Rarified Heir Podcast
233 episodes - English - Latest episode: 7 days ago - ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsHost Josh Mills brings together a wide variety of adult children of celebrities for a fun, funny, bizarre, jaw-dropping, strange and wonderful look behind celebrity, by the people that know them best: their very own children.
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Episode #179: Charlie Matthau (Walter Matthau)
April 23, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour - 120 MBToday on another encore edition of the Rarified Heir Podcast we are talking to Charlie Matthau, son of actor Walter Matthau. We spoke to Charlie about his amazing father & their special relationship but also his incredible mother, actor/author Carol Matthau. We quickly learn that she was (wait for it), the basis for Truman Capote’s Holly Golightly from Breakfast at Tiffany’s. There is one small difference between the character and the person however and we discuss that too. We also discuss C...
Episode #178: Patrica Weidenfeld (Pat Cooper) (Part Two)
April 16, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour - 177 MBToday on part two of the Rarified Heir Podcast, we continue our conversation with Patti Weidenfeld, daughter of stand-up comedian Pat Cooper. If you heard part one of our conversation last week, prepare yourself for part two because the second half of Patti’s story is unlike anything you have ever heard before. An idyllic life as the only child of Pat Cooper and her mother Patti Prince, comes to a screeching halt after seeing Mickey Rooney and Ann Miller in Sugar Babies on Broadway at age ...
Episode #177: Patricia Weidenfeld (Pat Cooper) (Part One)
April 09, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour - 118 MBToday on the Rarified Heir Podcast we are talking to Patti Weidenfeld, daughter of comedian/actor Pat Cooper. An entertainer for more than 50 years, Pat Cooper was known as a ‘comedians comedian’, someone who other comedians look up to as a genuine talent and a show business icon. Born in Coney Island Brooklyn, Pat Cooper embodied the Mad Men era comedy scene up until last year when he passed away at age 93. What Jackie Mason was for Jewish comedians, Pat Cooper did for Italian comedians. An...
Episode #176: Ed Eckstine (Billy Eckstine)
April 02, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour - 146 MBToday on the Rarified Heir Podcast we are talking to Ed Eckstine, son of singer Billy Eckstine and actress/model Carolle Drake. Our conversation with Ed was fun, fascinating, edifying and above all, full of stories of his life as the child of a celebrity but also his own career in the music industry. Our only regret was not keeping Ed for another 90 minutes because he has stories for days. We barely scratched the surface. Part two is a must. Many of us only know Billy Eckstine as a jazz & ...
Episode # 175: Alison Martino (Al Martino) (Part Two)
March 26, 2024 10:00 - 56 minutes - 91.4 MBToday on part two of our encore episode of the Rarified Heir Podcast, we again talk to Alison Martino, daughter of singer Al Martino and guardian of her beloved LA and her Vintage Los Angeles social media properties. And because both Alison and host josh Mills are die hard denizens of the city of angels, there is a lot (and we mean a lot) of hand wringing over the changes that have happened to the city over the last few decades. Of course we continue our conversation about what it was like...
Episode #174: Alison Martino (Al Martino) (Part One)
March 19, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour - 112 MBToday on another encore edition of the Rarified Heir Podcast, we are talking to Alison Martino for the second time about growing up the daughter of singer/actor Al Martino. As the founder of Vintage LA, Alison has created an online juggernaut that has hundreds of thousands of fans wanting to know more about significant current landmarks as well as lost LA as well. We spoke to Alison in part one of this conversation on the heels of the Paramount+ series The Offer, which is based on the alle...
Episode #173: Katharine Kramer (Stanley Kramer)
March 12, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour - 141 MBToday on the Rarified Heir Podcast, we are talking to Katharine “Kat” Kramer, daughter of producer/director Stanley Kramer. Now, you might have heard of a few films Stanley directed like The Defiant Ones, Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner, Judgement at Nuremberg, On the Beach and a comedy called It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. So it’s appropriate that this episode is airing two days after the Academy Awards. Why? Because Stanley Kramer’s films have received more than 80 Academy Award nominations...
Episode #172: Matt Axton (Hoyt Axton)
March 05, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour - 152 MBToday on the Rarified Heir Podcast we are talking to Matt Axton, son of singer, songwriter, commercial pitchman and actor Hoyt Axton. If you’re first thought is that Hoyt Axton was the dad in the film Gremlins, you’d be correct but you’d only be scratching the surface of this well rounded entertainer. We learn from Matt how his father wrote the smash hit “Joy To The World” made popular by Three Dog Night, how he became the house performer in the 1960s at the world famous Doug Weston’s The Tr...
Episode #171: Denise Gautier (Dick Gautier)
February 27, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour - 167 MBToday on the Rarified Heir Podcast, we are talking to Denise Gautier, daughter of singer, comedian and painter Dick Gautier. As we discuss, many folks remember Dick Gautier as Hymie the Robot from the 60s sitcom Get Smart but as you will find out Dick Gautier was no one trick pony. He was a Tony award nominee for his role as Conrad Birdie in the original cast of the Broadway hit Bye, Bye Birdie, he wrote several books and several volumes of books on painting and caricature and he was a groun...
Episode #170: Daisy Torme & James Torme (Mel Torme, Janette Scott) (Part Two)
February 20, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour - 152 MBToday on part two of our encore episode of the Rarified Heir Podcast, we continue our conversation with guests Daisy Torme and James Torme. And that can only mean one thing: more great stories about growing up the children of The Velvet Fog, Mel Torme, one of the greatest voices in all Jazz history. We speak to Daisy and James not only about their father but also their mother, actress Janette Scott. Terrific stories abound. We hear about spending the Summer in Los Angeles with their dad, a...
Episode #169: Daisy Torme & James Torme (Mel Torme, Janette Scott) (Part One)
February 13, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour - 121 MBToday on another encore edition of the Rarified Heir Podcast, we are talking with Daisy Torme and James Torme, the children of singer/musician Mel Torme actress Janette Scott. This episode was a true pleasure to record as not only were there terrific Mel & Janette stories but also some great stories about out host, Josh’s dad as well. You see Mel and Martin Mills were buddies from as far back as the fifties who were runnin’ young guns in the entertainment business in New York during the Eise...
Episode #168: Sam Nelson (Ricky Nelson, Ozzie Nelson, Harriet Nelson) (Part Two)
February 06, 2024 11:00 - 50 minutes - 81 MBToday on Part two of our interview with Sam Nelson on the Rarified Heir Podcast, we talk about what it was like being the son of Rick Nelson and grandson of Ozzie & Harriet Nelson about growing up, well, Nelson. On part one we discussed with Sam how he became the keeper of the flame for the family business as the archivist & producer for the TV show & new DVD box set The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. But on this episode, Sam opens up to us about all sorts of things. From the wonderful...
Episode #167: Sam Nelson (Rick Nelson, Ozzie Nelson, Harriet Nelson) (Part One)
January 30, 2024 11:00 - 52 minutes - 83.9 MBToday on the Rarified Heir Podcast, it’s part one of our interview with Sam Nelson, son of the great Rick Nelson, nephew to David Nelson and grandchild of Ozzie and Harriet Nelson If you grew up in America in the 1950s The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet defined post War America. It was a massive hit and ran for 14 years. We take a deep dive into the restoration and recent release of the complete, 435 episode DVD box set of The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. Beginning as a radio show in the...
Episode 166: Radames Pera (Lisa Pera / Leeza Vinnichenko) (Part Two)
January 23, 2024 11:00 - 50 minutes - 81.2 MBToday on part two of our interview with Radames Pera, we continue our conversation with the former actor known best as Grasshopper from the TV-series Kung-Fu. Believe us when we say, we wish we had another hour or two with Radames to get to all the stories that make up his own story, that of his mother’s story and that of his absentee father whose invention became a worldwide success that he unfortunately didn’t patent it. On this episode, we discuss the Coogan law, a law that if you don’t...
Episode 165: Radames Pera (Lisa Pera / Leeza Vinnichenko)
January 16, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour - 114 MBToday on the first part of a two part episode of the Rarified Heir Podcast, we are speaking to Radames Pera whose name you might know as well as that of his mother actor Lisa Pera. Because this episode is so jam packed – and we honestly didn’t even get to half of the stuff we wanted to talk about- so we split this episode into two parts. On this episode, we discuss Radames’ being a child actor in not one but two of the 70s most beloved television series. He is best known as young Caine or Gr...
Episode # 164: Nicky Trebek (Alex Trebek)
January 09, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour - 134 MBToday on this encore edition of the Rarified Heir Podcast we are talking to Nicky Trebek, daughter of Alex Trebek. Our conversation with Nicky was a fun one as host Josh Mills grew up on the same street as Nicky in the freewheelin’ 1970s San Fernando Valley and as we discuss those years as a starting point and off we went. Along the way we had many wonderful tangents including what famous director and his actress wife lived on that street, the personal connection their parents had with the I...
Episode #163 Rachel Haden (Charlie Haden)
January 02, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour - 122 MBToday on the Rarified Heir Podcast we’d like to wish you a Happy New Year 2024 with this encore episode for first episode of our third season. Our guest today is talking to musician Rachel Haden about her father, influential jazz bassist Charlie Haden. Rachel was kind enough to talk to us about so many things including her memories of growing up as a triplets and going for walks with jazz trumpeter Don Cherry when the Haden’s lived in New York. This led us down the path of many other genres ...
Episode #162: Luke Yankee (Eileen Heckart)
December 26, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour - 137 MBToday on the Rarified Heir Podcast, we are talking to a Connecticut Yankee in Hal Prince’s Court. And while that might not make sense to you now, believe me, it will after you listen to this episode with guest Luke Yankee. Son of Oscar winning actress Eileen Heckart, Luke talked to us about his mother with great affection as well as great humor. You see Eileen didn’t suffer fools gladly and it made for some very pointed (but funny) asides which we read about in his book about his mother Just...
Episode # 161: Jenny Brill (Charlie Brill, Mitzi McCall), Shawn Kay (John Kay), Carnie Wilson (Brian Wilson, Marilyn Wilson)
December 19, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour - 142 MBToday on the Rarified Heir Podcast…we bring you something very different. Today, we mixed up our format and decided to bring on three previous guests who have been on the podcast individually to see how it would work when we brought them all together. It was a bold experiment. Today we bring you Jenny Brill, Shawn Kay and Carnie Wilson, three friends who have known each other (and our host Josh Mills) since they were in pedal pushers. We really did try and get off on the right footing here a...
Episode #160: Donavan Freberg (Stan Freberg)
December 12, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour - 187 MBToday on the Rarified Heir Podcast, we are talking to professional photographer Donavan Freberg, son of actor, musician, author, advertising executive, comedian, musician & radio personality Stan Freberg & mother Donna Freberg. On the first part of this episode, we learn from Donavan about his years growing up in a somewhat dysfunctional (his words) but very loving home (also his words). We learn that every day was Christmas in the Freberg home and that school was more of an suggestion than ...
Episode #159: Pamela Dillman (Bradford Dillman, Suzy Parker)
December 05, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour - 171 MBToday on the Rarified Heir Podcast we are talking to someone who frankly, we didn’t know we absolutely needed to talk to a month ago. We are talking to actress/voice over artist Pamela Dillman. Pamela’s father was actor Bradford Dillman and her stepmother was supermodel, Suzy Parker. Yes, THAT Suzy Parker. But what makes this episode so special, at least for host Josh Mills, was that Pamela grew up with and was best friends with Josh’s sister Mia Kovacs. Sadly, Mia passed away in 1982 so the...
Episode # 158: Lili Haydn (Lotus Weinstock, David Jove) (Part Two)
November 28, 2023 11:00 - 51 minutes - 82.8 MBToday on part two of our interview with Lili Haydn on this episode of the Rarified Heir Podcast, we continue our story about how Lili grew up in the most unconventional way in Hollywood and came out of it a Grammy winner in spite of the amazing conclusion we discuss today. In part one, Lili gave us the background on her mother Lotus Wienstock who was a trail blazing stand-up comedian who wrote books like The Lotus Position & opened The Comedy Store’s Belly Room for female comedians. She f...
Episode #157: Lilli Haydn (Lotus Weinstock, David Jove) (Part One)
November 21, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour - 103 MBToday on the Rarified Heir Podcast, we take a listen to part one of our conversation with Lili Haydn, the Grammy winning composer and performer who has perhaps the most fascinating and most brutally honest story we’ve ever recorded. It was so jam packed and unbelievable that we didn’t even get a chance to ask her about what it was like starring in Easy Money with Rodney Dangerfield and Joe Pesci. And if you are a listener to this podcast, does that sound like something Josh would pass up? W...
Episode# 156: Dinah Manoff (Lee Grant)
November 14, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour - 108 MBToday on the Rarified Heir Podcast, we are talking to actress and author Dinah Manoff. It was a real thrill to talk to Dinah about her own career – in iconic films like Grease and Child’s Play as well as her television career on shows like Soap and Empty Nest but we also loved talking about her mother, actress/director Lee Grant who is still with us at age 95. Or is it 97? Dates vary on the World Wide Web but either way we get to hear some fantastic stories about growing up the daughter of s...
Episode # 155: Rain Pryor (Richard Pryor)
November 07, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 117 MBToday on another encore edition of the Rarified Heir Podcast, we talk with Rain Pryor, daughter of the great comedian, writer and actor Richard Pryor. When you talk about stand-up comedy, Richard Pryor is a shoe-in to be on the Mount Rushmore of stand-up comedians. To this day, the legacy and humor Richard Pryor left behind is second to none and we talk about that with Rain along with much more. Like her father, Rain does not pull punches and she doesn’t have an issue speaking her mind. We...
Episode # 154: Janine Taninbaum, Michael Ritz (Harry Ritz) (Part Two)
October 31, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 93.2 MBWelcome to another encore episode of the Rarified Heir Podcast – our Halloween edition – with part two of our interview w/ Janna Taninbaum and Michael Ritz, the children of comedian Harry Ritz of The Ritz Brothers. On this second half of our interview, we talk about some of the hijinks Harry got up to as a performer and as a father as well. Like what you ask? Janna tells us about life in Las Vegas growing up with her dad and his vanity plate in the 70s, we hear some terrific stories about ...
Episode #153: Janine Taninbaum & Michael Ritz (Harry Ritz) (Part One)
October 24, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 86.4 MBToday on another encore edition of the Rarified Heir Podcast, we bring you part one of our interview w/ the children of zany comedian Harry Ritz, Janna Taninbaum & Michael Ritz. The reason this became a two part episode was because of some terrible technical issues which forced us to abort our initial conversation and pick it up two days later. What’s that old showbiz adage, “Never give a sucker an even break?” No, that’s not it, it’s “The show must go on” and true to their showbiz roots, Ja...
Episode # 152: Larry Straus (Charlotte Rae)
October 17, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 120 MBToday on the Rarified Heir Podcast, we speak to Larry Strauss, son of actress Charlotte Rae. To say we were more than a little surprised at how many of you connected to this episode with all of you comments, likes and metrics, is an understatement. You really took a liking to this one and why not? Larry was incredibly open about how both his mother and Josh’s mother both shared the stage in the Broadway musical Li’l Abner, about an indiscrete moment between Cloris Leachman and Martin Bal...
Episode # 151: Anne Marie Snyder (Tom Snyder)
October 10, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 118 MBToday on another encore edition of the Rarified Heir Podcast we are talking to Anne Marie Snyder, daughter of the great Tom Snyder. We selected this very episode for this very date because on October 15 it will mark the 50th anniversary of the Tomorrow show. And if that’s not a reason to raise your glass and toast one of the greatest talk show hosts in history with a colortini, I don’t know what is. When we originally ran this episode, it quickly became one of our most listened to episodes...
Episode #150: Eric Bonerz (The Return) (Peter Bonerz)
October 03, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 128 MBToday on the Rarified Heir Podcast we are talking, for a second time to Eric Bonerz, son of actor/director Peter Bonerz. We spoke to Eric a while back and what started out as a fun connection to our time together as kids at the Oakwood School became a pop culture potpourri of 1970s LA, celebrity, movies, film, trivia, television, music, weird video stores and more. In fact, there was so much to talk about, we didn’t get to all of it so on this episode, we were able to go back to some of the ...
Episode #: 149 : Rachel Pollack (Sydney Pollack)
September 26, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 116 MBToday on another encore episode of the Rarified Heir Podcast, we talk to Rachel Pollack, daughter of actor/director Sydney Pollack. We talk to Rachel about some truly amazing experiences that only a child of a celebrity could tell you. Like what you ask? How about being on set of Out of Africa IN AFRICA with Meryl Streep and Robert Redford and still wishing you were home in LA with your high school boyfriend? Or having to tell your dad who Dave Matthews was before a meeting? When your dad’s ...
Episode #148: Cleto Escobedo III (Cleto Escobedo)
September 19, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 123 MBToday on another encore edition of The Rarified Heir Podcast we are talking to Cleto Escobedo III, who is the bandleader for late night talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live! We talk to Cleto about his years growing up in Las Vegas with Jimmy when his pop, Cleto Jr. was head of a fantastic live band, Los Blues who performed for years in the lounge of the Sahara Hotel doing sets well into the early morning. A 4am slot might not seem ideal to you but both Jackie Wilson and Sammy Davis Jr. sat in with th...
Episode #147: Noopy Rodrigues (Rose Marie, Bobby Guy)
September 12, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 178 MBToday on the Rarified Heir Podcast, we are talking to Noopy Rodrigues, daughter of comedian and singer Rose Marie and trumpeter Bobby Guy. Talking to Noopy was a fun and lively experience because the thing that became clear from the word go was how many connections we had that we didn’t even know about. From Broadway theaters our mom’s performed in, being brought out on stage by famous entertainers when we were likely not even in Kindergarten, strong single mothers who raised their families ...
Episode # 146: Peter Knego (Peter Coe, Rosalee Calvert)
September 05, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 174 MBToday on the Rarified Heir Podcast we are talking to Peter Knego, whose parents actor Peter Coe and Model/Actress Rosalee Calvert really come alive in the conversation you are about to hear. What’s our connection? Well Rosalee was in two films with Edie Adams, Josh’s mother and both Peter and Josh both went to the same high school. But listening to Peter talk about everything from his firsthand accounts of Mel Brooks and Ed Wood to James Galanos and Sparks – herein lies the the story of his ...
Episode #145: Kathleen Marshall & Scott Marshall (Garry Marshall) (Part two)
August 29, 2023 10:00 - 37 minutes - 60.8 MBToday on another encore bonus edition of the Rarified Heir Podcast, we talk to last week’s guests Kathleen Marshall and Scott Marshall, again this week. And again we learn first-hand what it was like to grow up the daughter and son of director Garry Marshall & the niece and nephew of actor director Penny Marshall. This episode picks up where last week’s episode ends with tales about school nap time and Lord of the Flies, growing up in Hollywood and the hermits of the Hollywood Hills and th...
Episode #144: Kathleen Marshall & Scott Marshall (Garry Marshall) (Part one)
August 22, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 135 MBToday on another encore edition of the Rarified Heir Podcast, we talk to Kathleen Marshall and Scott Marshall, the daughter and son of director Garry Marshall & the niece and nephew of actor/director Penny Marshall. We loved talking to two fellow albums of the Oakwood School which host Josh Mills attended with them because it was a great chance to reconnect and talk about all things Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, Mork and Mindy and a few pilots that didn’t really make the grade. We did get...
Episode #143 Sara Ballantine (Carl Ballantine)
August 15, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 125 MBToday on another encore episode of the Rarified Heir Podcast, we are talking to Sara Ballantine, daughter of comedian and magician Carl Ballentine. Or how some of you may know him: The Amazing Ballantine. Or maybe it’s The World’s Greatest Magician. Whatever the case, you might also remember Carl from his “magic act” or stints on McHale’s Navy, episodes of The Monkees, films like Speedway with Elvis Presley or via master magician David Copperfield who is a massive fan of Carl Ballentine. W...
Episode #142: Cory Tyler (Willie Tyler & Lester)
August 08, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 149 MBToday on the Rarefied Heir Podcast encore edition, we are talking to Cory Tyler, son of ventriloquist Willie Tyler & Lester. Taking to Cory was a great thrill as his dad was one of those celebrities you saw constantly when we were growing up - from successful runs on stage, to network television, on cable TV and even one place we did not know about - vinyl. Yes there is a fairly tough to find comedy album released when his dad was signed to Motown Records. In fact, we talk to Cory about this...
Episode # 141: Dick Smothers Jr. (Dick Smothers / The Smothers Brothers)
August 01, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 135 MBToday on the Rarified Heir Podcast, we are talking to Dick Smothers Jr, son of, yes, you guessed it, Dick Smothers of the famed Smothers Brothers comedy team. We spoke to Dick Jr. about growing up with one of the best straight men in the business – his father, how his father and uncle Tom Smothers founded their musical comedy act, how they launched their massive CBS show of the 1960s The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour and much more. We talked about the dichotomy between the real life personal...
Episode #140: Kristi Callan (K Callan)
July 25, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 154 MBToday on the Rarified Heir Podcast, we are talking to Kristi Callan, daughter of actress and author K Callen. That’s K as in the letter, no period. We talk to Kristi about her mother’s 50+ year career in stage, film, television and commercials in everything from an iconic All in The Family episode to the recent Knives Outbuzzed about film. Along the way we talk about Sanka commercials, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Carnivale, American Gigolo, Deep Space Nine, A Touch of Cla...
Episode 139: "Ernie in Kovacsland" Josh Mills, Ben Model & Pat Thomas (Bonus Episode)
July 18, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 109 MBToday on the Rarified Hair Podcast we are sending you across the orthicon tube with a special edition bonus episode in celebration of the upcoming Fantagraphics book, “Ernie in Kovacsland: Writings, Drawings and Photographs from Television’s Original Genius”. Our host today is co-author Pat Thomas (although left to Pat, you’d never know that as you will soon hear), co-author Ben Model and our Rarified Heir Podcast host & co-author Joshua Mills is talking about the in’s and out’s of creating ...
Episode #138 : Precious Chong (Tommy Chong)
July 11, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 128 MBToday on the Rarified Heir Podcast, we are talking to Precious Chong, daughter of Tommy Chong, aka The Man, aka THE Chong in the comedy team Cheech and Chong. It was a real thrill to talk to Precious as she is someone Josh had never met before but was part of his peripheral circle as she was friends with a few of his childhood friends while we were growing up. Oh and Josh’s mom, Edie Adams, co-starred in Cheech and Chong’s Up In Smoke as Chong’s mother, Mrs. Stoner. Talk about connections! ...
Episode # 137: Jazmin Erving (Julius Erving)
July 04, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 143 MBToday on the 4th of July edition of the Rarified Heir Podcast, we are talking to Jazmin Erving, daughter of Julius Erving or as we all know him, Dr. J. To say Josh was psyched to talk to Jazmin would be an understatement. To those of us who grew up sports in the United States in the 1970s and 80s (ahem), Dr. J was an almost mythical figure who transcended basketball and the NBA to become some sort of cultural icon. Muhammad Ali, Evil Knievel, Reggie Jackson and Dr. J dominated the cultural s...
Episode # 136 : Innis Casey (J. Rickley Dumm)
June 27, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 118 MBToday on the Rarified Heir Podcast encore edition, we are talking to Innis Casey, son of writer/producer J. Rickey Dumm who worked with friend, classmate and iconic TV show hitmaker Stephen J. Cannell on many of his hit shows including Magnum PI, Silk Stalkings, Renegade and Rockford Files among others. Innis is brutally honest about his writer/producer father and his years growing up which was both fantastic and downright scary. This episode pulls no punches and I don’t’ think Innis would h...
Episode #135 :Cathy Cole (King Family/King Cousins) Part Two
June 20, 2023 10:00 - 33 minutes - 53.9 MBToday on the second part of another encore edition of the Rarified Heir Podcast we again are talking to Cathy Cole, a member of both The first family of song, the King Family as well as the King Cousins. So if you didn’t get enough of Cher, Ray Charles, Jonathan Winters and her amazing father Buddy Cole, we have much more to share with you. It's all about reunion shows, recording new albums in Japan, surprise songwriters, LA restaurants, live dates at LA’s premiere jazz club The Catalina a...
Episode #134: Cathy Cole (The King Cousins)
June 13, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 131 MBToday on another encore edition of the Rarified Heir Podcast we are talking to Cathy Cole, who like a prior guest was born into the King Family, The First Family of Song. It’s a fun and fascinating conversation with Cathy as she talks to us about her family (of course) but also of her own career in the King Cousins with fantastic stories about hanging with a new comic named Richard Pryor, guesting next to the Rolling Stones as well as hanging with Cher, Ray Charles and more. Along the way ...
Encore #133: Hollye Dexter (Dan Haggerty)
June 06, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 108 MBToday on this encore edition of the Rarified Heir Podcast, we talk to Hollye Dexter, who has an amazing and unusual story about growing up with actor Dan Haggerty. While we bend the rules slightly on this episode, we talk to her Uncle Dan, the man behind The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams, a fuzzy family television show from the 70s that made him a star. Along the way, we discuss bikers, Battle of the Network Stars, the film Easy Rider, step-siblings Kristy McNichol and Jimmy McNichol, dome...
Episode #132: Chrissy Quinn (Louis Quinn, Christine Nelson)
May 30, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 117 MBToday on another encore episode of the Rarified Heir Podcast, we speak with Chrissy Quinn, who has not one, but two famous parents. Her father, Louis Quinn is perhaps best remembered for his role on televisions 77 Sunset Strip where he played lovable Roscoe The Bookmaker. However his show business career goes back to radio when he wrote for Milton Berle and we discuss some legends Louis worked with like Ray Bolger and Edd “Kookie” Byrnes. We also talk about her mother, Christine Nelson, a fu...
Episode # 131: Kiki Ebsen (Buddy Ebsen)
May 23, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 152 MBToday on the Rarified Heir Podcast we are talking to Kiki Ebsen, daughter of the great Buddy Ebsen. Now, originally, I was going to say the great actor Buddy Ebsen and he definitely was a great actor. But after talking to Kiki we learned that not only did her father act but he also danced, he sang, he wrote books, he was a master sailor of catamarans and he had great comic skills. Some of this we might have known from shows like The Beverly Hillbillies or Barnaby Jones but did you know Buddy...
Episode #130: Victoria Price (Vincent Price)
May 16, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 158 MBToday on the Rarified Heir Podcast, it’s Halloween in May as we talk to Victoria Price (and her dog Allie), daughter of the great Vincent Price. Victoria is a truly wonderful guest – smart, engaging, thoughtful, self-reflective and more. Perhaps that goes hand in hand with her life and career of finding joy (which we discuss) as well as being an inspirational speaker, author, holistic entrepreneur and ‘family brand ambassador’ for her father and her terrific mother, costumer designer Mary Gr...