Podcasts by Now Ive Heard Everything
Vintage interviews with notable personalities, dating from the 1980s to the mid 2010s. Actors, musicians, politicians, athletes, authors, scientists. inventors, and heroes of all kinds.
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The Many Talents of Alex Karras: Athlete, Actor, Author from 2023-12-13T10:00
Alex karras was a star on the field for the Detroit Lions in the 1960s. And then he tackled a new career challenge: acting. One of his most iconic roles was in 1974's "Blazing Saddles." He was, ...
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The Real Story of Area 51: A Conversation With Investigative Journalist Annie Jacobsen from 2023-12-11T10:00
Area 51 is such a highly classified US Air Force installatio nthat for many decades, the United States government wouldn't even acknowledge its existence.
In 2011, investigative journalist. ...
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Rock and Roll 101: Cousin Brucie Shares His Insights from 2023-12-08T10:00
Few people are as well qualified to write the history of rock and roll as Bruce Morrow, otherwise known to millions of radio listeners as cousin Brucie.
In this 2009 interview Morrow talks ab...
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The Magic of Tomie dePaola: A Conversation from 2023-12-06T10:00
Tomie dePaola turned a childhood fascination with drawing into a career in which he produced over 260 children's books.
In this 1992 interview dePaola talks about his book Jingle the Christm...
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How Ann Coulter’s Demonic Theory Explains America’s Political Divide
from 2023-12-04T10:00
Why do conservatives think the way they do and why do liberals think the way they do
In this 2011 interview conservative commentator Ann Coulter explains her theory that, unlike conservatives...
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Stephen Covey: The Man Behind the 7 Habits that Shaped Millions of Lives from 2023-12-01T10:00
Drawing on principles he learned as a lifelong Mormon, Stephen Covey in 1989 published his book the seven habits of highly effective people. And it became hug
It spawned its own little indust...
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From Poverty To Political Legend: Arkansas’s Dale Bumpers from 2023-11-29T18:46:03
Born and raised in a tiny rural Arkansas town, Dale Bumpers was drawn at a very early age into public service, by his encouraging father.
His political career began in 1970, when he ran...
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Life as Osama bin Laden's Sister-in-Law Revealed from 2023-11-27T10:00
Carmen bin Ladin was once Osama bin Laden's sister-in-law. Her marriage to Osama’s half brother Yeslam broke up several years ago and she had nothing to do with the September 11th attacks.
In th...
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A Daughter's Loving Embrace: Rain Pryor's Book Aboiut Richard Pryor from 2023-11-24T10:00
The late Richard Pryor was a hugely talented comedian and brilliant entertainer — but, by his own admission, a failure as a father.
In this 2006 interview, his daughter Rain Pryor talks abou...
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From Pilgrims to Escorts: The Rise and Fall of the Mayflower Madam from 2023-11-22T10:00
It was a big story IN 1984 when it was revealed that the authoirities had broken up a high-priced Manhattan escort service run by a woman named Sydney Biddle Barrows.
The 32-year-old Barrows...
The Book That Proved Lee Harvey Oswald Acted Alone from 2023-11-20T10:00
It's been 60 years since the assassination of President John F Kennedy. Yet his death remains the subject of widespread conspiracy theories.
In this 1993 interview investigative journalist G...
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How Deborah Layton Escaped the 1978 Jonestown Massacre from 2023-11-17T10:00
II was news that stunned the entire world, this week in 1978. Inspired by a charismatic leader named Jim Jones, more than 900 people, including over 300 children, had committed suicide at he Peo...
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Will Steger’s Pioneering Journey to the North Pole — Scheduled from 2023-11-15T10:00
In today's shrinking world, there are very few things left that no one has ever done before. But in 1986, explorer Will Steger did something no one had done before – he led the first ever dog sl...
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Suzanne Somers: From Laughter to Healing from 2023-11-13T10:00
For many years actress Suzanne Somers kept us laughing. A talented comedic actress, she also knew how to leverage her blonde good looks for a laugh.
But few knew about the abusive childhood ...
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How a Navy Cross Hero Fought PTSD After Fallujah from 2023-11-10T10:00
Serving in Iraq in 2004, Marine Sgt. Jeremiah Workman earned the Navy Cross for gallantry under fire, after a ferocious firefight in Fallujah in which he killed 20 enemy combatants.
But Wor...
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The Secret Daughter of Elvis Presley from 2023-11-08T10:00
In the early 1980s a young woman named Desiree sat her mother down and asked her to finally tell her about her real father. The story that Luc y de Barbin told her daughter was the story of how ...
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Bobby Knight’s Story of Success and Controversy from 2023-11-06T10:00
For years, one of the most dominant men's college basketball teams was the Indiana Hoosiers, coached by the legendary Bobby knight.
In this 2002 interview, Knight reflects on his career, an...
Author Stephenie Meyer's 'Twilight' Insights from 2023-11-03T09:00
Author Stephenie Meyer's 'Twilight' Insights
In this 2007 interview Stephenie Meyer talks aboiut the third book in the Twilight series, Eclipse
And as you'll hear, Meyer was still gettin...
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Why 'South Beach Diet' Dr. Arthur Agatston Is Concerned from 2023-11-01T09:00
Why 'South Beach Diet' Dr. Arthur Agatston Is Concerned
Millions have adopted the South Beach Diet since it first appeared 20 years ago.
Butt in this 2011 interview, Dr. Arthur Agatston w...
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Ghosts, Zombies, and Vampires -- Why We Love 'Em from 2023-10-30T09:00
Ghosts, Zombies, and Vampires -- Why We Love 'Em
What is it about the thrill of fear that we enjoy?
In this 1991 interview Prof. Walter Kendrick explains why, over the last couple of cent...
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Peggielene Bartels: The Woman Who Became A King from 2023-10-27T09:00
In 2008 when Peggielene Bartel'ss uncle passed away, she was notified that she had been chosen as the new king of the town of Otuam in her native Ghana. Sudden;y her quiet life ina suburb of Was...
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How We Misunderstand And Undervalue The Human Breast from 2023-10-25T09:00
October is, of course, Breast Cancer Awareness month. But a book that was written several years ago reminds us of how little we actually know about the human breast.
In this 2012, interview a...
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Red Auerbach Reveals Secrets of Building a Celtics Dynasty from 2023-10-22T22:14:41
Perhaps no one in modern North American sports history was as successful at building a dynasty as the legendary Red Auerbach.
A brilliant strategist on the court, Auerbach was just as br...
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Ariel Sharon And The Burden of Leadership from 2023-10-20T09:00
Ariel Sharon And The Burden of Leadership
Israel and Hamas are at war. It's the latest chapter in a long history of cconflict and struggle for the Jewish state One who participated in many of...
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From the White House to the Teenage House: Liz Carpenter’s Unplanned Parenthood from 2023-10-18T09:00
From the White House to the Teenage House: Liz Carpenter’s Unplanned Parenthood
When her brother died in 1993, his three unruly teenagers came to live with Liz Carpenter, retired after a stor...
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Leslie Nielsen: The Doctor of Comedy Who Made "Airplane!" Fly from 2023-10-16T09:00
Leslie Nielsen: The Doctor of Comedy Who Made "Airplane!" Fly
“Airplane” literally changed the entire course of Leslie Nielsen's career, propelling him into comedy. The television series “Pol...
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Sister Souljah's Tale of Urban Life from 2023-10-13T09:00:04
Sister Souljah's Tale of Urban Life
From her earliest days growing up in New York City and later in New Jersey, Sister Souljah was an activist. Surrounded by the poverty and despair of an urb...
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From Drummer to Author: Jacob Slichter's Rock & Roll Journey from 2023-10-11T09:00:50
From Drummer to Author: Jacob Slichter's Rock & Roll Journey
If you really want to know what it's like to be a rock star, just ask one. But you are not likely to get a more honest answer then...
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Richard Dawkins on Evolution, Creationism, and the Blind Watchmaker from 2023-10-09T09:00:02
Were Adam and Eve real?
In this 1988 interview, renowned evolutionary biologist and author Richard Dawkins discusses evolution, creationism, and the concept of the "Blind Watchmaker."
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Sidney Sheldon's Secrets to Writing Page-Turning Novels from 2023-10-06T09:00:22
Sidney Sheldon's Secrets to Writing Page-Turning Novels
On just about any list of the best selling novelists of all time you'll find the name Sidney Sheldon.
In this 1988 interview I tri...
Kathleen Willey's Accusations Against the Clintons from 2023-10-04T14:09:22
A Bill CLinton Accuser's Story
Kathleen Willey was a White House volunteer in the Clinton administration in its first year, 1993. And it was in November of that year that Willey says Bill Cli...
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The USS Cole Attack: Commander Kirk Lippold's Perspective from 2023-10-02T09:00:23
The USS Cole Attack: Commander Kirk Lippold's Perspective
It didn't start with September 11th.
Almost a year before al Qaeda terrorists flew planes into buildings, suicide bombers affilia...
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Wilma Mankiller: A Cherokee Chief's Journey and Legacy from 2023-09-29T09:00:14
Wilma Mankiller: A Cherokee Chief's Journey and Legacy
Wilma Mankiller's journey into leadership in the Cherokee nation was not planned. She started as an advocate for rural development withi...
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Derek Taylor: Behind the Beatles' Legacy from 2023-09-27T09:00:49
Derek Taylor: Behind the Beatles' Legacy
Derek Taylor was a working journalist when he met the Beatles, literally in te right place at the rright time as the band was on the cusp of fame in E...
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From Jed Clampett to Abraham Lincoln: The Extraordinary Journey of Buddy Ebsen from 2023-09-25T09:00:26
From Jed Clampett to Abraham Lincoln: The Extraordinary Journey of Buddy Ebsen
Buddy Ebsen, best known for his iconic role as Jed Clampett in"The Beverly Hillbillies," had a remarkable career...
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Rosalynn Carter from 2023-09-22T09:00:50
Help for the caregiver, from a former First Lady
Both Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter devoted themselves to volunteer activities after leaving the White House. And Rosalynn took up the cause of...
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Maureen Reagan from 2023-09-18T09:00:38
A conversation with Ronald Reagan;s eldest daughter
Born in 1941, Maureen Reagan was the eldest child of Ronald Reagan and his first wife, actress Jane Wyman.
By her late teens, Maure...
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Hume Cronyn from 2023-09-15T09:00:30
A veteran actor's keys to success
Canadian-born actor Hume Cronyn had a decades-long career in the theater, movies, television and radio. Not to mention a 52-year marriage to actress Jessica ...
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Suze Orman from 2023-09-13T09:00:23
The Laws of Money
Are there laws that rule what happens to our money?
In this 2003 interview longtime personal finance expert Suze Orman warns of the consequences of failing to understand ...
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Dean Murphy from 2023-09-11T09:00:21
The harrowing eyewitness accounts of the 9/11 attack,
In the immediate aftermath of the September 11th attack New York Times reporter Dean Murphy wanted to go beyond just simple eyewitness ac...
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Janet Evanovich from 2023-09-08T09:00:35
The bestselling author of a popular mystery series
Millions of readers around the world have enjoyed a series of novels about a fictional amateur bounty hunter from New Jersey named Stephanie...
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Conrad Dobler from 2023-09-06T09:00:06
They called him 'dirty.' And he agreed.
During his ten seaons in the NFL, with the Cardinals, Saints, and Bills, offensive guard Conrad Dobler's opponents often referred to him as a "dirty" p...
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Alvin Toffler from 2023-09-04T09:00:11
A look back at our future
One of the most successful, and influential, futurists of our time was Alvin Toffler. is 1970 book Future Shock, and his 1980 bestseller The Third Wave, set millions...
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Jorge Ramos from 2023-09-01T09:00:49
The man dubbed the "Walter Cronkite of Latino Americans"
Jorge Ramos has anchored the news on Univision since 1987.
But as he explains in this 2002 interview, Ramos never felt completely a...
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Dan Ariely from 2023-08-30T09:00:23
Can you lie, cheat, and steal and still be a good person?
Behavioral economist Dan Ariely says we all do it. Thing is, we almost all do it just a little, not enough to ruin our self-image of...
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Darlene Love from 2023-08-28T09:00:32
A star's bumpy road to success.
Darlene Love was one of the most popular and most in-demand backup singers of the 1960s, working with some of the biggest stars, but her path to a solo career ...
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P.J. O'Rourke from 2023-08-25T09:00:01
What separates a "good" ecionomy from a "bad" one?
There is a reason that even economists call their profession "the dismal science/" But in the hands of satirist and journalist, P.J. O'Rourk...
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Dawn Steel from 2023-08-23T09:00:43
The movie studio exec who lived up to her name
Flashdance,Top Gun, and Fatal Attraction were just a few of those made under the supervision of studio executive Dawn Steel.
Her name was ap...
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David Frost from 2023-08-21T09:00:36
David Frost's Nixon interviews remembered
British TV host David Frost may be best remembered for his 1977 series of interviews with former President Richard M. Nixon, who just three years ear...
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Bob Edwards from 2023-08-18T09:00:13
A radio host's unique friendship with a fellow broadcast legend
For a dozen years the pioneering radio sports broadcaster Red Barber called in every Friday to NPR's Morning Edition show, for ...
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Dorothy Height from 2023-08-16T09:00:10
The black family food traditions
A decades-long tradition continues this summer, with the 35th annual Black Family Reunion this month. The event was started in 1989 by Dorothy Height, the lon...
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Cathy Wilkerson from 2023-08-14T09:00:31
A '60s radical's views on the revolution
One of those caught up in this maelstrom of the turbulent '60s was the young Cathy Wilkerson. She joined the radical Weather Underground, and helped t...
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Salman Rushdie from 2023-08-11T09:00:10
The heavy price of an unpopular book.
Author Salman Rushdie's 1988 novelThe Satanic Verses, that earned him not accolades, but I death sentence, pronounced by Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomei...
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Tracy Austin from 2023-08-09T09:00:31
Pro tennis great Tracy Austin, in her own words.
Tracy Austin won the US Open women's singles title in 1979 at age 16, making her the youngest ever to win that title.
But by age 21, her ca...
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Paul Robeson Jr from 2023-08-07T09:00:37
Rethinking race, ethnicity, and ulture.
Paul Robeson Jr was the grandson of a slave, and son of a prominent and controversial African American actor, singer, and activist.Formerly trained as ...
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Betsy Borns from 2023-08-04T09:00:20
What life as a standup comic is like
In the late 1980s, just a few years into the start of the stand up explosion, a young writer producer named Betsy Borns put together a book about stand up...
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John Danforth from 2023-08-02T09:00:10
Recalling Clarnce Thomas's "high-tech lynching"
In 1991 then-Senaor John Danforth of Missouri helped shepherd Clarence Thomas's Supreme Court nomination through the Senate, watching as politi...
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Lynn Redgrave from 2023-07-31T09:00:33
The struggles of the Georgy Girl star.
Lynn Redgrave was born into a prominent show business family in 1943, so it was perhaps her destiny to become a successful, award-winning and acclaimed ...
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Gilbert Gottfried from 2022-04-20T09:00
We got sad news last week but comedian Gilbert Gottfried had succumbed after a long battle with muscular dystrophy.
Funny and controversial, by turns relatable and outrageous, Gilbert Got...
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Sy Montgomery from 2022-04-18T09:00
We all know what dolphins look like, right?
Well maybe we don't know what all dolphins look like. Have you ever heard of Pink dolphins? Shape-shifting, human-like pink dolphin...
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Rachel Robinson from 2022-04-15T09:00
A few days ago Ketanji Brown Jackson made history as she was confirmed as the first black female supreme Court Justice.
But 75 years ago today another African American made history, in a ...
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Stephen Collins from 2022-04-11T09:00
For 11 seasons on the TV series 7th Heaven, Stephen Collins played The Rev. Eric Camden, a Protestant minister who headed a family of seven.
But Collins had a long and impressive ac...
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Tyler Perry from 2022-04-08T09:00
Male comedians have been dressing as women for comic effect for decades. Think Milton Berle. Think Flip Wilson. Or Saturday Night Live sketches with Will Farrell or John Goodman.
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Jane Byrne from 2022-04-06T09:00
For 21 years, from the mid-1950s to the mid '70s, mayor Richard j. Daly ran the city of Chicago. And I mean he ran the city.
One member of Daley’s cabinet was a woman named Jane Byrne, wh...
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Robert Fulghum from 2022-04-04T09:00
Back around 1988 or '89, you could hardly go anywhere without seeing a little book written by a former Unitarian minister called All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten.
Reade...
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Judith Martin from 2022-04-01T09:00
Where has everybody's manners gone? Doesn't anybody have good manners anymore ?
For over 40 years, syndicated columnist Judith Martin -- better known as Miss Manners -- has been helping p...
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Alexander Haig from 2022-03-30T09:00
Today is March 30th, and it was 41 years ago today that a young man tried to kill President Ronald Reagan.
And one of the most controversial things that happened that day happened to a ma...
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Frank Warren from 2022-03-28T09:00
I'm not sure Frank Warren understood what he was unleashing in January, 2005, when he initiated his PostSecret project .
What started as something of a social experiment, encouraging peop...
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Shere Hite from 2022-03-25T09:00
Human sexuality has been widely studied, researched, and written about over the years, most notably, perhaps, by Alfred Kinsey and Masters and Johnson .
In the 1970s and '80s, there was a...
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Otis Williams from 2022-03-23T09:00
It was around this time in 1961 that a group of five young men formed a singing group called The Elgins. They were good, so good that Berry Gordy signed them to a contract at Motown. Trouble was...
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Barry Levinson from 2022-03-21T09:00
Barry Levinson is an Oscar-winning film director and screenwriter. But it also turns out he's a pretty good novelist.
The man famous for such films as Diner, Rain Man, and Good Morning, V...
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Luba Brezhneva from 2022-03-18T09:00
Some think this is the beginning of another Cold war. Or worse. Russia's invasion of Ukraine has changed the course of world events.
Not since the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991 have...
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Patricia Cornwell from 2022-03-16T09:00
Many authors, maybe even most authors, labor in obscurity for months or years before finally hitting it big with a bestseller .
But Patricia Cornwell hit it big with her very first book, ...
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Dwayne Hickman from 2022-03-14T09:00
In the early 1960s, one of America's most popular teenagers was an actor who wasn't even a teenager .
Dwayne Hickman played the clean cut, girl. Crazy, likable lead in the TV sitcom The M...
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Oliver Sacks from 2022-03-11T10:00
A young British boys fascination with science, and with metals and chemistry in particular, led to him becoming one of the world's foremost neurologists.
And the author of best-selling bo...
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Richard Marcinko from 2022-03-09T10:00
SHave you ever done a job so well that your boss is punished you for it?
That's what former Navy SEAL team 6 Commander Richard Marcinko said happened to him.
Marcinko joined the Na...
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Betty Friedan from 2022-03-07T10:00
The roots of the modern feminist movement can be traced directly back to a single book published nearly 60 years ago.
It was called The Feminine Mystique. Its author was a young would-be ...
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Stephenie Meyer from 2022-03-07T08:52:50.096783
When I was a kid, all my friends and I were into The Twilight Zone, the Rod Serling TV series.
But in the later 2000s, another "twilight" captured the world's imagination: the "Twil...
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Judith Belushi from 2022-03-04T10:00
Tomorrow, March 5th, is the 40th anniversary of the untimely deaf of comedian. John Belushi.
Belushi was one of the original cast members of Saturday Night Live when it premiered in 1975,...
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Art Spiegelman from 2022-03-02T10:00
While there have been thousands of books written about the Holocaust, and Nazi Germany, and the horrors of the concentration camps, few have been as powerful in the telling as Art Spiegelman's M...
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Michael Feinstein from 2022-02-28T10:00
In the mid 20th century, brothers George and ira Gershwin produced many of the songs that have lived in America's heart for decades.
With George's melodies and Ira's lyrics, tunes like "S...
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Nigella Lawson from 2022-02-25T10:00
The thing about food is that it's not just fuel for a metabolic process of the human body. It's a social construct, bringing family or friends together in a way few other experiences can. Can. Listen
Gen. Benjamin O. Davis Jr. from 2022-02-23T10:00
Benjamin O. Davis Jr. played a key role in World War II.
Not only were his combat accomplishments extraordinary, but his leadership helped shape the United States Air Force for decades to...
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Framl Deford from 2022-02-21T10:00
For more than half a century, Frank Deford wrote for Sports Illustrated magazine and for 37 of those years he was also heard regularly on NPR, and seen on HBO's Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel. Listen
Dr. Joycelyn Elders from 2022-02-16T10:00
Joyce Lynn elders was the eldest child of Arkansas sharecroppers, born in 1933. Through a series of remarkable happenstance, she ended up going to medical school and becoming a pediatrician.
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Karen Salmansohn from 2022-02-14T10:00
It's Valentine's Day. And we could have done the usual mushy, romantic stuff, but instead I wanted to go more tongue in cheek .
Back in 1994 I interviewed the popular self-help author Kar...
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Doug Williams from 2022-02-11T10:00
It's super bowl weekend, and as we prepare to watch the Rams and Bengals in super bowl 56, let me take you back to super bowl 22 in January 1988 between the Washington Redskins and the Den...
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Ali MacGraw from 2022-02-09T10:00
Back to back major movie roles in 1969 and 1970 made the young Ali MacGraw one of the world's most popular actresses.
Her portrayal of Jennifer Cavallari in 1970s "Love Story" remains a f...
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Elmore Leonard from 2022-02-07T10:00
He wants famously said that his writing was so crisp and tight because he simply left out the parts that people usually skip over.
During a writing career that spanned more than seven dec...
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Dan Jansen from 2022-02-04T10:00
As the 2022 Winter Olympics get underway today in China, we are reminded that these games can produce heroes and great triumphs, but also soul crushing defeats which can bring out either the bes...
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Melba Patillo Beals from 2022-02-02T10:00
Imagine a small group of high school students needing armed United States military just to get into school.
In September 1957 9. African American students, the first to enroll at Central ...
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Cindy Sheehan from 2022-01-31T10:00
After a U.S. Army soldier named Casey Sheehan was killed in action in Iraq in 2004 his mother, Cindy Sheehan became one of the loudest anti-war voices in America .
What made her different...
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Karen Armstrong from 2022-01-28T10:00
Who is God?
Who is the all-knowing, all-powerful deity who, despite having different names, is at the heart of every major religion?
A former Roman Catholic nun who has become one ...
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The Amazing Kreskin from 2022-01-26T10:00
He's not a psychic nor a fortune teller. The Amazing Kreskin is a mentalist, perhaps the best known mentalist in the world.
But is he for real ?
After years of hearing people...
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Helen Thomas from 2022-01-24T10:00
At most news organizations, the White House beat is a coveted plum assignment.
But it's a difficult, stressful, and highly competitive job. Most correspondence last only a few years at be...
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Richard Leakey from 2022-01-21T10:00
Where did modern humankind come from?
Scientists,, scholars, and experts have been trying to find the answer for generations.
One of the most prominent among them was Kenyan-...
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bell hooks from 2022-01-19T10:00
How and where do race, gender, class, art, and capitalism come together?
That question was at the heart of some 30 books written by author bell hooks.
That was actually the p...
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Dexter Scott King from 2022-01-17T10:00
Dexter Scott King was only 7 years old in 1968 when his father Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated.
But his memories of his late father remain sharp and crisp.
And those deeply ...
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Wolfgang Puck from 2022-01-14T10:00
When you think of America's great present-day chefs and restaurateurs, there are only a handful of names that immediately come to mind.
And one of them is Wolfgang Puck.
While he m...
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Michael Crichton from 2022-01-12T10:00
He earned a medical degree from Harvard, but instead of pursuing a career in medicine, Michael Crichton became a writer.
And as a reader, I'm really glad he did.
I had read some of...
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Mary Beth Whitehead from 2022-01-10T10:00
Surrogate parenting has become commonplace in America and other countries. It has helped countless numbers of couples become parents.
But it took until the late 1980s for an American Cour...
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Carl Sagan from 2022-01-07T10:00
You know we sometimes get so caught up in the minutiae of everyday life. Trying to protect our own little turf on this little planet that we lose sight of the big picture. I mean the really big ...
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Judy Collins from 2022-01-05T10:00
Songs recorded by Judy Collins have become some of America's most enduring favorites.
With a debut album in 1961 at a debut concert about a year later and then a number one single shortly...
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William Shatner from 2022-01-03T10:00
Back in the fall of 1993, when I had scheduled an interview with actor. William shatner, it was fascinating to watch the generational divide in the office where I worked.
When he walked i...
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Cleveland Amory from 2021-12-24T10:00
It was on a cold Christmas Eve night many years ago in New York that a stray cat found a new, loving home.
His rescuer was I then crusty 60 year old curmudgeon, an author and TV and...
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Wally Amos from 2021-12-22T10:00
What would you do if a big corporation took over the company you built, then told you you had no more right to use your own name to sell the product you invented?
Welcome to Wally A...
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Sophy Burnham from 2021-12-20T10:00
Do you believe in angels?
Does each of us have a guardian angel? What do angels really look like? Can they perform miracles?
Some thirty years ago a Washington DC-based autho...
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Deborah Norville from 2021-12-17T10:00
Have you counted your blessings today?
If you haven't, maybe you should. It might be good for your health.
So says TV journalist. Deborah Norville.
In 2007, the ancho...
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Dick Butkus from 2021-12-15T10:00
The national football League is over 100 years old, and in that time, football fans have enjoyed some breathtaking games, spectacular plays, some of the most colorful athletes we've ever known, ...
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Gloria Steinem from 2021-12-13T10:00
Ms. Is turning 50
It was in December 1971 that a staff writer for the New Yorker named Gloria Steinem created what would become, the following summer, Ms. Magazine.
The Decem...
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Paul Petersen from 2021-12-10T10:00
I don't know about you but every Christmas season one of the movies I have to watch is it's a Wonderful Life.
The story of George Bailey, the small town building and loan manager who's gi...
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Tami Longaberger from 2021-12-08T10:00
For a generation, a handcrafted Longaberger basket is something of a home decor showpiece.
Dave Longaberger founded the company in 1973, and by 1975 had hired his daughter Tammy to work t...
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Pearl Harbor Remembered from 2021-12-06T10:00
On a quiet Sunday in early December, millions of Americans went about their usual routines.
Folks went to church. Children played out in the yard. Teenagers went to moves. Families went t...
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James Dozier from 2021-12-03T10:00
Fprty years ago this weekend a U.S. Army general who was stationed at a NATO facility in Italy was kidnapped by a Marxist terrorist group known as the Red Brigades.
General James Do...
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William Kunstler from 2021-11-29T10:00
The New York Times once labeled William Kunstler "America's most controversial lawyer."
What earned him that distinction was his defense of the so-called "Chicago Seven," a group of...
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Jill St. John from 2021-11-24T10:00
On this Thanksgiving Eve, we'll be talking a little turkey. And gravy, and mashed potatoes, and lots of other delicious stuff from the cookbook written by actress and cookbook author Jill St. Jo...
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Danica McKellar from 2021-11-19T10:00
If you know Danica McKellar only as Winnie Cooper on TV's The Wonder Years, from the 1980s, what she has done since the show ended may surprise you.
After The Wonder Years ended in the ea...
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Bob Guccione from 2021-11-17T10:00
In the world of men's magazines, Hugh Hefner was king of the hill for years, as publisher of Playboy magazine.
But in 1965, a then-35-year-old laundromat manager, painter, and photographe...
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Anita Roddick from 2021-11-15T10:00
In 1976 a British business woman started a small business to sell skin and hair care products.
But she also wanted it to reflect her ethics and values, including human rights, anima...
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Marva Collins from 2021-11-12T10:00
America's schools are in crisis right now.
After COVID took its toll, and forced remote learning on millions of kids, school boards all over the country are now dealing with loud, s...
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Colin Powell from 2021-11-10T10:00
The United States marks Veterans Day tomorrow. And very recently, we lost one of the most revered veterans of modern times.
The son of Jamaican immigrants, Colin Powell was a lifelo...
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Mike Krzyzewski from 2021-11-08T10:00
The men's NCAA college basketball season opens tomorrow. And it will be the final season for one of the game's winningest and most successful coaches ever.
Mike Krzyzewski, also known as ...
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Yakov Smirnoff from 2021-11-05T09:00
Who knew Russians had such a great sense of humor?
Well, few Americans thought so, until the 1980s, when the young Russian-born Yakov Smirnoff burst onto the scene.
When he a...
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Beverly Sills from 2021-11-03T09:00
Any list of the greatest operatic singers of modern times will include, somewhere near the top, the name Beverly Sills.
The statuesque soprano was an audience favorite for decades. ...
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Linda Greenlaw from 2021-11-01T09:00
Thirty years ago today, November 1, 1991, off the New England coast the six-man crew of the sword fishing boat the Andrea Gail were fighting, and losing, their battle with what has come to be kn...
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William Peter Blatty from 2021-10-29T16:51:12
Back in the 1960s, he had a very successful career writing screenplays for comedies. William Peter Blatty's credits include movies like A Shot In The Dark, the second movie in the Pink Panther s...
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Laura Walker from 2021-10-27T09:00
How would it make you feel if you woke up one day and realized your father was a traitor to his country?
Unfortunately that was more than just a rhetorical question for Laura Walker, whos...
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Bill Kinison from 2021-10-25T09:00
It was an HBO Young Comedians special in late summer 1985 that launched a young comedian to national fame. Sam Kinison became wildly popular almost overnight.
And for the next several yea...
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Gennifer Flowers from 2021-10-22T09:00
In recent years it's Donald Trump's extramarital Affairs that have captured all the media attention. But thirty years ago, there was someone else who was all over the headlines, for her claims o...
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Sen. Robert Byrd from 2021-10-20T09:00
For over half a century Robert Byrd served the people of West Virginia in Congress, first in the House of Representatives, then in the United States Senate. He was, in fact, the longest serving ...
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Walt Frazier from 2021-10-18T09:00
As the 1960s Drew to a close, New York had a unique Trifecta of sports victories.
In January of 1969, the New York Jets won Super Bowl 3.
After an incredible summer with baseball, ...
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Tony Robbins from 2021-10-15T09:00
After a childhood he once described as "chaotiz" and "abusive," and a pituitary tumor that made him grow 10 inches in high school. Tony Robbins moved out on his own at age 17. He didn't go...
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Alice Walker from 2021-10-13T09:00
She may be best known by most people for her novel The Color Purple, which won the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and which later became a hugely popular movie.
But Alice Walker has als...
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Al Franken from 2021-10-08T09:00
Al Franken has had several careers. He was one of the original writers and cast members of Saturday Night Live in the mid-1970s. In fact, he was with the show for 15 years.
Later he becam...
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Jehan Sadat from 2021-10-06T09:00
This is a somber anniversary in the Middle East.
40 years ago today, October 6th, 1981, the long time
president of Egypt, Anwar Sadat, was assassinated during a military para...
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Chuck Jones from 2021-10-04T09:00
Just about everyone recognizes that music. It means for the next few minutes, you're going to be entertained by longtime favorites Like Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, or the Roadrunner. Help...
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Audrey Meadows from 2021-10-01T09:00
It was on this date 66 years ago that one of the most popular, most durable, and most iconic situation comedies in television history was born.
Taking place mostly in a tiny two room apar...
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Willie Mays from 2021-09-29T09:00
It's September 29th. And on September 29th, 1954, a young baseball player made a name for himself with a defensive play that to this day remains one of the greatest ever.
It was the first...
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Ralph Cooper from 2021-09-27T09:00
In 1935, a young actor, screenwriter, and dancer had an idea.
He started a weekly amateur night competition at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, in New York City. And before long, Ralph Coope...
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Penn Jillette from 2021-09-24T09:00
Remember those ads in the back of magazines and comic books back in the day, promising to show you how to do tricks that will Amaze your family and friends?
Well, fast forward to the 1990...
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Bill and Susan Hayes from 2021-09-22T09:00
If you were a regular viewer of NBC's popular soap opera Days of Our Lives in the 1970s and 80s, you know instantly who I'm talking about when I simply say Doug and Julie.
Actress Susan S...
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Peggy Noonan from 2021-09-20T09:00
In the mid-1980s one of President Ronald Reagan's favorite speechwriters was the talented wordsmith Peggy Noonan.
She crafted some of Reagan's most impressive speeches, including teone he...
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Jim Bakker from 2021-09-17T09:00
In the 1970s and 1980s, perhaps no one was more popular on Christian television than Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker.
Founders of the PTL club, and later the Heritage USA Christian theme park, ...
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Mary Tillman from 2021-09-15T09:00
Recently the 20-year war in Afghanistan came to an end. Have his given all of us time to reflect on those two decades.
We also remember the 23 hundred or so US servicemen and women who di...
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Micky Dolenz from 2021-09-13T09:00
Fifty years ago this week, NBC TV introduced America to four young men who would change the way music and television interact.
Looking to capitalize on the humongous an ongoing success of...
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Lisa Beamer from 2021-09-10T09:00
On that terrible day 20 years ago, September 11th, 2001, countless Heroes emerged.
Some wore police, fire, or military uniforms.
Some will be forever anonymous.
But many wer...
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Tom Landry from 2021-09-08T09:00
The NFL regular season kicks off tomorrow night, September 9th, at the Dallas Cowboys take on the Super Bowl champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Now, for 29 Seasons, those cowboys were coached...
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Robert Reich from 2021-09-06T09:00
Hope you had a happy Labor Day Weekend 2021.
Labor Day, of course, is the day set aside to honor the contributions of America's labor force.
Most presidential administrations...
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Emeril Lagasse from 2021-09-03T09:00
Got plans for Labor Day weekend? There's a good chance you will be taking part in a cookout, to end the summer.
In fact, you may be the one in charge of grilling.
So how do you kno...
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James Patterson from 2021-09-01T09:00
There's a pretty fair chance that even if you only own a few books, one of them is probably a James Patterson novel.
He's written 28 books in the popular series featuring detective Alex C...
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Jennifer Granholm from 2021-08-30T09:00
Jennifer Granholm was elected Michigan's first female governor in 2002, and re-elected, to a second term, four years later.
Her work to re-establish Michigan's recession damaged, Rust Bel...
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Roy Firestone from 2021-08-27T09:00
When he was still in his teens in the 1960s, Roy Firestone got an up-close look at Major League Baseball, as a spring training bat boy for the Baltimore Orioles in Florida.
But instead of...
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Nien Cheng from 2021-08-25T09:00
Nien Cheng was born into a well-to-do Chinese family in 1915. Her family was able to give her a college education, including post-graduate work at the London School of economics. Tha...
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Goldie Hawn from 2021-08-23T09:00
One of the most bankable female movie stars of the last 50 years is also one of the most influential figures in Hollywood.
And she got her big break when she was barely old enough o have ...
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Garrison Keillor from 2021-08-20T09:00
Today, August 20th, is National radio day. Every year on this day, we recognize the contribution that this hundred-year-old medium has provided four generations.
For four decades, one of ...
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Andrew Cuomo from 2021-08-18T09:00
New York governor, or more precisely, soon-to-be ex governor, Andrew Cuomo has certainly had a rough few weeks.
In the face of a scathing report accusing him of sexual misconduct, Cuomo l...
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Benjamin Spock from 2021-08-16T09:00
Perhaps no one has ever had a bigger impact on an entire generation of children than Dr. Benjamin Spock.
His book Baby and Child Care was published in 1946, just as the first baby boomers...
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Maxene Andrews from 2021-08-13T09:00
This weekend marks the 76th anniversary V-J Day, the day that the Japanese surrendered to the United States to end World War II.
And the interview you're about to hear includes one of the...
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Alex Haley from 2021-08-11T09:00
It's a rare privilege for an author to see, in their lifetime, the broad and deep social and cultural impact the one of their books has.
One of those who were so privileged was auth...
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Charlotte Church from 2021-08-09T19:29:20
A lot of people say that is the voice of an
It's actually the voice of young Welsh soprano Charlotte Church. And when I say young, I mean Young. Charlotte got a record contract when she w...
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Polly Nelson from 2021-08-06T09:00
Name a famous serial killer.
There's a good chance that one of the first names that came to your mind was Ted Bundy.
Over a period of years, mostly in the 1970's, Ted Bundy k...
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Tom Boswell from 2021-08-04T09:00
In 1969, shortly after he graduated from college, Thomas Boswell joined the staff of the Washington Post. Over the next 15 years he honed his craft as a sportswriter, eventually earning his own ...
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Robert Evans from 2021-08-02T09:00
As a Young Man, Robert Evans wasn't even in Show Business.
Then one day, just like something out of a storybook, actress Norma Sherer spot of him and thought he would be great to be in a ...
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Martha Reeves from 2021-07-30T09:00
When you think of the best of Motown in the late 1950s and early ‘60s, one of the names that has to be near the top of the list it Martha and the
Behind lead singer Martha Reeves, they ra...
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Cesar Millan from 2021-07-28T09:00
A dog may be man's best friend, but many of us unconsciously do things that can undermine that relationship, says Cesar Millan, otherwise known as The Dog Whisperer.
When I met him a 2006...
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John Sculley from 2021-07-26T09:00
Doing a 13-year career at PepsiCo, including six years as its president, John Scully prove to be something of a marketing genius.
If you’ve ever seen The Pepsi Challenge, well .. that was...
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Carl Lewis from 2021-07-23T09:00
The covid-delayed Tokyo Olympics get underway today. We'll seen enougbh know who the next athletic heroes will be.
Throughout the 1980s and into the ‘90s, one of the world's dominant spri...
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Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter from 2021-07-21T09:00
In November 1980, after serving just one term as President, Jimmy Carter was voted out of office. The following January he and First Lady Rosalynn Carter moved back to their hometown of Pl...
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Michael Collins from 2021-07-19T09:00
Fifty-two years ago this week the world watched in fascination, as Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first human beings to set foot on the surface of the moon.
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Ginger Rogers from 2021-07-16T09:00
Ginger Rogers is one of those Hollywood figures who transcended mere stardom, and became a cultural icon.
In the 1930s she and her dance partner Fred Astaire dominated American film.
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R. Lee Ermey from 2021-07-14T09:00
It takes a certain kind of man to be a successful u.s. Marine drill instructor. It seems to come naturally to some men.
And one of them turned it into a successful acting career.&nb...
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David Brinkley from 2021-07-12T10:00
Young journalist David Brinkley first came to Washington, D.C. in 1943, just as World War II was transforming the nation's capital.
The sleepy Southern town that had been home to a ...
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Charles Grodin from 2021-07-09T09:00
His first big break in the movies came with a film called The Heartbreak Kid.
But that was just the beginning for Charles Grodin.
Then came Midnight Run. Seems Like Old Times. The ...
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Caroline Kennedy from 2021-07-07T09:00
From a very early age, Caroline Kennedy was taught to appreciate the beauty and power of poetry.
No surprise, really. Her parents were both very well red. Her father was a famous author, ...
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Bob Gibson from 2021-07-05T09:00
In the 1960s and into the early 70s, one of the most dominant pitchers in the National League was St. Louis Cardinals right-hander Bob Gibson.
During a 17-year career, Gibson racked up 25...
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Dave Barry from 2021-07-02T09:00
If he had wanted to, Dave Berry probably could have been a successful stand-up comedian.
Instead, he wrote a humor column. And wrote books. Lots and lots of books.
Over about a 20-...
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Terri Irwin from 2021-06-30T09:00
In the '90s and early 2000s, one of the most popular TV personalities in the world was Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin.
He happily and enthusiastically introduced his viewers to some ofthe w...
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Bobby Seale from 2021-06-28T16:32:08
55 years ago African Americans were making historic gains in civil rights. But much work was still to be done.
That year, 1966, Bobby Seale and his longtime friend Huey Newton creat...
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Terry Bradshaw from 2021-06-25T09:00
Most people consider Terry Bradshaw, formerly of the NFL's Pittsburgh Steelers, to be among the greatest quarterbacks ever.
His list of accomplishments, on and off the is impressive...
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Chris Costner Sizemore from 2021-06-23T09:00
Today doctors call it "dissociative identity disorder" but when Chris Costner Sizemore was diagnosed and treated for it over 60 years ago, it was simply called "multiple personality disorder." Listen
Tab Hunter from 2021-06-21T09:00
He was one of the hottest young movie stars in the 1950s...
Tab Hunter -- who grew up as Artt Gelien -- was a figure skater as a teenager. As a young man, a friend introduced him to...
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Rock Brynner from 2021-06-18T09:00
In the 1950s, few actors dominated Broadway the way Yul Brynner did.
Playing the lead in the Rodgers and Hammerstein's play “The King and I,” Brynner eEstablished himself as a top-tier pe...
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Naomi Judd from 2021-06-16T09:00
Naomi Judd was born "Diana Judd" not long after World War II ended. Her dad ran a gas station in Ashland, Kentucky,
By the time she was in her mid 30s, Judd was a divorced single mom with...
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Carl T. Rowan from 2021-06-14T09:00
As a young journalist in the 1950s, Carl T. Rowan covered the emerging civil rights movement, and its leaders, including people like Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks.
The reputation ...
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Candace Gingrich from 2021-06-11T09:00
It's not always easy to babysit money of a very famous politician.
But, perhaps, especially if you're a lesbian and your brother is one of the nation's leading right-wing conservatives. Listen
Bob Denver from 2021-06-07T09:00
Robert Osbourne Denver graduated from college with a degree in political science, then caoched physical education and even taught math and history at a California elementary school.
Julia Child from 2021-06-04T09:00
Julia Child is probably the reason many people became professional chefs. She's also the reason many many millions of us have attempted things in the kitchen we never thought we could do.
Al Neuharth from 2021-06-02T09:00
Do you have to be kind of an SOB to be a success?
What kind of connotation does that term even have anymore?
Those were two of the key questions that Al Neuharth tried to address i...
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Winnie Smith from 2021-05-31T09:00
Memorial Day is an occasion to pause and honor those who have given their lives in military service.
But we can also remember those who went to war to save lives.
In 1963, a 21-yea...
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Betty DeGeneres from 2021-05-28T09:00
We learned recently that daytime TV's Ellen DeGeneres Show is coming to an end next year after 19 seasons.
Her show made its debut just a couple of years after I met and interviewed her m...
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Steve Allen from 2021-05-26T09:00
Long before Jimmy Fallon, way before Jay Leno, before Johnny Carson, or Jack Paar .. NBC's Tonight Show was hosted by its co-creator Steve Allen.
In the fall of 1954, the 32 year ol...
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Dan Bongino from 2021-05-24T09:00
A new nationally syndicated radio talk show is debuting this week.
Its host is conservative commentator Dan Bongino, who was, for several years, a Secret Service agent who's assignments i...
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Charles Schulz from 2021-05-21T09:00
Is there any man, woman, or child in America -- or anywhere around the world, for that matter -- who does not know Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus, and Snoopy?
Those, and the other chara...
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George Shultz from 2021-05-19T09:00
George Shulz served in various positions under three U.S. presidents -- in fact Shultz held four different cabinet-level posts over the years.
An economist by training, Shultz came ...
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Howard Schultz from 2021-05-17T09:00
When three guys from San Francisco started Starbucks 50 years ago, in 1971, they probably had little idea of what the future would bring for their little coffee bean business.
By 1986 the...
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La Toya Jackson from 2021-05-15T00:27:06
She was born into what would become one of America's most famous music families.
La Toya Jackson is the fifth, and middle, child in the Jackson family. Lss well-known than the...
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Chuck Yeager from 2021-05-12T22:39:17
He was a farm boy from Hamlin, West Virginia. Chuck Yeager join the Army at the outset of World War II, Have it wasn't long before he became a fighter pilot.
Two years after the war...
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Ron Luciano from 2021-05-11T19:49:54
They say baseball is a funny game. No, really, it's a funny game full of funny characters.
In the 1980s, one of the best chroniclers of those characters was former Major League umpire Ron...
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Betty Mahmoody from 2021-05-07T10:00
Happy Mothers Day weekend to all the moms listening right now.
Today, the story of one exceptionally courageous mom.
Her name is Betty Mahmoody. In the mid-1980s she ac...
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Michelle & Jim Bob Duggar from 2021-05-05T09:00
For seven years, the Duggar family captivated American TV viewers, with their reality show “17 Kids and Counting” -- which was later renamed “18 Kids and Counting” and ultimately “19 Kids and Co...
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Lewis Black from 2021-05-03T09:00
Lewis Black makes us laugh by being the angry man.
The perpetually irritated Lewis Black wrote a book in 2005, a semi-autobiographical account but he called Nothing's Sacred.
And t...
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Peter Funt from 2021-04-30T09:00
When I was a kid one of the TV shows I most look forward to every week was the Sunday night episode of “Candid Camera.”
With hidden cameras set up to catch their reactions, host Allen Fun...
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Gloria Allred from 2021-04-28T09:00
She is one of America's most high-profile lawyers.
In a career that began in the 1970s, Gloria Allred has become especially known for taking on cases involving sexual harassment an...
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Gene Klein from 2021-04-26T09:00
In the early 1960s, the San Diego Chargers were a powerhouse in the American Football League.
In 1966, the franchise was purchased by a very successful California businesman named Gene Kl...
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Martha Stewart from 2021-04-23T09:00
Well, in most of the U.S. warm spring weather is here. And for many of us, that's an inspiration to get
outside work in the garden.
And it reminded me that in the late fall o...
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Glen Campbell from 2021-04-21T09:00
He was the kid from a small town in Arkansas who grew up to become a country and western superstar.
Born in 1936, Glen Campbell first took up the guitar as a young boy. By the time he was...
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Lionel Hampton from 2021-04-19T09:00
When you begin to list the greatest American Jazz percussionists of all time, near the top of that list has to be the great Vibe the harpist and drummer Lionel Hampton.
In a career that b...
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Ruth Handler from 2021-04-16T22:31:31
Raise your hand if you had a Barbie Doll, or Hot Wheels, when you were a kid.
Or how about a Chatty Cathy, or a See-and-Say?
Bu perhaps no toy of the 20th century in America ...
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Patty Duke from 2021-04-14T09:00
Well before her 20th birthday, Patty Duke had already won an Oscar and was star of her own TV series.
Patty Duke won the Oscar for best supporting actress in The 1962 movie The Miracle Wo...
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James Watson from 2021-04-12T09:00
In 1953, an earnest and ambitious 25-year-old scientist nmaed James Watson made a groundbreaking discovery that helped revolutionize science, medicine, even the law.
Working alongside Fra...
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G. Gordon Liddy from 2021-04-09T09:00
A third-rate burglary” at Washington's Watergate hotel and office complex in the summer of 1972 launched a scandal that ultimately brought down the presidency of Richard M. Nixon.
A...
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Barbara Bush from 2021-04-07T09:00
Sometimes when I interview celebrities, they are exactly the way I thought they would be.
And sometimes, a celebrity would surprise me a little. I was surprised a little by fo...
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Dick Vitale from 2021-04-05T09:00
You would probably be hard-pressed to find a person with more natural energy and enthusiasm than Dick Vitale -- former high school, college, and NBA basketball coach turn sports broadcaster.&nbs...
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Jim Lovell from 2021-04-02T09:00
Jim Lovell was the commander of the three-man crew, whose mission was to land on the Moon. But just two days into the mission, something went terribly wrong.
Tom Hanks, who played Jim Lov...
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Bob Feller from 2021-03-31T09:00
Tomorrow is Major League Baseball's opening day. So today, a conversation from a few years ago with one of the greatest major league pitchers of all time.
Bob Feller, a farm boy from Iowa...
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Jerry Parr from 2021-03-29T09:00
40 years ago this week, a young would-be assassin put a bullet in President Ronald Reagan.
The man whose quick thinking likely saved the president's life was Jerry Parr, a member of Mr. R...
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Barbara Corcoran from 2021-03-24T09:00
She's been a top New York City real estate broker for many years, but you may know Barbara Corcoran best for her role that's one of the investors pitched by entrepreneurs each week on the TV ser...
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Cheech Marin from 2021-03-22T09:00
if you were in high school or college in the 1970's, as I was, you undoubtedly are familiar with the comedy of Cheech and Chong.
Cheech Marin went on to act in dozens and dozens of ...
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Roger Mudd from 2021-03-19T09:00
If you were in network TV news 50 or 60 years ago, the place to be was the CBS News Washington DC bureau.
CBS was long considered the gold standard of television news - after all, Edward ...
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Frank McCourt from 2021-03-17T09:00
Happy Saint Patrick's Day!
As I was mulling over all of the Irish or Irish-Amerian people I've interviewed through the years, one name kept coming to the forefront: Frank McCourt.
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Mia Farrow from 2021-03-15T09:00
ia Farrow may have been born to be a star.
Her parents were both major Hollywood figures, and she grew up amongst big stars. By the time she was a teenager Mia Farrow was a star on the AB...
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Larry Flynt from 2021-03-10T10:00
Larry Flynt is best known for Hustler magazine, which he founded in the mid-1970s, and for the videos and cable TV channels the grew out of the Hustler brand.
But it turns out Larry Flynt...
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Ivana Trump from 2021-03-08T10:00
She was Donald Trump's first wife, from 1977 to 1992. Ivana Trump is the mother of Don Jr, Ivanka, and Eric Trump.
Ivana Trump has also been a professional athlete, a designer,and a novel...
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Dick Armey from 2021-03-05T10:00
Economist and Texas Republican politician Dick Armey was first elected to Congress in 1984. By 1995, he has risen to the post of Majority Leader, as the Republican Revolution swept Washington.&n...
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Sonny Bono from 2021-03-03T10:00
Long before she was a successful solo act, Cher was half of Sonny and Cher.
Perhaps no married couple in music was popular in the mid-'60s as Sonny and Cher. Sonny Bono wrote hit so...
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Raymond Kurzweil from 2021-03-01T10:00
It can be fun, informative, and educational to go back and revisit the things that futurists said years ago. Just, you know, to check and see if they were right.
Kurzweil has been h...
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Short Takes from 2021-02-26T11:00
February is, of course, the shortest month of the year. So it occurred to me it might be an appropriate time to share some of my shortest interviews with you.
Normally, I would get 15 to ...
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Margaret Cho from 2021-02-24T11:00
Margaret Cho rose to prominence in the mid 1990s, with her TV sitcom All-American Girl. Since then, she's established herself as not only a talented actress but as a standup comic, f...
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Jane Goodall from 2021-02-22T22:11:50
Most of what the scientific world knows about chimpanzees comes from the work of anthropologist Jane Goodall.
She first went to Tanzania in 1965.
And in 1990 she wrote a mem...
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James Cameron from 2021-02-19T11:00
Warning: What you're abiyt ti gear is a true story, told by the suvivor of a violent and horrisying attack. You need to know that some of the descriptions are graphic, some of ...
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Joan Lunden from 2021-02-17T11:00
For nearly 20 years Joan Lunden was the co-host of ABC's Good Morning America. Millions woke up every morning to her cheerful, reassuring, and professional presence.
As a journalist...
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Doris Kearns Goodwin from 2021-02-15T11:00
Happy Presidents Day.
Now, if you're old enough, as I am, you may remember that this day was traditionally celebrated as Lincoln's birthday. It was transformed into President'...
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Erich Segal from 2021-02-12T10:00
Happy Valentine's Day weekend! I thought this would be an appropriate time to bring back an interview with the author of one of the great love stories of our time -- Love Story, by Erich Segal.<...
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Andrew Young from 2021-02-10T10:00
Was the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 60s a social or political movement? It was, but it was also a religious or spiritual movement, says former Congressman and UN Ambassador Andrew You...
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Mildred Muhammad from 2021-02-08T10:00
For three weeks in October 2002, the Washington DC area was terrorized by a series of sniper attacks. Someone was randomly shooting and killing people throughout the district, and the Maryland a...
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Bart Starr from 2021-02-06T00:08:35
The Kansas City Chiefs are meeting the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Super Bowl LV. The Chiefs were also in the very first Super Bowl, in 1967.
But it was their misfortune that year to be playi...
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Charles Osgood from 2021-02-04T00:09:21
A few days ago on Now I've Heard Everything, I featured an interview that I had done many years ago with one of my broadcasting Heroes, the late Larry King.
Today, another one: longtime C...
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Ronnie Spector from 2021-02-01T22:50:23
They may have called her "the original 'bad girl of rock and roll'," but Ronnie Spector was nothing but nice to me, when I met her in 1990.
Spectre was the lead singer in the '60s girl-gr...
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Larry King from 2021-01-29T10:00
I listened to Larry King on the radio long before I first met him, in 1988. That was actually the first of several interviews I did with King, who passed away the other day at age 87.
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Grace George Corrigan from 2021-01-27T10:00
Tomorrow is January 28, and if you are old enough, you undoubtedly have a clear memory of exactly where you were 35 years agp, on January 28, 1986.
That was the day of that horrible trage...
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Chuck Barris from 2021-01-25T10:00
Do you remember The Dating Game? Or The Newlywed Game? How about The Gong Show?
They and many other TV game shows were all created by e same man: Chuck Barris. He was the king of ga...
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Norma McCorvey from 2021-01-22T10:00
In 1969, a young Texas woman sought a legal abortion. But when she was unable to obtain one, she turned to two young lawyers for help.
Those lawyers took Norma NcCorve's case to court, an...
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Bruce Laingen from 2021-01-20T10:00
In early November 1979, a group of students and militants stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran, taking everyone inside hostage, including the chargé d'affaires, a career diplomat named Bruce Laing...
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Rosa Parks from 2021-01-18T10:00
Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the U.S. So I wanted to revisit an interview I did nearly 30 years ago with a woman whose actions helped propel Dr. King to national prominence.
In ...
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Leonard Nimoy from 2021-01-15T11:00
Many people may think Leonard Nimoy's career started with Star Trek. But he was a serious actor for a number of years before that. He even appearing in other science fiction shows.
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Ann Richards from 2021-01-13T11:00
In the summer of 1988 leaders of the Democratic party invited Texas State Treasurer Ann Richards to deliver a prime-time address at the Democratic National Convention.
Richards delivered....
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Carroll O'Connor from 2021-01-11T11:00
It was on January 12th. 1971 -- 50 years ago -- that situation comedy changed in a big way, with the premiere of a controversial show called All in the Family.
At the center of the show w...
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Gladys Knight from 2021-01-08T10:00
Midnight Plane to Houston?
Doesn't sound quite right, does it? And in her 1997 memoir, singer Gladys Knight told the story of how it became the Midnight Train to Georgia.
And...
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Erin Brockovich from 2021-01-06T10:00
In 1993, a single mother with no legal training, no experikence as an attorney, helped bring a major corporation to its knees.
Erin Brockovich joined attorney Ed Masry in suing Pacific Ga...
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Don Knotts from 2021-01-04T13:00
Don Knotts is perhaps best know as Deputy Sheriff Barney Fife from The Andy Griffith Show. But you also remember him as Ralph Furley from Three's Company. Maybe you remember him from The Apple D...
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Season Two In Review from 2020-12-23T13:00
As we look for a place in the history books to put 2020, we also are taking a look back at Season Two of Now I've Heard Everything.
And stay till the end, for preview of season 3, coming ...
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Mary Lou Retton from 2020-12-21T13:00
Did you know that December 21st is National Short Girl Appreciation Day? Ever since 1984, one of America's favorite short girls has been Olympic gold medal gymnast Mary Lou Retton.
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Egil Krogh from 2020-12-18T13:00
Next Monday, December 21, marks the 50th anniversary of a very strange day in White House history.
It was on December 21, 1970 that the king of rock and roll, Elvis Presley, showed up una...
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Kitty Carlisle Hart from 2020-12-16T13:00
Regular listeners of Now I've Heard Everything know that I don't often get starstruck. But this was one of those times.
If you grew up in the '60s, as I did, you may best remember Kitty C...
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Graham Nash from 2020-12-14T21:25:25
Graham Nash is actually in the Rock and Roll Hal;l of Fame twice - once as a member of the '60s pop group The Hollies, and again for his work as a member of Crosby Stills and Nash.
Nash b...
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Molly Shannon from 2020-12-11T13:00
While Molly Shannon may be best known for her six seasons on Saturday Night and her many many television and movie appearances, it turns out she is also a children's book author.
In 2011,...
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Ed McMahon from 2020-12-09T13:00
Ed McMahon had a career in broadcasting that dated back to the 1940s. But perhaps nothing he did on television was as memorable as this: his 30-year on-are partnership with Johnny Carson on The ...
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Julia Baird from 2020-12-07T13:00
One night, 40 years ago this week, a young man approached musician John Lennon outside Lennon's Manhattan apartment building. The young man appeared to be asking for an autograph, but instead, s...
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Dom DeLuise from 2020-12-04T13:00
Today we're wrapping up Celebrity Cookbook Week on Now I've Heard Everything.
On Monday, we heard from actress Dawn Wells (Mary Ann from Gilligan's Island), then on Wednesday, musician-ac...
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Isaac Hayes from 2020-12-02T13:00
It's Celebrity Cookbook Week here on Now I've Heard Everything. We continue today with a man who my younge listeners may kknow best for his work on South Park.
But for decades, Isaac Haye...
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Dawn Wells from 2020-11-30T13:00
It's Celebrity Cookbook Week on Now I've Heard Everything.
And we start with not only one of my favorite sitcom stars, but also one of my favorite cookbooks.
Dawn Wells portr...
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Berke Breathed from 2020-11-27T20:19:29
Berkeley Breathed is perhaps best known for his comic strips "Bloom County," "Outland," and "Opus."
But he's also a gifted children's book creator. I first met him in 2003, u...
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Cissy Houston from 2020-11-25T13:00
In the music business, backup singers often fade into the background. Few achieve much fame on their own. One who did was Cissy Houston.
After a successful career backing up t...
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Neil de Grasse Tyson from 2020-11-23T17:41:14
Alexa stopNot since Carl Sagan, perhaps, has there been a professional stargazer as engaging and as popular as Neil de Grasse Tyson.
A witty, Charming personality who seems to know everyt...
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Gerald Blaine & Clint Hill from 2020-11-20T13:00
If you're of a certain age, you remember where you were when something big and historical happened. For my parents, it was Pearl Harbor. For my children, it was the Challenger explosion. For me,...
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Joe Theismann from 2020-11-18T13:00
Very few professional athletes are best remembered for the game, or the play, that ended their career. But Joe Theismann maybe one of them.
It was on this date, November 18th, 1985 -- 35 ...
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Paul Orfalea from 2020-11-16T21:53:35
Tomorrow, November 17th, is National Entrepreneurs Day. And perhaps no one better embodies what the day is about that Paul Orfalea.
Back in 1970, the young man with e kinky red hair start...
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Phyllis Diller from 2020-11-11T13:00
Like many of my fellow Baby Boomers, I grew up watching Phyllis Diller on TV and in movies. She was one of America's first female stand-up comedians, inspiring the likes of Joan Rivers, Roseanne...
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Alex Trebek from 2020-11-09T13:00
By now you've heard the sad news that Jeopardy host Alex Trebek passed away early Sunday.
So today, we'll be revisiting my interview with him from some 30 years ago. He was promoting a bo...
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Chris Jericho from 2020-11-06T13:00
For nearly two decades, Chris Jericho was a fixture of the WWE. In fact, he was widely considered one of pro wrestling's best.
But since the end of the 1990s, he has also been a rock star...
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Leah Rabin from 2020-11-04T13:00
It was an iconic White House photo. Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, shaking hands on a peace deal at the White House, with a smiling President Bill Cli...
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Lorraine Warren from 2020-10-30T12:00
It's Halloween weekend, so, I have to give you a little bit of a scare, don't I?
If you've ever seen the 2009 movie The Haunting in Connecticut, you know the story that you're about to he...
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"Cousin Brucie" Morrow from 2020-10-28T12:00
Some of you, if you're old enough, grew up listening to Cousin Brucie on New York City radio from 1961 to 1974. Others remember him from the movie Dirty Dancing. And still others know him from h...
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Jimmy Carter from 2020-10-26T12:00
Next week is our presidential election, so I thought it appropriate today to hear from one of our former presidents.
I first met Jimmy Carter in 1987, and interviewed him several times ov...
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Robert Bork from 2020-10-23T12:00
As the U.S. Senate moved closer to confirming Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, we're reminded that not all nominees have such an easy ride.
In 1987, President Ronald Reagan nominat...
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Rita Rudner from 2020-10-21T12:00
I first saw Rita Rudner perform her comedy on an HBO special in the mid-1980s. And I immediately fell in love with her, and her comedy.
Her routine is so low-key, so dignified, yet so hil...
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Marvin Hamlisch from 2020-10-19T12:00
What comes to mind when I say the name Marvin Hamlisch?
You may think of The Sting. Or Tthe Way We Were. Or A Chorus Line. Certainly Hamlisch is known for all of that, but much more.
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Anatoli Gribkov & William Smith from 2020-10-16T12:00
For a few days in mid-October 1962, the world teetered on tghe brink of all-out nuclear war between the United States, led by PresidentJohn F. Kennedy, and the Soviet Union, commanded by Premier...
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Wendy Williams from 2020-10-14T12:00
Every day millions of American TV viewers tune in to the syndicated Wendy WIlliams Show.
She's been a fixture on daytime TV since 2008. But her media career began long before ...
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Nando Parrado from 2020-10-12T12:00
Tomorrow, October 13th. is the anniversary of one of history's most famous plane crashes.
It was on October 13th, 1972 that a Uruguayan Air Force flight, chartered by a rugby team, crashe...
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Geraldine Ferraro from 2020-10-07T12:00
Tonight, October 7th, Senator Kamala Harris will meet Vice President Mike Pence in their one and only debate of the 2020 election campaign.
Harris is the first woman of color on a major p...
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Johnnie Cochran from 2020-10-05T12:00
You may know defense attorney Johnnie Cochran best for his participation in OJ Simpson's dream team in his 1990s trial.
But Johnny Cochran had a long legal career, and the Simpson case wa...
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Bob Keeshan from 2020-10-02T12:00
Sixty-five years ago this week, a new children's television show was launched on the CBS networok. Its creator was a man who had actually been part of the supporting cast of The Howdy Dood...
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Julie Andrews from 2020-09-30T12:00
Julie Andrews made her debut as an actress and singer in London in 1948.
She first appeared on Broadway in 1954.
But to audiences of all ages around the world, she may be best know...
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David Cassidy from 2020-09-25T12:00
Fifty years ago today, a TV show premiered on ABC, about a family that had formed a rock band. It was called "The Partridge Family,: and its star was a young actor-singer named David Cassidy. Listen
Mickey Rooney from 2020-09-23T12:00
In nearly thirty years of interviewing celebrities and big names, I didn't often get very Starstruck, but this day I did.
It's hard to overstate how big a star Mickey Rooney was. Fo...
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Kitty Kelley from 2020-09-21T12:00
Journalist and celebrity biographer Kitty Kelley first rose to prominence in 1978, with her biography of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, a book called Jackie Oh!
But it was her 1986 biography...
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Dave Thomas from 2020-09-18T12:00
If you've ever eaten that Wendy's, and most of us have, you probably know that the chain was founded by a guy named Dave Thomas. He needed a first daughter. And you probably remember his TV comm...
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Kazimierz Wierzbicki from 2020-09-16T17:20:32
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In the US, we take labor unions for granted. To many, it seems like they have always been around.
But in 1980, labor unions in countries under the grip o...
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June Lockhart from 2020-09-14T19:02:05
Today's episode is for my baby boomers. Because we all remember June Lockhart, whether it's from Lassie, Lost in Space, or even Petticoat Junction.
June Lockhart, child of Hollywood paren...
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Richard Picciotto from 2020-09-11T12:00
Do you remember where you were 19 years ago today?
Richard Picciotto will always remember that as the day he thought he would die. Indeed, he almost did.
PIcciotto was a New York C...
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Whoopi Goldberg from 2020-09-09T12:00
Whoopi Goldberg has been entertaining us for almost 40 years, in movies like "The Color Purple," "Ghost," and "Sister Act" as well as TV's "Star Trek: The Next Generation," and of course, on ABC...
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John Sweeney from 2020-09-07T12:00
Happy Labor Day!This is the national holiday set aside to recognize the efforts and contributions of America's Workforce.
So I want to revisit my interview almost a quarter-century ...
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Cal Ripken from 2020-09-04T12:00
In 21 seasons with his hometown Baltimore Orioles,Cal Ripken racked up some very enivable numbers: 3,184 hits. 431 home runs. 1,695 runs batted in. A 19time All-Star, and two-time American...
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Melissa Anderson from 2020-09-02T12:00
It was 46 years ago this week that NBC TV viewers first heard that theme music introducing a series called "Littel House on the Prairie."
For the next eight years, it was a perennial view...
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Reeve Lindbergh from 2020-08-31T12:00
What is it like, growing up in what some say was the most famous family of the twentieth century?
Reeve Lindbergh knows. She was born in 1945 to Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh. H...
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Sydney Biddle Barrows from 2020-08-26T12:00
As public scandals go, this one might seem pretty benign, by today's low bar. But in 1984, it was a big story when it was revealed thatthe authoirities had broken up a high-priced Manhatta...
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Barry Goldwater from 2020-08-24T12:00
Last week Democrats nominated Joe Biden for president. This week, Republicans will renominate Donald Trump, for a second term.
Let's go back 56 years, to July1964, when the GOP nominated ...
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Tipper Gore from 2020-08-21T12:00
Years before her husband Al was elected vice president of the United States, Tipper Gore established a reputation of her own, as a social issues advocate. And her issue, in the late 80s, was pro...
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Wolfman Jack from 2020-08-19T12:00
Tomorrow, August 20th, is National Radio Day.
Yoday, we're going to revisit my interview 25 years ago with one of the greatest radio personalities of all time.
And I'm going to let...
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George McGovern from 2020-08-17T12:00
The 2020 Democratic National Convention is getting underway this week. It'll look a lot different from any past convention, though, because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Let's go back 48 y...
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Maureen O'Hara from 2020-08-14T12:00
Irish-born redhead Maureen O'Hara knew from an early age she wanted to act. After years of training, she was finally "discovered," if you will, as ayoung woman by Charles Laughton, c...
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Vladimir Pozner from 2020-08-12T12:00
or decades the USSR -- the Soviet UInion -- was a major world power, but it was held together largely through force and intimidation.
Things began to unravel in the late 1980s -- the mome...
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Tracey Ullman from 2020-08-10T19:08:02
She burst onto the American television scene in the late 1980s, when she hosted her own show on the fledgling Fox network.
And Tracey Ullman has been a favorite in this country ever...
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Debbi Fields from 2020-08-07T12:00
Mrs. Fields Cookies can be found in hundreds of cities across America, and around the world. It's one of the largest names in the snack food industry.
It all started back in 1977, w...
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Bob Greene from 2020-08-05T12:00
Tomorrow, August 6th, is the 75th anniversary of the first-ever use of a nuclear weapon in war, when the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.
At the controls of the B-29 calle...
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Barack Obama from 2020-08-03T12:00
A few years before he was an Illinois state senator, long before he became a U.S. Senator and years before the nation elected him our first African-American president, Barack Obama was a l...
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Noel Neill from 2020-07-31T12:00
One of the most popular, and most iconic series from the early days of television was "The Adventures of Superman," which ran from 1952 to 1958.
George Reeves was Superman / Clark Kent. &...
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Denny McLain from 2020-07-29T12:00
In all of major league baseball history, going back well over a hundred years, there has been only a handful of pitchers who have won30 or more games in a single season.
That very short l...
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Jim Gaffigan from 2020-07-27T12:00
If you know Jim Gaffigan's comedy, you know he has a big family, five kids.
He was one of six kids, his wife was one of nine. So they know big famililes.
I met Jim in ...
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Andrea Jaeger from 2020-07-22T12:00
In 1981, at the age of 16, Andrea Jaeger was ranked number two in the world among professional women tennis players.
But at age 19, a shoulder injury ended her five-year pro career....
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Buzz Aldrin from 2020-07-20T12:00
On July 20th, 1969, Buzz Aldrin was 39 years old, as he and Neil Armstrong became the first two human beings ever to set foor on the surface of the moon.
Fifty-one years sounds like a lon...
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Cong. John Lewis from 2020-07-18T16:19:50
An icon of the American civil rights movement has died. Congressman John Lewis was 80 when he passed away this weekend.
Here is a repost of an episode of No...
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Richard Branson from 2020-07-17T12:00
You could say that Richard Branson's success in business has always been about disruption.
He disrupted air travel, he risrupted the music business, he disrupted retail -- all throu...
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Bertrand Piccard & Brian Jones from 2020-07-15T12:00
Hot air balloons, or lighter-than-air craft, have been around for centuries. But it wasn't until March 1999 that humans were able to circumnavigate the entire world in a single hot air balloon f...
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Ally Sheedy from 2020-07-13T12:00
In the 1980s movies like The Breakfast Club, St. Elmo's Fire, WarGames, and Short Circuit made Ally Sheedy a star. She was a prominent member of the so-called Brat Pack.
I met her in 1991...
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Jackie Collins from 2020-07-10T12:00
Glamour, glitz, sex, power, drugs, and money. All were staples of novels by Jackie Collins.
At the same time her sister Joan was making her name as an actress, Jackie Collins honed ...
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Carl Reiner from 2020-07-08T12:00
We lost a true American comedy genius last week.
Carl Reiner was 98 when he passed away.
I first met Carl Reiner in 1993, and again in 1995, when he published a...
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Sam Donaldson from 2020-07-06T12:00
If Donald Trump thinks he's getting a rough time from the journalist who cover him at the White House, he's never met Sam Donaldson.
From 1977 to 1989 -- the Jimmy Carter and Ronald...
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Richard Shenkman from 2020-07-03T12:00
As we head into the Independence Day weekend, it's a good time to look back on American history.
For example, we all know that Christopher Columbus discovered America. No, wait, Leif Erik...
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Tyra Banks from 2020-07-01T12:00
She's a supermodel, a role model, and a popular actor.
Tyra Banks was already, at 24, an international celebrity when I met her in 1998. She had written her first book, called...
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George Lindsey from 2020-06-29T12:00
Is it possible to get a major supporting role on a major television show, and have it cripple your acting career?
It nearly happened to George Lindsey. You remember him as Goober from The...
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Vanna White from 2020-06-26T12:00
Vanna White has been turning the letters on TV's "Wheel of Fortune" since 1982..
But viewers of the show know that Vanna is much more than just a letter turner.
Soon after joining ...
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Anthony Bourdain from 2020-06-24T12:00
Tomorrow, June 25th, would have been Anthony Bourdain's 64th birthday.
That's why June 25th has been designated "Bourdain Day" by friends of the late chef, author, TV personal...
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Daniel Handler as Lemony Snicket from 2020-06-22T12:00
Baby Boomers had The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew books. Millennials had Harry Potter. And Generation Z grew up with Lemony Snicket.
From 1999 to 2006, author Daniel Handler -- writing under...
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Chris & Bob Elliott from 2020-06-19T12:00
Father's Day is this Sunday and all this week on Now I've Heard Everything we've been featuring interviews about fathers.
Today a conversation with a father and son who have been ma...
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Mark Shriver from 2020-06-17T12:00
Father's Day is next Sunday and all this week on Now I've Heard Everything we're featuring interviews about fathers.
Few men are as widely praised as Sargent Shriver was. after his ...
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Rain Pryor from 2020-06-15T12:00
Next Sunday is Father's Day, so all of this week on Now I've Heard Everything, we are featuring interviews about fathers.
The late Richard Pryor was a hugely talented comedian and b...
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Maya Angelou from 2020-06-12T12:00
Few poets ever rise to the kind of prominence enjoyed by Maya Angelou. But of course, she was much more than a poet -- essayist, memoirist, and civil rights activist. And not a bad s...
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Stacey Koon from 2020-06-10T12:00
This is an episode of Now I've Heard Everything that made me think very carefully about. Given the tensions the entire nation -- the world -- is enduring right now, I did not want to furth...
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John Waters from 2020-06-08T12:00
Hairspray. Cry-Baby. Serial Mom. Pink Flamingos.
Filmmaker John Waters has a long, illustrious, and unique body of work.
He started making movies in the early 1960s, but only...
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Reba McEntire from 2020-06-05T12:00
Reba McEntire recorded her first song in 1976, when she was just 21.
Her first number one record didn't come for another decade, but she's been on a roll ever since, and today is a countr...
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Dave Pallone from 2020-06-03T12:00
In 1979 major league baseball umpires went on strike. MLB hired substitutes -- scabs, as m,any call them -- and veteran minor league umpire Dave Pallone was offered a big-league job.
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Samantha Bee from 2020-05-27T12:00
Canadian-born comedian Samantha Bee was a fixture on TV's The Daily Show or twelvve years. Indeed, she was Most Senor Correspondent.
I met her tewn years ago next week, at the heigh...
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Adm. Elmo Zumwalt Jr. from 2020-05-25T12:00
On this Memorial Day 2020, a very moving story of a father and son caught up in an unpopular war, with an unexpected and poignant outcome.
In the 1960s, U.S. forces in Vietnam used the de...
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Marc Summers from 2020-05-22T12:00
If you're of a certain age, you probably have fond memories of Nickelodeon's popular '80s and '90s shows "Double Dare" and "What Would You Do?" hosted by Marc Summers.
Every episode invar...
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Wilt Chamberlain from 2020-05-20T12:00
Few people have had the kind of impact on a professional sport that Wilt Chamberlain had on the game of basketball.
In a career that started with the Harlem Globetrotters, the 7-foot-1 Ch...
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Wangari Maathai from 2020-05-18T12:00
2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai was the first African woman to win the Nobel Prize.
Kenyan-born Wangari Maathai was educated in the U.S., then returned to Kenya and became a...
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Peter Z. Malkin from 2020-05-15T12:00
Sixty years ago this week, May 1960, a team of Israeli Mossad agents quietly traveled to Argentina, where they found and captured Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi officer who was instrumental in organiz...
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Tony Bennett from 2020-05-13T12:00
He had his first number-one song in 1951, a tune called "Because of You" -- and Tony Bennett has never slowed down since.
Over his seven-decade show business career, Bennett has proven to...
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Georgia Holt from 2020-05-08T12:00
Mothers are always proud when their children are successful, and especially so when their grown children become entertainment stars.
One such mom is Georgia Holt, whose daughter is one of...
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Christina Crawford from 2020-05-06T13:00
All this week on Now I've Heard Everything, as we look ahead to Morthers Day next Sunday, we\re featuring interviews with or about mothers.
Today my 1988 interview with a wopman whose boo...
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Judy Shepard from 2020-05-04T13:00
Mother's Day is next Sunday, so this week on "Now I've Heard Everything we're featuring interviews with and about mothers.
Today, a loving and devoted mother who suffered a devastating an...
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Georgia Durante from 2020-05-01T12:00
"Married to the mob" was more than just a snappy catch phrase for Georgia Durante.
Her 1998 autobiography told an incredible story -- teenage model, sexual assault victim, mob wife...
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John Updike from 2020-04-29T12:00
People often ask me if I ever got starstruck when I was interviewing famous people -- and yes, it happened sometimes.
One of those times in early 1994, when I had the opportunity to inter...
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Dan Quayle from 2020-04-27T12:00
Dan Quayle was a Republcian U.S. Senator from Indiana. and not a very well-known Senator, when George H.W. BuSh chose him as his 1988 running mate. Quayle took a lot of heat from critics w...
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Laura Joplin from 2020-04-24T12:00
It's been almost 50 years since the tragically untimely death of Janis Joplin, whose rock, soul and blues set the standard for a whole generation of musicians who followed.
About 30...
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Selwa "Lucky" Roosevelt from 2020-04-22T12:00
It's not a government job that gets a lot of attention or media coverage.
But the office of U.S. Chief of Protocol is a uniquely sensitive position. If done right, no one even notices. Bu...
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George Takei from 2020-04-20T12:00
Happy birthday to George Takei, who today is 83.
Many of us remember him best s Helmsman Sulu on the original "Star Trek" TV series, or perhaps as an author or activist or wildly popular ...
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Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger from 2020-04-17T12:00
On a cold January morning in 2009, a US Airways flight left New York's LaGuardia Airport.
At the controls that morning was veteran Captain Chesley Sullenberger, whom everyone called "Sull...
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Chuck Norris from 2020-04-15T12:00
ChuckNorris doesn't read books. He stares them down until he gets the information he wants.
But a book is how I first met Chuck Norris 32 years ago, in early 1988. He had just written an ...
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Sir James Dyson from 2020-04-13T13:00
Sir James Dyson will tell you, it's not eas being an innovator.
Dyson is the guy who, a few years ago, came up with a whole new kind of vacuum cleaner, which he dubbed the Dual Cyclone ba...
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Robert Schuller from 2020-04-10T13:00
On this Easter weekend, I wanted to share with you one of several comversations I had with one of the most popular of the TV evangelists of his day: Rev. Robert Schullt, creator of The Hour of P...
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Robert Blake from 2020-04-08T13:00
Back in the '70s, Robert Blake was a huge TV star. His career actually began when he was a kid -- did you know he was a star in many of those old black and white "Little Rascals" movies? Listen
Gregory Maguire from 2020-04-06T13:00
Everyone knows the story of young Dorothy Gale of Kansas, and her epic journey to meet the great and powerful Wizard of Oz.
And we know that along the way she "liquidates" the Wick...
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Dean Smith from 2020-04-03T12:00
If not for the coronavirus, this would have been Final Four weekend.
So, for you basketball-starved fans, let me share with you an interrview I did some 20 years ago with the coach ...
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One Minute Interviews from 2020-04-01T12:00
Since 1985, I've done over 10,000 interviews, with notable people, not-so-notable folks, some you've never heard of, some downright infamous.
In most cases, I had anywhere from 15 to 45 m...
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Roger Ailes from 2020-03-30T14:28:43
Years before he became head of Fox News -- way before there even was a Fox News -- Roger Ailes was a media consultant. Most prominent among his many clients, perhaps, was President Ronald ...
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Joseph Pistone from 2020-03-27T13:00
Donnie Brasco was a real person. Well, no, Donnie was an identity created by the FBI, back in the 1980s, when they assigned an agent named Joseph Pistone to go undercover, as Donnie Brasco...
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Janine Turner from 2020-03-25T13:00
Janine Turner is best known for her roles on TV's "Northern Exposure" and "Friday Night Lights," and in the movie "Cliffhanger."
But until 2014, much of her private life...
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Robert B Parker from 2020-03-23T20:00
There have been many authors I've interviewed year after year, and one of my favorites -- a guy I always looked forward to talking to -- was this guy, Robert B. Parker.