Hail holy queen! We got a big one. Wendy Makkena joins the fam today: the actress behind the icon that is Sister Mary Robert. You Might Know Her From Sister Act, Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit, Oliver Beene, Camp Nowhere, Air Bud, Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story, and A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. Wendy totally blew us away with her stories from the set of Sister Act (and her Maggie Smith impersonation), her connection to the LGBTQ audiences from Serving in Silence with Glenn Close and Judy Davis to the indie Finding North, and what it was like to take over the role of “All the Way Mae” from Madonna in the A League of Their Own TV series. This one is chock-full of goodies from a beautiful and storied career so dig in, folks. 

 

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NUNS AND PRIESTS IN POP CULTURE: Eileen Davidson in Days of Our Lives, Father Dowling Mysteries (w/ Tom Bosley), The Sound of Music (movie not musical), Nunsense, Agnes of God, The Trouble with Angels (w/ Hayley Mills), Touched by an Angel, Doubt

Hayley Mills doing “Let’s Get Together” from The Parent Trap

Period belts (woof)

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019: Marielle Heller) playing Chris Cooper’s new wife

Marielle Heller is an actor/director and acted in The Queen’s Gambit 

Sister Mary Robert in Sister Act (1992) and Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993)

Super producer Scott Rudin produced the movie and brought her back to sing. She brought back up singers and they did “Please Mr Postman” 

Sang “Where the Boys Are” for the producers, lip synced to Come Holy Ghost for Marc Shaiman

Jimmy Vivino (assistant musical director)

“A with Attitude” is all Wendy Makkena, rest of her singing is mixed with Andrea Robinson 

Mary Wickes the greatest actress to ever play a curmudgeon: “I’m ready for my blowjob Mr DeMille. “Try it that way Missus”

Maggie Smith “Why don’t you just try acting” echos Laurence Olivier saying the same thing to Dustin Hoffman on Marathon Man

Appears as Mary Newcombe in the tv movie, Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermyer Story starring Glenn Close and Judy Davis

Wendy compares Judy Davis’ style to Tim Curry’s 

Finding North (1998) with John Benjamin Hickey

Wendy explains Sister Mary Robert’s sexual tension with Deloris in the Outta Bed You Sleepyhead scene

Played “All the Way May” in A League of Their Own tv series (1993) Watch the pilot

Penny Marshall told her “there’s something very sexual about you”

the Broadway Show League

Episode 2 of A League of Their Own brings a chimp on set (directed by Tom Hanks)

Had 8 ep arc on Judging Amy and Tyne Daly talked newborn baby

First film was Eight Men Out with 1,000 men

Founded Ruby’s Rockets fruit and veg pops that are in 4000 stores nationwide

Worked on the sitcom Listen Up with Jason Alexander

Oliver Beene (Fox sitcom that took place 1962-63)

One ep of Desperate Housewives (scenes were with Longoria) on season 5

Damian was high and  very moved by Wendy’s scene w/ Christopher Lloyd in Camp Nowhere 

Mom was a well known astrologer: Deborah K Rosenberg

Wendy was in Sister Act with Kathy Najimy who was in Hocus Pocus with Bette Midler (who Sister Act was written for), who was in The Glorias with next week’s guest. 

Ear hair is NOT cilia (that’s nose hair). Ear hair is called VELLUS.