Episodes

  • Guilty Pleasure Movies

    Guilty Pleasure Movies
    Apr 29 2025
    Steve is joined by Emmy award-winning screenwriter Brooks Wachtel and screenwriter and producer Steve Mitchell as they discuss their favorite guilty pleasures. - movie wise, including such gems as "The Three Stooges Meet Hercules," "The Beach Girls," "Rocketship XM," "The Private LIfe of Sherlock Holmes," "The Quiller Memorandum" and others. What's your guilty pleasure movie?
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    59 mins
  • Marcia Clark Rips the 1953 Barbara Graham Case to shreds.

    Marcia Clark Rips the 1953 Barbara Graham Case to shreds.
    Apr 21 2025
    Steve interviews Marcia Clark, former lead prosecutor in the OJ Simpson trial, all about the 1953 Barbara Graham case, depicted in the 1958 film, "I Want to Live," which netted Susan Hayward the Best Actress Oscar that year, and revealed in fascinating detail in Clark's terrific new book, Trial by Ambush.
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    53 mins
  • The Sound of Music at 60

    The Sound of Music at 60
    Apr 8 2025
    Steve goes into his Interview files to retrieve a 1980 interview with Academy Award-winning director Robert Wise who discusses the making of "The Sound of Music," the Best Picture Oscar winner of 1965.
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    49 mins
  • Happy Days Are Here Again

    Happy Days Are Here Again
    Apr 1 2025

    Steve interviews author/producers Fred Fox, Jr and Brian Levant, both veteran television writers, story editors and show runners, all about their book, "50 Years of Happy Days: A Visual History of an American Television Classic."

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    55 mins
  • The Movies in Uniform

    The Movies in Uniform
    Mar 25 2025
    Steve interviews author and film historian Bob Herzberg, all about his book Hollywood and the Military Bureaucracy, focusing on the historical underpinnings and context of such immortal classics as Bataan, Attack, From Here to Eternity, The Young Lions and Patton.
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    56 mins
  • Actor Jack O'Halloran -"Super Villain from the Phantom Zone and Beyond"

    Actor Jack O'Halloran -"Super Villain from the Phantom Zone and Beyond"
    Mar 4 2025
    Steve interviews former heavyweight boxing champion/turned actor Jack O'Halloran ("Superman," "King Kong," "Hero and the Terror")
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    1 hr and 1 min
  • When Cold War Films Were Hot

    When Cold War Films Were Hot
    Feb 24 2025
    Steve and fellow film historian Avie Hern discuss the staying power of the 1964 Cold War Thriller "Seven Days in May," which starred Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Martin Balsam, a solid all-star cast in a riveting story written by Rod Serling, based on the terrific novel by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II and directed by John Frankenheimer.
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    52 mins
  • The James Bond Movie Patriarch Speaks

    The James Bond Movie Patriarch Speaks
    Feb 17 2025
    This week Steve goes into his personal research files and features an interview he did with 007 movie producer Albert R. Broccoli, conducted in Mr. Broccoli's office in MGM's Thalberg Building in the summer of 1977. They discuss the origins of the James Bond movie series, the dealmaking, the casting, the obstacles and challenges, and Mr. Broccoli discusses his early day, from farming broccoli on Long Island to arriving in Hollywood.
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    57 mins
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