Oh Brother, not another podcast Miggs and Trace Burroughs

Renowned movie critic and child of Hollywood discusses "It's a Hollywood Life", the new documentary about her life growing in Hollywood with her famous director father S. Sylvan Simon and his stars including Abbott and Costello, Red Skelton, Milton Berle, and Lassie!

Miggs and Trace trade stories of their brushes with fame, from Otis Redding to Albert. Brooks

Stacy Keach, Jr. is one of Hollywoods most versatile actors, playing everyone from Hemingway to Hamlet to Mike Hammer, and winning Golden Globe, Drama Desk and many other awards recognizing his extraordinary work. He was Sgt Stendenko in “Up in Smoke” and embodied Nixon in “Frost/Nixon”. From the “Simpsons” to “The Bourne Legacy” his range knows no bounds, and he still finds time to devote to the his Cleft Palette Foundation. Spoiler alert, hear how he got the lead role as the priest in the Exorcist, and lost it.

Ed Begley Jr.! Jeez, what hasn’t this guy done? Actor, author, environmental activist, and all around thoughtful and talented citizen trying to make the planet a better place for all of us. Better Call Saul, St Elsewhere, Simpsons, Mary Hartman-Mary Hartman, Six Feet Under, Curb Your Enthusiasm, This is Spinal Tap, Batman Forever, Best in Show, Mighty Wind… what else can we say. Ed rules!

Actress and author Bonnie Bartlett has an amazing career spanning seven decades. Married to actor William “Captain Nice” Daniels, they won Emmys together for their roles on St. Elsewhere, and she has appeared on TV shows like Gunsmoke,, Golden Girls, Better Call Saul, The Waltons and dozens of others. She is very forthcoming about her 72 year marriage, and her successful career in movies including the role she wasn’t thrilled about at first, as Danny Devito’s and Arnold Schwarzenegger’s mom in “Twins”

Katie Cassidy is third generation Hollywood royalty and a triple threat herself, as actor, writer and producer. She never met her grandfather Jack Cassidy, but she is very candid about her complicated relationship with her late father, teen heart throb David Cassidy, and shares his last words and the impact they had on her. The actors’ strike had just begun on the day of this podcast and Katie reveals some exciting new projects she will be working on. A bonus for aspiring actors, she explains how Liam Neeson taught her to play dead in the first “Taken” movie.