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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Rena Lipiner Katz, Author, “A Life Inherited:  Unraveling the Trauma of a Second Generation Holocaust Survivor”
About Harvey's guest:
 
Today’s guest, Rena Lipiner Katz, has written a compelling and insightful book about a subject that’s near and dear to my heart.  It’s a memoir entitled, “A Life Inherited:  Unraveling the Trauma of a Second Generation Holocaust Survivor”.  
 
Born in New York and raised by parents whose lives were irrevocably shaped by the trauma they endured during World War 2, she grew up in the shadow of the atrocities of the Holocaust.  It’s well known that the terror that Holocaust survivors experienced, delivered to MY generation, an overabundance of fear and anxiety, and a predisposition to feel stress.  
 
Our guest grew up believing that the price of her parents’ survival, and indeed, of her own birth, was a life of sorrow, anxiety and guilt.  In her book, she explores how her parents’ childhood trauma as Holocaust victims, fundamentally shaped her emotional and physiological development.  She chronicles her journey and  her determination to forge a life separate from the legacy of the Holocaust, which she refers to as her “scorched birthright”.  But in order to do that, she had to first understand how her vicarious absorption of her parents’ horrific experiences during the war, impacted her world view, her relationships, and the myriad of choices she made as a child, wife and mother.  
 
She shares with us, in a very personal way, what it means to be a 2nd generation Holocaust survivor, and how she unravelled and ultimately healed the trauma of her inherited past, and eventually triumphed over tragedy and despair, and found a life filled with meaning, peace of mind and love.
 
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To see more about Rena Lipiner Katz, go to:
https://wilburanddolce.com
https://www.amazon.ca/Life-Inherited-Unraveling-Second-Generation-Holocaust/ 
https://twitter.com/rena4nyc
 
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Harvey Brownstone continues his conversation with Louise Sorel, on her Triumphant Return to "Days of Our Lives"
 
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Today’s guest, Louise Sorel, is making her 2nd appearance on our show.   
Last Spring, while she was busy filming her highly anticipated return as “Vivian Allamain” on the popular daytime drama series, “Days of Our Lives”, she took time out from her filming schedule to grant me an interview.  That interview immediately went viral and was covered by over 25 media outlets.  And now, the episodes that this beloved actress was filming back in the Spring, are now being aired on TV.   I’ve been inundated by thousands of fans, requesting that we invite her back to our show to continue our conversation, and she has graciously agreed.
 
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To see more about Louise Sorel, go to:
https://fr-ca.facebook.com/Louise-Sorel-377801885588638/
https://twitter.com/louisesorel
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0814798/
 
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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Scott Page, Renowned Musician with Supertramp, Toto and Pink Floyd
 
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Today’s guest, Scott Page, is a renowned musician who’s toured and recorded with the legendary bands Supertramp, Toto and Pink Floyd.  
 
He’s also worked with a wide variety of music artists including David Cassidy, Gorky Park, David Lee Roth, and Hang Dynasty.    But what makes him even more fascinating, are his innovative business ventures in the world of technology, post-production, interactive multi-media, software development, distribution services, and cyberspace management enhancement for content creators.   
 
For over 30 years he’s been at the leading edge of technology entrepreneurship in the entertainment industry.  In 1987 he founded an audio and video post-production company called Walt Tucker Productions, that produced projects for The Rolling Stones, Bon Jovi, Janet Jackson, Garth Brooks, and many other music stars.  Then, in 1993, he co-founded a company called 7th Level, which created educational entertainment software called “Tuneland” featuring Howie Mandel, and its flagship product, the interactive musical CD/ROM, “Monty Python’s Complete Waste of Time”.  
 
In 2004, he co-founded the New Media Broadcasting Company, which developed interactive distribution services for content creators and consumers, and created a communications platform connecting diverse audiences, artists and content owners through a collaborative online network.  In 2011, he created a company called Direct To Care, which provided an online social business and presence management network for healthcare professionals.  
 
And in 2014, he launched GetYourOPI, an online presence management company, focusing on improving cyberspace presence for individuals and entities through analysis of their existing results on internet search engines.  He served as CEO of Ignited Network, a start up music accelerator based in Los Angeles.  And currently, he’s the CEO of THINK-EXP, a  company which is revolutionizing the entertainment industry with technological innovations creating one-of-a-kind, live immersive concert experiences.  
 
Our guest is also a philanthropist, and he’s used his music to raise millions of dollars for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
 
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To see more about Scott Page, go to:
https://www.instagram.com/iamscottpage/
 
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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Randal Kleiser, Internationally Renowned Director 
 
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Today’s special guest, Randal Kleiser, is an internationally renowned and highly acclaimed director who became a global sensation with the release of his very first feature film, “Grease”, which still remains one of the highest grossing and most beloved movie musicals of all time.   
 
He also directed “The Boy in the Plastic Bubble”, “The Blue Lagoon”, “Summer Lovers”, “Honey I Blew up the Kid”, “Getting It Right”, “White Fang”, “Shadow of Doubt”, and one of my all-time favourite movies, “It’s My Party”, and the critically acclaimed play, “The Penis Chronicles”.    
 
For almost 40 years, our guest has been at the forefront of experimenting with technology, digital cinematography and virtual reality, which can be seen not only in some of his feature films, like “Flight of the Navigator” and “Red Riding Hood”, but also at the Disney theme parks, where, for 10 years, his amazing 3-D movie entitled, “Honey, I Shrunk the Audience”, was one of the most popular attractions.  He also wrote and directed the Virtual Reality series “Defrost” which was featured at Sundance AND the Cannes Film Festival.  And for many years he’s been a member of the Science and Technology Committee of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.  
 
Our guest is also a much sought-after educator, and he regularly teaches and lectures at film schools and film festivals.  He created an online and DVD course of his former teacher Nina Foch’s class, entitled, “The Nina Foch Course for Filmmakers and Actors”.  He received an honourary doctorate from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco.   And if all of that weren’t enough, our guest is also an author.  
 
In 2019, he released his first book entitled, "Grease: The Director's Notebook", which is a retrospective look at the making of this classic film.  And now, he’s released his fascinating new book, entitled “Drawing Directors”, in which he reveals his unique talent for sketching, using a technique called “blind contour drawing”.  The book contains candidly drawn sketches, personal anecdotes and comments about the work of some of his favourite directors, including Billy Wilder, Robert Wise, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorcese, Spike Lee, Quentin Tarantino, Clint Eastwood, and many more, including my dear friend Henry Jaglom, who recently appeared on our show.
 
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To see more about Randal Kleiser, go to:
https://www.randalkleiser.com/
https://www.facebook.com/randalkleiserofficial
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0459170/
 
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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Charles Busch, Award-Winning Playwright and Drag Performer, Author, “Leading Lady: A Memoir of a Most Unusual Boy”
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Today’s guest, Charles Busch, occupies a unique and highly acclaimed place in the world of entertainment.   
He’s a playwright, actor, director, novelist, cabaret performer and drag legend, whose characters evoke the great cinematic actresses of the golden age of Hollywood.   As a young man, his ambition was to have his own theatrical troupe, and write camp, movie-inspired comedies in which he could play the leading lady in drag.  and that he did.   
He’s written and starred in over 25 plays including “The Divine Sister”, “The Lady in Question”, “Red Scare on Sunset”, “The Tribute Artist”, “The Confession of Lily Dare”, and one of my all time favourites, “Pardon my Inquisition or Kiss the Blood Off my Castanets”, starring our guest in the dual roles of the tempestuous spitfire prostitute Maria Garbanzo and her look-alike, the tragic noblewoman the Marquesa del Drago.  And I can’t resist mentioning his hilariously camp and heartwarming classic Christmas show, “Times Square Angel”, which has been performed annually for over 30 years.    
But there can be no question that in the world of theatre, our guest is best known for 2 of his hit plays: “Vampire Lesbians of Sodom”, which is one of the longest running plays in the history of Off-Broadway; and his smash long-running Broadway hit, “The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife”, which earned a Tony Award nomination for Best Play, and won our guest the Outer Circle Critics’ Award for playwrighting.    
He also wrote and starred in the film versions of his plays, “Psycho Beach Party” and “Die Mommie Die”, which won him the Best Performance Award at the Sundance Film Festival.  
He also directed the film, “A Very Serious Person” starring Polly Bergen, which won an honorable mention at the Tribeca Film Festival.   
On television, for two seasons, he appeared as “Nat Ginzburg” on the highly acclaimed HBO series “OZ”.   He’s a well-respected expert in film and theatre history, and he’s appeared as a guest programmer and in numerous documentaries for Turner Classic Movies, and he’s lectured and conducted master classes at many colleges and universities throughout America.   
He's a 2-time MAC award winner, and in 2003, he received a special Drama Desk Award for career achievement as both performer and playwright.  He also received the Flora Roberts Award for Sustained Achievement in the Theatre by the Dramatists’ Guild.   He is also the subject of the acclaimed documentary film “The Lady in Question is Charles Busch”.  And his CD, “Charles Busch Live at Feinstein’s 54 Below”, is one of the best cabaret albums out there - an absolute joy from beginning to end.     
As an author, he wrote an auto-biographical novel in 1995 entitled, “Whores of Lost Atlantis”.   And now, finally, he’s released his captivating, witty, insightful and poignant memoir entitled, “Leading Lady: A Memoir of a Most Unusual Boy”, in which he recounts a life as a trailblazer, lived with authenticity and purpose.
 
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To see more about Charles Busch, go to:
https://www.charlesbusch.com/
https://www.facebook.com/charlesbusch.page 
https://www.instagram.com/chasbusch/  
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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Bill Boggs, Award Winning TV Talk Show Host, Producer, Journalist, Author & Public Speaker
 
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Today’s guest, Bill Boggs, 4-time Emmy-award winning TV talk show host, producer, journalist,  author and public speaker.   He’s hosted numerous TV shows including the New York-based “Midday Live with Bill Boggs” and “Weekend Today”.  
 
He was the host and executive producer of the syndicated FOX-TV series, “Comedy Tonight”.   And he was the founding executive producer of Court TV, AND executive producer of the groundbreaking Morton Downey Jr. Show.  In the food/media world, our guest is a legend.  He created and hosted the PBS TV show, “Home Cooked Classics”.  He helped launch the Food Network and pioneered the first-ever national restaurant review show, “TV Diners”, AND he created the long-running hit show, “Bill Boggs Corner Table”.  
 
He also had an enormously popular one-man Off Broadway show called, “Talk Show Confidential”, which ran for six years.   He’s interviewed many of the most notable personalities of our time—including celebrities, world leaders, business tycoons, writers, athletes, celebrity chefs, and many more.   
 
He’s also a highly accomplished author.  His first book, entitled “At First Sight”, is a novel that’s been optioned for a Hollywood movie.  In 2007 he published a highly acclaimed book entitled, “Got What it Takes?: Successful People Reveal How They Made It to the Top”, which contains candid interviews with 44 leaders in the world of entertainment, business and sports, including Sir Richard Branson, Clive Davis, Norman Lear, Diane Von Furstenberg, Renee Zellweger - and yes, even Donald Trump.  
 
Three years ago he published a hilariously satirical novel entitled, “The Adventures of Spike the Wonder Dog”, about an adorable English Bull Terrier with a politically incorrect sense of humor and a heart of gold, who rises to fame on his master's TV talk show and on social media.  And now, he’s released the laugh-out-loud but razor-sharp satirical sequel entitled, “Spike Unleashed: The Wonder Dog Returns”, in which the fiercely loyal Spike and his faithful master Bud continue their hilarious antics.  These books demonstrate that our guest is indeed a master of social commentary.  
 
You’ve seen him on “The Today Show”, “Good Morning America”, “Fox and Friends”, PBS “My Generation”, and dozens of other TV shows.  
 
For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/
 
To see more about Bill Boggs, go to:
https://www.billboggs.com
https://www.facebook.com/billboggs/
https://twitter.com/RealBillBoggs
https://www.youtube.com/user/billboggstv 
https://www.instagram.com/realbillboggs/
 
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