Stephanie D’Abruzzo is our first Muppeteer. You Might Know Her From Avenue Q, Sesame Street, Elmo’s World, Oobi, Scrubs, and The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. Stephanie talked to us about training herself to become a Muppeteer, joining the Broadway community (and scoring a Tony nom) for playing Kate Monster and Lucy the Slut in Avenue Q, inheriting the iconic role of Prairie Dawn on Sesame Street, and playing Virginia Woolf-level darkness as Kimmy’s backpack Jan S. Port on Kimmy Schmidt. Plus, performing on the floor while Patti Labelle wailed the “ABCs,” phasing Betty Lou out, carrying the musical episode of Scrubs on her shoulders, and sorta playing Chita Rivera’s track in Jerry’s Girls. We love firsts 7and we loved getting to dig into the children’s television and the Muppet world. We just regret we did not bring up Pepe the Prawn. Enjoy! 

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Anne identities as Animal 

We circle back to our old friend, Pepe the Prawn

Sesame Street has more women characters than the classic Muppets: Abby Cadabby, Rosita, Zoe, etc

Avenue Q 

Classic Muppets (Disney), Sesame Street (Sesame Workshop), Fraggle Rock, Labyrinth/Dark Crystal (Jim Henson Co.)

Prairie Dawn originally done by legend Fran Brill

Stephanie’s website

Has performed a myriad of Sesame Street characters: Prairie Dawn, Elizabeth, Bert’s mom, Cookie Monster’s Mom, Elmo’s Mom, Lea Michelle muppet, 

Kevin Clash was the Muppet captain (and voice of Elmo)

Prairie Dawn vs Betty Lou. Some of the only early girl muppets. Where did Betty Lou go?

Arc as Kimmy’s backpack, Jan  (who Kimmy tries to drown)

Patty Miller on musical episode of Scrubs thanks to Debra Fordham

“There’s Fine Fine Line” from Avenue Q

*** Patti Labelle on Sesame Street ***

Played hand puppet, Uma on Oobi

Shari Lewis + Lambchop, Sid and Marty Krofft + H.R. PufnStuf; Wayland Flowers + Madame

Dennis Rodman’s autobiography, Bad As I Wanna Be

RIP The Astor Room, former mess hall for Kaufman Astoria Studios

“Minnie Driver is full of beans” -EW review of Conviction

Very Mary Kate

Annalynne McCord’s message to Putin (maybe Shenae Grimes made her do it)

Julianne Hough had energy pulled out of her ass

Hough compared JoJo Siwa to Joan of Arc

Emmy-winning actress Jodi Long is here. You Might Know Her From Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Dash & Lily, All-American Girl, The Hot Chick, Soursweet, Patty Hearst, Sullivan & Son, the 2002 Broadway revival of Flower Drum Song. We had such a far-reaching conversation with Jodi covering everything from her Marvel Cinematic Universe debut, her upbringing with vaudevillian parents, her solo show American Jade, and playing Margaret Cho’s mother on the historic All-American Girl. All that plus her iconic line readings on Sex and the City and The Hot Chick, her voice work in Dash & Lily, and the importance of Flower Drum Song. Come for the sitcom and theatre conversations but stay for Striking Distance and The Exorcist III reveals! 

Mannequin 2: On the Move is Kristy Swanson and William Ragsdale, not Jonathan Silverman

Ragsdale was the lead of Herman’s Head (with Yeardley Smith and Jane Sibbett)

Black No More was ambitious but not perfect. Tamika Lawrence was a revelation

Anne hated Belfast aka Jamie Dornan’s “Everlasting Love” press tour

Kenneth Branagh may have (CO!)-directed Thor but  doesn’t make Anne’s list of men

Van Morrison is a truther

These Old Broads, written by Carrie Fisher, co-starring Jonathan Silverman 

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

Nora Awkwafina Lum

Lucy Liu also from Queens 

Jodi Long’s parents were vaudevillians, Trudy and Larry Leong

Documentary about parents, Long Story Short 

Played Madame Liang 2002 Broadway revival of Flower Drum Song (revised book and lyrics by David Henry Hwang)  

Jodi doing “Grant Avenue” on Broadway. “Don’t Marry Me” from the OBC

In Paul Schrader’s Patty Hearst, Oliver Stone’s Born on the Fourth of July, Ron Howard’s Splash 

Sullivan and Son was a sitcom she loved working on 

Played an Imelda Marcos kinda character on Cafe Cafe Americain with Valerie Bertinelli

Margaret Cho’s mom in the groundbreaking sitcom, American Girl

Pat Morita sitcom, Mr T and Tina

Robocop vs Wayans Bros.’ wig 

Accent as Mrs Basil E in Dash & Lilly

Nowhere to Go But Up with Martin Balsam and Dorothy Loudon

Swam in the Esther Williams tank but Brice Willis didn’t show up 

From The Hot Chick: “Ling Ling, you forgot your bling bling”

Exorcist III dream sequence had her star opposite Patrick Ewing and Fabio

Played a lesbian on famed ep of Sex and the City 

!!! Patti Labelle on Sesame Street !!!

Debi Mazar, Michelle Visage, and Leah Remini all bffs (have super famous other best friends: Madonna, RuPaul, J. Lo)

Jerrie Johnson joins us on the show today. You Might Know Her From our latest obsession, the new Amazon Prime series Harlem. Jerrie gave us the scoop on Tracy Oliver’s Harlem from the audition process to the politics of the series to working with an intimacy coordinator for her sex scenes to those character reveals at the end of season one. We also talked about Jerrie’s top five lesbians, her love of for colored girls…, what her Auntie had to say about her sex scenes. Stream Harlem stat! 

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Jerrie Johnson’s IMDB

Damian’s bday wish from Kim “Liverpool’s Cleopatra” Cattrall

Clue at the Papermill Playhouse

Betty Buckley played Mama Rose in Gypsy @ Papermill Playhouse and Arthur Laurents told her she was terrible

Patti LuPone in Union Square

Kathy Fitzgerald as Mrs. Peacock was best in show

Plays Tye on Harlem on Amazon Prime, created by Tracy Oliver

Show co-stars Meagan Good, Grace Byers, Shoniqua Shandai

Got Good Trouble at the same time as Harlem

Intimacy coordinator

Tye deals with fibroids on Harlem

Jerrie auditioned for the upcoming revival of Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is ennuf

Top 5 lesbians: Jonica T.Gibbs (Twenties), Miriam Hyman (The Chi), Lena Waithe, Jerrie Johnson herself, Samira Wiley (OITNB, Handmaids Tale)

Chubby Checker! 

Chubby Checker @ Mohegan Sun

Jazmine Sullivan 

So many theatre stars on Harlem: Jasmine Guy, Andrea Martin, Whoopi Goldberg, Kate Rockwell, Sherie Renee Scott

Tea Leoni in A League of Their Own

Jean Smart in The Brady Bunch Movie

Shelley Long: give her another take 

Anne is on the SIBO diet :(

Our very first super villain, Kelly Hu, joins us on the show today. You Might Know Her From X2: X-Men United, The Scorpion King, The Doors, Almost Perfect, Cradle 2 the Grave, and Finding Ohana. Kelly gave us all that behind the scenes intel on her strategically placed hair, the photos with camels, and the chemistry tests in order to score the role of The Sorceress in The Scorpion King with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. Plus her fight scenes as Lady Deathstrike with those long ass nails, bringing backstory to The Vampire Diaries and Arrow, and breaking into the business by taking out an ad in the trades to announce her move to LA. How bad ass?

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Discussed this week: 

The Thing About Pam trailer on NBC/Peacock

Renee Zellweger’s Oscar speech 

3 women hosting The Oscars: Regina Hall, Amy Schumer, Wanda Sykes

Nina Arianda was excellent as Viv Vance in Being the Ricardos. So was Linda Lavin

Go watch The Humans (Showtime) starring former YMKHF guest, Jayne Houdyshell (ep #39)

Houdyshell in The Music Man on Broadway (Jackman & Foster)

Parallel Mothers is a must see for both of us

Val Kilmer was GOOD in The Doors and was Damian’s Batman

Finding Ohana (now streaming on Netflix)

Orgs in Hollywood for AAPI actors: CAPE, Gold House

Announced her move to Los Angeles to coincide with her two ep arc on The Growing Pains

Tia Carrere, Tamlyn Tomita, Rosalind Chao

Known for her action work: The Scorpion King, No Way Back, Cradle 2 the Grave, X2

Bathtub outfit in The Scorpion King

X2 fight scenes: Lady Deathstrike vs Cyclops; Lady Deathstrike vs Wolverine

Stunt woman: Angela Uyeda

Chyna White on Arrow and Pearl on The Vampire Diaries

Sweet romcom, 2011’s Almost Perfect (dir: Bertha Bay-Sa Pan)

Was the face of Philadelphia cream cheese in Italy (played a Japanese woman named Kaori)

Starred in Beyond the Game in 2016 opposite Lorenzo Lamas

Lamas crowned Kelly Hu “Miss Teen USA” 

Lamas and Kelly in Battle of the Network Stars 

Bette Midler was born in Hawaii

Plays Ray Manzarek’s wife in The Doors opposite Kyle McLachlan (Thanksgiving scene w/ Kelly)

Worked with Don Johnson: Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man + Nash Bridges 

Supercut of Kelly Hu in leather in Martial Law

Dancing to “Barbara Ann” at the end of Surf Ninjas

Fuck Marry Kill DEATH SCENES: Jason Takes Manhattan, Cradle 2 the Grave, No Way Back

Kelly Hu death scenes supercut

And just like that, Karen Pittman is on the show! You Might Know Her From And Just Like That, The Morning Show, Luke Cage, Yellowstone, The Americans, Homeland, and Disgraced on Broadway. We had a ball talking with Karen about life starring on two very high profile series at the same time. We dug into the rich internal life that Karen brings to Mia on The Morning Show and how she added subtext to all her scenes (“dicks beware!”). We also got into the good, the complicated, and the wildly fun parts of joining the new chapter of Sex and the City as Professor Nya Wallace and what a season two might look like. All that plus: would Nya be friends with Samantha Jones, will Mia finally sing on The Morning Show, and could Karen ever serve as Fight Captain on a show again? We couldn’t help but wonder…was this one for the books? 

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Ronnie has now been with Damian for one year!

Betty Gilpin will play Anna Nicole Smith in new movie Hurricanna (also Holly Hunter)

The Anna Nicole Smith Show (featuring Kimmie and Howard Stern)

Larry Birkhead was Dannie Lynn’s biological father (even though Howard Stern raised her with ANS for a while)

And Just Like That documentary

Playing high status Yellowstone, Luke Cage, Homeland 

Crazy fight scene in Blindspot

Was fight captain for the play Disgraced

Keri Russell kills Karen with a vodka bottle in The Americans

Plays Mia Jordan on The Morning Show

Worked with a lot of great playwrights in NYC: David Lindsay-Abaire, Ayad Akhtar, Dominique Morisseau  

Former YMKHF guest Adina Porter (ep #76)

“Dicks beware” speech  @ 20:38 

Everybody gets a musical number, including Martin Short

Plays Prof Nya Wallace on And Just Like That 

Lisa Todd Wexley (Nicole Ari Parker) 

Seema (Sarita Choudhury)

Molly Rogers & Danny Santiago are costume designers for And Just Like That

She is Team Aiden, Team Anthony, Team yes friends with Samantha

Compared working with Laurie Metcalf and Frances McDormand to working with Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon

Was an understudy in Passing Strange and also Good People (opp Frances McDormand)

Possessed by a demon in the tv show Evil (oatmeal made the foam)

Celia Keenan-Bolger episode of YMKHF (Ep #98)

Sarah Jessica Parker getting interviewed backstage at Annie on Broadway (a child!)

SJP’s shoe line / SJP’s wine line / SJP’s book imprint

Rachel Shelley is our first guest across the pond! You Might Know Her From The L Word, Deep State, Rogue, The Ghost Whisperer, Once Upon a Time…, Casualty, and Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India. We talked to Rachel about playing Helena Peabody for five seasons on the OG L Word, navigating the twists and turns that her character took from cold heiress, to one of the crew, from prison to discovering during the filming of season six that it ultimately would become a murder mystery around Jenny Schecter. Plus we need someone to gift us the unaired spin-off, The Farm. All that plus respecting the ghost bible on The Ghost Whisperer, playing gay to a fedora-wearing Heather Graham in Gray Matters, and starring in the epic Bollywood film Lagaan that earned an Oscar nom for Best Foreign Language film. This one was an absolute pleasure, moving hair and all.

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Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India

The Laws of Attraction (with Pierce Brosnan) and The Rules of Attraction (with Shannyn and YES Faye Dunaway)

Brett Butler is in The Morning Show! So is Gugu Mbatha-Raw

Auditioned with musical number: “The Sound of Music”

Kim Cattrall is in the Hilary Duff show How I Met Your Father (which takes place in 2050)

Deep State and Rogue created by husband Matthew Park Hill

Helena Peabody on The L Word

Her mom was played by lesbian legend Holland Taylor 

Loved working opposite Alexandra Hedison and was mildly intimidated by Melissa Leo

Women’s prison movies like Women in Cell Block 9

Where is the L Word spinoff The Farm?! Starting Leisha Hailey, Melissa Leo, and Laurie Metcalf

Murder mystery for L Word was meant to be a stand alone season UGH

Has not been asked to come back for L Word: Gen Q

Works with Diva Magazine in the UK providing PodDiva

Started opp previous guest Guinevere Turner

in Different for Girls

MA at Goldsmiths University in Radio Production

Did doc on grief for BBC Radio 4

Got the Leisha Hailey & Kate Moennig podcast, PANTS off the ground

Hosts pod with Victoria Broom

Starred opp Jon Voight in Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story

Lesbians and fedoras Gray Matters with a Heather Graham

Plays ghost in Ghost Whisperer and Photographing Fairies (1997) with Ben Kingsley

GHOST BIBLE!!! Hair of a ghost shouldn’t move 

Started opp David Bowie in Everybody Loves Sunshine aka B.U.S.T.E.D.

Got stabbed in the BBC series Casualty

Poor Yolanda Ross got a DM from Damian

Rumplestiltskin vs Captain Hook on the tv show Once Upon a Time (we love Rumple)

Amy Irving Rumplestiltskin was formative for Anne

We love her, you’ll love her! This week we’re back with actor, writer, and artist Lauren Weedman. You Might Know Her From Looking, Hung, The Daily Show, Date Night, Hacks, Arrested Development, Euphoria, and her many solo shows. We talked to Lauren about the process as she approaches every solo show and how she manages her personal relationships when they find themselves in her work. We also talked about trusting herself on the set of Looking and putting a pow on that series with the film, the anxiety of joining a machine like The Daily Show, and the true joys of her guest roles on Euphoria (as Jules therapist) and Hacks (as the mayor of Las Vegas). This one had us belly laughing while we were really digging into some real shit. 

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Discussed this week: 

Go watch Yellowjackets

Producers body shamed Lynskey and offered her a trainer. Costars said ABSOLUTELY NOT

Vulture article (Juliette Lewis seems not into arc of her Yellowjackets character. Melanie Lynskey says she only signed on after finding out the creators’ five season plan)

Jan Hooks FFW sound from this brilliant Bette Davis SNL sketch 

Danica McKellar and Shannyn Sossoman both suggested for Season 2

The Laws of Attraction (with Pierce Brosnan) and The Rules of Attraction (with Shannyn and YES Faye Dunaway)

Lauren’s solo show about working at a women’s prison, Bust

Whoopi Goldberg Direct from Broadway (1985)

Solo artist, Danny Hoch

Books: A Woman Trapped in a Woman’s Body (Tales from a Life of Cringe); Miss Fortune: Fresh Perspectives on Having it All from Someone Who is Not Ok

Played Doris on the HBO gay dramedy, Looking with Jonathan Groff & Murray Bartlett

Offered a role on TBS show Angie Tribeca with Rashida Jones

Was on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart from 2000-2001 

“Horny Patty” in Hung

Good egg comedy guys: Nick Offerman, Jason Segel. Not so good egg: Eddie Murphy

Eddie Murphy said Lauren reminded him of the great Ruth Gordon (not Buzzi)

Yul Brynner and his wife were swingers and propositioned Eddie

Plays Jules’ therapist on Euphoria (had a gay haircut on the show)

Had scenes opposite Christopher McDonald and Jean Smart as mayor of Vegas in Hacks

Go listen to us on the Mixed Reviews Podcast where we break down the career of Olivia Newton-John 

The Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls in Love

Kim Cattrall on a show with Hilary Duff: How I Met Your Father

Kim’s name is KIM not KIMBERLY. She is also “The LIverpool Cleopatra”

We are just pleased as punch to be joined this week by actor Dale Dickey. You Might Know Her From Winter’s Bone, My Name is Earl, Leave No Trace, True Blood, Iron Man 3, The Guilt Trip, and Breaking Bad. We had a blast with Dale talking about mastering “the squirt” as Annelle in the Chicago production of Steel Magnolias, acting opposite baby wolves as a werewolf on True Blood, and what the presence of Barbra Streisand or Betty White does to a set. All those goodies plus her Indie Spirit-winning role as the hot-coffee-flinging FOIL to an unknown Jennifer Lawrence and her supreme pack of Southern character actresses. Come for the incredible Dale interview and stick around for some And Just Like That musings.

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Discussed this week: 

Previous guest of YMKHF, Madhur Jaffrey (Ep #45)

Our interview with Sarita Choudhury (Ep# 58) Seema Patel on And Just Like That

“There You Are Peter” in Hook

Sara Ramirez was SO good in Spamalot “Song That Goes Like This” “Find Your Grail”

Bisexual episode of Sex and the City co-stars Alanis Morisette

RIP Ronnie Spector

Roughed up Jennifer Lawrence in Winter’s Bone (2010, director: Deborah Granik)

Shot in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri opposite local non-actors

She won the Indie Spirit for Winter’s Bone

Leave No Trace (2018, Granik) 

1989 Peter Hall production of Merchant of Venice starring Dustin Hoffman

Did stage version of Steel Magnolias in 1980s Chicago

Former guests, Beth Grant (Ep #90) and Connie Schulman (Ep #15) both did Steel Magnolias

Playwright Robert Harling “discovered” her while serving at 107 West Restaurant 

Elieen Davidson talked to us about working with wolves on Ep #74 of YKMHF

Dale Dickey in True Blood 

Meth addict in Breaking Bad

Pack of Southern women: Beth Grant, Connie Schulman, Jennifer Lawrence, Margot Martindale, Kim Dickens, Holly Hunter, Kathy Bates, Jessica Lange

We love Holly Hunter in Broadcast News and Miss Firecracker Contest

Played two different roles in the Del Shores universe Sordid Lives (First played Glendora and then Sissy Hickey)

Played Patty the Daytime Hooker on My Name is Earl but was never pressured to become a Scientologist.

Betty White played her mother on My Name is Earl

Starred opposite Tyne Daly in Christy and then got the Cagney and Lacey: Together Again movie from that

Did a small role in Iron Man 3 with Robert Downey Jr., who arranged for an AA meeting

Starred as a bartender in the Seth Rogen/Barbra Streisand movie, The Guilt Trip

Oona the Wench in the Pirates of the Caribbean: Wedlocked

Beth Grant episode #90 of YMKHF

SJP puking on AJLT 

We are just over the moon for this week’s guest, Anna Maria Horsford. You Might Know Her From Friday, Pose, The Wayans Brothers, The Bold & the Beautiful, Hacks, Minority Report, How High, St. Elmo's Fire, The Fan, The Last O.G. and Amen. Anna Maria just gave it all to us. We talked about her playing Ice Cube’s (and Method Man and Redman’s) mom in iconic stoner fare, talking shit about The Wayans Brothers before she realized she was a series regular, sinking her teeth into a daytime soap as Hollywood vet, and renegotiating her Amen contract amidst network pushback. But that’s not all! We also got into the landmark series Soul; her guest appearance on Pose opposite Janet Hubert and Jackée Harry; and how (why?) Steven Spielberg loves pregnant women. This one was just beyond. RIP to that extra in The Stone Pillow!

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Discussed this week: 

Special thanks to our intern, Ronette the Pit

So many deaths this week: Sidney Poitier, Bob Saget, and of course Bob Durst 

Bob Saget in Half Baked: “have you ever sucked dick for coke?”

Bob Saget emceed Anne Meara’s funeral

Bob Durst posed as a deaf mute then killed and dismembered his neighbor and got off

Documentary about Bob Durst

Maria Ewing, mother of Rebecca Hall just passed away

Nella Larsen’s novel, Passing 

Passing (directed and adapted by Rebecca Hall) on Netflix

Ruth Negga is a movie star holy smokes

Rebeca Hall’s Fresh Air interview

Let’s turn the SAG awards into the new Golden Globes

JoBeth Williams used to produce the SAG broadcast (YMKHF Ep #99 JoBeth Williams)

First job was with Joe Papp at Harlem Shakespeare Festival

Went to Sweden to meet Ingmar Bergman. Didn’t meet him but did meet Sven Nykvist

Lee Grant directed Anna Maria and Marlo Thomas in Nobody’s Child

Worked as a PA on the WNYC Soul (go watch on Amazon Prime now!)

Anna Maria reading a poem on Soul! 

Played Craig’s mom in Friday (1995) and Friday After Next (2002)

Played Thelma Frye on Amen! “The oldest living virgin” (1986-1991) the Sherman Hemsley sitcom 

Ed Weinberger (Taxi, The Cosby Show, Amen)

Plays Vivian Avant on The Bold and the Beautiful (TV daughter is trans)

Had 2 eps on Grey’s Anatomy and was SO GOOD as Liz Fallon (1x04, 03x17)

Mike Nichols (Heartburn), Steven Spielberg (Minority Report) F. Gary Gray (Set it Off, Friday), Joel Shumacher (St Elmo’s Fire), Alan Pakula (Presumed Innocent), Louis Malle (Cracker)

Page Six in the New York Post

Played Dee Baxter, security guard on The Wayans’ Brothers sitcom

William Friedkin was a screamer (C.A.T. Squad)

Plays moms in stoner comedies: Friday (Ice Cube’s mom), How High (Redman’s mom), Method and Red (Method’s mom)

“Stephen loves pregnant women” 

Played a prostitute in St. Elmo’s Fire opposite Andrew McCarthy

Plays Pray Tell’s mom on last season of Pose (Jackee Harry on 227 and Janet Hubert from Fresh Prince also star)

Bill (opp Mickey Rooney, 1981),  The Fan (opp Lauren Bacall, 1981), and Stone PIllow (opp Lucille Ball, 1985)

Went out with Christopher Reeve (co-starred with him in Street Smart) and Corbin Bernsen 

How many pregnant women are in Steven Spielberg’s movies? Anne will compile a list

Anna Maria doing 8 episodes on the CBS sitcom, B Positive (starring former guest of this show, Annaleigh Ashford YMKHF ep #40)

Celia Weston YMKHF ep #66

Crazy Days & Nights have revealed their Sex and the City blind item from 20 years ago!

We were frightened, we also drink ze cognac. We are here with iconic actor and producer, Colleen Camp. You Might Know Her From Clue, American Hustle, Election, Police Academy 2 and 4, Die Hard with a Vengeance, Wayne’s World, Valley Girl, Sliver, Wicked Stepmother, Smile, They All Laughed, and Apocalypse Now. We got to grill Colleen about all things Clue including going up against Jennifer Jason Leigh, Madonna, and Demi Moore for the role of sexy maid Yvette. Colleen regaled us with stories of cutting her teeth in films like Apocalypse Now, adding “producer” to her list of talents, and how the tragic murder of Hollywood starlet Dorothy Stratten cast a cloud on one of her meatiest roles in Peter Bogdanovich’s They All Laughed. It was all of that, plus how her hair color changed the kinds of roles she went in for, working with Bette Davis on the legend’s final film, and how she would rewrite the ending of sexual thriller Sliver if she had her druthers. Do we think you’ll enjoy this romp of an interview? Oui oui, Madame! 

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Discussed this week: 

The Wicked Friendship Garden in NYC (150th street, not 155th)

Woman got hit with hammer. Man got hit with hammer.

“Omarion”

Yellowjackets! Insecure! And Just Like That! 

Anne watched: School of Chocolate, Pen15, The White Lotus

Damian watched: Sex Lives of College Girls, Harlem, Emily in Paris Season 2, The Lost Daughter, Don’t Look Up, Being the Ricardos

We love Melanie Lynskey, Tawny Cypress, Juliette Scientologist Lewis

The famous “Great Herring War” scene from The Golden Girls (not improvised it turns out)

Che Diaz fucks Miranda on AJLT

Colleen Camp has worked with multiple directors multiple times, Herbert Ross (Funny Lady, My Blue Heaven), Peter Bogdanovich (They All Laughed, She’s Funny That Way), Eli Roth (Knock, Knock),  David O. Russell (American Hustle), Alexander Payne (Election), Jonathan Lynn (Clue, Greedy) Martha Coolidge (Valley Girl), Adam McKay (helped with The Big Short)

Jonathan Lynn screened His Girl Friday (1940) for the cast of Clue to capture the tone he wanted

Colleen went in for Yvette in a French maid’s costume 

Starred opposite Walk Like a Man with Christopher Lloyd

Played buxom “foxy” broads in Clue, Police Academy, Swinging Cheerleaders, Apocalypse Now

Sliver (1993) is the sexual thriller (produced by Robert Evans, screenplay by Joe Ezterhaus, directed by Phillip Noyce) “I certainly have. I’m getting a plastic yeast infection.”

Sang so many songs in the Bogdanovich film, They All Laughed opposite Ben Gazarra and Audrey Hepburn. The movie featured the late Dorothy Stratten (Playboy Playmate turned actress. She was dating Bogdanovich at the time, was murdered by her ex boyfriend, Paul Snider shortly after the film wrapped. Bogdanovich later married her sister, Louise Stratten).

Bogdanovich took the movie into his own hands and tried to independently distribute They All Laughed with his own funds. The movie tanked, but is now hailed as a classic. 

Bob Fosse made a movie about Dorothy Stratten’s murder called Star 80 (in 1983, just three years after her murder). 

Wicked Stepmother opposite Bette Davis, who left the film after a week or two.

Starred opposite Barbra Streisand in one funny scene in Funny Lady (1975)

Dancing to “Suzie Q” in Apocalypse Now as a playmate

Was a champion for Dean Tavoularis

Colleen was one of the only women in Die Hard with a Vengeance 

Starred opposite a dead Bruce Lee in Game of Death (movie was made after he died so she just starred opposite a bunch of Bruce Lee stand-ins)

Ang Lee cast Colleen in The Ice Storm based on Game of Death, but she doesn't really appear