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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with J. Randy Taraborrelli, New York Times Best-Selling Celebrity Biographer

 About Harvey's guest:

J. Randy Taraborrelli is the author of 20 books, 15 of which have made the New York Times bestseller list, including his latest, Jackie, Janet & Lee – The Secret History of Janet Auchincloss and her daughters, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis and Princess Lee Radziwill (2018).  His other best sellers include Call Her Miss Ross; Elizabeth Taylor; Michael Jackson – The Magic, The Madness, The Whole Story (also nominated for a W.H. Smith award in England); and After Camelot – A Personal History of the Kennedy Family, 1968 to the Present.  

Taraborrelli’s The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe appeared on the New York Times list both in 2009 and then again in 2012 when it became the number two e-books bestseller.

Taraborrelli’s Madonna – An Intimate Biography was a massive bestseller in many countries around the world — translated into more than 30 languages. It remained on the London Times’ bestseller list for six months and was also nominated for the prestigious W.H. Smith Award in England. The book was a New York Times bestseller, as well.

The author has also written critically-praised biographies about Frank Sinatra, Carol Burnett and Cher, as well as a pictorial history of Motown Records.

J. Randy Taraborrelli’s After Camelot was developed as a successful 2016 miniseries for ReelzChannel, starring Katie Holmes as Jackie Kennedy Onassis and Matthew Perry as Ted Kennedy.  Taraborrelli’s The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe was the source material for a miniseries which aired on Lifetime in 2014 and starred Susan Sarandon, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Kelli Garner.  Additionally, Taraborrelli is the author of Jackie Ethel Joan – Women of Camelot – a New York Times bestseller in both hard cover and paperback – which was adapted as a highly-rated miniseries for NBC-TV starring Jill Hennesey as Jackie Kennedy and Lauren Holly as Ethel Kennedy.

Not only is J. Randy Taraborrelli a respected journalist, he is a recognizable entertainment personality and in-demand guest on many television programs, including Today, Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, Entertainment Tonight and CNN – Headline News. Additionally, he is a news analyst for CBS News; his six-months-plus coverage of the Michael Jackson molestation trial in Santa Maria for that network was widely praised. (He was the only CBS News TV reporter in the court room for the verdict). Taraborrelli co-anchored coverage of Jackson’s funeral with Katie Couric for CBS.

In his free time, J. Randy Taraborrelli trains in the martial arts. He holds a black belt in American Tang Soo Do and a blue belt in Gracie Jiu Jitsu.

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Diana Eden, Emmy nominated Costume Designer & Author of “Stars in their Underwear: My Unpredictable Journey from Broadway Dancer to Costume Designer for Some of Hollywood’s Biggest Stars”.

About Harvey's guest:

Diana Eden is a costume designer for the stage, television, and film. She has been nominated for one Primetime Emmy Award and two Daytime Emmy Awards, an award-winning Costume Designer who has created costumes for many of Hollywood's biggest stars, such as George Clooney, Debra Messing, Kaley Cuoco, and many more! 

She has designed for dozens of prime time TV series, TV movies, pilots, films, and stage productions, in Hollywood, New York, and Las Vegas.

Eden began dancing at the age of five and by the age of fifteen she was dancing with the National Ballet of Canada, for the company's touring performance of Swan Lake. She made her debut in the show's 1955 performance in Washington D.C. Eden grew too tall for ballet, despite being called "one of the National Ballet of Canada's most brilliant young dancers" by the Toronto Star.

In 1974, Eden received a contract to provide some of the costumes for Ann-Margret and her dancers for her Las Vegas act at Caesar's Palace.  Eden began designing for additional stage shows as well.  In 1980 she became a designer full-time and continued to design for the stage, including shows produced for Broadway.  She also assisted Bob Mackie for the Las Vegas stage show Jubilee! as it entered the MGM Grand Hotel, working under Mackie at Elizabeth Courtney Designs. In 1984, she received a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Costume Design for her work on the stage play Tamara.

From 1985 to the series end in 1988, Eden was the resident designer for the television sitcom The Facts of Life, designing up to 40 original outfits per week for the show that featured a largely young female cast.  She also became the costume designer for the long-running television series Santa Barbara. In 1993 she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Costumes for a Series for her work on the television series A League of Their Own.

In the mid-1990s, Eden was the costume designer for the television drama Sweet Justice, the sitcom Ned and Stacey and the television show Family Law, which aired between 1999 and 2002.  She has also been the costume designer for the television soap opera Passions.  In both 2007 and 2008 she was nominated for an Outstanding Achievement in Costume Design for a Drama Series Daytime Emmy award for her work on the show.  Other shows Eden designed include The Tony Danza Show, For Your Love, and Ladies Man. Television and feature films she has designed include Making Contact, Stealing Christmas, and Stealing Las Vegas.

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