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Bob McCullough & Suzanne Herrera McCullough, creators of www.WhereHollywoodHides.com, host this one-of-a-kind intimate behind-the-scenes podcast conversation about the best years Classic TV, movies and music. They have plenty to tell you about how they broke into Hollywood and have survived in the most exciting and challenging business in the world! Bob & Suzanne are showbiz industry veterans with more than 200 primetime television and film credits who openly share their stories from inside places like Paramount Studios, MGM, 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros., Disney Studios, and Universal Studios , where they worked their way up the Hollywood ladder. You’ll hear about their experiences in the gritty world of Rock-and-Roll working alongside iconic bands performing at The Whiskey A-go-go, The Starwood, and The Palamino Club...as well as the backstage concert fun with Van Halen and David Lee Roth. Listen in and learn how they got into The Writers’ Guild of America, Screen Actors Guild, and The Directors Guild of America, had agents from CAA and ICM on their side, worked with producers like Lew Wasserman, Jerry Bruckheimer, Glen Larson, Stephen J. Cannell, and Aaron Spelling... navigated among networks like ABC, NBC, and CBS, and became intimate collaborators with celebrities like Lana Turner, Jane Wyman, Lorenzo Lamas, Jackie Collins, Bill Murray, Peter Boyle, and even Roddy Piper and Jesse Ventura. You’ll hear how they worked with and rubbed shoulders with movie and TV stars like Kirk Douglas, Goldie Hawn, Sammie Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Johnny Carson, Jonathan Winters, Rick Springfield, Lee Majors, Farrah Fawcett, Robert Loggia, Joe Pesci, Robert deNiro, and hundreds of other fabulous actors and actresses. Bob’s career started with “Mission: Impossible” and “Mannix”, and came to include writing, producing, and directing on hit television series like “BJ & The Bear”, “Six Million Dollar Man”, “Bionic Woman”, “Eight Is Enough”, “Galactica”, “Falcon Crest”, “Hollywood Wives”, “Airport”, “Star Trek”, “Highlander”, “Kung Fu”, “JAG”, “Baywatch”, and dozens more, while Suzanne was cast in shows like “Fantasy Island”, “Falcon Crest”, “The Young and The Restless”, “Magnum, P.I.”, “Kojak”, “Barreta” and “The Incredible Hulk”. From writing, directing, producing, and acting in some of the most well-known TV shows and films of a generation—as well as working overseas on international television series hits like “High Tide” and “Zorro”--they hold nothing back as you hear what life in Hollywood is really all about. Hear about their latest career moves, their movies and TV pilots currently in development, and the opportunities everyone has in new media, internet video programming, cable and broadcast television, and in foreign co-productions. If you want to know how to get your own showbiz career off the ground, these Hollywood stories and practical tips just might give you the inside track to "breaking in and moving up" from that first job to a creative and rewarding career in Hollywood. It's an entertaining and educational trip into the world of classic television, film, and music, so join the party!

Episode List

#31 David Gray: From The Kinks & Steeley Dan to The Oscars

Oct 20th, 2014 7:47 PM

From his early days in small town New England as an "electronics nerd", always tinkering with the family record player and stereo receiver, David Gray's professional career began as the guy repairing damaged speakers at the local drive-in movie theater for pocket change piecemeal wages. David was an entrepreneurial "hippy" in college, promoting campus concerts and booking up-and-coming folk singers and rock bands...who all depended on his sound system technical skills. While still in college, 19-year old David found himself on a national tour with The Kinks, where one of his jobs was repairing the band's beer-drenched sound gear. In this podcast, you'll learn what it takes to actually make a world-wide Rock & Roll tour a reality, as David recalls his gigs as concert tour sound engineer for Mahuvishnu Orchestra, Steely Dan, Linda Rondstadt, The Kinks, and Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention. David tips his hat to the live performance talents of The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, and shares the reason why they were so great in concert. With "life on the road" behind him, David was one of the early engineers drafted by Dolby Sound just as Star Wars put the company on the map. He then found himself working on movies ranging from Sex, Lies, and Videotape and 200 Motels to mega-hits Die Hard, Flashdance, Footloose, and Predator. Always at the intersection of talent and technology, David has been recognized by The Motion Picture Academy as one of the industry's leading innovators in bringing film sound and music into the 21st Century. David shares details of the recent introduction of Dolby's Atmos and true "3D sound" to movie theaters around the world, and gives genuine inspiration to anyone looking to break into the tech world of "movie sound".

#30 Paul Petersen: Actor, Singer, Author, Activist

Oct 7th, 2014 2:53 AM

Bob & Suzanne have a candid and free-wheeling conversation with Paul Petersen, once a child actor and pop music teen idol, now a prominent social activist and prolific novelist, and the driving force behind "A Minor Consideration" working on behalf of young performers everywhere. Breaking into show business as one of the original Mousketeers on Disney’s Mickey Mouse Club, Petersen went on to a co-starring role on one of the most iconic television series of all time, The Donna Reed Show, playing what he describes as “the classic gap-toothed wisecracking younger brother”. Paul recalls the professional acting lessons he learned performing opposite movie greats Cary Grant and Sophia Loren in Houseboat, and then from Emmy-winner Carl Betz and Oscar-winner Donna Reed on The Donna Reed Show. He then shares the gritty real-world of Hollywood studio casting when The Donna Reed Show went off the air after eight years, and he suddenly went from young star to struggling actor. Articulate and painfully honest, Paul pulls no punches, telling his story with compelling intelligence and honesty. You won’t forget hearing about the day that Hollywood legend Mickey Rooney literally showed up unannounced at his doorstep to give him the keys to a successful and fulfilling life. What follows is a story of strength, stamina, and personal transformation. The lessons Paul Petersen shares on this podcast should be heard by every “stage mother” and by all talented kids with dreams of making “the bigtime” in Hollywood. This is the story of a "kid with talent" who became an iconic television star and international teen idol... and then walked into the halls of academe and a career as a novelist and social activist. It's a tale as dramatic and compelling as any of Paul's TV and movie roles...and it’s rooted in the bottom-line reality of show business. If you’ve ever worked in the entertainment industry...or if you have dreams of someday breaking into television, movies, or music at the professional level, this interview with Paul Petersen is no to be missed!

#29 Actress Shelley Fabares

Sep 25th, 2014 4:48 PM

From television, to movies, to hit records...Shelley Fabares has done it all, and she continues to do so with unmatched grace, humility, and instinctive talent. One of Hollywood’s most enduring and beloved leading ladies, Shelley openly shares the details of her childhood as a department store “fashion model”, and how that led to her first television appearance at the age of 10. In constant onscreen demand from an early age, she appeared in more than 50 television series, from early classics like Annie Oakley to her breakthrough role on The Donna Reed Show. Shelley shares memories of her eight years playing “Mary Stone” and working closely with TV legends Donna Reed, Paul Petersen, and Carl Betz, and then describes the unique experience of becoming an international teen idol with the release of her #1 hit recording of Johnny Angel. As the only female co-star to appear in three of Elvis Presley's movies (Clambake, Girl Happy and Spinout), Shelley describes what it was like meeting “the King” for the first time...and how she still thinks of him as her “favorite leading man”. Shelley then goes on to recount her adult life as an actress on shows like Love, American Style, The Rockford Files, and Fantasy Island and her professional joy working opposite James Caan in the era’s most memorable television movie, Brian’s Song. This is an intimate, open-hearted dialogue with a legendary actress as she shares the realities of Hollywood’s type-casting in the Sixties while giving us a real sense of the personal and professional values that brought her years of success on major hits like One Day at a Time and Coach. It's an engaging conversation with a truly classy lady as she reveals the personal side of the Hollywood "actor's life" that you won’t want to miss!

#28 "The Equalizer" Creator and Television Producer Michael Sloan

Sep 14th, 2014 2:35 AM

Michael Sloan was born into a British theatrical family and raised amid the smell of greasepaint and the sound of applause. Bob and Suzanne’s conversation with Michael starts with his youth as a budding actor and his early adventures writing and producing his own independent feature films. Michael’s story then demonstrates his unique creative instincts as he describes how he got his first major primetime television break writing for Columbo, a credit that propelled him toward a meteoric career path at Universal City Studios and beyond. Sloan’s credits soon ranged from BJ & The Bear (where he gave Bob his first primetime writing gig) and Quincy to McCloud, Battlestar Gallactica, Sword of Justice, and The Return of The Man From Uncle... to name only a few of hundreds! His was the producing and writing “juice” behind unforgettable shows like Kung Fu: The Legend Continues and the contemporary Alfred Hitchcock Presents. And as if his hundreds of writing and producing credits weren’t enough, Michael was also the creator of one of television’s most highly-acclaimed suspense and action series, The Equalizer—now a major motion picture starring Denzel Washington set to appear in theaters worldwide. Almost as “throwaway” in the interview, Michael reveals that his wife—actress Melissa Sue Anderson of Little House on the Prairie fame—first suggested Denzel Washington in the role of The Equalizer’s “Robert McCall” a full seven years before the movie went into production…and then we learn that Michael’s new novel The Equalizer has just debuted in bookstores everywhere. With great wit and humor, the lessons Michael Sloan shares in this podcast are truly bricks of gold on the road to Hollywood success!

#27 Producing "by the numbers" with Dennis Brown

Sep 8th, 2014 8:32 PM

Suzanne and Bob reveal the latest news about their new book, Where Hollywood Hides: Santa Barbara Celebrities in Paradise, and then talk to award-winning Hollywood producer Dennis Brown. Dennis tells a uniquely personal story that saw him go from “small town boy” to a studio accounting department, and then to the pinnacle of Hollywood success...with career highlights along the way that include getting hired by Grant Tinker (who would later build MTM Productions with his wife Mary Tyler Moore), surviving the destruction of United Artists Studio by Michael Cimino's Heaven’s Gate, and eventually being nominated for an Emmy. During the course of his amazing career, Dennis has supervised multiple Academy Award and Emmy Award-winning projects, has shot film on every continent on the planet. The major stars he’s worked with include Jerry Seinfeld, Lindsay Wagner, Farrah Fawcett, Liza Minelli, Tom Selleck, Burt Lancaster, Peter Fonda, Leonard Nimoy... and in this interview, you’ll learn which actor holds a special place in his heart. While sharing the one-work "key" to becoming a successful independent movie producer, in a candid and emotional moment Dennis reveals what has truly mattered most to him in building his career. Throughout the interview, you’ll hear what it takes to plan a Hollywood career and how “the Hollywood dream” can become a reality. It’s an easy-going intimate conversation about an incredible life working behind the scenes in Hollywood...and one you won’t forget!

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