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John Lithgow in the news (reviews and interview)…We host him Oct 6 at Live Talks Los Angeles

We 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…

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Jane Lynch event, Oct 2 #1 on LA Downtown News “Don’t Miss List”

The 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”.

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Jane Lynch (at Live Talks 10-2)..More reviews, interviews…

An 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…

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Jane Lynch’s (at Live Talks 10-2) Happy Accidents book reviews, book excerpt– LAT, NPR

We 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…

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Jane Lynch (at Live Talks on Oct 2) — inside her book….

The 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…

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Story on Jane Lynch and her memoir in USA Today. We host her Oct 2 with Adam Scott.

Nice 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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Asking Questions at Public Events….

Some call it the ‘intelligence of the audience,’ yet sometimes it’s just not that.  We refer to the Q&A session after public talks or lectures.  At Live Talks Los Angeles, we look forward to them, as you never know what will come up, like the time on November 22nd, 2010,  when we hosted Roger McGuinn…

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John Lithgow interview in the NYT

We host John Lithgow on October 6 at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica.  Here’s an interview with Lithgow in the New York Times on September 2.  An excerpt: You mention that winning a Tony was one of the proudest moments of your life but then go on to say, “acceptance speeches are generally a…

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Renee Montagne to interview Steve Inskeep at Live Talks, October 24

We are happy to announce that Renee Montagne, the Los Angeles based co-host of NPR’s Morning Edition will be interviewing Steve Inskeep at our Live  Talks Los Angeles event on October 24th, at Track 16 at Bergamot Station in Santa Monica. Inskeep’s upcoming book explores how rural-to-urban migration has transformed one of the world’s most intriguing…

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Win a signed poster from our Hal Holbrook event (Sept 8)

We have partnered with a wonderful design creative group at The Half and Half to create unique collectible posters for some of our events. Here’s the poster they created for our Hal Holbrook event on September 8.  You could own one of these signed posters.  We will have a drawing among those who visit our Facebook…

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