner Bros. story editor, Your Show of Shows
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via New York Post: Carol Burnett on her new Netflix series and why she walked away from her ABC comedy pilot earlier this year after the network insisted on changes. We’ll look back at Carol’s first TV series role, co-starring with Buddy Hackett on the live sitcom Stanley, when Lisa Hackett joins us this weekend on TV CONFIDENTIAL
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Tagged A Little Help with Carol Burnett, Buddy Hackett, Carol Burnett, Carol Burnett Show, Harvey Korman, Joe Hamilton, Lisa Hackett, Lyle Waggoner, Max Liebman, Netflix, Stanley, Television Confidential, Tim Conway, Vicki Lawrence
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Coming soon to TV CONFIDENTIAL: Behind the scenes of Stanley, one of the last vestiges of the Golden Age of Live Television, starring Buddy Hackett and a young Carol Burnett
Stanley Productions is Proud to Present:
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Tagged Buddy Hackett, Carol Burnett, Danny Simon, Dick Gautier, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Elaine Joyce, Golden Age of live television, Golden Age of Television, Jane Connell, Lisa Hackett, live television, Max Liebman, Neil Simon, Paul Lynde, Woody Allen
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via Time-Life: Watch Lily Tomlin Launch Her Career in LAUGH-IN: THE COMPLETE THIRD SEASON, Coming to Retail DVD beginning Tuesday 3/20
On September 15, 1969, the boffo third season of the pop culture touchstone, Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, premiered to eager viewers. In two short years, through a rapid-fire assault of one-liners, skits, bits and non sequiturs, a gaggle of goofballs … Continue reading →
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Tagged " "Cocktail Party, " "The Fickle Finger of Fate, " Sammy Davis Jr., "Sock It to Me, Andy Griffith, Andy Williams, Arte Johnson, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Buddy Hackett, Carl Reiner, Carol Channing, Dan Rowan, Debbie Reynolds, Diana Ross, Dick Martin, Ed McMahon, Engelbert Humperdinck, Flip Wilson, Frank Sinatra, Gary Owens, Goldie Hawn, Greer Garson, Henry Gibson, Jack Benny, James Garner, Jim Backus, Jo Anne Worley and Alan Sues, Johnny Carson, Jr., Judy Carne, Lily Tomlin, Lorne Greene, Michael Caine, Nancy Sinatra, Peter Lawford, Peter Sellers, Phyllis Diller, Ringo Starr, Roger Moore, Romy Schneider, ROWAN & MARTIN'S LAUGH-IN, Ruth Buzzi, Sexy Sixties, Sid Caesar, Sonny & Cher, Tennessee Ernie Ford, THE COMPLETE THIRD SEASON, The Monkees, Tony Curtis, Zsa Zsa Gabor
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