Episodes

Renowned movie critic and child of Hollywood discusses "It's a Hollywood Life", the new documentary about her life growing up in Hollywood with her famous director father S. Sylvan Simon and the stars in his orbit including Abbott and Costello, Red Skelton, Milton Berle, Lassie and ELVIS! Click here to watch on Youtube! Click here to watch on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaQehy7xTVI&t=2s

Miggs and Trace trade stories of their brushes with fame, from Otis Redding to Albert Brooks

Stacy Keach, Jr. is one of Hollywoods most versatile actors, playing everyone from Hemingway to Hamlet to Mike Hammer, and winning Golden Globe, Drama Desk and many other awards recognizing his extraordinary work. He was Sgt Stendenko in “Up in Smoke” and embodied Nixon in “Frost/Nixon”. From the “Simpsons” to “The Bourne Legacy” his range knows no bounds, and he still finds time to devote to the his Cleft Palette Foundation. Spoiler alert, hear how he got the lead role as the priest in the Exorcist, and lost it.

Ed Begley Jr.! Jeez, what hasn’t this guy done? Actor, author, environmental activist, and all around thoughtful and talented citizen trying to make the planet a better place for all of us. Better Call Saul, St Elsewhere, Simpsons, Mary Hartman-Mary Hartman, Six Feet Under, Curb Your Enthusiasm, This is Spinal Tap, Batman Forever, Best in Show, Mighty Wind… what else can we say. Ed rules!

Actress and author Bonnie Bartlett has an amazing career spanning seven decades in TV and movies.

Katie Cassidy is third generation Hollywood royalty and a triple threat herself, as actor, writer and producer. She never met her grandfather Jack Cassidy, but she is very candid about her complicated relationship with her late father, teen heart throb David Cassidy, and shares his last words and the impact they had on her. The actors’ strike had just begun on the day of this podcast and Katie reveals some exciting new projects she will be working on. A bonus for aspiring actors, she explains how Liam Neeson taught her to play dead in the first “Taken” movie.

Aisha (eye-sha) Alfa is a one-woman cavalcade of entertainment. She is an accomplished actress (currently in “Based on a True Story), writer, comedian, podcaster (The Shoutout Show), Pi devotee (as in 3.14159…) as well as being a charming and positive person to talk too.

Comedy great Ted Alexandro discusses the art of comedy and his experiences touring with Jim Gaffigan, as well as doing five specials and dozens of appearances on Conan, Letterman, Kimmel, and Dr. Katz!! Any lover of comedy or aspiring comedian will enjoy this 30 minutes with Ted.

Charming, hilarious, sassy, beautiful and creative, Rita Rudner describes her years as a dancer on Broadway, a comedian, author, mother, wife and irrepressible wit in all media.

Chris Lemmon is an accomplished author, martial artist, storyteller and concert pianist, who just happens to be the son of iconic actor Jack Lemmon. Chris discusses the flawed relationship with his farther, some Hollywood memories with Marilyn Monroe and JFK, and his near death experience during a double lung transplant, all related with great candor and humor.

Brooke Shields co-star, actor, writer, entrepreneur, Christopher Atkins who discusses his first movie role at age 18, co-starring with 14 year old (?) Brooke in "The Blue Lagoon", as well as his love of baseball, fishing, mangos juice, art, and his hundreds of other roles. Did he or didnt he? We know that is what you are all asking yourselves.

Newman, “The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man” and the documentary series, “The Last Movie Stars”, with personal insights into Pauls’s character as an actor, as a man, and as a father, who Clea and her sisters must learn to share with the world. They also talk about carrying on Paul Newman’s charitable legacy with the Safe Water Network, Hole in the Wall Gang Camps and the Serious Fun Children’s Network, among others.

Music industry executive and innovator, Dick Wingate, has worked with and developed major talents including Bruce Springsteen, Al Stewart, Elvis Costello, Aimee Mann, Muddy Waters, Pink Floyd, and Nick Lowe among others. Dick shares his experience as a project manager and early advocate of streaming and creative marketing for the artists he worked with, and gives Miggs and Trace a peek at what the future looks like for the music business.

Joan Van Ark has hundreds of outstanding credits on stage, screen and on TV, playing everyone from “Lady Macbeth” to Gloria Fisher on “The Young and the Restless”, but she is probably best remembered as Valene Ewing on Dallas and Knot’s Landing. She is engaging, and forthcoming with candid insights about her acting process, her obsession with running and boots and other entertaining backstage observations about herself and some famous co-stars.

After months of trying we finally snagged a Jagger for the podcast. A talented and candid one too, whose autobiography "Talking to Myself" has just been published. He also discusses his animals, musical influences, growing up Jagger, and the video he did last year with his brother called "Anyone seen my heart?" His beautiful wife, and former Bond girl Kari-Ann, pops in to say hello. He graciously allowed us to post his pic even though he hadn't had a chance to shave.

Adrienne Barbeau’s career started with her Broadway debut playing Tevye’s daughter in “Fiddler on the Roof’, and went on to play such diverse roles as Rizzo in the original B-way production of “Grease” and Maude’s daughter Carol on TV. “Back to School”, “Escape from New York”, “The Fog” and “Swamp Thing” are just a few of the hundreds of productions she has starred in, with some directed by her former husband John Carpenter.

Sally Taylor, daughter of James Taylor and Carly Simon, is a talented singer-songwriter, artist, teacher, and creator & facilitator of the Consenses Project. With candor and humor, she discusses dyslexia, her songwriting process, becoming a vegetarian, surviving a plane crash, and meeting her husband on a nude beach, among other fascinating topics.

Burt Ward was a boy wonder, as a chess champion and speed reader, with a very high IQ, and is now an adult wonder as inventor of Gentle Giants Pet Food, which claims to increase pet longevity by up to 200%. The first 17 minutes of podcast is about the pet food and the last 17 minutes is about Batman, but it is all thoroughly entertaining, coming from this talented and engaging star.

With a fashion photographer father and a fashion model mother, Pam got to know the business early on, and as a teenager ended up on the covers, and inside many of the most esteemed fashion magazines. After retiring from modeling she decided to get behind the camera and photographed celebrities for GQ and other publications. Great stories and insights about modeling and photography from Pam.

Over 50 bands and entertainers have covered Dave Mason's delicious pop hit from the 60s. "Feeling' Alright, which he wrote at age 19. He played on Hendrix's All Along the Watchtower and dozens and dozens of hits for everyone from George Harrison to Michael Jackson. Cass Elliot to Paul McCartney. Pop royalty indeed!

Jim Messina, for crying out loud! He offers an insider’s look at his role with Buffalo Springfield, as founder of Poco, Loggins and Messina, and more! Tens of millions of albums sold. Fantastic songwriting, producing and engineering credits for the greats, including himself! Jim graciously discusses his discovery, mentoring and ultimate partnership with Kenny Loggins, the breakup, and the soon-to-be reunion in 2022 of L&M at the Hollywood Bowl in July. He talks about his “Core to Core” approach to songwriting, Gestalt training and how it enriched his songwriting, engineering and producing chops. A genuinely nice and centered individual.

With over 2000 TV appearances and hundreds of movie credits, actress Ruta Lee personifies Hollywood royalty. She has appeared with every major star over the last 5 decades, including Clint Eastwood, Burt Reynolds, James Garner, Johnny Carson, Frank Sinatra, to name just a few of the leading men she has worked with. Ruta discusses her book “Consider Your Ass Kissed” which tells candid tales of the Golden Age of Hollywood, as well as her work with “Thalians”, a charitable organization she founded with Debbie Reynolds, to support mentally disabled veterans.

Bass player, Chuck Wright, almost an Air Force Pilot after 9 years at the Academy, formerly of Quiet Riot, on and off for 26 years, has toured with the greats from Alice Cooper, Slash, Gregg Allman, Ronnie Montrose, and Carmine Appice, among others - has just released his solo album Sheltering Sky, on Cleopatra Records. He discusses all this and his illustrious rise to becoming such a sought after bass player, composer, songwriter, and now music video director of his cover of Bjork’s “Army of Me”, as well as being a very forthcoming and gracious person.

Great conversation with Steve Fosson, bass player and founder of Heart, about the bands beginnings, touring, Ann and Nancy Wilson, and his new new band "Heart by Heart" with other Heart alumni Michael Derosier, and amazing vocalist/wife, Somar Macek. Steve also describes his mountaineering adventures, including encounters with mountain lions, goats, bears, and fans who want Heart to re-unite.