This week Damian and Anne are joined by actress Talia Balsam. You Might Know Her From Divorce, Mad Men, No Strings Attached, In the Mood, and Homeland. Talia talks about growing up in a showbiz family with her actor parents, Martin Balsam and Joyce Van Patten, as well as her 20+ year marriage to her Mad Men co-star, John Slattery (and before that, George Clooney). Balsam fills us in on her guilty pleasure TV proclivities, Didi Conn tidbits, and fun facts about her cousin-in-law and Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star, Eileen Davidson. Also, Damian gets a special delivery from Stitch Fix that is both deeply mortifying and wildly spiritual.

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Discussed this week

Talia’s IMDB

Divorce

Dean Winters

Lee Strasberg Institute

Mom:Joyce Van Patten || Dad: Martin Balsam

Working with Shelley Winters in The Initiation of Sarah

Playing opposite husband, John Slattery (Return, Mad Men)

Matt Weiner (writer: Sopranos, creator: Mad Men)

Jake’s Women with her mom, Joyce vp and Alan Alda

Glenda Jackson in King Lear

D&A’s drop everything to see: Tyne Daly, Laurie Metcalf

Talia’s: Marthe Keller, John Benjamin Hickey

Good Television

South Mountain

Property Brothers, Trading Spaces promo, Ty Pennington, Love it or List , Ladies of London

Bachelor, Mr. Personality and luchadores masks Joe Millionaire, Basketball Wives, Bethenny Frankel, Flavor of Love, I Love New York, Studs, Love Connection  

Cousin Vince (tennis + poker) married to Eileen Davidson (RHOBH)

Lisa Rinna

Teletubbies, Bear in the Big Blue House, Dinosaur Train

Shining Time Station w/Didi Conn (also George Carlin, Ringo Starr)

You Light Up My Life (Didi Conn movie)

Didi Conn Dancing on Ice

Stitch Fix

Dinosaur BBQ in Harlem

Martin Balsam: A Thousand Clowns, Taking of Pelham 123, 12 Angry Men, Catch 22,

Talia Balsam: Thirtysomething, Shame 2 the secret, Thirdwatch

Pat Van Patten - numerologist, June Taylor Dancer

Sound bath in Joshua Tree (aka Rubbing crystals in dome in Joshua Tree)

T: Pisces with Scorpio rising || D: Aquarius with Aries rising || A: Libra with Sagittarius rising

Anjelica Huston’s autobio: Watch Me

Dick van Patten

Acting dynasties: Hustons, Barrymores, Pinkett Smiths, Fisher-Reynolds