Conversations with Allan Wolper

Conversations with Allan Wolper

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  • Willie Reale: The Man Behind Blue Bloods and Billions
    Willie Reale is the Co-Executive producer of Billions , the Showtime hit series on Wall Street chicanery, and the former supervising producer of Blue Blood s, the CBS cops drama. He won an Academy Award nomination for writing the lyrics to the movie, Dream Girls. Reale’s 52nd Street Project that created theater projects for inner city children won him a MacArthur Fellowship.
    30 min
  • V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai: The Controversial Inventor of EMAIL
    V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai received a United States Copyright in 1982 crediting him with being The Inventor of EMAIL, a title he earned as a 14-year-old research scholar at the University of Medicine and Dentistry in Newark, New Jersey. He said he received a copyright certificate on August 30, 1982 , rather than a patent, because patents were not awarded to software discoveries at the time. However, he says he has been forced to defend his creation in a series of high profile court cases and high
    30 min
  • Roger Sherman: In Search of Israeli Cuisine
    Roger Sherman has produced a documentary that makes an extraordinary journey through Israeli kitchens, restaurants and vineyards. The movie, In Search of Israeli Cuisine , explores the ancient and modern farming and cooking techniques created by the polyglot of people who migrated to Israel or never left. The film will open March 24th at the Lincoln Plaza Cinema in New York and in theaters around the country. Sherman says he found a wealth of tasty treasures in Israel: “I always wanted to go to
    30 min
  • Wil Haygood: Racism and The Academy Awards
    Author Wil Haygood believes that Hollywood is finally becoming emancipated. Haygood had accused the Academy Awards in 2014 of being “culturally biased” against African American actors and filmmakers when it declined to give a single nomination to the critically praised ,The Butler, the story based on the life of Eugene Allen, a black butler in the White House who served eight presidents. Haygood wrote the Washington Post profile of Allen that inspired the movie, was an associate producer of the
    30 min
  • Wounded Warrior's Nancy Schiliro Beetstra Continues to Inspire
    Nancy Schiliro lost her eye as result of a mortar explosion in Iraq when she was a Lance Corporal in the U-S Marine Corps. At that time, she was not married and returned home to New York battered and depressed. The Wounded Warrior Organization gave her the will to fight her way back. Now she is helping other injured veterans return to a normal life. She is currently a Wounded Warrior Outreach Specialist and an inspiration to all Americans. Since this Conversations with Allan Wolper Associated
    31 min
  • Michael Connelly: Los Angeles Detective Harry Bosch is on Amazon Prime
    Bestselling mystery writer Michael Connelly has brought back his iconic, idealistic, acerbic, jazz loving, Los Angeles police detective Harry Bosch back for a third season on Amazon Prime. Bosch, who Connelly named after 15th century artist Hieronymus Bosch, is a is a binger’s delight. Titus Welliver, a slimmed down version of the Bosch books, plays Harry just the way Connelly describes the LA cop in his 21 novels. It had to be that way. Hollywood wasn’t going to get Bosch any another way. “I
    30 min
  • David Rozenholc, The Lawyer Who Took on Trump
    David Rozenholc is the tenant lawyer who took on Donald Trump in one of the most famous cases in New York City real estate history. Rozenholc prevented Trump's wrecking ball from demolishing a building and evicting the tenants from their apartments at 100 Central Park South now called Trump Parc East. Crain's Business called Rozenholc a lawyer that powerful landlords and developers dread facing in court.
    29 min
  • David Rozenholc is the tenant lawyer who took on Donald Trump in one of the most famous cases in New York real estate history
    ["David Rozenholc is the tenant lawyer who took on Donald Trump in one of the most famous cases in New York City real estate history. Rozenholc prevented Trump's wrecking ball from demolishing a building and evicting the tenants from their apartments at 100 Central Park South now called Trump Parc East. Crain's Business called Rozenholc a lawyer that powerful landlords and developers dread facing in court.", OrderedDict([('@xmlns:itunes', 'http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd'), ('#text', "David Rozenholc is the tenant lawyer who took on Donald Trump in one of the most famous cases in New York City real estate history. Rozenholc prevented Trump's wrecking ball from demolishing a building and evicting the tenants from their apartments at 100 Central Park South now called Trump Parc East. Crain's Business called Rozenholc a lawyer that powerful landlords and developers dread facing in court.")])]
    30 min
  • Letitia James is a fierce fighter for low income tenants facing eviction. She is campaigning for equal pay for women at NYC City Hall
    ['New York City Public Advocate Letitia James is a fierce fighter for low income tenants facing eviction from predatory landlords. James is pained by the fact 60,000 people have to sleep in homeless shelters every night. She recently started a campaign to win equal pay for women working in City Hall. She is the first woman of color to hold citywide office in New York, a former city council member,a Legal Aid Society public defender and an assistant attorney general.', OrderedDict([('@xmlns:itunes', 'http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd'), ('#text', 'New York City Public Advocate Letitia James is a fierce fighter for low income tenants facing eviction from predatory landlords. James is pained by the fact 60,000 people have to sleep in homeless shelters every night. She recently started a campaign to win equal pay for women working in City Hall. She is the first woman of color to hold citywide office in New York, a former city council member,a Legal Aid Society public defender and an assistant attorney general.')])]
    30 min
  • Mario F. Gallucci, "Mr. Acquittal"
    Mario F. Gallucci, a criminal attorney whose twitter handle is @MrAcquittal, has defended some of the most controversial clients in New York City history. Gallucci represented a dental surgeon who made millions of dollars harvesting and selling body parts, including the remains of Alistair Cooke, the late host of Masterpiece Theater. He is a legal analyst on the New York 1 Cable News station and has his own reality television show, Partners in Crime.
    30 min

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