Over the Rainbow

Mark and Sharon celebrate the lives of Raquel Welch and Stella Stevens; Vacuum entrepreneur David Oreck, Baseball's Tim McCarver, Country music Kyle Jacobs, Composer Gerald Fried,Newsmen Bill Shields and Dave Hollis, Auto magnate Shoichiro Toyoda, Lion Nala and Parker the ferret. Finally, in our Yarzheit feature, we profile pitching great Don Newcombe

A very full episode of Over the Rainbow, Mark and Sharon welcome Ann Cupolo Freeman, our first guest to tribute disabled rights activist Judy Heumann; Holocaust survivor Heinz Wallach; actor Tom Sizemore; Tampa Rays broadcaster Dave Willis; producer Walter Mirisch; stuntman/producer/actor Ricou Browning; minor league pitcher Matt Pobereyko; Lynrd Skynrd's Gary Rossington; and Wheaties cover box Bo...

This week on Over the Rainbow Mark and Sharon pay Tribute to the lengend of Burt Bacharach; Jazz Singer Carol Sloan; Charles Kimbrough of Murphy Brown; Harry Whitttington; Bob Born, father of Peeps; political comedy writer Bob Orben; actor Cody Longo; Eugene Lee, designer of SNL set; publicist Doris Bergman; director Hugh Hudson; body builder Tonya Knight; Solomon Perel, Jew who served in the Nazi...

Sharon and Mark celebrate Cindy Williams, of Laverne and Shirley; Annie Wersching, of the Rookie and 24; Hockey great Bobby Hull; Basketball annoucher Billy Packer; Cleveland Guardian Drummer John Adams; Daniel Brush, artist; Songwriter Barrett Strong, "Money (That's What I Want), Heard it Through the Grapevine; The end of the Dr. Phil program; Le Le the Panda, and the very last 747 rolls off the...

This week on Over the Rainbow, Sharon and Mark celebrate baseball's Sal Bando and former Rookie of the Year Gary Peters; actor Lance Kerwin; Rocky Horror Show MC Sal Piro; Lloyd Morrisett, co-founder of Sesame Street; novelist Paul LaFarge; Lisa Loring, The Adams Family's original Wednesday; Anthony "Top" Topham of the Yardbirds; Dean Daughtry of the Atlanta Rythym Section, and New Jersey loses a...

Sharon and Mark feature actress Gina Lollabrigida; rock legend David Crosby; original Met star Frank Thomas; daredevel Robbie Knievel; Phillie AM DJ Jerry Blavat; basketball's Chris Ford; soccer's Anton Walkes; Sister Andre; acting coach Sandra Seacat; British director Piers Haggard; Freedom Rider Herbert Young; Fox News' Alan Komissaroff and finally, Grumpy's, a San Francisco media hangout closes...

This Episode of Over The Rainbow Mark and Sharon feature tributes to Lisa Marie Presley; Jeff Beck; Robbie Bachman of Bachman,Turner Overdrive; Adam Rich of Eight is Enough fame; Diamond of Silk and Diamond fame (did you know they were two different people? A former twice impeached president didn't) and many more.

Mark and Sharon launch season 2 of Over the Rainbow with tributes to Pope Benedict XVI; broadcast legend Barbara Walters; Anita Pointer of the Pointer Sisters; journalist Dax Tejera; war photographer Tony Vaccaro; daredevil Ken Block; Fred White of Earth Wind and Fire; Jeremiah Green of Modest Mouse; NFL's Art McNally; screenwriter Neal Jimenez; and TV Writer Gabrielle Beaumont

This week on Over the Rainbow, Mark and Sharon feature Soccer legend Pele; Pittsburgh Steeler HOF Franco Harris, and one of the most famous plays in sports history; Firefighter Matthias Wirtz; British comic actor John Bird; Activist Sister Patricia Daly; and Soap Opera star Sonya Eddy, who also had a few very memorable Seinfeld episodes

Tributes this week feature dancer/DJ tWitch; soccer journalist Grant Wahl; Firefighter William P Moon II; New Yorker cartoonist Lee Lorenz; the Young Rascal's Dino Dinelli; football coach Mike Leach; NBA's Paul Silas; Whiz Kid Curt Simmons; College Basketball coach Billie Moore; and the end of Brooklyn's Happy Days Diner

This week Sharon and Mark celebrate Christie McVie, and her often challenging relationship with Fleetwoo Mac; Irene Cara,who burned so bright after Fame and Flashdance; Freddie Roman, a comic who takes Friars Club and Borscht Belt history with him; John Y. Brown, a very successful business man, an fan and owner of major sports franchices, a wealthy man who married beautiful women, with all that su...

On Over the Rainbow, Mark and Sharon feature: Kirstie Alley of Cheers fame; Mills Lane, Judge and Boxing Referee; Brad William Henke, of Orange is the New Black; two losses in educating youth - Bob McGrath of Sesame Street; and George Newall, creator of Schoolhouse Rock; film maker Julia Reichert; and is this a final farewell to the Bogward Automobile?

Mark and Sharon reflect on Budd Friedman of Improv fame; Gallagher, he of the Sledge-O-Matic; Jennifer Aniston's dad, John, Soap Opera star; Fred Hickman of the YES Network; Garry Roberts of the Boomtown Rats; Kevin Conroy, the voice of Batman; Don Lewis, who revolutionized synthesized music; and finally, Parade Magazine has seen its last printing press.

This week on Over the Rainbow Sharon and Mark reflect on the passings of Leslie Jordan, of Will and Grace, and Instagram fame; Jerry Lee Lewis, a rocker who made Keith Richards look like a choir boy; Aaron Carter, who had been a star since he was 7; Hank Saroyan, Emmy winning writer and nephew of William Saroyan; John Jay Osborn, lawyer, author of The Paper Chase and descendant of John Jay; Dr. Sa...

Sharon and Mark honor relief ace Bruce Sutter, Harry Potter's Robbie Coltrane, the Simon Sisters, astronaut Jim McDivitt, Olympic Dad Jim Redmond and Eclipse the traveling dog, this week, on Over the Rainbow

Baseball's Bruce Sutter, Harry Potter's Robbie Coltrane, former Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti, Apollo astronaut Jim McDivitt, the Simon Sister's, Olympic celebrity Jim Redmond and Eclipse the traveling dog are featured this week on Over the Rainbow

We celebrate the lives of country singer Loretta Lynn, rapper Coolio, ball player Hector Lopez, footballs Gavin Escobar, professional wrestler Antonio Anoki, newsman Bill Plant, Buffet investor David Gottesman and finally Sacheen Littlefeather, who declined the Academy Award for Marlon Brando

This week on Over the Rainbow, Mark and Sharon have features, just all about all of them who probably should have been more famous than they were. Or, perhaps, they were just the right amount famous. Dmitri Vrubel, the Russian artist most famous for the mural of Brezhnev kissing Honeker on the Berlin Wall; Raymand Damadian, one of the key developers of MRI technology; John King, from the TV series...

This week Mark and Sharon feature actress Anne Heche; Roger Mosley of Magnum, PI; Congresswoman Jackie Walorski; Western actor Clu Gulager; Virgina Patton of "It's a Wonderful Life"; Historian David McCollugh; and singer Olivia Newton John

This week on Over the Rainbow, Sharon and Mark pay tribute to Bill Russell, NBA superstar; Tony Dow, always Wally?; Nichelle Nicholls, made Uhura into something much bigger than a three year TV role; Paul Sorvino, more than the perennial good guy or the perennial bad guy; Larry Josephson, who probably had as much to do with the way we interacted with radio for three decades; Pat Carroll, way more...

Sharon and Mark celebrate the lives of Muriel Engleman, WWII army nurse; Warner Reich, used magic to survive concentration camp; Ivana Trump, the first First Lady?; Claes Oldenburg, sculptor; Charles Johnson, NFL veteran; Rebecca Balding, actress; Nolan Neal, of The Voice and America's Got Talent; Adam Wade; game show host, musician AND polio vaccine researcher!; An An, the oldest ever giant panda...

This week Over the Rainbow pays tribute to former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe; Cardinal Claudio Hummes; James Caan of Misery and Godfather fame; Larry Storch, Egarn from F Troop; Tony Sirico, he was Tony Walnuts on The Sopranos; Betty Rowland, the last Queen of Burlesque and Robert Neal; Award winning Chemist

This week on Over the Rainbow tributes David Hammer, dying days after getting elected to be DA; Sam Gilliam, important African American Artist; Boy Scouts who snapped into action after surviving a fatal train crash; Margret Keane, the artist who brought us the big eyed children; Mary Mara, actress who dies while on vacation; Arnold Skolnick, the commercial artist responsible for the iconic Woodsto...