Mar 23, 2022 | podcasts, Politics
With the news of the death at 84 of former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, I dug into my audio archives to find a conversation I had with her on January 15, 2008, when she published her book, “Memo To The President Elect.” I asked her why she...
Sep 1, 2021 | podcasts, Television
You’re probably not familiar with the name Bill Clotworthy, who died last week at 95. With the official title Director Of Program Standards, Clotworthy was NBC’s censor, and thus worked with the writers, performers, and producers on “Saturday Night...
Aug 30, 2021 | Movies, podcasts, Television
I was saddened to hear of the death this weekend of Ed Asner at 91. I hope the cause of death wasn’t spunk. That’s a joke that only works if you saw the first episode of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” in which he co-starred as Lou Grant, news director of WJM-TV. When...
Aug 11, 2021 | Authors, Music, podcasts
When I heard that Walter Yetnikoff died Sunday (just days before his 88th birthday), I remembered the conversation I had with him in 2004 — one of my all-time favorites. Yetnikoff was the president of CBS (Columbia) Records from 1975 to 1990, when the label had...
Dec 2, 2020 | Blog, podcasts
The John Belushi documentary that’s running on Showtime is quite good. It’s an oral history made up of interviews done by Tanner Colby and lots of archival footage from many parts of Belushi’s life. If you don’t have Showtime, but want to hear...
Sep 7, 2020 | podcasts, Poker/Vegas
I’m saddened to hear of the death last night of Mike Sexton, who is in the Poker Hall Of Fame for his decades as the game’s ambassador, longtime play-by-play man for the World Poker Tour, and CEO of the online poker site Party Poker. He was two weeks short...
