This year marks fifty years since the release of “The Graduate,” starring Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, and Katherine Ross. On its golden anniversary, here’s my conversation with Beverly Gray, author of “Seduced By Mrs. Robinson: How The Graduate Became The Touchstone Of A Generation.” I started our discussion at the end of the movie, when […]
This week on the showbiz segment of my show, Max and I reviewed four recent movie releases: “Lady Bird,” “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri,” “Coco,” and “Last Flag Flying.” We also talked about a filmmaker shedding his connection to Harvey Weinstein and why Denzel Washington’s new movie isn’t doing well. Then I went off on […]
Comedy legend Richard Pryor would be 77 years old today. Here’s a conversation I had several years ago with his daughter, Rain Pryor, when she published her book about him, “Jokes My Father Never Taught Me.” We discussed the N-word controversy that’s still humming after the Michael Richards incident and the reaction of some black […]
David Hepworth is a British journalist who has written about music for four decades. Now he’s published “Uncommon People: The Rise and Fall of the Rock Stars,” and joined me to talk about it. Among the topics we covered: How much of achieving rock stardom comes from hard work, how much from right-place-right-time? If the […]
“American Radical” is the story of Tamer Elnoury, a Muslim FBI agent who went undercover to expose some radical jihadists who were planning to commit mayhem in the US and Canada. Since he has now moved on to other law enforcement business and is unavailable to discuss the book, I spoke with his co-author, Kevin […]
Jeff Smith returned to my show to discuss his role as Executive Vice President of Concordance Academy of Leadership, an organization that helps former inmates at Missouri State Prisons rejoin society. Jeff explained the services the academy offers, and the difficulties ex-cons face in getting back on their feet without money, a job, or a […]