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Actress Jessica Morris was my guest in The Locher Room to discuss her latest project as the lead in Danger in the Spotlight, which is set to premiere on Lifetime Movie Network August 27th.

Born and raised in Jacksonville, Florida, actress Jessica Morris has built an impressive career for herself in television and film. Best known for her role as Jennifer Rappaport on One Life to Live, she also starred as a lead in the Daytime Emmy nominated Amazon Prime miniseries Ladies of the Lake and Ladies of the Lake: Return to Avalon. A fan-favorite on Lifetime, Morris has brought her talent to several TV movies including The Wrong Man, The Wrong Teacher, and The Wrong Student, The Wrong Fiancée, and Pool Boy Nightmare among many others.

Original Airdate: 8/13/2021

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Emmy Award-winning actor A Martinez sat down with me in The Locher Room. A is well known to daytime television audiences for his roles on Santa Barbara (Cruz Castillo), General Hospital (Roy DiLucca), One Life to Live (Ray Montez), The Bold and the Beautiful (Dr. Ramon Montgomery), Days of Our Lives (Eduardo Hernandez) and The Bay (Nardos Ramos). In Primetime, Martinez is well known for his roles on L.A. Law, Profiler, Longmire and Queen of the South. His feature films include The Cowboys (1972), Powwow Highway (1989) and Curse of Chucky (2013).

Original Airdate: 8/12/2021

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Michelle Danner is a director, a performer, a teacher, a storyteller and an entrepreneur and she will join me in The Locher Room to discuss her incredible career.

The legendary acting teacher and co-founder of the Edgemar Center for the Arts and the Los Angeles Acting Conservatory, Danner’s also now well-established as a successful feature film director. Danner’s recent film “Bad Impulse,” is a psychological thriller about family secrets and modern technology, starring Sonya Walger, Grant Bowler, and Paul Sorvino. The film recently won Best Narrative Feature at the 2019 International Independent Film Awards and the Best Director Award at the 2019 Culver City Film Festival.

Her upcoming film “The Runner,” was filmed before the pandemic started. The action thriller and true-life coming of age story stars Cameron Douglas and newcomer Edouard Philipponnat as a troubled teenager forced to go undercover to expose a drug kingpin.

A dedicated mom (with one son who is an aspiring filmmaker), Danner still has her “day job” – overseeing the faculty of the Los Angeles Acting Conservatory, and conducting her weekly acting class. Danner’s list of students has included Christian Slater, Salma Hayek, Gerard Butler, Seth McFarlane, Penelope Cruz, Chris Rock, Gabrielle Union, and Zooey Deschanel. A longtime student of legendary acting teachers like Stella Adler and Uta Hagen, Danner’s eclectic approach (which she calls “The Golden Box”) allows actors the freedom to employ a wide variety of techniques.

Raised in a show business family and with a deep appreciation for all of the performing arts, Danner also continues to run the boutique “Cinema at the Edge” film festival and is currently preparing to direct a new one-person play, Bonnie Culver’s “Norris,” starring Anne Archer, based on the memoirs of the widow of writer Norman Mailer.

Simply put, there’s almost no one in the business who knows as much about acting and success as Michelle Danner – and her continued success in multiple creative fields makes her one of the most successful women working in the industry today.

Original Airdate: 8/11/2021

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One Life to Live's Donnie Jeffcoat (Joey Buchanan) joined me in The Locher Room. Donnie will be here to take a look back at his career in television and of course his time spent in Llaneview. Donnie will also tell us about his current role as Chief Instructor and owner of Shaolin American Self Defense Academy and his most important role to date as father to eight month old Willow.

Sensei Donnie Jeffcoat started his martial arts training in the Fredrick J. Villari Kempo system in 1985. To add to his martial arts repertoire, he transferred to Professor Charles Materra's United Studios of Self-Defense system two years later. Since then, he has studied Shaolin Kempo and various other forms of martial arts, including but not limited to fight choreography. Donnie has been teaching Kenpō since 2006 and opened the Shaolin American Self-Defense Academy in 2011. He currently trains in American Kenpo and is a fifth degree black belt.

Original Airdate: 8/5/2021

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Rob Paulsen, one of Hollywood’s busiest, most talented, and most passionate performers who specializes in the art of voice acting, a career that has earned him a Daytime Emmy, three Annie Awards, and a Peabody Award will join me in The Locher Room.

You know Rob Paulsen? You probably grew up with Rob Paulsen. Your kids are growing up with Rob Paulsen. Name not familiar? What about Pinky from “Pinky and the Brain”? Yakko from “Animaniacs”? A martial-arts expert turtle named Raphael? That’s Rob!

Not only that, but Ron's own story over the last few years has provided him with new inspiration: after a startling diagnosis of throat cancer, followed by an aggressive treatment and recovery regimen, Paulsen is cancer-free and back doing what he loves, with a deep appreciation of what he almost lost.

His recovery is marked by some remarkable news regarding his most beloved projects. Rob will be back on the road with “Animaniacs in Concert!” a raucous celebration of animation, music, and comedy where the show’s best-loved songs (by composer and fellow “Animaniacs in Concert!” performer Randy Rogel) are performed alongside the cartoons in concert and symphony halls across the country and new “Animaniacs” episodes will begin airing on Hulu late last year.

With his new lease on life giving him an even deeper perspective on the meaning of his work, Paulsen has rededicated himself to bringing joy and happiness to his fans, particularly the ones who inspired him along the way. Having made hundreds of friends among sick children and their families over the course of his career, their stories provided him with great hope and determination during his recent health scare, and he’s already finding more ways to give back. He talks about this in his 2019 memoir, “Voice Lessons,” from Start Publishing.

Original Airdate: 8/6/2021

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The Santos Women will be my guests in The Locher Room. Don't miss the chance to catch up with Paula Garces (Pilar Santos) and Saundra Santiago (Carmen Santos) live in The Locher Room. This on-screen mother and daughter duo will reminisce about their time working together on Guiding Light and fill us in on all the great projects they have been working on since those Springfield days.

Original Airdate: 8/4/2021

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Join soap industry legend Michael Fairman in The Locher Room. Michael will be here to tell us about his new single, “Better Late Than Never”, the fun new virtual game show he created, Soap Opera Know-it-All, and the duality of working on a career in the music business and in daytime.

“Better Late Than Never” builds on Michael Fairman’s previous releases, “Thing About Me” “Can’t Let You Go” and “Other Side”; four songs about the seemingly insurmountable challenges faced by the underdog, whether at love or in life. Michael’s songs are often-anthemic in nature and while they reflect on the harsh realities of the human condition, they offer positive messages of inspiration that can fit into listeners’ own life stories, encouraging them to feel and know that they are not alone. Check out the dance remix out now.

Don’t miss the chance to hear from this soap legend.

Original Airdate: 7/28/2021

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Tony Award-winning actress and first-time author Dinah Manoff will join me in The Locher Room. Dinah is well known to movie audiences around the world for her role of “Pink Lady” Marty Marachino in the movie musical Grease. Last week she released her first novel, The Real True Hollywood Story of Jackie Gold.

Manoff's other film credits include Ordinary People, Bloodhounds of Broadway, Child's Play, Staying Together, Backfire, I Ought to be in Pictures, Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael, and the independent film, Bart Got a Room.

She made her television debut in Welcome Back Kotter and went on to star as a series regular on Soap. Manoff has appeared in numerous TV movies, including Maid For Each Other, which she wrote the story for as well. In television, Manoff is best known for her portrayal as Richard Mulligans daughter “Carol Weston” the character she played for seven years on Empty Nest. She went on to star in the highly acclaimed ABC family series State of Grace, for which she received a Jewish Image Award.

She won both a Theater World and Tony Award as Best Featured Actress for her performance in the Broadway production of Neil Simon’s I Ought To Be In Pictures. She reprised the role in the motion picture of the same title.

Manoff has also worked as a television director, helming episodes of “Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Movie Stars, Brothers, and numerous episodes of Empty Nest.

She was born in New York City to actress Lee Grant and writer Arnold Manoff.

Original Airdate: 7/28/2021

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Academy Award winning actor and director Lee Grant will be my guest in The Locher Room.

Grant’s films have become some of the most influential of the New Hollywood era. A survivor of the Hollywood Blacklist, she is the first female director to be honored by the Director’s Guild of America. She is well known to movie audiences for her roles in some of the most recognizable series and films of the last 60 years including In the Heat of the Night, The Valley of the Dolls, Peyton Place, Search for Tomorrow, Colombo, and Shampoo, for which she won an Academy Award. Her work as a director was also groundbreaking, earning an Oscar for the documentary Down and Out in America.

Ms. Grant will be here to discuss her incredible career and the 2020 re-release of her work behind the camera, 20th Century Woman: The Documentary Films of Lee Grant. The collection became America’s first virtual repertory film series as Grant continues to break ground even now. She will be seen in the upcoming music film Killian & the Comeback Kids in theaters this fall.

Original Airdate: 7/23/2021

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Emmy Award-winning actress Laura Wright will join me in The Locher Roomto celebrate her 30 year career working in daytime television. Laura made her television debut as Ally Rescott on the ABC daytime drama Loving on June 25, 1991. Laura played that role on Loving up until the debut of The City in 1995. She played the role of Ally on The City until the show's demise in March of 1997. On August 1, 1997, Laura joined the cast of Guiding Light in the role of Cassie Layne Winslow, a role she played for eight years before moving to Port Charles and General Hospital. Laura took over the role of Carly Corinthos in November 2005 and has never left playing the role for the past 16 years. In 2011, Laura earned a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress.

Original Airdate: 7/22/2021