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Chickens, it’s the year of Barbra! Are you ready? Anne and Damian are back with a special “just us” episode to officially launch the You Might Know Her From Patreon–link in below! Please savor the final just us episode on the regular feed. What we’re getting into: Jason Gould,, the progeny of Barbra and Elliot Gould, as well as Alexis Kalehoff, the daughter of Broadway star Andrea McArdle. Anne also  finally saw Maestro and May December and we’re discussing them deeply including Bradley Cooper’s fake liver spots. Plus, we are READY to discuss Barbra’s memoir and ready to book club Madonna’s brother Christoper Ciccone’s book. 

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Discussed this episode:

Alexis Kalehoff and Andrea McArdle singing “Take Me or Leave Me” the lesbian anthem from Jason Gould’s album Dangerous Man

Lorna Luft’s album, Songs My Mother Taught Me

Should we go on a Broadway cruise?

Joe Machota was in Mamma Mia forever and now is a high-profile agent

Uma's dialect work in Red White and Royal Blue

Uma Thurman in The Producers “If You Got It, Flaunt it”

Alexis McArdle’s dad wrote the theme for The Price is Right and Monday Night Football and Double Dare 

This month Anne watched Maestro, May December, Zone of Interest, Nyad

Jodie Foster Nyad Oscar clip @ 1:39 mark is wild a la Melissa Leo in The Fighter

We love Phyllida Lloyd (“Philtitta”)

Julianne Moore in old age makeup in The Hours

Bradley Cooper is crying with Bernstein’s kids

Here are his liver spots as Leonard Bernstein

Tick Tick Boom movie surprisingly good at capturing the moment of invention

Should we revisit De-Lovely and dear god Beyond the Sea?

Wicked Stepmother co-starring former guest of YMKHF, Colleen Camp (Ep #108)

Barbra’s dinner with Ryan Murphy, Lady Gaga, John Travolta (presumably a Gypsy meeting)

Download Libby! 

Madonna’s brother, Christopher Ciccone wrote a book, Life with My Sister Madonna

Let’s learn about Barbra’s assistant, Renata

Whoopi’s book is forthcoming (May 2024)! / Anne read Frank Langella’s v dishy book

We are here with Erika Alexander and she is the moment! You Might Know Her From American Fiction, Get Out, Earth Mama, Black Lightning, Insecure, The Long Walk Home, Mama Flora’s Family, The Cosby Show, 54, Wu Tang: an American Saga, and Living Single. We got to talk to Erika about sporting her signature NRAY locks while she’s on the awards circuit for her Indie Spirit-nominated performance in American Fiction. We also covered a potential Living Single reunion, the beautiful moment Cicely Tyson gave her on set, and her meta cameo on Issa Rae’s Insecure. All that plus, genre work in Get Out, her Harvey Weinstein story, and her multi-hyphenate work as a writer, producer, and director. Get into Erika Alexander, the artist. 

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Discussed this week:

Amen starring Anna Maria Horsford (her episode of YMKHF) 

Damian deep in Barbra’s (audio) book, My Name is Barbra

Who else is on the Barbra tier of singer/actor/arTISTE? Aka larger than life but also relatable.

Judy Garland, Whitney Houston, Diana Ross, Beyonce, Lady Gaga?!?

What about Cher, Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn, Liza Minnelli, Bette Midler, Brandy? Jennifer Hudson? Emma Stone? If Jennifer Lawrence could sing? WHOOPI GOLDBERG coulda 

Real audio tracks of Jennifer Lopez singing

In What’s Up Doc, Barbra is sexy and weird

Truth or Dare is an incredible documentary. Is Madonna on the list?! 

Madonna: should we watch Swept Away

Anne is an Madonna as Evita (1996) apologist

Nominated for best supporting actress Indie Spirit Award for American Fiction

Has used the stylist Debra Hare-Bey and her yarn locs (NRAY locs) since before Living Single 

Worked with Whoopi Goldberg in The Long Walk Home (1990)

The C.R.O.W.N. Act was a big legislative win for Black women

Earth Mama starring Tia Nomore and directed by former volleyball player, Savanah LeafErika was discovered in an acting program to play opposite James Earl Jones in My Little GirlErika played young Cicely Tyson in Mama Flora’s Family and one of the producers threatened her  Felt like 4th wheel as Maxine Shaw on Living Single

Worked closely with Hillary Clinton as her surrogate while working on Queen Sugar when she got Get Out

Yvette Lee Bowser cast Erika and Les Moonves went to bat for her 

End of Living Single left bad taste in her mouth bc wasn’t able to shake Maxine 

Did a meta bit on Insecure (had already agreed to do Awkward Black Girl when it was on YouTube)

Played cousin Pam on seasons 7 & 8 of The Cosby Show. Had great scene with Charmaine played by Karen Malina White

Go watch Malina White in Dahmer

Appears in Toni Braxton’s “You’re Making Me High” with Vivica A. Fox and Tisha Campbell Produced the documentaries, Finding Tamika, Good Trouble

Erika’s Buffy comic with Joss Whedon

Erika’s spec script for Mad Men (Don Draper meets a black ad man)

Erika testified in front of Congress on the importance of diversifying the entertainment industry Fathers and Sons with Jeff Goldblum

Was Ciel who ran coat check in 54 (1998)

Salma Hayek told her she needed to ask why they moved her trailer and of course it’s Harvey Weinstein

Porn star, Ron Jeremy asked Erika if she wanted to party

Her brother worked at Studio 54!

Plays Perenna on the CW DC series, Black Lightning

Oh no, Anne went basic and bought an Owala water bottle

Anne riding bikes and Damian making hemp milk from scratch now

You like us! You really like us. We’re back–just us–to break down this year’s Oscar nominations: the good (Da’Vine Joy Randolph!), the weird (Diane Warren and Chester Cheetah), the snubs (Greta Gerwig, Margot Robbie, Fantasia Barrino, Willam Dafoe), and our own wishful thinking (Greta Lee, Rosamund Pike, Erika Alexander). This maniacal breakdown also brought to you by the other parts of personalities in 2024: Barbra Streisand’s memoir, the reality show The Traitors, and Sara Ramirez being ousted from And Just Like That! 

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Discussed this week:

2024 Oscar nominations are out

Snubs; Greta Lee, Willam Dafoe, Greta Gerwig, Fantasia Barrino! 

Things we need to see: Past Lives, All of Us Strangers, Anatomy of a Fall, Zone of Interest

Willam Dafoe red carpet moment

Anne Hathaway “calma”

Former guest Da’Vine Joy Randolph should play Pearl Bailey 

Halle Berry won best actress in 2003 and is still only black woman who has ever won

Jodie Foster Nyad Oscar clip @ 1:39 mark is wild a la Melissa Leo in The Fighter

Helen Mirren as Golda Meir in Golde

Will Barbra Gypsy ever happen?!

Can they “Irishman her face”?!

Barbra’s sister Roslyn Kind is also a singer

We love Erika Alexander and Rosamund Pike

Sara Ramirez says they were dropped from And Just Like That bc of stance on Palestine

Melissa Barrera fired from Scream franchise for speaking out

We blame Michael Patrick King

We are high on Traitors US and Traitors UK’s host, Claudia Winkleman and her signature look.

Tell me more, tell me more! Today we are joined by Didi Conn. You Might Know Her From Grease, Grease 2, You Light Up My Life, Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure, The Magic Show, Frida, Benson, and Shining Time Station. We spoke with THEE Didi Conn about her iconic performance in the Grease films as Frenchie, the legacy of the franchise carrying on with Grease Live! and Joan Blondell’s shoes, and our age-old question about psoriasis as heart disease. Plus, how Toy Story stole from Raggedy Ann & Andy, standing by for Mercedes Ruehl on Broadway, her horrific experience with Joseph Brooks, and the beauty of the musical The Magic Show. This one was a total thing of dreams.

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Discussed this week:

Jacob Elordi is hot to everyone. And Barry Keoghan has the ugly sexy thing down

We loved Cailly Spaeny and Lily Gladstone and Erika Alexander

Golden Globes were a mess this year

Da’Vine Joy Randolph is so good and we are hoping for an Oscar nomination for The Holdovers (don’t jinx it)

Da’Vine episode of YMKHF

Carol Channing and Pearl Bailey special

Aloha (2015)  was indeed directed by Cameron Crowe, not Alexander Payne

Tracy Morgan took Eddie Murphy’s advice for The Last O.G. and hired Da’Vine

Love Chris Klein in Election 

Our Oscar nominated guests on YMKHF: Kathleen Turner (Ep #9), Shohreh Aghdashloo (Ep#72), JoBeth Williams (#99),  and Lesley Ann Warren (Ep #78)

Lily Gladstone is nonbinary

Yalitza Aparicio from Roma garnered all kinds of acclaim, and where is she now?

Tantoo Cardinal is so good

In the Stephen Schwartz musical, The Magic Show starring Doug Henning 

Starred in the movie, Joseph Brooks You Light Up My Life

Joseph Brooks who “wrote” and directed it was a horrible man,. He met a grisly end

Her son is autistic and is currently living in The Center for Discovery

Autismspeaks.org

Played Denise, Benson’s new secretary on Benson

Didi Conn introduced herself to David Shire as his crush, Charlotte Rampling, who wrote the music for Farewell My Lovely

Was the voice of Raggedy Ann in the 1977 Richard Williams animated movie, Raggedy Ann and Andy: A Musical Adventure

Joe Raposo wrote all the music for the movie and he had written a lot of music for Sesame Street and The Electric Company (including the “C is for Cookie” and the Sesame Street song)

Was a standby and then replacement for Mercedes Ruehl in Lost in Yonkers (1991) with Irene Worth and Kevin Spacey

Fonz and the Happy Days Gang cartoon 

Stacey Jones in Shining Time Station, which she says was horrible for her career

Conductors: Ringo Starr, George Carlin, Alec Baldwin

The tv show was funded by Amtrak and MTH Electric Trains

Thomas movie was filmed on The Isle of Man

Of course played Frenchie in the 1978 classic, Grease (director: Randal Kleiser, choreographer: Pat Birch, producer: Allan Carr) 

Kelly Ward (Putzie) was dance captain for Pat Birch

Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies has been wiped from Paramount+

Tegrin’s ad: “The heartbreak of psoriasis”

Was there film in the camera for Frenchie’s number in Grease 2?

Skating with the Stars judge was a dick (start at 3:27)

Was Alice Ghostley’s Mrs Murdoch gay (watch the dancing) 

Was waitress in Frida and had Across the Universe (friends with Julie Taymor and worked with her on the stage play, The Green Bird)

Lifted out the door on Cagney and Lacey (s6e12). Who had more upper body strength? Both!

CGI’d pink ladies guy head on body in Rise of the Pink Ladies

Dr Pepper theme song: “I’m a Pepper, You’re a Pepper”

In My Life one of the worst Broadway shows I’ve ever seen (it was a huge flop) and he has Tourette's not autism

Our interview with Talia Balsam (ep #12)  introduced us to You Light Up My Life

David Shire (Didi’s husband) wrote the Oscar-nominated song for Norma Rae

Barry Pearl holds all the Grease secrets 

Hello Therese, we’re back for our annual holiday extravaganza. This year we’re movie-clubbing Todd Haynes’ very luscious and very gay Carol (2015), starring Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, and Sarah Paulson. We discuss the erotic imagery of merely a glove, lesbian sex scenes through the lens of a gay man, and the joy in watching flat male characters (what even IS Jake Lacy’s character’s name?). All that Carol talk for you plus our reactions to the Golden Globe nominations, our dream casting of Da’Vine Joy Randolph and Emma Stone as Pearl Bailey and Carol Channing in a future film, and some Muppet talk. And then…we give you a solid ten minutes on our theory that gay men hate all gay male things while lesbians are much more accepting, our trip down memory lane to remember “lesbian kiss episodes” during November sweeps, the legacy of Roseanne, and Natalie Zea hunting down Kimberly Pierce for the Boys Don’t Cry short she starred in!  Anyway, happy holidays! Do you think Linda Perry and Sara Gilbert watched Carol together?

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Discussed this week:

Golden Globe nominations came out

HFPA dissolved last year

Anne liked Priscilla

Actors on Actors with Emma Stone and Bradley Cooper. Better or

Actors on Actors with Hathaway and Blunt

Da’Vine Joy Randolph getting Oscar buzz for The Holdovers and should definitely star as Pearl Bailey. We vote Emma Stone for Carol Channing

Is Wonka good?!

We love Pepe the Prawn now 

Lonny Price is in Muppets Take Manhattan

Austin Pendleton is in The Muppet Movie

We love Ollie’s on 42nd Street (sighted Lois Smith and Austin Pendleton) 

Rooney Mara in The Social Network

We love the movie Union Square and the Angelika Film Center

Former guest, Vicki Lewis in Pushing Tin 

“Do you want to fuck me, Barbara??” - Cate to Judi in Notes on a Scandal

She has done lots of NYC theatre: Streetcar (2009), Hedda Gabler (2006), The Maids (2014)

Damian always thinking of Playwright, Theresa Rebeck

Jake Lacy looks good in a waistcoat

Are the Maras billionaires? Their mom’s family founded the Pittsburgh Steelers and dad’s family founded the New York Giants. 

We can’t pronounce Joaquin Phoenix and Cillian Murphy

Gay Christmas movies: Michael Urie in Single All the Way and Happiest Season (with Aubrey Plaza and Kristen Stewart) 

BFI listed Carol as the best LGBTQ movie of all time 

Anne hated Bros

Remember that Muriel Heminway kissed Roseanne Barr? 

Lucy Liu and Calista Flockheart kissed for sweeps on Ally McBeal

Did Linda Perry and Sara Gilbert watched Carol together?

Famous lesbian Christine Vachon produced Carol

Kimberly Peirce was attached to Carol before it made its way to Todd Haynes 

Former YMKHF guest, Natalie Zea was in the student film version of Boys Don’t Cry and we talked to her about it on the pod

Famous lesbian Kimberly Peirce directed episodes of P Valley and The L Word

And we’re back! Folks, after over 5 months of actress-less episodes, we are finally back with the iconic Lea Salonga. You Might Know Her From Aladdin, Mulan, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin, and Broadway productions of  Here Lies Love, Miss Saigon, Les Miserables, and Flower Drum Song. Lea was the coolest and gave us all the behind-the-scenes scoop on her Tony-winning turn as Kim in Miss Saigon, Madame Thenardier and the Broadway hat trick we hope to live to see, and whether playing Mouse’s mom is a play on her legend status with the House of Mouse. All that plus, auditioning as both Jasmine and Fa Mulan, the secret Les Mis chorus track (and did Patti Lupone do it?), and her favorite drag queens. Anne and Damian, we twin flames writing this, are just pleased as ever to be back and interviewing actresses. Thanks for being along for the ride and please know that glycolic acid can also be applied under the armpits to stop odor and it works. 

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Discussed this week:

SAG contract has been ratified 

Lea was in Here Lies Love over the summer (it just closed on Broadway)

She is currently in Old Friends in London with Bernadette Peters

Escaping Twin Flames on Netflix

Megan Fox calls Machine Gun Kelly her “Twin Flame” 

Wild Wild Country on Netflix
Keith Raniere from Nxivm (doc: The Vow)

Ethan Slater with Ariana Grande

I did look up “The Fifth Dimension” aka “5D”

Love Has Won on HBO

Lea was on tour with Il Divo 

Here Lies Love producer Clint Ramos 

Dee on Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin

Eric Johnson voice on Assassins Creed. Lea’s a gamer 

“Cry and Die” as Eponine and Fantine  (she was also “Bullet Boy” in ensemble!)

Has NOT seen Katie Holmes sings “On My Own” in Dawson’s Creek

Ready to do the Broadway Hat Trick and play Madame Thenardier

Originated role of Kim in Miss Saigon. Lots of music in show was written for her voice

Nicholas Heitner’s Helicopter is to Miss Saigon as Chandelier is to Phantom of the Opera

All Asian cast for 2002 Flower Drum Song revival in is one of Anne’s favorite 

We love Pat Suzuki who played Linda Low in the OBC

Singing voice of Princess Jasmine and Fa Mulan

Gets free admission to DisneyWorld for her lifetime (and +3)

Ming-Na Wen (speaking voice of Fa Mulan) is a great poker player 

Gold Gala in Los Angeles

Hey Mr Producer is one of the best musical theatre concerts of all time

Performing “You Could Drive a Person Crazy” with Ruthie Henshall, Millicent Martin, and Maria Friedman 

Hugh Jackman pre fame did Curly on Hey Mr Producer 

Cameron Mackintosh produced a tribute to himself

Loves Jinkx Monsoon but hasn’t done Drag Race Phillipines yet

Absolute/Perfect pitch Jongkook from the Calvin Klein ads

Eva Noblezada don’t reach out about Broadway revival of Miss Saigon

Would choose to originate role on Broadway over a hit album or hit tv show

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend bit

Played Annie as a kid in Philippines

Played Grace at Hollywood Bowl Annie

Singing with Big Bird on Sesame Street 

Riffed as Sandy in1995 production of Grease in Manila the third bridge (3:00)

Damian loves glycolic acid almost as much as Mother God loves colloidal silver

Hooray! SAG has come to a tentative agreement and the strike has finally ended! We are celebrating by answering listener-submitted questions! But first, we talk about Barbra Streisand’s new memoir, her sister Roslyn Kind, and what it must be like to be related to such an otherworldly entertainer. Then, we dig into your questions and we get into it all from the Mount Rushmore of past guests to the love triangle between Ashlyn Harris, Ali Krieger, and Sophia Bush to our educated guess on the vibe of the Desperate Housewives set from all the “research” we’ve conducted. This was just a total pleasure so we hope you’ll sit your sassy and strong-willed selves down and listen with us! Next episode we’re back with an actress!

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 Discussed this week:

Thinking a lot about Jamie Lynn Spears and Roslyn Kind (Is Barbra submissive in bed?

Is Roslyn the Lorna?) Lorna’s memoir, Me and My Shadows is very important to us

“Sassy” is coded for the f word

Val Kilmer’s lips are very nice 

Will and Jada both been in the news a lot

Should we do ALS/Lou Gherig’s disease  ice bucket challenge 

interviewers we love: Ziwe, Terry Gross, Howard Stern, Andy Cohen, Julie Klausner, Jess Rothschild, Meredith Vieira

Meredith Vieira clips: 1) “oh shit” 2) “oh shit” again 3) “cunt”

Men we’d talk to: John Travolta, Wallace Shawn, Austin Pendleton, John Goodman

Wallace Shawn friends with former YMKHF guest and legend, Madhur Jaffrey

What sitcom was b&w about aging actress? Gloria Vane starring JoBeth Williams (not Jean Smart)

We would interview Connie from Doug or Elmyra

The Temptations musical included smoking crack 

If we were gonna star in a Broadway show it would be Sugar Babies

Patreon coming in January 

Cream cheese will extend into winter

Female cartoon character: Jubilee sucks so Elmyra from Tiny Toons. Connie from Doug 

Gay coded straight women: Holly Hunter, Cate Blanchett, Juliana Marguiles, Dakota Johnson, Harriet Sansom Harris, Melissa Leo (was married to John Heard)

Tom Hardy has fooled around with men

Tracy Chapman over Tracy Gold (Chapman won Song of the Year at the CMAs)

Ashlynn Harris / Ali Krieger / Sophia Bush

O-town at a state fair 

When it comes to boy bands, Damian loves a Danny (Miller / Wood) and Anne loves a Joey (McIntyre / Fatone)

Jukebox musicals: Case by case basis

YMKHF Mount Rushmore: Jessica Hecht, Anna Maria Horsford, Lainie Kazan, Rachael Harris, Ana Ortiz ??? The list goes on and on

It’s Anne and Damian, bitch. With SAG still on strike, we’re back with another “just us” episode. We’re breaking down Britney Spears’ new memoir The Woman Inside Me and Michelle Williams’ performance in the audio book. That, plus we pledge our allegiance to the Backstreet Boys, discuss whether Gloria Stuart deserved an Oscar over Kim Basinger, and Anne berates Damian for not getting on The Morning Show wagon. Next episode we’re doing listener Q&As. Slide into our DMs.

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Discussed this week:

Zombie clause in AMPTP current offer

Kylie Minogue Vegas tix we’re $$$$

Celine Dion and Olivia Newton-John in Vegas were formative

Britney Spears’ The Woman Inside Me, read by Michelle Williams is excellent

Britney on Paula Cole read by Michelle is so meta (Dawson’s Creek theme)

She was friends with Natalie Portman and threw a New Year’s party with her at some point 

Britney and Colin Farrell had a two week affair

Elliot Page’s memoir Pageboy is a juicy read 

We are Backstreet Boys all the way

Michelle doing Justin saying “Fo shiz fo shiz” 

Chris Kirkpatrick from *NSYNC had box braids

Taylor Hanson has 5 kids (omg no it’s 7!!) Zac has 5 and Isaac has 3

Hanson’s music video with Gloria Stuart “River”

Lookout Anne can play “I Will Come to You” on the piano 

Kim Basinger beat Gloria Stuart for the 1997 Oscar

Kim had panic attacks

The Door in the Floor (Kim Basinger) vs Message in a Bottle (Robin Wright)

John Irving book 

Damian hates movies based on a song titles: 

Message in a Bottle

Love Potion #9

My Love Don’t Cost a Thing

Can’t Buy Me Love

Anne hates The Police (ACAB)

Please dear god watch The Morning Show

Gugu Mbatha Raw may or may not still be on it 

Adina Porter (former YMKHF guest) plays Jen’s assistant and never comes back

Show bibles are important. Persia White (former YMKHF guest) said they had one for The Vampire Diaries 

Our DMs are open for Q&A!!!

Paula Cole loooks great!

Golden Bachelor Gerry is disgusting

Ed Harris, James Naughton, Dick Van Dyke (old men we’d fuck)

Gerry sounds like Will Ferrell

Hello slayers! We’re back with *another* very special episode of the show. SAG is still on strike so we are movie-clubbing 1992’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer, directed by Fran Rubel Kuzui and written by Joss Whedon. We get into the megawatt stardom of Luke Perry, Kristy Swanson’s surprising singing voice and engaged body during “stunts,” and Hilary Swank as a popular girl. We also get into the delicio us cameos from recent topic, gossip columnist Liz Smith as well as Easter eggs about the high schools used for filming, the end credit song, and everything we could find out about Michele Abrams and Natasha Gregson-Wagner. Did you watch it? Tell us what you thought! 

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Discussed this episode:

Suzanne Somers is dead

Suzanna Somers’ book of poetry, Touch Me

She is a legend who got fired for asking for equal pay

The Blonde in the Thunderbird her one woman-ish flop Broadway musical

She had sex with her husband a lot

Serial Mom & Thighmaster ™ 

Did Nicole Parker do The Blonde in the Thunderbird, but she DID do this solo show @ Birdland

Nell Carter and Bea Arthur singing “We are a Family” for The Upfronts

Susanna Hoffs “We Close Our Eyes” 

Hilary Swank was in Beverly Hills, 90210 as was Luke Perry and Michele Abrams who was mean girl Amanda on sleepover ep of 90210, where they played “Skeletons in the Closet”

Natasha Gregson Wagner plays Cassandra (daughter of Natalie Wood)

We love the Arquettes (Alexis is the DJ, Lewis Arquette, the patriarch was “Don’t get me started on beans” in Waiting for Guffman) 

Paul Reubens’ death scene 

Anne bought a bootleg of Luke Perry in the Broadway production of The Rocky Horror Picture Show (she’s gonna pull it from her archives) 

Not as good as Jarrod Emick but still good

Anne’s gotta see The Chase and Higher Learning

Erika Eleniak is halfway cobetween Nicole Eggert and Kristy Swanson

The awful truth is SAG is still on strike but the bonus is that we are joined by artist and former celebrity gossip writer Ted Casablanca (Bruce Bibby) for an extra special episode of the show. Ted was a mainstay in celebrity journalism in the ‘90s and ‘00s working for Premiere and E!, most notably his programs, The Gossip Show and his column-turned show, The Awful Truth. We talk about EVERYTHING with Ted. From Valley of the Dolls to Mamma Mia, from the Oscars to Sharon Stone and her horse. Ted was a complete delight who humored baby Anne and Damian’s every wish! 

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Discussed this episode:

Jodi Long original YMKHF interview #116

The WGA strike is over at last! They got some good stuff

Coney Island Side Show is a must see  

Anne looks like Bushroot from Darkwing Duck

Miss Muffin = Maggie McMuffin who performed “Toxic” on a bed of nails

Alaska “The Lost Boy”

Go to Hot Potato House in Brighton Beach

Watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992) with us for our next episode in two weeks

Halloween adjacent movies: Beetlejuice, Edward Scissoorhands, Practical Magic, The Craft, Teen Witch 

Ted Casablanca started his career at Premiere Magazine

Then went on to the E! Network and did The Awful Truth, The Gossip Show 

Ted Casablanca printed blind items about closeted celebs and the biggest one was perhaps Toothy Tile

The famous scene about with Sharon Tate talking about Ted Casablanca in Valley of the Dolls

Drew Barrymore’s bisexual years

Patty Duke’s autobiography Call Me Anna

Patty Duke did Gypsy in 2003 @ Washington Civic Theatre and was a replacement Aunt Eller in the 2002 Broadway revival of Oklahoma

We ride hard for Mamma Mia and Mamma Mia 2 (that includes Pierce “Piercy B.” Brosnan

Dawn Steele was the first female head of a studio

Sharon Stone is 65 and once had a horse FedEx’d from one set to the set of her next film 

Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts allegedly hated each other on set of August Osage County

Fonda and Lopez apparently hated each other on Monster in Law

Jamie Foxx had a recent medical scare and issued a video statement that didn’t reveal anything

Deux Moi is dumb

We love/hate legendary gossip columnist Cindy Adams and Liz Smith

One of Ted’s favorite stories was Lara Flynn Boyle bleaching her asshole

Marty Singer is one of biggest Hollywood lawyers

Abba is perfect

Ted had some problems with the Scotty Bowers book and documentary 

We all love Kelly McGillis (who was left out of Top Gun Maverick) and Sean Young (who they didn’t use in Bladerunner 2049)

Timmy Shimmy from Crazy Days and Nights

Kim Cattrall and SJP feud gossip

Bruce loves Ted Lasso / Damian recommends The Bear and GLOW / we all love Hacks 

Kelly McGillis / Jodie Foster / Whitney Houston rumor

Lori Petty episode of YMKHF #27 (the Whitney story is on Quarantine Clip Show #

Anne Heche episode of YMKHF #48

Gilded Age season 2 poster

Wonderful Town cold open before Tony’s with Liz Smith (@ 1:27)

What if we had a Patreon? That’s what we’re exploring this week as we continue to stand in solidarity with the WGA and SAG-AFTRA. In lieu of a new actor interview we’re book clubbing 1979’s Norma Rae starring Sally Field, Beau Bridges, and Ron Leibman. Norma Rae is inspired by the real story of mill workers unionizing in rural North Carolina. We get into all the important parts: Ron Leibman being hot, Burt Reynolds advising Sally not to do the film, and the beautiful appearance of legendary character actress Grace Zabriskie in a small role. The film is a small quiet human story about the importance of labor unions and it felt like the right time to correct our blindspot and screen it. Also discussed this episode: the Debra Winger-Barbra Hershey led film A Dangerous Woman, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Mandy Patinkin vs. Toni Collette.

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A Dangerous Woman (1993)

Mandy vs. Tony in the Wild Party

Norma Rae (1979)

Director: Martin Ritt

Screenplay: Irving Ravetch & Harriet Frank Jr

Best Song: “So It Goes” (David Shire, ex-husband of Talia Shire and current husband of Didi Conn)

Sally Field’s Oscar speech (1980) 

Jane Fonda, Marsha Mason, Faye Dunaway and Jill Clayburgh turned down the role of Norma Rae

Ron Leibman was Roy Cohn in the original Broadway cast of Angels in America

Ron Leibman’s first wife was Linda Lavin and his second wife was Jessica Walter

Shirley MacLaine clip “A dancer died at the top of these stairs”

We are back and still holding strong with SAG-AFTRA and the WGA, so no new actress interview, but we are joined by Emmy-winning actor and President of the Los Angeles Local branch of SAG-AFTRA, Jodi Long. You Might Know Her From Shang-Chi, Dash & Lily, All-American Girl, and season 4 of this podcast! Jodi breaks down the SAG strike and spells out what the union is fighting for, the threat to the working class, and what she'll treat herself to when this is all over. Fear not, we’re still going deep on Kim Cattrall’s :47 cameo on And Just Like That and the menace that is Michael Patrick King. Plus Barbie, Oppenheimer, and just in time for fall, sweet potato pie, sweet pies!

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Discussed this week:

Jodi Long’s full interview: S4 ep116

NYT on why we should keep killing lantern flies

We saw Barbie Anne saw Oppenheimer on Labor Day

Cillian Murphy and his translucent skin was in Breakfast on Pluto

Kim Cattrall’s (71 second) cameo in And Just Like That in S2

And Just Like That, The Writer’s Room Podcast

Kim Cattrall engraved her own name with “Liverpool’s Cleopatra” next to it on her gravestone

Michael Patrick King is a menace, let’s bring back Darren Star

Michael Patrick King also helped create one of our favorite shows of all time, The Comeback. But Lisa Kudrow doesn’t want to be a mogul like SJP

Why are screen actors (SAG-AFTRA) and screen writers (WGA) striking?  

AMPTP is the negotiating organization for the Hollywood studios

Jodi Long was full-body scanned on Shang Chi and the Legend of the 10 Rings. They own that image in perpetuity. 

Reality shows are a different contract and not part of the current SAG-AFTRA 

CEO salaries in 2022 for huge networks averaged $32M for 13 CEOas across 12 companies

Actors have to make $26k+ in order to qualify for health insurance (only 12% of SAG-AFTRA actors make that every year)

Hollywood studio CEOS are tonedeaf: Disney CEO Bob Iger / Warner Brothers CEO, David Zaslav

AMPTP hired a new PR person to change the public narrative

Movie studio A24 has agreed to all of SAG-AFTRA’s terms, so they are currently in production while other studios are not

Anne Hathaway,  Matthew McConaughey and others are working on waivers because their production companies have met SAG-AFTRA’s demands

SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher’s call to arms

We love pie: ALR-key lime, cherry, blueberry / DB-Banana cream, strawberry rhubarb, pumpkin

Domino’s song “Sweet Potato Pie” 

Watch Norma Rae with us! 

Me and you, just us two. Yes, that’s what Carrie had engraved in a vintage Rolex for Big but also, it’s just us two because we stand with SAG-AFTRA and the WGA. This month we are pulling the spirits of Celeste Holm, Bob Villa, and Steve Urkel from the annals of pop culture. We are also absolutely head over heels for the reignited rumors that Mel B and Geri of the Spice Girls possibly (and probably) carried on a lesbian relationship in the ‘90s. That, plus we take a look at Barbra Streisand’s duets album, Fran Lebowitz’s WNBA fandom, and start prepping for a Norma Rae screening! Join us! 

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Discussed this month:

Bob Villa is alive and only 77!

Family Matters theme song 

“Anybody got any cheese?”

Do the Urkel!

Our episode with Lesley Ann Warren where she talks about Celeste Holm

"beautiful, a thing of BEAUTY" @ 2:11

Barbra Streisand and Melissa McCarthy

Barbra and Anne Hathaway and Daisy Ridley

@sapphicunderground’s TikToks about Mel B & Geri

Third-Wave Feminism and the Spice Girls

Geri is 51 and has two memoirs

Fran Lebowitz was at the NY Liberty WNBA game with Anne

We are back, just us, because we stand with SAG-AFTRA and the WGA. You Might Know Us From hosting this podcast, complaining and obsessing over And Just Like That, and our morbid curiosity about the new “senior” Bachelor.  In this episode we’re breaking down our understanding of the strike and how we’ll continue to pivot away from actor interviews until there is a fair agreement with the studios. We’re also gossiping about Barbie, terrible reality TV tropes, the essence of beauty that is Jaida Essence Hall, and somehow relating And Just Like That back to… The Facts of Life. We really get a kick out of each other! Stay tuned and we’ll be back…maybe sooner than usual! 

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Discussed this month:

We stand with the SAG/AFTRA and WGA strike 

Norma Rae

Ron Leibman married to Jessica Walter but before that Linda Lavin

Linda Lavin’s “Some People” is plagued by the stair staging

Tommy Lee and Pam Anderson sex tape is wholesome

Anne went to John B Maclamore’s house from S***Town

Anne went to Florida; Damian is a birth orderist. It’s time for Looseface

And Just Like That is back but should it be? 

Mary and Rhoda (2000) / Cagney & Lacey Together Again (1995)

Facts of Life Reunion (tv film, 2001)  sans Nancy McKeon (whom we interviewed: YMKHF #3)

Sherwood Schwartz created The Brady Bunch

Reminder: reboot pieces of shit

There’s an OLD Bachelor 

Drag Race is horrible this season

The new We’re Here features Priyanka, Sasha Velour and Jaida Essence Hall

Barbie movie we ain’ts sure

Greta Gerwig gets points for Jayne Houdyshell (Ep #39) and Amy forward Little Women

Happy Pride! This month we are joined by actor, singer, and activist Angelica Ross. You Might Know Her From Pose, American Horror Story: 1984, American Horror Story: Double Feature, Claws, Transparent, and the Broadway production of Chicago. Angelica talked to us about new single “Purr,” that future music project, and learning to love her singing voice. She also gave us the scoop on playing eight shows a week as Roxie Hart in Chicago on Broadway and the nuances of Mary Sunshine. Plus, navigating the complicated and hilarious arcs on American Horror Story, channeling Diana Ross, and being cast in an Italian language film. We just loved Angelica! Stream “Purr”!

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Discussed this month:

Kim Cattrall coming back for And Just Like That, and she’ll be dressed by Patricia Field

Tony Awards are in June because it’s Pride

Damian attended his first WNBA game (Let’s Go Liberty!) 

We both watched The Ultimatum: Queer Love

Elliot Page’s memoir, Pageboy is coming out soon

Paul Reubens is friends with Elliot Page

New single, “Purrr”

Starred as Roxie in the Broadway production of Chicago (produced by the Weisslers)
Chicago’s Mary Sunshine is trans

Starred as Candy Ferocity in the Ryan Murphy FX series, Pose 

Candy’s funeral scene lip syncing to Stephanie Mills’ “Never Knew Love Like This Before"

Appeared in American Horror Story:1984 and American Horror Story: Double Feature

Sarah Paulson as Mamie Eisenhower 

Started the organization, Trans Tech

Appeared in the 2005 Italian movie, Natale a Miami 

Angelica did Diana Ross in Transparent

Angelica neti-potting in Claws @ the 12:15 mark (S1, ep2) 

Gwyneth Horder-Payton called Angelica “the queen of props” 

Jamaican place in Harlem: King Barka

Meghan Markle got let go from her podcast deal for doing 12 eps in 3 years

Akinator the Genie Game

Gelatinous characters: Goo from Gumby, Gloppy from CandyLand, and The Greedy from the Richard Williams animated musical, Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure (1977)

You get an interview, YOU get an interview, and YOU GET AN INTERVIEW! This week, the brilliant impressionist and comedian Debra Wilson sits down with us. You Might Know Her From Mad TV, Scary Movie 4, Dead 7, Over the Hedge, The Christmas Chronicles, Avatar, and as the voice of Daisy Duck. Debra gave us all the intel on working on late night sketch mainstay MadTV, including singing opposite herself, hitting Mariah Carey whistle tones, and rubbing elbows with Oscar winners. Obviously, we got into Debra’s iconic impressions of Whitney Houston and Oprah Winfrey and the unfortunate story behind her departure after eight seasons. All that, plus her instrumental role in developing the Na'vi people and Neytiri in Avatar, living in the “Debra Wilson metaverse” in video games, and acting opposite nearly every boy bander from the aughts. This one was quite a ride! 

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Discussed this month:

Would you rather live on Ben Platt’s neck growth, Gaten Matarrazzo’s teeth gap or Matthew McCounaghey’s uvula

Ben Platt’s fiance is Noah Galvin who spilled tea on gay Hollywood

Nabisco chocolate wafer cookies

Damian’s grandmother made ice box cake with graham crackers 

Used the Philadelphia Cream Cheese Cookbook to make Party Potato Bake 

Rupaul referred to Ben Platt’s character in Dear Evan Hansen as “Dear”

The Rise of the Pink Ladies (Damian is hot for Richie aka Jonathan Nieves)

Anne thinks Yellowjackets has gone off the rails but will still watch. We both love the young actors on the show (young Shauna aka )

What happened to Shannyn Sossamon

Dante’s Cove and that band Mannekin (now known as Daniel’s Debris)

Debra took over the voice of Daisy Duck from Tress MacNeille (who does so many voices on The Simpsons)

Voicever in Over the Hedge, Christmas Chronicles, Judge Steve Harvey, The Weakest Link (reboot with Jane Lynch), and the navigation app Waze

Debra Wilson video game Metaverse

Most of the Cameos Debra does are related to Savathun from Destiny 

45mins of Debra doing Whitney on MadTV

Debra worked with Joan Rivers on Can We Shop (voiceover and eventually on-camera)

Debra as Oprah

Destiny’s Child parody ; Whitney vs Mariah ;  Mariah “Heartbreaker” parody

She left the show over pay disparity

Debra doing Whitney in the MADTV parody of the Diane Sawyer interview

Project 880 was the secret name for James Cameron’s Avatar

BAPS

Susan Sarandon , Dennis Hopper in a Ms Swan sketch, and Kathy Bates on MadTV

Musical guest stars: The Cure, Debbie Harry, Alien Ant Farm, Incubus, PUSA's "Lump" and “Peaches” 

Dead 7 starring Debra, Nick Carter, and Frenchie Davis, among many others

Jen speaks! We are here with actor and writer Jen Tullock. You Might Know Her From Perry Mason, Severance, Before You Know It, Spirited, 6 Balloons, and The L Word: Generation Q. Jen gave us the skinny on her banner year playing a period lesbian in the Perry Mason reboot and wearing a prosthetic pregnant belly while navigating the tone of genre dark-comedy Severance. We also talked about getting her indie Before You Know It made, bit work in the holiday film Spirited, and, of course, her iconic turn as Kimmy the wedding planner in the final episode (ever) of The L Word: Generation Q. We had a total hoot with Jen going from old Hollywood gossip to Evangelical beginnings to Judy Speaks to Joan Plowright. This one is gonna get you nice and ready! 

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Discussed this month:

Matthew Lawrence and Chili made it internet official

Len Goodman of DWTS has passed

John Travolta did a T-Mobile commercial with Donald Faison and Zach Braff to  “Summer Nights”

John Travolta at the 2023 Oscars

Jim Jacobs wtf

“Spiritual Sandy”

Anne loved The 10 Commandments, Hereditary, Succession, and Women Talking 

Mandy Patinkin spitting on Toni Collette in The Wild Party on Broadway

Mandy apologizes for his past behavior 

Damian loving Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies = 90210 reboot meets HSM meets Grease

Perry Mason also stars Juliet Rylance and Gayle Rankin

Jen plays Anita St. Pierre (based on Anita Loos) on the new Perry Mason on HBO Max

Powder room lesbian cruising scene in Perry Mason

Series regular on Severance starring Adam Scott, Christopher Walken, Patricia Arquette

Wearing pregnancy suit on Severance

Wrote and co-starred in Before You Know It with her frequent collaborator, Hannah Pearl Utt which was part of the Sundance Lab

Also worked with Hannah on a short called Partners, and a web series called Disengaged

Hannah’s new movie, Cora Bora with Meg Stalter

Fucking Shane on The L Word: Gen Q

Costarred in a Netflix movie directed by her friend, Marja-Lewis Ryan, who was showrunner for new L Word: Gen Q

Jen Tullock always had a crush on Tina Kennard (played by Laurel Holloman)  in the OG L Word

Became friends with Jordan Hull who played Bette and Tina’s daughter, Angie on the show

Loves Marlene Dietrich

Did motion capture for video game: My Red Dead II and it was kind of traumatizing

Can do a pretty great Joan Plowright (mixed with Judi Dench)

Tea with the Dames has two edits (English and America)

Scientology vs The Evangelical Church

Appears in the Ryan Reynolds/Will Ferrell movie, Spirited

Amy Brenneman (Episode #100) told us Brad Pitt has to eat while acting

“Judy Garland Speaks” is tough but necessary for any serious Judy fan

Mark Harris tweeted about Jan Hooks shitting on Victoria Jackson (Julia Duffy and Julia Sweeney co-signed)

We got eyes on The Farm! This episode we are joined by actor Yolonda Ross. You Might Know Her From The Chi, The Get Down, Whitney, Antwone Fisher, Stranger Inside, Treme, Go For Sisters, and How to Get Away with Murder. Yolonda gave us all the scoop about shaving her real head for The Chi, playing Whitney Houston’s alleged girlfriend Robyn Crawford, and cutting her teeth as an extra on Saturday Night Live. Plus, we got into her appearance in the never-before-seen L Word spin-off The Farm, following up her film debut with the Denzel Washington-directed Antwone Fisher, and arriving at her first Indie Spirit Awards on a motorcycle. We just had a ball with Yolonda! 

Tyra Banks was bad at hosting Dancing with the Stars

ANTM was really rough

We love former DWTS host, Tom Bergeron

Julianne Hough was great in POTUS, Anne is a forever fan

Former guest of this show, Suzy Nakamura (Ep 126)

Hough compared JoJo Siwa to Joan of Arc

Julianne Hough had energy pulled out of her ass

We are INTERNATIONAL {Rachel Shelley (UK), Megan Follows (Canada), Daphne Maxwell-Reid (Virginia) lol}

Connor and Tom Cruise side by side

Isabella and Tom Cruise side by side

Suri Cruise 

Gwyneth Paltrow trial is absurd

Gen Q has been canceled

Apparently there will be a new L Word: New York ?!?

Xena Worrier Princess alerted us to the fact that Kate Moennig and Leisha Hailey are no longer following showrunner, Marja Lewis-Ryan

Anne Heche was left out of the Oscars’ In Memoriam

A League of Their Own supposedly getting a four episode wrap-up

Go For Sisters written and directed by John Sayles, co-starring former YMKHF guest, LisaGay Hamilton (Ep 130)

Played Jada on 5 seasons of Lena Waithe’s Showtime series The Chi 

Cancer storyline on The Chi meant that Yolonda shaved her own head on camera

Currently in How Blood Go at Steppenwolf through April 23

Starred in the HBO film Stranger Inside written and directed by Cheryl Dunye

Starred in The L Word spinoff pilot, The Farm (clip @ 3:22), which never made it to air

Was working on a pilot with Phillip Seymour Hoffman (knew him from LAByrinth Theatre Co)

Played Robyn Crawford in the Lifetime biopic, Whitney, directed by Angela Bassett 

Hilton Als memorial post regarding Robyn at CubbyHole and The Dutchess

Whitney/Jodie Foster/Kelly McGillis rumor

Auditioned on tape for Denzel Washington’s Antwone Fisher

Appeared in Shortbus with Bitch, JD Samson and Daniel Sea

Appeared opposite Viola Davis in How to Get Away With Murder

Attends Alfre Woodard’s annual Oscar party for black actresses, Sistah Soirée

Did SNL background work on the 90s (Janet Reno’s Dance Party)

Scene opp Helen Mirren in HBO movie Phil Spector (wild wig on Mirren)

Arrived to red carpet of Indie Spirit Awards on motorcycle (stranger was driving) 

Donna knows best! We are joined by actor and singer Donna Murphy. You Might Know Her From The Gilded Age, Tangled, Center Stage, Spiderman 2, and Broadway productions of Wonderful Town, The King & I, Passion, and Hello, Dolly! We were in long pursuit of Donna and were pleased as punch to chat with her about finding her dancer posture for Center Stage, the Joni Mitchell mishap that almost stood in the way of Mother Gothel, and how Mrs. Asher is the Mort Guffman of The Gilded Age. All that, plus how she covered for Audrey in Little Shop for one night only, dying every night on stage for Passion, and the incredible highs and lows of playing Dolly Levi as the alternate to Bette Midler in the recent Hello, Dolly! revival. Wonderful woman! 

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Discussed this week

Burt Bacharach and Raquel Welch died this month

Dick Van Dyke was on The Masked Singer 

Nicole Scherzinger sings with multiple Phantoms of the Opera

NJ’s version of Punxatawney Phil (Mel) died

Warren Beatty doing Dick Tracy on TCM this past week (“IP squatting”

Parker Posey onstage in new play The Seagull/Woodstock, NY

Foo Fighters “Everlong”

Drag queen Orion Story

SPICE GIRLS IN ORDER OF BEST SINGERS: 1) Sporty 2) Baby 3) Scary 4) Ginger 5) Posh

We love “I Wanna Be Like You” by Louis Prima

Damian’s mom slept in a bald cap as Mini-Me for a work Halloween party

Donna Murphy will be starring in Dear World in March 2023

Plays Mrs. Astor in The Gilded Age

Starred in 2003 Broadway revival of Wonderful Town 

Watch Donna sing: “100 Easy Ways to Lose a Man”

Betty Comden and Adolph Green wrote the song

Has big song as Mother Gothel in Tangled, “Mother Knows Best”

Auditioned with “Last Midnight” from Into the Woods 

Auditioned for the Witch in the OBC and then as a Baker’s Wife replacement

Finally performed The Witch at the Delacorte in Central Park 2012

Played many age transitions in The People in the Picture

Fosca’s first song in Stephen Sondheim’s Passion, “I Read” 

Played Tuesday nights only for the Bette Midler Hello Dolly in 2017 in the wake of her own husband’s death

Was in negotiations to play Elizabeth Arden in War Paint (opposite Patti LuPone) while her husband, Shawn Elliott was dying (2017). She was simultaneously acting in PBS’ Mercy Street

Was up for the mother role in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (played by Marin Hinkle) 

Scott Rudin, the producer of Hello Dolly, did not treat Donna well.

Scott Rudin scandal

YMKHF interview with Broadway’s original Minnie Fay, Sondra Lee (Episode #38)

Played ballet teacher, Juliette Simone in Center Stage (directed by Nicholas Hytner)

Stella Adler was more terrifying than Stephen Sondheim

Brooke Shields got a re-recording of the Wonderful Town Broadway revival 

The Sondheim 80th Birthday Celebration Concert (directed by Lonny Price) 

Donna doing “Could I Leave You?” from Follies with other divas onstage: Patti LuPone, Marin Mazzie, Audra McDonald, Bernadette Peters, Elaine Stritch

David Hyde Pierce doing “Beautiful Girls” intro 

Donna approached Mandy Patinkin after the 80th Birthday Concert to tell him how much he meant to her

Died a great death in Spiderman 2 (@4:54 mark)

Donna telling the Little Shop story to Alan Menken

Barbra directing Daisy Ridley and Anne Hathaway in her Malibu home studio

Barbra’s autobio is going to be over 1000 pages, thank god 

Lainie Kazan full interview (Episode #29) 

Lainie Kazan/Fanny Brice on The Barbra Archives (scroll halfway down the page to find)

Oh what a beautiful morning because we are here with actor, singer, and three-time Tony-nominee, Mary Testa. You Might Know Her From Whoopi, Sex and the City, The Bounty Hunter, and the New York stage productions of Queen of the Mist,  Xanadu, 42nd Street, Barnum, On the Town, The Rink, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and Oklahoma. Mary gave us all the goods on developing Xanadu, and how it found its way to Broadway, accepting the role of Aunt Eller while Sally Struthers was watching the Golden Globes in her living room, and iconically covering for Liza Minnelli in The Rink opposite Chita Rivera. We also got into the collaborative relationship she has with Michael John La Chuisa and the significance of headlining Queen of the Mist. All that plus Mary took all (and we mean all) our hot gossip questions about 42nd Street, taking over for Terri White, and whether or not Jennifer Aniston did coverage! This one was just a beautiful way to ring in 2023. We love you all! 

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Discussed this week

L Word Gen Q is rough but Leisha Hailey has chemistry with everyone

Leisha’s Yoplait commercial 

We love crab rangoon, sorry

Kraft Philadelphia Cream Cheese cookbook

NYT got dragged for pea guacamole

Anne in Nxivm kick (The Vow, Seduced)

Shelly Miscavige (wife of head of Scientology, David Miscavige) has been missing since 2007

Golden Globes hosted by Jarrod Carmichael who joked about Shelly’s disappearance 

We love you Leah Remini (Second Act is a great movie of women for a plane)

Composer Michael John La Chiusa wrote Queen of the Mist for her (story of Anna Edson Taylor who went over Niagara Falls in a barrel in 1901)

Mary’s full interview with Transport Group 

Bonnie Milligan is giving an incredible performance in Kimberly Akimbo on Broadway is 

Mary was so good in 2007 Broadway production of Xanadu (bootleg) opposite Jackie Hoffman

Appeared with Nathan Lane & Whoopi in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and her eponymous sitcom, Whoopi (2003) 

Adriana Trigiani got Mary out to LA and on an ep of A Different World

Starred as Aunt Eller in the 2019 production of Oklahoma (“Sexy Oklahoma”) directed by Daniel Fish

Aunt Eller making Jiffy cornbread at the start of the show

Stepped into Kander & Ebb’s 1984 Broadway musical, The Rink for Liza Minnelli (Stockard Channing was supposed to go on when Liza left) Clips from The Rink

She never really liked Sondheim and he never really liked her 

Was a standby in Barnum and had to do a bunch of circus skills (and cover for Terri White)

Stepped down from March of the Falsettos for Barnum (job was on Broadway and paid so much more)

Carrie Bradshaw talked through her rendition of “All That Jazz” on Sex and the City (with Stanford’s husband, Sean Palmer)

2001 revival of 42nd Street was thrilling (Kate Levering and Mary were both in Best Supporting)

Yes, the tappers DID sing (maybe with sweeteners)

Christine Ebersole is a 9/11 truther (here with Alex Jones)

9/11 was a Tuesday

Was in the notorious flop, Marilyn: An American Fable (Frank Rich’s review)

Original star was Geralyn Petchel

Jennifer Aniston (The Bounty Hunter) was nicer than Julia Roberts (Eat, Pray, Love)

Mary’s “When You’re Good to Mama”

Annie Golden calls them “nods from god”

We love supermodels

Patricia Velasquez interview (ep #84) was in two 90s supermodel docs to watch: Catwalk / Unzipped