Vicki Abelson's Broadcast: The Road Taken

Columnist, TV correspondent, talk show host, actor, author, award-winning producer, Aj Benza, created his successes and parlayed one to the next. We dish about his moxie, hustle, and his ongoing reinvention. A great storyteller, he shares behind the headlines of Michael Jackson and Frank Sinatra, to name but two. We laugh. We learn. Produced by Louise Palanker​ Engineered by Dj Markson Sound Edited by Georg Brandl Egloff This week's show is sponsored by MP84 Video and Photo Archiving. Get your old VHS tapes transferred to video swiftly, and inexpensively. Also available on: iTunes apple.co/2dj8ld3 Stitcher bit.ly/2h3R1fl and tunein bit.ly/2gGeItj

Carole Bayer Sager... Oscar, Golden Globe, and Grammy Winner for Song of the Year, which she wrote with Burt Bacharach, has written over 400 songs, She wrote the Broadway musical They're Playing Our Song with Marvin Hamlisch and shared her life as well the music with both collaborators. Her just dropped Best Seller of the same name is a raw to the bone revelation of her life behind the glamor and success. We talk men, mother, music, food, celebrity, highs, lows, heartache, and, finding happiness. Fun and forthcoming, we laugh a lot, but, there's meat on these bones. This week's show sponsored by MP84 Video and Photo Archiving. Get your old VHS tapes transferred to video in time for the holidays. 310-753-5799. Produced by Louise Palanker​ Sound Edited & Engineered by Dj Markson Also available on: iTunes apple.co/2dj8ld3 Stitcher bit.ly/2h3R1fl and tunein bit.ly/2gGeItj

This week's guest, Alan Zweibel, an original writer on Saturday Night Live, It's Garry Shandling's Show, and Curb Your Enthusiasm... funny behind Gilda, Belushi, Crystal. From his first joke to his latest and a load of the in between... he made us howl! This week's show sponsored by MP84 Video and Photo Archiving. Get your old VHS tapes transferred to video in time for the holidays. 310-753-5799. Produced by Louise Palanker​ Sound Edited & Engineered by Dj Markson Also available on: iTunes apple.co/2dj8ld3 Stitcher bit.ly/2h3R1fl and tunein bit.ly/2gGeItj

Constantine Maroulis rocketed to stardom on American Idol, went on to star on Broadway in Rock of Ages and Jekyll and Hyde, was Tony and Drama League Award nominated, respectively, and continues to thrive as an actor and singer. We talk about how overnight success came, what it felt like, how it changed him and his life, and, how he's one of the very few to parlay it into an ongoing successful career. How we came to meet... and, he sings to us. Yowza! Produced by Louise Palanker​ Sound Engineer Dj Markuson This week's show sponosred by Quik Impressions​. The best printers with the best customer service. quikimpressions.com Also available on: iTunes apple.co/2dj8ld3 Stitcher bit.ly/2h3R1fl tunein bit.ly/2gGeItj short

Actor, author, activist, and friend, Evan Handler​, at his relaxed best, with open heart and fiercely intelligent mind, talking career, miraculous recovery from grave illness, and the road ahead in this "new normal." This week's show sponsored by MP84 Video and Photo Archiving. Get your old VHS tapes transferred to video in time for the holidays. 310-753-5799. Produced by Louise Palanker​ Sound Engineer Dj Markson Also available on: iTunes http://apple.co/2dj8ld3 Stitcher http://bit.ly/2h3R1fl tunein http://bit.ly/2gGeItj short

Howard Kaylan, lead singer of The Turtles, the Eddie half of Flo and Eddie... starting wih Zappa's Mothers of Invention, went on to record nine albums of their own, host their own radio show, and then Howard wrote Shell Shocked... http://amzn.to/2eOGrdf and read a piece at Women Who Write just before it dropped. We had a lot of stuff to talk about. This man is fun and funneeeeee. This week's show sponsored by Quik Impressions. The best printers with the best customer service. http://quikimpressions.com/ Also available on iTunes http://apple.co/2dj8ld3

Illeana Douglas has appeared in some of the greatest movies of all time, Goodfellas, Cape Fear. starred in Grace of My Heart, created Easy to Assemble, wrote the smash, I Blame Dennis Hopper... and so much more. We talk about where she came from, how she did it, and what still drives her... Orginally aired on Vicki Abelson's BROADcast: The Road Taken, Tues, Oct 25th, 6 pm PT/ 9 pm ET on The Conversations Radio Network. This week's show sponsored by Quik Impressions. The best printers with the best customer service. http://quikimpressions.com/ Archived shows on available on iTunes http://apple.co/2dj8ld3 And, on SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/vickiabelson Produced and engineered by Justin Lebens

NY Times Bestselling Author, They Call Me Supermensch, Shep Gordon ~ talking rock, food, pot, and crazy coincidences... like running into each other in the reals at Nobu in New York, the day after the BROADcast, even though Shep lives in Maui and I live in LA. Fun! So is the show. Come, laugh with us. Creator of RockStars and RockStar Celebrity Chefs, from Alice to Emeril. Originally aired on Vicki Abelson's BROADcast: The Road Taken, Tues, Oct 18th, 6 pm PT/ 9 pm ET. This week's show sponosred by Quik Impressions​. The best printers with the best customer service. quikimpressions.com Also on iTunes apple.co/2dj8ld3 Quik Quip Preview https://youtu.be/AYby7IOzd8Y Video by Samantha Abelson

Bob Cowsill of The Cowsills... Hair, The Rain, The Park And Other Things... the real life Partridge Family, upon who the show was based. Bob's Women Who Write appearance was KILLER... the most YouTube hits by far, still receiving comments, almost daily. This show is also FAB! Originally aired on Vicki Abelson's BROADcast: The Road Taken, Tues, Oct 11th, 6 pm PT/ 9 pm ET on the Conversations Radio Network. This week's show sponosred by Quik Impressions​. The best printers with the best customer service. http://quikimpressions.com Also on iTunes http://apple.co/2dj8ld3 Quik Quip Preview https://youtu.be/JuZdt3N8VxI Photo and video by Louise Palanker

Saturday Night Live Alum, Gary Kroeger, currently running for the Iowa House of Representatives, talks about the climb, his lifelong associations with Julia Louie Dreyfus and Brad Hall... how they broke the big time and how that led him back home to run for public office. And, we laugh. A lot. This week's show sponosred by Quik Impressions, The best printers with the best customer service. http://quikimpressions.com Vicki Abelson's BROADcast: The Road Taken, originally aired, Tues, Oct 4th, 6 pm PT/ 9 pm ET on Conversations Radio Network. Now Archived shows are available on iTunes http://apple.co/2dj8ld3 Produced by Justin Lebens

Tom Bergeron, host of Dancing With The Stars, America's Funniest Home Videos, the first man to grace Women Who Write 8 yrs ago and change our history, sat down and dished... as he mapped his path. There was laughter! Lots! Mr, In The Moment, brings the funny to everything he does... that's one of the not secrets of his success. 47 Quick Quip Edited by Louise Palanker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0QkAX_Swsg This week's show sponosred by Quik Impressions, The best printers with the best customer service. http://quikimpressions.com

Phil Rosenthal, creator of Everybody Loves Raymond, one of the most successful sitcoms of all time, and THE most successful sitcom in Russia (Phil documented that transition in his hysterical, Exporting Raymond), is one of my favorite human's on the planet. My go to guru for where to eat anywhere in the world.... his, I'll Have What Phil's Having (streaming on Netflix), combines his passions for human connection, the funny and the yummy, and is not only a great food show, it's one of the most entertaining shows on television. Ever. Period. We talk about how this aspiring actor from New York shifted gears to become a Writers Guild Award, Peabody Award, and a James Beard Award, Winner, living his dreams. And, why he carries Springsteen's picture in his wallet. Vicki Abelson's BROADcast: The Road Taken 43 Second Quick Quip Preview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPjdJ6N6Cdk Sponsored in part by Gina L. Mulligan's, Remember the Ladies http://amzn.to/2d1QqL3 Photo by Sonja Sones

Craig Bierko star of UnReal, Cinderella Man, Scary Movie 4, Tony Nominated for The Music Man, bares his heart, soul, spirit & silly... with plenty of charming loveliness as he navigates the way through his successes and, other stuff.

How did a white Jewish girl from Detroit write arguably the most successful funk song of all time?!? How do I know?!? Wait... I do... funfabulous replay with Grammy and Tony Winner, Allee Willis, Slap-happy thrilled to have sat down with brand-spanking new Tony Award Winner for The Color Purple. Allee wrote September, Boogie Wonderland, the theme song for Friends, and, a gazillion other hits. She has great stories, is a fantastical storyteller. Such a fun chat!

Drew Nieporent, New York's Most Influential Restaurateur... https://www.linkedin.com/…/nycs-most-influential-restaurate… Robert DeNiro's partner in all things food... Multi-James Beard Award Winner, Restaurateur of the stars... Nobu times many, TriBeCa Grill, and The #1 Best New Restaurant in NY, Batard. Drew's knowledge of music matches the food thing. One of my oldest and closest friends, we got into how the hell he's done it. Big fun.

The brilliantly funny, Wendy Liebman, maps the steps which led her to The Larry Sanders Show, The Tonight Show, Letterman, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, her own Showtime special, Taller on TV, and America's Got Talent. And, we laugh. A LOT. I adore her. Who doesn't?!?

Renaissance man, Robert Wuhl, from Hollywood Knights, Good Morning, Vietnam, Tim Burton's Batman, Field of Dreams, to his own genius, pioneering HBO series, Arli$$, to his current Ipso Facto Podcast...winning two Emmys for writing the Academy Awards... the Billy Crystal ones. I know, talks the talk of the walk he walks. He's been dishing the smart & funny since writing for Dangerfield back in the day and killing the late night talkshow circuit himself. This was FUN! And funny.

Best known for his roles on Supernatural, Deadwood and Justified, Jim Beaver's IMDB gave me scrollers cramp… guest shots and recurring roles on everything from Breaking Bad, and Better Call Saul to Dexter. Writer, director, actor, marine, sweetheart… there was lots to talk about… and he’s such a great storyteller, smart as shit, and entertaining as hell. So, we yakked for 90 minutes. The take-away is gold. Photo by Louise Palanker

Emmy & Golden Globe nominated actor, Rob Morrow, sat down with me and discussed his journey from high school drop-out to artist living his dreams… humble beginnings, an unlikely mentor… to a plethora of opportunities. How being a “yes” man has paid off. Photo by Linda Abse Original air date: 8/1/16

Anson Wiliams pays tribute to Garry Marshall, who changed his life and affects his every day… and, shares how he blends creativity and commerce. And, there's me, me, and more me. I know. And, we laugh. A lot. “The whole thing about instincts and feelings….. and listening to our guts, it's sort of like the difference between being a leader or a follower I loved the whole thing, and you were right on top of it actually one step ahead of him one of the best interviews I've heard!!!" ~ Rhonda Rae Feury Photo by Linda Abse