CooperTalk

Steve Cooper talks with TV producer/writer William Bickley. William is best known for creating the hit sitcoms Family Matters and Step by Step. He also created the shows The Family Man and Getting By and has served as a writer or producer on various popular series including Room 222, Happy Days, The Partridge Family, What's Happening!!, Hangin' with Mr. Cooper and Perfect Strangers.

Steve Cooper talks with musician Gavin Rossdale. Gavin is best known for being the front man of the rock band Bush. With a discography that includes such seminal rock albums as 1994’s 6x platinum-selling Sixteen Stone, ‘96’s triple-platinum-selling Razorblade Suitcase and ‘99’s platinum-selling The Science of Things, Bush has sold over 20 million records in the U.S. and Canada alone. They’ve also...

Steve Cooper talks with VJ/radio personality Alan Hunter. Alan is one of the original five video jockeys on MTV from 1981 to 1987. He currently is a host on SiriusXM Radio's The 80s on 8 channel and co-owns the production company Hunter Films with his brother Hugh.

Steve Cooper talks with musician Cy Curnin. Cy is best known for being lead singer of The Fixx. The Fixx are a new wave rock band from London, England founded in 1979. The band's hits include One Thing Leads to Another, Saved by Zero, Are We Ourselves?, and Secret Separation, all of which made the U.S. Top 20, as well as early MTV Video hits Red Skies and Stand or Fall and mainstream rock chart hi...

Steve Cooper talks with actor Charlie Schlatter. Charlie is best known for playing Dr. Jesse Travis on the CBS series Diagnosis Murder and for starring in the big screen comedy 18 Again! opposite George Burns. Some of his other work includes the movies Heartbreak Hotel, The Delinquents, Police Academy: Mission to Moscow, Ed, Bright Lights, Big City and TV series such as The Sopranos, Southland, Fe...

Steve Cooper talks with actor Brooke Smith. Brooke is best known for her role as Dr. Erica Hahn on the ABC medical drama series Grey's Anatomy, and for her role as Catherine Martin in the horror film The Silence of the Lambs. She has guest starred or been recurring on many shows including Ray Donovan, Unbelievable, Weeds, The Good Fight , The Crossing, Six Feet Under, The Good Doctor, Bates Motel,...

Steve Cooper talks with musician Steve Stevens. Steve is one of the most original guitarists to emerge from the ’80s rock scene, best known for his 30 year partnership with Billy Idol, his work on Michael Jackson’s “Dirty Diana”, his Grammy Award winning performance on “Top Gun Anthem” and his work with Vince Neil on “Exposed”. His catalog of hit songs that he co-wrote & performed alongside Idol i...

Steve Cooper talks with comedy writer Tom Leopold. Tom has been written episodes or been a producer on various TV sitcoms such as Seinfeld, Cheers, Will & Grace, Dream On, Ellen, Caroline in the City and Hope & Faith and co-wrote the movie Club Paradise with his good friend Harry Shearer. He has written two novels, Almost Like Being Here and Somebody Sing, and collaborated with Bob Sand to publish...

Steve Cooper talks with director Joel Zwick. Joel's big break came when he started working with heavyweight sitcom producer/creator Garry Marshall, who gave him opportunities to direct a number of his shows, including Laverne & Shirley, Mork & Mindy, Makin' It, and The New Odd Couple. He also directed working numerous sitcoms including Full House (97 episodes), Webster (63 episodes), Bosom Buddies...

Steve Cooper talks with musician Phil Collen. Phil is one of the lead guitarists for the band Def Leppard who was recently inducted in the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame. Def Leppard has released 11 studio albums and still sell out arenas around the world. They are one of only five rock bands with two original studio albums selling over 10 million copies each in the US with their releases Pyromania and...

Steve Cooper talks with singer/songwriter Melissa Manchester. In 1980, Melissa became the first recording artist in the history of the Academy Awards to have two nominated movie themes in a single year, Through The Eyes Of Love from Ice Castles and I’ll Never Say Goodbye from The Promise, and to perform them both on the Oscar telecast. She has starred in the national tours of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s...

Steve Cooper talks with Willie Garson. Willie is best known for his roles as Stanford Blatch on Sex and the City and as Mozzie in White Collar. His other television appearances include Mr. Belvedere, My Two Dads, Coach, Quantum Leap, Monk, Boy Meets World, Girl Meets World, Ally McBeal, Party of Five, Star Trek: Voyager, Special Unit 2, Just Shoot Me!, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Friends, The X-File...

Steve Cooper talks with actor Gregory Harrison. Gregory is best known for his role as Chandler in the 1987 cult favorite North Shore and as Dr. George Alonzo "Gonzo" Gates on the series Trapper John M.D. He was the title character on the 1977-78 series Logan's Run after which he played the role of Levi Zendt on the 1978 NBC mini-series Centennial. His later role as a stripper in the 1981 movie For...

Steve Cooper talks with stand-up comic Tom Dreesen. Tom has been in show business for 50 years. Along the way, he has made over 500 appearances on national television as a stand-up, including more than 60 appearances on The Tonight Show. He was one of David Letterman's favorite guests and frequently hosted the show in Letterman's absence. He also appeared countless times in Las Vegas, Tahoe, Reno,...

Steve Cooper talks with musician Graham Russell. Graham is best known for being one half of the legendary soft rock duo Air Supply. Air supply had a succession of hits worldwide, including eight top-ten hits in the United States in the early 1980s. Together for 45 years they have released over 15 albums and have sold millions upon millions of records. They still tour and play to packed house all o...

Steve Cooper talks with stand-up comic/actor Henry Phillips. Henry has been seen and heard performing his twisted songs and stories on Comedy Central Presents, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, as well as satellite and terrestrial radio nationwide. His critically acclaimed comedy albums earned him mention in Billboard magazine’s Critic’s Choice, as well as acclaim from such notable artists as Moby, who has...

Steve Cooper talks with musician Nick Van Eede. Nick is best known for being singer, rhythm guitarist and songwriter for his band Cutting Crew. Cutting Crew are an English rock band formed in London in 1985. They are best remembered for their debut album Broadcast and hit singles, Died in Your Arms, I've Been in Love Before, One for the Mockingbird, and Everything But My Pride. They recently relea...

Steve Cooper talks with musician Trevor Steel. Trevor is best known for being the lead singer of the band The Escape Club. They released their first album in the UK in 1987. Their next album was released in the summer of 1988 on Atlantic records out of the USA.  The title track and first single, Wild Wild West went to #1 on the Billboard hot 100 chart and was Grammy nominated. They released two mo...

Steve Cooper talks with musician/songwriter Eric Bazilian. Eric is a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, arranger and producer, best known for being a founding member of the rock band The Hooters and for writing "One of Us," made famous by Joan Osborne in 1995. Nervous Night, The Hooters' 1985 debut on Columbia Records, sold more than 2 million copies and included Billboard Top 40 hits "Day...

Steve Cooper talks with musician Matthew Nelson. Matthew is best know for being half of the popular rock band Nelson. Nelson achieved success during the early 1990s with their double platinum debut album After the Rain, which featured the number-one hit Love and Affection. That album ended up selling more than 3,000,000 copies and as a result the band began a World Tour with over 300 concerts. Eve...

Steve Cooper talks with actor Chris Williams. Chris is best known for his role as Krazee-Eyez Killa on Curb Your Enthusiasm and his co-starring roles in the series HBO Silicone Valley and the CBS series The Great Indoors. Other TV appearances include Californication, Hype, CSI: Miami, Weeds, The Shield, Reno 911!, Monk, Bones, Dice, 2 Broke Girls, Better Things and Ugly Betty. He has also been in...

Steve Cooper talks with actor Reed Diamond. Reed got his first big break in the movie Memphis Belle. Since then he has made an impact in both films and TV. He has co-starred in many shows including 13 Reasons Why, Homicide: Life on the Street, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Designated Survivor, Judging Amy, The Purge, Good Girls Revolt, Franklin & Bash, Wayward Pines, The Shield, Journeyman, Dollhouse, 2...

Steve Cooper talks with musician Andrew Farriss. Andrew is best known as the keyboardist, backing vocalist, main composer and one of the founding members of the rock band INXS. To date INXS has sold well over 50 million records. They have had 10 Australian Top 10 Singles, 7 U.S. Top 10 Singles, 3 Grammy nominations, a BRIT Award (for Best International Group), 5 MTV Music Video Awards, 7 ARIA Awar...

Steve Cooper talks with Paul Ben-Victor. Paul has built a career entertaining audiences and impressing critics with his work in film (recently in Martin Scorsese's The Irishman), television and on stage. With roles on numerous HBO series and over 50 films, he has time and again delivered standout performances with his tremendous range of characters. For the past two decades, he has been an actor i...

Steve Cooper talks with actor Sean Kanan. Sean is best known for his portrayals of A. J. Quartermaine on General Hospital, Deacon Sharpe on The Bold and the Beautiful and The Young and the Restless, and Mike Barnes in The Karate Kid Part III. He currently co-stars in a series he co-created called Studio City.