Love Letters Live

Donna Russo is the lead actress and dancer of Donna On the Go, a web-series about a young woman with two non-related disabilities that cause some challenges, some difficulties and, yes, some laughter. With a childhood diagnosis of two conditions that may have stopped most people from achieving goals that were dearly held dreams, Donna forged ahead on the...

Larry Strauss was born to an actress mother and composer father you likely know well from years of prime time television and music. He took the blessing of his creative gifts in other directions first as an author of several fiction novels that have drawn on his personal experience. Then talent in another direction took him to teaching, a...

Snowball, Terri Wong’s 5 year old cockatiel, is as uncommon a creature as you could ever meet. If he has not seen Terri up and around by a certain morning hour she can hear him walking down the hall to her bedroom to wake her. Snowball is as satisfied as ever a bird can be with his own image....

  Come meet beauty pageant queen dachshund Oops and her friend Dr. Feldman a combo long haired chihuahua and Pomeranian. I thought it would be fun to dedicate an episode of Love Letters Live to the wonder of man’s best friend. By the way these two dignified souls are good friends off the camera. Oops has found a stable and...

Nothing quite like twins for grabbing your heart. And, in the world of twins there is nothing like the D’Ambrosio twins actresses Bianca and Chiara who have been acting since toddlerhood. Twins, yes, but two distinct people and together or individually you will have to look far and wide to fine any young women nicer, more adorable, outgoing, intelligent,...

Pure joy. The Brothers Four . Bob Flick and four fraternity brothers (yes, hence “Brothers Four”) started this group in 1957. If you are lucky enough to have been aware of folk music in the 50s or 60s, you remember them, right? American Folk music in general is a fascinating and interesting genre having spanned decades longer than we...

Vince Di Paolo, American born of Italian ancestry, was a teen in an Italian boarding school and one day cut school to go to a movie. That was it. He knew, as he said, at the ripe old age of 16 he belonged to that world. It seems that sometimes a little misbehavior, and the independence it may reflect....

Reverend Steve Pieters, one of the most charming and influential religious leaders of today, has many distinctive achievements to his credit. Understatement. He has been living with AIDS for 40 years, which by itself puts him in a unique category. This miracle caught the eye of Tammy Faye Baker who reached out to him years ago to ask him...

Tyler Chabot is not a man to take a commitment lightly, yet, after a two-year relationship with, alas, the wrong match, proposing marriage, wedding plans in place, he found the courage to brave the anguish and end the engagement. How he met her is worth hearing and their love grew until a feeling overtook Tyler that this was not...

Anabelle Bugatti, psychotherapist, author  of Using Relentless Empathy in the Therapeutic Relationship, and a believer in romance, specializes in couples and individual therapy. Anabelle, or Dr Belle, as she is affectionately known, is accessible as can be, with her heart and mind open to what is troubling those who need her. With her vast experience and many faceted focus...

Ten years on Broadway in Miss Saigon, you cannot do that unless you are a major talent. That is exactly what Ray Santos is. Major talent. Actor, singer and dancer. He talks about his life and the journey from San Francisco to Broadway with what you would have to call a rickety start. He says when he heard himself...

David Friedman, composer, conductor and author you may already know has a new book out. Help Is On the Way , based on his song with the same title,  is about help that comes to us in unexpected ways. David has learned from personal experience that help is on the way whether you are aware of it or not. ...

Cynthia Toussaint is back to talk about music. The ability of music to heal, and her latest CD. You may remember Cynthia as a cheerful, grounded and beautiful woman who knew as a girl she was meant to be on stage. She was twenty-one years old when she was struck by a disease now recognized as Complex Regional Pain Syndrome...

The Yellow Brick Road. That is pretty much all you have to say to evoke an incomparable world of adventure, terror, friendship, victory and mystery. Most of us have traveled that road with Dorothy, have longed to own magic slippers, have wished for a fairy god-mother. Have most of us sung “ding-dong the witch is dead” at some time or...

David Brower was born into a significantly important and creative theatrical family; Broadway theater and Hollywood movies. Yet, he says he spent a good part of his Beverly Hills young life looking for love. Spoiler, yes, yes, he found it. But until he was able to grab that love, the road was fraught with bumps, and yes challenges that...

  The effects of childhood abuse can continue into adulthood in ruinous ways. Cynthia Toussaint is here to talk about generational trauma, the damage that continues down the generations often causing increasing harm and life-threatening disease to adults who have suffered the horror of abuse and vicious dysfunction. Cynthia who was at one point in her young life a ballet...

Have you ever been tempted to write a hate letter? Should you do it? So often I hear people, in a fit of pique say, “I’m gonna write a letter!” This is usually in response to some company who has foisted a faulty product on us or to a politician who has disappointed us. But, we harbor anger to...

If you have ever felt that writing a thank you note is a burden, then Gina Hamadey Bergman is the person you may want to meet. Gina spent a year writing thank you notes, one a day. By category month by month. Seems like a daunting task, but Gina is a talented and diligent writer with a feel for organization...

Young and seeking bargain items that would go nicely in her new apartment, Wendy Drake took her chances on an estate sale. When a blue-topped box caught her eye, she got better than objects for her new digs. She took a peek to find the first of her Thousand Letters adventure and bought the box containing letters written between...

Anson Williams was part of our lives for years. For those of us who were teens in the 50s, we knew he was a devoted friend who visited weekly as Potsie Webber, an exuberant member of the Happy Days crowd. For those of us who missed that era, he brings us to the party. How did he get this...

MARTHA BOLTON is exceptional by any standards. With the mind of a comedienne and the soul of a historian, she brings us a book of delightful historical importance ; Dear Bob…Bob Hope’s Wartime Correspondence with the G.Is of World War II Martha was the first woman staff writer for Bob Hope, helping to write his television specials, personal appearances,...

It must be a sign of great acting that we, the audience, so often attribute the qualities of the role to the actor personally. Yes, Bernardo of West Side Story is such a specific personality that you have to wonder how identical to George Chakiris this personality is. Well, the spoiler answer is not identical. But there is an...

We are so often dependent on the mainstream news for information about life in other countries. But there is always more. Kian Beyzavi, born and raised in Iran, sheds a bright light on what it was like to grow up there. The details of growing up as a very smart young girl in Tehran may surprise you as it...

For Allen Klein, seeing actual people on a stage was a life changing moment. Two productions and this 7 year old knew what he was meant to do.  When he asked his elementary school teacher if she would accept a diorama in place of a book report, she said yes and Allen was on the road. Seven. A set...

A love letter to the thief who stole his beautiful brand new titanium bicycle? Yes, and a brilliant one. Mickey Smith, dedicated to the sport he loved best, cycled for fun, for transportation, for giving to his community through Aids/LifeCycle . And just like that, in a flash of a cruel theft, so much of what his life was...