Well throw us on a Smucker’s jar and have ol’ Willard Scott salute us because we’re 100! We are celebrating our 100th episode with actress and producer Amy Brenneman. You Might Know Her From You Might Know Her From The Leftovers, Private Practice, Heat, Fear, Daylight, Things You Can Tell Just By Looking at Her, NYPD Blue, and Judging Amy. Amy talked to us about signing up for The Leftovers with no dialogue, having a baby ripped out of her on the Grey’s Anatomy spin-off Private Practice, and, of course, creating and starring in our personal favorite, Judging Amy. We got scoop on why Amy and Bruce never got together, why Vincent left then came back, and all the delicious intel about the legendary Tyne Daly money can buy. Plus, stories from the sets of Heat and Fear and Anne gets all her questions about Daylight answered. It’s a big day folks and we couldn’t have done it without you. Salud! 

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Discussed this week:

Damon Lindelof’s The Leftovers (HBO) also created Lost

Judging Amy inspired by Amy’s real life mother, Frederica Joanne Shoenfield who was a state superior judge in Connecticut (only the 2nd female judge ever appointed in CT) 

Les Moonves President of CBS, who is married to Julie Chen (who is Chinese American), didn’t want an interracial romance on his network

Father of Tyne Daly’s children is black, Georg Sanford Brown

Dan Futterman left Judging Amy to be with his girlfriend in New York but came back for the last season. He wrote Capote, and he and his wife, Anya created HBO’s In Treatment 

Amy Brenneman entered an ensemble when she took the gig on Private Practice  

Violet had a baby cut out of her while she was conscious 

Tim Daly is Tyne’s brother and they were made to be love interests on Private Practice

Janice Licalsi on NYPD Blue

David Caruso got terrible press for his bad behavior on set of NYPD Blue

We only remembered Dennis Franz’s butt

Starred in Michael Mann’s Heat  (1995) opposite Robert DeNiro  

Things You Can Tell Just By Looking at Her (now streaming on Amazon) is one of our faves

Amy starred in Nevada an indie opposite Kathy Najimy, Saffron Burrows, and Kirstie Alley

Amy negotiated last billing: “and Amy Brenneman” on her Private Practice contract

The Good Son

Starred as angels in two of her husband, Brad Silberling’s movies: Casper and City of Angels

Fear is a violent toxic male movie that has some insane scenes

Played a lesbian in 88 Minutes opposite Al Pacino and on Veep (Season 6, ep

Queen of Scotland on the CW series, Reign opposite former guest Megan Follows (Ep #97)

Starred opposite Kathy Baker in 4 films: Things You Can Tell Just By Looking at Her, Nine Lives, The Jane Austen Book Club, ATF

Plays sister to a blind Cameron Diaz in TYCTJBLAH. Calista Flockhart was lesbian opposite Valeria Golino 

Stars in Daylight opposite Sylvester Stallone. Her character has a Cats poster on her wall. She also stops a live wire in the tunnel by putting boots on her hands @ 31:50. 

Sakina Jaffrey (Ep #25) was also in Daylight and told us about it 

Timestamp for Daylight scene: 

Cameron Diaz’ book: Body Book: The Law of Hunger, the Science of Strength, and Other Ways to Love Your Amazing Body