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Video clips from Jane Lynch and Adam Scott at Live Talks Los Angeles, Oct 2

Here are some video clips from our event on October 2 at Club Nokia at L.A. Live featuring Jane Lynch in conversation with Adam Scott. Full video coming soon. Enjoy, share…Here’s a link to the cool poster  our friends at The Half and Half did for the event.

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Darrell Hammond interviews Darrell Hammond…We host him Nov 17 at Live Talks

Here’s a Funny or Die video if Darrell Hammond interviewing Darrell Hammond on his memoir, God If You’re Not Up There, I’m F*cked.  We host him November 17 in conversation with Fred Willard at Track 16. More info and tickets here.. Enjoy the video: Darrell Hammond on Darrell Hammond from Darrell Hammond  

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Adam Gopnik & and his book on food in the media…We host him Nov 3 at Live Talks

Very much looking forward to our event with Adam Gopnik this Thursday, November 3 at Track 16 at Bergamot Station. He’ll be in conversation with director/producer Ed Zwick.  Ticket info here.  Here are links to some reviews and write-ups on Gopnik and his new book, The Table Comes First: Family, France and the Meaning of…

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Harry Belafonte memoir reviewed in NYT… Belafonte appears with Tim Robbins at Live Talks on Nov 28…

Harry Belafonte’s memoir, My Song is reviewed in the New York Times today by Garrison Keillor.   Belafonte appears in conversation with Tim Robbins at Live Talks Los Angeles on Nov 28. Ticket deets here… Here’s an excerpt: Here is a gorgeous account of the large life of a Harlem boy, son of a Jamaican…

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Harry Belafonte sings duet with Stephen Colbert…we host Belafonte on 11-28

Belafonte appeared on The Colbert Report last night.  The Los Angeles Times has a bit on it.  Here’s an excerpt: Colbert pressed Belafonte on why he used his “banana-counting fame” to enact social change. “Why not just be rich and lusted after? That’s what I do.” Belafonte replied, “I thought that the community from which…

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Jerry West Q&A in Los Angeles Times…We host him at Live Talks Oct 18

There are some tickets left to see Jerry West discuss his memoir with Peter Guber tomorrow, Oct 18, at Track 16 at Bergamot Station.  Get ’em here.  Here’s a link to a Q&A the Los Angeles Times did with West.  Here’s an excerpt: Kobe Bryant worked out for you at Inglewood High that year, with…

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Harry Belafonte documentary on HBO on Oct 17 (at Live Talks on 11-28)

Harry Belafonte documentary airs on HBO on Oct 17.  Here’s a piece in Bloomberg on the doc.  Here’s an excerpt: And he blended his artistry with activism, playing a key role in the civil rights movement alongside such leaders as the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. as well as then-Attorney General Robert Kennedy (whom he…

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Harry Belafonte, The Sunday Conversation in the LA Times….At Live Talks Nov 28

We host Harry Belafonte at Live Talks Los Angeles on November 28. Ticket info here.  He appears on the Sunday, October 16 Los Angeles Times in The Sunday Conversation series.  An HBO documentary, Sing Your Song, about him airs Monday, October 17. Here’s an excerpt: Most Americans alive today didn’t live through segregation in this…

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Steve Inskeep — All Things Considered interview….We host him Oct 24 at Live Talks LA

For all you NPR fans and listeners of Morning Edition, we are pleased to be hosting Steve Inskeep in conversation with his Morning Edition co-host, Renee Montagne, Oct 24th at Track 16.  Ticket info here. He was on All Things Considered yesterday.  Hear the piece here, and read about it.  Here’s an excerpt: Pakistan’s port…

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Jerry West (at Live Talks Oct 18) debates Magic Johnson on greatest Lakers team..

Next Tuesday with Jerry West in conversation with Peter Guber should be fun.  The whole NBA contract issues getting to you? Come get your fix. Magic Johnson and Jerry West, in a Los Angeles Times piece debate their favorite all time Lakers teams.  Video in the Los Angeles Times link also. Here’s an excerpt: Even…

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