TV Confidential with Ed Robertson

TVC 577.6: Actor, author, screenwriter, producer, and acting teacher Joe Coyle talks to Ed about his experience working as a stand-in for George Clooney and Ben Affleck. Joe is one of the contributors to Beyond Where the Buses Run, an anthology of short stories edited by Theresa Griffin Kennedy that also features Robert Crane.

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TVC 575.1: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Budd Burton Moss, legendary Hollywood talent manager and agent, and the namesake of The Burton Moss Hollywood Golden Era Award, an award that honors legendary actors and actresses from the Golden Age of Hollywood. Topics this segment include a tribute to Budd's dear friend Sidney Poitier and the role that Budd played in getting legendary attorney Melvin Belli to audition for the role of Don Corleone in The Godfather.

Our friends at the Gold Coast International Film Festival will honor William Holden in early May as the next recipient of The Burton Moss Hollywood Golden Era Award. Stefanie Powers will accept the award that night on Holden's behalf in a ceremony that will take place in Great Neck, New York. For reservations and more information, call (516) 829-2570 or visit GoldCoastArts.org.

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TVC 575.2: Budd Burton Moss, legendary Hollywood talent manager and agent, tells Ed the story of how he helped convince Elizabeth Montgomery to accept the role of Samantha Stephens on Bewitched (after she had initially resisted), and how he eventually came to represent some legendary NFL stars as Jim Plunkett, Gene Washington, and Joe Theismann. Budd's latest book, Act III, is schedule for release later in 2022.

For more information on the Burton Moss Hollywood Golden Era Award, the Gold Coast International Film Festival, and the upcoming ceremony honoring William Holden, call (516) 829-2570 or visit GoldCoastArts.org.

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TVC 575.3: Ed welcomes actor, impressionist, voice artist, and improv comic Jim Meskimen. The current voice of Colonel Sanders for KFC, Jim has also produced a popular series of parody videos in which Colonel Sanders approaches celebrities like Bing Crosby, John Lennon, and Humphrey Bogart about endorsing Kentucky Fried Chicken. Topics this segment include the degree of physicality that is often involved when creating voice characters, as well as how long it takes for Jim to practice a voice before he feels ready to perform it. You can follow Jim Meskimen on Instagram, TikTok, and the Jim Meskimen channel on YouTube.

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TVC 575.4: Actor and voice artist Jim Meskimen talks to Ed about the collaborative approach that Oscar-winning director Ron Howard take to working with actors on his films; his mother, Marion Ross, and the role that Jim, his wife, and his sister all played in the success of Marion's memoir, My Days: Happy and Otherwise; and Jim's upcoming roles in the Starz network limited series Gaslit, the new season of the Amazon Prime limited series Hunter, and the forthcoming Apple TV series The Big Door Prize. Gaslit premieres Sunday, Apr. 24 on Starz. You can follow Jim Meskimen on Instagram, TikTok, and the Jim Meskimen channel on YouTube.

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TVC 575.5: Part 1 of a two-part conversation with Stefanie Powers, the actress known around the world as The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. and Jennifer Hart on Hart to Hart, and the founder and president of the William Holden Wildlife Foundation, a nonprofit organization that Stefanie established in 1982 in memory of her long-time life partner that continues and furthers Holden's conservation work in East Africa. Stefanie gives us a glimpse into the William Holden she knew during the nine years they spent together (including the many ways in which Holden fueled Stefanie's lifelong passion for travel, adventure, animal preservation and protection, and life itself), while also debunking some of the myths about the Academy Award-winning actor.

Our friends at the Gold Coast International Film Festival will honor William Holden in early May as the next recipient of The Burton Moss Hollywood Golden Era Award, an award that honors legendary actors and actresses from the Golden Age of Hollywood. Stefanie Powers will accept the award that night on Holden's behalf in a ceremony that will take place in Great Neck, New York. For reservations and more information, call (516) 829-2570 or visit GoldCoastArts.org.

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TVC 575.6: Stefanie Powers (Hart to Hart, One from the Hart) talks to Ed about the significance of William Holden being named the next recipient of The Burton Moss Hollywood Golden Era Award, and the tireless efforts of the award's namesake, Budd Burton Moss, to preserve the legacy of the stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood. Stefanie Powers will accept the award on Holden's behalf in a ceremony that will take place in early May as part of the Gold Coast International Film Festival in Great Neck, New York. For reservations and more information, call (516) 829-2570 or visit GoldCoastArts.org. For more information on the William Holden Wildlife Foundation, visit WHWF.org

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TVC 575.7: Ed commemorates the passing of character actor Nehemiah Persoff by playing a clip from our October 2021 conversation with James Rosin, the publisher of The Many Faces of Nehemiah, the memoirs of Persoff's career in stage, film, and television. Topics this segment include why Persoff always felt a tremendous responsibility as an actor, especially to his native Jewish people. Nehemiah Persoff passed away Apr. 5, 2022 at age 102.

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TVC 574.1: Part 1 of a two-part conversation with Budd Burton Moss, the legendary Hollywood agent, talent manager, and showbiz raconteur who has not only represented many of the brightest stars in film, television and sports over the past six decades, but had a hand in casting in some of the most iconic comedy and dramatic series in TV history (including Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, and Happy Days, just to name a few). Budd Moss is also the namesake of The Burton Moss Hollywood Golden Era Award, an award that honors legendary actors and actresses from the Golden Age of Hollywood (1919 through 1963). Previous recipients of the Burton Moss Hollywood Golden Era Award include Robert Wagner and the late Rita Hayworth.

The next Burton Moss Hollywood Golden Era Award will be awarded posthumously to Oscar winner William Holden during the first week of May as part of the Gold Coast International Film Festival in Great Neck, New York. Actress Stefanie Powers will accept the award that night on Holden's behalf. For reservations and more, call (516) 829-2570 or visit GoldCoastArts.org.

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TVC 574.2: Ed welcomes attorney, speaker, homeless youth advocate, and Ms. Universe 2021 Nikki Johnson-Huston and Jeffrey Sitcov, founder and president of Doors of Change, a nonprofit organization that has not only helped more than 2,300 homeless youth find safe forever homes since 2001, but has transformed the lives of more than 8,300 homeless youths in fourteen states through a program, Taking Music and Art to the Streets, that offers music and art instruction in small group settings.

If you listen to us in Southern California—or are planning a trip to the San Diego area around the Fourth of July weekend—Three Dog Night will perform a special Concert of Hope for Homeless Youth that will benefit Doors of Change on Thursday, June 30 at the Moonlight Amphitheater in Vista, CA. The concert begins at 7:30pm, while a VIP reception takes place at 5:30pm. For tickets and more information, visit DoorsofChange.org

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