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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth Interview with Earl Cherniak, Renowned Lawyer, Author, “In the Courts: A Counsel’s Memoir”

 

About Harvey's guest:

 

Today’s special guest, Earl Cherniak, is a giant in the legal world. He’s been one of Canada’s leading litigation lawyers for over 60 years, with a highly impressive track record of involvement in dozens of high-profile cases that led to landmark rulings in virtually every legal domain, from personal injury and medical malpractice, to commercial litigation, family law, constitutional law and beyond. 

 

He’s also participated in public inquiries dealing with indigenous and First Nations rights, police brutality, the tainted blood scandal, the water contamination crisis in Walkerton, and even judicial council hearings dealing with judicial misconduct. 

 

He’s appeared before the Supreme Court of Canada in over 50 cases, and his commitment to fearless advocacy and the pursuit of justice for clients from all walks of life have earned him universal respect and admiration, as well as numerous awards including the Advocates’ Society Medal, the Ontario Bar Association Award for Excellence in Civil Litigation, the Osgoode Hall Law School Alumni Gold Key Award, the Lexpert Zenith “Leadership Through Change” Award, the Toronto Lawyers Association Award of Distinction, and an honourary doctorate from the Law Society of Ontario. 

 

He’s with me today to discuss his brand new book entitled, “In the Courts: A Counsel’s Memoir”, which is a fascinating, compelling and profoundly insightful contribution to the evolution of the law and justice system, and the history of advocacy in Canada.

 

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth Interview with Highly Acclaimed Veteran Actor, Barry Corbin

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Today’s special guest, Barry Corbin, is an immensely popular, multi-award-winning actor who’s given us hundreds of highly memorable performances in a stellar career spanning 6 decades.  

On the big screen, you remember him as “Uncle Bob” in “Urban Cowboy”, and he was “General Jack Beringer” in “War Games”, and of course he played “Ellis” in “No Country for Old Men”. He’s co-starred in dozens of other great movies including “Any Which Way You Can”, “Stir Crazy”, “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas”, “Six Pack”, “The Hot Spot”, “In the Valley of Elah”, and “Killers of the Flower Moon”. 

On television, he was unforgettable as the pompous former astronaut and town patriarch “Maurice Minnifield” on “Northern Exposure”, for which he received 2 Emmy Award nominations. He also played “Whitey Durham”, the tough-talking, old fashioned high school basketball coach with a heart of gold on “One Tree Hill”. And you’ve seen him in regular or recurring roles on many popular TV shows including “Dallas”, “The Big Easy”, “The Closer”, “Anger Management”, “The Ranch”, “Better Call Saul”, “Yellowstone”, “Tulsa King”, and the brand new TV series, “Brothers”, starring Matthew McConaghey and Woody Harrelson. 

He’s also appeared in many terrific TV movies and miniseries including “The Thornbirds”, “Lonesome Dove”, “Bitter Harvest”, “LBJ: The Early Years”, “Judgment Day: The Ellie Nesler Story” and “Sod and Stubble”, to name only a few. The list of awards and accolades this man has received is jaw dropping. 

In addition to his 2 Emmy Award nominations, he’s received a Golden Derby Award, a Silver Spur Award, a Texas Lone Star Merit Award, numerous lifetime achievement awards, and in 2018, he was inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma. 

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth Interview with Emmy Award Winning Actor, Ernest Harden Jr.

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Today’s special guest, Ernest Harden Jr., is making his second appearance on our show, and has been dazzling audiences since we first fell in love with him in his portrayal of “Marcus Henderson” on the classic TV sitcom, “The Jeffersons”. 

He’s delivered memorable performances in great movies like “Three Days of the Condor”, “White Men Can’t Jump”, “J. Edgar”, “Sweetwater” and “Velvet Jesus”, to name only a few. And he made the whole world take notice when he became the first and only Black actor to co-star with the legendary Bette Davis in the groundbreaking 1980 TV movie, “White Mama”.

And most recently, his heart wrenching performance as “Louie Cloverfield” in the blockbuster TV series “The Pitt”, has earned him a well-deserved Emmy Award. 

And I’m super-excited to announce that very soon, you’ll be seeing him in another unforgettably heartwarming performance in the feature film based on my memoir, “Without Prejudice”, co-starring David Arquette, Daveed Mazouz, Rachelle Lefevre and Joe Lando, and directed by the brilliant Shane Stanley.

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth Interview with Samuel Garza Bernstein, Author, “Roddy McDowall: An Actor’s Life, From How Green Was My Valley, to Lassie, to Planet of the Apes”

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Today’s guest, Samuel Garza Bernstein, is an author, screenwriter, playwright and producer who’s brought us some wonderful feature films like “Silent Lies” and “Bobbie’s Girl”, and the 6-time Emmy Award winning web series, “After Forever”, and stage productions including “The Secret World of Danny Lopez” and “Mr. Confidential”. 

He’s also written 3 terrific books about legendary Hollywood stars. The first is “Starring Joan Crawford: The Films, the Fantasy, and the Modern Relevance of a Silver Screen Icon”. Then he wrote “Cesar Romero: The Joker is Wild”. 

And now, he’s released the definitive biography of Roddy McDowall entitled, “Roddy McDowall: An Actor’s Life, From How Green Was My Valley, to Lassie, to Planet of the Apes”. This is a fascinating and engrossing story of a career spanning 60 years, from child stardom during World War II, to transitioning into a successful adult actor in classic movies like “Cleopatra”, “The Poseidon Adventure”, “Fright Night” and, of course, the “Planet of the Apes” franchise. We also learn about his many close friendships with cinematic legends like Elizabeth Taylor and his first love, Montgomery Clift, and we learn how he navigated the world of Hollywood as a gay man, remaining discreet, but never pretending to be straight, and never compromising who he was.

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth Interview with Legendary Actor, Director, & Writer, Mario Van Peebles

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Today’s guest, Veronica Cartwright, is a highly acclaimed, multi-award-winning actor, director, producer and writer who’s been entertaining and enlightening audiences in a spectacular career spanning almost 6 decades. 

On the big screen, he’s been in many great movies including “Heartbreak Ridge”, “Jaws: The Revenge”, “New Jack City”, “Ali”, “Immortal”, and of course, his 2003 classic, “Baadasssss”, his brilliant collaboration with his legendary father, Melvin Van Peebles, who first introduced his son to the world in his groundbreaking 1971 movie, “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song”. 

Since then, our guest and his father collaborated on many great films, including “Identity Crisis”, “Posse”, “Panther”, and the terrific TV movie “Gang in Blue”, to name just a few. On television, our guest has brought us dozens of outstanding performances in classic TV shows like “The Cosby Show”, “The X Files”, “Law & Order”, “LA Law”, “All My Children”, “Rude Awakening”, “Damages” and “Superstition”. He’s also co-starred in many great TV movies and miniseries including “Stompin’ at the Savoy”, “10,000 Black Men Named George”, “44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-out”, “Sharpshooter”, “Mama Flora’s Family”, and many more. 

And in addition to some of the movies I’ve already mentioned, our guest has either written, produced or directed – and sometimes all 3 - some other great movies including “Redemption Road”, “Fair Game”, “All Things Fall Apart”, “We the Party”, “USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage” and many more. He also directed Part 2 of the 2016 miniseries “Roots”, featuring his very talented son Mandela Van Peebles. And he’s directed many episodes of some of our favourite TV shows including “21 Jump Street”, “Damages”, “Lost”, “Empire”, “NCIS”, “Sons of Anarchy”, “Power Book III: Raising Kanaan”, and the new Netflix series “Nemesis”, on which he also serves as executive producer. 

Our guest has received a whole slew of awards and accolades including 2 NAACP Image Awards, 2 Black Reel Awards, numerous prestigious film festival awards, a Directors Guild of America Award nomination and 3 Film Independent Spirit Award nominations. Earlier this year he won the Icon of Achievement Award in Hollywood, and last but certainly not least, in 1994, our guest received an Honorary Doctorate from Hofstra University in recognition of his significant contributions to filmmaking and the arts.

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth Interview with Legendary Motown Superstar, Martha Reeves

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Today’s special guest, Martha Reeves, is one of the most iconic and beloved music superstars the world has ever known. As lead singer of Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, her voice helped to define and immortalize the Motown sound, bringing us a string of unforgettable hit songs including “Dancing in the Street”, “Heatwave”, “My Baby Loves Me”, “Come and Get These Memories”, “Nowhere to Run”, “Quick Sand”, “Jimmy Mack”, “I’m Ready for Love” and “Bless You”. 

As a solo artist, she’s recorded highly acclaimed albums on the MCA, Fantasy, Phonarama and ARISTA labels. In 1994, she released a very compelling, heart wrenching and inspirational memoir entitled, “Dancing in the Street: Confessions of a Motown Diva”, which is absolutely a must read. 

And now, on August 14, 2026, she’ll be releasing her first new album in 22 years, called “Searching”. Her first single from that album, “To Know You Is To Love You”, was released last month and has been climbing the charts, attracting a whole new generation of music lovers to her magical voice and artistry. 

The list of prestigious awards and accolades our guest has received is jaw dropping. She’s received the Dinah Washington Award, the Rhythm n’ Blues Foundation Pioneer Award, the Black Woman in Publishing Legends Award and the Dick Clark Soul Award, to name only a few. She’s been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Vocal Group Hall of Fame, the Rhythm and Blues Hall of Fame, and the Rock and Roll Halls of Fame in Alabama AND Michigan. And get this: in 2023, Rolling Stone Magazine included our guest on its list of the 200 greatest singers of all time. And in 2024, she FINALLY received a well-deserved star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth Interview with Celebrity Biographer, James Gavin, Author, “Cool Heat: Anita O’Day and her Dangerous Jazz Life”

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Today’s guest, James Gavin, is making his second appearance on our show. He’s a highly respected celebrity biographer and award-winning journalist whose meticulous research, attention to detail, and exceptional, insightful storytelling, make his books fascinating, compelling and memorable.  

He’s written highly acclaimed books about some of the most iconic music artists in the world including, “Intimate Nights: The Golden Age of New York Cabaret”, “Deep in a Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker”, “Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne”, and “Is That All There Is: The Strange Life of Peggy Lee”. Last time he was on our show, we discussed his hugely successful superstar biography entitled “George Michael: A Life”. 

And now, he’s released his much-anticipated 6th book entitled, “Cool Heat: Anita O’Day and her Dangerous Jazz Life”, which chronicles the eye-opening, tumultuous, sometimes tragic and yet inspirational life story of a jazz legend. Anita O’Day, who passed away in 2006 at the age of 87, after a roller coaster career spanning 70 years, was one of the most dynamic and influential vocalists of the big band and cool jazz eras. She was celebrated for her impeccable sense of rhythm, phrasing, and scat singing, and because she was such a wise-cracking hipster, she inspired the “cool school” of female jazz singers and was often referred to as “the Jezebel of Jazz”. Our guest’s book is a real page-turner, and is without question, the definitive account of Anita O’Day’s tempestuous, complicated and fascinating life and career.

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth Interview with Legendary Actor, Singer & Dancer, Ben Vereen

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Today’s special guest, Ben Vereen, is an immensely popular and beloved, multi-award winning actor, dancer, and singer, who first became a superstar because of his performances in the original Broadway productions of “Jesus Christ Superstar”, for which he received a Tony Award nomination and a Theatre World Award, and “Pippin”, for which he won a Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award for Best Actor in a Musical. 

He’s also appeared on Broadway in “Hair”, “Grind”, “Jelly’s Last Jam”, “Fosse”, “I’m not Rappaport” and “Wicked”, in which he played the Wizard of Oz. On the big screen, you’ve seen him in great movies like “Sweet Charity”, “All That Jazz”, “Why Do Fools Fall in Love”, “Idlewild”, “Tapioca”, “Time Out of Mind”, and of course, “Funny Lady”, for which he received a Golden Globe Award nomination. 

On television, he’s been nominated for 3 Emmy Awards. The first was for his brilliant portrayal of “Chicken George” in the groundbreaking miniseries, “Roots”, for which he also won a Television Critics Circle Award and a TV Land Award. His second Emmy nomination was for his wonderful medley from “Jesus Christ Superstar” in “The Bell Telephone Jubilee”. And he received a 3rd Emmy nomination for his portrayal of “Gene Randall” in “Intruders”. He’s also appeared in many classic TV shows including “Webster”, “Star Trek: The Next Generation”, “The Fresh Prince of Bel Air”, “The Nanny”, “Touched by an Angel”, “Oz”, “How I Met Your Mother”, “NCIS”, “B Positive” and “Grey’s Anatomy”, for which he won a Prism Award for Best Performance in a Drama Series. 

And he got a second Golden Globe Award nomination for his terrific performance as “Roscoe Haines” in “Ellis Island”. And besides his iconic performance in “Roots”, he also co-starred in many other great TV movies and miniseries including “Mary’s Incredible Dream”, “Lewey Armstrong – Chicago Style”, “The Jesse Owens Story”, “A.D.”, “The Kid Who Loved Christmas”, “Accidental Friendship” and “Pippin: His Life and Times”, for which he was nominated for a Cable Ace Award. 

Most recently, he got rave reviews for his performance as “Isham Worthy” in the gripping and poignant miniseries, “The Gray House”. And when he’s not performing, our guest is highly devoted to public service. He’s an active member of Americans for the Arts, and he has served on the boards of Ballet Florida, the American Red Cross, and the American Diabetes Association.

He founded an organization called Celebrities for a Drug-Free America, and he has worked tirelessly to emphasize the important potential of the arts to transform lives bring light and positivity into the world. He’s received 3 NAACP Image Awards, at least 5 honorary doctorate degrees, and numerous lifetime achievement awards including the Eleanor Roosevelt Humanitarian Award. And last but certainly not least, our guest has been inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame, the Dance Hall of Fame and the Casino Legends Hall of Fame. 

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth Interview with Music Superstar, Crystal Gayle

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Today’s special guest, Crystal Gayle, is one of the most beloved and highly acclaimed superstars in the world of country music. She’s given us 34 top ten hit songs, 22 of which went to number 1, including “Don’t it make my Brown Eyes Blue”, “Talking in Your Sleep”, “Half the Way”, “I’ll Get Over You”, “It’s Like we Never Said Goodbye”, “Our Love is on the Faultline”, “Till I Gain Control Again”, and so many more, like her wonderful duet with Eddie Rabbit, “You and I”, and her beautiful duets with Gary Morris, 2 of which were prominently featured on TV shows: “Makin’ Up for Lost Time” was a big hit on “Dallas”, and “Another World” was the theme song on the soap opera, “Another World”. 

Her popularity is so monumental, that from 1975 to 85, our guest was the Most Performed Country Female Artist on Radio. She’s recorded 25 albums, plus 17 compilation albums, many of which have gone gold and platinum worldwide. In fact, she was the very first country female artist in history to have an album go Platinum. That was her 1977 album called “We Must Believe in Magic”. 

She’s hosted 2 TV specials, and an HBO concert, as well as TV specials in Sweden and Finland. She was inducted as a member of the Grand Ole Opry by her legendary superstar sister, Loretta Lynn. And the list of awards, honours and accolades our guest has received is jaw-dropping. A Grammy Award, and 7 more Grammy nominations. Two Country Music Association Awards for Female Vocalist of the Year, and 10 more CMA nominations, including 2 for Entertainer of the Year. Five Academy of Country Music Awards, including the Cliffie Stone Pioneer Award. Four American Music Awards, including 3 for Favourite Country Female Artist. Numerous lifetime achievement awards and Hall of Fame inductions. 

Rolling Stone magazine included her on its list of the 100 greatest country artists of all time, and she is included on CMT’s list of the 40 greatest women in country music. And let’s not forget that in 1983, People Magazine ranked her at number 2 on its list of the 50 most beautiful people in the world. 

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Welcome to a very special edition of our show, which will be all about some very exciting things happening in my life. I’ve written a memoir called “Without Prejudice: My Life as a Gay Judge”, which chronicles my turbulent, tempestuous and sometimes hilarious journey from being severely bullied as a child, to being rejected by my parents after coming out to them when I was 19, to becoming a social outcast as an openly gay member of the legal profession, and then miraculously getting myself appointed Canada’s first openly gay judge, culminating in my reinvention following retirement, as a celebrity interviewer. And what’s even more exciting, is that the book has been made into a Hollywood feature film called “Without Prejudice”, directed by the brilliant Shane Stanley and starring David Arquette, David Mazouz, Rachelle Lefevre, Joe Lando, Rob Mayes, and Ernest Harden Jr. The movie will be premiering in the Fall of 2026 and in due course, you’ll be able to see it on a major streaming platform.  A few weeks ago, I received an intriguing request from my dear friend and colleague, Craig Bennett from Australia, who is the host of a terrific and very popular interview program on YouTube called “Celebrity Drop”. He very kindly suggested that he come on our show and turn the tables on me, to interview me about the book and movie. I jumped at the chance, because I can’t imagine a more fun way to let you all know about everything that’s happening.

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