Where Hollywood Hides: Television | Movies | Music | Show Business | Writing | Producing | Directing | Acting
Bob McCullough & Suzanne Herrera McCullough host an intimate behind-the-scenes podcast conversation about what life in Hollywood is really all about. 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.
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October 28, 2021 • 67 mins
With an athletic background as a competitive figure skater, Duncan Regehr became a classically-trained Shakespearean stage actor before venturing to Hollywood. Once there, it didn't take him long to win roles in major films and TV series.
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June 8, 2021 • 67 mins
Ruta Lee is back for another sizzling, no-hold-barred conversation in which she "dishes" about her incredible Hollywood career.
Ruta is the star of more than 200 TV shows, dozens of feature films. This up-close-and-personal interview features tales about her friends like Rona Barrett, Phyllis Diller, Julie Newmar, Lucille Ball, Sally Fields, Gypsy Rose Lee (no relation) and her best friend and founder of Thalians, Debbie Reynolds.
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April 13, 2021 • 67 mins
Here's an intimate conversation with Academy Award winner George Chakiris...truly a triple threat as an actor, dancer, and singer. Chakiris has won multiple awards, including an Oscar and a Golden Globe Award for his dynamic role as Bernardo in the film classic, West Side Story.
This legendary star has worked with showbiz icons like Cyd Charisse, Mitzi Gaynor, Donald O’Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Danny Kaye, Bing Crosby, Gene Kelly, R...
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March 7, 2021 • 67 mins
In this free-ranging interview, you'll hear the incredible story of Mark Stouffer, winner of multiple Emmy Awards and more than 75 International Awards as a filmmaker.
As the producer-director of nearly two dozen feature films, television specials, and hit TV series, Mark Stouffer's inspiring story is unique in all of show business.
Still in his teens, Mark rode his motorcycle from his backwoods Arkansas hometown to California wher...
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December 1, 2020 • 67 mins
Here’s an inspiring, free-flowing conversation with this generation’s most gifted and dynamic actress-singer.
Linda Purl grew up in Japan and when she returned to the U.S. in her late teens as a trained actress, she quickly came to the attention of audiences nationwide in the long-running TV soap The Secret Storm.
That was the beginning of an incomparable career that has earned her hundreds of film and television credits including ...
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October 16, 2020 • 67 mins
Born and raised in St. Louis, MO, Alan J. Levi began his filmmaking career at age 15 when he produced and directed a half-hour 16mm black-and-white comedy entitled "Keep Your Spirits High" while a sophomore in high school. Finding no one who would hire this aspiring director, he organized his own company, "Petite Productions," which was financed entirely by his fellow schoolmates, and with a grand total of $256 in operating costs, ...
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February 5, 2020 • 28 mins
This podcast interview features show business legend Ruta Lee sharing stories about how she broke into Hollywood with roles in iconic movies like Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Witness for the Prosecution, and Sergeant’s Three. You'll hear about her 40-year career as a guest star in nearly every TV show on the air, from Perry Mason and Rawhide to The Twilight Zone...as well as co-hosting quiz shows with Alex Trebek and appearing ...
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November 10, 2019 • 43 mins
Chinatown, Marathon Man, Rosemary’s Baby and Wayne’s World are just the tip of the iceberg on the list of this star producer's credits. Starting at the bottom rung of the Hollywood ladder as a lowly production assistant, eventually becoming President of the Producers Guild of America and the Motion Picture Academy, the story and career of Hawk Koch is is the stuff of showbiz legend.
In this intimate conversation, Hawk announces pub...
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September 18, 2019 • 32 mins
Legendary actress Dee Wallace has more than 200 feature film credits that include Blake Edwards' 10, The Howling, Cujo, The Hills Have Eyes...and her iconic performance in Spielberg's E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial.
In this fast-paced interview, Dee talks about working with major Hollywood directors like Peter Jackson, Wes Craven, Joe Dante, Rob Zombie, and Steven Spielberg...and reveals the one director who truly inspired her career.
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August 24, 2019 • 42 mins
Here's a high-energy conversation with Ilene Graff, the Grammy-nominated recording artist best known as the co-star of the long-running ABC-TV series Mr. Belvedere.
Starting as a Broadway understudy and "pit singer," Ilene went on to star in I Love My Wife, Charley's Aunt, Cabaret, Grease, and Annie Get Your Gun. She came to Hollywood to appear on hits like Barnaby Jones, Laverne & Shirley, Mork & Mindy, Three's Company, St. Elsewh...
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April 17, 2019 • 30 mins
This entertaining, joke-filled interview with comedian and impersonator Rich Little has Bob and Suzanne breaking up in laughter throughout the conversation.
Rich shares details of his childhood and early years as the ultimate “class clown” and talks about driving his teachers crazy by imitat...
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November 23, 2018 • 50 mins
Marc Pariser is a former William Morris and CAA television packaging agent who represented a broad spectrum of talent ranging from writers, directors, producers, and production companies. If you're a writer, director, producer, or actor looking for an agent, you need to hear what Marc has to say...
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July 14, 2017 • 57 mins
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January 2, 2017 • 63 mins
You can count on one finger those industry professionals who have transitioned from a career as a stuntman climbing the faces of Mount Rushmore in Hitchcock’s North by Northwest to that of Hollywood’s “go-to” television director.
That man is Ray Austin, whose work as a director includes episodes on every hit TV series from the 1960s to the present day.
In this incredibly entertaining conversation with Bob & Suzanne, Ray shares inti...
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November 10, 2016 • 39 mins
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June 12, 2016 • 45 mins
In this informal and highly personal conversation with Bob & Suzanne, Lorenzo Lamas shares intimate stories of his childhood as the son of legendary movie stars Fernando Lamas and Arlene Dahl and as the stepson of MGM super-star Esther Williams.
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April 14, 2016 • 39 mins
Gregory Harrison’s commitment to his acting craft runs strong and deep.
In this insightful interview, Greg tells a story that takes us from his life as a dinner theatre bar bouncer-actor to acting classes at the Stella Adler Academy, to early roles that took him to the pinnacle of TV, film, and stage stardom.
You’ll hear how...
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March 1, 2016 • 74 mins
Actor Greg Evigan—best known as the star of the hit TV shows B.J. and the Bear and My Two Dads—has an intimate conversation with Bob & Suzanne that reveals a singular talent and a genuine commitment for all things “showbiz”.
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February 23, 2016 • 81 mins
Barry Katz is Hollywood’s premier talent manager, with a client list that reads like The Hollywood Walk of Fame.
In this intimate conversation, you’ll hear how Elvis Presley was a factor in developing Barry’s amazing work ethic…and how, even as a child, his creative instincts and empathetic nature made him the “everything’s gonna be okay guy”.
As you listen to Ba...
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February 20, 2016 • 53 mins
Lisa London joins Bob & Suzanne and delivers a message every actor needs to hear!
Lisa is the daughter ...
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