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February 27, 2025 • 13 mins
The Nebraska native talks about how great Gene Hackman was before revealing the poignant and person reason he's supporting the upcoming Art & Soup fundraiser for the Visiting Nurse Association.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott VORGIEZ we welcome back here to news Radio eleven
ten kfab from Falling Giant Films, Omaha's own Randy Jay
Goodwin is back here, and Randy co starred with Gene
Hackman in Bonnie and Clyde, which was amazing because that
came out several years before you were born. Yes, you

(00:23):
played the fetus right now. I'm kidding. I've been all
morning trying to connect you with Gene Hackman somehow, and
you guys are connected your actors, and it turns out
you and I have yet another thing in common in
addition to being incredibly successful and good looking. We're both
big fans of Gene Hackman.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
Yes, yes we are.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
He's definitely one of my favorites, going all the way
back to when I did start with him in The
French Connection.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
That's right, you know.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
He edged you out in the Academy Award nominations that
year and ended up winning Best Actor and didn't work
out for you, not yet. But no, tell me, tell
me what you think about someone who can go that
beautifully between playing a villain you love to hate to
a good guy who you're just really not sure because

(01:15):
he's got to get a little devilish twinkle in his eye. Yeah,
to whether it's a coach or even a ridiculous role
like in Young Frankenstein. I mean, Gene Hackman did it
all Westerns action, Crimson Tide, my.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
Gosh, Enemy of the State was one of my favorites
with him. He made Will look good.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
That was early Will Smith movie. And yeah, that's a
good movie too. But yeah, absolute power was. I mean,
it doesn't matter what he does because he's never been bad.
Everything is stellar that he does. He's one of the
the quintessential, most believable performers to ever take the screen. Yeah,

(01:59):
I'd watch, I'd sit, I'd pay twenty dollars to sit
and watch Gene Hackman eat a ham sandwich. That's how
compelling that guy. I bet he would eat a ham
sandwich with you. You would feel empathy for both him
and the sandwich. Yes, and he would have kind of
a burning kin of tension, like what's going to happen

(02:19):
to this ham sandwich?

Speaker 3 (02:20):
Well, I can tell you that ham sandwich hands down
would lose in an oscar race with him.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
That's right.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
Gene Hacklan was amazing ninety five years old. I didn't
even realize he was ninety five, and until I looked
it up and I was like, wow, man, I mean
I can't say this enough though. I mean, you find
out he died at ninety five, and you're like, ah, yeah,
he's ninety five. Then you find out it's probably carbon
monoxide poison. You're like, well, then you find out his

(02:48):
wife and dog too. His wife is only in her sixties.
And now that's I mean, when someone dies at the
age of ninety five, it can be sad, but it's
also a cell brace, right. But the situation with his
wife an accomplished musician, pianist, that's that's amazing. So yeah,
that's that's super sad. We'll get more details on that

(03:10):
out of New Mexico probably today. You have yet something
else in your background that I'm learning about you, and
I'm always learning about you. You lived in your car
for a short time when you were trying to make
it as an actor. Yeah, I presume that's how it
usually goes, Right, It's a little stereotypical, isn't it.

Speaker 3 (03:32):
Well, I'm just thinking, well, I had a car pretty basic. Yeah,
it wasn't the best car. It was a it was
a Fiat spider convertible and the top was you know,
people think it doesn't rain in southern California. It rains,
especially in the winter. And I had this top that leaked.
And it's a two seater, so you have a little
jump seat in the back, but all my clothes were
back there, so I'd have to sleep sit sitting up

(03:55):
like this, and I didn't have much wiggle room. I'm
not a little guy, and it would just drip on
my leg and I couldn't sleep. So I literally sit
up half the night.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
You know, just.

Speaker 3 (04:08):
Looking at the other homeless people sleeping on the benches
in the park and stuff.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
But you know, the good thing is.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
I'm imagine that you sat there thinking, what am I doing.
I got it, I'm going home to Omaha. I got
a home in Omaha. Nope, you were all in.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
I was all in.

Speaker 3 (04:22):
And that that's when I when I'm talking to groups
of actors and it was just bill in general who
want to be in the industry, and I just tell them,
I go, look, I had the choice.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
I could have gone home.

Speaker 3 (04:33):
You know, my family does pretty well here and everyone
owned something that I could have come back and made
my six figures and had a good life, you know,
but I decided to stick it out and have a better.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
Life a lot of times. I mean, certainly there are
those overnight success types that get really, really lucky. But
it's not the actors who are successful when they get
that breakout role and they do a great job with it.
It's all the overcoming the opposite. Just to be in
a position where you're even in a casting call for
all the roles that preceded it. Yeah, you know, and

(05:06):
then you finally get to that point. That's why so
many people who are described as an overnight's success just
laugh and go, you have no idea what some of
my overnights look like.

Speaker 3 (05:16):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely, But that's that's the thing, is going
through the adversity and being able to stick it out.
There's a lot of talent, a lot of people there.
There's there there's probably one actor out there that might
be better than me, and I'll give it.

Speaker 1 (05:32):
Well, he just died, Gena. Yeah, that's it. Now you're
at the top of the list rather than that he,
which makes me wonder, did you kill Gene Hackman? Where
were you last night? What are the flights from Santa
Fe to Omaha? Look, I was fixing his car and
something with the muffler.

Speaker 2 (05:49):
And yeah, so.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
I like, how I'm I'm calling you off from the
horrible scenario I started. I make you look like the
bad guy, Randy, please have.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
That's a quintessential producer in Hollywood. You started it.

Speaker 1 (06:06):
Going here with Randy J. Goodwin, Omaha's own very successful
actor Vampire Diaries. I also I saw that. I looked
at this thing here. I said, Dynasty. Oh yeah, so
they did. They redid it. They redid Dynasty. Yeah, it
was for five years. They redid Dallas. That but that
was that was a while ago. Yeah, I don't knew Dallas.

(06:30):
It was a few years back. I didn't know about
the what the Kolby's and the Carrington's.

Speaker 2 (06:35):
Yeah, the Carrington's.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
Were you a Kobe or you Carrington?

Speaker 3 (06:38):
I was married to a Carrington, Michael Michelle. Yeah, I
was married to her, and I was I was just
there to steal the money.

Speaker 2 (06:47):
So you did that too? Uh?

Speaker 1 (06:51):
And Randy's like, do you do any show prep before anything? No,
I just learned on the fly. We all learned together here.
But one thing I did know in advance of this
particular conversation is you and I have a shared affinity
for not just the organization doing this event, but the
event itself. Art and Soup is the annual tastiest, best

(07:14):
smelling fundraiser every single year, and you're this year the
honorary chair. It's a fundraiser for the Visiting Nurse Association.
How did that association come to be?

Speaker 2 (07:25):
Well?

Speaker 3 (07:25):
I have I have awesome employees. I don't even call
them employees. They work with me.

Speaker 1 (07:31):
Because you don't pay them. Yeah, pretty much call them employees. Well,
these few, oh yeah they're employees. No, But Pam Perry,
Pam is, she's awesome. She's one of my favorite people.
She's she writes our grants, grant director, she runs our office.
She basically takes care of us giant children me, Todd

(07:55):
and Corey, Michael and Alec.

Speaker 3 (07:57):
Yeah, we we don't grow up. Come on, Scott, don't
grow up. We just get older.

Speaker 1 (08:01):
I just imagine what it's like in the office every day, Like,
should we do some real workers, Should we make yet
another fun video telling you what it is that we
would do here if we weren't showing you what was exactly?

Speaker 3 (08:12):
Yeah, and then I just jump on a plane and
go back to La and go to Florida and do
something and then they come back. But doctor Carol Patrick,
who is over the VNA, she and Pam are good friends,
and Pam says, hey, Randy, Randy, get Randy to you
should meet him. And so we met and it was

(08:33):
a no brainer because I love doing stuff like this.
My older brother, he just passed away literally funerals last week.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
Man, I'm so sorry to hear that. Thank you. He
was taking care of my nurses for the last fifteen years.
You know.

Speaker 3 (08:48):
He had a stroke, so he was in a facility
and I got built nurses because I couldn't do it.

Speaker 2 (08:55):
There's no way. They are special people.

Speaker 3 (08:57):
And with the VNA Visiting Nurse Association, you know, in
this event, we have to raise money because they are
not funded by the state or they're not you know,
we have to raise it so that they can continue
to send these nurses into people's homes who don't have insurance,
into homeless shelters, into women's shelters. You know. I mean,

(09:22):
there's kids, there's every Realistically, everybody is one step or
one breath or one blink away from needing a nurse
for the rest of their lives. You never know because
my brother didn't think it. He I mean, I can
guarantee you he never thought he'd end up in a
bed for the last fifteen years of his life, and
he needed them to take care of them. So this

(09:43):
is very important, very important to me. Some of the
artists that are going to be there are friends of
mine as well. In that prep connection. Dude, it's just nuts.
A couple of guys will be there. But it is
the twenty eighth annual Art and Soup fundraiser. It is Sunday,
March ninth, from two to five pm.

Speaker 1 (10:01):
If March ninth sounds like a long ways away, that's
a week from Sunday, right, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (10:07):
It's it came up quick, and uh, it's gonna be
a lot of fun. It's it's at the Omaha Design Center.
You're gonna have all these chefs right now, there's twenty
and even our guy Marty from eighty eight Tactical. I
call Marty, I go Marty, I need you to make
some soup. He's like, I'll make soup. Make some soup.
He's got this this I likepop.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
Hey, yeah, give me. Do you understand that?

Speaker 1 (10:30):
References like eighties Eddie Murphy comedy reference for this segment,
I'm Larry Holmes like thoop like my favorite throop is
the cable thop.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
My favorite it's the gap. If the gap, that's what
it was.

Speaker 3 (10:45):
Anyway, So Larry Holmes will not be at the event,
just so you know, nor will Eddie Murphy.

Speaker 2 (10:51):
We don't know that. We don't know. I do have
to rule it out.

Speaker 3 (10:54):
I do have a couple of people coming in from LA,
so you know you'll see them if you come. Uh so, yeah,
you might want to jump on the v and a
website and get your tickets. Because these chefs and their soups. Oh,
I'm gonna eat, I'm gonna eat. They expect me to
do some talking. Yeah, it is so good.

Speaker 1 (11:15):
You're just sampling dozens of soups and a variety of soups,
and and and then they have a competition, including the
People's Choice Awards or who's got the best soup? That
usually is dependent on the weather. If it's nice weather,
you know, something like a chicken noodle never gonna win.
But if it's cold and bat out there, chicken noodle
wins every time. It's funny how that you know soup

(11:37):
is is part of us, part of who we are,
and so you got the art as well. The artists
are there and you can buy any of the art.
There a variety of different forms of art on display
and for purchase, and the proceeds go back to the
Visiting Nurse Association this year at the Omaha Design Center
downtown fifteenth and coming visit VNA today dot org slash

(12:01):
Art and Soup. V n A today dot org slash
Art and Soup coming up a week from Sunday, March ninth,
two to five. Honorary Chair Randy J. Goodwin will be
there with every Hollywood actor you can think of. A
ka is Goodizzel that.

Speaker 2 (12:21):
Dizzel? Yes, I thought it was Bado.

Speaker 1 (12:28):
No no, no, not as long as that Kia commercials
it was a Kia it was or Scion not as
long as that commercial. Chrysler p T it was a
PT Cruiser. As long as that commercials on YouTube. Bet
Randy J. Goodwin, Hey, thank you very much for coming
in here. Pleasure talking to you about this v n

(12:51):
A today dot org slash Art and Soup and for
more on Fallen Giant Films.

Speaker 2 (12:55):
Fallen Giant Films dot com. Just that easy.

Speaker 1 (12:58):
Thanks, Randy always treasure

Speaker 2 (13:00):
Maned Scott Voorhees, News Radio eleven ten kfab
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