Joshua Tate one of today’s young independent filmmakers says that in middle school he made silly videos with puppets for his English class. By the time he got to college he was challenged by what he saw the people around doing, and he turned to work involving human rights advocacy. By the time he left school with a degree in film from...

Gail Ford Williamson’s career took off thanks to the blessing of mother-love for her son Blair who more or less backed into a commercial for Proctor and Gamble 25 years ago when he was 11 years old. He was a Special Olympics runner, a talented charmer who had such a good time at it, and so captivated the crew that Gail realized...

Sheena Metal of The Sheena Metal Experience covers a lot of ground when she is the host of her LA talk radio show by, yes, that very name. Turns out she covers a lot of ground here, too, as a guest on Love Letters Live. You probably know her from her years as a well-established radio personality, actor, writer, musician,...

Robert Strong, a magician of 30 years experience and ever at ease with doing what seems to be impossible, is doing something unusual even by San Francisco and his own standards. A séance. Yes, really. Skeptic though he is, he is willing to give Harry Houdini, who has been trying for 88 years, another chance to reach us. Robert...

Dana Fredsti, author of the Ashley Parker series and other modern horror stories, is a spellbinding combination of talents, charm, good cheer, quirky attitudes, a courageous sense of good against evil and love of animals. It was years ago at a Renaissance Faire that she stood in line waiting for a turkey leg and piped up an “I’ll do...

Noah Griffin, founder and artistic director of the Cole Porter Society, has abilities, talents, education and careers any one of which would be accomplishment enough for most people. Not enough for Noah, who is, in addition to everything else, a remarkable historian who knows how to bring the backdrop of an era to anything he does. He is...

You may remember David Fitzgerald,  the enthusiastic atheist guide to western religion and author of Nailed: Ten Christian Myths that Show Jesus Never Existed. He is back to talk about the subject of his second book The Mormons. This is an investigation of the beginnings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Joseph Smith’s personal history. Not at all combative, just,...

I am happy to say that Gloria Castaneda, as she laughingly admits, loves to talk about her life, because quite a life it is! Step by step from way before her birth it has been dramatic, but as for her personal  appearance on life’s stage, she was born in El Paso and raised for her first 6 years in Ciudad Juarez...

Hillary Baack knew, in her heart and soul, from the time she was five years old and went with her parents to the theater, she wanted to be on the stage. And, set about it she did, one foot in front of the other, one undeviating step at a time. After two school plays and with that experience behind...

Eduardo Bar, talented, handsome, charming, buoyant and courageously ready to catch the next wave is an Argentinian actor who made his way to Los Angeles at the age of 26 after having found success on the musical theater stage in Buenos Aires. He used to write 3,4,5 page letters often to his friends and family in Argentina, probably a...