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Coming soon to TV CONFIDENTIAL: Emmy Award-winning and Grammy Award-nominated writer, producer, author and showbiz historian Geoffrey Mark shares a few thoughts and personal remembrances of Tim Conway and Doris Day
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Podcast of TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 438: Remembering Julie Adams, The Lucky Southern Star is now available online for listening on demand
Show No. 438: Remembering Julie Adams, The Lucky Southern Star Original Airdate: Feb. 15-17, 2019 Listen to “Show No. 438, Hour 2, Part 1: Remembering Julie Adams, The Lucky Southern Star” on Spreaker. Hour 2, Part 1: From January 2012: … Continue reading →
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Remembering Julie Adams: Next on TVC
Emmy Award-winning writer, producer and author Geoffrey Mark will join us, plus we’ll replay our January 2012 conversation with actress Julie Adams, all this weekend on TV CONFIDENTIAL, airing Feb. 15-17 at the following times and venues: Share-a-Vision Radio San … Continue reading →
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Film, stage and television actress Julie Adams dies at age 92
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Coming soon to TV CONFIDENTIAL: Emmy Award-winning and Grammy Award-nominated writer, producer, author and showbiz historian Geoffrey Mark shares a few thoughts and personal remembrances of Carol Channing and Kaye Ballard. Geoff’s book ELLA: A Biography of The Legendary Ella Fitzgerald is now available in paperback. The paperback edition includes the two-CD set featuring thirty-nine studio and/or live tracks of Ella Fitzgerald in her prime, all personally selected by Geoff himself
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Podcast of TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 413 with guests Barbara van Orden, Sam Medina and Geoffrey Mark is now available online for listening on demand
Show No. 413 with guests Barbara van Orden, Sam Medina and Geoffrey Mark Original Airdate: Aug. 3-6, 2018 First hour: Actor, writer and director Sam Medina (Preacher, From Dusk to Dawn: The Series, Kickboxer: Vengeance, Kickboxer: Retaliation) talks to Ed … Continue reading →
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Barbara van Orden, Sam Medina and Geoffrey Mark: Next on TVC
Singer/actress Barbara van Orden, actor Sam Medina and music and TV historian Geoffrey Mark will join us this weekend on TV CONFIDENTIAL, airing Aug. 3-6 at the following times and venues: Share-a-Vision Radio San Francisco Bay Area Friday 8/3 7pm … Continue reading →
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Coming soon to TV CONFIDENTIAL: Pop culture historian and showbiz raconteur Geoffrey Mark on why some TV shows still hold up today (and why others don’t) and the advice Rip Taylor gave that changed the course of Geoffrey’s career. Plus: The backstory of some of the tracks in the two-CD set that accompanies Geoffrey’s excellent biography of Ella Fitzgerald
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Podcast of last week’s TV CONFIDENTIAL with Joyce Bulifant and Geoffrey Mark is also available for listening on demand via YouTube
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Podcast of TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 402 with guests Joyce Bulifant and Geoffrey Mark is available online for listening on demand
Show No. 402 with guests Joyce Bulifant and Geoffrey Mark Original Airdate: Apr. 20-23, 2018 First hour: Author, singer, and show business raconteur Geoffrey Mark .helps Ed celebrate the centennial birthday of vocalist Ella Fitzgerald. Geoffey’s latest book, Ella: A … Continue reading →
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