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Monday, June 9, 2014
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Sunday, June 8, 2014
ActorsE Chat with Kurt Kelly of Live Video Inc. Interviews Legendary Radio and Television Personality Tanya Hart
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In this episode legendary radio personality, TV host, and voice over extraordinaire Kurt Kelly sits down to chat with Tanya Hart. Tanya was born in Muskegon, MI. She has been a fixture as a reporter in the entertainment world covering red carpet events and major news events for over twenty years. As a young teenager she attended Michigan State University before moving to Boston and attending Harvard Graduate School in the late 60’s. She attributes the death of civil rights leader and legend Martin Luther King for changing her life path and career path. She remembered hearing one of his early speeches in which he spoke about “The appalling silence of those who do nothing.” and the felt somewhere deep inside that she indeed needed to do something. She then, along with a group of friends and fellow students at MSU, went to the campus radio station and asked them to let her and her friends on the air at WKAR. There wish was granted and that day, April 4, 1968 , they were let on for four hours. She was then given her own radio show on WKAR called the Taking Caring of Business Show. Hence, she switched from premed and got a degree in Communications & Broadcasting. Some years after graduating from MSU Tanya, her husband, and their young child moved to Boston. There she was offered a position at a radio station ran by Group W of Westinghouse Broadcasting WBZ TV, that eventually bought CBS. She received a call and was offered an interview, they expressed their interest in her, told Tanya that they wanted her at their station, and despite having a young child they allowed her to take her baby with her to work everyday. That’s how Tanya go her start in television. Over the next ten years Tanya broke down a lot of barriers for women and minorities in broadcasting, as she covered many world events during her time at WBZ TV. Her favorite event that she covered was when Nelson Mandela was released and his first stop was in Boston, MA. She was introduced to Mandela by Senator Ted Kennedy because he was aware of all the work Tanya had done on the Anti-Apartheid Movement, and she also worked with his daughter Kara at WBZ TV. While working on a show called 1672, Tanya received a call from a young chemist named Caroline Hunter who worked at Polaroid. The young woman was suspicious that something was going on at Polaroid. The show investigated Caroline’s story and it turned out that Polaroid was making ID badges for the Apartheid government in South America that restricted citizens from certain areas of the country. If citizens were caught with their IDs they were taken away, and many times they would never be seen again alive. As a result of Tanya’s work on the story, it raised awareness on Apartheid, and virtually put Polaroid out of business. People started asking about Apartheid, and the story was picked up and ran in The Boston Globe and it went worldwide. This is why upon Nelson Mandela’s release he chose Boston as the first US city to visit on his trip to the States. While he was in town Tanya was invited to have lunch with Mandela, his wife, Senator Ted Kennedy, and Jackie Kennedy-Onasis at the Kennedy Library. In her many years covering news events and hollywood news, she has interviewed many hollywood legends. Her favorite to interview was George Clooney, and another notable interview she enjoyed was with the young Tupac Shakur. Tanya did Tupac’s first television interview in 1992 and the footage was used in the documentary film of Tupac’s life called Tupac: Resurrection.
To learn more about Tanya Hart, she can be found on Facebook, she is on Twitter @TanyaHollywood, and on her personal websity www.tanya-hart.com. More episodes hosted by the legendary Kurt Kelly can be seen weekly from livevideoinc.com, www.ustream.tv, kurtkelly.com, and for more on Kurt Kelly go to his site kurtkelly.com and livevideoinc.com. His profile can see on IMDb as well. Kurt also has a personal Facebook page and Facebook Fan Page. Kurt, along with Pepper Jay from Pepper Jay Studios, continue to bring you entertaining and informative programming featuring the finest and brightest figures in entertainment today.
Written By: Brian Harper and Melissa English
ActorsE Chat with Kurt Kelly of Live Video Inc.Interviews the Beautiful, and Delightful Actress, Sanny Van Heteren
Sanny stops into Pepper Jay Studios to chat with host, voice over extraordinaire, legendary radio and TV host Kurt Kelly. Sanny was born in Germany and grew up in southern Spain, where she began acting at the young age of seven doing local theater. Her first stage production was a school presentation of Grease. She played the iconic Sandy Dee/Sandy Olsson, which was played by Olivia Newton John in the film version. The production toured through the south of Spain. Sanny became a child star after starring in the the German classic Four Junior Detectives at age fourteen. The film was a cult classic, ‘similar to The Goonies’. Heteren also lived in Spain briefly before being sent to boarding school, she studied at Hurtwood House in England the boarding school that Emily Blunt, Hans Zimmer and Jack Huston also attended, she also attended Box Hill School in Surrey (an hour from London). Heteren wanted to study in London but had a strong feeling that she wanted to be in America. Sanny was invited to a ‘divorce party’ in NY and feel in love with the city. Growing up in Europe she became fluent in several languages, Sanny is bilingual and can speak German, and Spanish fluently, and ‘can defend (herself) pretty well in French and Italian. She became fluent in English when she moved to the states at 19. Sanny learned to speak English fluently by watching Nick@Nite, she worked very hard to ‘parrot’ and mimic the actors’ voices. She credits shows such as ‘I Love Lucy’ and ‘Welcome Back Carter’ as shows she watched a lot and were instrumental in helping her learn the language. While in NY Sanny was accepted to Tish after completing the initial admissions process, but the school later discovered that she had not taken SAT’s, no fault of Sanny’s being that she just arrived in the States, but nevertheless Tish wouldn’t accept her in. Ironically, four years later Tish changed it’s SAT policies for Europeans. Upon this she ended up in the restaurant industry. Sanny and few of her friends opened up a restaurant called Moomba, which she described the culinary style as ‘American with a splash of Asian’. Interesting fact about Moomba is that Lawrence Fishburne and Oliver Stone were two of the people who invested in the restaurant to help get it going. Her years as a co-owner of Moomba helped her make a living and continue to pursue her career as an actor. One of Sanny’s first big films was as a character named Spike in Raw Nerve (1999), which starred Mario Van Peebles and Nicolette Sheridan, from this opportunity Sanny was able to get into the actors union, SAG and AFTRA. Later she was cast as a ‘glorified extra’ in the Woody Allen film Celebrity along with her good friend Ian Somerhalder of Vampire Diaries fame. Woody actually handpicked all of the extras himself, and Sanny really enjoyed the experienced and was fascinated at the opportunity to watch Woody’s hands on approach at work. High Plains Invaders is a sci-fi film that was shot in Romania in which Heteren played an 1800’s gunslinger named Rose Hilridge, and it was also the first film in which she had been cast as the lead actress alongside James Marsters (Smallville on the WB). After several successful projects Sanny’s career stalled. She had moved to LA in 2001 and was working in the event business as a door person for a brief moment, she wasn’t getting any acting work and grew fed up with the business. Heteren packed her bags and went away to Thailand. Not long after after arriving there she was out on a boat when she received a call offering her an opportunity to do a film with Liam Neelson called Unknown (2011). She then packed her bags again and off to Berlin to shot film. Working with Neelson was an amazing experience and she looks forward to working with him again in the future. Coldwater (2013) is a psychological thriller that premiered at the NuHo Online Film Festival. It stars Ivan Djurovic and was directed by David Parker. Heteren was very impressed with David Parker and feels that he is an excellent director. During filming there was in impromptu moment in which during one of the scenes there is a knock at the door, completely unscripted and none of the actors knew who it was at the door. When the door was opened, it turned out to be a fellow actor that Sanny had previously worked with, and the two had to stay in character and contain their ‘surprised excitement’ until the Parker yelled ‘cut’. Sanny also worked as an executive producer on the 2012 film Errors of the Human Body, directed by Eron Sheean and filmed in Dresdan, Germany. ‘Errors’ is about a scientist, Dr. Geoff Burton, who loses his grip on life after a bad experience involving his son. Sanny revealed to Kurt that she made her singing debut in a YouTube video that was shot entirely on an iPhone 4S. She explained that in the video she ‘sang all of her frustrations out’. Kurt laughed and asked her, “Is that going to be the name of your first album?” She responded saying, “No, it should probably be called All My Ex’s.” Sanny explained that in the song, which she wrote herself, was written about a previous relationship she had with an unnamed celebrity. Details of any upcoming musical projects were not discussed. To learn more about Sanny van Heteren, she can be found on several social media sites; she has an IMDb profile, Facebook, Sanny is on Twitter @sannycloudy, and finally at sannyvanheteren.com. More episodes hosted by the legendary Kurt Kelly can be seen weekly from livevideoinc.com, www.ustream.tv, kurtkelly.com, and for more on Kurt Kelly go to his site kurtkelly.com and livevideoinc.com. His profile can see on IMDb as well, Kurt also has a personal Facebook page and Facebook Fan Page. Kurt, along with Pepper Jay from Pepper Jay Studios, continue to bring you entertaining and informative programming featuring the finest and brightest figures in entertainment today.
Written By: Brian Harper and Melissa English
ActorsE Chat with Kurt Kelly of Live Video Inc. Interviews the Beautiful Actress Anna Easteden
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Anna Easteden stops into Pepper Jay Studios to chat with host, voice over extraordinaire, legendary radio and TV host Kurt Kelly. Anna was born in Finland where she grew up on her parent’s diary farm. She is bilingual, fluent in Finnish and English, she also speaks some Swedish and Japanese. She started speaking English at the age of eight, and caught the acting bug at nearly the same age. Anna, at a young age, began playing princesses around the house while wearing her mother’s clothes and acting out make believe plays. She was involved in her first production when she was seven. Before her career as an actress took off Anna took on modeling. At the age of twelve she started modeling professionally after relentless attempts to convince her parents to allow her to do so. Anna did a lot of runway modeling at fashion shows throughout Finland and abroad for reputable names in the industry such as Calvin Klein, Jockey, Ferragamo, and continues to get hired for modeling work till this day. She officially began acting in Chicago, she took acting classes there with writer, director, actor, and teacher Steven Ivcich at the Green Room Studio. Her first role was Princess Aurora in an Equity theater production of Sleeping Beauty with the Stuart Talent agency. All of her days dressing up in her mother’s clothes really paid off. In 2000 she drove from Chicago to California, and was hired by FOX to host the Argentinian version of the hit show Wipeout in Buenos Aires that airs on FOX in Finland as well. Anna has had roles in several episodes of television programs, Two and Half Men with Charlie Sheen, Anna explained to Kurt that she loved working with Sheen, he was very professional, personable, and she had a lovely experience. She also played a Russian mail order bride in an episode of the hit FOX show Bones and has had a role on the soap opera Days of Our Lives. Easteden is a quick study and offered hints on how to memorize scripts. She says to take the script, read one line at a time, put it away and try to internalize what each line means, then read it again out loud, and try to be relaxed when you read. Anna has also been on Marvel Comics creator Stan Lee’s “Who Wants to Be A Superhero” as an evil super villain named Bee Sting. She said the role was so much fun because she “never gets to be evil in real life.” She recently shot a pilot with director and writer Michael Patrick King who directed the Sex In the City movies and the CBS sitcom Two Broke Girls. Easteden also played Nicole Brown Simpson in a Japanese made for television film and had a lead role in a short film called Harmless, which won two awards at film festivals. Anna has also been in the process of pitching some ideas to several Finnish television markets as well. She has ideas for a reality show, a talk show, and a few scripted shows. Her favorite role was a character named Nina, in a feature film called The House of Branching Love, a story about a troubled couple that is in the mist of a divorce but neither of them can afford to move out on their own. Nina is a prostitute with a golden heart, who becomes the husband’s new girlfriend and the husband attempts to make his wife jealous with the beautiful Nina at his side.
Anna received a nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the Toronto Film Festival in 2009 for her performance in the film. Aside from her work as a model, host, and actress, Anna has also worked with the United Nations on a legal research project on Asylum procedures for refugees of Slovakia. To learn more about the gorgeous Anna Easteden you can find on Facebook where she has a Fan Page, on Twitter @annaeasteden, she has a profile on imdb.com, and she can also be found on her personal website www.annaeasteden.com. More episodes hosted by the legendary Kurt Kelly can be seen weekly fromlivevideoinc.com, www.ustream.tv, kurtkelly.com, and for more on Kurt Kelly go to his site kurtkelly.com and livevideoinc.com. His profile can see on IMDb as well. Kurt also has a personal Facebook page and Facebook Fan Page. Kurt, along with Pepper Jay from Pepper Jay Studios, continue to bring you entertaining and informative programming featuring the finest and brightest figures in entertainment today.
Written By: Brian Harper and Melissa English
ActorsE Chat with Kurt Kelly of Live Video Inc. Interviews Producer and Educator Ron Brewington
Watch Now: http://kurtkelly.com/watch/producer-educator-ron-brewington-with-host-kurt-kelly-on-actorse
Ron stops into Pepper Jay Studios to chat with host, voice over extraordinaire, legendary radio and TV host Kurt Kelly. These two go back many years together, and Kurt opens the show by explaining how they first met. Kurt tells the audience that after the two had a lengthy conversation, Ron gave Kurt a silver dollar as a memento, and Kurt asked Ron to tell the tale behind the silver dollar. Ron told Kurt that when he gives them to people he calls it STD- Something to do. Ron got in the habit, or ritual of giving silver dollars to anyone he encounters years ago while working as an entertainment reporter in LA. One day, he was on his way to doing an interview with Grammy Award winner and R&B legend Anita Baker and he stopped at a 7-Eleven before the interview. When he went to pay at the register the clerk told him his total was three dollars and some change, Ron gave him a five, but the clerk didn’t have a paper dollar in the register so he gave Ron a silver dollar and change. Ron then went off to do his interview with Anita and when the two finished, Ron placed his hand in his pocket and felt the silver dollar. He then thought it would be nice to give Anita the silver dollar as a token of good luck. The two went their separate ways, and ran into each other again two weeks later at a Grammy nomination ceremony. Anita spotted Ron there and spoke out to him saying, “Where’s my dollar?!!” Brewington responded saying, “What do you mean?” Anita said, “You gave me a dollar!” Ron then exclaimed, “Well I don’t have it, but I will get you a dollar, and not only will I get you a dollar, I’ll get you two dollars, one for now and one for the next time we meet.” And that’s how the tradition of the silver dollar was born. Ron Brewington and his twin brother were born in Harlem USA and attended Aviation High School. There he trained to be an airplane mechanic. As a teenager, he and his brother went on a tour of a US Naval Base in Brooklyn, NY, he enjoyed the tour, and even more than that, the food! He enlisted in the Navy and served for 20 years, and his brother enlisted in the Marine Corp. When his brother retired from the Marines he joined the Army Reserves, and worked in radio broadcasting. For quite a while he would encourage Ron to get into broadcasting as well, because he felt that he had the voice for it. While stationed in Corpus Christi a position at a station opened up and Ron applied and got his start in radio as a disc jockey. He has since had a long successful career in radio, working with American Urban Radio Networks, KGLA, KLON which is known as KJAZZ, and has also worked in news with the Associated Press. Ron encourages all beginners to get a degree and start in smaller markets for radio, television, or newspapers, and work their way up. Ron received his degree in broadcasting and journalism, and has worked as a Professor at Santa Monica College, USC, and UCLA. He teaches a course for Broadcasting Announcing & Production where he promotes integrity and professionalism. The course is a seventeen week program that offers students the opportunity to broaden their knowledge in both television and radio production. The students are given five assignments, three radio assignments and two for television. The radio assignments consist of a script for a thirty second Sears commercial, a script for a three minute radio newscast, and a script for a two minute and thirty five second disc jockey audition to put together a demo that the students can use to find employment. The television assignments consist of a three minute newscast where the student is front of an actual camera with a teleprompter. Ron explains that if an individual can master the art of the teleprompter they can easily have a six figure salary position with any broadcasting company. Lastly, the television interview, where the students are on a set, in front of a camera as both the interviewer and the interviewee. “We teach them how to be a good interviewer like Kurt, he’s good!” Brewington exclaimed. “I like a student who has a thirst, a desire to make it in this business. They want to be an actor, they want to be in Hollywood, they want to enjoy themselves, and you can do that, you can meet people in this town that can make everything happen for you!” In addition to all of his work as a broadcaster, radio personality, reporter and educator, Ron also serves on the National and Regional Board of Directors and is the First Vice President of the Local LA Chapter for the Tuskegee Airmen, where he works to maintain and preserve the legacy of the first black pilots of the US military. There he also works to introduce youth to aviation, provide scholarships, and flying instruction. He also worked indirectly with George Lucas when he was filming Red Tails, the 2012 film that told the story of the Tuskegee airmen to audiences worldwide. Ron also is a National Vice President of the MOTOWN Alumni Association which consists of MOTOWN alumni and ex-employees. Another interesting thing that Mr. Brewington takes pleasure in is helping African American entertainers receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He started twenty years ago and the first entertainer he helped get a star for was none other than MOTOWN legend Marvin Gaye. Others include Smokey Robinson, The Four Tops, The Temptations, The Funk Brothers, and The Supremes. Ron handles the paperwork involved and is active in finding the sponsors that help on the financial end of the process, for it is very costly to get a star on the Walk of Fame. Mr. Brewington is also a proud two time survivor of prostate cancer and is a member of The Real Men Cook Foundation. The Real Men Cook Foundation started a program that recruits people that go out with students from USC to community churches and raise awareness on prostate cancer.
To learn more about Ron Brewington, he can be found on Facebook, Twitter @ronbrewington, and to learn more about the Tuskegee airmen please visit www.tuskegeeairmen.org. More episodes hosted by the legendary Kurt Kelly can be seen weekly fromlivevideoinc.com, www.ustream.tv, kurtkelly.com, and for more on Kurt Kelly go to his site kurtkelly.com and livevideoinc.com. His profile can see on IMDb as well. Kurt also has a personal Facebook page and Facebook Fan Page. Kurt, along with Pepper Jay from Pepper Jay Studios, continue to bring you entertaining and informative programming featuring the finest and brightest figures in entertainment today.
Written By: Brian Harper and Melissa English
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