It's Marsha Mason. You Might Know Her From The Goodbye Girl, Chapter Two, The Middle, Grace & Frankie, Drop Dead Fred, Heartbreak Ridge, Frasier, Only When I Laugh, Cinderella Liberty, and Judy Garland: Me & My Shadows.

Marsha is a prolific stage and screen actor, a 4-time Oscar-nominee, an organic herb farmer, a race car driver, and a theatre director who gave us all the scoop on jumping in as a last-minute understudy for The Roommate starring Patti LuPone and Mia Farrow on Broadway. We talk about her artistic (and personal) partnership with her ex-husband Neil Simon, the original Goodbye Girl directed by Mike Nichols and starring Robert Deniro that never was (Bogart Slept Here), and what it was like seeing Kathleen Turner "play her" in her stepdaughter, Ellen Simon's film Moonlight and Valentino. All that plus, the cult status of Drop Dead Fred, her failed sitcom Sibs, and the Ethel Gumm of it all. This one was such an incredible full-circle moment for us and a great way to close out this half of the season but we'll be back real soon! Love yous, mean it.

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Discussed this week:

Assistant directing with Broadway director, Jack O'Brien

viral moment with Patti LuPone in The Roommate

Cinderella Liberty with James Caan (The Goodbye Girl, Chapter 2)

Started racing cars thanks to Paul Newman

Nominated for Lead Actress Oscar four times

3 of those 4 were written by Neil Simon

Played Arlene in Grace & Frankie. Still friends with Jane Fonda

The Goodbye Girl with Quin Cummings who played her 9 year old daughter

Mike Nichols was original director and Robert DeNiro was original star

Marsha reading the letter at beginning of GG

Patricia Heaton and Jeff Daniels in tv remake of GG

Got another Oscar nom for Chapter Two which was semi based on her relationship with Neil Simon

Moonlight and Valentino written by Neil Simon's daughter Ellen, and the "Marsha" character was played by Kathleen Turner in the movie

Only When I Laugh phone scene

Play written for Maureen Stapleton (allegedly) and MM and Neil went to UK to see Elaine Stritch in Gingerbread Lady

Drop Dead Fred

Friends with writer Tony Fingleton and turning his book Swimming Upstream into a musical

Sibswas one season sitcom with Margaret Collen and Jami Gertz

Played John Mahoney's gf Sherry on Frasier

Played Ethel Gumm, Judy Garland's mom in Me and My Shadows

The Goodbye Girl turned into musical with Bernadette and Martin Short

Barnabus Collins turned her into a vampire in Dark Shadows

Was directed by Robert Wise opposite Anthony Hopkins in the 1977 thriller, Audrey Rose (reincarnation psychological thriller)

0:57 "A dancer died at the top of these stairs" (Shirley MacLaine is her New Mexico friend)

1:24 Slaps Clint Eastwood in Heartbreak Ridge

Losing Oscar to Glenda Jackson worse than losing to Kate Hepburn

Lucille Bremer played by Queer as Folk's Thea Gill in Me and My Shadows

Anne's Lucille Bremer story has to go behind a paywall