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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth Interview with the Legendary Ann-Margret

About Harvey's guests:

Today’s special guest, Ann-Margret, is a legendary actress, singer, dancer, and recording artist who’s been dazzling audiences for over 6-decades.  

On the big screen, she starred in many iconic films including “Pocketful of Miracles”, “State Fair”, “Bye Bye Birdie”, “Viva Las Vegas”, “Carnal Knowledge”, “Tommy”, “The Cincinnati Kid”, “I Ought to be in Pictures”, “52 Pick-Up”, “Grumpy Old Men”, “GRUMPIER Old Men”, “Queen Bees” and many more.  

On television, you’ve seen her in dozens of sitcoms, variety shows, TV specials, movies and miniseries including “Who Will Love My Children”, “The Two Mrs. Grenvilles”, “Life of the Party”, “A Streetcar Named Desire”, “Perfect Murder, Perfect Town”, “Blonde”, and of course, her recurring roles in “Ray Donovan” and “The Kominsky Method”.  

She headlined in Las Vegas for decades and has toured all over the world with her exciting live show.  She’s received 2 Academy Award nominations and 2 Grammy Award nominations, and she’s won 5 Golden Globe Awards, an Emmy Award, 2 Photoplay Awards and 3 Golden Apple Awards.  And for her contributions to the film industry, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.  

She’s recorded 14 albums, including her latest album released earlier this year, entitled, “Born to be Wild”, featuring guest appearances from Joe Perry, Pete Townsend, Cliff Richard, and our recent guest Pat Boone among many others.  

Our guest’s longstanding commitment to the men and women of the American military is well known and admired by all.  In the 60s she toured 3 times with the USO to Vietnam and Southeast Asia, performing for tens of thousands of servicemen.  In 2003, the USO honored her with its Spirit of Hope award, and in 2005, she appeared at the Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada, to welcome troops home from Iraq and Afghanistan.  

And now, she’s produced a new Ann-Margret perfume, available online at ANNMARGRETPERFUME.COM, with all profits going to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund.  Last year, she was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Nevada.  And she’s also been awarded the highest honor from her native Sweden.  

She’s a Commander of the Royal Order of the Polar Star.  And most recently, she received the Living Legend Award from the Women's Image Network.  And if all of that weren’t enough, let me add that Empire magazine ranked our guest as number 10 on its list of the 100 Sexiest movie stars all time.

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Listen for our list of “Love Commandments.”, as referenced in the song Pidgin English. This album has a lot going on. While we loved it, it was a lot to take in, so much music, so many lyrics pertaining mostly to love, relationships and human shortcomings. It's playful music. Tim especially felt like a kid playing in a sand box throughout songs, and gave us an appreciation for his music that had previously been lost on us.  Designated as singles shortly after release, the songs “Little Fool” and “Man Out of Time” are excluded from our rankings. We also recycle some of our sound-clips from previous episodes while introducing some originals.

Enjoy!

Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Steve Binder, Legendary Producer / Director – “Elvis ’68 Comeback Special”, Author, “Elvis ’68 Comeback:  The Story Behind the Special” 

About Harvey's guest: 

Today’s guest, Steve Binder, is a legendary, Emmy-award winning producer and director, who created some of the most iconic moments in American pop culture and entertainment history, in TV specials starring Petula Clark, Barry Manilow, Diana Ross, Liza Minnelli, John Denver, Patti LaBelle, Smokey Robinson, Olivia Newton-John, and many more.    

But he is perhaps best known for producing and directing the spectacular 1968 Elvis Presley Comeback TV special that is widely considered to have solidified Elvis’ legacy as one of the most profound cultural icons of the 20th century.   

Our guest has written a fabulous book entitled, “Elvis ’68 Comeback:  The Story Behind the Special”, and if you’re an Elvis fan, this book is a MUST HAVE, because, unlike the dozens of other books out there about this landmark TV special, THIS book is the ONLY one written by the person who actually conceived of, produced and directed the show, and who worked so closely with Elvis.    

And it’s just been announced that our guest will be producing a documentary film to be released next year, which will take us behind the scenes and reveal the almost constant drama that surrounded the making of this iconic and mesmerizing show.  If you’ve seen Elvis’ Comeback TV special, you know that something truly magical happened.  It was a pivotal event in television and music history, capturing over 40% of the television viewing audience, and becoming one of the highest rated television shows ever made.   

AND it was a major turning point in Elvis’ career, made possible by the artistic vision and determination of our guest. 

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What does Elvis, Batman, Jason Voorhees, and Vox Machina all have in common? They're all talked about in this episode.