Well folks, we’re still alive and this week we are joined by the charming Natalie Zea. You Might Know Her From The Detour, Justified, The Other Guys, The Following, Dirty Sexy Money, Californication, Passions, and The Unicorn. We were absolutely giddy talking to Natalie about cutting her teeth on the wacky soap Passions, how she convinced the Hollywood powers-that-be that she was a gifted comedic player, and maybe most importantly, we dug into Natalie’s first role as Lana Tisdale in Kimberly Peirce’s unreleased short, Boys Don’t Cry, which would go on to inspire the feature film. We need this footage, stat! All that plus some excellent old Hollywood gossip. Please see us online at #OldHollywoodHungLikeAHorse.

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Three’s Company with John Ritter, Suzanne Somers, Joyce DeWitt

John Ritter’s exposes his testicles 

Thanks to Daniel Sears for this clarification: Mr. Furley wore the ascots and came AFTER the Ropers. The Ropers left in a spin-off series called, appropriately, The Ropers.

Dawn Wells (Maryann from Gilligan’s Island) just died from COVID

Dolly Parton’s Christmas on the Square as IMPORTANT 

Law and Order: SVU will hire as many theatre actors as they can

We are not into Linda Lavin’s Madame (Mama) Rose

Need to find Joyce DeWitt’s Madame Rose

Madame Rose vs Mama Rose (-Arthur Laurents)

Trump banned from Twitter, Backstreet Boy Brian Littrell linked out to his Parler account

AJ McLean posted his response on IG

Passions (Tabitha and Timmy, Precious the Orangutan, KY jelly product placement)

Gwen breaking into the show’s theme song during Teresa’s childbirth

Married to Travis Schuldt, who played her love interest, Ethan on the show

Their podcast, Passions for Life gives you nuts & bolts behind Passions eps they’re both in

ABC’s Dirty, Sexy, Money got the full rollout but was canceled after two seasons )

Christinith in The Other Guys (dir: Adam McKay)

Stars as Robin Randall in the TBS sitcom, The Detour (created by Jason Jones and Samantha Bee)

Starred opposite Timothy Olyphant in the FX series, Justified

Winona and Raylan fan videos

Pre-pandemic worked on with Rob Lowe on 9-1-1 Lonestar and The Unicorn opposite Walton Goggins

Natalie worked with Jamie Babbit a bunch (fave lesbian?)

Natalie starred as Lana Tisdale in Kimberly Peirce’s short film that went on to become the feature film, Boys Don’t Cry but she’s never seen the footage and we can’t find it anywhere. 

Loves old Hollywood and read Ava Gardner’s biography, Ava: My Story, but she never said the famous quote attributed to her about Frank Sinatra’s penis: “he was "only 110 pounds, but 10 pounds of it is cock!" 

#OldHollywoodHungLikeaHorse (Mickey Rooney, Sinatra, Errol Flynn, Cesar Romero)

What contemporary actor is hung? Hint: he was mentioned on this podcast

We mentioned Michael Fassbender, Jon Hamm, Liam Neeson but hint: he was already discussed on the episode (Duchovny, Krause, Bacon, Jones, Goggins?)

Has worked on almost every network: ABC (Dirty Sexy Money), CBS (Under the Dome, The Unicorn), NBC (Passions), FOX (The Following), HBO (Hung), Showtime (Californication, White Famous), TBS (The Detour), FX (The Shield, Justified). 

Was hoping to get Yellowjackets (upcoming on Showtime) and turned down the test for Izzie on Grey’s Anatomy

Veronica Cartwright (In Sight) and Joanna Cassidy (Too Much)

Veronica is iconic in The Witches of Eastwick

fuck: Tabitha the Witch (Juliet Mills), marry: Precious the Orangutan, kill: Timmy the Doll

Peter Krause dated Lauren Graham (who was Adelaide in Guys & Dolls on Broadway)

Duchovny was in Playing God with Angelina Jolie and Timothy Hutton

Full Lainie Kazan interview

Connecting this week’s guest to next week’s: Natalie was in The Following with Kevin Bacon who presented next week’s guest with her Emmy. Natalie was in Grey Lady with Eric Dane who was in X-Men:The Last Stand with next week’s guest

“I Want it That Way” is a perfect song 

Kevin is cousins with Brian Littrell

Kevin Richardson = Posh Spice = Michael from Boyz II Men

Lance Bass is a true bass