The Originals

Los Angeles mag's "The Originals" is back for a summer frolic with Andrew's longtime obsession, Cybill Shepherd. Topics covered: her days with Peter Bogdanovich as the proto-Bennifer. How a ladybug c-blocked Jeff Bridges on the set of The Last Picture Show.  What Elvis was good at doing with his mouth besides singing. And a long, fascinating inquiry into the question of whether Cybill and Moonligh...

Chaka Khan has long held the title of "Queen of Funk," but after this appearance, shall also henceforth be known as the "Queen of Candor." Khan, who this year turns 70 and celebrates 50 years in the music business, joins Andrew and gets a few things off her chest. What's the one thing every performer who hopes to be successful must do? Why are men intimidated by her? What's the best way to steal a...

We put author, actor, and E Streeter Stevie Van Zandt on the couch on the eve of Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band's 2023 world tour. As we learned from Stevie's excellent 2021 memoir, Unrequited Infatuations , despite appearing to having lived the most charmed life imaginable, he spent decades being haunted by his early Eighties decision to leave the band of longtime best friend Springsteen o...

Miraculously, Andrew lures icon, 100 million+ record seller and 5 time Grammy-winner Dionne Warwick to the show. Warwick, the subject of the new CNN documentary, Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over,  brings her famous wry candor to the following topics: how Burt Bacharach blew it by bolting, what Isaac Hayes did right and Barbra Streisand did wrong, why she very nearly quit the business to teach in...

Legend and icon Sherry Lansing reminds us exactly what it took to become the first woman to be head of production of a studio, as she was at 20th Century Fox, and the first to become overall boss of a studio when she landed atop Paramount in 1992. Impediments covered: Everyone in meetings assuming you're sleeping with someone important and nobody in meetings listening to a word you say. How Fatal...

It's possible you've never heard of today's guest, veteran Hollywood producer Howard Rosenman, but after spending an hour with this master raconteur, you will never, ever forget him. Naturally, he'll share stories of producing such films as Sparkle , Father of the Bride and Call Me By Your Name , but it's the stories from his rich, turbulent life that will leave you amused, astounded, and occasion...

Probably most fun show yet. Andrew spends an eventful day with Emmy-winning actor Joe Pantoliano. Learn how Tom Cruise indirectly inspired Joe to seek rhinoplasty while doing Risky Business . Hear tales of very bad mothering, the wiseguy who fathered him and how a dyslexic, ADD afflicted "closeted actor" came out as a thespian and made his escape from Hoboken. Hear insight on why Joey identified w...

Minds will be blown by this latest episode, with Toni Basil, a true show business Zelig. Sure, we all remember Basil's 1981 hit, "Mickey." But it turns out this might be the least interesting part of her long career as a dancer, singer, and choreographer. Hear Toni's tales of: dancing with Frank Sinatra in 1964's Rat Pack vehicle Robin and the Seven Hoods , boogying in and helping choreograph Elvi...

Somehow, Andrew made it through 26 episodes of the pod without one single guest telling him to fuck off or referring to him as a "cocksucker." Thanks to novelist James Ellroy, this long national pod-mare is over! The celebrated 74 year-old author of The Black Dahlia came on to promote his new Audible Originals series, "James Ellroy's Hollywood Deathtrip," but was not at all interested in discussin...

Andrew Goldman is totally, embarrassingly unprepared for what this week's guest, comedian Ron White, discloses at the top of the interview. Spoiler ahead. Since appearing in The Blue Collar Comedy Tour , the Texas-born comedian has become one of the highest paid comedians in the world with an act that has consisted of him recounting his exploits as a hard-partying "amok-running motherfucker." Andr...

Agree with Observer critic Rex Reed that 2022 is "the worst year in history for Oscars"? If so, have we got an eyebrow-singeing hour for you. Not only does the 83 year-old icon give the business to Best Picture nominees The Power of the Dog ("I fell asleep several times") Licorice Pizza ("one of the worst movies ever made") and Belfast ("I couldn't understand more than every third word"), Reed rei...

Through absolutely no fault of this episode's guests, Andrew shares three interviews that now sound a little odd, a little untimely, maybe even a little creepy owing to the fact that they were all recorded before the deaths of Betty White, Norm McDonald and Halyna Hutchins (the cinematographer killed after the accidental discharge of Alec Baldwin's prop gun on the indie western, Rust ). First up,...

In light of Peter Bogdanovich's January 6 death, "The Originals" releases a never-before-heard 2019 interview in which the Oscar-nominated director narrates his own story. Candid, shocking, and often hilarious, Bogdanovich shares tales of the rapturous reception to The Last Picture Show , the sex that changed his life, the Cybill affair that ended his marriage, the mistakes that bedeviled his care...

A top-to-bottom reassessment of 1986 classic Pretty In Pink with Duckie himself, Jon Cryer. Which team was Duckie playing for? Was Duckie a stalker? Why did Molly Ringwald end up with Blane, "a major appliance" when he was obviously such a dud? Why were co-stars Molly Ringwald and Andrew McCarthy so lame on set to the Duck-ster? Plus, a ten-year retrospective on the testosterone (or was it oxy?) m...

Holiday special! Andrew breaks out the horn of plenty to celebrate Thanks-for-giving-us-the-hottest-sex-scene-ever with Jennifer Tilly, Oscar-nominated star of the groundbreaking, super-steamy lesbian thriller, Bound . Tilly, currently reprising her role as murderous doll consort Tiffany in Chucky on USA/SYFY, discusses her ambivalence about her decades-long close association with an evil piece of...

Scenes from a rock and roll marriage. In this super intimate episode, model and author Paulina Porizkova reveals everything you were ever curious to know about her marriage to The Cars' Ric Ocasek: what she first saw in him, why they lived together after separating, and why, upon his death, he attempted to disinherit her. Porizkova also shares her thoughts on Tyra Banks who fired her from America'...

Pre-gaming for the October 1 release of The Many Saints of Newark ? Trust us--this is the interview with The Sopranos creator David Chase you need to hear. Chase shares his surprising reaction to the death of James Gandolfini. Andrew timidly says Chase looks like a man who might have murdered dozens. Chase provides all the darkest, most hilarious stories about Norma, his mother, the inspiration fo...

A deep, dark, sometimes unsettling look into the mind of writer, director Paul Schrader, whose new film The Card Counter , starring Oscar Isaac and Tiffany Haddish hits theaters September 10.  The First Reformed and Affliction  director bears all—his bleak Calvinist upbringing, how his dad felt about his "porn" film, the days spent driving around LA with a fifth of liquor under the seat and a gun...

Andrew reignites his decades-simmering crush on Kristin Chenoweth, the diminutive Tony and Emmy winning performer with the ungodly soprano range, currently featured on Apple +'s Schmigadoon . Hear it all! The addiction to Jewish guys (Aaron Sorkin among them), the X-rated meteorological talent, the reason she wants to cut off a finger, her murderous rampage in the kitchen, clues about her secret f...

A rollicking special Pride episode with Emmy winner and COVID-19 breakout Instagram star Leslie Jordan. Jordan may be small (he's 4'11") and an actor (American Horror Story, Will & Grace), but he's never been a small actor. Those who only recently discovered his delightful social media presence will find a lot to love here—and guaranteed, you don't know a fraction of his story. Why did Truman Capo...

Moby, the biggest selling electronica artist in history, ponders the question: why did so many people hate my guts? Born Richard Melville Hall (so nicknamed because Moby Dick author Herman Melville's an ancestor) he grew up on food stamps in fancy Darien, CT, became an NYC DJ and released the huge-in-Europe dance single "Go" in 1991. Fame and fortune (and many threesomes) followed the release of 1...

You may or may not recognize his name, but you definitely know the pictures of, as he likes to call himself, "Paparazzo Extraordinaire" Ron Galella. There was that famous shot of " Fat Liz " [Taylor] at Studio 54, David Bowie and John Lennon at a Grammy afterparty, and Robert Redford rocking mirrored shades. He's however best known for his decades long pursuit of Jackie O, which resulted in his mo...

Remember 2014's McConaissance? Thanks to a newly-unearthed and beautifully brutal Trump interview and her cameo in  The Undoing , 2020 marks the beginning of Connie Chung's  Connie ssance. The 74 year-old news legend brings a Gatorade cooler full of tea to spill on and about, among others, grumpy, frumpy scene partner Hugh Grant, former TV pal David Letterman, onetime  CBS Evening News  co-anchor...

Goddamned national treasure Michael J. Fox brings his special brand of optimism to the show. Topics: his new book, No Time Like the Future , why Coors light, and not Parkinson's threatened his marriage, how sick to death of he is of hearing the words, 'be careful.' Plus! Why, even though Rush Limbaugh was a huge a-hole to him, he won't be dancing on his grave. Fox hates most of the trappings of be...

Steve Madden, the creative honcho of the eponymous shoe giant, details his tireless quest to vanquish all of his rivals and lay claim to every female foot on planet earth. Andrew digs heels in his heels to explore Madden's incredible rise and fall and rise again tale, from his Long Island childhood as mom's least favorite, to his lude -icrous drug years, to his adventures alongside "Wolf of Wall S...