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Continue ReadingWe host Harry Belafonte at Live Talks Los Angeles on November 28. His memoir, My Song, comes out Oct 11. USA Today had a feature on him today. Here’s an excerpt: But when this octogenarian sits down to discuss his new projects — a memoir titled My Song (Knopf, $30.50), out Tuesday, and the related documentary Sing Your…
Continue ReadingWe host Deepak Chopra and Leonard Mlodinow at Live Talks Los Angeles on Oct 11 at All Saints Church in Pasadena. Click here for event details and tickets. From a column in the October 3 San Francisco Chronicle. Here are some excerpts: “Cosmos” used to mean God, or the gods, sitting in Heaven looking down on…
Continue ReadingIn todat’s New York Times is a review of Hal Holbrook’s memoir — whom we hosted on September 7 — and John Lithgow’s memoir, Drama: An Actor’s Education, whom we host on October 6. Ticket info here… An excerpt from the review on Lithgow’s book: “Drama” is a brisk book, packed with funny stories. Lithgow…
Continue ReadingWe host John Lithgow on October 6 at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica. Ticket info here. He’ll be in conversation with Geoff Boucher of the Los Angeles Times. Excerpts from review and interviews with Lithgow follow… From the Wall Street Journal: Why did you decide to write a memoir? In fact, there was another stage, the first…
Continue ReadingThe Los Angeles Downtown News out this weekend has picked our event with Jane Lynch in conversation with Adam Scott as the #1 “Don’t Miss List”.
Continue ReadingAn interview with Jane Lynch (whom we host on Oct 2 at Live Talks), in PARADE today….And another in the Washington Post. And here’s an excerpt from an interview in The Atlantic: With characters you’ve played like the one in Best in Show or Sue on Glee, the comedy is mined from their extreme personalities. When you play such…
Continue ReadingWe host Jane Lynch who hosts the Emmy’s this weekend on Oct 2 at Live Talks in conversation with Adam Scott (Parks and Recreation). She appears on NPR’s Morning Edition today, and there is also a review of Happy Accidents on NPR. Hear the piece and read the review here. Here’s an excerpt from the…
Continue ReadingThe Daily Beast has a piece titled “14 Juiciest Bits From Jane Lynch’s Memoir.” We host Jane Lynch Oct 2 in conversation with Adam Scott, so get yer tickets. Here’s a couple of the Daily Beast items: A Happy Days star helped launch her career. In the summer of 1974, 14-year-old Lynch called into a Chicago-based radio…
Continue ReadingNice piece on Jane Lynch with a video element in USA Today. We host her October 2 in conversation with Adam Scott (Parks and Recreation) and her former cast member on Party Down. Here’s a couple excerpts: The book, a story that evolved from a series of personal speeches Lynch made to gay organizations, chronicles…
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