Music Tales / The Originals: Volume 1

Moby, the biggest selling electronica artist in history, ponders the question: Why did so many people hate his guts? Discussed: his surreal documentary Moby Doc, which covers his brutal childhood, his rise and fall from pop stardom, and the drugs and booze that nearly did him in.

Andrew interviews “Master of Chaos” music manager Allen Kovac, who shares all the grisly details of managing Mötley Crüe, Meatloaf, Duran Duran … and Richard Marx.

Andrew reignites his decades-simmering crush on Kristin Chenoweth, the diminutive Tony- and Emmy-winning performer with the ungodly soprano range, currently featured on Apple+’s Schmigadoon.

Miraculously, Andrew lures icon, 100 million+ record seller and five-time Grammy winner Dionne Warwick to the show. Warwick, the subject of the recent CNN Films documentary Dionne Warwick: Don’t Make Me Over, shares her signature BS-free takes on love and music.

We put author, actor, and E Streeter Stevie Van Zandt on the couch on the eve of Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band’s 2023 world tour. Host and guest explore the meaning of failure and success. It gets a little raw.

Chaka Khan has long held the title of “Queen of Funk,” but after this appearance, shall also henceforth be known as the “Queen of Candor.” Khan, who recently turned seventy and celebrated fifty years in the music business, joins Andrew and gets a few things off her chest.

Scenes from a rock and roll marriage. In this super intimate episode, model and author Paulina Porizkova reveals everything you were ever curious to know about her marriage to The Cars’ Ric Ocasek. We’ll be breaking some news with this one.

No Business Like Show Business Characters / The Originals: Volume 5

A deep, dark, sometimes unsettling look into the mind of writer, director Paul Schrader. The First Reformed and Affliction director bears all. Hear about why Scorsese, unlike he, just couldn’t be trusted with Scarface piles of coke.

In this episode, Barry Sonnenfeld makes his compelling case for owning the title of show business’s most neurotic man. He has worked with virtually everyone and lives up to his reputation as the funniest, most brutally honest raconteur Hollywood ever produced.

This is the only interview with The Sopranos creator David Chase you’ll ever need to hear. Chase shares his surprising reaction to the death of James Gandolfini and provides all the darkest, most hilarious stories about his mother Norma, the inspiration for Livia Soprano.

Jennifer Tilly, currently reprising her role as murderous doll consort Tiffany in Chucky on USA/SYFY, discusses her ambivalence about her decades-long close association with an evil piece of plastic. Plus: why she still works even though she has beaucoup Simpsons dough.

Andrew spends a day with Emmy-winning actor Joe Pantoliano. Learn how Tom Cruise indirectly inspired Joe to seek rhinoplasty while doing Risky Business. Hear tales of how a dyslexic, ADD afflicted “closeted actor” came out as a thespian and made his escape from Hoboken.

Bruce Vilanch, the writer who has delivered more lines to stars than a Hollywood coke dealer, brings Andrew along on whirlwind tour of his forty-five plus years as a writer for hire and West Coast gay icon, beginning with his early days writing for weird variety shows to his decades-long stint as Oscar show writer.

Old Hollywood / The Originals: Volume 2

The legend Newsweek once dubbed “Superflack,” Bobby Zarem (1936–2021) knew all of Hollywood’s secrets and was not afraid to share them all. Even if you don’t believe all his dish, you’ll never look at the movie business the same.

In light of Peter Bogdanovich’s 2022 death, The Originals releases a never-before-heard 2019 interview in which the Oscar-nominated director narrates his own story. Candid, shocking, and often hilarious, Bogdanovich shares tales of the mistakes that bedeviled his career.

Legend and icon Sherry Lansing reminds us exactly what it took to become the first woman to be head of production of a studio, as she was at 20th Century Fox, and the first to become overall boss of a studio when she landed atop Paramount in 1992.

Agree with Observer critic Rex Reed that 2022 was “the worst year in history for Oscars”? If so, have we got an eyebrow-singeing hour for you. Reed reignites feuds with both the living and the dead. Our episode guarantee: no listener will emerge unoffended.

Minds will be blown by this episode with Toni Basil, a true show business Zelig. Sure, we all remember Basil’s 1981 hit “Mickey.” But it turns out this might be the least interesting part of her long career as a dancer, singer, and choreographer.

Joe Eszterhas details his run as the most famous and lavishly paid screenwriter in the world. He hit with Flashdance, broke records with Basic Instinct, and ran aground with Showgirls. Eszterhas has amazing dish about Robert Evans, Steven Spielberg, and Marlon Brando.

You may or may not recognize his name, but you definitely know the pictures by, as he liked to call himself, “Paparazzo Extraordinaire” Ron Galella (1931–2022). He was however best known for his decades-long pursuit of Jackie O, which resulted in his most famous photo, shot in 1971, “Windblown Jackie.”

Stories from the Cultural Fringe / The Originals: Volume 4

Howard Rosenman shares stories of producing films, but it’s the stories from his rich, turbulent life that will leave you amused, astounded, and occasionally scandalized. After spending an hour with this master raconteur, you will never, ever forget him.

Joel Thurm shares his memories of working on The Golden Girls and reveals how Betty White’s fellow castmates really felt about the comedy legend. Art Linson remembers his near death experience producing 1997’s The Edge with Alec Baldwin. Finally, actor and writer Fred Stoller shares tales of bullying, theft, and tennis involving his (mostly) friend, Norm Macdonald.

The celebrated author of The Black Dahlia, James Ellroy came on to promote his new Audible Originals series, “James Ellroy’s Hollywood Deathtrip,” but was not at all interested in discussing his life as a pervert and womanizer, a reputation borne out of his his two very dirty memoirs.

Daphne Merkin is a novelist, essayist, and reviewer who became famous for her 1996 New Yorker essay “Unlikely Obsession,” about her fetish for spanking. Discussed: why she’s never driven a car, horndog Philip Roth, and whether Woody Allen should be considered a sex offender.

Andrew and iconic new journalist Gay Talese settle an old beef involving Sinatra’s hairpiece, then go deep into Talese’s sexy years researching Thy Neighbor’s Wife and the big headaches that came with his blockbuster New Yorker story, “The Voyeur’s Motel.”

Steve Madden, the creative honcho of the eponymous shoe giant, details his tireless quest to vanquish all of his rivals and lay claim to every female foot on planet earth. Andrew digs in his heels to explore Madden’s incredible rise and fall and rise again tale.

Texas-born comedian Ron White has become one of the highest paid comedians in the world with an act that has consisted of him recounting his exploits as a hard-partying “amok-running motherfucker.” White discusses what his life and career look like now that he’s booze free.

TV Stars / The Originals: Volume 3

Fran Drescher, iconic star and co-creator of The Nanny, shares her candid thoughts about the fall of Les Moonves, a surprising critique of her NBC show Indebted—and explains what she sees wrong with American “sick care.”

Think you know Joan Collins? If your knowledge begins and ends with her run as Alexis Carrington on Dynasty in the Eighties, darling, you would be so very wrong.

Emmy-winning actor, producer, and director Danny DeVito gets behind The Originals bar and serves up drink recipes, quarantine-friendly lymph system workouts, tips for not murdering co-star Jim Carrey, and more.

Michael J. Fox brings his special brand of optimism to the show. Topics: his book No Time Like the Future; why Coors light, and not Parkinson’s, threatened his marriage; and how sick to death he is of hearing the words, “be careful.”

Connie Chung brings a Gatorade cooler full of tea to spill on and about, among others, scene partner Hugh Grant, former TV pal David Letterman, as well as Barbara Walters and Diane Sawyer.

A top-to-bottom reassessment of 1986 classic Pretty In Pink with Duckie himself, Jon Cryer. Why did Molly Ringwald end up with Blane, “a major appliance” when he was obviously such a dud? Why were co-stars Molly Ringwald and Andrew McCarthy so lame on set to the Duck-ster?

A rollicking special Pride episode with the late Emmy winner Leslie Jordan (1955–2022). Those who only knew him from his delightful social media presence will find a lot to love here—and guaranteed, you didn’t know a fraction of his story.