Rarified Heir Podcast

Today on the Rarified Heir Podcast we are talking to Michael Weintraub, son of legendary manager, agent, producer and promoter Jerry Weintraub and his stepmother, singer/performer Jane Morgan. Michael has a million stories about being around show business and tells us some previously unheard stores from The King to the Chairman of the Board. Stories like Bob Dylan's ridiculously long nails, watchi...

This week on the Rarified Heir Podcast we talk to Dr. Tara Candoli, daughter of legendary trumpeter Pete Candoli and actress mother Vicky Lane, who you may or may not know as The Ape Woman in the film, The Jungle Captive. Tara's connection run even deeper with 40s actor Tom Neal whose story is rife with violence and scandal, her stepmother, the incomparable Betty Hutton and a grandparent Kemp Nive...

Today on the Rarified Heir Podcast, we talk to Jenny Brill, daughter of the comedy team Charlie Brill & Mitzi McCall. Married 61 years ago, Mitzi and Charlie have had an incredible career having met in 1959 at Jerry Lewis Workshop & their marriage that endures to this day. Their career spans everything from Laugh-In to Star Trek, The Ed Sullivan Show to the Silk Stalking from Pebbles & Bam-Bam to...

Today on the Rarified Heir Podcast we talk to Tony Cobb, son of Lee J. Cobb. Yes, the twice Oscar nominated for Best Supporting Actor Lee J. Cobb aka Johnny Friendly from On The Waterfront and the originator of the role of Willy Loman on Broadway in Death of a Salesma n among a huge cannon of acting work. We talk about Tony's memories of his dad as just being a dad – a car enthusiast, a man who lo...

Today on the Rarified Heir Podcast, we are talking to David Jenkins who has a three headed hydra of a connection to the business we call show. He's proof indeed that yes, everyone has a story. David's father was character actor Paul Jenkins who starred in more than 40 television programs in the 1970s and 80s on shows like Mannix, The Waltons, Dynasty, Barney Miller and Mash. His mother, Jane Jenki...

Today on the Rarified Heir Podcast, we talk to Alison Martino, daughter of Al Martino whose smooth baritone voice was sometimes classified as Popular Music or Classic Pop Romanticism but just don't call him a crooner. We discuss everything with Alison including her father's role in The Godfather , his incredible string of nine top 40 tunes from 1963 – 1968, Flippers Roller Boogie mecca of the 1970...

Today on the Rarified Heir Podcast, we talk to Joe Gilford, son of the fantastic character actor Jack Gilford and his equally amazing mother, Madeline Lee Gilford. Of course we talk about Jack's 50+ decade career in show business in everything from films like Cocoon to Caveman , his Oscar nominated performance in Save the Tiger as well as his comeback film, A Funny Thing Happened on The Way To The...

Today on the Podcast, we are talking to someone Josh has known his whole life, actor Chris Lemmon, son of actress Cynthia Stone and the incomparable Jack Lemmon. Jack and host Josh Mills'  mom starred together in two films, The Apartment & Under The Yum Yum Tree , Jack and Ernie Kovacs starred in four movies together which cemented a great family friendship beginning in the 1950s. So what was it l...

Today on the Rarified Heir Podcast we are deviating slightly from our format of interviewing the children of celebrities as we are talking to the grandchildren of celebrities and boy do we have a good reason. Today we are talking to Andy Marx who has not just one incredible grandfather but two. Andy is the grandson of the amazing Groucho Marx as well as songwriter Gus Kahn. Whoa. Andy gives us the...

Today on the Rarified Heir Podcast, we are talking to Jeff Sherman, son of legendary songwriter Robert Sherman. Disney fans won't have a problem identifying Robert Sherman as one half of the brother songwriting team of The Sherman Brothers who wrote some of the most beloved songs of the last sixty years. Along with his brother Richard, Robert was personally hired by Walt Disney to score some of th...

Today on the Rarified Heir Podcast we are talking to Amanda Aday, daughter of Marvin Lee Aday. Or ML as his friends call him. You and I know him as Meat Loaf. With more than 80 million albums sold and more than 100 million streams of his iconic ballad  "I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)", Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell is the third best-selling album of all-time after Michael Jackson's T...

Today on the Rarified Heir Podcast, we are diving head first into the wild world of socially distanced interviews. On this episode, we are talking to Jordan Summers, son of actor and Screen Actors Guild President Yale Summers. Yale Summers was most known role was as Jack Dane on the Sixties television show Daktari as well as recurring roles on as the ABC Soap Opera General Hospital & Return to Pey...

Today on the Rarified Heir podcast, we are doing something different. Today we are speaking to Rarified Heir Podcast co-host Jason Klamm. But there is good reason for that: Josh never got around to properly introducing me on our first episode. And a listener pointed that out. So today, we are going to delve deep into Oneonta New York, laundry clotheslines as well as my own podcast Comedy on Vinyl,...

Today we are speaking to Morgan Margolis, CEO of Knitting Factory Entertainment and the son of actor Mark Margolis and Jacqueline Margolis. Likely you will know Mark Margolis from his breakout role Salamanca from the television show Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul as well as HBO's Oz as well as the iconic films Scarface , The Wrestler , Requiem for a Dream and Black Swan. Host Josh met Morgan si...

Today on Rarified Heir, we are talking to Adam Shawn, son of the great actor, comedian and monologist Dick Shawn. On the day we taped this podcast, we had met Adam one-week prior via a mutual at an Ernie Kovacs Centennial event at the Hollywood Heritage Museum I presented. It's strange that Adam and host Josh Mills had never met. Dick Shawn starred in two films with his mother Edie Adams, "It's a...

It's up! Episode # 6 for the Rarified Heir Podcast is speaking to Shawn Kay, daughter of John Kay, founder of the iconic classic rock band Steppenwolf. Classic rock anthems like "Born to be Wild" and "Magic Carpet Ride" pushed the band to enormous success with more than 25 million albums sold and eight gold records.  Moreover, John Kay is credited with coining the term "Heavy Metal" and became syn...

Today we are speaking to Antonia Bogdonovich, daughter famed film director Peter Bogdonovich (Paper Moon, The Last Picture Show, Targets) and her equally talented mother, the producer, production designer and screenwriter Polly Platt (Pretty Baby, Terms of Endearment, Say Anything…). And like many of our guests, Antonia and our host Josh Mills went to elementary school together in the 1970s. But b...

Today, on the Rarified Heir podcast, we are speaking to Jason Culp, son of actor, director and writer Robert Culp. And shockingly, Jason and Josh did NOT go to school together but did attend the same high school - years apart. It's a theme we can't get away from and it's really, it's the impetus for this podcast.

Today we are speaking to Carnie Wilson. Most likely you know Carnie from her multi-million selling group Wilson Phillips. But Josh met Carnie years ago, in 2nd grade, when The Beach Boys were THE BEACH BOYS.  He's known Carnie essentially all of his life, having gone to elementary school and junior high school with her in the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles in the 1970s and 80s. What's it like...

In 2018, I was invited to the opening of the National Comedy Center in Jamestown New York.  I had reached out to the center months prior to inquire if they had interest in showcasing some of the items I had from the estate of my late mother actress/comedian Edie Adams and that of her first husband, groundbreaking comedian Ernie Kovacs. They were receptive and that Summer I found myself at the NCC....

Rarified Heir is a podcast that interviews children of celebrities by the child of a celebrity. Joshua Mills, son of Actress and Comedian Edie Adams ( www.edieadams.com ) and Celebrity and Sports Photographer Martin Mills ( www.martinmillsphotography.com )  grew up in Hollywood during the 1970s. His family home had five people with four different last names living under one roof. He grew up with s...