You Might Know Her From Anne Rodeman & Damian Bellino
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You Might Know Her From is an interview podcast and living piece of art. Hosted by comedians and best friends, Damian Bellino and Anne Rodeman, the show centers the stories of women and non-cis figures in entertainment. Bridging anthropology and comedy, this project seeks to preserve these (often never before heard) stories with irreverence and panache.
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Judy Reyes
Judy, Judy, Judy! We’re just mad about Judy Reyes. You Might Know Her From Birth/Rebirth, Claws, Scrubs, The Horror of Dolores Roach, Smile, Bringing out the Dead, One Day at a Time, and Devious Maids. We talk to Judy all about her Indie Spirit-nominated turn in the indie horror Birth/Rebirth which is a little Frankenstein, a little Thelma & Louise, a little Whatever Happened to Baby Jane–we highly recommend it! Judy takes us through the psychology of playing a grieving mother, acting opposite a child and a pig, and grounding the horror elements. Then, we dig deep into her oeuvre from playing Carla Espinosa for eight seasons on Scrubs to playing gay as Quiet Ann (no -e) in one of the best female ensembles on television on Claws. All that plus, coming in to elevate a horror flick like Smile, headlining the candy-coated Marc Cherry/Eva Longoria dark comedy Devious Maids, and forming a community with other Latina actors in this horrific (we hate but love it) industry. We love you.
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Discussed this episode:
Former guest of the show Da’Vine won an Oscar Sunday night
Listen to her interview with us from 2022 (Ep #119 from March 2022)
Anne felt bad for Bradley Cooper mostly because Kimmel’s jokes were fucking homophobic
Go watch Birth/Rebirth with Marin Ireland
Played Carla on Scrubs for 8 seasons
Left show for season 9 “reboot”
Oz first scene with Rita Moreno who didn’t remember her years later on One Day at a Time
El Deportivo on 157th street is closed :(
Producing Freestyle a Love Story with Ana Ortiz
Justina Machado starred in new musical version of Real Women Have Curves at ART
Lisa Lisa and the Cult Jam
Judy in Guinea Pig Solo at Labyrinth theatre
Has one scene in Smile
Cosby Mysteries was in fact, two seasons, as Judy suggested
Broken hip for musical number on Scrubs
Marc Cherry developing a psychic housewife drama
Marc Cherry hit Nicolette Sheridan on the head
Anne obsessed with Kate Middleton, someone talk to her about it
Has Kate been Shelly Miscaviged?
Which is more powerful: Scientology or The Royals?
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The Year of Madonna & Barbra, Maestro, May December, & Patreon
Chickens, it’s the year of Barbra! Are you ready? Anne and Damian are back with a special “just us” episode to officially launch the You Might Know Her From Patreon–link in below! Please savor the final just us episode on the regular feed. What we’re getting into: Jason Gould,, the progeny of Barbra and Elliot Gould, as well as Alexis Kalehoff, the daughter of Broadway star Andrea McArdle. Anne also finally saw Maestro and May December and we’re discussing them deeply including Bradley Cooper’s fake liver spots. Plus, we are READY to discuss Barbra’s memoir and ready to book club Madonna’s brother Christoper Ciccone’s book.
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Discussed this episode:
Alexis Kalehoff and Andrea McArdle singing “Take Me or Leave Me” the lesbian anthem from Jason Gould’s album Dangerous Man
Lorna Luft’s album, Songs My Mother Taught Me
Should we go on a Broadway cruise?
Joe Machota was in Mamma Mia forever and now is a high-profile agent
Uma's dialect work in Red White and Royal Blue
Uma Thurman in The Producers “If You Got It, Flaunt it”
Alexis McArdle’s dad wrote the theme for The Price is Right and Monday Night Football and Double Dare
This month Anne watched Maestro, May December, Zone of Interest, Nyad
Jodie Foster Nyad Oscar clip @ 1:39 mark is wild a la Melissa Leo in The Fighter
We love Phyllida Lloyd (“Philtitta”)
Julianne Moore in old age makeup in The Hours
Bradley Cooper is crying with Bernstein’s kids
Here are his liver spots as Leonard Bernstein
Tick Tick Boom movie surprisingly good at capturing the moment of invention
Should we revisit De-Lovely and dear god Beyond the Sea?
Wicked Stepmother co-starring former guest of YMKHF, Colleen Camp (Ep #108)
Barbra’s dinner with Ryan Murphy, Lady Gaga, John Travolta (presumably a Gypsy meeting)
Download Libby!
Madonna’s brother, Christopher Ciccone wrote a book, Life with My Sister Madonna
Let’s learn about Barbra’s assistant, Renata
Whoopi’s book is forthcoming (May 2024)! / Anne read Frank Langella’s v dishy book -
Erika Alexander
We are here with Erika Alexander and she is the moment! You Might Know Her From American Fiction, Get Out, Earth Mama, Black Lightning, Insecure, The Long Walk Home, Mama Flora’s Family, The Cosby Show, 54, Wu Tang: an American Saga, and Living Single. We got to talk to Erika about sporting her signature NRAY locks while she’s on the awards circuit for her Indie Spirit-nominated performance in American Fiction. We also covered a potential Living Single reunion, the beautiful moment Cicely Tyson gave her on set, and her meta cameo on Issa Rae’s Insecure. All that plus, genre work in Get Out, her Harvey Weinstein story, and her multi-hyphenate work as a writer, producer, and director. Get into Erika Alexander, the artist.
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Discussed this week:
Amen starring Anna Maria Horsford (her episode of YMKHF)
Damian deep in Barbra’s (audio) book, My Name is Barbra
Who else is on the Barbra tier of singer/actor/arTISTE? Aka larger than life but also relatable.
Judy Garland, Whitney Houston, Diana Ross, Beyonce, Lady Gaga?!?
What about Cher, Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn, Liza Minnelli, Bette Midler, Brandy? Jennifer Hudson? Emma Stone? If Jennifer Lawrence could sing? WHOOPI GOLDBERG coulda
Real audio tracks of Jennifer Lopez singing
In What’s Up Doc, Barbra is sexy and weird
Truth or Dare is an incredible documentary. Is Madonna on the list?!
Madonna: should we watch Swept Away
Anne is an Madonna as Evita (1996) apologist
Nominated for best supporting actress Indie Spirit Award for American Fiction
Has used the stylist Debra Hare-Bey and her yarn locs (NRAY locs) since before Living Single
Worked with Whoopi Goldberg in The Long Walk Home (1990)
The C.R.O.W.N. Act was a big legislative win for Black women
Earth Mama starring Tia Nomore and directed by former volleyball player, Savanah LeafErika was discovered in an acting program to play opposite James Earl Jones in My Little GirlErika played young Cicely Tyson in Mama Flora’s Family and one of the producers threatened her Felt like 4th wheel as Maxine Shaw on Living Single
Worked closely with Hillary Clinton as her surrogate while working on Queen Sugar when she got Get Out
Yvette Lee Bowser cast Erika and Les Moonves went to bat for her
End of Living Single left bad taste in her mouth bc wasn’t able to shake Maxine
Did a meta bit on Insecure (had already agreed to do Awkward Black Girl when it was on YouTube)
Played cousin Pam on seasons 7 & 8 of The Cosby Show. Had great scene with Charmaine played by Karen Malina White
Go watch Malina White in Dahmer
Appears in Toni Braxton’s “You’re Making Me High” with Vivica A. Fox and Tisha Campbell Produced the documentaries, Finding Tamika, Good Trouble
Erika’s Buffy comic with Joss Whedon
Erika’s spec script for Mad Men (Don Draper meets a black ad man)
Erika testified in front of Congress on the importance of diversifying the entertainment industry Fathers and Sons with Jeff Goldblum
Was Ciel who ran coat check in 54 (1998)
Salma Hayek told her she needed to ask why they moved her trailer and of course it’s Harvey Weinstein
Porn star, Ron Jeremy asked Erika if she wanted to party
Her brother worked at Studio 54!
Plays Perenna on the CW DC series, Black Lightning
Oh no, Anne went basic and bought an Owala water bottle
Anne riding bikes and Damian making hemp milk from scratch now
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2024 Oscar Nomination Extravaganza
You like us! You really like us. We’re back–just us–to break down this year’s Oscar nominations: the good (Da’Vine Joy Randolph!), the weird (Diane Warren and Chester Cheetah), the snubs (Greta Gerwig, Margot Robbie, Fantasia Barrino, Willam Dafoe), and our own wishful thinking (Greta Lee, Rosamund Pike, Erika Alexander). This maniacal breakdown also brought to you by the other parts of personalities in 2024: Barbra Streisand’s memoir, the reality show The Traitors, and Sara Ramirez being ousted from And Just Like That!
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Discussed this week:
2024 Oscar nominations are out
Snubs; Greta Lee, Willam Dafoe, Greta Gerwig, Fantasia Barrino!
Things we need to see: Past Lives, All of Us Strangers, Anatomy of a Fall, Zone of Interest
Willam Dafoe red carpet moment
Anne Hathaway “calma”
Former guest Da’Vine Joy Randolph should play Pearl Bailey
Halle Berry won best actress in 2003 and is still only black woman who has ever won
Jodie Foster Nyad Oscar clip @ 1:39 mark is wild a la Melissa Leo in The Fighter
Helen Mirren as Golda Meir in Golde
Will Barbra Gypsy ever happen?!
Can they “Irishman her face”?!
Barbra’s sister Roslyn Kind is also a singer
We love Erika Alexander and Rosamund Pike
Sara Ramirez says they were dropped from And Just Like That bc of stance on Palestine
Melissa Barrera fired from Scream franchise for speaking out
We blame Michael Patrick King
We are high on Traitors US and Traitors UK’s host, Claudia Winkleman and her signature look. -
Didi Conn
Tell me more, tell me more! Today we are joined by Didi Conn. You Might Know Her From Grease, Grease 2, You Light Up My Life, Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure, The Magic Show, Frida, Benson, and Shining Time Station. We spoke with THEE Didi Conn about her iconic performance in the Grease films as Frenchie, the legacy of the franchise carrying on with Grease Live! and Joan Blondell’s shoes, and our age-old question about psoriasis as heart disease. Plus, how Toy Story stole from Raggedy Ann & Andy, standing by for Mercedes Ruehl on Broadway, her horrific experience with Joseph Brooks, and the beauty of the musical The Magic Show. This one was a total thing of dreams.
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Discussed this week:
Jacob Elordi is hot to everyone. And Barry Keoghan has the ugly sexy thing down
We loved Cailly Spaeny and Lily Gladstone and Erika Alexander
Golden Globes were a mess this year
Da’Vine Joy Randolph is so good and we are hoping for an Oscar nomination for The Holdovers (don’t jinx it)
Da’Vine episode of YMKHF
Carol Channing and Pearl Bailey special
Aloha (2015) was indeed directed by Cameron Crowe, not Alexander Payne
Tracy Morgan took Eddie Murphy’s advice for The Last O.G. and hired Da’Vine
Love Chris Klein in Election
Our Oscar nominated guests on YMKHF: Kathleen Turner (Ep #9), Shohreh Aghdashloo (Ep#72), JoBeth Williams (#99), and Lesley Ann Warren (Ep #78)
Lily Gladstone is nonbinary
Yalitza Aparicio from Roma garnered all kinds of acclaim, and where is she now?
Tantoo Cardinal is so good
In the Stephen Schwartz musical, The Magic Show starring Doug Henning
Starred in the movie, Joseph Brooks You Light Up My Life
Joseph Brooks who “wrote” and directed it was a horrible man,. He met a grisly end
Her son is autistic and is currently living in The Center for Discovery
Autismspeaks.org
Played Denise, Benson’s new secretary on Benson
Didi Conn introduced herself to David Shire as his crush, Charlotte Rampling, who wrote the music for Farewell My Lovely
Was the voice of Raggedy Ann in the 1977 Richard Williams animated movie, Raggedy Ann and Andy: A Musical Adventure
Joe Raposo wrote all the music for the movie and he had written a lot of music for Sesame Street and The Electric Company (including the “C is for Cookie” and the Sesame Street song)
Was a standby and then replacement for Mercedes Ruehl in Lost in Yonkers (1991) with Irene Worth and Kevin Spacey
Fonz and the Happy Days Gang cartoon
Stacey Jones in Shining Time Station, which she says was horrible for her career
Conductors: Ringo Starr, George Carlin, Alec Baldwin
The tv show was funded by Amtrak and MTH Electric Trains
Thomas movie was filmed on The Isle of Man
Of course played Frenchie in the 1978 classic, Grease (director: Randal Kleiser, choreographer: Pat Birch, producer: Allan Carr)
Kelly Ward (Putzie) was dance captain for Pat Birch
Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies has been wiped from Paramount+
Tegrin’s ad: “The heartbreak of psoriasis”
Was there film in the camera for Frenchie’s number in Grease 2?
Skating with the Stars judge was a dick (start at 3:27)
Was Alice Ghostley’s Mrs Murdoch gay (watch the dancing)
Was waitress in Frida and had Across the Universe (friends with Julie Taymor and worked with her on the stage play, The Green Bird)
Lifted out the door on Cagney and Lacey (s6e12). Who had more upper body strength? Both!
CGI’d pink ladies guy head on body in Rise of the Pink Ladies
Dr Pepper theme song: “I’m a Pepper, You’re a Pepper”
In My Life one of the worst Broadway shows I’ve ever seen (it was a huge flop) and he has Tourette's not autism
Our interview with Talia Balsam (ep #12) introduced us to You Light Up My Life
David Shire (Didi’s husband) wrote the Oscar-nominated song for Norma Rae
Barry Pearl holds all the Grease secrets
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If We Had a Patreon: Movie Clubbing Todd Haynes' Carol
Hello Therese, we’re back for our annual holiday extravaganza. This year we’re movie-clubbing Todd Haynes’ very luscious and very gay Carol (2015), starring Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, and Sarah Paulson. We discuss the erotic imagery of merely a glove, lesbian sex scenes through the lens of a gay man, and the joy in watching flat male characters (what even IS Jake Lacy’s character’s name?). All that Carol talk for you plus our reactions to the Golden Globe nominations, our dream casting of Da’Vine Joy Randolph and Emma Stone as Pearl Bailey and Carol Channing in a future film, and some Muppet talk. And then…we give you a solid ten minutes on our theory that gay men hate all gay male things while lesbians are much more accepting, our trip down memory lane to remember “lesbian kiss episodes” during November sweeps, the legacy of Roseanne, and Natalie Zea hunting down Kimberly Pierce for the Boys Don’t Cry short she starred in! Anyway, happy holidays! Do you think Linda Perry and Sara Gilbert watched Carol together?
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Discussed this week:
Golden Globe nominations came out
HFPA dissolved last year
Anne liked Priscilla
Actors on Actors with Emma Stone and Bradley Cooper. Better or
Actors on Actors with Hathaway and Blunt
Da’Vine Joy Randolph getting Oscar buzz for The Holdovers and should definitely star as Pearl Bailey. We vote Emma Stone for Carol Channing
Is Wonka good?!
We love Pepe the Prawn now
Lonny Price is in Muppets Take Manhattan
Austin Pendleton is in The Muppet Movie
We love Ollie’s on 42nd Street (sighted Lois Smith and Austin Pendleton)
Rooney Mara in The Social Network
We love the movie Union Square and the Angelika Film Center
Former guest, Vicki Lewis in Pushing Tin
“Do you want to fuck me, Barbara??” - Cate to Judi in Notes on a Scandal
She has done lots of NYC theatre: Streetcar (2009), Hedda Gabler (2006), The Maids (2014)
Damian always thinking of Playwright, Theresa Rebeck
Jake Lacy looks good in a waistcoat
Are the Maras billionaires? Their mom’s family founded the Pittsburgh Steelers and dad’s family founded the New York Giants.
We can’t pronounce Joaquin Phoenix and Cillian Murphy
Gay Christmas movies: Michael Urie in Single All the Way and Happiest Season (with Aubrey Plaza and Kristen Stewart)
BFI listed Carol as the best LGBTQ movie of all time
Anne hated Bros
Remember that Muriel Heminway kissed Roseanne Barr?
Lucy Liu and Calista Flockheart kissed for sweeps on Ally McBeal
Did Linda Perry and Sara Gilbert watched Carol together?
Famous lesbian Christine Vachon produced Carol
Kimberly Peirce was attached to Carol before it made its way to Todd Haynes
Former YMKHF guest, Natalie Zea was in the student film version of Boys Don’t Cry and we talked to her about it on the pod
Famous lesbian Kimberly Peirce directed episodes of P Valley and The L Word