The end of our hiatus is nigh and we have one special summer episode left for you beautiful folks featuring actress and singer, Veanne Cox. You Might Know Her From Erin Brockovich, You’ve Got Mail, Caroline or Change, Seinfeld, Company, NCIS: NOLA, An American in Paris, ABC’s Cinderella, and Two Weeks Notice. Veanne talked to us about her most elegant and recognizable speaking voice, having an open door policy in her New York home, and what it’s like being on the other end of a Julia Roberts monologue. 

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Discussed this week 

Veanne’s website || IMDB || IBDB

We return to our weekly schedule Thurs, September 26

Bonnie Raitt’s grey streak

Damian loves Ringo Anne loves George

Sleater-Kinney on Halloween!

Giles and Martha Corey or Rebecca Nurse

Studied voice with Kristin Linklater’s protege: Natsu Coahoma

Bristlelip

Veanne got You’ve Got Mail when Dana Reeve, Christopher Reeve’s wife had to drop out

Erin Brockovich monologue

Veanne's Seinfeld scenes

Veanne’s “Not Getting Married” from Long Beach CLO’s Company (co-starring Carol Burnett)

Scott Ellis  vs Scott Willis

Flora the Red Menace : Sing Happy, A Quiet Thing, The Flame

9 to 5 the musical 

Neil Simon’s The Dinner Party  

Veanne’s great women of the theatre: Betty Buckley, Johanna Day, Julie White, Kristine Nielsen, Kathleen Chalfant, Judith Light 

ABC’s Cinderella (choreographer: Rob Marshall)

The Importance of Being Earnest 

Natalie Deselle Reid

Oral history of Cinderella

Indoor Boys (Alex Wise, Wesley Taylor, Carolee Carmello)

Other Bway credits: La Cage Aux Folles Free Man of Color

Veanne Cox in a hat

Hats: Celine, Cicely, Elaine, Barbra

National Lampoon Class of ‘86 

Beethoven’s 4th

Smash (creator: Theresa Rebeck)

Jenn Colella 

Glenda Jackson’s King Lear

Baby with the Bathwater (Christopher Durang)

The Altruists (Nicky Silver)

Damian and Anne are back to deliver you a dog days of summer treat. This month we have a clip show featuring never-before-heard snippets from some of our season one guests, including Jiggly Caliente, Julie Halston, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Talia Balsam, and Becky Ann Baker. Not to mention a brief but beautiful chat with actress and singer, Lainie Kazan. We’re gonna get you more Lainie in the future but until then, enjoy this episode like you would a Choco Taco in the sweltering sun. See youze soon!

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Discussed this week 

Salad pizza

Clip show

Saved by the Bell’s fuzzy pink border to denote flashback

Elle Fanning 

Michelle Pfeifer and David E Kelley 

Big Little Lies

Stardust and White Oleander

Batman  and Batman Returns (Tim Burton)

Batman Forever (Joel Schumacher)

Featuring Tommy Lee Jones as Two Face

Drew Barrymore and Debi “modern day Anne Bancroft” Mazar as Sugar & Spice

Lainie Kazan

Body and Soul 

Marilyn Maye  

90210 & Gabrielle Carteris

Julie Halston

The Women with Marylouise Wilson and Rue McClanahan 

Bernadette Peters, James Earl Jones, Hailey Eisenberg, Jesse Eisenberg

A Doll’s House 2

Michael Patrick King and Sarah Jessica Parker have her principle residuals 

Daphne Rubin Vega 

A Streetcar Named Desire w/ Nicole Ari Parker, Blair Underwood, Wood Harris and DRV

Fences with Viola and Denzel 

DRV in In the Heights

Talia Balsam

Joyce Van Patten on IG

Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn

Leigh McCloskey 

Gobsmakced by Eve Plumb

The Jump the Shark ep of Happy Days

Screen tested with Brian Backer for Risky Business

Didn’t go topless for her Soup for One audition

Irene Cara in Fame 

Jan Brady getting rid of freckles with lemon juice

Brady Bunch go to a ghost town

Maureen McCormick and Eve Plumb are forever invited to YMKHF

Susan Olsen is a homophobe

Ann B. Davis and Florence Henderson

Geri Reischel is fake Jan

Becky Ann Baker

Theresa Rebeck

Kat McPhee’s dog french kissed her on set

We are back after a few weeks of r&r with Tony winner Joanna Gleason. The brilliant actor and singer invited Anne and Damian to the Connecticut farm she shares with her Oscar nominated hubby, Chris Sarandon where we noshed on panzanella salad and on Joanna’s meaty oeuvre. You Might Know Her From Into The Woods, I Love My Wife, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Wedding Planner, Boogie Nights, Friends, Hannah and Her Sisters, Bette, Nick & Nora, The West Wing, and her cabaret show Out of the Eclipse. Joanna opens up about working with Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents, loathing LA and finding her own path on the East Coast, and her foray into directing. Happy Pride, chicken tikkas!

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Discussed this week 

SATC “Hot Child in the City” (Nick Gilder) is used on Season 3 ep 15, not the Fleet Week ep as Anne erroneously stated. WHOOPS! 

NYC Dyke March 

Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P Johnson getting monuments in NYC

Julius’ Bar

Cubbyhole

Cara Delevingne & Ashley Benson carrying their sex bench 

Nancy Meyers’ kitchens

Chris Sarandon 

Panzanella salad

Joanna’s IMDB || IBDB

Chip Zien & Joanna as the Baker & Baker’s Wife

Filmed broadway production of Into the Woods 

Joanna’s upcoming 54 below show Out of the Eclipse (July 2, 5, 6)

Joanna w/ The Moontones

I Love My Wife (Jim Naughton, Lenny Baker)

Into the Woods (dir: Rob Marshall) 

Joanna wins a Tony

Love and War (1992-95) Diane English 

Louie Anderson 

Temporarily Yours (1997) w/ Debi  Mazar, Seth Green, Michael Patrick King

Oh, Baby (1998-2000) w/ Cynthia Stevenson, Jessica Walter

Bette (2000) w/ Lindsay Lohan, Kevin Dunn

“Metabolically didn’t like California”

The Normal Heart (The Public) 

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Broadway)

The Royal Family (Ahmanson)

Nick and Nora the famous flop

Arthur Laurents (librettist: West Side Story, Gypsy; screenwriter: Rope, The Way We Were, Turning Point)

Boogie Nights (dir: Paul Thomas Anderson)

Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)  & Crimes & Misdemeanors (1989)

Last Vegas, Poms, Book Club, First Wives Club

Joanna’s posse: Judith Light, Tina Fey, Jessica Walter, Candice Bergen, Stockard Channing, Bette Midler

Ocean’s 8

Joanna’s father, Monty Hall hosted Let’s Make a Deal 

Joanna in Password

James Holzhauer on Jeopardy

A Day in the Death of Joe Egg with Stockard Channing 

We have a Tony winner in our midst this week! The wildly talented star of stage and screen, Tonya Pinkins invites Damian and Anne over for tea and showbiz chit-chat. You Might Know Her From Caroline or Change, Jelly’s Last Jam, Above the Rim, Beat Street, All My Children, Random Acts of Flyness, Fear of the Walking Dead, and Gotham. Tonya talks about being the most well-adjusted character on a soap opera, working alongside Eartha Kitt, the challenges and rewards of playing Caroline, and her controversial departure from Mother Courage. ‘Tis our final weekly episode before the summer, get into it.

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Discussed this week:Tonya’s IMDB || IBDB

Ad for 90210 reboot

Emily Valentine had a gay aesthetic (Christine Elise)

The Masked Singer RENEWED

Our suggestions for

Masked singer contestants: John Travolta, Kelly Preston, Rita WIlson, Jon Lovitz, Lisa Rinna, Becky Ann Baker, Vicki Lewis, Daphne Rubin Vega,

Masked Singer costumes: banana, the ‘Noid, earthworm

Glowworm toy

Above the Rim: Tupac, Leon, Duane Martin, Marlon Wayans,

Beat Street

Rae Dawn Chong was famous for Quest for Fire

All My Children

Tonya’s soap history (All My Children & As the World Tunrs)

As the World Turns: (other actors who got their start on AtWT include Julianne Moore, Meg Ryan, Marisa Tomei, Stephen Weber)

Fear of the Walking Dead

Susan Lucci

Jeanine Tesori

Caroline or Change (Tesori/Kushner) on Broadway

Tonya performs “Lot’s Wife” at the Tonys

Tonya worked with Voice and Speech therapist Annemette Verspeak

Playwright/director, George C Wolfe

Sweetwater’s (nightclub on 68th & Amsterdam Ave in NYC)

The Caucasian Chalk Circle

Cynthia Martells

Patty Holley in Jelly’s Last Jam

Gregory Hines

Tonya wins Tony for Jelly’s Last Jam

Jelly’s Last Jam (doc on YouTube)

Jelly’s Last Jam at The Tonys

Publicist: Leonard Fink

2015 Mother Courage controversy with Classic Stage Company

Tonya getting aged to death on Gotham (by Fish Mooney’s henchman)

Glenda Jackson in King Lear

Clip of Eartha Kitt & Tonya in The Wild Party

Controversy at The Wild Party (Patinkin spits at Collette, Collette shoves Patinkin)

Tonya Pinkins diss track

Tonya singing “Somewhere That’s Green” at the piano with Alan Menken (arrangement by Brian Nash)

Tonya’s Dentist: Jeffrey Wright  Tonya’s Seymour: Erik Lieberman

Trip to Paris with Ellen Greene, Howard Ashman, puppeteer    

Merrily We Roll Along

Patrik-Ian Polk: Noah’s Ark + Jumping the Broom

Damian and Anne swoon for Jessica Hecht in this week’s episode. You Might Know Her From Friends, Breaking Bad, Special, Dan in Real Life, A View From the Bridge, Fiddler on the Roof, and The Single Guy. We talk to Jessica about entrance applause, Denzel Washington and becoming a staple of the New York theatre. Turns out she loves  lesbians and dishing on her water cooler moments in TV history.

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Discussed this week:Jessica’s IBDB & IMDB

Wesley Morris binged Game of Thrones in a month

Aaron Glick two time Tony nominee for: The Boys in the Band (Mart Crowley) & What the Constitution Means to Me (Heidi Schreck)

Anne’s list of men: Tommy Lee Jones, Laurence Fishburne, John Goodman, Andre de Shields, John Travolta

The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told (Paul Rudnick) {not the most wonderful play ever told as we said on podcast, whoops sorry PR}

Special (Ryan O’Connell)

Patrick Fabian as Jeremiah Laskey on Saved the Bell the College Years

Hartford Stage, The Guthrie, The Long Wharf

The Heidi Chronicles (Amy Ryan, Amy Irving, not Madigan)

Nannied for George Wendt & Bernadette Birkette

The Last Night of Ballyhoo (Alfred Uhry)

StopKiss with Sandra Oh

Friends with Jane Sibbett

Friends lesbian wedding ft Lea Delaria

Subaru targeting lesbians

The Single Guy

Ethel Merman on Ernest Borgnine

Danny burstein interview

The Price with Mark Ruffalo

Anarchy TV (Dweezil and Moon Unit Zappa)

Arthur Miller she’s done: after the Fall, A View From the Bridge, The Price

Arthur Miller to do: Broken Glass, The Last Yankee

Arthur’s daughter, Rebecca Miller

Williamstown Cabaret: July 13th

A View from the Bridge with Brittany Murphy and Allison Janney

Ivo van Hove

Lesbian Friends reboot:Cherry Jones Sarah Paulson Holland Taylor Wanda Sykes Cynthia Nixon Christine Milioni

Jessica in Julius Caesar with Denzel Washington in Julius Caesar

Robert Goulet in South Pacific tour

This week our mic is graced by a vocal legend when Constance “Patti Mayonnaise” Shulman stops by. You Might Know Her From Orange is the New Black, Doug, Fried Green Tomatoes, Sweet and Lowdown, and Weekend at Bernie’s II. We dig deep into the “Southern Wave” that hit pop culture in the ‘90s and hear about how Dolly Parton handpicked Connie from the original Off-Broadway production of Steel Magnolias. We talk about Connie’s collaborations with her husband, Reed Birney, her years as the Kraft Mayonnaise lady, and the ups and downs of being back in the zeitgeist as Yoga Jones on OITNB.

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Discussed this week:Connie’s IMDB

Hot glue-gun || thermometer gun || dentist gun

Gentleman Jack

Killing Eve

The Ladies Who Punch:The Explosive Inside Story of The View

Being Mary Jane movie

Big Little Lies S2

Deadwood The Movie

Poms

Anjelica Huston article (Vulture)

Jacki Weaver on Anjelica Huston “she can go fuck herself”

Steel Magnolias (Broadway cast, film cast)

Say Goodnight Gracie (Ralph Pape)

Margo Martindale

Backstage at Steel Magnolias on Broadway: Bette Davis, Dolly Parton, Elizabeth Taylor

Driving Miss Daisy (1989), Fried Green Tomatoes (1991), Designing Women (1986-93)

Delta Burke

Daryl Hannah, Kathy Bates

Patty Mayonaise is Yoga Jones

Doug (creator: Jim Jinkins)

Orange is the New Black (2013)

Reed Birney (in first ever Netlfix show, House of Cards)

OITNB castmates: Taylor Schilling, Kimiko Glenn, Annie Golden, Lea Delaria, Beth Fowler, Dale Soules, Yael Stone

Patti Mayonnaise + Kraft Mayonnaise

Rugrats revival

Documentary that Connie produced: Looks Like Laury

Emily Dickinson series: Dickinson with Connie’s daughter, Gus Birney

Jonathan Silverman (WaB, These Old Broads)

Weekend at Bernie’s, Weekend at Bernie’s II

William Ragsdale (Mannequin 2, Herman’s Head)

Yeardley Smith

Jane Sibbett (Carol on Friends)

Married with Children

Doug theme + opening credits

Linda the Stage Manager is in the house! This week Ann Harada is in tech with Damian and Anne. You Might Know Her From Smash, Avenue Q, Seussical the Musical, Feel, Cinderella, Admissions, and Les Misérables. We get into growing up in Hawaii (and going to high school with Barack Obama), navigating the business as an Asian American character actress, plus EGOT stuff and the kindness and kookiness that comes with having Fran Drescher play your mom. And of course Theresa Rebeck and Bombshell til the cows come home. Thank you, five!

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Discussed this week

Anjelica Huston article (Vulture)

Maggie Smith in A German Life

Ann’s IMDB || IBDB

St. Louis style pizza

Provel cheese (swiss, white cheddar, provolone)

Dropping Gumballs on Luke Wilson (Robert Ackerman) directed by → Theresa Rebeck

Smash

Smash controversy: (Rebeck fired) (romance between co-stars) (brilliant recaps)

Seussical  (Eric Idle, Andrea Martin, David Shiner)

other Cat in the Hats (Cathy Rigby, Rosie O’Donnell)

Avenue Q wins Best Musical (“It Sucks to be Me” at the 58th Annual Tony Awards)

Harada as Christmas Eve in “Everyone’s a Little Bit Racist” from Avenue Q

Robert Lopez (double EGOTer)

Punahou High School (Barack Obama also attended)

Flower Drum Song (Rodgers & Hammerstein)

Mrs Potts

Feel (dir:Matt Mahurin) ft Billy Baldwin

Mary Testa and Jackie Hoffman

Played The Hawaii Chair in House of Cards (Chapter 48)

Lindsay Price in Lipstick Jungle

Cashmere Mafia (starring Lucy Liu fyi)

Kim Raver, Brooke Shields, Lindsay Price

Cinderella on Bway (Harriet Harris & Peter Bartlett)

Stepsister’s Lament

Sherri Shepherd, NeNe Leakes, Fran Drescher and coffee enemas (not an endorsement)

(living) EGOTers: Whoopi Goldberg, Rita Moreno, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Jonathan Tunick, Scott Rudin, Mel Brooks,Tim Rice (John Legend doesn’t get to participate in this game, too sexy)

Admission with Tina Fey (we refer to it as Admissions once or twice, oops)

Bert Lahr story from Bossypants

Ann Harada’s essay: Acting While Asian

Damian and Anne are delighted to welcome esteemed theatre, film, and TV actress, Robin Weigert to the show this week. You Might Know Her From Deadwood, Big Little Lies, Concussion, Sons of Anarchy, My One and Only, Angels in America, and Noises Off. Robin talks to us about returning to HBO’s Deadwood for the upcoming film and how she embraced both historic fact and tall tale to create her very own Calamity Jane. She breaks down playing poker with Jennifer Tilly and working opposite Nicole Kidman (and her red hair!) on the second season of Big Little Lies.

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Discussed this week

Easter pie

Robin’s IMDB || IBDB

Robin’s HS productions of Guys and Dolls (Adelaide) and The Importance of Being Earnest (Lady Bracknell)

Deadwood trailer

Calamity Jane with Jane Alexander

Calamity Jane with Doris Day

Buffalo Bill Cody

Robin Weigert on E! Hollywood Hold ‘Em

Positively Fifth Street

Robin with Jerry Cantrell from Alice in Chains

Phil UNABOMBER Laak and Jennifer Tilly

Jennifer Tilly

Bruce Parker

Review of Concussion (2013) (dir: Stacie Passon)

Agent who sent her script: Ken Lee) “a lesbian Belle du Jour”

Director/Producer/Screenwriter: Rose Troche

Mating in Captivity, Esther Perel

Eve Best in Nurse Jackie

The Performing Art of Therapy: Acting Insights and Techniques for Clinicians

Vulture piece on Robin Weigert in Big Little Lies

Big Little Lies 2

Roger Ailes movie (dir: Jay Roach)

Amy Ryan, Brooke Smith

Movie about tan celebrity, George Hamilton: My One and Only

The Good German press tour with George Clooney

Dietland

Berlin Station

Poker on Roseanne

This week Damian and Anne are joined by actress Talia Balsam. You Might Know Her From Divorce, Mad Men, No Strings Attached, In the Mood, and Homeland. Talia talks about growing up in a showbiz family with her actor parents, Martin Balsam and Joyce Van Patten, as well as her 20+ year marriage to her Mad Men co-star, John Slattery (and before that, George Clooney). Balsam fills us in on her guilty pleasure TV proclivities, Didi Conn tidbits, and fun facts about her cousin-in-law and Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star, Eileen Davidson. Also, Damian gets a special delivery from Stitch Fix that is both deeply mortifying and wildly spiritual.

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Discussed this week

Talia’s IMDB

Divorce

Dean Winters

Lee Strasberg Institute

Mom:Joyce Van Patten || Dad: Martin Balsam

Working with Shelley Winters in The Initiation of Sarah

Playing opposite husband, John Slattery (Return, Mad Men)

Matt Weiner (writer: Sopranos, creator: Mad Men)

Jake’s Women with her mom, Joyce vp and Alan Alda

Glenda Jackson in King Lear

D&A’s drop everything to see: Tyne Daly, Laurie Metcalf

Talia’s: Marthe Keller, John Benjamin Hickey

Good Television

South Mountain

Property Brothers, Trading Spaces promo, Ty Pennington, Love it or List , Ladies of London

Bachelor, Mr. Personality and luchadores masks Joe Millionaire, Basketball Wives, Bethenny Frankel, Flavor of Love, I Love New York, Studs, Love Connection  

Cousin Vince (tennis + poker) married to Eileen Davidson (RHOBH)

Lisa Rinna

Teletubbies, Bear in the Big Blue House, Dinosaur Train

Shining Time Station w/Didi Conn (also George Carlin, Ringo Starr)

You Light Up My Life (Didi Conn movie)

Didi Conn Dancing on Ice

Stitch Fix

Dinosaur BBQ in Harlem

Martin Balsam: A Thousand Clowns, Taking of Pelham 123, 12 Angry Men, Catch 22,

Talia Balsam: Thirtysomething, Shame 2 the secret, Thirdwatch

Pat Van Patten - numerologist, June Taylor Dancer

Sound bath in Joshua Tree (aka Rubbing crystals in dome in Joshua Tree)

T: Pisces with Scorpio rising || D: Aquarius with Aries rising || A: Libra with Sagittarius rising

Anjelica Huston’s autobio: Watch Me

Dick van Patten

Acting dynasties: Hustons, Barrymores, Pinkett Smiths, Fisher-Reynolds

This week we take the show to a borough for the very first time. We are in Brooklyn with the hilarious and brilliant comedian and actress, Michelle Buteau. You Might Know Her From The First Wives Club, Tales of the City, Russian Doll, Always Be My Maybe, #Adulting, Late Night Whenever, Two Dope Queens, and her stand-up comedy album Shut Up. We get real with Michelle about how she kept all her professional irons in the fire while becoming a new mom to twins. Michelle also divulges a hot recipe for donut bread pudding.

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Discussed this week

Michelle’s IMDB & IG

Fred & Ted

First Wives Club (2019, BET)

First Wives Club (1996)

RonReaco Lee

Ali Wong’s Always Be My Maybe

Raven-Symoné

Freddie Mercury’s yellow jacket

Benny Hill theme song

The Moth

#Adulting (Michelle’s talk show)

Big Morning Buzz with Nick Lachey

Bethenny Frankel raised $1M for Puerto Rico

Bethenny Frankel and Michelle Buteau

Barry Manilow came out

Alyssa Milano promoting paper towels

Jordan and John Knight are NOT twins

Diddy’s twins

Beyoncé’s twins

MTV Cribs