Folks, we did it! We did another live-recording and dipped our toe into the world of academia. Thank you to CU-Denver and Professor Stephanie Kornick for bringing us out and thank you to Beth Malone for being down to clown with us for the peoples. We are just doing a little check-in here and giving you some of mindgrapes the morning after. Won't you indulge us, babe?

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Discussed this week:

We like Mark Feuerstein from Good Morning, Miami

Banana Split drag queen dressed as Cousin Itt for the rerturn of DD Fuego on Drag Race

Alice Ripley's "Peppermint Twist"

Terrence Mann as replacement Frank in the 2001 revival of Rocky Horror

Kristen Lee Kelly in Rocky Horror as Janet is doing the crazy Alice riffs @

We can't find a slime tutorial of Alice Ripley's "Toucha Toucha Toucha Me" plz someone send help

Betty Buckley's "Rose's Turn"

Tyne Daly's "Rose's Turn"

Tyne is doing Brigadoon with Max von Essen

Starstruck (Beth Malone co-wrote the book and Emily Saliers wrote the music)

Lesbians are nothing if not loyal

Playing Judy Ogle in the Broadway-bound Dolly Parton musical, Dolly

Broadways lesbians: Marla Mindelle, Marla Mindelle, Jenn Colella

Lesbian musical: The Breakup Notebook: The Lesbian Musical (2008), also Lempicka

Lesbian plays: StopKiss, Last Summer at Bluefish Cove, The Children's Hour

Lea DeLaria's The Club in Provincetown is sadly now closed

Where is Amanda Bearse?

We WILL be finishing Liza's book

You Might Know Her From Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, The Perfect Couple, The First Lady, Birdman, and Broadway productions of Hollywood Arms, By Jeeves, and Sweeney Todd. This week, Donna Lynne gave us the goods on figuring out the rules of the Crazy Ex-Girlfriend universe and now the fans helped shaped the show's future. We also talked about bringing the authentic Fall River accent to The Perfect Couple, nailing that one iconic scene in Birdman without any permits, and her short hand in the theatre with legends like Sondheim, Carol Burnett, and Hal Prince.

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Discussed this week

Suzanne Somers' widow (Alan Hamel) helped her create an AI-Suzanne bot before she died, but now he's dating former guest of this show, Joanna Cassidy

Half naked pic of Suzanne that her now widow, posted on his IG

"No relation" Bags and Buster Bunny

People Magazine on the Suzanne Somers bot

Played Paula on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

"First Penis I Saw"

"Maybe This Dream"

Solo show, Finishing the Hat she reveals she stalked Brian D'Arcy James

"The Air is Free" from 3hree directed by Hal Prince

Became de facto dialect coach on The Perfect Couple thanks to Fall River background

Played the Carol Burnett role in her show with daughter Carrie Hamilton's Hollywood Arms

Patti LuPone in John Doyle's Sweeney Todd

Chris Walken in James Joyce's The Dead

Will Rogers' Follies Tambourine dance in "Favorite Son"

You Might Know Her From Carrie, Split, The Happening, Frantic, Oz, Eight is Enough, Tender Mercies, Wyatt Earp, Eternity, and theatrical productions of CATS, Sunset Boulevard, Gypsy, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, and 1776. We talk to Tony-winner Betty Buckley about her upcoming residence at Joe's Pub April 24-26 2026. Betty also teased the new Amanda Kramer sci-fi drama By Design, the Annie Get Your Gun rodeo pitch that never came to be, and all the Easter-egg voices she's provided from Tender Mercies to Hair. Betty also gave us all the epic juice from starring in Brian De Palma's Carrie and then going on to originate it in the notorious Broadway musical adaptation. Oh baby, that's just the tip of the iceberg! Go see Betty at Joe's Pub if you're nearby! (Get your tix here)

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Discussed this week

Olga Merediz played a lesbian in Eternity

Asked Ann Harada which EGOT she'd fuck back in 2019 and she played ball

Tristate area: DMV vs Delco

In residence at Joes Pub April 24-26

Worked with Joe Papp a bunch but never got to do Shakespeare

Originated Grizabella in Cats on Broadway

Arthur Laurents & Stephen Sondheim came to see her in Gypsy at Papermill and Sondheim made Laurents deliver the bad news in her dressing room

James Lapine said years later that Betty would've been his Witch in Into the Woods (Sondheim wrote "Stay with Me" for her voice

John Simon and Pat Simon told her she was playing Rose against expectation

Works with psychologist on dark psyched portrayals

Slapping Nancy in the film Carrie

Played Carrie's mom Margaret in Carrie the Musical, directed by Terry Hands

Frank Rich's review of Carrie

"And Eve Was Weak" from Carrie

Betty at the 1998 Tonys with Rosie O'Donnell, Patti LuPone, and Jennifer Holliday

Triscuit commercial in the '70s

You Might Know Her From Shameless, One of Them Days, Coming to America, Coming 2 America, Harriet, Bebe's Kids, Saints & Sinners, Daylight, the original cast of Dreamgirls on Broadway, and What's Love Got To Do With It? We talked to Vanessa about her full-circle Tina Turner moment from the "What's Love Got to Do With It?" music video to the Angela Bassett-led biopic; playing Tina's Ikette-turned-bestie Jackie; and the stunt gone wrong in the diner. Plus barking in Coming to America, acting opposite influencers and "housewives," and originating in the iconic OBC of Dreamgirls. We LOVED Vanessa Bell Calloway. May we all manifest more Mama Ruth in the rumored One of Them Days sequel.

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Discussed this week:

Unrivaled women's basketball dance off in Philly

Makeshift matriarch in the Keke Palmer, Sza movie, One of Them Days

Was in the room with Anne Marie Johnson

Jackie in What's Love Got to Do With It (1993)

Also a dancer in the music video for What's Love Got to Do With It

Laurence Fishburne accidentally smacks her in the diner scene

Did nighttime soaps: Saints and Sinners and The Black Hamptons

"Know your lines and be on time, no exceptions, no excuses"

Plays Carol aka Veronica's mother in Shameless

Is a Stepp Sister in the original Broadway production of Dreamgirls (VBC on far right)

Michael Peters choreographed Dreamgirls

Vanessa's review in the review for El Bravo in the NYT

Bring Back Birdie with Donald O'Conner and Chita Rivera (directed by Joe Layton)

Purlie Victorious filmed for PBS Great Performances

Debbie Allen directed her in Polly and its sequel Polly Coming Home, plus Stompin' at the Savoy

Got a leaning board as Princess Imani in Coming to America

Sylvester Stallone maybe did NOT do his coverage in the last scene at Daylight

Played Johnnie Mae Matthews, the original manager of The Temptations tv miniseries

The Inkwell has all-star cast that filmed in Wilmington, North Carolina (Wrightsville Beach)

Has worked with Glynn Turman multiple times

Sitcom with Anna Maria Horsford, Rhythm & Blues

Gets speared through the neck in Death Spa (1988)

Bebe's Kids (1992) Robin Harris died before production even started

You Might Know Her From Phantom Thread, Licorice Pizza, Addams Family Values, Desperate Housewives, The 5 Mrs. Buchannons, Ratchet, The Agency: Central Intelligence, and the Broadway production of Thoroughly Modern Millie. Harriet Harris gave us the skinny on being directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, acting opposite Daniel Day Lewis in Phantom Thread, and being pied in the face (at least twice) at the hands of Paul Rudnick. All that plus she walked us through all of Felicia Tillman's delicious Desperate Housewives plotlines, the "queerness" of The 5 Mrs. Buchannons, and her influence in alt rock from the Eve 6 episode of The X-Files. Harriet Harris is just a woman for all of us!

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Discussed this week

Patti LaBelle doing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow"

The 5 Mrs Buchanans Pilot

Eileen Heckart

Meghan Robinson worked with Charles Busch and died of AIDS at 35

In Marc Cherry's masterpiece Desperate Housewives as Felicia Tillman, sister of Wisteria Lane's nosey neighbor, Christine Estabrook

Did a play with Christine and a show called The Crew (1995-96)

Emmy nominated for Season 2, Episode 5 of Hacks

Long Bright River Amanda Seyfried

The Agency: Central Intelligence with Michael Fassbender

Most recognized as Bebe Glazer in Frasier and the revival (Rachel Bloom plays her daughter)

Was at Juilliard with Kelsey Grammer

Licorice Pizza scene

Phantom Thread scene with Harriet as Barbara Rose

Played Eleanor Roosevelt four different times

Jeffrey is first comedy about AIDS

Pied in Addams Family Values

Mary Testa let Harriet know that woman was a menace

Transylvania Twist (the OTHER Harriet Harris was in that)

"Eve 6" episode of X-Files is an all-time banger

Folks, we're here with our pals Andy Beckerman and Naomi Ekperigin. Both brilliant writers, comedians, and performers who also co-host the podcast Couples Therapy together. We were so tickled to have them join us on the show to talk sitcoms, Hollywood gossip, body talk, our dogs being actors, and more.

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Couples Therapy with Andy & Naomi

Andy Beckerman || Naomi Ekperigin

Family Affair

Mr. Belvedere

Archie Panjabi and Juliana Margulies beef

Kim Cattrall and SJP beef

Go watch Big Trouble in Little China

It's Olga, with the German name! That's right, we are here with actress and singer Olga Merediz. You Might Know Her From In the Heights, Encanto, Blockbuster, Eternity, Evita, Music of the Heart, Mr. Popper's Penguins, Orange is the New Black, and the Original Broadway Company of The Human Comedy. Olga gave us all the good on her Tony-nominated turn in In the Heights and recreating Abuela Claudia 14 years later in Jon M. Chu's 2021 film adaptation. Plus, we got to hear what it was like to play ONLY the singing voice for a character in Encanto, working on a never-saw-the-light-of-day play with John Cassavetes, and originating the role of "Mexican Woman" in The Human Comedy where she gets one of the best musical sequences in the show: "I Let Him Kiss Me Once." Oh! And yes, two Madonna stories from BOTH Evita and Music of the Heart, giddy up!

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Discussed this week:

Emily from Pop Star Academy is a manifester

Libra/Aquarius connection based on air signs and big emotions

Made a documentary: My Two Moms - A Story of Separation (2022)

Playing opposite Elizabeth Olsen in the afterlife romcom Eternity

"I Let Him Kiss Me Once" in The Human Comedy, by Galt McDermot and William Dumaresq

Abuela Claudia in In the Heights on Broadway and on film

Olga's big number, "Paciencia y Fe"

Olga played "Mexican Woman" in the famous Broadway flop, The Human Comedy which closed after 13 performances. She loved the harmonies. Galt McDermot "little angel munchkin" wrote the score (also Hair)

Donna Murphy was understudy for Bess (Elizabeth Mastrontonio) in OBC

Joe Papp inserting himself into The Human Comedy poster

Directed by John Cassavetes in an unproduced 4 hour theatrical production, Thornhill

Loved working with Alan Parker (Evita) and Sidney Lumet (Q&A + 100 Centre Street)

Played Madonna's sister in Evita

Derek Cianfrance (The Place Beyond the Pines), Robert Redford (The Milagro Beanfield War)

Isn't She Great with Bette Midler

Appeared in the Netflix sitcom, Blockbuster with Randall Park and JB Smoove

Raising Gloria's kids on Orange is the New Black where she practiced Santeria

Singing voice of Abuela Alma Madrigal in Encanto (had to match voice actor's intonation and accent)

Was the voice of the MTA: "Going Your Way" on 1 train

CGI penguins in Mr Popper's Penguins vs Kevin Spacey in his K-Pax glasses

Things I Forgot to Remember (1999) shot in Morocco and writer was paid in Moroccan boys and was in SAG litigation for years because no one got paid

Plays mom of student in Music of the Heart

Babycakes is an underseen New York movie (favorite train is the 1)

After school TV special "Read Between the Lines"

Cuban sandwich competition on Throwdown with Bobby Flay (Flay lost)

8th Ave Guantanamera

Comedone vs milia (keratin cyst)

Selective slugging

We watched the Oscars and want to discuss with you. We're elated for Amy Madigan! Enjoy this sneak peek of our 2026 Oscars Recap and head on over to patreon.com/youmightknowherfrom to hear the rest where we get into Barbra and a missing Wendi McLendon-Covey.

We will be movie clubbing Amy Madigan's other Oscar nominated performance, Twice in a Lifetime.

We are here with the one and only Dr. Dawnn Lewis. You Might Know Her From A Different World, Hangin' with Mr. Cooper, Young Rock, Major Crimes, I'm Gonna Git You Sucka, Star Trek: Lower Decks, The Wood, Dreamgirls, and the Broadway production of Tina: The Tina Turner Musical. We talk to Dawnn about writing the theme song for (and starring on) A Different World, how she'll be involved in the Netflix revival, and what it was like when Jaleesa went to Africa AKA Hangin' with Mr Cooper. From her almost-runs on Broadwa–in Sister Act as Dolores and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying opposite Matthew Broderick–to her Hurricanes connection to Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, we got into it all.

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Discussed this week:

Tap dance Kid tour

Won the NY audition for replacing Jodi Watley in Shalamar at Leviticus Club

Michael Bolton concert show on Broadway

Did How to Succeed in La Jolla, but she didn't transfer it to Broadway

Jaleesa double dutching in credits for A Different World

Wrote theme song for A Different World and demanded 50% cut

Anne Beatts brought into A Different World (old Square Pegs plots)

Dawnn and Sinbad became defacto parents on the show

Poor Jaleesa "went to Africa"

I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (1988)

Angela Honig on New Rock

Like Dwayne Johnson, Dawnn is an alum of Univ of Miami (Hurricanes. He DID his coverage

The Rock's energy drink

Bill Condon complimented Dawnn on her performance in Dreamgirls

Voice of Captain Carol Freeman in Star Trek: Lower Decks

Played a detective opposite Angela Bassett in 9-1-1; played the head of an accreditation council on Grey's Anatomy and people told her "Jaleesa shut down the hospital"

A New Day Foundation

HOH BOY, it's Oscar talk with film critic and writer Nathaniel Rogers of The Film Experience! We're thrilled to chat with Nathaniel about general Oscar lore (Is Glenn going the way of Deborah Kerr? Is the Best Supporting Actress curse real?) + this year's nominations (and snubs) for the (women) acting categories + and who Nathaniel believes should and will win on March 15th.

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Women acting nominations, for reference:

Best Supporting Actress 2026

• Elle Fanning (Sentimental Value)

• Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas (Sentimental Value)

• Amy Madigan (Weapons)

• Wunmi Mosaku (Sinners)

• Teyana Taylor (One Battle After Another)

Best Leading Actress 2026

• Jessie Buckley (Hamnet)

• Rose Byrne (If I Had Legs I'd Kick You)

• Kate Hudson (Song Sung Blue)

• Renate Reinsve (Sentimental Value)

• Emma Stone (Bugonia)

Nathaniel Rogers' site: The Film Experience

Michelle Pfeifer, Ranked! by Nathaniel Rogers