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Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonRitch Shydner Live On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonRitch Shydner Live on Game Changers With Vicki Abelson
Well, that was a first! On the road with Ronna and Ritch Shydner as they traveled from Florida back home to North Carolina. Literally, in the car, in the fading light, in rural Georgia, with intermittent signal. It was as much a surprise to me as to you! Kinda like doing an interview in a disco with strobe lights. Trooper Ritch didn’t want to cancel even though he was in the midst of family tragedy, having very recently lost his dad, and was out of state with his mom to he...
2024-08-2955 min
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonWill Lee Live On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonWill Lee Live on Game Changers With Vicki Abelson
Head to head with the DNC, two news junkies didn’t walk into a bar but did get lost in conversation and fun. It’s easy when one of them is Grammy Winner, crazy talented, lovely, humble human, Will Lee.
It’s been a few years and a world of changes since last we spoke, this time focusing on the road to sobriety, many moons ago, what led there, the price of using, meeting Paul Schaffer, a relationship that changed his life, the two of them holding the distinction of being on Lat...
2024-08-221h 26
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonJosh Sussman On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonJosh Sussman on Game Changers With Vicki Abelson
What fun, as I expected! What edutainment, that I couldn’t have anticipated! We got the inside scoop on the differences of the pre and post-pandemic biz scene from SAG Award Winner, Josh Sussman. Fascinating, insightful, delightful! Booking his first audition for My Crazy Life, playing Tom Green’s best friend, Derek, who ironically, my wasband worked with on The New Tom Green Show back in those days, and for the past 20+ years has been one of Tom’s best in the reals… Josh took us from his last in-person audition, for Mr. Mayo...
2024-08-151h 25
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonCathy Moriarty On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonCathy Moriarty Live on Game Changers With Vicki Abelson
Girl Crush! I’ve had one for years on Academy Award Nominee, Cathy Moriarty, now after spending a virtual hour with her, forgetaboutit! I always knew she was an incredible actress, whether making me laugh or cry, but, what an amazing woman… mother, daughter, loyal friend, and pet rescuer.
We talked the Bronx, where we both come from, Alexanders, our mothers, gratefully still with us, Cathy’s pre-Pesci discovery acting days… high school drama, plays, dinner theatre, no agent, no professional training, but grabbing stage time wherever she could, auditioning and then a b...
2024-08-081h 09
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonGreg Mullavey On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonGreg Mullavey on Game Changers With Vicki Abelson
When one of my life’s heroes walks off the screen into the reals and supersedes all expectations, that’s a home run. So goes it with Mary Hartman Mary Hartman’s, Greg Mullavey. I got a taste interviewing him on the Zoom a few years ago, but this go ‘round witnessing him honoring his craft onstage at The Garry Marshall Theatre as Jules Feiffer, in The People VS Lenny Bruce, being eyeball to eyeball sans screens for the first after the show, sharing a warm hug, and culminating with this chat, a master...
2024-07-251h 15
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonPeter Onorati On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonPeter Onorati Live on Game Changers With Vicki Abelson
SO FUN! Spending time with Peter Onorati is like going out in the bright sunshine after a month in a dark cave. Such joy! We talked Italy and the wondrous vacation he treated his immediate family to visiting their extended family in towns I’ve never heard of and can’t begin to pronounce. But, I wanna go! Then there was Ravello, Positano, SWAT recognition, Rome, truffles, and a funny one that once made it home. There’s funny all over the place with Peter.
A great story about Peter’s first so...
2024-07-181h 18
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonSnuffy Walden Live On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonSnuffy Walden Live on Game Changers With Vicki Abelson
Lemonade! That’s what you get when you take a brilliantly talented, supportive beau, and the greatest, most fun-loving, and devoted co-commiserators on the planet and mix them together on what could have been a rough one. My gratitude is boundless. What fun this was!
It helps when said Beau is Emmy Award-Winning Composer, Snuffy Walden, even though we didn’t really go there. From piano to trombone, finding guitar, playing strip clubs, to living in a park with his roadie, Aphrodite in Denver to fronting Stray Dog, opening for Emerson, Lake...
2024-07-101h 13
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonTom Bergeron On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonTom Bergeron on Game Changers With Vicki Abelson
What a blast to sit down again with the just honored inaugural recipient of The Sam Rubin Award from The Critics Choice Association and Emmy-Winner, Tom Bergeron. The humble humanitarian was as funny and feisty as ever regaling us with one show biz gold story after another and commanding us to Google what he deemed unworthy of repeating (why he left the “dancing show”). He actually scooped it on this very show almost two years ago to the day.
We started with Tom’s current FLiRT with COVID, other than some residual fatigu...
2024-06-271h 14
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonThaao Penghlis Live On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonThaao Penghlis Live on Game Changers With Vicki Abelson
Looking as fit, youthful, and handsome as ever, thrice Emmy nominated, Thaao Penghlis, was a model of class, sophistication, charisma, and information. As has always been the case, the conversation flowed and the time flew. We talked about Thaao’s travels to Egypt and Greece, how to best visit his family’s homeland, The Lost Treasures, his podcast, his passion for cooking, his first appearance on a cooking show, and what he cooked, the recent drop of the paperback of his Seducing Celebrities One Meal At A Time, why he’s no lon...
2024-06-201h 13
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonSusan Seidelman Live On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonSusan Seidelman Live on Game Changers with Vicki Abelson
I’ve been desperately seeking Susan Seidelman for 14 years… some things, some Susans, are worth waiting for! Loved every second with this film maverick whom I’ve admired since we were both kicking around Greenwich Village, kinda “bad girls,” who looked, good. There’s so much common thread (well, except the whole success thing), as Susan points out when we traded books, do all Jewish girls from New York have the word “Mother” in their subtitles? That’s how I finally got the affirmative nod. Susan’s memoir, Desperately Seeking Something: A Memoir About Movie...
2024-06-131h 24
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonToto's Joseph Williams Live On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonToto’s Joseph Williams Live on Game Changers with Vicki Abelson
Hold the line! What a way to reenter this arena - with arena rockstar Joseph Williams of Toto! I had the best time - can’t stop smiling. Joseph could not have been more accessible, personable, humble, willing, thoughtful, informative… entertaining, and warm––like a fuzzy blanket on a cool summer night. Just loved every minute.
I watched quite a few interviews with Joseph to get to know him a bit before sitting down with him. All that I saw were centered around the music of Toto and Joseph’s solo work–...
2024-06-061h 18
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonRick Vito Live On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonRick Vito Live on Game Changers with Vicki Abelson
What a lovely way to spend a sunny afternoon. Grammy-nominated guitarist, singer, and producer, Rick Vito, probably best known as a member of Fleetwood Mac, was a sunny delight, hisself. Coming to us Live from Franklin TN, following the release of his recently dropped latest album, Cadillac Man, we wiled away the hour talking his tastes… The Stones, Duane Eddy, BB King, his passions, Jimi Hendrix, Peter Green, his custom guitars, and his history… a 41-year marriage, two great kids, starting out with Delaney and Bonnie and Eric Clapton, what a stor...
2024-04-1155 min
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonHal Linden Live On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonHal Linden Live on Game Changers with Vicki Abelson
Does it get better than this? Someone’s gonna have to prove it to me. Wow, what a time with Hal Linden! As nice, charming, handsome, and tall (well, I’m guessing on the last), as his Barney Miller, Hal was all that and a hefty bag of Cheetos. Absolutely age-defying - I want to see his birth certificate. It’s unfathomable that he’s 93. Still dashing, his voice strong, mind sharp, wit crackling, and his talent will be on display next weekend in Flat Rock, co-starring with Marilu Henner in Ed Weinb...
2024-04-0456 min
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonWarren Ham Live On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonWarren Ham Live on Game Changers with Vicki Abelson
What an absolutely delightful sit down with multi-instrumentalist and vocalist, Warren Ham. As much as I was blown away seeing him do his thing (s) Live with Ringo and his All Starr Band, singing lead, background vocals, playing flute, sax, harmonica, keyboards, and percussion, I’m exhausted just typing it, let alone watching him work the entire multi-level stage, I was equally impressed chatting with him. What an engaging, fun, open, self-effacing, lovely, ridiculously talented, accessible, human.
Warren started us with his family’s gospel group, recording his first album at 5. What...
2024-03-281h 04
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonButch Patrick Live On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonButch Patrick Live on Game Changers with Vicki Abelson
What a fun chat with Butch Patrick, aka Eddie Munster, who’s warm, easy and so comfortable in his skin that it’s impossible to not feel like an old friend coming home. Butch makes everyone in his path feel seen, heard, and important. What a gift.
We talked about current events… living in Arkansas, his Munster Mobiles, getting out and meeting his fans, his girlfriend, how they met, and how they keep it going. And we went back… how a 7 yr old got his start in film, had a career in TV, a...
2024-03-211h 02
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonRudy Sarzo of Quiet Riot Live On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonRudy Sarzo of Quiet Riot Live on Game Changers with Vicki Abelson
I got to sit down again with bassist extraordinaire, Rudy Sarzo... Quiet Riot, Ozzy Osbourne, Whitesnake, The Guess Who, Blue Oyster Cult - who's also a modern-day humanist, animal rights activist, author, mentor, CG artist, and an evolved, spiritual, gentle soul. And what a time it was!
Originally from Cuba, we talked Rudy's early days, his family's struggle to get here, and the struggles they continued to face when they arrived. Barely speaking the language, work shortages, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Kennedy Assassination, to the shining light...
2024-03-141h 35
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonFederico Castelluccio Live On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonFederico Castelluccio of The Sopranos Live on Game Changers with Vicki Abelson
I knew Federico Castelluccio, Furio Giunta, on the Sopranos, is a crazy talented artist on screen and canvas, is charming, easy on the eyes and ears, but damn! I was unprepared for one of the most fascinating, spectacular conversations I’ve had to date. I know little to nothing of the art world beyond what I like. Federico made it all sound so straightforward and accessible. He demystified his process of collecting, making so much sense, and almost making it sound… simple! Alas, I’m well aware it’s so not...
2024-02-291h 29
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonRicky Byrd Live On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonRock ’N Roll Hall of Famer Ricky Byrd Live on Game Changers with Vicki Abelson
Hanging out with Rock’N Roll Hall of Famer, Ricky Byrd, is like going home. Back to the days… when we were both in a daze. I was booking the Rock 'N Roll Café on Bleecker Street, Ricky was already a rockstar, center stage as lead guitarist with Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, playing those iconic riffs in the fab MTV Music Video Days... when there were ashtrays on restaurant tables, and MTV played music videos. Just found a great pic of Ricky and Elliot Easton...
2024-02-221h 21
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonJames Morrison Live On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonJames Morrison Live on Game Changers with Vicki Abelson
How fortuitous that my first show back after an 8-week hiatus was with the stunningly soulful James Morrison––actor, writer, filmmaker, musician, husband, father, fellow, and stellar human. James was Chicken soup for my post-COVID soul. Discovering just before we went on the air that my treasured friend, Christinna Guzman had passed from cancer opened the door to an emotionally charged conversation about relationships…parent/child, James’ son, Seamus, is a brain cancer survivor… love partnerships, how James and Riad have thrived through their 35 years together, including through their son’s illness… art...
2024-02-021h 29
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonVincent Curatola Of The Sopranos Live On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonVincent Curatola of The Sopranos Live on Game Changers With Vicki Abelson
I’m not sure how it’s possible to meet a person once on Zoom and feel like they’re a treasured friend that I’ve known forever, but that’s exactly how it is with Vincent Curatola, aka Johnny Sack of The Sopranos, whom before meeting I feared would whack. Me.
On this our second sitdown we talked how a businessman who’d nary graced a stage in a few short years under the tutelage of acting coach Michael Moriarty, took on Law & Order, then wrote and starred in h...
2023-12-071h 04
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonLori Lieberman Live On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonLori Lieberman Live on Game Changers with Vicki Abelson
Being with Lori Lieberman, the very first musical guest at Women Who Write, and the only artist to perform at every WWW location over the past decade-plus is like going home. Five years since our last midday soiree, it was so wonderful to reconnect and catch up. We got the unabridged Killing Me Softly scoop, from its inception with Lori’s pen on a napkin at a Don McLean show, to it getting fleshed out with her managers, Charles Fox and Norman Gimbel, her recording it, getting airplay, Roberta hearing it, Lo...
2023-11-301h 10
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonSteve Lukather Live On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonSteve Lukather Live on Game Changers With Vicki Abelson
Hold the Line! Steve Lukather may be a bonafide rock star, but he’s also down-to-earth, self-effacing, self-aware, open-minded, hearted, reflective, enthusiastic, passionate, thoughtful, generous, and perhaps sweetest of all, a fanboy like us of his heroes. From the 6-year-old boy blown away by The Beatles on Ed Sullivan, George’s guitar specifically, to the grown man who came to play and friend not only George, but Paul, and closer than close with Ringo, his “boss” for the past decade. Fab stories of all three, not to mention much about Steve and then...
2023-11-161h 20
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonMarshall Herskovitz Live On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonMarshall Herskovitz Live on Game Changers With Vicki Abelson
Masterclass! I’ve had many stimulating, fascinating, brilliant, talented, fun guests. None more so than writer, director, and producer, Marshall Herskovitz. There’s a reason this human has won more Emmy, Golden Globe, Writers Guild, Directors Guild, Peabody, and Humanitas Awards than I can count… not to mention an Academy Award nomination. Wow, just wow! You don’t get all those awards for writing, creating, and making great television and movies without being a great storyteller, and boy is Marshall that! From his eighth-grade short story to his first attempt at filmmaki...
2023-11-091h 27
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonSteve Porcaro Live On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonSteve Porcaro Live on Game Changers with Vicki Abelson
I loved every second with 3x Grammy Winner, founding member of Toto, Steve Porcaro. A down-to-earth sweetheart of a guy who just happens to be one arm of the iconic legendary musical Porcaro family. These ain’t no lip-sinking, TV frontmen, the Porcaros define chops. World-renowned drummer, Joe, who left sticks and skins around, brother Jeff, who picked them up and banged them to new heights, Mike who segued to bass, and Steve who found his passion and his niche with keyboards, programming, and sythns. Separately, and together they made musical hi...
2023-10-131h 05
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonDavid Jackson Live On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonDavid Jackson Live on Game Changers with Vicki Abelson
What a delight music legend David Jackson is. No surprise. I was warned by his legions of loyal fans, most of whom are his brilliantly talented contemporaries. This was fabulous fun, topped perhaps by pre-fed stories with lots of misinformation which paved the way for the truths, which proved to make it all even more fun. So what if David wasn’t actually at Columbia Studios when George Harrison hid the pot from the cops, he told great story! Who cares if David was with Cher in DC, not the Chateau Ma...
2023-09-281h 29
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonAnthony Fedorov Live On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonAnthony Fedorov Live on Game Changers with Vicki Abelson
I’m still smiling and I’m not sure I’m gonna stop any time soon. What a blast I had with American Idol finalist Anthony Fedorov. It’s been a minute since last we met and Anthony is even more spectacular than I remembered.
He opened the show with That Someone, his new song from his new musical, Proud Marys. I loved it! Can’t wait till Sunday when he does it in person at his long-awaited return engagement at the Catalina Bar & Grill. In LA? Please join me! https://bit.ly/3Lk...
2023-09-141h 11
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonSteve Conte Live On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonSteve Conte Live on Game Changers with Vicki Abelson
What a great time, as always, when old pal Steve Conte sits down to chat and sing. That voice! Those songs! The stories! Steve played his latest Coolest Song in the World, Fourth of July, co-written with Andy Partridge of XTC, which was a dream come true for Steve and anyone fortunate enough to hear it. He opened the show with that tune, and then almost at the close, after hearing the back story of his admiration, their meeting, growing friendship, and how it bloomed into co-writing 5 of the songs on...
2023-09-071h 33
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonMax Gail Live On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonMax Gail Live on Game Changers With Vicki Abelson
What a thrill it is when someone whose work I admire, adore, and respect exceeds all my expectations as a human. Max Gail, actor, director, advocate, songwriter, two-time Emmy Award Nominee, for Barney Miller, and two-time Emmy Winner for General Hospital did just that. Spending time in his most excellent company felt like a giant hug, like going home.
Max took us back to his childhood homes in Detroit and Florida, his six siblings, five of whom are twins, including his twin sister… crazy, the music his father instilled in him, hi...
2023-08-311h 54
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonTom Arnold Live On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonTom Arnold Live On Game Changers With Vicki Abelson by Vicki Abelson
2023-08-241h 04
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonTony Braunagel Live On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonTony Braunagel Live on Game Changers With Vicki Abelson
What a long great trip it’s been. Grammy and Blues Music Award Winner, Tony Braunagel, took us through his early days in Houston, playing nightclubs at 15 with soul bands, to connecting with a certain Snuffy Walden and Terry Wilson a few years later, playing together on and off over the next 50 + years, including next Wednesday at The Write Off Room with the amazing Teresa James.
Tony told great stories about Johnny Nash, London, Rabbit, Bob Marley, New York, Ahmet Ertegun, Paul Kossoff, Back Street Crawler, opening for Foreigner, Kansas, and Ro...
2023-07-201h 21
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonJason Scheff Live On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonJason Scheff Live on Game Changers With Vicki Abelson
Rock Star! Jason Scheff’s got the chops, the voice, the lineage, the career, and the hair! And I’m not sure he could be a more lovely, gracious, humble guy. As if thirty years with Chicago weren’t enough, Jason takes us through that experience from the rumors, the auditions, the close race, getting it, the faux pax, righting it big time, the glories of it, the joys, to why he left three decades later.
We started with his dad, the iconic bassist, Jerry Scheff, who’s played with countless legends...
2023-07-062h 19
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonCj Vanston Live On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonCJ Vanston Live on Game Changers With Vicki Abelson
I could have laughed all night and still have laughed some more! What fun! Composer, producer, songwriter, keyboardist, CJ Vanston––great bit on his name to start, had me laughing to tears story upon story. Oh boy, I needed the eggs.
From his musical beginnings, locked in and listening to his dad’s cool jazz band through the floorboards, burning an oven full of their pot at age 4, the tales kept coming, one topping the next… convincing a young Richard Marx to keep and record what would become his biggest hit, when all...
2023-06-291h 14
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonCheri Ann Oteri Live On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonCheri Oteri Live on Game Changers With Vicki Abelson
Fun, fun, fun, and more fun. A long-time huge fan of Cheri Oteri’s work - I’m now a huge fan of the human. I loved every second in this Emmy nominees’ great company. As animated as Cheri is on screen, she’s all that and a truck full of fun in conversation. From early days in Philly imitating soap actors, her nana, and Laura Ingall’s, aspiring to rock stardom, landing at A& M Records in publishing and promotion, moonlighting studying at The Groundlings, eventually making the company, until her manage...
2023-06-221h 17
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonAJ Benza Live On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonAJ Benza Live on Game Changers With Vicki Abelson
We couldn’t sit further apart on the political spectrum, or how we approach and present what we do, and yet columnist, TV correspondent, talk show host, actor, author, award-winning producer, and podcaster, AJ Benza, is a cherished friend. What we do share is a quest to tell the truth, a platform to do it, a passion for writing, and a great appreciation for celebrity and the people we admire.
Starting with today’s scoop––Johnny Depp helping Amber Heard, as AJ long ago predicted he would, AJ dished us some Harvey W...
2023-06-151h 33
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonFelix Solis Live On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonFelix Angel Solis Live on Game Changers With Vicki Abelson
If a good man is hard to find, a great one’s murder. Felix Solis, currently killing it in The Rookie: Feds, and who killed, literally, as Omar Navarro in Ozark, the role which broke him out of actors actor/working actor to famous actor. Deserved. All over the place. Felix’s stunning performance in the Pulitzer-winning, The Cost of Living, is forever seared in my soul. As is his Navarro. How the hell did he make that unconscionable murderer likable and even at times… sympathetic! Chilling and thrilling.
We talked...
2023-06-081h 13
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonKorel Tunador Live On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonKorel Tunador Live on Game Changers With Vicki Abelson
It was such a treat to sit down again with treasured friend, Korel Tunador. I’ve sure missed him. Crazy talented and oh, so fun, quintuple threat––guitar, keyboards, sax, accordion, and vocals, Korel, who’s been playing with Rob Thomas the last many years, spent a dozen + with the Goo Goo Dolls, toured with Katy Perry, and Jada Pinkett Smith’s Wicked Wisdom, and prepped to tour with Hanson, filled us in on how he got each, how the experiences played out, from never making it on the road (the latter) to...
2023-05-251h 34
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonMichael Ruff Live On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonMichael Ruff Live on Game Changers With Vicki Abelson
In his first ever interweb interview, perhaps interview period, 3rd Zoom of his lifetime, and that includes 2 with his family, multiple Grammy-nominated producer and songwriter, BMI Award and Cable Ace Award winner, Michael Ruff, tried to be a little ruff, deflecting and avoiding answering questions about his past but ultimately, answering my questions he did. Even the really tough ones. And the password was FUN!
I’ve had a bit of a run with bad boy musicians who are a tad unpredictable and contrarian- I love a good challenge. Well, I’m ac...
2023-05-111h 34
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonSnuffy Walden Live On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonSnuffy Walden Live on Game Changers With Vicki Abelson
There are no accidents. House stand-in as he so aptly named hisslef, Emmy-Winning Composer, Snuffy Walden, was just what the doctor ordered. Live from the dining room, with Rufus for the most part chillin’ between us, Snuffy got down, got real, letting us in as he seamlessly weaved through music, alcoholism, geographics, hitting big, breaking bad, highs, lows, getting sober, switching gears, success beyond his imaginings, the pandemic abyss, to slowly stepping back out amidst life’s challenges.
From piano to trombone, finding guitar, playing with BJ Thomas at 14 and strip club...
2023-04-061h 30
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonBarbara Feldon Live On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonBarbara Feldon Live on Game Changers With Vicki Abelson
The best? Certainly none better. I’m not sure anyone has ever exceeded my very high expectations greater than Barbara Feldon did this day. As much as I admired and adored Get Smart’s Agent 99 for her sophistication, intelligence, knowingness, sly, perfectly delivered humor, demure yet smoldering sexiness, and downright gorgeousness… Barbara is all that, and a truckload of Cheetos. It was so overwhelmingly powerful and thrilling to deep dive with this wise, self-effacing, self-aware, thoughtful, beyond-imagining age-defying beauty, I was filled to the brim with emotion, electricity, excitement, and enlightenment. I got...
2023-03-231h 23
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonStanley Livingston Live On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonStanley Livingston Live on Game Changers with Vicki Abelson
Considering we were kids together, so what if he didn’t know it… Stanley Livingston and I opened with the health report. Remarkably fit and boyish for his 72 years, where the hell did the time go? Stan’s used it well.
Some fun revelations––from his mother’s pre-maternal career to his first wife’s like vocation, a great story about James Edwards, more will be revealed, starting his TV life in a wooden box, how a swimming lesson opened the door, working with Doris Day, Debbie Reynolds, Mary Tyler Moore, Charles Bronso...
2023-03-091h 27
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonEric McCormack Live On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonEric McCormack Live on Game Changers with Vicki Abelson
Will and Vicki. The virgin Walden/Abelson voyage. If you’re gonna break the almost 3 yrs to the day pandemic Zoom streak, and do a first Live in person from the new digs, how better than with handsome, charming, fabulous, Emmy, SAG, and GLAAD Award Winning, Eric McCormack? Couldn’t be done. If you’re gonna look into a set of eyeballs, share rarefied air, lotsa laughs, and some snacks, well…it doesn’t get better than this. Thank you, Loren Gold for putting up with my incessant begging and pleading and making...
2023-03-021h 11
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonTeresa James & Terry Wilson Live On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonTeresa James & Terry Wilson Live on Game Changers with Vicki Abelson
They may sing the blues but they sure make me happy. Grammy nominees Teresa James and Terry Wilson treated us to our first live mini-concert in Game Changers history. And it was spectacular! With their brand new album of reimagined Beatle songs, With a Little Help From Her Friends, which debuted at #9 on the Billboard Blues chart at the fore, the last third of the show was devoted to cuts from said album, and one of my favorites of theirs, Don’t Make A Habit of It. Joining them wa...
2023-02-161h 27
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonLarry Amoros Live On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonLarry Amoros Live on Game Changers with Vicki Abelson
For a good time call Cheryl, or watch this. I literally laughed til I cried. Larry Amoros, head writer for Joan Rivers, Joy Behar, Rosie O'Donnell, and Barry Manilow, tore down my house, and boy, did I need the eggs. Is there anyone funnier?
Larry’s story about Bea Arthur alone! Holy cow, HYSTERICAL! A genius standup, I’m tempted t say it’s all in the delivery, but it’s not. He’s got gems, about Joan. Johnny Carson, Jane Fonda, Rosie, Joy, Barry, Mel Z Lawrence, the Catskills, his mother, Me...
2023-02-091h 23
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonDean Parks Live On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonDean Parks Live on Game Changers with Vicki Abelson
Dean Parks has played with everyone on every album ever recorded. Close. His discography is so long I had to take rest breaks as I was scrolling. How many did we get to? Well, we polished some of the gemstones.
A 5-year-old with a steel guitar, he was playing with the big boys at 6. Clarinet followed, and saxophone, which he still plays brilliantly, before focusing on guitar, where he is lord and master of the sessions. Starting with Sonny and Cher, Steely Dan, Stevie Wonder’s Innervisions (in my top 10 of al...
2023-02-021h 06
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonPaul Williams Live On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonPaul Williams Live on Game Changers with Vicki Abelson
It’s been 9 yrs since Grammy, Golden Globe, Oscar Winner, and Hall of Famer, Paul Williams, graced my living room. That’s almost as long as it’s been since I began campaigning to get him to do this. Worth the wait! And then some.
Putting aside Paul’s decades of accomplishments, the dozens upon dozens of his songs that weave through the fabric of our lives, continue to move us, and break our hearts––for me, just today, crying in the shower singing along to, I Won’t Last a Day Without Yo...
2023-01-261h 15
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonLeland Sklar Live On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonLeland Sklar Live on Game Changers With Vicki Abelson
It’s always a stupendous no BS joy to sit down with bassist, and humanitarian extraordinaire, Leland Sklar. Does absence make the heart grow fonda, does familiarity breed an easy intimacy that translates to free-flowing fun? I’m gonna say, “Yes.” This was a gas! In the best possible way.
Lee filled us in on his festival fall. Well, the film festivals for Denny Tedesco’s doc, Immediate Family, were total triumphs, but Lee’s lack of self-care whilst promoting it landed him in ER with a brain bleed, damaged hand, facial stitc...
2023-01-191h 33
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonTHE COWSILLS Live On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonLive with The Cowsill on Game Changers With Vicki Abelson
There’s so much wonderfulness and fun packed into this 1:15 Live, I’m woe to break it down and give any spoilers. Suffice it to say we talked about their avid, loyal fans, me being one, since kneesocks, their group dynamic, how the 7 came and went, family auditions, oh yes they did, how the harmonies stack, how the songs on their new album, Rhythm of the World, got written, recorded, and out there in spite of the pandemic and a stroke of someone’s bad business, the hero who saved the da...
2023-01-121h 15
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonJason Alexander Live On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonJason Alexander Live on Game Changers With Vicki Abelson
Wow! Just wow! I’ve loved Jason Alexander since Pretty Woman, and in everything, I’ve seen him in since. He somehow managed to exceed my high hopes and great expectations as a human, a storyteller… a mensch! Such a huge fan, I was anxious that I’d muck it up being in awe. His smile as soon as he entered the Zoom room set me at ease, and his open willingness allowed the conversation to never cease flowing.
It would be impossible to cite a favorite “part.” Each story a gem. From hi...
2022-12-151h 20
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonJohn Waite On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonJohn Waite Live on Game Changers With Vicki Abelson
John, no Waite-ing! Hot on the heels of his just-dropped doc, the ridiculously talented insanely handsome activist, humanist, and gifted storyteller, made time for us this morn prior to his concert tonight in Atlanta, which is being recorded for a Live album no less. As if Georgians didn’t have enough to celebrate this day. I certainly did. It was more than worth waking up at the crack of dawn after watching the Warnock runoff victory speech last night and then John Waite - The Hard Way (streaming as of yesterday on...
2022-12-081h 02
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonWendy Liebman And Jeff Sherman Live On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonWendy Liebman and Jeff Sherman Live on Game Changers With Vicki Abelson
I could have talked to Wendy Liebman and Jeff Sherman all night and still have asked for more. What fun! With the advantage of knowing each other for some years, the conversation was animated, spontaneous, and effortless.
We talked about the curse of Ventura Blvd and two life-altering accidents pre-pandemic, readying these happy-to-be-home-together lovebirds for what lay ahead. We discussed PTSD, emotional trauma, panic attacks, acceptance, and healing. Armed with great ‘tude and an attentive husband, Wendy weathered what could have been a disastrous 14 months with grace and re...
2022-11-101h 59
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonPeter Tolan Live On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonPeter Tolan Live on Game Changers With Vicki Abelson
Oh please! That was just too much fun. Nirvana for this fan girl to catch up with 14-time Emmy Nominee, and two-time winner, Peter Tolan. In the midst of a Rescue Me re-binge, if you've never seen it or it's been years, do not pass go, run. Please. Brilliant, real, hysterical, terrifying, it's perfect TV. In my all-time top 5.
Peter, bless him, is opinionated and fearless in recounting people, events, and choices, which makes for great conversation and interweb TV.
We started with his recent collaboration with Norman Lear, Guess Who...
2022-11-031h 16
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonMarcus Eaton Live On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonMarcus Eaton Live on Game Changers With Vicki Abelson
Live from Florence Italy, singer/songwriter, easy on the eyes and ears, Marcus Eaton, treated us to a mini concert and great conversation. When David Crosby describes you as, "one of the best young singer-songwriters in America - maybe even the world, brilliant musically, brilliant lyrically, and he just plays guitar like God on a good day,” then invites you to tour, record, and co-write with him, and plays on your album… well, it doesn’t get much better than that. And yet, it does. Add to that composing the soundtrack of Dav...
2022-09-291h 39
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonPeter Riegert Live On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonPeter Riegert Live on Game Changers With Vicki Abelson
Stories, stories, and more stories, one better than the next, all fantastical! Peter Riegert exceeded my high expectations and that’s an exceedingly tall order.
Somehow 2 hrs and 45 min flew by in an instant, yet at the same time, we got to know so much about Peter, his life, his work, his thoughts, his heart, and his art.
From the Bronx boy playing stickball to marching with Martin, who had a dream, to an underachieving student, teacher, and waiter, Bella Abzug, to improv, War Babies to Peter’s first resume and head...
2022-09-082h 45
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonSandy Gennaro Live On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonSandy Gennaro Live on Game Changers With Vicki Abelson
I feel like I went “home.” Sitting down with Sandy Gennaro after a 30-year abyss was a walk down the wild side of memory lane and just crazy fun. Having a bunch of our old cohorts from back in the day along for the ride made it that much funner.
Sandy took us from Staten Island, getting ignited by The Beatles, local giggin’ and day jobs to LA, meeting an idol, erring’ at a major audition, helping said idol get that gig, Michael Boloton - not a misspelling, before he was Bolton...
2022-09-011h 02
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonLiberty DeVitto Live On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonLiberty DeVitto Live on Game Changers With Vicki Abelson
I can’t stop smiling. How I adore Liberty DeVitto, and would even if he wasn’t one of the greatest drummers of all time––Billy Joel's, iconic partner in music for 30 years.
I’ve known Lib for 30-something years and every time I see him it’s better than the last. Like fine wine, except neither of us is having any––unlike how it was when we met. We talk about that - his climb to stadium rock, the magnums of red, throwing up on his shoes––before Billy, Mitch Ryder, Vanilla Fudge...
2022-08-251h 15
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonLoren Gold Live On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonLoren Gold Live on Game Changers With Vicki Abelson
Sitting down with Loren Gold, keyboardist for The Who, and Chicago, both, currently (WHAT!), not to mention a close treasured friend, was win, win, win. Such easy fun.
In the coming days, Loren will be out with both bands. Talk about a bounty of riches. Deserved. We talked about how this craziness came to be, from auditioning for Roger Daltry in 2009, and then, after 3 years of touring with him, being invited to join The Who. Great stories here. Seeing Loren with them at The Hollywood Bowl at the end of 2019, was...
2022-08-181h 20
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonSteve Postell Live On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonSteve Postell Live on Game Changers With Vicki Abelson
Singer/Songwriter/Producer, Steve Postell and I go way back to Bleecker Street in the heady daze of the New York club scene. He's played every club I've booked and guested on every show I've hosted and produced. Whenever we see each other we pick up right where we left off, as comfortable as a pair of favorite faded jeans, and yet, still exciting and new.
Incredible songwriter, amazing guitarist, with the voice of an angel, Steve treated us to a mini-concert sprinkled throughout, from his latest pearls to his golden...
2022-06-301h 33
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonMartha Bolton On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonMartha Bolton was Live on Game Changers With Vicki Abelson
Now that’s edutainment! Emmy-nominated comedy writer Martha Bolton was only Bob Hope’s first female staff writer, has only written 13 musicals, 88 books, including her latest, Dear Bob… Bob Hope’s Wartime Correspondence with The GIs of WWII, co-written with Linda Hope, only has 13 musicals out there, a few running right now, wrote for Joan Rivers and Phyllis Diller, has won a Golden Scroll Merit Award for Fiction, and has been nominated for a Dove Award, and a WGA Award… what a slacker!
How this woman does it… ‘splained here. Self-taught, d...
2022-06-231h 28
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonTom Bergeron Live On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonTom Bergeron Live on Game Changers With Vicki Abelson
There’s nothing like sitting down with an adored friend who’s made his mark being in the moment, Live, without a net. Emmy-winner, Tom Bergeron, is my kinda guest. Whip-smart, emotionally intelligent and evolved, hysterically funny, a generous to a fault humanitarian, and oh, so laid back, and easy (don’t tell Lois). This isn’t our first rodeo - it just keeps getting funner.
We got the Tom’s eye view of Dancing With The Stars, from his hiring to his firing (of his own creation- scooped to us on a past...
2022-06-161h 32
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonStuart Pankin On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonStuart Pankin on Game Changers With Vicki Abelson
There are no accidents and no mistakes. A cancellation led to a speedy opportunity, that I’m so grateful to have had. Five-time nominated and CableAce Award winner for HBO’s, Not Necessarily The News, Stuart Pankin, originally scheduled for August, jumped in tonight, and what an absolute joy!
We talked about the early days, how this constantly working actor never had to have a day job, with one short exception, funny story here. From Columbia University to theatre from off off off, to repertory, Shakespeare in the Park, how fellow sword carr...
2022-06-091h 30
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonThe Waltons Michael Learned On Game Changers With Vicki Abelson - Part 2The Waltons Michael Learned on Game Changers With Vicki Abelson - Part 2
What’re another 14 minutes and a little hysteria between friends? The anticipation of the marvelous Michael Learned makes the slightly bumpy start a small price to pay for her delightful self.
We picked up where we left off Monday and double-backed a little. Growing up on a farm, preparedness for Olivia Walton, paying back her childhood candy debt, her spy father, exhausted mother, being the oldest of 6 sisters, all but one with unusual names, boarding school, moving from dance to drama, meeting Peter Donat, initially riding his coattails, be...
2022-05-191h 03
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonMichael Learned On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonMichael Learned on Game Changers With Vicki Abelson
Hello full moon lunar eclipse mercury retrograde whatever the hell made this a day from tech hell. Didn't matter! Michael Learned was gracious, lovely, fun, accessible, and wonderful. In spite of only being able to hear parts of her conversation, I loved every word I got, and even the ones I didn't. Fabulous woman that she is, she agreed to come back this Wednesday (May 18th) same bat time, same bat place.
We did get to talk about her childhood, how the girl named Michael probably came to have that name, her...
2022-05-1737 min
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonJay Kogen On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonJay Kogen on Game Changers With Vicki Abelson
So fun to spend time with the funny. Four-time Emmy award-winning writer/producer, Jay Kogen ~ The Simpsons, Frasier, Everybody Loves Raymond, Malcolm in The Middle, Tracy Ullman, to name but some. 2nd generation in the Kogen entertainment empire, son of Arnie, The Bob Newhart Show, The Carol Burnett Show, The Dean Martin Show, and father to Charlie, who while still in High School performed an original song at The Kennedy Center, we talked the father/son dynamic from both sides now. Not sure Jay could be a prouder papa or a more...
2022-05-121h 21
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonFelix Solis On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonFelix Solis On Game Changers With Vicki Abelson by Vicki Abelson
2022-04-281h 39
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonMarsha Warfield On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonMarsha Warfield On Game Changers With Vicki Abelson by Vicki Abelson
2022-04-211h 08
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonVincent Pastore On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonVincent Pastore on Game Changers With Vicki Abelson
I usually know our guests... it's always a little nerve-wracking to meet someone for the first time Live on the air. Before we even hit the interweb airwaves, I felt like I'd known Vinny forever and he was one of my dearest friends. That's a gift.
I still can't believe how much fun that was. It seemed with every sentence we were discovering another mutual friend. From Vin's rock n' roll daze, as the purveyor of the Crazy Horse, extra work, Law and Order, Goodfellas, Carlito's Way, scoring a major role opposite...
2022-03-241h 27
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonJohn Waite On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonJohn Waite on Game Changers With Vicki Abelson
Ridiculously talented, socially conscious, funny as hell, and easy on the eyes, the return of John Waite was well worth the waite. How I adore this man, artist, human. Damn, he's fun.
With the mid-April release of his upcoming EP, Anything, his rendition of the tragically timely again, Masters of War (contained within his brilliant cover design), dropping as a single today on all streaming services, except Spotify, his activism for Ukraine––The Babys, busting the charts with his #1, chart-topper, Missing You, Bad English, Alison Krauss, Ringo Starr, great stories with Rod Stew...
2022-03-191h 30
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonJack McGee On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonJack McGee On Game Changers With Vicki Abelson by Vicki Abelson
2022-02-241h 41
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonKen Levine On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonKen Levine On Game Changers With Vicki Abelson by Vicki Abelson
2022-01-201h 13
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonJohn Waite Live On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonJohn Waite Live On Game Changers With Vicki Abelson by Vicki Abelson
2021-08-051h 25
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonDonny Most Live On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonDays don’t get much happier than spending them in Donny Most's good company. What fun this was!
Don ran the gamut from how he got to be Ralph Malph on Happy Days, not the role he auditioned for, turning it down, and getting a persuasive bump from Garry Marshall; backtracked to The Jolson Story and how it changed his life. His training and launch with a Borscht Belt revue, which crazily I saw, his sleepaway camp best friend who a few years later became my longtime boyfriend… more Happy Days––the show which became family, and a traveling softball team, hi...
2021-07-291h 09
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonThaao Penghlis On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonThaao Penghlis On Game Changers With Vicki Abelson by Vicki Abelson
2021-04-011h 32
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonBeth Grant Live On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonBeth Grant Live On Game Changers With Vicki Abelson by Vicki Abelson
2021-02-251h 37
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonKeaton Simons On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonKeaton Simons On Game Changers With Vicki Abelson by Vicki Abelson
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Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonAdam Arkin Live On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonAdam Arkin Live On Game Changers With Vicki Abelson by Vicki Abelson
2020-11-121h 40
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonEvan Handler Live On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonEvan Handler Live On Game Changers With Vicki Abelson by Vicki Abelson
2020-11-052h 25
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonMaggie Baird Live On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonMaggie Baird Live On Game Changers With Vicki Abelson by Vicki Abelson
2020-09-171h 15
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonNancy Allen On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonNancy Allen On Game Changers With Vicki Abelson by Vicki Abelson
2020-07-231h 37
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonHerman Matthews On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonHerman Matthews On Game Changers With Vicki Abelson by Vicki Abelson
2020-07-161h 56
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonJay Moriarty On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonJay Moriarty On Game Changers With Vicki Abelson by Vicki Abelson
2020-07-021h 23
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonKathleen Wilhoite On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonKathleen Wilhoite On Game Changers With Vicki Abelson by Vicki Abelson
2020-06-251h 50
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonDrew Nieporent On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonDrew Nieporent On Game Changers With Vicki Abelson by Vicki Abelson
2020-06-181h 15
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonAnson Williams On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonAnson Williams On Game Changers With Vicki Abelson by Vicki Abelson
2020-06-111h 19
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonJudith Owen Live On Game Changers With Vicki Abelson 5/6/20Judith Owen Live On Game Changers With Vicki Abelson 5/6/20 by Vicki Abelson
2020-05-071h 59
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonCindy Begel On Game Changers WIth Vicki Abelson 4:29:20We were Live for the first successful COVID edition of Game Changers with a guest. And what a guest she was. Birthday Person, Writer, Producer, Cindy Begel, whose credits include: Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, Mork & Mindy, Joanie Loves Chachi, The Jeffersons, Head of The Class, Alice, Married With Children, Mama's Family, The New Leave It To Beaver, The Days & Nights of Molly Dodd, The Martin Short Show and most recently the Muppet Babies on Disney Channel, and, Ed McMahon to my Johnny... was sensational. The birthday part was unknown bonus! If you've been watching the daily LIve you know how fu...
2020-04-301h 49
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonGame Changers Live With Vicki Abelson & Pete GeorgeGame Changers Live With Vicki Abelson & Pete George by Vicki Abelson
2020-01-021h 12
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonLainie Kazan Live On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonRidiculous fun chatting with Lainie Kazan at Connie Stevens house... what? I know! Lainie talked growing up in Brooklyn, Erasmaus High with Barbara, who she would soon understudy in Funny Girl, and is that a fabulous and ultimately funny story... starting out as a dancer, then singer, first acting experience was at camp, where her drama counselor was... wait for it... Anne Bancroft. Hello? A few years later, she and fellow Hofstra pal, Francis Ford Coppola would be the girls and boys drama counselors, respectively... there's lots about Francis, who remains beloved, Michelle Lee, friends since girlhood, nightclubbing... Dean Martin...
2019-12-051h 21
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonDan O'Shannon On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonWhile the Democrats were debating, I was going flat hair to flat hair with 6 time Emmy Winner, Dan O’Shannon. I believe the victor is clear. He has more height, and 6 other Emmy nods. Whilst running the room at Cheers, barely 30ish, the boss of our Tracy Newman, he coined the phrase, “I’m sorry, was that out loud?” I didn’t believe it either, but it’s documented. I know. From a lightning bolt moment at the age 8, Dan made the decision that the next day he was going to make people laugh. It may have been hit or miss for a f...
2019-08-031h 31
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonSteve Conte On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonThere aren't too many people who rock like my old pal, Steve Conte. This boy sings his ass off, and plays, like hell. In the best possible way. In town for Samantha’s graduation (surreal and fabulous), we were Live from New York. From my hotel room. Where the room was so cramped, and the hotel so unaccommodating, they wouldn’t loan me a second chair, thus the interview from my bed. Not as obscene as it sounds, or looks, Harry and Samantha were a few feet away. Steve opened the BROADcast with his OK DJ, a Coolest Song in the...
2019-05-241h 33
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonCraig Shoemaker Live On Game Changers Witjh Vicki AbelsonThis show was not what I anticipated. Rather than spend the evening with the American Comedy and Emmy Award winning comedian, Craig Shoemaker, discussing his stand up, TV, and film career, we spent the time diving deep about behaviors, addiction, recovery, healing through laughter––even when there’s nary a joke to be found––there’s none needed. The mere act of laughing, even forced, is a mood changer, not only for the person guffawing, but for all in their path, as well. We tried it on.
Vanna White, Merv Griffin, Bill Maher, Cheech and Chong, Farrah Fawcett, Eric Roberts, Billy Crysta...
2019-02-211h 44
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonNorman Lear Live On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonIt took 2 1/2 yrs to nail down Norman Lear, a force of nature beyond compare at any age... at 96, in his Sony offices, where he still reads, develops, writes, produces daily, it's unfathomable. Norman’s worth waiting for. A four-time Emmy Winner, Academy Award Nominee, Peabody Award Recipient, American Humanist Award Winner, National Medalist of the Arts, Kennedy Center Honoree––Norman’s a goddamn national treasure.
The maverick who changed television, our thinking, and in so doing, our behavior, reflected back on his neglected childhood, his service bombing Berlin, facing his humanity, where his dream started and how it morphed into who he soon...
2018-12-2050 min
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonJimmy Vivino Live On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonJimmy Vivino, Conan O’Brien’s long-time musical director, played, sang, and told first-hand stories about everyone from James Brown. Chuck Berry, Bob Dylan, Laura Nyro, Phoebe Snow,Johnny Johnson, Hubert Sumlin, Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, Muddy Waters, Pinetop Perkins, Levon Helms, John Sebastian, Watkins Glen, The Fillmore East, New Orleans Blues, Uncle Floyd, The Dead, The Band, The Allman Brothers, Paul Shaffer who he credits as teaching him to better orchestrate, Leader of the Pack, Broadway, Ronnie Spector, Felix Cavaliere, The Rascals, Frankie Valli, Robert Palmer., John Prine, Slash, Sly Stone, Bill Graham, The J. Geils Band, Larkin & Poe, Cost...
2018-11-151h 51
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonCandy Clark Of American Graffiti Live On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonCandy Clark Of American Graffiti Live On Game Changers With Vicki Abelson by Vicki Abelson
2018-10-181h 43
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonBob Cowsill Live On Game Changers With VIcki AbelsonSpoiler Alert! Bob Cowsill of The Cowsills debuts tastes of 4 new Cowsills songs which haven’t even been recorded yet. Oh yes, he does! And, we sample three A Cappella versions of their hits, which will drop in mid-2019. Oh, please, stop whatever you’re doing. Or, multi-task. When Bob comes to call, we make records, Well, Bob oft makes records, but he charts news ground, and lightning strikes whenever he’s in the living room. His performance at Women Who Write in 2014 continues to garner views and comments pretty much daily. This show, I suspect, will do in kind. Bob not onl...
2018-10-111h 50
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonBernard Fowler On Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonBernard Fowler On Game Changers With Vicki Abelson by Vicki Abelson
2018-09-201h 40
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonMichael Lally On Vicki Abelson's The Road Taken Part 1Michael Lally On Vicki Abelson's The Road Taken Part 1 by Vicki Abelson
2018-08-301h 04
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonSteve Dorff On Vicki Abelson's The Road TakenSteve Dorff On Vicki Abelson's The Road Taken by Vicki Abelson
2017-11-021h 09
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonKathleen Wilhoite On Vicki Abelson's The Road TakenKathleen Wilhoite On Vicki Abelson's The Road Taken by Vicki Abelson
2017-09-1451 min
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonAlan Zweibel, Live In NY On Vicki Abelson's The Road TakenWent Live on the Facebook with Emmy Winning funnyboy, Alan Zweibel... SNL, It's Garry Shandling's Show, David Letterman, Curb... FUNNEE! What a mensch! So fun to talk about Gilda, Billy, Larry, Steinberg, Marty, Lorne, Letterman, Barry... stories, stories, stories... he may not be a stand-up, but, man is he funny! And, takeaways worth their weight in Grandma Libby's matzah balls (rocks!).
We talked process... intention... how the hell he does it... success after success... TV, and Books, and, Plays... oh my! Alan's my kinda guy.
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Vicki Abelson's The Road Taken, 8/30, 7 pm PT/10 pm ET
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2017-08-311h 07
Game Changers With Vicki AbelsonShep Gordon on Vicki Abelson's - The Road TakenNY Times Bestselling Author, They Call Me Supermensch, Shep Gordon ~ talking rock, food, pot, and crazy coincidences... like running into each other in the reals at Nobu in New York, the day after the BROADcast, even though Shep lives in Maui and I live in LA. Fun! So is the show. Come, laugh with us. Creator of RockStars and RockStar Celebrity Chefs, from Alice to Emeril.
Originally aired on Vicki Abelson's BROADcast: The Road Taken, Tues, Oct 18th, 6 pm PT/ 9 pm ET.
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