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Podcast of TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 533.4 with guest Ruta Lee is available for listening on demand

Ruta Lee: Consider Your Ass Kissed Original Airdates: Apr. 2-4, 2021 TVC 533.4: From April 2021: Ed welcomes back entertainment legend Ruta Lee. Ruta’s new memoir, Consider Your Ass Kissed, not only is the story of how a young girl—the … Continue reading

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Podcast of TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 555.5 with guest Alexis Hunter is available for listening on demand

Alexis Hunter and the Real Joi Lansing Original Airdates: Oct. 8-10, 2021 TVC 555.5: Ed welcomes back Alexis Hunter, author of Joi Lansing: A Body to Die For, an intimate memoir of Alexis’s four-year relationship with Joi Lansing—the last of … Continue reading

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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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via New Masses Media: ALEXIS HUNTER, author of JOI LANSING: A Body to Die For, will sign copies of the revised edition of her book on Monday 10/18 at the historic Stonewall Inn in New York City, the birthplace of contemporary LGBTQ movement, from 6pm to 8pm. The event will also celebrate the forthcoming miniseries adaptation of JOI LANSING: A Body to Die For. Alexis will read a passage from her book that night, followed by a panel discussion featuring Alexis, Vincent DeSalvo (producer of the miniseries) and Joseph Dougherty (the project’s screenwriter). Cabaret performers will also be on hand to present music appropriate to the subject and era. ALEXIS HUNTER will join us in October on TV CONFIDENTIAL. In the meantime, our heartfelt congratulations to her

New York, NY, Sept. 12, 2021: Joi Lansing may have been the last of Hollywood’s blonde bombshells, but she was also one lost to its autocratic, sexist, indeed deadly system of control. With Joi Lansing: A Body to Die For, … Continue reading

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Podcast of TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 553.5 with guest Steve Pieters is now available for listening on demand

Steve Pieters and The Eyes of Tammy Faye Original Airdates: Sept. 11-13, 2021 TVC 553.5: Ed welcomes AIDS/HIV activist the Reverend Steve Pieters. One of the first non-celebrity figures to be identified with AIDS in the early 1980s, Steve’s amazing … Continue reading

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Coming soon to TV CONFIDENTIAL: The Reverend Steve Pieters on how he overcame two forms of cancer and a nearly fatal reaction to the experimental AIDS drug suramin in 1985 by developing his own wellness program (which included healthy dosages of I LOVE LUCY every day); how the fear and paranoia surrounding COVID-19 today is not unlike the stigma he faced in the 1980s when he was first diagnosed with HIV/AIDS; and how the television interview he gave to evangelist Tammy Faye Bakker in 1985 changed his life, and hers as well. Steve’s interview with Bakker is part of the backdrop of THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE, a new film starring Jessica Chastain that opens nationally on Friday 9/17

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Podcast of TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 550.4 with guest Ruta Lee is available for listening on demand

The Industrious Ruta Lee Original Airdates: Aug. 13-15, 2021 TVC 550.4: A return visit by actress, author, and philanthropist Ruta Lee, the legendary grande dame of Hollywood who is also one of the hardest-working entertainers in showbiz history. Ruta cultivated … Continue reading

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Podcast of TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 549.3 with guest Marc Cushman is available for listening on demand

Gene Roddenbery: The Flawed Hero of Star Trek Original Airdates: Aug. 6-8, 2021 TVC 549.3: Part 2 of the conversation that began last week with Marc Cushman about the making of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, including the back story … Continue reading

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Podcast of TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 549.6: Happy Birthday, Lucille Ball is available for listening on demand as a podcast

Happy Birthday, Lucille Ball Original Airdates: Aug. 6-8, 2021 TVC 549.6: With this weekend marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of Lucille Ball, we played some highlights of our coverage of an event held at the Hollywood Museum in … Continue reading

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Coming next week to TV CONFIDENTIAL: Entertainment legend RUTA LEE on the business instincts that she learned from her parents; working with Charles Nelson Reilly and Zelda Rubinstein on the Hanna-Barbera animated series THE FRANKENSTONES; rescuing Charles Bronson while filming an episode of MAN WITH A CAMERA; plus a few other memories from her stage, film, and TV career. Ruta’s memoir, CONSIDER YOUR ASS KISSED, is available right now at Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com, as well as your local bookseller. Autographed editions of CONSIDER YOUR ASS KISSED are also now available online at LarryEdmunds.com

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