CooperTalk

Steve Cooper talks with actor/director Timothy Busfield. As an actor, he has been a series regular or recurring character in 18 series including thirtysomething (four-time nominee and winner of the Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama), The West Wing, Entourage, Designated Survivor, Sleepy Hollow, Secrets and Lies, ED, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Trapper John, M.D., The Byrds of Paradise, Champs, Family Ties, Without a Trace, The Paper Chase, Reggie, All My Children, Almost Family and One Dollar. He has also appeared in over 40 television movies and feature films including Field of Dreams, Stripes, Revenge of the Nerds, Nerds in Paradise, Quiz Show, Sneakers, Striking Distance, Little Big League, First Kid, National Security, 23 Blast, Strays and Trucks. As a director he has directed over 140 episodes of television including This Is Us and multiple episodes of The Fosters (for which he directed the pilot), thirtysomething, Sports Night, Damages, Lipstick Jungle, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Without A Trace, Las Vegas, The Night Shift, Secrets and Lies, The Glades, Designated Survivor, The Rookie and many more.

Steve Cooper talks with actor/writer Dinah Manoff. Dinah is best known for her roles as Marty Maraschino in the movie Grease, Elane Lefkowitz on Soap, Carol Weston in NBC's Empty Nest and Libby Tucker in both the stage and film adaptations of I Ought to Be in Pictures for which she won a Tony Award. She has also written scripts for sitcoms and director 15 episodes of shows such as Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Sister, Sister and Empty Nest. She recently released her first novel titled The Real True Hollywood Story of Jackie Gold.  

Steve Cooper talks with musician Chip Z'Nuff. Steve Cooper talks with musician Chip Z'Nuff. Chip is best known for being one of the founders of Enuff Z'Nuff a Chicago area band that is best known for their charting singles Fly High Michelle and New Thing. Enuff Z'Nuff has continually recorded and toured throughout their career of more than 30 years, releasing 16 studio albums and a total of 24 CDs to date. They have appeared on MTV, The Jenny Jone's Show, Mancow's Morning Madhouse and multiple times on The Howard Stern Show and Late Night with David Letterman. Their latest record is cover versions of their favorite Beatles songs called Hardrock Nite.

Steve Cooper talks with musician Gina Schock. Gina is the drummer for The Go-Go's who were just inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. The Go-Go's debut album Beauty and the Beat went to number one on the charts and had two top 20 hits with Our Lips Our Sealed and We Got the Beat. Their next two albums, Vacation and Talk Show were big sellers as were the singles from them, Vacation, Head Over Heels and Turn to You. They released one more album, God Bless the Go-Go's, and have reunited through the years to sell out concert venues all across America. Gina released a self-titled album in 1988 with her band House of Schock and she later formed the short-lived group K-Five. She co-wrote the title track for Miley Cyrus's CD Breakout, which debuted at No. 1 on the US Billboard 200 Charts in the summer of 2008. She also co-wrote several tracks on the 2009 debut album Kiss & Tell by Selena Gomez & the Scene. 

Steve Cooper talks with writer/producer Scott Rosenberg. Scott has written numerous screenplays including Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead, Beautiful Girls, Con Air, Kangaroo Jack, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, Venom and Jumanji: The Next Level. He has also created, written or been executive producer on various TV productions such as Tales from the Crypt, Going to California, Life on Mars, Happy Town, Zoo and High Fidelity.

Steve Cooper talks with Chan Kinchla. Chan is best known for being the lead guitarist of Blues Traveler. While Blues Traveler is best known among fans for their improvisational live shows, the general public is most familiar with the group from their top 40 singles Run-Around, Hook, and But Anyway. They gained mainstream popularity after their fourth studio album, four, which was released in 1994 and have released 14 studio albums and are one of David Letterman's favorite bands.

Steve Cooper talks with actor William Sadler. William is best known for his roles as Heywood in The Shawshank Redemption, the Grim Reaper in Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey and Bill & Ted Face the Music, Jack McGarrett in Hawaii Five-0 and Jim Valenti in Roswell. He has also been seen in countless TV shows and movies including Die Hard 2, Iron Man 3, The Blacklist, Blue Bloods, Hunters, The Grudge, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Bull, Power, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Madam Secretary, The Flash, Homeland and many, many more. He also recently did voicework for the animated series Our Cartoon President.

Steve Cooper talks with musician/director Jerry Casale. Jerry's music career spans more than 40 years. He came to prominence in the late 1970s as co-founder, co-lead vocalist, and bass player of the band Devo, which released a Top 20 hit in 1980 with the single Whip It. He is the main lyricist and one of the main composers of Devo's music and directed most of Devo's music videos. He also has a solo project under the name of Jihad Jerry & the Evildoers, has directed music videos by The Cars, Foo Fighters, Soundgarden, Silverchair and many others and has directed several television commercials, including ads for Diet Coke and Honda Scooters featuring Devo, as well as for Coco's restaurants and Miller Lite.

Steve Cooper talks with musician John Corabi. John is best known as replacing Vince Neil in Motley Crue from 1992-96 and with them did lead vocals and helped write their self-titled follow up to the album Dr. Feelgood and their EP Qaternary. He has earned a reputation as a go-to frontman and collaborator, amassing a solid résumé as a singer and guitarist with

Steve Cooper talks with actor Dedee Pfeiffer. Dedee currently co-stars in the ABC hit series Big Sky. She is also known for playing Cybill's daughter, Rachel, on the sitcom Cybill, Sheri on the sitcom For Your Love, and her film appearances as Val in The Allnighter and Sheila in Falling Down. Some of her other credits include appearances in Friends, Wings, Ellen, ER, Burn Notice, CSI: NY and Seinfeld.