It’s as if we never said goodbye! Happy pride and happy summer, bbs! We are back with a very special clip show episode with brand new content featuring Wendy Makkena, Heather Matarazzo, Anne Heche, Baayork Lee, and Tichina Arnold. Wendy Makkena (Sister Act) opens our show with her uncanny impersonation of our fave Penny Marshall who directed Wendy as “All the Way” Mae in the TV series version of A League of Their Own. Heather Matarazzo (Welcome to the Dollhouse) talks to us about donning Carrie Fisher-like tinted glasses in Scream 3 and remembers working with both Debbie Reynolds and Carrie on Roseanne. Anne Heche (Six Days, Seven Nights) gives us the skinny on her dating life that included both George Clooney and the recently single Lindsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mad fame. Baayork Lee (A Chorus Line) imagines a revival of the musical Seesaw; she danced on point and covered in balloons in the original production opposite the great Tommy Tune, And finally, Tichina Arnold (Martin) shares the pre-CGI magic of the opening scene of Little Shop of Horrors as directed by the incomparable Frank Oz. All that, plus Anne’s dad Ralph makes a surprise visit to the pod to show us why Anne is the way she is, and listener Kathy shares a real life story about Frank Oz that will make you sing. We love you and will see you next month, kittens.

Wendy Makkena did a Penny Marshall impression for us. Penny directed her in the tv series 

version of A League of Their Own (1993) 

Full Wendy Makkena interview (Episode #79) 

Nell with Jodie Foster, Liam Neeson, and Natasha Richardson

My dad broke news of R Kelly’s rapes and Notorious BIG’s death

It’s a police SCANNER (thanks, Daniel)

Penny Marshall’s book My Mother Was Nuts

Kathleen Turner’s Send Myself Roses: Thoughts on My Life, Love, and Leading Roles

Penny Marshall sniffing pillows for Spielberg, NOT Tom Hanks, as Anne said

Wendy Makkena has an all-natural popsicle line, Ruby’s Rockets 

We love Penny Marshall and Garry Marshall who are Italian, not Jewish! They played a married couple in Hocus Pocus.

Garry directed Heather in The Princess Diaries. 

Scream 5 has been announced

Heather worked with Carrie Fisher’s mom, Debbie Reynolds on Roseanne (she played Dan’s mom).

Full Heather Matarazzo interview (Episode #73) 

Heather in tinted glasses as Martha Meeks (Randy’s sister) in Scream 3 

Full Anne Heche interview (Episode #82) 

Full Baayork Lee interview (Episode #75)

Seesaw’s “It’s Not Where You Start It’s Where You Finish” 

Shirley MacLaine’s Kennedy Center Honors

Tommy Tune is an OUT homosexual

Baayork’s piece de resistance “Turkey Lurkey Time” from Promises, Promises

Katori Hall just won the Pulitzer Prize for The Hot Wing King

Watch the Starz series, P-Valley (created by Katori Hall)

Carrie Fisher smoking an e-cig with tinted glasses on head

Tinted glasses were a thing (late 90s early 2000s)

Anne Heche dated both Lindsey Buckingham and George Clooney

Lindsay Buckingham is getting a divorce

Frank Oz is a genius and one of the only men we love

Full Tichina Arnold interview (Episode #83) 

Opening number of Little Shop of Horrors where the rain never gets on the urchins (Tichina, Tisha Campbell, Michelle Weeks)

Existential Muppets screentest with Frank Oz and Jim Henson as Fozzie and Kermit

Tichina Arnold was in Fakin’ Da Funk with Nell Carter, who was in Maid for Each Other with previous guest, Joyce Van Patten and NEXT month’s mystery guest!

Joyce Van Patten is in a movie at the Tribeca Festival: If I’m Alive Next Week....

Full Joyce Van Patten interview (Episode #36) where she shouts out Peter Friedman

Go see In the Heights with previous guest Daphne Rubin Vega 

Full Daphne interview (Episode #2)