Jennie Morris is one of my absolute best friends in the world, someone I’ve known since I was 6 years old. But I had the pleasure of discovering her all over again in this Breakfast All Day A La Carte conversation. Jennie is a longtime TV executive who currently has...
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Breakfast All Day Podcast: A La Carte With James Boyd
James Boyd is a guru of low-budget, do-it-yourself filmmaking. He’s also an old friend of mine who shares a love of movies, so it was great to reconnect after nearly 30 years for this Breakfast All Day A La Carte conversation. Jim discusses his early interest in film growing up...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 8/9/19
The dog days of summer are definitely here at the Breakfast All Day Podcast. Alonso, Matt and I have a mixed bag of movies this week, from the wildly terrible crime drama “The Kitchen” to the mawkish and cloying “The Art of Racing in the Rain” to the family comedy...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast: A La Carte With Weiko Lin
Screenwriter and Emerson College professor Weiko Lin joins me this week for a wide-ranging, high-energy Breakfast All Day A La Carte conversation. Weiko talks about emigrating to the United States from Taiwan with his mom and siblings when he was 8, the early influence of ’80s pop culture and the...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 8/2/19
Summer is winding down and that means we’re finally (hopefully) reaching the last of the big, dumb blockbusters here at Breakfast All Day. And “Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw” has got to be the biggest and dumbest of all, so naturally Matt, Alonso and I have some thoughts....
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast: A La Carte With Daryl Evans
Daryl Evans is essentially the ambassador for the Los Angeles Kings. The former Kings legend and longtime radio color commentator for the team was gracious enough to sit down with me for this wide-ranging and very different Breakfast All Day A La Carte interview. Daryl talks about growing up in...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 7/26/19
It’s a hot August night in July with Quentin Tarantino’s love letter to 1969 Los Angeles, “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood.” Alonso, Matt and I naturally have lots of thoughts on the latest Breakfast All Day — Tarantino never inspires shrugs or middle-of-the road takes — and we...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast: A La Carte With Sandy Cohen
Sandy Cohen and I spent years together in the trenches covering entertainment for The Associated Press, and I feel so lucky that we’re still friends years after we’ve left. Sandy has lots of great stories to tell from her time interviewing celebrities — which began with Elizabeth Taylor her first...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 7/18/19
We couldn’t let “Crawl” slink away from us without talking about it on Breakfast All Day. Alonso, Matt and I play catch-up this week with the supremely schlocky thriller, which weirdly wasn’t screened for critics before opening day. We also review Lynn Shelton’s largely improvised indie comedy “Sword of Trust,”...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast: A La Carte With Melvin Robert
Melvin Robert has lived many lives for a man in his mid-30s: educator, musical theater performer and now television anchor for Spectrum News 1 here in Southern California. That’s how I know him — he also hosts “The SoCal Scene” on the channel, a show for which I’m a correspondent....
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