CooperTalk

Steve Cooper talks with actor Scott Cohen. Scott is a face recognizable to many thanks to numerous roles in television, film, and theater. He is perhaps best known for his work on a variety of television series, including Gilmore Girls, on which he starred as Max Medina, the love interest of Lauren Graham's Lorelai. He also starred in SHO's hit series, Street Time and Necessary Roughness and has a...

Steve Cooper talks with comic Grover Silcox. Grover started performing stand-up in the late 70's and was part of the Original 11 of the Philadelphia comedy scene and eventually won the Philadelphia Comedy Award. He has written for other comics, produced and hosted shows for local and national television programs, landed a job as a television feature reporter, won three Emmy awards, worked as a wri...

Steve Cooper talks with director Rosemary Rodriguez. Rosemary wrote, produced, and directed a feature film called Acts of Worship in 2001, which is about a young woman struggling with drug addiction. The film was nominated for, and won, numerous indie film awards as well as awards from film festivals such as St. Louis International, Santa Barbara International, and Magnolia Independent. In additio...

Steve Cooper talks with comic/writer/actor Jay Black. Jay is a former high school teacher turned comedian. He made his mark on the college circuit performing at over 400 colleges and has been named the nation’s Top College Comedian numerous times. Beyond colleges, he is a regular on the club scene, opening for stars such as Joel McHale, Ben Bailey, Sinbad, Bobcat Goldthwait, Christopher Titus and...

Steve Cooper talks with comic/actor Max Alexander. Max is one of the few comics to have appeared on The tonight Show with Jay Leno... and Johnny Carson! His face is instantly recognizable from such movies as Forgetting Sarah Marshall with Jason Segal, Man on the Moon with Jim Carrey, Punchline with Tom Hanks and Roxanne with Steve Martin. He has and can be seen on many television shows such as The...

Steve Cooper talks with actor Liz Gillies. Liz currently stars as Gigi in the FX hit Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll. She began acting professionally at the age of 12. With a strong background in musical theater, she made her Broadway debut at age 15, starring as the character "Lucy" in the original Broadway cast of 13. Shortly after the closing of 13, she went on to land the role of Jade West in the hit Nick...

Steve Cooper talks with actor Raphael Sbarge. Raphael is currently one of the stars of the hit series Murder in the First and recently recurred on Once Upon a Time, in the role of Archie Hopper and Jiminy Cricket, in the hit ABC fantasy drama. He began working at the age of 4, when a new PBS show called Sesame Street was looking for kids and by 16 he was in his first Broadway show, The Curse of th...

Steve Cooper talks with violinist Eliza James. Eliza has been a successful, working professional musician in Los Angeles since the age of 18. She has performed on multiple occasions at the Grammys, the American Music Awards, the Academy Awards, the Women in Film Awards, the BET Awards, American Idol, the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Hollywood Christmas Celebration At the...

Steve Cooper talks with actor Matt Malloy. Matt had his break-out performance was his co-starring role alongside Aaron Eckhart and Stacy Edwards in the 1997 black comedy movie, In the Company of Men, which he co-executive produced. He began his acting career in earnest appearing in the made-for-television movie, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, followed by the HBO mockumentary TV series, Tanner '88...

Steve Cooper talks with actor Rob Steinberg. Rob got his breakthrough role in Die Hard 2 as the assistant to Bill Atherton's obnoxious TV reporter on the airplane. Then he booked a Matlock guest star and a national Scrabble commercial and he hasn't looked back.  In the Oscar winning film, 12 Years a Slave, he played Mr. Parker, the guy who saves the slaves. Out this year he will appear in LBJ star...

Steve Cooper talks with director/writer Brian Herzlinger. Brian's first feature film as a director/producer was My Date with Drew. He starred in the $1,100 film, which was rated the 4th most profitable film of all time. Between 2005 and 2009, he served as a regular On-Air Correspondent for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, starring in over 26 episodes for the number one-rated late night program. He...

Steve Cooper talks with actor Adrian Paul. Adrian is an actor renowned for his lead role, as Duncan Macleod, in the action series Highlander. The show spanned 6 seasons, 117 episodes and ran in over 90 countries world wide. As well as starring in numerous action films, including two Highlander Films, he has also choreographed numerous sword fights and action sequences for both television and film...

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 actor Mark Povinelli. Mark is best known for his role as The Cat in the Amazon series Mad Dogs, Kinko in the film Water for Elephants and as Todd in Are you There, Chelsea? (Which made him the first little person ever to be cast as a series regular on a network studio sitcom.) A veteran of stage he toured the world in the play Mabou Mines DollHouse and has been in other pro...

Steve Cooper talks with actor/writer/director/singer Michael Damian. Michael is best known for his roles as Danny Romalotti on The Young and the Restless which he played for over 20 years and his number 1 hit record Rock On. He has also starred on Broadway in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and performed that role in San Francisco and Los Angeles. He has recorded 10 studio albums and...

Steve Cooper talks with musician Richard Bush. Richard was the front man for the hugely popular Philadelphia band "The A's" in the late 70's and early 80's. They had two big hits, "After Last Night" and "A Woman's Got the Power" and recorded a few albums but eventually broke up. He took a sabbatical for many years from performing live but continued to write and record at his home studio. In 2006 h...

Steve Cooper talks with actor Abraham Benrubi. Abraham is best known for his appearances as Jerry Markovic on the long-running U.S. TV drama ER, for his first role as Larry Kubiac on the series Parker Lewis Can't Lose and for his voice acting on the Adult Swim claymation series Robot Chicken. His first major part was on the show Wings, as Roy "R.J." Biggins, Jr., Roy's gay son. He would appear as...

Steve Cooper talks with comic/actor Rick Overton. Rick a 40 year comedy vet, has starred in numerous HBO and Showtime specials and has had countless TV stand up appearances. He played The Drake on “Seinfeld” and Pam’s Dad on “The Office.” He currently recurs on Adult Swim’s “Children Hospital,” ABC’s “Last Man Standing,” TNT’s “Leverage” and recently guest starred on “The League,” “The Middle,” “T...

Steve Cooper talks with singer Tiffany. Tiffany has earned two number one hit singles I Think We're Alone Now and Could’ve Been, and set a record as the youngest female artist to top the Billboard charts with her debut album.  In 2000 Billboard Magazine described Tiffany’s album The Color of Silence as “thoughtful, intelligent, and full of grace” and ranked it among the “Top Ten Best Albums of the...

Steve Cooper talks with actor Jane Sibbett. Jane started her acting career as Jane Wilson on the NBC soap opera Santa Barbara in 1986-87, for which she was nominated for a Best Newcomer Soap Opera Digest Awards. In 1989, she won the role of Laurie Parr on the CBS comedy The Famous Teddy Z, co-starring with Jon Cryer and Alex Rocco. The series lasted one season. In 1991, she was cast as status-cons...

Steve Cooper talks with musician Dave Bickler. Dave started his musical career as lead singer of 1970s rock group Jamestown Massacre (Billboard Top 100 song "Summer Sun") and doing commercial jingle work in Chicago.  He was lead singer of the Grammy Award-winning rock band Survivor from 1977–1983 and 1993–1999. From 1999-2009, he was the singing voice behind the highly successful (most award-winni...

Steve Cooper talks with drummer David Uosikkinen. David has played drums with The Hooters for over 30 years and has recorded and performed with Alice Cooper, Rod Stewart, Cyndi Lauper, Taj Mahal and Patty Smyth, as well as with many other emerging artists. In addition, David has performed on extensive international tours, including Live Aid, Amnesty International and Roger Waters’ The Wall in Berl...

Steve Cooper talks with actor Matt McCoy. Matt known for Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach and Police Academy 6: City Under Siege as Sgt. Nick Lassard. His motion picture credits have included White Wolves: A Cry in the Wild II, the Curtis Hanson films The Hand That Rocks the Cradle  and L.A. Confidential as well as the action comedy National Security and he has appeared in three Bigfoot-th...

Steve Cooper talks with actor Kyle Secor.  Kyle is best known for his role as Detective Tim Bayliss on the crime drama Homicide: Life on the Street. His first major television role was the character Brian Bradford on the soap opera Santa Barbara, soon followed by a stint on the hospital drama St. Elsewhere, in which he played Bret Johnson, a patient dying of AIDS. After working in several movies,...

Steve Cooper talks with actor Ione Skye. Ione is best known for her role as Diane Court in the iconic 80s film Say Anything written and directed by Cameron Crowe. She has starred in many films including River's Edge, Wayne's World, Gas Food Lodging, Four Rooms, Fever Pitch, Bad Girls Behind Bars and appeared in television shows such as Covington Cross, The Twilight Zone, The Dead Zone, Private Pra...