Talking Movies with John Barbour: Recent Episodes
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IT'S TIME FOR YOU TO BE TALKING MOVIES WITH AMERICA'S MOST AWARD WINNING CRITIC JOHN BARBOUR!!!
Movie Directors
Alfred Hitchcock Woody Allen Stanlet Kubrick John Huston Howard Hawks Claude LaLouche Orson Welles Ingmar Bergman Kurosawa Roman Polanski Steven Spielberg Frank Capra John Ford Martin Scorsese Warren Beatty Clint Eastwood, Fred Zinnemann David Lean Billy Wilder Kevin Kostner Ben Affleck Oliver Stone Stanley Kramer Francis Coppola Sidney Lumet Elia Kazan George Stevens Michael Curtiz Tim BurtonSpike Lee The Coen Brothers PontecorvoEdward Dmytrik Ida Lupino Barbra Streisand D.W. Griffith Charlie Chaplin
Guest, Sally Kirckland
Sally Kirkland is an American film, television and stage actress and producer. A former member of Andy Warhol's The Factory and an active member in 1960s New York avant-garde theater, she has appeared in more than 250 film and television productions during her career that spend six decades
Guest, Nicodemo Antonio Massimo Mancuso (Nick Mancuso), an Italian-Canadian actor, artist, playwright, and director. Beginning his career as a stage actor, he had his breakthrough role in the 1981 drama Ticket to Heaven, for which he won the Genie Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor
Guests, Charles Fox and Danny Gold, tv executives, producers, song writers, hall of famers, and so much more
Danny Gold is a seasoned director, producer, and writer with expertise in developing, producing and directing original material across multiple platforms including television, new media, feature films and theater. Danny has produced and directed projects for the History Channel, MTV, ABC Family (now Freeform), and HBO as well as Twentieth Century Fox, Warner Bros., Sony, Dreamworks, The Weinstein Company and Disney. He also has extensive background in feature films including developing and Executive Producing the Agent Cody Banks franchise for MGM. Danny co-directed the award winning feature documentary "100 Voices: A Journey Home". Danny's most recent directorial effort, "If You're Not In The Obit, Eat Breakfast", starring Carl Reiner, Mel Brooks, Dick Van Dyke, Norman Lear, Kirk Douglas, Betty White, Tony Bennett and Jerry Seinfeld premiered on HBO in the summer of 2017.https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0324952/
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Charles Fox was born and raised in New York City, graduated from the High School of Music and Art, and continued his formal musical education and composition studies with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. He studied jazz-piano with Lenny Tristano and electronic music with Vladimir Ussachevsky at Columbia University. He began his career playing the piano, composing and arranging for such LATIN legends as Ray Barretto, Joe Quijano and Tito Puente, as well as writing theme music and arrangements for Skitch Henderson and the Tonight Show Orchestra. Charles has composed the music for hundreds of songs. Most of them have been recorded for records, motion pictures and TV. Among the many legendary and diverse recording artists who have recorded his songs are Roberto Flack, Sarah Vaughn, Barry Manilow, Jim Croce, Fred Astaire, Luther Vandross, Johnny Cash, Lena Horne, George Shearing, The Boston Pops, Jack Jones, Tito Puente, Goldie Hawn, Carly Simon, Johnny Mathis, Shirley Bassey, Crystal Gayle, Lori Lieberman, Sergio Mendes, Maureen McGovern, Olivia Newton John, Lauryn Hill & The Fugees, and Ice T.
Among his works for theater, in collaboration with lyricist Norman Gimbel, are “The Eleventh”, starring Shelly Berman, and “A Midsummer Night's Dream” starring Cleavon Little and Mare Winningham. In collaboration with Hal David, he has composed the musicals “The Chosen” based on the book by Chaim Potok, and “The Turning Point” based on that 20th Century Fox film. Other song collaborators include Paul Williams, Bob Crewe, David Zippel, Sammy Cahn, Carly Simon, Carole Bayer Sager and Marilyn and Alan Bergman.
He has composed the musical scores for over 100 motion pictures and television films including “Barbarella”, “Nine to Five”, “Goodbye Columbus”, and “Foul Play” for which he received one of his two Academy Award nominations. The other was for the film “The Other Side of the Mountain”. Among his popular songs are "Ready to Take a Chance Again," "I Got a Name," and "Killing Me Softly with His Song," for which he received the Grammy Award for Best Song of the year. His TV shows and theme songs include “The Love Boat”, “Happy Days”, “Laverne and Shirley”, “Wonder Woman”, “The Paper Chase”, “Wide World of Sports”, “Monday Night Football” and “Love American Style, for which he received two Emmy Awards.
In addition to his popular works, Charles has composed music for the concert hall and ballet. His ballet “A Song for Dead Warriors” originally composed for the San Francisco Ballet and continuing in the repertoire of The Dance Theater of Harlem, was most recently performed in London at the Sadler Wells Theatre. His ballet, Zorro! premiered in San Francisco with the Smuin Ballet Company in 2003.
In August, 2009, Charles conducted the Poland National Opera Company Chorus and Orchestra in a performance of his Oratorio, “Lament and Prayer” at the Warsaw Opera House. The work was based on the words of Pope John Paul II. In August 2010, he conducted the world premiere of his “Fantasie, Homage a Chopin” which he was commissioned to compose by the Polish Government to honor the 200th birthday of Chopin. Charles conducted the performance featuring the great Polish pianist, Leszek Mozdzer and the great American clarinetist, Eddie Daniels along with the Akusa Orchestra in Gdansk, Poland for an audience of 22,000 people as part of a 30th year celebration of the Solidarity Movement. He has conducted symphony orchestras performing his music in Budapest, Prague, Poland, Caracas, London, Israel and Tokyo as well as in the US.
Charles was inducted into the Songwriter Hall of Fame in 2004. He was awarded Lifetime Achievement awards from the Society of Composers and Lyricists and BMI and is a Governor of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.
Since 2008, he has produced an annual concert benefitting the Fulfillment Fund, an organization that mentors and provides scholarships for students in economically challenged areas of Los Angeles. The concert, entitled “The Songs of Our Lives” has presented some of the legendary songwriters of the second half of the 20th century performing their own songs. Some of the great songwriters who have appeared in this concert are Burt Bacharach, Jeffy Barry, Carole Bayer-Sager, Alan Bergman, Stephen Bishop, Bob Crewe, David Crosby, Hal David, Mac Davis, Lamont Dozier, Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds, David Foster, Norman Gimbel, Leiber & Stoller, Kenny Loggins, Melissa Manchester, Sergio Mendes, Neil Sedaka, Richard Sherman, Paul Williams and Bill Withers. “The Songs Of Our Lives” is currently being developed into a TV series.
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Guests, Stu Shostak and CJ Wallis, tv broadcasting, editing, direction, production, acting, etc...
Stu Shostak
Stu's career in television and broadcasting dates back to the early 1970s when he began as an audience coordinator for game shows and sitcoms. In 1982, he received his performing break when he was given an opportunity to do the audience warm-up at the popular situation comedy, "Diff'rent Strokes". He did so well that he was assigned regular warm-up duties the following season on the Ricky Schroder sitcom, "Silver Spoons", a position he held for two years. Stu has also done warm-ups for "The Jeffersons", "Mama's Family", "Amen", and many others. Behind the scenes, he's been the owner/operator of Shokus Video, a company dedicated to the preservation of 1950s TV shows on DVD and video tape, since 1979. He was also the producer and director of "The Jack La Lanne Show Commemorative Special" home video, as well as Lucille Ball's personal film archivist for the last ten years of her life. He produced, wrote, and directed a bonus featurette for Shout! Factory's "Leave it to Beaver - The Complete Series" DVD box set that starred the series' Ken Osmond and Frank Bank (Eddie and Lumpy), along with supplying a generous amount of vintage archival footage and several "Stu's Show" interviews for the release. He most recently hosted an on-camera bonus video and co-produced Shout! Factory's "Dennis the Menace Season One" DVD set. He also worked as a consultant on all three subsequent seasons of the series.
"Stu's Show" continues to attract new audiences each week with its impressive lineup of celebrities in the entertainment industry, both in front of and behind the cameras.
Read more about Stu Shostak in this informative article from Voyage LA Magazine.
C.J. Wallis was born on February 23, 1981 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He is an editor and director, known for Bb (2016), Last Flowers (2009) and Overture & Beginners (2009).
Guest, Joseph Brutsman
Joseph Brutsman is an actor, director, producer and writer. He was the post producer of the reality series Guntucky (2013) and was also the Story Producer on the TLC reality series My 600-lb Life. Other producing work includes Legends & Lies and Lara Logan Has No Agenda.
Brutsman's October Three, a social drama about the O. J. Simpson trial, received numerous accolades, including Best Film awards at The South Beach Film Festival and Houston Worldfest.
Brutsman completed many projects with Marlon Brando, included editing Brando's final personal project: Lying for a Living - Brando's video examination of acting. 31 episodes were produced from 2007-2009. He also co-wrote with both his wife and Marlon Brando the TV-film Saint Jimmy, for CBS. He is the author of the book Marlon & Greg - My Life and Filmmaking Adventures with Hollywood's Polar Opposites. The book tells of Brutsman's years working as a producer and a writer for both Marlon Brando and Gregory Peck.
Guests, Part 2 with Donald Jeffries and Len Osanik, JFK assassination as seen through media clips and movie clips
Guests, Donald Jeffries and Len Osanik, JFK assassination as seen through media clips and movie clips
Guest, Joseph McBride, American film historian, biographer, screenwriter, author and educator. He has written numerous books including biographies of notable film directors, a book on screenwriting, an investigative journalism book on the JFK assassination, and a memoir of the dark years in his life.
Guest, Harlan Boll, publicist, reviewing Charlie Chaplin, The Great Dictator and Jimmy Stewart, Mr Smith Goes to Washington
The Network, The Cuckoo Speech, Inherit The Wind, The Man In Glass Booth, Mr Smith Goes to Washington and Amadeus
1: Ned Beatty - The Network
2: Orson Welles - The Cuckoo Speech
3: Inherit The Wind - The Bible Scene
4: The Man In Glass Booth - Arthur Hiller 5. Stewart - Mr Smith Goes to Washington
- Mediocrity - Amadeus
Guest, Joseph McBride, an American film historian, biographer, screenwriter, author, and educator. He has written numerous books including biographies of notable film directors, a book on screenwriting, an investigative journalism book on the JFK assassination, and a memoir of the dark years of his life.
Guest, Don Jeffries
Donald Jeffries has been a JFK assassination researcher since the mid-1970s. His first novel, "The Unreals," was published in 2007. His first nonfiction book, "Hidden History: An Expose of Modern Crimes, Conspiracies, and Cover-Ups in American Politics," was released by Skyhorse Publishing in November 2014 and quickly became a best-seller. The paperback edition featured a new Foreword from Roger Stone. His writing has been compared to Voltaire by award-winning author Alexander Theroux, and likened to Rudyard Kipling and John Kennedy Toole's "A Confederacy of Dunces" by "Night at the Museum" screenwriter Robert Ben Garant. Jeffries' second nonfiction book, "Survival of the Richest" was released to universal critical acclaim in July 2017. His next book, "Crimes and Cover Ups in American Politics: 1776-1963" was released in May 2019.
Guest, Kevin Goetz, author of Audience-ology: How Moviegoers Shape the Films We Love
https://kevingoetz360.com/
Discover the fascinating and secretive process of audience testing of Hollywood movies through these first-hand stories from famous filmmakers, studio heads, and stars.
Audience-ology takes you to one of the most unknown places in Hollywood—a place where famous directors are reduced to tears and multi-millionaire actors to fits of rage. A place where dreams are made and fortunes are lost. This book is the chronicle of how real people have written and rewritten America’s cinematic masterpieces by showing up, watching a rough cut of a new film, and giving their unfettered opinions so that directors and studios can salvage their blunders, or better yet, turn their movies into all-time classics.
Each chapter informs an aspect or two of the test-screening process and then, through behind-the-scenes stories, illustrates how that particular aspect was carried out. Nicknamed “the doctor of audience-ology,” Kevin Goetz shares how he helped filmmakers and movie execs confront the misses and how he recommended ways to fix the blockbusters, as well as first-hand accounts from Ron Howard, Cameron Crowe, Ed Zwick, Renny Harlin, Jason Blum, and other Hollywood luminaries who brought you such films as La La Land, Chicago, Titanic, Wedding Crashers, Jaws, and Forrest Gump.
Audience-ology explores one of the most important (and most underrated) steps in the filmmaking process with enough humor, drama, and surprise to entertain those with only a spectator’s interest in film, offering us a new look at movie history.
Guest, Dee Wallace, Talk Show Host, Author, Teacher, Dancer, Actress, Healer, Speaker, Mentor, Television Celebrity
Originally from Kansas City, Kansas, Dee Wallace has worked as an author, teacher, dancer, and actress in film, television, and the stage for over 30 years. With over 100 credits to her name, Ms. Wallace is a true tour de force in this industry, working with countless directors, producers, and some of Hollywood's biggest names including Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson, Wes Craven, Joe Dante, Stephen King, and Blake Edwards. Dee's career began in New York where she studied with famous acting teacher Uta Hagen before moving to Los Angeles where she continued to hone her craft with her mentor Charles Conrad.
Her many feature film credits include such classics as The Hills Have Eyes, The Howling, Cujo, Secret Admirer, The Frighteners, 10, and most notably her starring role in one of America's most celebrated films, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, directed by Academy Award-winning director and film icon Steven Spielberg. She was recently featured in the exciting new remake of Rob Zombie's Halloween.
Her countless television credits only add more cache to an already illustrious acting career, with starring roles in over twenty Movies of the Week and four hit television series including her most recent portrayal as the passive-aggressive matriarch in a very dysfunctional family on the 2006/7 ABC comedy "Sons and Daughters". Other most recent television credits include, "Grey's Anatomy," "Cold Case," "Without a Trace," "Ghost Whisperer," and a recurring role on "My Name is Earl."
As a much sought-after celebrity and renowned actress, Dee has appeared on every major news and talk show and has been featured on E! True Hollywood Stories, Oprah, and The O'Reilly Factor. Her speaking engagements include numerous national and international venues including the Love and Harmony Forum in Tokyo, Japan; the Dillion Lecture Series; Unity Temple; the Kansas Film Commission; Spiritworks; Energetic Healing seminars throughout England, and her own healing and teaching seminars throughout the United States. On a weekly basis, Dee conducts numerous private healing sessions at her office in Woodland Hills, California.
As an author, Dee has written a book devoted to the art of self-healing. She conducts monthly workshops to introduce people to the healing techniques outlined in her book, Conscious Creation.
In addition to her ongoing work with fellow actors as an acting teacher and mentor, Dee devotes all her extra time to her beautiful daughter Gabrielle.
Dee Wallace is a rarity in Hollywood, a young actress who immediately found success and is still in demand three decades later as an accomplished veteran in her craft, with such major credits as ET: The Extraterrestrial and Cujo along the way.
But she doesn’t attribute her staying power to her blonde Midwestern good looks or traditional acting methods. She credits the intuitive style of heart-centered acting that she tapped into at the very beginning of her career and which ultimately lead the way to her becoming a highly-regarded healer and spiritual teacher, as well as an in-demand actress.
For the past decade, Wallace has blended her two careers, acting when the calls came, while simultaneously teaching the spiritual wisdom that she discerned through the perfection of her craft and her life experiences. Her new book, Bright Light: Spiritual Lessons from a Life in Acting (O Books, 2011) shares with readers the lessons she learned in her journey toward living an illuminated life.
After a Kansas childhood strained by her father’s alcoholism and suicide, and watching her mother sacrifice her own dreams of performing to keep food on the table, Wallace graduated from the University of Kansas, and then headed first to New York for two years and then to Hollywood with a passion to act. No stranger to performing--having been a ballet dancer throughout her youth and student actress in college – she found that everything aligned in her favor to jumpstart her acting career. Wallace attained almost immediate success, and in pursuing her career she eschewed traditional acting schools until she connected with Charles Conrad, who encouraged his students not to memorize, but to act from their intuitive instincts. This style of acting fit Wallace perfectly and opened her up creatively.
This inner source would provide her wellspring of ability, and lead to significant roles in ET: The Extraterrestrial, Cujo, The Howling, Ten, The Frighteners, Critter, and more than 130 movie roles; several series; 400 commercials, and hundreds of television credits. She has most recently been seen on Grey's Anatomy; Cold Case; Without a Trace; Ghost Whisperer; My Name is Earl; Criminal Minds; Saving Grace; Law and Order, Los Angeles, and Detroit 1-8-7. Wallace continues to be one of Hollywood’s most sought-after TV guest stars. She has worked with some of Hollywood's biggest names including Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson, and Blake Edwards. Not even halfway through 2011, she has booked a dozen movie roles. Wallace also continues to be a favorite of the talk show circuit with appearances on Oprah and The O'Reilly Factor.
In the early 1980s, Wallace actually shared the screen several times with her then-husband Christopher Stone before his unfortunate, early demise from a heart attack in October 1995. His death was a significant test of her spiritual faith and a crucible for growth.
As Wallace applied what she had learned about following her heart and living from her intuition, she felt a natural inclination to share her wisdom both as an actor and spiritual teacher. She founded a very successful acting school, which taught life lessons, as well as acting, and then she began speaking around the world. She discovered her ability to help people heal their deep wounds, release their fears and limitations, and live a more satisfying and authentic life. She continues to work with people individually and through seminars, teleseminars, and speaking engagements.
As an inspirational speaker, her engagements have included numerous national and international venues such as the Love and Harmony Forum in Tokyo, Japan; the Dillion Lecture Series; Unity Temple; the Kansas Film Commission; Spiritworks; Energetic Healing seminars throughout England, and her own healing and teaching seminars throughout the United States.
Wallace has weekly international radio shows on Voice America and Awakening Zone networks and holds private healing sessions at her home in LA. As an author, Wallace devoted her first book, Conscious Creation, to the art of self-healing and she co-authored The Big E with Jarrad Hewett. Wallace has also been featured in or contributed articles for many other publications including People, US, Guideposts, Family, Awakening Zone, TV Guide, LA Times, and The Washington Post.
Her new book Bright Light was written with John Nelson, author of Starborn, Transformations, Matrix of the Gods, and The Magic Mirror, the 2008 COVR winner for the Best New Age book of the year. It is already receiving rave reviews, just as Wallace has received throughout her acting career.
Guest, Meat Loaf (Meat), the famous singer and actor
Michael Lee Aday (born Marvin Lee Aday, September 27, 1947), better known as Meat Loaf, is an American singer and actor. He is noted for his powerful, wide-ranging voice and theatrical live shows. His Bat Out of Hell trilogy—Bat Out of Hell, Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell, and Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose—has sold more than 65 million albums worldwide. More than four decades after its release, the first album still sells an estimated 200,000 copies annually and stayed on the charts for over nine years, making it one of the best-selling albums in history.
After the commercial success of Bat Out of Hell and Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell, and earning a Grammy Award for Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance for the song "I'd Do Anything for Love", Meat Loaf nevertheless experienced some difficulty establishing a steady career within the United States. This did not stop him from becoming one of the best-selling music artists of all time, with worldwide sales of more than 80 million records. The key to this success was his retention of iconic status and popularity in Europe, especially the United Kingdom, where he received the 1994 Brit Award for the best-selling album and single, appeared in the 1997 film Spice World, and ranks 23rd for the number of weeks spent on the UK charts, as of 2006. He ranks 96th on VH1's "100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock".
Sometimes credited as Meat Loaf Aday, he has also appeared in over 50 movies and television shows, sometimes as himself or as characters resembling his stage persona. His most notable film roles include Eddie in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), and Robert "Bob" Paulson in Fight Club (1999). His early-stage work included dual roles in the original cast of The Rocky Horror Show, and he was also in the musical Hair, both on- and off-Broadway.
Guest, Carol Hoenig
I am the President of Carol Hoenig Publishing Consultant, Inc. In today’s ever-changing publishing climate, it is important to wear many hats, so to speak. Prior to starting my own business, I worked for a big bookstore chain as their National Event Specialist. I had the opportunity to work with many publishers, both big and small, as well as many authors—some who were just starting out and others whose books were on the bestseller lists. During that time I was getting a wonderful education on what made some events successful and what made others fail. Believe it or not, I hosted an event in the Manhattan Park Avenue location for a first-time author who had standing-room-only. (This author was so grateful for my efforts that we stay in touch to this day.) On the other hand, there was a recognizably named author who refused to show up to his event when he heard that the crowd waiting for him was minuscule. He didn’t care about those who were in attendance, but rather those fans who weren’t there. This author thought that because it was Park Avenue there would be a huge audience waiting for him, in spite of the fact that I told his publicist to expect otherwise. (An explanation here as to why would be too long, but let’s just say the location was not his market.)
Fast forward to today. One of the other hats I wear is being a published author. Between my experience working with publishers and being a writer in my own right, I know both sides of the business and have learned the importance of thinking creatively when it comes to getting publicity for one’s book. As a developmental editor, I can also plan out a publicity approach for the author while his or her book is still being written. Cookie-cutter approaches do not work and I find ways to help the author consider other avenues for events when a bookstore cannot host one for them. I also find fresh media pitches for their book, as opposed to sending a press release out as an email blast, which rarely gets the attention of any producer or editor.
Guest, Marty Krofft, from Montréal, Québec, Canada, producer, and writer, known for Land of the Lost, Pryor's Place, and Mutt & Stuff
Guest, Eddie Asner (November 15, 1929 – August 29, 2021) was an American actor and president of the Screen Actors Guild. He is best remembered for playing Lou Grant during the 1970s and early 1980s, on both The Mary Tyler Moore Show and its spin-off series Lou Grant, making him one of the few television actors to portray the same character in both a comedy and a drama. He is the most honored male performer in the history of the Primetime Emmy Awards, having won seven – five for portraying Lou Grant (three as Supporting Actor in a Comedy Television Series on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and two as Lead Actor in a Dramatic Television Series on spin-off Lou Grant). His other Emmys were for performances in two television miniseries: Rich Man, Poor Man (1976), where he won for Outstanding Lead Actor for a Single Performance in a TV series, and Roots (1977), for which he won for Outstanding Single Performance by a Supporting Actor in a TV series.
He also played John Wayne's adversary Bart Jason in the 1966 Western El Dorado. Asner played Santa Claus in several films, including in 2003's Elf. In 2007, he voiced the main villain Krad in Christmas Is Here Again.[citation needed] In 2009, he voiced Carl Fredricksen in Pixar's animated film Up and made a guest appearance on CSI: NY in the episode "Yahrzeit". In early 2011, Asner returned to television as butcher Hank Greziak in Working Class, the first original sitcom on cable channel CMT. He starred in Michael, Tuesdays, and Thursdays, on CBC Television and appeared in The Glades. Asner guest-starred as Guy Redmayne in the sixth season of The Good Wife. Asner had a recurring guest role in Cobra Kai as Sid Weinberg. In 2020, he had a recurring role as James Staghorne Sr. on Briarpatch.