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The Marc Copage Podcast ShowTod Hunter - Writer -AVN, Jeopardy - Part 1Step into the fascinating world of Tod Hunter, a captivating individual with a deep connection to Hollywood and a career that weaves through the adult industry, game shows, and more. Discovering his passion for life in his early twenties during a transformative trip to London, he realized there was so much more beyond his familiar surroundings.Tod's love for reading, cultivated from a young age, played a significant role in shaping his intellect and writing skills. He honed his craft, learning to make his writing come alive. His talent blossomed, leading him to become a p...
2023-06-1730 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowLarry Blum - Actor - Part 2 of 2She just had no control over it. She was inexperienced and she was a bully. I worked every year and there were always different writers and different producers. She would fire everybody every year. She had some of the top people, top directors and writers who went on to very successful careers and you could see it with the material. The material was always wonderful. The set was just not pleasant.
2023-05-2744 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowLarry Blum - Actor - Part 1 of 2First cast in the international production of A Chorus Line. They have been in movies and TV shows like Xanadu with Olivia Newton John, The Golden Girls, The Tonight Show, Roseanne. They have performed in the opening ceremony of the 1984 Summer Olympics, The People’s Choice Awards, and was a Solid Gold dancer! They have had recurring roles on Soap Operas including Days of Our Lives and General Hospital. They also works as a professional escort!
2023-05-201h 00
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowAndre Campbell - Filmmaker - Part 3 of 3I think people today are more emotional about things. About mental health, more people are talking about it. Not to say that is the thing that’s affecting everything but to’s become more prevalent. We’re having that conversation today. The woman who shot these three kids and they said she had some problems. So it is chaotic and people are more prone to being pushed to their limit and then they retaliate. In the old days people would get pushed to their limit and had to learn to live with it. Now people are not living with things...
2023-05-1207 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowAndre Campbell - Filmmaker - Part 2 of 3My first acting job was on a show called “Infinity Factory” back in New York. In New York I got into doing magic and magic shows for kids and stuff like that so I became a street magician and I could handle a deck of cards. I could do flourishes. I learned how to do that stuff and one hand cuts and stuff like that. They used my hands for Eddie Murphy in one of his movies. Basically I was doing what they call insert work. They would put me in the same outfit. I did Chi McBride who is a...
2023-05-0656 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowAndre Campbell - Filmmaker - Part 1 of 3My guest for today is a multi-award winning producer, director, editor, writer, and filmmaker. Their work consists of films, documentaries, commercials, and music videos. They have over a dozen awards for both producing and directing. They have authored several books on filmmaking on a budget, “Out Of Your Own Pocket”, available on Amazon. They also teach a course on filmmaking at the Los Angeles City College.
2023-04-2958 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowMary Otis - Author - Part 3 of 3I learn so many strange things when I’m researching that make me want to write other things because you can just go down the rabbit hole for hours with so many strange facts about science, the weather, just all kinds of things. Social morays from 300 hundred years ago. Sometimes you think a character is going to do something and they don’t want to do it. They want to do something else. Often that’s a better and more organic thing than what you had in mind. I always have respect for the things that don’t work. But in t...
2023-04-2232 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowMary Otis - Author - Part 2 of 3I learn so many strange things when I’m researching that make me want to write other things because you can just go down the rabbit hole for hours with so many strange facts about science, the weather, just all kinds of things. Social morays from 300 hundred years ago. Sometimes you think a character is going to do something and they don’t want to do it. They want to do something else. Often that’s a better and more organic thing than what you had in mind. I always have respect for the things that don’t work.
2023-04-1529 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowMary Otis - Author - Part 1 of 3My guest for today is the author of the short story collection “Yes, Yes, Cherries”. Her fiction, essays, and poetry have been published in Best New American Voices, Electric Literature, The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, and numerous other literary journals and anthologies. She has taught fiction at UCLA and was a founding professor in the UC Riverside Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing Program. Her forthcoming novel, “Burst” is scheduled for release in April, 2023 by Zibby Books. You can see her in person Sunday, April 23rd at 3pm where she will be speaking on a panel at the Los...
2023-04-0836 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowActress/Model/Stunt Person - Natasha Cordova - Bonus ContentYou’ve been working for years and years in various areas of entertainment. From modeling to acting to stage combat to stunts and fight choreography, dance, hosting, promotions. What are some of the ways a gal or guy can go about hustling up work for themselves in the entertainment business? Word of mouth. Somebody that worked with you. Everyone in the entertainment industry somehow knows somebody else so if you’re personable and talented and a genuinely nice person.
2023-04-0131 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowDavid Joyce - Musician/Educator - Part 3 of 3There is so much power in music to make a change in this world. I feel drawn to do more activism and yet my skills are and my contacts are in the music world so I’m trying to more and more align with that. My teaching, my singing, my performing, my writing songs, leading workshops is all about creating possibilities for people.
2023-04-0154 min
2023-03-2508 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowGuest David Joyce - Musician/Educator - Part 2 of 3 My concept has always been spend time on your strengths. Get great at what you already love. Do what you love and the money will follow. Get passionate about something and just do that more and more. Often time the weaknesses will be subsumed underneath that.
2023-03-2525 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowDavid Joyce - Musician/Educator - Part 1 of 3You were a member of Burt Bacharach’s band as a keyboard player and background vocalist for the last twenty or so years? Twenty-three years or something like that. What was that experience like and how did that all come to be?
2023-03-1848 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowGuest Music Industry Professional - Aileen Randolph - Part 2 of 2To me music truly has to get back to where there is a deep respect for the evolution of where it is now. At the same time the core values of what it represents. Challenge yourself. Pull something from deep within yourself to touch another person. Music touches you. It’s supposed to touch you, it’s supposed to resurrect something within you. Remember back in the day, all the love songs, ‘La-La-La-La-La Means I Love You’, The Beatles, and we listened to that music and I would sit by the console and get a piece of paper and a pen an...
2023-03-1139 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowGuest Music Industry Professional - Aileen Randolph - Part 1 of 2My father was the program director for KGFJ. He was the first Black disc jockey ever in the South. He kept the radio station really prominent in the urban and the Black community at that time in the 50’s. He was brought out to LA to be a program director. My father was also even more importantly than programming, he really loved community activism. So when he came out to LA and got involved with KGFJ he really merged the community with this great music. It had nothing to do with genres, just a true enthusiasm and a love fo...
2023-03-041h 03
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowTalent Manager - Gina Mendello - Part 2 of 2I’m a bulldog with things. I don’t give up. I think tenacity is my strong suit. I get my clients to focus. I get them to refine their skills. If they need practice I tell them to practice. If they’re not great writers I ask them to work with great writers to learn more about great writing. If they need some image management. That can be hard for them to take, but you gotta tel them. How they can find gigs for themselves. You have to be your own manager so I tell them what a manage...
2023-02-2533 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowThe Marc Copage Podcast Show - Guest Talent Agent Gina Mendello Part 1 of 2My grandfather on my father’s side was a big band trumpeter in the 1920’s with a band leader named Ben Bernie and Ben Bernie was best known for writing “Sweet Georgia Brown”. The original “Sweet Georgia Brown”. You can actually see it on YouTube. It’s amongst the first sound film tests done shooting Ben Bernie and his orchestra playing “Sweet Georgia Brown”. But my grandfather at 27 years old had started his own band and recorded six tracks for Columbia records. In his band when he was that young he had a young Tommy Dorsey and Glenn Miller. So they were all u...
2023-02-1853 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowActress- Jeanine Harrington -- Part 3 of 3On dating and if size really matters.
2023-02-1129 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowActress- Jeanine Harrington - Part 2You brought it up earlier, looking pretty or whatever can work to my advantage. I think that a lot of times it works to my disadvantage. And acting anyway or at least especially with me. I'm blonde, I'm somewhat curvy, I can kind of hide it but people know. It works against me. For instance, I had a representative once who only saw me for sexy type roles and it's hard a lot of times for people to get past that. And so I feel like it's been a real challenge for me to prove hey I'm not just...
2023-02-041h 00
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowActress- Jeanine Harrington - Part 1There was a flyer in the mail for Miss Texas, Miss Texas USA is what it was called. I convinced my dad into letting me do it. I had no experience at all. I didn't know how to walk in heels or be on stage and not be nervous or nothing and and he let me do it it was fun! I mean I absolutely had no clue of what I was doing, but it was fun meeting the girls and kind of a challenge, oh how am I not going to be nervous and how do I walk...
2023-01-281h 02
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowActor/Director/Writer - Lance Roberts - Part 2I was scared out of my wits to go there. You can imagine all the stories that people talk about you know. Oh they're afraid of Black people, well I heard some stories too about lynchings you know and bottles thrown at civil rights workers and all kinds of things with bussing you know. I was truly frightened to go to the school with these white people but I gotta tell you within two weeks I'd been at that school I made lifelong friends. A couple of them I would say are just like family members. This is what...
2023-01-2131 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowEntertainer/Digital Creator - Phineas Newborn Ⅲ - Part 2 of 2When I was in Europe I had already made the decision to actually try this other lifestyle. To shift courses in terms of being involved in a heterosexual relationship. I broke up with my boyfriend who I have been with for five years with the understanding that I wanna feel like I don't have, I'm not cheating on anybody back in the states if I'm doing this. And he basically said, well we don't have to break up just go and do your thing. I'm sure you'll come back and we'll be together. And so I went to Europe...
2023-01-141h 19
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowEntertainer/Digital Creator - Phineas Newborn Ⅲ - Part 1 of 2My guest for today is a multi-talented entertainer known for the television series ‘Fame’, the movie, ’Girls Just Want To Have Fun, and has performed in the Equity stage productions of ‘Cats’, ‘Ragtime’ ‘Aida’ on the Broadway stage. You might know him the most from the classic dance movie Breakin’! Phineas Newborn Ⅲ,welcome to the show! It was interesting because again you don't know when you're a kid the area in which are living in. It's not something that you really know. I later realize that I was growing up in the black arts District of LA which was interesting b...
2023-01-071h 01
2022-12-311h 02
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowActor/Director/Writer - Lance Roberts - Part 4I think drama is easier than comedy. Especially on film. In a comedy, on stage, I can sense the rhythm, the breath, of the room. I can tell how to ride a laugh. On film, it’s a little harder if it’s a one camera thing. If it’s a three camera thing, with an audience it’s more like theater, it’s a bit easier. I did a comedy called “Love Life” on HBO last year. William Harper Jackson was the star of it and Anna Kendricks. I played Williams Uncle. The Uncle was a real cut up and I was l...
2022-12-2437 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowActor/Model - Tory Scroggins - Part 3 of 3I had to come to a point in my life and this was when I really knew that I wanted to focus on just doing theater. I realized I'm going to have to learn how to be a producer. This is when I realize that I was still fixated on the 6° of separation character. I had come up with the idea that if I produced 6° of separation and I could get Will Smith to come on board as a producer somehow using the 6° of separation. I had been around him on a couple of occasions. I thought that I sho...
2022-12-1741 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowAuthor/Artist Susann Edmunds - Part 3I don’t think I really need a lot of approval from others. I don’t think I ever really did. Even as a child. If they didn’t like me, that’s ok. I’m not going to bother you, now if you get in my face then we’re going to have a little bit of a problem, but ok I’ll leave you alone if you don’t care for me. I never really took that stance that I needed everybody to like me, that I needed to be the golden girl. I didn’t need that kind of valid...
2022-12-101h 07
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowActor/Producer/Writer - Rodney Allen Rippy - Part 2The commercial spun off some incredible promotions. You could go into Jack In The Box and buy a 45 of my song, “Take Like A Little Easier”. You could buy my puzzle, you could buy my poster. Then a phone call comes in and it’s Matel Toys. They want to produce my doll. I was very thankful to my wonderful agent and manager and all the people I had at that time. The doll was a project called ‘Operation Bootstrap’. Somebody asked, why don’t they have any Black dolls? The guy kind of put his foot in his mouth and sa...
2022-12-031h 03
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowBrian Fire - Content Creator - Part 2 of 2I a lot of ways it’s gotten easier. I see a lot of Black actors doing more parts. You know, different types of parts. That was the thing I really wanted to get to. Cause when you’re playing with GI Joe you can be anybody. That’s been my life. I’ve been able to travel. The dancing took me on the road. When I was producing sometimes I’d have to get in the car and go to Vegas. I’d go to Florida, go to New York to meet investors and it was just really fun meeting...
2022-11-121h 55
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowActress/Dancer/Singer/Choreographer - Shari Washington Rhone - Part 2My guest for today is a multi-talented, triple threat! She is a professional dancer, choreographer, vocalist and actress. She is a former soloist and assistant director of the Gregory Hancock Dance Theatre. She has been a soloist and master class dance instructor for the Lula Washington Dance Theater traveling and teaching throughout the United States. She has performed throughout the world in various productions. Snow White, An Enchanting New Musical at Disneyland, the tribute band Proud Mary, Bella Donna, Soulicious, Pam Darden’s Marvelettes Revue, and was cast in the original L.A. company of The Lion King where she...
2022-11-0551 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowBrian Fire - Content Creator - Part 1 of 2Owner and CEO of Fireboi Entertainment, a production company specializing in producing, and developing feature films, TV shows, animation and video games. They have worked in visual FX, video game production, toy development, locations, writing, directing, booming, and producing. Currently developing content to be distributed on multiple streaming platforms.
2022-10-291h 01
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowActor/Producer/Writer - Rodney Allen Rippy - Part 1The commercial spun off some incredible promotions. You could go into Jack In The Box and buy a 45 of my song, “Take Like A Little Easier”. You could buy my puzzle, you could buy my poster. Then a phone call comes in and it’s Matel Toys. They want to produce my doll. I was very thankful to my wonderful agent and manager and all the people I had at that time. The doll was a project called ‘Operation Bootstrap’. Somebody asked, why don’t they have any Black dolls? The guy kind of put his foot in his mouth and sa...
2022-10-221h 24
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowActor - Ernest Harden Jr. - Part 1I had done “The Jeffersons” for CBS. That was a CBS movie. I had also just finished something called “Buffalo Soldiers”, but they cut me out of a lot of it and I was really depressed about that cause I had told everybody. Isabel Sanford, my mother, everybody. Oh, man, this is going to be great! It was supposed to be a big thing on NBC. They had my name there, but they cut a lot of me out and I was really embarrassed and that whole thing. I was doing “The Jeffersons” at the time too. That was the first tim...
2022-10-221h 01
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowDancer/Teacher/Choreographer - Bill Goodson - Part 3Diana, when we started working together in ’77 I think it was. She had recently left her husband so she was single. She was no longer with The Supremes so she was a soloist, solo artist. She was coming off the success of Lady Sings The Blues and Mahogany and then The Wiz happened. So she was at the top of her game. Over the years a lot of people have come up to me and told me stories about her not being very kind. And my reaction to that is…I think it’s very possible that all of us hav...
2022-10-1553 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowProducer/Educator/Entrepreneur - Brad Koepenick - Part 3We’re standing around and I can’t believe I’m hanging out with Tom Cruise. So I said, why do you do this? Tom replied, “I like to jump off things.” (laughter) “No, really, when I was seven years old, I jumped out of a second story window and my mom was really mad, but I think I’m getting a lot better at jumping off things. I thought Tom was unbelievably gracious and I learned a lot from my time with him. There is a reason why he is where he is today. It’s not an accident. He’s a...
2022-10-151h 03
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowDancer/Teacher/Choreographer - Bill Goodson - Part 1My guest for today is an internationally renowned choreographer, and teacher who began his career as a street dancer where he was soon discovered by Toni Basil. He has worked both as lead dancer and choreographer for Diana Ross, The Jacksons, Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Paula Abdul, Gloria Estefan, and many, many, more! His career has taken him to Las Vegas where he has choreographed shows at the most famous hotels on the strip. Caesars Palace, The Venetian, The Riviera, Desert Inn, and The Stardust. For the past 29 years my guest has been choreographer at the world famous Moulin...
2022-10-0131 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowDancer/Teacher/Choreographer - Bill Goodson - Part 2One of my specialties back in the day was partner dancing. When you’re at the club people would come and go. You might see Bowie, you might see Debbie Harry, people would come in and out. There was this one woman who was super famous in the community whose name was Toni Basil. Mainly because she was one of the original lockers and also because for years she had been the cheerleader for street dance in all its forms. So people were always asking me, ‘you know who that is, that’s Toni Basil, that’s Toni Basil, go ask h...
2022-10-0132 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowProducer/Educator/Entrepreneur - Brad Koepenick - Part 2It was the first stop motion animation software for PC and Mac. I gave it to my students whose work ended up in the Metropolitan Museum Of Art. We won the education toy of the year. We wowed Comicon one year. And then eventually we signed a television deal.
2022-09-2431 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowProducer/Educator/Entrepreneur - Brad KoepenickMusician, actor, writer, producer, advocate, educator, and entrepreneur who was first discovered by Tiger Beat Magazine. Some of the shows you might know Brad from are Friends, ER, Scrubs, VIP, Who’s The Boss, Fright Night 2, Golden Girls, Veronica’s Closet and many more. He is the co-founder and President of SparkRise a game changing new platform and producer of various films about arts, literacy, and the human condition. Brad has also taught Theater, Animation, Digital Film at over 100 schools in LA. He has been a recipient of the HART VISION AWARD for CA CHARTER TEACHER of...
2022-09-1732 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowErnest Harden Jr. - Actor - Part 5So you almost starred in an adult film? Ah, you know about that, huh? You’ve been doing your research. Do you want to tell us anything about that? Early on this guy… I was so broke, man. I had a token that day to take me to Manhattan. Then I walked from 42nd street all the way to…I don’t know, pretty far away to…one token to take me to Manhattan, one token to take me back. I walked and I saw this audition that said, they would pay me $200, no $150 a day. Now here it is and I’m...
2022-09-1049 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowErnest Harden Jr. - Actor - Part 3I had done “The Jeffersons” for CBS. That was a CBS movie. I had also just finished something called “Buffalo Soldiers”, but they cut me out of a lot of it and I was really depressed about that cause I had told everybody. Isabel Sanford, my mother, everybody. Oh, man, this is going to be great! It was supposed to be a big thing on NBC. They had my name there, but they cut a lot of me out and I was really embarrassed and that whole thing. I was doing “The Jeffersons” at the time too. That was the first tim...
2022-09-0331 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowAuthor/Artist/Chef - Susann Edmonds - Part 2I don’t think I really need a lot of approval from others. I don’t think I ever really did. Even as a child. If they didn’t like me, that’s ok. I’m not going to bother you, now if you get in my face then we’re going to have a little bit of a problem, but ok I’ll leave you alone if you don’t care for me. I never really took that stance that I needed everybody to like me, that I needed to be the golden girl. I didn’t need that kind of valid...
2022-08-2729 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowAuthor/Artist/Chef - Susann Edmunds Part 1I don’t really understand wanting to be around only one type of person. I don’t think that’s what makes life interesting and relationships interesting. All of their interests and their knowledge. It’s fascinating to me getting to know people. Your stories are your message and how I go about delivering them. The things I learned as a young girl or child and I was very lucky. I had various women in my life that just seemed to take me under their wing. They were very helpful in teaching me and giving me tips on things that nob...
2022-08-2022 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowMotivational Speaker/Author/Happiness Coach - Ricky Powell - Part 2The irony is that our brains are not wired to make us happy. Our brains are wired to keep us alive. It’s the fight or flight mechanism that we learn about as kids that really maintains our human nature is to have this negative bias because it’s to keep us alive, but the thing is we’re not wandering through the jungle with saber tooth tigers or any of that sort of thing these days. Predators of course show up in other ways today, but for the most part we don’t have to fear for our lives wit...
2022-08-1331 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowMotivational Speaker/Author/Happiness Coach - Ricky Powell - Part 1I remember all the while being on the set and getting to see the whole process. I was always so fascinated with the production aspect. Everything from the clapper board, when they would mention the take number and do the sink thing, to the sound guy rolling the sound, the DP’s the director, looking through the camera. I just found it all so much fun. I just loved it all! So I thought maybe I could find something more steady behind the camera.
2022-08-0631 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowActor/Director/Writer - Lance Roberts - Part 3So you’re working with Hugh Jackman. How does Hugh Jackman get to be Hugh Jackman? How does one get to have a career like Hugh Jackman? Well, he’s the kindest individual that most people have ever met. And he’s so generous. He finds moments throughout the play, every single day where he will connect with everyone on the stage. It’s amazing. It’s like, he’s someone you feel like you must be around. I start the show shoulder to shoulder with him. We sit together for a good 3 to 4 minutes before the play starts and we check...
2022-07-3032 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowActor/Director/Writer - Lance Roberts - Part 1My guest for today is a New York actor who has spent many years as part of the Los Angeles theater community. Yes, it does exist! Some of his film credits include “This Is Where I Leave You” with Jane Fonda, Tina Fey, and Jason Bateman. “I Am Michael”, starring James Franco, “The Humbling”, starring Al Pacino and Greta Gerwig. He has also been in the stage productions of “My Fair Lady”, “Sunset Boulevard”, with Glenn Close, “Act One”, starring Tony Shalhoub and Andrea Martin. Tennessee Williams’ “Cat On A Hot Tin Roof”, starring Scarlett Johansson, and “Pee Wee Herman On Broadway” as the King...
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2022-06-2531 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowMusician/Sound Engineer - Will Kimsey- Part 2Description: When I’m doing my arranging I start from the bottom and work my way up. It’s the same for composing a song from scratch to already taking an arrangement it’s a pretty similar procedure. With an original composition I’ll start with the drum set. Whether it be a jazz song or R&B or Gospel. What kind of beat do I want so I’ll program my beat in. Then I’ll make the bass line. I’ve already figured out my chord changes and what the progression of the song is going to be. After I’ve...
2022-06-1828 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowMusician/Sound Engineer - Will Kimsey Part 1To help content creators get better audio from their mixes and podcasts. I realized that there was not any kind of a podcast like Music Outlook LA which is basically gigs, gear, and info where I interview independent artists and content creators and it doesn’t matter what you do whether you are a musician, vocalist, audio engineer, photographer, best boy or gaffer for an indie film project. As long as you are somebody in the industry. You can be behind the scenes further back up in the main office or being a manager or entertainment attorney.
2022-06-1135 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowActor/Director/Writer - Sy Richardson - Part 2I get a call from a young lady named Victoria Thomas. She was a college student at UCLA. And she said a casting director told her about me and she needed an extra to be in this student film she was doing. So she wanted to know if I was willing to come in and be in the background. I told her sure. I had never done background before. So I went in. When I got there one of the guys who was supposed to do this part didn’t show up. So she told me to improv it. So...
2022-06-0444 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowActor/Director/Writer - Sy Richardson - Part 1When you came out to LA, you were living in your car for a period of time? When I got to LA I had fifty dollars in my pocket. I had a hole in my tire and I had no place to go. I was living in my car. I went to try and get some gas and I thought how my ex wife let a girl live with us for thirty days before she moved to California. So I called my ex-wife and asked her to call this girl and see if I could stay with her for...
2022-05-2831 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowActor/Wig and Costume Designer/ Jack Of All Trades Byron Batista - Part 2Bob Mackie. Working for him was a dream come true. I got to talk to people like Carol Burnett, Diana Ross. I got to make Diana Ross a pair of earrings. There’s a photo out now of Carol Burnett in her Norma Desmond costume and it says ‘Happy Birthday, darling and I lost it. I did her hair with those little spit curls and I made her finger nails and the cigarette holder she’s using. And I have them somewhere. I worked with Bob quite a bit over the years and a lot of his outfits I worked...
2022-05-2146 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowActor/Wig-Costume Designer/Jack Of All Trades-Byron Batista - Part 1There’s nothing like, when you finally have the person in the chair and your sitting in from of the mirror having the fitting and you put the wig on their head. Then you see the smile come across their face. There’s a look that comes into their eyes and you know that you did it and that everything is working. That really is the best part of it! Bringing a character to life or just helping a woman that has felt very bad about herself because her hair is thin. A lot of people place a lot of v...
2022-05-1428 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowActress/Producer Chrissy Bergeron - Part 2I’ve heard there’s some name older actresses that have dropped out of the business just because of all this self taping and they just can’t wrap their minds around the technology. They just can’t handle it. Yeah, I don’t blame them. This didn’t happen to me, but I was helping someone cast their film and I had to take all the actors and one of the roles I felt so bad this woman was perfect, but I couldn’t hear any of it. She sent in the tape and there was no sound, but she though...
2022-05-0728 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowActress/Producer Chrissy Bergeron - Part 1Does it get any easier as the time goes on? It actually does not get any easier. It’s almost like you’re always interviewing for a job. It does get easier as far as once you get in with say a certain producer or a certain casting director or a director. They might think of you later for another project so that’s where it’s probably easier. But where it’s harder is, ya know, everyone still has to audition. Everybody still has to prepare. I’m sure that even the A list actors, they’re up against each o...
2022-04-3034 minThe Marc Copage Podcast ShowLook Ma, I'm On TV!There was a lot going on in the country at that time. 1968 was a very turbulent period in our nation’s history. There was a social revolution. A demand for more freedom and rights for minority’s and women. The Vietnam war was going on. An anti-war movement. Marches, protests, riots, hippies, a sexual revolution. A questioning of authority and the government. And the assassinations of Dr Martin Luther King Jr., and Robert Kennedy.
2022-04-2305 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowActor/Model Tory Scroggins - Part 2It was like being in the twilight zone where everything was the opposite because in LA as an actor i always felt like you as a Black man have so many less opportunities. You audition for a commercial, there’s five roles. Four of the roles are for White men and the one other role is for what they call ‘other’ meaning Black, Latino, Asian, ‘Other’, and so it felt like your opportunities were much less, but when I moved here to Sacramento, it just happened to be at a time where diversity in theater started to become important to the peo...
2022-04-1627 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowActor/Model Tory Scroggins - Part 1As far as people like Prince? I think, well you know I’m not the expert or anything but I think that I would society or science or whatever would probably categorize him as a transvestite? Which I believe if I read correctly is typically a heterosexual man who likes to wear women’s clothing and accessories? Like you said, it’s not so black and white. That’s absolutely true. That’s why it’s so hard to identify people. I would like for us to get to a point where we don’t need labels we can just be who we...
2022-04-0928 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowTitle: Actress/Model/Stunt Person - Natasha Cordova - Part 2I feel at home when I’m on set. There are not a lot of irritating things that come to mind. I get more irritated in real life than I ever do on set. As you know from being an actor for many years you get a breakdown. What you’re supposed to do, what you’re supposed to wear, what the time frame is, what your role is, and you have time to prepare for that and what you need to do. There’s a breakdown. So from being used to having a breakdown all the time it really is...
2022-04-0232 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowActress/Model/Stunt Person - Natasha Cordova - Part 1"I love being in front of the camera and I love being around other artistic people. A lot of the work that I’ve done throughout my entire life is from word of mouth. People in the industry tend to know each other, especially directors. I think the modeling and acting kind of started around the same time, but initially it was more modeling. Models turned to actress tend to kind of have a little bit of a snotty rap. I mean I studied with Bobby Chance, Ivana Chavez, and a lot of other really great acting coaches that I...
2022-03-2637 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowTitle: Actor/Writer/Producer - Terry Rey - Part 2I was closeted when I lived in Ohio. I even went to a seminary school to try not to be gay. I didn’t allow myself to be gay until I moved to California. The first time I went back to a school reunion was my 20th. And I was hesitant. I had a lot of friends and my friends were wonderful to me, but it was a big class and there were people I didn’t know well and they called me, instead of Terry Ray I was Fairy Gay and I was bullied and so I was nerv...
2022-03-1929 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowActor/Writer/Producer - Terry Ray - Part 1I wear a lot of hats because I have to. Here’s my thing. I’m a very strong proponent of making things happen. I cannot stand sitting around waiting for something to happen so I do what I have to to make it happen. That’s the only way I can function. You just have to do it. I am always an actor, but I absolutely love writing so I don’t know if I can do a Sophie’s choice on the two of those. I can tell you my least favorite is producing. I hate producing, but I do i...
2022-03-1227 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowActress/Writer/Producer - Victoria Savage - Part 2There’s a desperate need for content right now. There are so many streaming platforms. I believe I will be able to sell it and actually make it. People like to see things. They don’t just want a one sheet anymore, they don’t want a pitch. They want to actually see what they’re buying. I do believe that if I get this short series up I’ll have a better chance because then they can see the basic arc and the characters and they will either love it or they won’t. They will know what they’re gett
2022-03-0525 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowTitle: Actress/Writer/Producer - Victoria Savage - Part 1It happened my senior year. I wasn’t acting, but I felt my soul really wanted to do it. So I found myself in this class about film noir and German expressionism. It was very interesting to see how American culture compares to German expressionism from Europe because Europe was going thru this tumultuous thing and there were all of these people coming here to live to get away from it all, but it was still in there consciousness and so a lot of people who went into Hollywood were writing about that stuff so film noir was born ou...
2022-02-2631 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowTalent Agent/Dancer - Gary Christopher Parry - Part 2A dancer can work in so many mediums that an actor can’t. For a film or television actor you can do a play on Broadway or a tour or something, but if you sing and dance that opens a wealth of opportunities for you. I turned down cruise ships twice. You can dance on Broadway tours, you can dance in Vegas shows, you can dance in movies, TV, commercials. You can teach dance. There are so many avenues to teach dance to children. You can now even teach those classes at the gym. You can create your own co...
2022-02-1931 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowTitle: Talent Agent - Gary Christopher Parry - Part 1Some of the dancers who display their talents on TikTok are some of the most well paid dancers in the world. Some of these kids make 5 and 6 million dollars a year. There are so many ways for talent to promote themselves. I want to cut back to my generation. I remember there were self contained acts. I did Mitzi Gaynor’s act for example. I learned a lot about these artists when I worked with them. Did you know Mitzi Gaynor was responsible for creating the stars act? Nobody at that time in the 60’s was doing that. She crea...
2022-02-1231 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowAnimator - Bronwen Barry - Part 2I left the show after the first year, the first season. I loved it, don’t get me wrong. But, because they won Emmy’s in their first season and I was part of that, and I was proud of that, they got a lot more cash from Gracie and Fox who were their production companies at the time. They got a cash infusion which they could have easily afforded to put their crew to go union, but they didn’t. They did not support going union at the time. So I thought, what kind of freakin’ hypocrisy is this? An...
2022-02-0530 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowAnimator - Bronwen Barry - Part 1Back then you got into it because you enjoyed being part of a collaborative thing. You had your writers, you had your storyboard artist that basically do a little thumbnail comic book of what the writing looks like. And then the director goes over that and fixes it and changes it and there’s a lot of back and forth. The storyboarding is done often by committee. So you're writing it by committee and then the storyboard artist take a sequence and see what they can figure out with it. Then everyone comes back together and they pin everything on...
2022-01-2930 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowVocalist - AngeliqueMusic - Part 2I provide a storyboard for every video that I am going to do. I use fiber. What is fiber? Oh, my God, you don’t…? You have to use fiber! Fiber is a platform where you can connect with other creatives. They have people that do music videos. They have musicians, the lady playing base on my video I got from fiber. Your budget can be as little as $5. You can get someone to do something for you for as little as $5. Graphic artwork. You could get someone to play on one of your songs. Anything creative, anything you can t...
2022-01-2230 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowVocalist - AngeliqueMusic - Part 1In Europe they really, really, really, love new music. They’ll come to my shows no matter how many times I’ve been through. Over the years I have met several musicians and a musician friend of mine was contacted by a friend of his who was looking for a singer to work on this song for him so we started communicating via Facebook. Via Facebook we decided to work on this song. I would send files to him and he would send files to me so we kind of recorded it all on the internet. Low and behold we d...
2022-01-1531 minThe Marc Copage Podcast ShowBelieve!We live in a class society and most people have very little control at the end of the day. We live in a lottery economic system where there will always be large groups of people who will fall through the cracks. It is an established system and no amount of believing or praying to some deity, or kissing the feet of some self-help guru is going to change that fact.
2022-01-0806 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowComposer Bonnie Janofsky Part 1“You said that you had been thinking about pursuing a career in science. Are there any skills that you learned when you were interested in science that are applicable to your career as a musician? Do you see any correlation between those two professions? I do see a tie in between both. I know many musicians who are scientists and doctors. They’re both very mathematical. They’re both patterns. I LOVE numbers. I know a husband and wife who are both doctors, but they met in music school and then both ended up going to med school instead.”
2022-01-0131 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowComposer Bonnie Janofsky Part 2Composing itself is considered a creative endeavor and it is to their advantage to be in the union. Not as a composer, but as a conductor, or a score consultant, an orchestrator, and then you can build up your pension and health plan and things like that. And you have the protection of a union. A lot of people think it’s very difficult to work with the different scales and all and the contracts, but it’s not really all that daunting. We want to make it accessible as we can. It’s also a good way of meetin...
2022-01-0131 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowWriter/Actor/Producer Rick Sudi Karatas Part 1What do you think makes a good story? How do you know that something you’ve written will resonate with an audience? I think you write something that’s coming from a place of, even if it didn’t happen to you, it’s something that you can zone into, or you know some people it has happened to and you also use your imagination it will resonate with people. Another song I’ve written that does that, even though I didn’t personally go through it, it’s called “What You Don’t Remember”, it’s about Alzheimer’s. I thought of the titl...
2021-12-2532 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowWriter/Actor/Producer Rick Sudi Karatas Part 2For my book ‘Rainbow Relatives’, I never thought I would write a book, but I was talking to my sister on the phone and asked her if her kids new about my orientation? If they knew if their uncle was gay or not? My sister was like, I think so, but I’m not sure. She said I’m not sure how to even approach that, I wish there was a book on that. So I was like, I’m on it, you know I love to write! So that night I came up with a title “How To Tell Your Ki...
2021-12-2536 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowVocalist Amber Weekes - Part 1I’m honored that stations, not only across the country, but across the world like my work so much. It’s really exciting. My whole life I knew this is what I was destined to do. And I’ve continued to do it all this time. I consistently have always sung and was determined this was going to be how I lived my life.
2021-12-1831 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowVocalist Amber Weekes - Part 2“When we were young my sisters and I were in the car with my mother. My parents had just divorced. And that becomes important because of what had happened. The song “The Snake” came on the radio, and my mother made us stop doing whatever it was we were doing in the car and said, now you girls listen to this song and listen to the message of the song. And So that was my initial love of Oscar.”
2021-12-1830 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowPart 1 - Acting Coach, Scott RogersActing Coach, Scott Rogers, LOST, North Shore, Baywatch, Hawaii Five-0, ER, 50 First Dates, Pearl Harbor, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Rundown, Tears of the Sun, Blue Crush, Lilo & Stich, etc., etc.I actually started stage managing because that paid better than acting. From stage managing it’s a logical step to go into directing. So I started directing theater. When I was directing theater I would have actors who would ask me for help, for some coaching when they’d have an audition so I started coaching that way and then one of those people booked a TV s...
2021-12-1131 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowPart 2 - Acting Coach, Scott RogersOlder people are having real issues with doing self tapes and uploading them and all the technical stuff that you have to do and go through. It’s just not their thing. So that’s a big problem for them. I heard a lady stand up at a national Sag/Aftra board meeting. She was a guest. She was a working actress that you would know who she was. And she said, she’s leaving the industry because I just can’t do these self tapes. This was before the pandemic. A lot of auditions had already begun going that rou...
2021-12-1133 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowPart 1 Actor/Producer Daniel LenchYou have to love what you’re doing and love doing it for the right reasons. You absolutely should not be doing it because you want to be famous. You absolutely should not be doing it because you think you’re going to be making a lot of money. You have to be prepared for rejection, rejection, rejection, because that is the industry. The industry is you are constantly opening up your soul, making yourself vulnerable, putting your work out there and the vast majority will never hear anything back. So you had better have a hard shell that you...
2021-12-0430 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowPart 2 - Actor/Producer Daniel LenchWhen I booked the role on ‘Zoey 101’ and I showed up on set they changed the character completely. Originally when I auditioned I was the math teacher and then they gave me new text and said, Ok, here you go. Now you’re a history teacher and these are your new lines. I also had just gotten a cold so I had lost most of my voice. But I had to find a way to make that work when the camera started rolling.
2021-12-0425 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowPart 2 Dancer, Actress, Choreographer, Singer, Voiceover Artist, Shari Washington RhoneIt was no big deal, being on stage for me. But if you’re someone who starts performing, maybe at 12, 14, 15, those are very insecure years. Those are like the awkward years when you’re trying to figure out what you want to do, who you want to be. And that can be a rough time. I find teaching middle schoolers, there’s a level of embarrassment about everything. And it’s like, well, if you came to this class, you gotta let that go. This is the place you can play. This is the place you can let your guard do...
2021-11-2729 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowPart 1 Dancer, Actress, Choreographer, Singer, Voiceover Artist, Shari Washington RhoneShe has travelled throughout the world as a performer in various productions and shows. The Lion King, Jazz Antiqua, The Lulu Washington Dance Theater, and also holds a 3rd degree Black Belt. She has travelled throughout the states and all over the world as a Master Dance Class Instructor. “When I was in kindergarten I decided I wanted to be a dancer for my career. I sang my first solo at age 7 in church and did my first play at 9. I just loved all of those things. So all throughout my entire life I have been just crea...
2021-11-2732 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowPart 2 - Casting Director, Linda Berger. President and Development Director of SB Star ProductionsIf you can get an agent, having an agent is one of the best things you can do if you want to be an actor. That’s how you legitimately get into the door of the casting office or a producer’s office. You want a good agent, you want a good manager. It’s about getting seen, It’s about getting into plays if you can. It’s doing workshops. It’s studying with acting coaches that have connections with agents, directors, managers, casting directors, come and find out who you are. And it’s all constantly changing.
2021-11-2031 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowPart 1 Casting Director Linda Berger President and Development Director of SB Star ProductionsMy father opened up Motown Records West Coast Offices is 1966. He managed Diana Ross and The Supremes, The Temptations, The Jackson Five, all to the Motown artists at the time. And then he broke off and managed Billy Dee Williams and he worked with Diana Ross when she did ‘Mahogany’ and ‘Lady Sings The Blues’, and still to this day manages ‘The Temptations’ and is the executive producer of “Ain’t Too Proud To Beg - The life and times of The Temptations” on Broadway.
2021-11-2031 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowPart 2 Award Winning Talent Agent Lisa Berman, Owner Berman/Sacks Talent AgencyI think in LA you tend to get cast in as really close to what you are to start if they don’t really know you. Like the role of a paramedic might really go to a paramedic. Somebody who really knows all to the things to say and do. And you’d have a better shot at getting that or if you’re a real Chef and they’re looking for a Chef or any kind of skills that other people don’t have that could be another little thing that puts you above.
2021-11-1340 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowAward Winning Talent Agent Lisa Berman Part 1I wanted to become a talent agent so I wouldn’t have to deal with talent agent’s anymore. So as a manager, you do everything I do, but then you also help your clients get a talent agent. And so I got really tired of trying to convince other people, other agents that this actor is so talented you should take them on to your roster when I was doing everything anyways. So to make it easier on my clients I just became a talent agent so that I don’t have to do that anymore. I can just g...
2021-11-1333 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowPart 2 Interview With Kathy Hazzard - ‘Sweet Spirit’ ‘Andrae Crouch and The Disciples’What was it like to have been chosen as one of the most distinctive background vocalists of the 1990’s? That was a great honor. That came to fruition when I did ‘Silk Stalkings’, and nobody knew who the voice was….they said, ‘Oh, my God, who is this girl? Who is that?’ And I didn’t even know it! My girlfriend called and said, “Kathy, do you know that’s what they made you? Did you know that’s what they did?”
2021-11-0828 min
The Marc Copage Podcast ShowGuest - Actress, Vocalist, Kathy Hazzard - ‘Sweet Spirit’ ‘Andrae Crouch and The Disciples’. Part 1She has sung with everyone from Michael Jackson to Elton John, from Diana Ross to MaDonna. She has appeared on numerous television shows as well as movies. “The Color Purple”, “Free Willy”, “NYPD Blue”, “Sister, Sister”, and “The Lion King”, just to name a handful.
2021-11-0631 minThe Marc Copage Podcast ShowPart 2 - Tony Qwade, Animator, Illustrator, Special EffectsYou didn’t need to be in front of the camera because there was starting to be things that you could do behind the camera just in the special effects. They called it multi-media. This industry became, it evolved into multi-media because … I was meeting Rap artists and rock groups and independent artists who would hire me to do these flash animations for them. It still wasn’t movie making or cartoons, but guess what …
2021-11-0630 minThe Marc Copage Podcast ShowExtra, Extra, Read All About It!I had the honor of playing Diahann Carrolls son on a groundbreaking television series that aired on NBC, or are they now calling themselves Peacock? “Julia” was the first television show to feature a non-stereotypical African American female lead in the title role, and I was the first African American child actor to be featured on a weekly primetime network television series. Yeah, me.
2021-11-0618 minThe Marc Copage Podcast ShowAnimator, Filmmaker, Special Effects Artist, Tony QwadeI’m an animator. There was a time for many years an animator was just somebody who made cartoons. To break into that industry 99 percent of the time you broke in as what you call a Tweener. And that was somebody who would draw the frame, because animation is actually a series of frames. I don’t want to get to technically into it, but ….
2021-11-0637 minThe Marc Copage Podcast ShowSoul Revival - IntroductionI’ve enjoyed various levels of success throughout my lifetime. I’ve stayed in the finest hotels and I’ve been given keys to the cities by its top officials. I was even invited to the White House. I’ve also mopped floors, cleaned toilets, and been homeless. Being on TV was not my idea. I was not some aspiring showbiz kid wanna be actor trying to be on TV. But for whatever reasons, it seems to have been my fate.
2021-11-0605 min
Music Outlook L.A.MOLA - Ep 15 - Marc Copage/Victoria Savage - Actor/ActressMy guests today are Marc Copage & Victoria Savage. If you've ever watched sitcoms from the late 60's, you may remember Marc from the hit show "Julia" starring Diahann Carroll, where he was cast as her son Corey Baker. Victoria may also be familiar to you as a celebrant in a Dunkin' Donuts "Celebrate the Holidays" commercial from 2016 where she can be seen at both the beginning and the end of that spot. Both are working as Indie Artists on their own projects and we'll be talking about that as well as their gear and share important info that can help...
2021-10-171h 23
WJBR Internet RadioMarc Copage on Brunch in the Basement with JaVonne & TerezThis show marks the beginning of Black History Month 2020. We have decided to kick off the month by celebrating the first television sitcom which depicted positive roles for Black people. The show was called "Julia" and it starred the always elegant and dignified Diahann Carroll as the lead with today's special guest, Marc Copage as her son Corey. This was the first show that starred a black person in a non stereotypical role. Julia was a nurse, strong, independent, beautiful, classy, and smart. Her son Corey was adorable, well spoken and well mannered. He represented my brother, he represented me...
2020-02-012h 33