**TO BE RESCHEDULED** David Milch, Emmy-Award winning writer and producer. Milch visits Live Talks Los Angeles to talk about his writing career and his new HBO series, Luck, starring Dustin Hoffman and directed by Michael Mann. Among Milch’s credits are: Hill Street Blues, NYPD Blue, Deadwood, Brooklyn South.

The persona of George Costanza, created by versatile actor/writer/director Jason Alexander, has been dubbed by Entertainment Weekly as one of the “Best Television Sidekicks of All Time” (#3 actually, behind Robin and Tonto). Join us for an evening of conversation discussing his award winning career on stage, television and the movies.

Eric Weiner is author of the New York Times bestseller “The Geography of Bliss.” A longtime “spiritual voyeur,” he realizes that while he has been privy to a wide range of religious practices, he’s never seriously considered these concepts in his own life, but faced with his own mortality, he undertakes a worldwide exploration of religions in search of a personal understanding of the divine.

HARRY BELAFONTE, one of the greatest entertainers of our time has led one of the great American lives of the last century. Join us for this special evening as this extraordinary icon shares his memoir, My Song — a story of his life, the struggles, the tragedies, and, most of all, the inspiring triumphs.

Join us for what will be a hilarious evening with Darrell Hammond. His upcoming memoir, God, If You’re Not Up There, I’m F*cked: Tales of Stand-Up, Saturday Night Live, and Other Mind-Altering Mayhem, is a raw look inside the life and mind of an American comic genius.

Adam Gopnik, the award-winning writer for The New Yorker, has launched a quest for the meaning of food….. The Table Comes First: Family, France and the Meaning of Food is Gopnik’s new conversation about the way we eat now. He traces how we’ve lost sight of a timeless truth: that what goes on around the table — families, friends, lovers coming together & conversation — is always more important than what we put on the table.

Join us for an evening with Steve Inskeep and Renee Montagne co-hosts of NPR’s Morning Edition…..In his upcoming book, Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi, he explores how rural-to-urban migration has transformed one of the world’s most intriguing places, the booming commercial center of Pakistan. He looks at the perils and possibilities of one of the most rapidly growing metropolises in the world.

Jerry West — “Mr. Clutch” — is one of basketball’s towering figures: the coach who began the Lakers’ resurgence in the 1970s; the general manager who helped bring “Showtime” to Los Angeles, creating a championship-winning force that continues to this day. He now tells his story in his memoir, West By West.

Deepak Chopra and Leonard Mlodinow first met in a Caltech debate on “the future of God,” one an articulate advocate for spirituality, the other a prominent physicist. War of the Worldviews: Science versus Spirituality is the product of that serendipitous encounter and the contentious—but respectful—clash that grew out of their friendship.

Winner of five Emmys, two Tonys, two Golden Globes, and a two-time Oscar nominee, John Lithgow is one of the most acclaimed and beloved. Equally adept at comedy and drama, stage and screen, Lithgow is also a noted storyteller, with eight children’s books Now, with DRAMA: An Actor’s Education, Lithgow shares his own story.