Richard Skipper Celebrates

For the video edition, click here and subscribe: https://youtu.be/Q-G3ugKyQGk https://www.deborah-stone.com A native New Yorker, Deborah Stone began studying ballet at age eight at the Metropolitan Opera Ballet School. She became smitten by the stage when cast as a supernumerary in Met Opera productions from that time forward into her late teens.  While there, she studied with Margaret Craske, Alf...

For the video edition, click here and subscribe: https://youtu.be/yLN38Z9IMHE https://www.amazon.com/Ma-Kettle-Film-Lon-Davis/dp/1629336823 Their names alone can bring a smile to the face of any classic movie buff. Portrayed by veteran stage and screen actors Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride, Ma and Pa first won the hearts of moviegoers in The Egg and I in 1947. Handily stealing the spotlight from...

For the video edition with vintage clips, click here and subscribe: https://youtu.be/hgz6cPdZtwg HARDBACK BOOK: https://smile.amazon.com/My-West-Side-Story-Memoir/dp/149305547X/ AUDIOBOOK: https://smile.amazon.com/My-West-Side-Story-Memoir/dp/B08WHRQ6TJ George Chakiris' reclusive reputation has made him highly sought for interviews. Now, as he prepare to release his memoirs, entitled "MY WEST SIDE...

For the video edition, click here and subscribe: https://youtu.be/32g9DOXceeI https://www.amazon.com/Red-Mill-Its-Start-Finish/dp/1952106230 Red Mill is an intimate memoir of Murray Schwartz's modest beginnings in the Bronx at his Dad's burlesque night club. Follow him as he shares his adventures of going from the mailroom of the William Morris Agency, to becoming the right hand man of the mob-con...

For the video edition, click here and subscribe: https://youtu.be/RchGykWVPbM Subscribe to Richard Skipper Celebrates on YouTube and be entered in drawing for a copy of Sidney Lumet: A Life by Maura Spiegel Acclaimed as the ultimate New York movie director, Sidney Lumet began his astonishing five-decades-long directing career with the now classic 12 Angry Men, followed by such landmark films as Se...

For the video edition, click here and subscribe: https://youtu.be/4rngQIVY_bw The Pointer Sisters began their formal vocal training in their father's church, The Church of God in West Oakland, California. They went on to achieve worldwide fame and have secured a place in pop music history as a dynamic female group! Their first performance in Los Angeles at the Troubadour club was hailed by critics...

For the video edition, click here and subscribe: https://youtu.be/5SiecVwRlwQ Carter Calvert is best known for originating her role in the Tony-nominated, It Ain't Nothin' But The Blues on Broadway. The New York Times wrote, "Carter Calvert effervesces: her voice echoes chimes in the night" and "Her smoldering grip on "Fever" is positively dangerous". Ms. Calvert toured Europe in Smokey Joe's Cafe...

For the video edition, click here and subscribe: https://youtu.be/a-fDS836BRU In this very private diary, Rutanya Alda ("Carol Ann") delves into the art, the business, and the wild milieu of American cinema by taking you behind the scenes of Mommie Dearest to tell her story of drama and disarray on and off the set. Rutanya frames her diary with anecdotes of Robert Altman, Joan Crawford, Brian De P...

For the video edition, click here and subscribe: https://youtu.be/5r-szrN_tag For 5 decades Wayne Smith has been entertaining the world as a celebrity impersonator. Starting at the famous La Cage Aux Folles in Los Angeles portraying Marilyn Monroe, Dolly Parton and Cher nightly. Wayne has also guest starred on network television shows such as Blossom, WKRP in Cincinnati and many others. Doing show...

For the video edition, click here and subscribe: https://youtu.be/NIbgmd-VlKE Celeste Simone Interviews Richard Skipper! She asks the questions on YOUR mind! Celeste received her BM in Voice from the Manhattan School of Music. As a vocal teacher and coach Celeste has worked with Adam Chandler-Beret, Chita Rivera, Didi Conn, Sally Kellerman, Loni Ackermann, Elaine Joyce Simon, actress Amy Irving, c...

For the video edition, click here and subscribe: https://youtu.be/5stcaAOnbWY Certainly one of Hollywood's most glamorous ladies, Ruta Lee is also one of its most multifaceted and top-notched civic contributors. Born in Montreal, Lee is the daughter of a Lithuanian tailor. She was signed by MGM as the youngest of the Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and subsequently in Funny Face with Fred Astaire...

For the video edition, click here: https://youtu.be/4038Dkrp34w Coty Alexander is Madonna; Jack Bullard is Jack Nicholson; Carla DelVillaggio is Barbra Streisand; C.J. Morgan is Dolly Parton; and Robert Nash is Robert DeNiro. www.yobizshobiz.com www.cotyalexander.com www.instagram.com/yobizshobiz www.facebook.com/iconicblondtributes www.twitter.com/cotycoalexander http://www.jacknicholsonimpersona...

For the video edition, click here and subscribe: https://youtu.be/tky3rf6s-jM INCLUDES IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS WITH JOEL GREY, JOHN CULLUM, LEN CARIOU, BEN VEREEN, MICHAEL RUPERT, TERRENCE MANN, HOWARD MCGILLIN, BRIAN STOKES MITCHELL, MARC KUDISCH, MICHAEL CERVERIS, NORM LEWIS, WILL CHASE, CHRISTOPHER SIEBER, NORBERT LEO BUTZ, CHRISTIAN BORLE, RAÚL ESPARZA, GAVIN CREEL, CHEYENNE JACKSON, AND JONATHAN...

GET THE BOOK AUTOGRAPHED BY WILLIAM + 20 PAGES OF DELETED MATERIAL! USE DISCOUNT CODE RICHARDSKIPPER for 15% OFF at PATTYDUKEBOOK.COM Patty first gained national attention and praise playing Helen Keller in both the Broadway and film editions of The Miracle Worker. As identical cousins on The Patty Duke Show, her name became an American household word. Now, her indelible show business legacy echoe...

For the video edition, click here and subscribe: https://youtu.be/J6qeYpzfbkU The Everyday Goddess Revolution is a new movement of women choosing to awaken to their confidence, purpose, worth, and truth, feeling empowered – living life Goddess powered! Living Life Goddess Powered is a collection of wisdom infused stories from spiritual leaders around the world. The stories are inspirational and co...

For the video edition, click here and subscribe: https://youtu.be/ARwBzYj0iF0 PENNY FULLER most recently appeared on Broadway as the Dowager Empress in ANASTASIA, and as MOTHER in the revival of SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE with Jake Gyllenhaal. Her Broadway career began starring on BAREFOOT IN THE PARK, the musicals CABARET, REX, and APPLAUSE (Tony nomination for her “Eve Harrington"), The DINN...

For the video edition, click here and subscribe: https://youtu.be/iv1R9dSS2oY https://smile.amazon.com/Four-Hollywood-Husbands-Joyce-Bulifant/dp/0991385837 Joyce Bulifant’s extensive credits on stage and TV have made her a familiar face and popular personality. Most notably, as Marie on the “Mary Tyler Moore Show” playing Gavin MacLeod’s wife. Also, the film, “Airplane”, a Disney Musical, “The Hap...

For the video edition, click here and subscribe: https://youtu.be/p9O1YqYKwuM Corky Hale (Pianist, Harpist and Vocalist) was born in a small mid-western farm town and started taking piano lessons at age three. At age seven, while vacationing with her family in Florida, Hale was heard in the lobby of her hotel picking out tunes on the piano by House bandleader, Horace Heidt. Heidt had a little band...

For the video edition, click here and subscribe: https://youtu.be/mvqLJ8qDruE In this touching and often hilarious theatrical memoir, Ron Fassler tells the stories of how over a four-year span, between the ages of 12-16, he saw 200 Broadway plays and musicals for as little as $1.50 a ticket—and all from UP IN THE CHEAP SEATS. Such landmarks as Company, 1776, The Great White Hope, Hair, Follies and...

For the video edition, go here and subscribe: https://youtu.be/Rx2LLMFVV4E Uncle Ray said, "My life is loving people. It's a difficult kind of world to live in, but it's a great world, because I get satisfaction and I don't have any hang-ups about it! I belong to the people. As long as I can send them home saying, 'Gee, he made me feel happy, ' well, that's my life! That's what I work for, to give...

For the video edition, click here and subscribe: https://youtu.be/BxVfYt0hehQ Currently, Ann Kittredge has been producing and starring in an innovative, online program called Virtual Shorts that has been garnering rave reviews. Prior to this “theatrical intermission,” she has entertained New York and regional theatre audiences for decades. Numerous NY appearances include Dessa Rose at Lincoln Cent...

For the video version, click here and subscribe: https://youtu.be/nb00MWSrWHs RITA MCKENZIE is co-creator of her Off Broadway show, Ethel Merman’s Broadway.  Launched Off-Broadway at New York’s John Houseman Theater, Ethel Merman’s Broadway, has been dubbed the longest running one-woman show in theatrical history alongside its counterpart, Hal Holbrook’s longest running one-man show, Mark Twain To...

For the video edition, click here and subscribe: https://youtu.be/dQqtdGfaQZk MARGOT ASTRACHAN had an early career as a photo-journalist and was a protégé of Ansel Adams. Her first story was published when she was 20 years old and a journalism Student at Boston University. She is now a Tony and Drama Desk Award winning Commercial Theatrical Producer. Broadway: The Prom; A Gentleman's Guide to Love...

For the video version, click here and subscribe: https://youtu.be/QqleP30DAXU Sally Mayes made her Broadway debut in Cy Coleman’s WELCOME TO THE CLUB. Her performance won critical praise along with a Theater World Award and Outer Critics Circle nomination as one of Broadway's Outstanding Newcomers. On Broadway, Sally is perhaps best known for her performance in the Roundabout Theater revival of SH...

For the video version, click here and subscribe: https://youtu.be/-HsfLow5ukg This is the show in which therapy and entertainment come together to show artists how to not only cope in the age of COVID but also how to keep creating. Dr. Bloom and Richard Skipper are joined by Ilene Graff, Gustavo Herrera, and Jeri Kansas. ILENE GRAFF is a Grammy-nominated recording artist who is one of TV’s most be...