Friday, November 28, 2014

11/28 MARTIN SHORT, I MUST SAY: MY LIFE AS A HUMBLE COMEDY LEGEND

MARTIN SHORT – COMEDIAN, ACTOR & AUTHOR OF I MUST SAY: MY LIFE AS A HUMBLE COMEDY LEGEND

On screens large and small, on Broadway stages and in far-flung auditoriums, Martin Short has  won the hearts of millions for his singular comedy and genuine persona. Short’s memoir,I MUST SAY: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend (Harper; November 4, 2014), written with David Kamp, bears all the hallmarks of this singular comic voice and of the man himself: witty, upbeat, quirky, and authentic. Talking candidly about every aspect of his life and work—from his provincial Canadian childhood to his conquering every corner of show business he has occupied—Short shares his at turns hilarious and heartbreaking memories, for the first time talking at length about the people he has worked with, the people he has loved, and the beloved wife he lost to cancer.

As a boy growing up in Hamilton, Ontario, Short would fantasize about show business, mounting elaborate one-man TV variety shows in his childhood bedroom. His was a loving family beset by tragedy—he lost both his parents and a brother by the time he was 20, but Short managed to hold onto the cheery optimism that has both defined him and served him well. His big break was being cast in the Toronto production of Godspell, where we worked with many of the future comedy stars who would become his closest friends, including Gilda Radner, with whom he had a rocky love affair. He also met Nancy Dolman, the future wife with whom he would defy the Hollywood odds and share thirty-six years blissful years.

After a short stint trying his luck as a sitcom actor, Short returned to Canada and became part of television’s legendary SCTV, working alongside Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara, John Candy, Dave Thomas, Paul Flaherty, and Andrea Martin (who became is sister-in-law). Next followed Saturday Night Live and the launch of a film career with such classics as ¡Three Amigos!,Innerspace, and Father of the Bride, followed by a Tony Award-winning stint on Broadway. Through it all there have been close friends like Tom Hanks, Steve Martin, Paul Shaffer, Steven Spielberg, Christopher Guest, Billy Crystal, and always the comedy—which has spawned the small army of enduring comic alter-egos: Ed Grimley, Jiminy Glick, Nathan Thurm, Jackie Rogers Jr., and Irving Cohen.

Wit aside, I MUST SAY is also a heartfelt tribute to Short’s enduring marriage to Nancy and her brave battle with the ovarian cancer that took her life in 2010. Short writes with clarity and hindsight about the ordeal she endured with unimaginable perseverance and grace, and celebrates the normal life and family they created together against the backdrop of Hollywood celebrity.
As engaging as the man whose story it tells, I MUST SAY is that rare breed of show business memoir that underscores the friendships and family ties that make the fame and fortune possible.

 ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
 Martin Short is an Emmy and Tony award-winner who has appeared in such classic comic movies as Three Amigos and Father of the Bride. Short has starred in a number of television shows, including The Martin Short Show and its iterations (1994-2000), and Primetime Glick (2001-2003) on Comedy Central. Since the early 2000s, Short has played recurring characters on How I Met Your Mother, Weeds and Arrested Development, and was nominated for an Emmy for his work in an uncharacteristic straight role on Damages. He has performed frequently on Broadway, winning a Tony in 1999 for Best Actor in A Musical for Little Me, and winning raves for his work in The Goodbye Girl and his revue Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me. He has provided his voice for a number of animated films, and has appeared hundreds of times on talk shows, from Conan to Letterman to Ellen to Fallon to Kimmel to Leno.
 

Monday, November 24, 2014

11/24 CHRISTINA ANGELINI, PAWS FOR A CAUSE, ANIMAL FOUNDATION OF AMERICA, SAN LORENZO WINES, NEWPORT BEACH LIFESTYLE

Emmy Award winner Jane Lynch is set to co-host FOX’S CAUSE FOR PAWS: AN ALL-STAR DOG SPECTACULAR. Alongside executive producer and co-host Hilary Swank, on Thanksgiving night, Thursday, Nov. 27(8:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. During the two-hour special, viewers also will be provided with information regarding adoptable animals in their local areas and have the opportunity to make donations to the Petfinder Foundation, an independent nonprofit organization that supports shelters and rescue groups nationwide. Viewers can donate via a text number provided during the broadcast or online via fox.com/causeforpaws. Donations will be accepted during the broadcast and for a period of time after the show.

Celebrities also will introduce the audience to rescue dogs, giving viewers the opportunity to foster or adopt a new best friend. Kristin Chenoweth, Whitney Cummings, Max Greenfield, Kathy Griffin, Julianne Hough, Randy Jackson, Cesar Millan, Jerry O’Connell, Kelly Osbourne, Sharon Osbourne, P!nk, Amber Riley,  Rebecca Romijn, Emmy Rossum and Jenna Dewan Tatum join previously announced celebrities participating in the event, including Paula Abdul, Kristen Bell, Josh Duhamel, Fergie, Carrie Ann Inaba, Scarlett Johansson, Kesha, Miranda Lambert, LeAnn Rimes, Miley Cyrus and Betty White. Also appearing are famous rescue canines The Olate Dogs, who will participate in an exclusive performance honoring all rescue dogs in need of adoption.

ABOUT ANIMAL FOUNDATION OF AMERICA

Animal Foundation of America was founded in 2011 in order to enrich the lives of needy animals in the Los Angeles area. Our mission is to save pets from euthanasia whenever we can and to comfort as many others as possible before their inevitable trip across the Rainbow Bridge.

ANIMALFOUNDATIONOFAMERICA.COM






IF YOU ARE NEAR THE NEWPORT BEACH AREA BE SURE TO BUY YOUR TICKETS TO THE NEWPORT BEACH LIFESTYLE'S ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY PARTY!

SAN LORENZO WILL BE POURING ALL THEIR AMAZING WINES!

GO TO SANLORENZOWINES.COM FOR MORE INFO!


Friday, November 21, 2014

11/21 TV LAND, BILL COSBY, DWIGHT HOWARD, HOOTERS, CHARLES MANSON, CHRIS HEMSWORTH

Join Mike Horn and Paul Stern on the 
WEEKEND EDITION of THE PM SHOW
talkin' about ALL the hot topics...



TV LAND KILLS 'COSBY' FROM WEBSITE


DWIGHT HOWARD SON’S MOTHER THROWS CHILD B-DAY PARTY AT HOOTERS 


CHARLES MANSON'S WEDDING HE CAN MAKE OUT AND DINE FROM VENDING MACHINES



 PEOPLE MAG NAMES HEMSWORTH 'SEXIEST MAN ALIVE'





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Monday, November 17, 2014

11/17 U2, TONIGHT SHOW, FROZEN, CBS, THE MILLERS, ALFONSO RIBEIRO, DANCING WITH THE STARS

Join Jennifer Horn and Paul Stern on the 
ENTERTAINMENT EDITION of THE PM SHOW
talkin' about ALL the hot topics...



U2 POSTPONES ‘TONIGHT SHOW’ APPEARANCE AFTER BONO’S CYCLING INJURY 


'FROZEN' HAS MADE MORE MONEY A TON OF MONEY THIS YEAR 


CBS CANCELS THE MILLERS


 ALFONSO RIBEIRO MAY BE LEAVING DANCING WITH THE STARS





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Friday, November 14, 2014

11/14 MANCOW

SPECIAL GUEST MANCOW JOINS MIKE AND PAUL IN STUDIO TO COVER THE NEWS OF THE DAY!

Erich "Mancow" Muller is a United States radio and television personality. He is best known as the host of The Mancow Radio Experience, a Chicago-based radio show that is syndicated across the U.S. to fifty markets. He is perennially listed in the top ten of most influential radio personalities in the nation.

Mancow attended Central Missouri State University and received a Theatre degree in 1990. His career in radio began on the morning show, Holy Moly & Maxx, for station KMOK in Kansas City.

In 1993, Mancow made national headlines while working for radio station KYLD-FM in California. At the time, former President Clinton had tied up traffic on an LAX runway for over an hour because of a haircut on Air Force One. Mancow staged a parody of this incident on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge during rush hour. He used vans to block the westbound lanes of the bridge while his sidekick got a haircut. As a result of this publicity stunt, Mancow was prosecuted and given three years probation, fined $500, and ordered by a San Francisco Municipal Court judge to perform 100 hours of community service. The radio station eventually paid $1.5 million to settle a lawsuit filed by a bridge commuter.

After leaving California, Muller came to Chicago, where he created his now-famous radio show in 1994. Currently, he is heard from 5:30-9am (CST) in fifty nationwide radio markets. The show is broadcast from the legendary WLS 89 in downtown Chicago, directly across the famous State Street from the iconic Chicago Theatre, and is syndicated by Talk Radio Network, the industry leader in providing independent radio talent.

Muller published his memoirs, titled "Dad, Dames, Demons, and a Dwarf", a New York Times Bestseller, in which he poignantly explored the love between father and son, a fundamental building block in understanding the agape Love of our Heavenly Father for us, his children. Mancow's ability to make us laugh, cry, think, and speak out our hopes, dreams, desires, and expectations are not relegated to the page or the microphone. His live performances are positively electric.


Friday, November 7, 2014

11/07 BARRY FARBER, NATIONAL RADIO HALL OF FAME

JOIN US AS WE CONGRATULATE THE GREAT BARRY FARBER ON HIS UPCOMING INDUCTION IN THE NATIONAL RADIO HALL OF FAME!

NATIONAL RADIO HALL OF FAME ANNOUNCES CLASS OF 2014

Charlie & Harrigan, Barry Farber, Jon Miller, Agnes Moorehead, Dick Orkin, This American Life with Ira Glass, and broadcasting titan Stanley E. Hubbard

The National Radio Hall of Fame (NRHOF) has announced its seven inductees for 2014. The black-tie ceremony, hosted by Premiere Networks personality Delilah, the most-listened-to woman on radio in America, will take place Sunday, November 9, at the Cicada Club in Los Angeles. It will mark the first time the induction ceremony has taken place outside of Chicago.

Premiere Networks will produce and distribute the broadcast in association with the Museum of Broadcast Communications (MBC).

“The National Radio Hall of Fame is taking the show on the road this year,” said
MBC Founder and President Bruce DuMont in making the announcement. “There
are many Radio Hall of Famers living in southern California and several 2014 inductees, so it seems like a great time to try something different, and it will
be good to do the show live once again.” Jim Bohannon of Westwood One will reprise his role as the broadcast’s announcer.

The Class of 2014 includes a dynamic, trendsetting team that changed the radio landscape from San Diego; a longtime, legendary New York talk-show host who’s still talking; one of baseball’s most respected sportscasters a leading lady of the golden age of radio drama; a great writer and one
of the most creative man in the history of radio advertising; one of  public radio’s most popular  Programs; and a visionary who helped define broadcasting in Minnesota.

The seven new inductees into the National Radio Hall of Fame are: 

Charlie & Harrigan 
Charlie Brown, a.k.a. Jack Woods, and Irv Harrigan, a.k.a. Paul Menard, were first paired in 1966 at KLIF/Dallas before moving on to ratings success in Cleveland, Houston, and both KFMB and KCBQ in San Diego, where the duo invented “reconstructed syndication,” a way to spread their local success to more than 40 affiliates in both large and small markets across the country. Using specially tailored audiotapes delivered via UPS that included time checks, weather, and local information and references, listeners in every single city were sure that Charlie & Harrigan were just down the street.

Barry Farber
Born in Baltimore in 1930 and raised in Greensboro, North Carolina, Farber began
his radio career in the ’50s when he joined WNBC/New York as producer of Tex and Jinx. In 1960 he launched Barry Farber’s Open Mike at WINS, and two years later he began a 15-year association with WOR. In 1977 Farber left WOR to run for mayor of New York but returned to the microphone the following year for a decade-plus run at WMCA. In 1990 he went national as part of the ABC Radio Network, and since 2008 Farber has been heard on CRN Digital Talk Radio.

Stanley E. Hubbard 
A true radio pioneer and visionary, Hubbard is the founder of one of the most successful companies in broadcasting history, Hubbard Broadcasting. He launched his first station, WAMD/Minneapolis, in 1923, airing the popular dance show Where All Minneapolis Dances. But his first love was news: in 1924 he started what was likely the first regularly scheduled daily news broadcast (6:00 every night) in radio history. Always an innovator, Hubbard was the first broadcaster ever to go on the air with the intention of surviving solely from advertising sales. His legacy has lived on through several generations of family leadership that have followed his pioneering spirit.

Jon Miller
Miller has been “the voice of the San Francisco Giants” on KNBR since 1997. After brief stops in Oakland, Texas, and Boston, Miller signed with the Baltimore Orioles for play-by-play duties in 1983 at WFBR (and, later, WBAL). He stayed in Baltimore
through the 1996 season, and while there began a two-decade run with ESPN, from anchoring Sunday Night Baseball on TV starting in 1990 to covering 13 consecutive World Series for ESPN Radio. He was at the microphone when Cal Ripken Jr. set the record for consecutive games played and when Barry Bonds hit his 756th home run. In 2010 Miller entered the broadcasters’ wing of the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

Agnes Moorehead (posthumous) 
Born in 1900, Moorehead began her career as a singer on KMOX/St. Louis. In the 1930s she moved to New York, and by 1935 was one of radio’s busiest and most versatile actresses. Moorehead epitomized the golden age of radio drama, becoming the first actor to play Margo Lane on The Shadow and Mrs. Brown on The Aldrich Family, and she was an original ensemble member of Orson Welles’s The Mercury Theatre on the Air. During the 1940s she costarred with Lionel Barrymore in Mayor of the Town and became “the First Lady of Suspense” by appearing in more than 25 episodes of the long-running series. Television brought her more fame through her role as Endora on Bewitched before she passed away on April 30, 1974.

Dick Orkin 
Born in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, in 1933, Orkin was 16 when he launched his radio career at WKOK/Sunbury. After attending the Yale School of Drama, he returned to Pennsylvania as news director at WLAN/Lancaster, then joined KYW/Cleveland. In 1967 he was off to WCFL/Chicago, where he created Chickenman, which chronicled the comic exploits of a mild-mannered shoe salesman turned crime-fighter; the longest-running radio serial of all time, its 195 episodes have been syndicated worldwide. Since 1978 Orkin has created commercials for radio through his own production company, the California-based Radio Ranch.

This American Life with Ira Glass 
The Wall Street Journal has called This American Life “a forum for highly personal
yet idiosyncratic stories” that range from the humorous to the heartbreaking, while the program’s own website calls it “a documentary show for people who normally hate documentaries.” Host and producer Ira Glass launched This American Life in November 1995 as Your Radio Playhouse on WBEZ/Chicago; four months later it was retitled This American Life, and by the summer of ’96 it had been picked up for national syndication. Glass and his staff moved the program to New York in 2007. This American Life focuses on reporting stories with a depth that Glass has described as “funny and sad, personal and sort of epic at the same time.” It has won two George Foster Peabody Awards.

The 2014 NRHOF induction-ceremony broadcast will also honor the women of the National Radio Hall of Fame: actors Eve Arden (Our Miss Brooks), Virginia Payne (Ma Perkins), Shirley Bell (Little Orphan Annie), and Virginia Clark and Julie Stevens (The Romance of Helen Trent); comedians Gracie Allen and Jane Ace; triple threats Marian Jordan (Fibber McGee and Molly) and Gertrude Berg (The Goldbergs), who created, wrote, and starred in their own hit shows; behind-the-scenes players like producer Lynne “Angel” Harvey and executive Cathy Hughes; journalists  Ann Compton (ABC News) and Susan Stamberg (NPR); interviewer Terry Gross (Fresh Air); singer and national icon Kate Smith; urban-radio personality Wendy Williams; Chicago disc jockeys Yvonne Daniels and Terri Hemmert; and jazz great Marian McPartland.

About Delilah 
Nationally syndicated by Premiere Networks, Delilah’s soothing voice, open heart and love of music attracts millions of listeners, making her the most-listened-to woman on radio in the U.S.  The top-rated show broadcasts daily from 7 p.m. to midnight in all time zones and features Delilah’s distinctive blend of storytelling, sympathetic listening and encouragement – all scored with adult contemporary music.  Delilah celebrated the 25-year anniversary of her nighttime radio program in 2011, and she was honored at the 2012 Alliance of Women in Media Annual Gracie Awards Gala where she took home the trophy for “Outstanding Host – Entertainment/ Information.”  Often referred to as the “Oprah of Radio,” Delilah is also the author of three books, including her most-recent work Arms Full of Love. Published by Harlequin Books, it features a poignant and emotional collection of heartfelt listener stories and Delilah’s own tales that demonstrate the importance of family. Please visit www.Delilah.com for more information.

Further details concerning the 2014 NRHOF induction ceremony are pending.
For updates please check www.Museum.Tv or www.radiohof.org

Monday, November 3, 2014

11/03 BEYONCE TO RELEASING ANOTHER ALBUM, FOX CANCELS UTOPIA, NBC CANCELS BAD JUDGE AND A TO Z, GARTH BROOKS TAKES A FALL, CHRISTIAN BALE DROPS STEVE JOBS BIOPIC

Join Mike Horn and Paul Stern on the 
ENTERTAINMENT EDITION of THE PM SHOW
talkin' about ALL the hot topics...



CHRISTIAN BALE DROPS THE STEVE JOBS BIOPIC


BEYONCE TO RELEASING ANOTHER ALBUM IN TWO WEEKS?


FOX CANCELS UTOPIA  AND  NBC CANCELS BAD JUDGE AND A TO Z 


GARTH BROOKS FALLS DURING KENTUCKY CONCERT





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