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

And just like that 2021 is nearly over. Warning that this episode contains spoilers for the first two episodes of the Sex and the City revival And Just Like That. We are breaking it all down: our feelings on the way they explained Samantha’s (and Kim Cattrall’s) absence, the shoehorning of topical issues into the SATC universe, and that big twist that Big is dead. We are both entertained and embarrassed. What do y’all think? Let us know and have a happy and healthy holiday. Stay safe, baybees and we’ll see you back here with actress interviews Jan 6, 2022!

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Discussed this week: 

Chris Noth Peloton Ad (pulled after allegations of sexual assault and rape)

Our interview with Julie Halston (Bitsy von Muffling)

Origins podcast (Chapter 5: Sex and the City)

Timeline of Kim Cattrall / Sarah Jessica Parker drama

Article (from Empire Online) Damian references

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

Our interview with Sakina Jaffrey (Rama Patel in Splat! episode)

Pen15 gracefully ending after 2 seasons because the story is done

Bobby Lee from MadTV is the cis het man on Carrie’s podcast. Boss is Sara Ramirez 

Karen Pittman as Cynthia Nixon’s Professor (does double duty on the horror that is The Morning Show), Nicole Ari Parker as “Black Charlotte” would never be married to Christopher Jackson from Hamilton. 

Brenda Vaccaro’s character (Big’s secretary) knows where the bodies are buried

We were into the return of Susan Sharon, wanted Tatum O’Neal

Chucky doll on subway rang true

Sarita Choudhury and Ali Stroker appearing in the next episode

SJP totally smokes

Carrie not calling 911

Kim Cattrall is the best: Scatting with her husband, Mannequin, Downton Abbey parody on Red Nose Day (start at 4:09), inscribing her family gravestone with “Liverpool’s Cleopatra” prior to her own death

We are just filled with love on this one. Today Constance Marie joins us on the mic. You Might Know Her From Selena, George Lopez, Undone, My Family/Mi Familia, American Family, Switched at Birth, Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders, Puss in Boots, and the new Amazon series With Love. We just had a ball with Constance talking about her charming new series With Love, which features a predominantly Latinx cast and queer storylines. Plus we get into her beginnings as a break dancer on tour with David Bowie (and in films like Breakin’ 2), and donning the now iconic wig to play Marcella Quintanilla in the Selena biopic...despite being Jennifer Lopez’s peer. We also got to talk about being part of landmark projects for Latinx folks, learning American Sign Language for her role in Switched at Birth, and being animated in Undone. This one was a total delight. Be careful spinning on your heads on cardboard, babes! 

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Discussed this week: 

The Gossip Girl reboot is deranged (Todd Almond is maybe playing Jordan Roth?)

Broadwayworld Message boards: Mandy Patikin and Toni Colette in The Wild Party

Michael Schulman’s profile of Jeremy Strong in the New Yorker 

Jessica Chastain tweeting on behalf of Aaron Sorkin (eyeroll) / Anne Hathaway on Instagram

We WILL defend Faye Dunaway til the day we die (change the best picture winner)

New Amazon series, With Love created by Gloria Calderón Kellett

Danced with David Bowie and Peter Frampton in Glass Spider Tour (choreographed by Toni Basil)

Dance nickname was “Speedy” 

Danced in music videos for Cher, Prince, Belinda Carlisle

HOLY SHIT Constance in the Toni Basil skis while Bowie sings 

La La La Human Steps: Canadian dance troupe 

Played Marcella Quintanilla Selena’s mom in the biopic Selena (1997)

Constance in the wig and glasses as Marcella

“Washing Machine” scene in Selena 

Gregory Nava directed My Family/Mi Familia (1995), Selena (1996), American Family (2002)

6 seasons as Angie on the ABC sitcom George Lopez

5 seasons as Regina on  Switched at Birth, a show that required she learn ASL (had to stop at a certain point because she had permanent nerve damage)

New Amazon series, Undone uses rotoscope animation (as seen in Scanner Darkly)

Back to the Beach with Frankie and Annette / Breakin 2 Electric Boogaloo

Went out with Michael J. Fox in Spin City and he said YES wear your heels

Voiced a human in Puss & Boots

You played a cop and a bartender on the soap Santa Barbera

Punk’d (he remained calm unlike Frankie Muniz or Hilary Duff)

You played paternal aunt to the Menendez brothers in the NBC anthology, Law & Order: True Crime. Lyle was the hot one.

Raquel Welch played Constance’s mom in the 2001 dramedy, Tortilla Soup. Jenny Gago played her mom in My Family/Mi Familia

Union Square which suffered from “The Single Guy curse” 

Her real name is Constance Marie Lopez but she dropped the Lopez because it’s been “hogged up”

Welcome back! This week’s episode features Nicole Bilderback. You Might Know Her From Bring It On, Clueless, Can’t Hardly Wait, Mercenaries, Brooklyn 99, and Cruel Summer. Nicole (or Nikki, as she asked us to call her because, frenz) really gave us the scoop on being one of the few adults on the set of Freeform’s thriller Cruel Summer, cutting her teeth in the biz on some of the most beloved teen films of the ‘90s and early ‘00s, and getting to blow things up and fly jets on the set of a big action movie opposite a bunch of other bad ass women. All that plus, did Ryan Murphy steal from Bring It On for Santana and Brittany on Glee? Did Janet Leigh use a body double for her final film, Bad Girls from Valley High? Was Michelle Visage in Starlight Express on Broadway? The answers to these questions await you, wee ones. 

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Discussed this week: 

Michelle Visage and Leah Remini guest hosting The Wendy Williams Show

Michelle Visage’s love letter to Leah Remini

Michelle’s audition videos on her IG

Michelle claims she was in 42nd Street and Starlight Express

Leah Remini got invited to TomKat’s wedding 

She tells the story in her excellent book:Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology

Will Smith and Jada played hide and seek at Tom Cruise’s house

Ann Dowd as Mrs Garrett was so good

Jon Stewart in Playing By Heart (love scene with Gillian Anderson to “Lover’s Will” by Bonnie Raitt

Bert V, Royal wrote role in Cruel Summer for Nicole

Justin Bieber wig on Jeanette in Cruel Summer

Brooklyn 99 

She asked Dawson to step in and direct the movie in Dawson’s Creek 

Whitney in Bring it On (dykeadelic)

Summer in Clueless

Mercenaries with Zoe Bell, Vivica A Fox, and Kristanna Loken

Sparky Polastri accused her character as having one calf that was bigger than the others

Bad Girls from Valley High opposite Janet Leigh, Christopher Lloyd,

Stretch and Stipple effect for old age makeup

Step by Step scene with Bronson Pinchot doing a LOT of physical comedy

Daniela Santiago seems to have deleted the video of her walking to music by Brigitte Nielsen

But here’s a Brigitte song

Megan Hilty and Bernadette Peters on Twitter  (two Lily’s from Annie)

Bernadette Peter singing TWO songs on Zooey’s Extraordinary Playlist THESE CLIPS ARE INSANE) “Cheap Thrills” and “Rich Girl”

We are joined this week by actress and author Elisa Donovan. You Might Know Her From Clueless, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, A Night at the Roxbury, The Dog Who Saved Christmas films, and her memoir, Wake Me When You Leave: Love and Encouragement via Dreams from the Other Side. We had a total ball with Elisa chatting about her beginnings on the sets of both the Clueless film and TV show, joining Sabrina right as they approached 100 episodes, and trying not to break while dancing alongside Will Ferrell and Chris Kattan. We also got to discuss her new book, a really honest portrayal of grief, family, and picking up the pieces. All that plus Judging Amy, 90210, and Matthew Lawrence talk. This one was anything but whatever.

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Discussed this week:

Annie Live! Starring Nicole Scherzinger and Megan Hilty (Krakowski’s replacement)

Harry Connick Jr.’s bald cap was ROUGH on the Macy;s Day Parade

Andrea McArdle original Annie on Broadway (was cast as Eleanor Roosevelt in this live production but has to drop out) Will they replace her with Aileen Quinn or SJP (movie Annie or Annie #3?)

Laurie Beechman was the original “Star to Be” in Annie. Here’s every part she sang in the show.

Seth Rudetsky’s breakdown of Laurie Beechman’s insane talent (cabaret under the West Bank Cafe is named after her)

Tick Tick Boom! Was wow very very good

Company Cast Recording Documentary (D.A. Pennebaker)

Some of our Fave Sondheim Clips

Madeline Kahn doing “Not Getting Married Today” (and former guest Veanne Cox doing the same song on Broadway) Company

“Not a Day Goes By” Merrily We Roll Along

Donna Murphy doing “Could I Leave You” Follies

Ruthie Henshall “More”

“Worst Pies in London” Sweeney Todd

Former guest, Joanna Gleason’s “A Moment in the Woods” Into the Woods

Bernadette Peters doing “Greens Greens” Into the Woods

“Everybody’s Got the Right” Assassins

“The Little Things You Do Together” (clip from aforementioned Company doc)

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Real World Homecoming: Los Angeles

Elisa’s book about her father’s death: Wake Me When You Leave: Love and Encouragement via Dreams from the Other Side

Plays Amber, Cher’s frenemy in the American classic, Clueless (1995)

Costumes of Clueless are iconic thanks to designer, Mona May

Had read Emma before Clueless 

A Night at the Roxbury opposite Chris Kattan and Will Ferrell

Clueless was supposed to be the hit, but it ended up being Sabrina the Teenage Witch

Typed with a pencil as Sharona on Sonny with a Chance

Dropped out of a play at LaMama to move to Los Angeles

Tested for Tiffani Amber-Thiessen’s role of Valerie Malonel on the original 90210

Sings “Rose Tint My World” in A Rocky Horror 25th Anniversary Special

Played Shelby, a jam band singer on Judging Amy who hires Amy’s brother to play bass in her band

The Dog Who Saved Christmas (dog voiced by Joey Lawrence and Mario Lopez)

Loves Gary Valentine who played her husband on the movies

Played Ginger LaMont/LaMonica on 90210 (Val’s bff)

Would save Melissa Joan Hart over Joey Lawrence, and David Lascher over Joey Lawrence

Play Joey Fatone’s girlfriend in the “Drive Myself Crazy” music video and gets to slap him 

Matthew Lawrence is married to Cheryl Burke from Dancing with the Stars

JoJo Siwa lost Dancing with the Stars (Iman won and we both loved him)

Happy Cornucopia Day to yous! In honor of this troubled holiday falling on a Thursday we are releasing a special (just us) episode on a Tuesday. This week we are really running the gamut, serving our deranged mindgrapes on a platter for you: JoJo Siwa’s coming into her sexuality on Dancing with the Stars, Natalie Wood’s sister Lana all but confirming Anne’s belief that Kirk Douglas raped a young Natalie, and a deep dive on one of our go-to warm-blanket films, Clueless. We breakdown director Amy Heckerling’s 1995 comedy classic: from Amy’s IRL dalliances, the tragic loss of Brittany Murphy, Twink Caplan making bank from her AP credit (we allege!), and Julie Brown repping for the queers. Plus, we top this totally chaotic episode off with a little clip from our sitdown with The Facts of Life star Mindy Cohn talking about that infamous first season and all the “lost girls” that were fired before they had a chance at season 2! We hope you enjoy! 

We love Templeton from Charlotte’s Web (“Smorgasbord” sang by Paul Lynde in the cartoon movie) 

JoJo Siwa is having a gay evolution on Dancing with the Stars 

JoJo doing “Body Language” (Queen), “Feedback” (Janet Jackson)

Lana Wood has announced that Kirk Douglas raped Natalie Wood

Kirk Douglas honored by Golden Globes with the Cecil B Demille Award in 2018, the year of #MeToo

Michael Douglas says “may they both rest in peace.”

This December is all about Natalie Wood (Miracle on 34th Street, West Side Story)

Marni Nixon was the singing voice of Natalie Wood in West Side Story (her original audio can be heard here) 

This LOST VOCALS youtube page is incredible

Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice (other woman was Dyan Cannon)

Elliot Gould was sexy

Mindy Sterling could’ve been up for Miss Geist (famous for playing Frau Farbissina)

The Chris Kattan Amy Heckerling fiasco (Kattan also dated Jennifer Coolidge for a long time)

Amy Sherman Palladino is the poor woman’s steampunk Amy Heckerling (Heckerling by way of Linda Perry)

Heckerling dated Bronson Pinchot for a long time

Bronson Pinchot in Putting it Together on Broadway with Carol Burnett 

Swing Revival in the mid to late 90s

Peach Pit After Dark

Dan Hedaya is a man that Anne loves  

Hedaya was on the The TORTELLIS (not the “Tarantellis” as we said on the ep) the Cheers spinoff with previous guest of the show, Mandy Ingber, ep #26

Donald Faison chose to have Murray have braces because his teeth were so small

He’s married to Jessica Simpson’s former assistant, CaCee Cobb

Brittany Murphy’s “I’ll Never Tell” in the Michael Douglas movie Don’t Say a Word

Murphy sang in Happy Feet

Was the featured vocalist in Paul Oakenfold’s club track, “Faster Kill Pussycat” 

There’s an HBO doc about Murphy: What Happened Brittany Murphy

Was on Broadway in A View from the Bridge with Allison Janney and Anthony LaPaglia

Jamie Walters was Ray Pruitt on the original 90210

Clueless the Musical with Dove Cameron as Cher

“The Lost Girls” of The Facts of Life

You Might Know Her From Love, Victor; Ugly Betty; Hung; Kristin, Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son; and Devious Maids. Ana had us in stitches talking about her connection to the LGBTQ community, mastering Marisol’s voice for Devious Maids, choosing Kristin Chenoweth over Mariah Carey, dream musical theatre roles, and the authenticity she brought to the Dr. Quinn universe. All that plus Housewives, Drag Race, Smash, and poppers. Sheesh. This one, as Anne would say, is a total barn burner. Enjoy, mon amis!

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Discussed this week:

Jamie Dornan singing “Everlasting Love”

Aaron Tveit in Grease Live! (Mario Lopez was Vince Fontaine, Julianne Hough was Sandy)

Vince Fontaine in movie was disgusting

“Paws up”= “lech”

House of Gucci and Gaga’s accent

James Martinez plays her husband in Love, Victor 

Did a play with Garry Marshall: Wrong Turn at Lungfish (co-starring Hector Elizondo)

Starred as Marisol on Marc Cherry’s Devious Maids 

Played Hilda Suarez on Ugly Betty 

Member of LAByrinth Theatre and a Stephen Adly Guirgis play got her a role on NYPD Blue

Sandy Duncan in Peter Pan changed her life (us too)

Ana Ortiz loves Smash like we do  

Chose to star in the Chenoweth sitcom, Kristin instead of Glitter (she’s a LAMB)

BFFs with Mark Indelicato who played her son on Ugly Betty

Clubs she frequented: Club 57, Limelight, Danceteria, Save the Robots, Escuelita, Mars

Liz Swados was a family friend. Trini Alvarado and Diane Lane in her musical Runaways

Vanessa Williams is a pip 

Gave birth in the Dr Quinn movie “coño”

Worked with Lindsay Lohan twice in Ugly Betty and Labor Pains

Ana was in music video for Juan Luis Guerra and Enrique Iglesias “Cuando Me Enamoro”

Loves Rupaul’s Drag Race and Housewives

Dean in Big Mommas: LIke Father Like Son opposite Martin Lawrence in prosthetic drag

Sex with Mark Paul Gosselaar in Commander in Chief vs Thomas Jane in Hung 

Emma Stone played an Asian woman in Cameron Crowe’s Aloha

Martin Lawrence is a David Boreanz type (aka doesn’t do coverage) 

We are ecstatic to be joined by actress and writer Jocelyn Bioh. You Might Know Her From her performances in Russian Doll, Ben is Back, An Octoroon, In the Blood, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and her original plays School Girls; Or The African Mean Girls Play and Nollywood Dreams. We talked to Jocelyn about being a true multi-hyphenate and the toast of the New York theatre scene, mining her time from boarding school in her smash hit play School Girls, how she compartmentalizes her writer brain when she’s acting in other folks’ projects, and how the world of film and TV writing is different than the theatre scene. All that, plus we dig into her acting opposite a moviestar like Julia Roberts, her love of reality TV (and Tiffany Pollard), and how her play Nollywood Dreams is finally having its New York debut! 

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Discussed this week:

Sc5eam trailer (the 5 is actually the R, not the C as Anne said)

Horror films mentioned in Scream

Cameos in the Scream series

The House on Sorority Row with previous guest, Eileen Davidson

Terror Train with Jamie Lee Curtis

Johnny Depp vs Skeet Ulrich

The Tourist with Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp (trailer is insanely bad)

Johnny Depp profile in Rolling Stone was a wild ride

Two recent guests were in the Child’s Play universe: Dinah Manoff (Child’s Play) and Beth Grant (Child’s Play 2)

Christine Elise is in Child’s Play 2

Child’s Play has been rebooted as a series on Syfy

Jennifer Tilly wearing a Chucky dress on WWHL

Anne’s never seen The Fabulous Baker Boys

Dog City (mole as moll? No, it was a cat)

School Girls: The African Mean Girls Play 

Whitney Houston’s “The Greatest Love of All” plays a huge part in the play

First role was in a Charlayne Woodard one woman show

Attended Milton Hershey boarding school Damian knew the school from the Pennsylvania Thespian Conference 

Natasha Lyonne hired her to write in Russian Doll after seeing her play, School Girls 

Writing screenplay for Americanah and Disney+ adaptation or Once on This Island

Has worked steadily as an actor in NYC: Everybody, An Octoroon, In the Blood, Men in Boats, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime

Often works with playwright, Brandon Jacobs Jenkins

Got reamed out by Julia Roberts in Ben is Back

Susan Kelechi Watson DM’d Jocelyn to see what was happening in NYC theatre

Jocelyn adapted Merry Wives of Windsor for this past summer’s Shakespeare in the Park 

Saheem Ali Associate Artistic Director for the Public

Nollywood Dreams  has NYC premiere this fall (thru Nov 28th at MCC)

Carmine’s restaurant in NYC, a very intense place to work

Love Island 

We all agree on Tiffany “New York” Pollard, Making the Band,  D. Woods and Dannity Kane. 

In BJJ’s Everybody the actors drew straws for who would play what role each night. Jocelyn’s role was one of two fixed roles. 

Started opposite previous guest Saycon Sengbloh (ep# in the Signature’s production of In the Blood 

FMK Off Bway theatres: Signature / Playwright’s / Atlantic

Mars 2112

Liza at Sardi’s in Muppets Take Manhattan

Well throw us on a Smucker’s jar and have ol’ Willard Scott salute us because we’re 100! We are celebrating our 100th episode with actress and producer Amy Brenneman. You Might Know Her From You Might Know Her From The Leftovers, Private Practice, Heat, Fear, Daylight, Things You Can Tell Just By Looking at Her, NYPD Blue, and Judging Amy. Amy talked to us about signing up for The Leftovers with no dialogue, having a baby ripped out of her on the Grey’s Anatomy spin-off Private Practice, and, of course, creating and starring in our personal favorite, Judging Amy. We got scoop on why Amy and Bruce never got together, why Vincent left then came back, and all the delicious intel about the legendary Tyne Daly money can buy. Plus, stories from the sets of Heat and Fear and Anne gets all her questions about Daylight answered. It’s a big day folks and we couldn’t have done it without you. Salud! 

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Discussed this week:

Damon Lindelof’s The Leftovers (HBO) also created Lost

Judging Amy inspired by Amy’s real life mother, Frederica Joanne Shoenfield who was a state superior judge in Connecticut (only the 2nd female judge ever appointed in CT) 

Les Moonves President of CBS, who is married to Julie Chen (who is Chinese American), didn’t want an interracial romance on his network

Father of Tyne Daly’s children is black, Georg Sanford Brown

Dan Futterman left Judging Amy to be with his girlfriend in New York but came back for the last season. He wrote Capote, and he and his wife, Anya created HBO’s In Treatment 

Amy Brenneman entered an ensemble when she took the gig on Private Practice  

Violet had a baby cut out of her while she was conscious 

Tim Daly is Tyne’s brother and they were made to be love interests on Private Practice

Janice Licalsi on NYPD Blue

David Caruso got terrible press for his bad behavior on set of NYPD Blue

We only remembered Dennis Franz’s butt

Starred in Michael Mann’s Heat  (1995) opposite Robert DeNiro  

Things You Can Tell Just By Looking at Her (now streaming on Amazon) is one of our faves

Amy starred in Nevada an indie opposite Kathy Najimy, Saffron Burrows, and Kirstie Alley

Amy negotiated last billing: “and Amy Brenneman” on her Private Practice contract

The Good Son

Starred as angels in two of her husband, Brad Silberling’s movies: Casper and City of Angels

Fear is a violent toxic male movie that has some insane scenes

Played a lesbian in 88 Minutes opposite Al Pacino and on Veep (Season 6, ep

Queen of Scotland on the CW series, Reign opposite former guest Megan Follows (Ep #97)

Starred opposite Kathy Baker in 4 films: Things You Can Tell Just By Looking at Her, Nine Lives, The Jane Austen Book Club, ATF

Plays sister to a blind Cameron Diaz in TYCTJBLAH. Calista Flockhart was lesbian opposite Valeria Golino 

Stars in Daylight opposite Sylvester Stallone. Her character has a Cats poster on her wall. She also stops a live wire in the tunnel by putting boots on her hands @ 31:50. 

Sakina Jaffrey (Ep #25) was also in Daylight and told us about it 

Timestamp for Daylight scene: 

Cameron Diaz’ book: Body Book: The Law of Hunger, the Science of Strength, and Other Ways to Love Your Amazing Body