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Please join me for An Author's Afternoon with new author Vincent Van Patten in The Locher Room. Vincent is a Californian native who calls Del Mar his home. He is a writer, media creator, and co-host of The Dare to Dream Podcast. Most importantly, he considers himself an inspired citizen of our ever-changing world motivated by a love for travel, history, spirituality, personal growth, and human connection.

Last year, Vincent was encouraged by somebody he admired to tell his story, as he see's the world now. This is what the act of inspiration turned into. Within the pages of his new book, Arrow of Youth, you’ll find what he loves, how he see the world, and what he's learned so far at 26 years old.

Arrows of Youth is a story of adventure, an ode to life—the incomprehensible, the beautiful, the painful and the meaningful. Guided by ancient wisdom, timeless stories and contemporary discussion, Vincent's book encompasses his quest to never stop asking: Why are we really here?

Come spend time getting to know this inspiring young man! Vincent
hopes his book inspires you and makes you think of the world and our connections as human beings in a different way. He hope's it makes you stop, look around, and listen.

Original Airdate: 10/20/2021

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Please join me for An Author’s Afternoon live in The Locher Room to meet three talented writers who will be here to share their stories with all of you.

Tina Andrews is an author and an actress who appeared in ROOTS and played Valerie Grant on Days of Our Lives. She received a Writers Guild Award for her Sally Hemings: An American Scandal and followed that up with a bio-pic on Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis.

Andrews is often referenced as a Historical Griot, and her book Charlotte Sophia is a groundbreaking, shocking, and thoroughly timely tale about Queen Charlotte, who is thought to be England’s first biracial royal and who is portrayed in the Netflix smash hit Bridgerton.

Long before the popular Netflix series, Tina Andrews—a WGA and NAACP Image Award-winning writer, producer, and director—developed an interest in Queen Charlotte. After years of research and writing, she published Charlotte Sophia in 2013, and the book has just been released as an audiobook by Recorded Books.

The film and television rights to the book, which covers everything from Queen Charlotte’s efforts to conceal her African heritage to her forbidden love for Johann Christian Bach, were recently acquired by HBO Max, with Andrews writing the pilot.

Rodger Howard spent over 30 years covering television news in the city of Los Angeles as a photojournalist. He believes that while his profession provides a videographer the opportunity to share stories and experiences with the public, it also carries a tremendous responsibility. Photographers have the obligation to tell the whole story, to provide some perspective and critical information along with visuals.

Rodger’s book, fOCUS, the (almost 100%) True Tale of an Intrepid News Photographer, is like nothing you’ve read before. This exciting novel is based on true-life stories of an experienced news videographer named Ron Sharp. Ron’s career has highs, lows, grinding boredom and heart-racing excitement, sometimes all in the same day. Beauty, Heroism, Tragedy, and Evil - All part of the job. His novel was released in July 2021.

Author R. A. Revis was born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada and has been a fan of fantasy novels for almost as long as he has been able to read. His first novel, The Dark Times Saga: The Black Forest, is fueled by his fascination of the paranormal and the supernatural, including his love of ancient history and religions. The Dark Times Saga: The Black Forest by R A Revis, was released in July 2021.

Dark Times Saga: The Black Forest is a tale of good versus evil, light versus dark, and takes place on a fictional new continent far west of medieval England. It’s a story that intertwines myths with reality during an apocalyptic time for the world. The story takes place during a gothic Arthurian age where monsters of myth and legend were all too real and the dawn of science was fast approaching. This novel will appeal to people who enjoyed “Game of Thrones”, “The Witcher”, “Lord of the Rings”, and other fantasy adventure novels with a dark foreboding tale, that include rich believable characters and a setting within a historical backdrop of a grim world filled with horrors that lurk in the night.

Original Airdate: 10/13/2021

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Actor Michael Lowry will stop by The Locher Room to share memories from his incredible career and his daytime television roles on All My Children (Jake Martin), As the World Turns (Les Sweeney), The Bold and the Beautiful (Dr. Hillman), One Life to Live (Ross Rayburn) and Days of Our Lives (Dr. Clay Snyder).

Do not miss the chance to catch up with this talented actor next Thursday in The Locher Room.

Original Airdate: 10/14/2021

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Tune-in to The Locher Room for a look back at Search for Tomorrow with two actresses and good friends, Maree Cheatham (Stephanie Wyatt) and Lisa Peluso (Wendy Wilkins Carter).

Maree has been a working actress for over 60+ years and is knowns to daytime audiences for her roles on Search, General Hospital and Port Charles (Charlene Simpson), Passions (Mona) and Days of Our Lives (Marie Horton). She is best known to movie audiences for roles in Beetlejuice, Mr. and Mrs. Smith and The Wedding Singer. As Maree puts it, "In my on-going 60+year career as a working actress, pottery continues to save my sanity. I live in two worlds, Native American and TV! When I am between gigs, I’m in my pottery studio or the garden, grounding myself by putting my hands into the dirt or clay."

Lisa is also known for her other roles on ABC's Loving as Ava Rescott Forbes Alden Masters, as Lila Hart Roberts Cory Winthrop on NBC's Another World. as well as shorter roles Somerset, Love of Life, As the World Turns and One Life to Live. Lisa and her husband Brad have both left their previous careers to accept a position in Ministry.

See you Friday in The Locher Room to catch up with these two talented ladies.

Original Airdate: 10/15/2021

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Please join me for a very special episode of The Locher Room featuring coming out stories about gay sons and their mothers as we celebrate National Coming Out Day.

Joining me for this special episode will be Psychotherapist Rick Miller who became curious about the relationship between gay men and their mothers, a theme resonating throughout his clinical practice which led him to explore this special relationship in depth. He found that virtually no one was writing about this critical bond. Rick launched the nonprofit organization, Gay Sons and Mothers as a result. This project validates the significance of a mother’s role in her son’s life where, for many decades, she received little encouragement from others!

In addition to Rick, mother and son Helen and Rick Garceau will be here to discuss his coming out, and how he postponed this due to fears of rejection by his parents. Their responses to him were completely accepting, he didn’t need to wait so long!

Please join us to hear these heartwarming stories and my personal coming out with my late mother, Fifi Locher.

Original Airdate: 10/8/2021

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Please join me for the ninth episode in the Conversations with Alan series in The Locher Room to meet Scott Richman, the Anti-Defamation League's Regional Director of the New York/New Jersey office. Scott will be here to discuss the rise of hate and antisemitism in our country and around the world. In addition, Scott will tell us about his work which includes incident response, anti-bias education, legislative initiatives, educational programs, fundraising and leadership development – all designed to fight antisemitism and combat hate in all its forms. He will break down the elements of antisemitism and hate, such as digital hate and extremism; he will discuss the numbers, left vs. right, and talk about what can be done to combat the rise we are witnessing as well as share how people can be allies.

Scott hosts a weekly national podcast called “From the Frontlines” which focuses on the timely work of ADL. He is an experienced advocate dedicated to developing community partnerships and initiatives that provide justice, equality, and fair treatment for all.

Please join us to stand-up to hate!

Original Airdate: 10/6/2021

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Please join me for An Author's Afternoon featuring public relations' snarkiest publicist and new author, Jeremy Murphy. Jeremy expertly chronicles his hatred, love, indifference, amusement, and scorn for the profession in F*ck Off, Chloe due out March of 2022. From entitled millennials to surly reporters, obnoxious clients, and cumbersome, color-coded “trackers,” Murphy takes a scalpel and glass of Châteauneuf-du-Pape to the PR industry in a searing, hilarious, and pissy voice that his own psychiatrist finds “deeply concerning.” His collection of annoyances shed light on the industry’s idiosyncrasies, insanities, contradictions, and past due invoices, providing an illuminating window into the dirty world of public relations not even Xanax can help. Complementing the scathing prose are color-in illustrations by artist Darren Greenblatt, creator of the “Ugly Lives of Beautiful People” sketch series.

Murphy is the founder of 360bespoke, a media agency that provides public relations, content development, reputation management and crisis communications for clients in categories such as luxury, arts, fashion/ beauty, hospitality, travel, media, start-ups and entrepreneurs. He is especially known for securing marquee media placements for a quirky collection of clients who include a violinist, skin care brand, celebrity cosmetics line, fashion labels, world renowned florist and opera star, among others. Previously, Murphy spent 14 years at CBS where he served many roles as a Vice President, most notably as a company spokesperson and editor-in-chief.

Jeremy and I first met when I was working on As the World Turns and Guiding Light. He gained industry recognition at CBS where he created and edited its glossy magazine Watch.

Don't miss the chance to read a laugh-out-loud account of working in media and meet Jeremy right here in The Locher Room.

Original Airdate: 10/6/2021

Please join Animal Kingdom's Jake Weary (Deran Cody in The Locher Room. Jake will be here to discuss Season Five and the upcoming season finale.

Born in Montclair, New Jersey, to an award-winning actress mother (Kim Zimmer) and an actor/director father (A.C. Weary), Jake Weary started following in their successful footsteps in his early teens. After booking a number of guest roles, he took a break from acting to focus on school, including time at the prestigious California Institute of the Arts.

Since then, Weary’s career has been an eclectic mix of memorable characters for prestigious and interesting filmmakers. Weary starred as the lead in Oscar nominated director Juanita Wilson’s Tomato Red. His other notable film credits include Film Independent Spirit nominee David Robert Mitchell's thriller, It Follows, an official selection of the Cannes Film Festival; Jordan Rubin's horror spoof Zombeavers, an official selection of the Tribeca Film Festival; and Message From the King for Fabrice Du Welz, an official selection of the Toronto International Film Festival; Smartass for Jena Serbu; Brett Simon's Assassination of a High School President, an official Sundance Film Festival selection; and Kaare Andrews's Altitude.

Weary can be seen in the highly anticipated sequel It: Chapter 2 as well as starring opposite Melissa Leo in the thriller Leave Not One Alive. His film Finding Steve McQueen, for Mark Steven Johnson, was released in March of 2018.

Other recent television credits include multi-episode arcs on NBC's hit drama Chicago Fire and Freeform’s smash Pretty Little Liars, as well as notable turns in the Lifetime movies Escape from Polygamy and A Deadly Adoption with Will Ferrell and Kristin Wiig, both for Rachel Goldenberg. Weary made his television debut opposite his mother on Guiding Light in before joining the cast of As the World Turns as Luke Snyder.

Weary currently lives in Los Angeles, where he continues to pursue his other passion of writing and producing his own music.

Original Airdate: 10/1/2021

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Please join me for a very special look at Dark Shadows and Beyond The Jonathan Frid Story in The Locher Room. This is the first feature-length documentary devoted to Canadian-born actor Jonathan Frid, who became a television sensation with his portrayal of guilt-ridden vampire Barnabas Collins on Dark Shadows, the 1966 – 1971 daytime drama that remains a beloved cult classic today. Joining me to talk about Jonathan and the documentary is Emmy-winning soap opera producer Mary O’Leary (The Young And The Restless, General Hospital, One Life To Live, Another World, Guiding Light) who wrote and produced the documentary. Mary will be joined by Dark Shadows actress Marie Wallace who played Jenny Collins, one of three parts she played on the series.

Who was the man beneath the vampire’s cloak? The documentary reveals Frid’s joys, struggles, artistic triumphs and rise to fame in part through his own written correspondences, read by Ian Buchanan (General Hospital, Twin Peaks) and the reminiscences of family, friends, and co-stars.

Among those offering insights are veteran talk show host Dick Cavett; actress Marion Ross (Happy Days), Anthony Zerbe (Omega Man, Harry O), Christina Pickles (St. Elsewhere, Friends) and Dark Shadows colleagues David Selby, Lara Parker, Kathryn Leigh Scott, Nancy Barrett, Marie Wallace, James Storm, John Karlen and Dan Curtis. Frid (who passed away in 2012 at age 87) appears in never-before-seen interviews as well as rare performance material and archival images.

Dark Shadows and Beyond The Jonathan Frid Story will be available on Blu-ray, DVD and the Amazon Digital Platform on October 5 from MPI Media Group.

Original Airdate: 9/30/2021

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Please join us for a very special look at back at the groundbreaking daytime drama Generations in The Locher Room. Joining us for this reunion are creator and Executive Producer Sally Sussman along with cast members Jonelle Allen (Doreen Jackson), George DelHoyo (Rob Donnelly), Rick Fitts (Martin Jackson), Kelly Rutherford (Sam Whitmore), Robert Torti (Lt. Kyle Masters), and Nancy Sorel (Monique McCallum).

Generations premiered on NBC from March 27, 1989, to January 25, 1991. The show was groundbreaking as television's first fully integrated daytime soap featuring from its inception an African-American family as one of the lead families. It focused on the relationship between two Chicago families: the Whitmores and the Marshalls.

Original Airdate: 9/29/2021