Podcast appearances and mentions of Tim Federle

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This episode we highlight some fun and refreshing cocktails to be enjoyed with family and friends over the 4th of July. Recipes are below. Bourbon Cowboy (Gone with the Gin, by Tim Federle... also author of Tequila Mockingbird. :)) 4 basil leaves (divided)2 dashes Angostura bitters 2 oz bourbon 1 1/4 oz iced teas, sweetened to taste 1/2 oz lemon juice Muddle 3 basil leaves and the bitters in a shaker.  Add the remaining ingredients and ice, and shake well.  Strain into a julep cup (or a rocks glass) filled with freshly shaved ice and garnish with a basil leaf. Halekulani Cocktail (Smuggler's Cove, by Martin Cate w/ Rebecca Cate) 1/2 oz fresh lemon juice 1/2 oz fresh orange juice 1/2 oz pineapple juice 1/4 oz Demerara Syrup 1/2 teaspoon Grenadine 1 1/2 oz bourbon 1 dash Angostura bitters Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with cracked or cubed ice.  Shake and double-strain into a chilled couple and garnish with an edible orchid on the edge of the glass Honi Honi - variation of a Mai Tai 1 2/3 oz bourbon 1/3 oz Triple sec liquor 1/2 oz fresh lime juice 1 tsp Orgeat syrup 1 tsp rich simple syrup Shake all ingredients w/ ice and fine staring into a glass filled with crushed ice. Garnish with pineapple wedge, luxardo maraschino cherry and mint sprigs Blackberry Bramble 1/2 cup fresh blackberries 1 1/2 oz fresh lemon juice 2 oz dry gin (we're submitting with Huckleberry vodka) 1 oz blackberry liquor 1 oz simple syrup Sparkling water Steps: Muddle blackberries with fresh lemon juice in a shaker and fill with iceAdd gin and simple syrup and shake well. Strain and pour over ice and top with sparkling water. Garnish with fresh blackberries lemon twist and mint Strawberry Rye Whiskey Slushy SLB Drinks (YouTube) 1/2-1 cup fresh halved strawberries 1 oz simple syrup 1 oz fresh lemon juice  2 oz Rye whiskey 1-1 1/2 cups ice Combine all the ingredients into a blender and mix until ice is crushed. Garnish with fresh strawberry Summer Sipper Bourbon Cocktail 1 1/2 oz bourbon 1/2 oz Campari 1 oz pineapple juice 1/4 oz strawberry syrup 1 orange peel Muddle 1/2 of a strawberry with the orange peel in a cocktail shaker. Add remaining ingredients and fill with ice. Shake, shake, sake and string into a rocks glass. Garnish with strawberry slice and mint

As kids across the nation start heading back to school another group is about to graduate. The Disney+ series "High School Musical: The Musical: The Series" concludes with its fourth and final season and all eight episodes will drop on Aug. 9. Here's the synopsis from Disney: After an epic summer at Camp Shallow Lake, the Wildcats return to East High where they prepare a stage production of “High School Musical 3: Senior Year.” But plans are disrupted when Principal Gutierrez announces that Disney has decided to make the long-awaited “High School Musical 4: The Reunion” movie on location at their beloved high school. We discuss the upcoming final season on this week's episode, have an interview with series creator Tim Federle, and chat with cast members Frankie A. Rodriguez (Carlos Rodriguez), Julia Lester (Ashlyn Caswell) and Dara Reneé (Kourtney Greene). Next week Most of the biggest summer movies have already hit theaters and with actors and writers are on strike, there may soon be a lack of programming. But with the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards (originally scheduled for Sept. 18 but now delayed due to the strike) coming up, we'll go over shows you can binge to get caught up on in the meantime. Where to watch "High School Musical: The Musical: The Series" on Disney+ "High School Musical" on Disney+ "High School Musical 2" on Disney+ "High School Musical 3: Senior Year" on Disney+ About the show Streamed & Screened is a podcast about movies and TV hosted by Bruce Miller, a longtime entertainment reporter who is now the editor of the Sioux City Journal in Iowa and Terry Lipshetz, a senior producer for Lee Enterprises based in Madison, Wisconsin. Episode transcript Note: The following transcript was created by Adobe Premiere and may contain misspellings and other inaccuracies as it was generated automatically: Welcome everyone to another episode of Streamed & Screened an entertainment podcast about movies and TV from Lee Enterprises. I'm Terry Lipshetz, a senior producer at Lee and co-host of the program with my cinematic guidance counselor, Bruce Miller, editor for the Sioux City Journal and a longtime entertainment reporter. Bruce, School's in session. We're getting there. Okay. We're going back to 2006, I believe. Okay. Wasn't it six High School Musical just popped on Disney. And I'm not kidding you because I remember interviewing the people for the TV show, Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens. They were nobodies at that time. You didn't know about them. If there were people that you did know they were on other Disney Channel shows and people didn't expect anything out of it, it was like, This is okay. They're doing another kind of musical just to have something else to show. And that that first movie became such a huge hit and made such big stars out of its cast that of course, there's got to be part two and then there's got to be part three. And then, you know, a network like Disney gets all kind of excited about, could we reboot this thing? Could there be something more? And people don't want to go back to what it was and just replace it. So Tim Federle, who was a Broadway actor, dancer, whatever, came up with the concept that they would do a series set in the high school where they filmed High School Musical. I know this is all nutty, right? And then how those kids would do if they did the first production of High School Musical, the play or the musical at their high school. So you got to see kind of parallel characters vying for these roles. Well, they did not know that it was going to be a hit. In fact, Tim really had no experience producing, was not big on creating TV's shows, and they got a hit out of it. High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, which is probably one of the longest, most cumbersome titles ever hopped with the new generation. They got their own high school musical kids. The thing that I think is different between the two is that first was kind of naive, whereas this one leans into a lot of things with with high school kids that maybe they're facing today. And it does talk about things like LGBTQ issues, bullying, different kinds of things that that might be a little more contemporary for kids. So in that first year, they did High School Musical as their school play. Then they came back and they did Beauty and the Beast. And then the third year they went to camp and they did Frozen Oak. So now this is the fourth year. And I got to tell you, the kids who are in this, this TV series have popped like, you can't believe Joshua Bassett, who plays Ricky, which would be the Troy Bolton kind of Zac Efron equal, has a huge singing career. Olivia Rodrigo, who is in the original of the of this this ilk won several Grammys last year. Right. She has this big music career and it just keeps going like that. Julia Lester, who was a supporting actress, was on Broadway this last year and into the Woods and got a Tony nomination. So this is spawning its own group of of young actors. Well, knowing that they had a fourth year, Tim decided that he would not take those original high school musical people and see if he could get them to come in for the fourth season. And in this fourth season they are going to film a high school musical this year. Yeah. Who did? How do you tell this? They're going to do a reunion show and bring back those actors and then cast kids from their high school? That high school as extras. Okay. So they do all this at the at the high school and it turns out to be a real catalyst for change for those current high school kids at East High School. So it's there's a lot to unpack, but there are things in there that you will just who that the woman who plays the director Quinn is There is the character's name. You've seen her in YouTube videos and she is just a hoot as the director. Well, she has these big plans and she plucks one of the kids from the high school crowd to be one of the stars. And that sets up a kind of a battle, if you will, for her attention in her time. So it's very it's very fascinating at the end of the episode, and this is not a spoiler alert. You get the kids all together and they sing a song that is so emotional and it's not one of the ones from the original High School Musical. It's a Broadway song that really kind of gives you a sense of what that whole family atmosphere was like. Wow. So this is an interesting one. You know, Tim Federle, he he really doesn't have the background in in film and TV. I mean, he started out he was writing fiction. I mean, he was writing I think he wrote some cocktail guides. And then he also wrote some kid books. And some. Kid books. Yeah, they're better. Better off. Nate or better Nate. They're Nate books about a kid who it sounds like Tim story who wants John Broadway in the worst way. And to heck with the kids in my school. I'm going to audition for Broadway. And so this Nate kid, and they did a TV movie about this goes on a bus to New York auditions for a I think it's a Lilo and Stitch in the film show a musical. And how that kid kind of maneuvers that all of that kind of stuff. But there are elements in all of this that I think are autobiographical. Tim Federle said he always wanted to be an actor, a Broadway actor, and he did get on Broadway. He was in Little Mermaid in the dancing roles. But I think like so many of them, there is a greater purpose that's out there. And he just had a good idea, pitched it to Disney and they said was go with it. Yeah. And he picked a I guess a good time to do it too, because he he co-wrote the screenplay for Ferdinand the film and which was before that. So he had a little bit of credibility to be at it. That was a yeah, you know, he capitalized on the moment, which is great. You know, he was he found that moment. You'll hear I did an interview with three of the actors from High School Musical: The Musical: The Series and Tim, well, you'll hear them talk about that first year. They did not know what was going to happen. They did not know if it was going to go if they were going to. This is one and done and they were all out of it. But how this has been a big kind of a learning curve for them. And Tim talks about bringing back those old high school musical ones and the lessons that they taught these these young actors about being in the business. And, you know, it's weird to see because Tim's got a whole huge career ahead of him. He's got deals with other studios and stuff. So I think we don't have to worry about him. But you never know with kid actors. It could be they're out of it after one year or whatever. What happened to him was the pandemic happened in the middle of all of this. How do you do a series during a pandemic? And they really struggled to make sure that they were following all the COVID protocols and all that and how they you know, they were just hung together. They became a very close family. Okay. So who should we go to first? Should we go to Tim first? We kick it over to him again? Yeah, let's go to Tim, because then you'd be able to kind of hear his his take on how this this season happened. How is it to say goodbye? This is a sad thing. Well, you know, it's it's it's bittersweet, mostly sweet. And I don't think of it as goodbye because when people graduate, they they go off hopefully to even sort of bigger dreams. But it's it's definitely full circle. And I think in this streaming era to get four seasons, it all feels like a miracle and an extra miracle is I got to kind of wrap the series on my terms with the stories we wanted to wrap up. So I feel really good. But it's it's a it's a full circle moment. Well, when you were planning this last season, what point did you say, I want to get some of those original people into this. Really early because I knew that the big hook of the season was that Disney announced High School Musical for a reunion film at East High, which means, you know, we needed some O.G. Wildcats up there on screen. So those fun phone calls went out early before we started production. Yeah, pretty early. And were you able then to write like you did with Corbin, where he became a different person, if you will, in your series as opposed to the original one? Like, yeah, she's these other people where they all they're really nasty. They're not like they are. No, they're, they're themselves and they're and Monique Coleman in particular has a really beautiful moment in the series in season four that I think is so touching because they play themselves and their characters this season. They're a great group. And what was meaningful to me, knowing we were wrapping the show was that Corbin and Lucas and, you know, they became so mega famous 15 years ago as the cast of my series is becoming now. And we were able to really have like a wholesome, beautiful connection between them all. And I remember saying to my principal cast, Look at our humble. They've remained look at how they take care of each other. No matter what happens, you guys got to be there for each other as the years go on. And I think they really. When you started this, what really did you think would happen? I mean, did you just think, Oh, we'll get a year and that's it? Or do you think, you know what, this could last? I knew so little about TV that I think I was out front first season being like, I want seven seasons, which, you know, I guess would have been nice. But the reality is the reality is, Bruce, I was thrilled we got the reception we did in season one. I never took for granted, particularly in the streaming era, that we would ever get another season or another season or another season. And I think one of the real drivers of wrapping the series up was that I didn't want to end season four on a cliffhanger after the investment. The cast, the crew, the writers and the audience had put into it and then not come back. And so I didn't I didn't quite know what I was doing Season one. But what I what I did have was a lot of hope and a big heart that if I hired real theater kids, they would bring these stories to life. And boy, did they deliver. Well, when you were looking at casting, you know, did you say, this one's going to blow up big and music? This one is going to, you know, have a theater career? Did you have a sense of that when when you started casting all these people? Well, yes, in the sense that, like, you know, Olivia and Josh were always great songwriters. Julia was always a big theater kid. What I maybe didn't expect was for it to happen so hyper fast. And I think they're all going to have very long careers where they ebb and flow and peak and valley at different times. And I don't know, I mean, they're like my kids. And so I'm biased, but I think they're the biggest stars in the world and the most talented. And that Sofia Wylie is going to be a mogul who runs an entertainment company because she has so much talent and wisdom and brilliance on screen and off. So nothing surprises me with this group. So what about you? Where do you go from here? Well, I write the next thing and I've got, you know, after the strike lifts, I have projects at Hulu and Disney Plus and some movies. And then and then we'll see where the fates take us. But for now, I'm sort of. I'm not ready quite ready to say goodbye. So I'm just keeping an eye on August 9th and I'll be at home streaming the whole thing and bingeing it this season. How will you look back on this then? What will you say about this time of your life? Well, I think I finally got high school, right? I was in the closet the first time I missed my high school graduation because I was doing a regional theater production of Oklahoma all around. There's a lot of there's a lot of things I missed in high school, including first love and a first kiss and things that like, you know, closeted gay kids didn't get in the nineties. And so if I look back at this, it's that I had this miraculous second chance, one of my favorite songs from the series to get some of it right or at least get a second chance at it. And I will forever be grateful for that. Bruce, thanks for the interview with Tim. And now we're going to go to some of the kid actors in the series, and this is Frankie Rodriguez, Julia Lester and Dara Reneé, Correct? Right. And Julia Lester is the one who is just on Broadway here and into the woods. Frankie plays Carlos. And if you're a fan of this show and you know, Carlos and SAB are a big couple in the thing, and then Dara is the she plays the kind of the brain of the whole school, and she wrestles with the idea of what college you make going to go to after this. So here are the three from High School Musical: The Musical: The Series. What did the three of you think this was all going to be when you started this series? Oh, oh, my gosh. When we started, we didn't even know if we would make it to four seasons. When we ended the first season, we kind of filmed two alternate endings just in case we didn't get to come back in. So I think this like kind of blew all of our expectations out of the water. And now we get to be here graduating. I mean, it's amazing. Well, you know, some great things have come from this. And Julia, you're right there. Come on. I watched the Tonys and said, Oh, my God, please let her win These that are. When did you guys think this could be a launching pad for other things? Did you think that this would lead to other work and other kinds of opportunities? I mean, I think that's sort of what you always hope for, but you can never really rely on maybes or the possibilities of things. And I think when we started season one, what we really wanted was to create a show that was different and set us apart from things that people had seen in the past, especially for Disney. You know, we we were part of launching the Disney Plus platform, so I think we were really focused on on that being successful and being received well, and it totally was. And so I think once that happened, the world sort of like opened up for all of us. And it's just been an incredible journey seeing how all of us have thrived since then. So what was the Tony thing like? Was it just incredible? It was it was amazing. The New York theater community is just like so loving and so supportive of each other in it. It was really cool to go there and feel like I was a part of it and belong with them in some way. It was it was really magical. Well, what was it like having the O.G. High School Musical people with you this year? Was it different? Was it strange? Like, were you like, asking them lots of questions about what you wanted to know? Oh, well, I mean, it was so cool. I mean, growing up with those as your role models and then actually working with them was so mind blowing. And specifically for me, I knew Monique Coleman before I booked High School Musical and I messaged her and I was like, Hey, Queen, I would like Taylor. And she supported me. It uplifted me. So being able to be in scenes with her is such a full circle moment, and I couldn't have asked for a better person to show me the ropes. I love Queens a little bit. Well, how hard was it to say goodbye? I mean, it's always hard to say goodbye, especially to this specific experience, because it has brought us so many amazing things, especially each other. So I think it's definitely a bittersweet. You want to graduate and you want to move on and you want to go on to the next chapter of life. But also you're like, maybe just like five more minutes. Yeah. And talk about Tim's role in all of this. You know, he said, I really didn't know what I was doing when I started. What has he been like during this whole this whole series. As we famously say, he is our fearless leader and he has been our leader from day one. He is the reason all of us are here in this point in our lives together. And, you know, the the greatest experiences happen when things trickle from the top down. And he really has created the most loving, accepting working environment. And I said this earlier, like this being like our all of our first, like real big long running job has sort of set the precedent for the environments that we want to work in and the people that we want to work with and the way that we want to work. And so without this experience, like, you know, who knows, like the rooms that we would be in. But it's just it's been really wonderful and it's really thanks to him and his his genius brand. Well, when you look at this, what was the turning point for the series? What was the time when you said, you know what, this is going to last, This is going to be more than just one year it out. I feel like once we started to see our supporters reactions to what we were creating, I mean, our family, as I call them, has been so, so beautiful and so brilliant and accepting us and accepting everything that we do. And I'm so grateful for their support and for all that they done for us. Because honestly, I feel like we wouldn't be here without them. And they literally are die hard. And, you know, I'm Dan Harper and it's not selfless. It's it that's when I feel like we all really need you. You talk about coming back for a reunion. I that but I already got out tomorrow I guess. Yeah. Anything anything to put us in the same room with each other We're there that we. Well, you guys, thank you so much and congratulations. It's been so fun to watch and especially to see how your careers have all just blossomed. It's incredible. So thank so much from a die hard fan. Nate Nell. Thanks for all the love over the years. All right, Bruce, thanks again for that interview. And, well, we were getting to the bleak part of summer. I know we've we've gotten through a lot of of the big blockbusters that were coming. I know there's a few more here. You know, you get a few like Meg is coming out and the Ninja Turtles and we mentioned, you know I know we got very greedy and but we've got the writers strike and we don't know in the actors or striking we don't know what's coming back and when and where. I mean I'm almost running out of things to watch. I mean, my wife and I are kind of kicking around. Maybe we can talk about some things there. We will do that the next week. I'll tell you, if you are a big fan of the High School musical kind of Broadway things, summer theater camp, I guess it's called theater Camp. Ben Platt and Noah Galvin produced this, and it's kind of a mockumentary that's out there. It's opening slowly across the country. It's not in wide release. So you might find it at a theater in your in your community or not. You'll have to wait a bit for it to come out. But it is opening in slow waves. But, yes, we will come back next week and I've got great ideas for you about things you should binge that you haven't seen. And we're also going to talk about the ones you must have seen by this time because the Emmy Awards will be coming in September and you're going to binge a lot of stuff before we get to that. All right. Yeah, I definitely have to become even more of a couch potato than I already am. So you'll you'll contribute to that. And we will be back again next week. Terry, we're all in this together.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When is a movie no longer just a movie? It's when it becomes an event, or even a cultural phenomenon. What happens when two of those movies drop at the same time? You have the collision that was "Barbenheimer." This past week saw the opening of two films that are polar opposites: Greta Gerwig's playful comedy "Barbie" that brings the doll to life and Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheiemer," the biographical drama depicting the development of the atomic bomb under J. Robert Oppenheimer.  The films should presumably appeal to vastly different audiences, but buzz around both films had moviegoers swarming to both — often on the same day — and each delivered in a big way. "Barbie" brought in more than $162 million domestically on opening weekend and "Oppenheimer" had more than $82 million in sales to take the top two box office spots this past week. And while that seems like a distant No. 2 for the latter, don't forget that "Barbie" is more than an hour shorter and appeared on more screens. Co-hosts Bruce Miller and Terry Lipshetz discuss seeing both films, including Terry's experience seeing "Oppenheimer" in an IMAX theater. Plus, learn why both films will surely be in the running for multiple Academy Awards when Oscar season approaches.  Next week: We discuss the upcoming final season of "High School Musical: The Musical: The Series" on Disney+ and have interviews with cast members Frankie A. Rodriguez, Julia Lester and Dara Reneé, plus the creator of the series Tim Federle. Where to watch "Barbie" in theaters "Oppenheimer" in theaters About the show Streamed & Screened is a podcast about movies and TV hosted by Bruce Miller, a longtime entertainment reporter who is now the editor of the Sioux City Journal in Iowa and Terry Lipshetz, a senior producer for Lee Enterprises based in Madison, Wisconsin. Episode transcript Note: The following transcript was created by Adobe Premiere and may contain misspellings and other inaccuracies as it was generated automatically: Welcome everyone to another episode of Screamed and Screamed in Entertainment Podcasts about movies and TV from Lee Enterprises. I'm Terry Lipshetz, a senior producer at Lee and co-host of the program with the King of this podcast's mojo dojo casa house Bruce Miller, editor of the City Journal and a longtime entertainment reporter. So Mr. Mojo Dojo Casa House ruler, see any good movies this weekend. Was it a Brucedom? Yeah. Are you are you leading the patriarchy? Are you in charge of that? That's right. I can hardly wait there with the patriarchy is coming to Barbie land. That'll be so cool. Actually, this was like, I swear, this will have been the best week of movies of the year. It's incredible to really big ones. And I saw a lot of people who were trying to do both of them in the same day when I went. And they all an awful lot of people dressed up like Barbie, basically a lot of pink. And then they would their choice was to go to Barbie first in Oppenheimer's second, which I don't know if was because they felt that they could relax or something. I don't know. But they did like doing the double feature like that. But I would have savored a little bit of it so that I wouldn't add all the goodness at once, because I think it was it was interesting. Now you've got girls who would probably be of a Barbie age, right? E their they've outgrown Barbie as a toy or a thing. So they're past the Barbie stage. And this is an interesting movie, too, because this Barbie, this isn't a kids movie. This is all sort of an adult themed. Yeah. Yeah. I think that if parents were thinking they're going to send their kids to see Barbie, it might be a bad idea because I don't think that there's anything in there that's subversive or anything that they shouldn't see, but I don't think they would think it was like past Barbie films where it was, you know, just kind of magic unicorns and cars and God knows what Barbie did back in the past. But it's a spoof in a way of the Barbie motif. I thought it was brilliant the way they were able to make Barbie relevant today. And where you don't dismiss her as just that. Oh, that's that kind of obnoxious doll, you know, because Barbie has always been seen as why are little girls playing with anything but a baby doll? And Barbie came around. It was like, you know, maybe we like to play with dolls like that. So it's very interesting how they do that. And then they make Mattel look good, which I was shocked about that. I thought Mattel, you know, they had these kind of mean guys who are all male staff at Mattel running the thing. And then they introduce you to the the woman who created Barbie. And a very fascinating to show how Mattel doesn't come off as a bad guy in this whole thing, I think. But I do think that a lot of people have been leaning in far too much to the end. Everybody talks about it as the best final line of any movie. And I think, okay, it's interesting, but let's not all get so excited that we lose sight of what came before that. Right? I really loved it. I didn't know what to expect because I. I tried to stay away from so many reviews and everything. I wanted to go in with it with a very fresh mind. I obviously read enough of it to know, you know, obviously this is a little bit of a spoof of Barbie. This isn't like some of the Barbie movies that the cartoon is. You're the very Barbie Barbie type of movies that have been there. This is obviously poking fun at Barbie to a degree. I mean, even in the trailers says if you love Barbie, you're going to love this movie. If you hate Barbie, hate Barbie, love this movie. And I you know, I'm not a a Barbie person, but I went into it thinking like, okay, I want to check this out. It has the pedigree of people in it that, you know, I should like it. I mean, Will Ferrell is as the head of Mattel and I thought he was brilliant in that part is normal. Will Ferrell Nice. I don't always love him in movies, but I thought he played this role very well. And then I thought, you know, Rhea Perlman in that role, as you know, the creator of Barbie, did did a wonderful job. It was fun to see her. My wife was excited when Kate McKinnon came on screen as Weird Barbie. She loves Kate McKinnon. I love Kate McKinnon. And so it was it was kind of fun from that perspective. She's like three Barbie that every girl, like, did her hair. I mean, heard anybody who owned a Barbie. I cut her hair. Oh, yeah. Barbie was always getting her hair cut. And this is how she turns out. And then she becomes the one who sits in the box without shoes and kind of the wrong outfit put on together. And maybe the makeup got smeared. That is Kate McKinnon in a heartbeat. And she did a beautiful job of kind of left over Barbie. Yeah, I was just overall surprised at how much I enjoyed it. I thought I would like it. You know, Greta Gerwig is attached to it. She's becoming a very brilliant filmmaker. And I just thought that, okay, we have enough components here where I'm probably going to like it and it's fine. I can be a dad and go into this movie. There were very few kids in the theater when we went. We went in the afternoon on a Saturday. I only brought one of the two daughters. One wanted absolutely nothing to do with the movie because she hates Barbie, she hates pink things, she hates being a girly girl. I showed her the trailer and I said like, No, no, no, it makes fun of that stuff. And she still didn't want to see it. I guarantee you, as soon as it's on TV, she'll watch it and she'll probably love it. But I'm not going to force a 12 year old to go see a movie that she doesn't want. So we we went my wife and one of my daughters went and we enjoyed it. There were one other family I want to say that was there. They had kind of like a tween ish daughter. And then there was a really little younger sister with her, which probably was too young for the movie. After that, it was all adults. It was all like older Gen-X, younger baby boomers. You know, It was like Women's Night Out. Yeah. And they were dressed in pink. I saw two guys come in wearing pink shirts and pink shorts and blazers. So interesting crowd. And they were all of from teenage to, you know, middle aged. I think it was a yeah, a fascinating mix. And I thought it had a real big opening day crowd. I was surprised that on opening day it would be that big. But it was and it was the number one film of the week. So they did like by like a mile, I mean 162 million in 4200 plus theaters. That is insane. And it was I don't know if you picked up on this, but it actually shattered a record for a film directed by a woman, 162 million. The next best was Captain Marvel, which was co-directed by Anna Boden, and that did 153 million in 2019. And then the Wonder Woman film by Patty Jenkins in 2017 that just did just a little over 103 million. So this this was a just a huge movie on so many different levels. The number of screens it was showing on just at my little AMC Theater in town, it was it was like 10 a.m. 1030, 12, 12 3130. It was just nonstop in my theater. It wasn't packed when I went kind of early in the afternoon, but it was constant. I mean, it was the most full. I've seen that parking lot in a very long time. You know, the thing that the success will cause them to want to do a sequel. Yep. And to me. Okay. But go into those other Barbies because there's a whole lineup of different kinds of Barbies. You don't have to have Margot Robbie come back and go through some other kind of life affirming mission or whatever. You could have a Supreme Court Barbie. You could have President Barbie, you could have astronaut Barbie. You could go with all those different ones, and same with cans. You could have different cans. So then it's not the same thing, because I think that's what they're just too eager for is an and my favorite of all was Allen Allen. I was just going to bring Allen up. Michael's Nero was so good as Allen and you know what I loved is at the end during the credits you got to see what that doll looked like and there was it says I can wear Ken's clothes or something like that. And that was one of his lines. And yet she was able to grab all those things from costumes that Barbie wore or the different kinds of Barbies there were. She I mean, if you were a Barbie fan, she did her homework. And I think that really shows with this. I wanted to see a little more image. I got to be honest and Skipper, because those two were, you know, how they traded. Let's make every dime we can get out of the franchise. It would have been fun to see those. But they again, they could be potential for a sequel. But I laughed so much and I do think if I'm going to predict anything, Ryan Gosling could get a Best Supporting Actor nomination for Cat. He was good. He played kind of that dopey sidekick kind of. But then when he comes into the real world and sees that, you know, it's not like Barbie Land in, and he starts kind of asserting himself and then comes back and creates the mojo dojo casa house, which is my favorite line of the whole thing. And then he's wearing this fur coat all the time, like he's some rapper or something, you. Know, And the battle, the battle at the end, I don't you know, we don't need you, but you're going to be you mentioned that beating each other off. I think he did a really nice job of toeing the line with some of the referencing and that kind of thing to keep the adults happy, but they never really crossed the line where I don't think it was at any point, you know, concerning to have kids in there other than maybe a few adult ish things a little bit here and there. I mean, they got a little anatomical a couple of times, but that was it. But it was it was funny. If anything, kids would be bored, right, Because they wouldn't get the lines or they wouldn't get the reference. But if you've lived through Barbie and I think that's most of us, we've seen the kind of things they've done with her and where it was like beauty queen Barbie and all these things where it was promoting a different image than maybe most people thought of Barbie because I think when it started, she kind of looked Marilyn Monroe ish. No, I mean, then she became kind of this Miss America ideal. And I think that didn't really play well with people who were looking for a doll who was adult. Right. But they never they never lay on all of that so that it's a bad thing, like when they make fun of Barbie being these is just that she could do anything. Yeah. And I love the concept that she could dream to be Barbie, could be whatever she wants to be. Exactly. That's what I think the movie talks about, is that women should have the right to be whatever they want to be. You know, you brought up Ryan Gosling in this for a possible award season thing. You don't normally see comedies enter into that level of discussion. Could you see this film, though, because of the messaging and the way they approached it, the direction, the screenwriting? Could you see this maybe getting in being their 10th film to get a best Picture nominee to get, you know, best director nominee for Greta Gerwig, Best Original Screenplay, maybe. Okay. It's definitely going to be a contender, if not the winner already for best sets and best costumes, because those are just brilliant. And then you start looking down the road and you think, Well, she's going to get a writing nomination because here's a way that you can reward. They want to give Greta something over all these years where they like past her by. And I think writing could be the one that she could win. I don't know that directing is one that she could win because you've got those heavy dramas that are in there, but she can certainly be nominated. Yeah. And then and it'll be I think it'll be nominated for best Picture because it's just goofy enough that there is room for it. Yep. You know, and it was one of those things and we'll talk about it too, as we move on to Oppenheimer. But it was a film that I felt like I really wanted to see it in the theater and it was funny because I looked at my purchase history in my AMC app because I watched I saw that on a on Saturday. I couldn't get to Oppenheimer until Monday afternoon, which is July 24th, July 24th of last year. I saw Top Gun Maverick. I saw that in my history. That was the first movie I went to in the theater since the pandemic. I mean, the last thing I saw before that in the theater was going to the last Star Wars movie twice in December of 2019. So I went to Top Gun Maverick in July of last year. I went to Avatar. That was the next movie I saw in the theater was Avatar in December. But since then, it's been, you know, is Barbie movie. It's Oppenheimer, it's Indiana Jones. It was elemental. It was The Flash, It was Super Mario Brothers. I've been to, you know, like a half dozen movies now, and it feels like we're back. We're back with all right. Movies, event level movies where I don't even want to wait until it's on streaming or anything like that. I have to be there. Well, and didn't you feel that the crowd reaction helped? Yes. You know, if you were sitting at home, you wouldn't really have those good belly laughs that you got out of some of these things. And I don't feel any of them. But there were moments when I was just snorting. Yeah, they were so funny. Yeah. And, you know, it is interesting too, for me, before I went to see the movie Friday night, we had tickets to to a pro baseball game. It was kind of one of these. It's not an affiliated minor league team. It's kind of, you know, it's where the players go to keep their careers going. And so we go to this game and we're watching it and there's a family behind us. And the family includes a few daughters that were, you know, like late teens, early 20 kind of age. And they're talking about Barb and Heimer for a couple of innings. And they're giving their critique of, you know, yeah, I love the Barbie movie. Oppenheimer It was pretty good. We were surprised. It was a little slow at first, but it and there I'm thinking it's like we're we're at a baseball game and people are talking about urban Heimer there it's almost because it's entered into this this cultural it's a cultural phenomenon in the moment. And, you know, no matter where you are, people are talking about it. And you go, la la la la la. Don't tell me anything about that. But I was luckily my hearing's a little off, so whatever else, they kept on yapping about it. Yeah, I missed it, but I picked up on that. You got to see Oppenheimer. How I wish I had, which is on IMAX screens. I did. I wasn't really. I would think that when they they now hear it's going to sound like I'm spoiling it but when they test the bomb. Yeah, that that would have been really, really cool in IMAX. Oh yeah. Oh yes. Because. All right, you've got me. And I'm jealous because I didn't see an IMAX. Yeah. So I couldn't get to Oppenheimer over the weekend and I was looking I was I wasn't sure if I'd even be able to see it before we talked. I go and I was looking to see where it was playing and when, and I didn't even realize it. But there was an IMAX theater not too far from the office, and I saw that even even during the week, it was getting pretty filled up. So my best chance to see it in IMAX was at 1215 on a monday afternoon. I buy my ticket, I get there and the place is absolutely packed. Other than the first couple of rows where you're going to get a stiff neck and a few seats off to the side on either end. The place was packed on a monday afternoon. I have never in my life been to an IMAX theater. I've been to a few large format type of things in museums and that kind of thing where, you know, they try to immerse you in sound and screen. But I was never actually at an IMAX theater to see a Hollywood film as soon as I sat in, even just there going through the previews and I'm already just getting blown away, seeing all the movies that I'm expecting to see in the next few months. But then when when the film comes up and you're seeing it and you know that Christopher Nolan filmed it with IMAX in mind and the imagery is huge and the sound I'm just swimming in sound and it's not it's it's loud, but it's not overpowering. I could just feel it around me. So again, we don't want to give away anything. We want to be as spoiler free as possible. But it's pretty obvious that, yes, they do test the atomic bomb in a movie about the atomic bomb. So when they drop it and it kind of there's that scene where they don't they don't give you the sound right away. They just give you that flash. Right. And I'm just thinking, oh, okay, you know, that's interesting. But then then it hits you. And I could feel like you can feel the sound pouring over you as that destructive wave just comes at you. And I was just so blown away by that that I'm so glad I was so glad I saw that in IMAX. Did you see Sound of Metal, the one about the musician who was losing his hearing? It's on my list of like, yeah, I know what you're speaking of. It's in my Amazon Prime. Like, I got to see it and I've been watching this for three years. They play with sound in very, very interesting ways and that that was what I was reminded of when I saw Oppenheimer. I thought, you know, he's really he's using all of these different elements. I mean, everything cinematography, where he has black and white in color, the makeup where the makeup techniques are very subtle. They aren't ones where you go, Oh, my God, he's got a big plastic face on and he's supposed to be old. Okay, I get that. I guess this is very, very subtle. All of the things that the elements are top drawer, top drawer with everybody. And then when you look at the cast of supporting actors, I mean, it's a it's an independent directors dream cast. And you go, Oh, my God. And they they don't even have lines. Some of those people are just kind of background. They wanted to be in this film so badly and you go through it, you go, Wow, this is clout, where you're able to get these people in this film. Now, I like you. I think it starts slowly. I think it's one of those things where don't be thrown off by a film that might seem a little oh, my God, it's just sluggish. We're going to get a whole buy. Because I thought immediately of Beautiful Mind. I thought, Oh, jeez, it's going to be Beautiful Mind all over again. And then it isn't. And then you you get into that whole building process where they're creating Los Alamos and and the team is assembling and you kind of get, okay, it's like riding a train and the train keeps chugging and then it gets a high pitch. And there's a moment again, this is another one I want to ask you about when he is greeted by everybody in the room where they again use sound as and flashes to see how he responds to the people who are cheering him on. Do you know which one I'm meaning? Yeah. And you're kind of later after. Yeah. And did you. Did you. Was that a real big and have seen watch. Yeah. Yeah that and that and just the emotion and because you can see it on his face so clearly being so large but then the sound into it and the sound of kind of like him imagining the world being destroyed by right energy it just it filled the theater the whole way through. Absolutely amazing. And then there's that kind of oh my God moment when they started talking about a vote that was taken and who was responsible for. And that is just I think that's one of that. That's one of those kind of cherries on the top that rewards you for hanging with it and also knowing the history. Yeah, it's interesting because I, I mean, I obviously knew that Cillian Murphy was in there as Robert Oppenheimer. I knew Matt Damon was in the movie, but I, I really avoided paying too close attention to who is doing what because I just wanted to go in and see the film. I didn't realize right away that it was Robert Downey Jr in that role, but it was interesting to me. And let me ask you this, as someone who's seen a lot of movies, like I went into it, it's a three hour film and it's a it's a drama about the Manhattan Project. And I'm thinking myself, I hope this isn't boring. You know, I know that there's going to be an hour in. I know there's a lot of story to tell as I started watching it, because obviously they give you the black and white is meant to be from the perspective of Louis Strauss's character. Right. Right. And then the color is Robert Oppenheimer's perspective, right? It got me thinking a little bit to how Francis Ford Coppola directed Godfather Part two, which is also a very long movie, over 3 hours and 20 minutes. But he used the scenes where he had scenes with kind of the present day Corleone family. But then they also had Robert De Niro's the flashbacks of how Vito Corleone came to power, and they would bounce you back and forth. And I thought with Oppenheimer how they were able to go back and forth between the black and white and the color. It helped actually move the story along. So you weren't so beaten down by just constant dialog and stuff. It was almost, you know, in both cases, both movies have very little action. It's more of a of a drama. And they used a different jumping around in color to kind of keep you moving along. So I actually never felt like it was, you know, there was a few few moments where kind of slowly went along. But I always thought it kept me going the whole way through. I you know, I think the your concept is that black and white means it's the past. And that wasn't how he used that. That is just perspective and so immediately you jump to that you think or these old scenes that we're watching here now is this before something and it's not it's actually more of the more contemporary scenes of some of the things that they were dealing with. I thought it was very fascinating how Matt Damon looked like a movie star in that he was a little broader than most of the other actors. The other actors kind of pulled it back a little bit and he was kind of like, Ooh, la, where you're you're getting a little more than maybe you want out of him. And I know he'll probably be nominated for best supporting actor. But you see that Robert Downey Jr is almost invisible as Strauss. Then he gives it away with a few little gestures of his that are typical Robert Downey Jr things. But I think it's still a good performance. Emily Blunt How exciting is she as Mrs. Oppenheimer She is like, I want to know her because that one woman would just tell people, OP and she was like, just kind of she had that bitterness that her husband didn't and she knew how to be just that other side there that she needed. And I think Gillian Murphy pulls back enough that you can just project just about anything on his personality so that if you thought he was a nudge or you thought he was just this brilliant man who is, you know, doesn't have equals anywhere, there were a lot of things that you could play off his performance, how he modulated that. And, you know, they all talk about how he ate nothing and didn't mingle with the rest of them. And you think, well, if that helped the performance go for it, you know, But when I saw like Josh Hartnett sitting there on the on the couch, barely in it, Rami Malick, who has maybe one decent scene and these are and people who are like Oscar winners. Affleck had a little bit part in there, too so. That anybody in it's like all of a sudden he shows up. Matthew Modine I thought, Oh, this is your tip of the hat to Ken Burns, because Matthew Modine would be the kind who would like narrate something for Ken Burns, right? Yeah, he was it was buried. But in Florence Pugh You don't recognize that. That's Florence Pugh in there as somebody in Oppenheimer's life. Albert Einstein Yeah. You know, I mean, it just it goes one after another. So if you're a fan of movies, Oppenheimer is like the best reward we've gotten in a long time. And I'm not saying bad things about past movies that have won Best Picture or whatever, but they've been pretty middle of the road in recent years. I mean, you know, don't get me wrong, I love Coda, but I don't think Coda is high art. I think this is something that you look at and you say, you know what, This guy did some planning. He did some thinking about this. It isn't we've just got to get this shot today and we're moving on. This movie also. I mean, you know, it did only 82 million compared to Barbie's 162. But it was on it was on 600 fewer screens, number one. And it's 3 hours. You can only show it so many times during the course of the day. So yeah, it did half of Barbie. But in a sense, with the time and everything, we almost it almost equal that, you know, it's just like if you could have shortened up the movie and threw it on more screens, it would have been right up there. People, people flocked to this movie. You know, last week we talked about RAGBRAI, which was the bicycle ride across Iowa. And Saturday was when I went to it and in the theater, it was packed with with bicycle riders, because I don't know if it was because they want to get out of the heat, but they wanted have something to do or they wanted to recline in a in a comfy seat. But they were it was wall to wall people in bicycle clothes. And they just loved it. They ate it up like crazy. And I don't think they slept if they were planning on doing that. So overall, I mean, is Oppenheimer best picture frontrunner at this point for you? Well, it is. But if you saw the previews, you saw that there's a martin Scorsese film that's coming out. And I think that's his biggest competition. And I think that's where we're going to see who's playing off whom in this. And it will depend how it you know, there will be some backlash. I think we already saw it today. People were counting the stars on the flags and said use the right number of stars. And so there you go. I read an interesting thing about that, too, that that might have actually been intentional because it was there was one scene where it had the correct number of stars and there was another scene where is incorrect. And the theory was that because it was it the split was between color in black and white. So the perspective may have been from one of their perspectives, the one where it was correct, remembering it as, you know, 48 states in the union, whereas the other one was, you have the perspective of the time where there's 50 stars. I don't know if that's true or if somebody just, you know, in set design flubbed and grabbed the wrong one. But it was an interesting theory. At least Clint Eastwood has done that, where he's done, you know, a period piece and then the flag is wrong. Right. You know, so it happens. It happens. But I don't that doesn't pull away from anything else. And I think, you know, he is a real stickler for not trying to recreate things in special effects. You're not going to see 10,000 names that are listed as people who did the animation for this. So I think there's a real a love fest. And if Christopher Nolan doesn't win best director for this, it better be something good. Absolutely. Well, next week we're going to move probably as far away from Oppenheimer and Barbara, yet we have a new show, well, I guess not a new show, but a new season of a show on Disney and yeah, ending. Do you want to just set us up on that one? What are we looking at? Come on, High School Musical and I know you're not of that ilk. I know that you're not from that age range. 26 When it popped, it was unbelievable. I mean, nobody thought that a Disney movie would turn out to be that much of a phenomenon. And it launched careers not unlike other films and then led way to High School Musical, The musical, the series, which is ending its season. In fact, they're going to drop all the episodes on one day. So if you are a high school musical nut, you'll find out what happened to those kids in the in the final season so that we're telling you that next weekend we've got people from the show that we are talking to as well. So come on, we're all in this together. I can't wait to talk with you more about that. Thank you again for listening to this episode of Streamed and Screened.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on Next Reads, Erin reads from Better Nate than Ever by Tim Federle. Read-alikes include: Jack & Louisa by Andrew Keenan-Bolger Drama by Raina Telgemeier The Chance to Fly by Ali Stroker Totally Joe by James Howe

Part One: Holly Stanfield talks about Kenosha Unified's most recent musical theater production: "Trevor: The Musical." The title character is a high school student struggling to fit in and to understand who he is and his own sexuality. Part Two: from the archives, Tim Federle talks about "Better Nate than Ever," a book intended for young readers that tells the story of a high school student named Nate who loves music theater and dreams of performing in a Broadway production. Federle himself as a young man sang in two Broadway productions: "The Little Mermaid" and "Gypsy."

We spoke with the cast of HSMTMTS; Frankie Rodriguez (“Carlos”), Julia Lester (“Ashlyn”), Saylor Bell (“Maddox”), Adrian Lyles (“Jet”), and the creator/showrunner/executive producer Tim Federle about character development, songs from Frozen, drama, and some surprises. Host: Monica Gleberman (@Monica1236) Editor: Miranda Currier Social Media Graphic: Jojo -- Bio: In the new season, it's summer break! The Wildcats leave the hallways of East High for the ultimate summer at sleepaway camp, complete with campfires, summer romances, and curfew-less nights. Camp Shallow Lake is a family-owned sleepaway camp in California. The show is currently available now on Disney+. Don't forget to follow us on Twitter @SilenceonSet and on Instagram @SilenceonSetPod --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/silence-on-set/support

La chronique ciné de Radio m's ! Un condensé du podcast Popcorn Therapy, avec une critique rapide de 2-3 films à l'affiche, en salle ou sur les plateformes, et sans spoilers.  Retrouvez Pause Popcorn sur Radio M's le mercredi à 18h30 et le dimanche à 11h.  Et durant l'été, vous pourrez découvrir le replay des anciens épisodes retransmis par podcast.  Voici le replay de l'épisode 4 diffusé en mai 2022 avec une review de :  - Doctor Strange 2 de Sam Raimi, - Tick Tick Boom de Lin-Manuel Miranda (disponible sur Netflix), - Le monde de Nate de Tim Federle (disponible sur Disney+).

Welcome to season 2 and part 2 of episode 29 of the Today is the Day Changemakers Podcast.This week my guests are Kim Berrios Lin and Coley Campany. It is important to note that we are talking about some very top-of-mind topics that also may have some trigger points for some who listen. This podcast episode was recorded just days before the Roe vs. Wade decision was overturned. This is a very personal topic for Coley as she shares her personal story in part 1 of this two-part episode. In part one we also discuss the topic of eating disorders and Kim's personal journey.In this episode we hear more about the road to stage and screen for both Kim and Coley.Kim Berrios Lin is an actor, producer, writer & advocate.  You can catch her in HBO Max's ‘Pretty Little Liars' airing July 28th in a recurring role. Other credits include 'Better Nate Than Ever' (Disney plus), ‘Pose' (FX), ‘New Amsterdam' (NBC), ‘Almost Family' (Fox), ‘Bull' (CBS), and 'The Politician' (Netflix). Her Acting passion projects include: A Love fest of a comedic series currently making a festival tour called ‘Supermodel Twinning', playing Karula in ‘Karula's Dream Show Live', and performing in ‘Still Birth': a play about pregnancy loss.Kim is the founder of the award winning, socially conscious indie production company ‘And She Flew®', co-founder of the social justice theatre org ‘Colors of Community', is on the Advisory Committee for ‘Zzak G. Applaud Our Kids'. Follow Kim on Instagram @kimrioslin.Coley Campany is a writer, director, actress, producer, and advocate. Coley connected with the Labyrinth Theater Intensive Ensemble, where she began her path as a writer and visual storyteller. It's also where she met Kim! She co-wrote a play in 2016 called Still, Birth. a play about pregnancy loss that combines stories of various ways pregnancies end. Coley includes her own story of having two late-term abortions in the play. She continues to tell her story to spread awareness for women's reproductive rights. Several sketches were created during the pandemic, including Supermodel Twinning with Kim Berrios Lin. This year, Coley finished a passion project that is now making the festival circuit called A Skosh Askew, a two-women filmed sketch series. Coley can be seen on screen in 'Candy' on Hulu and 'The Eyes of Tammy Faye,'  'The First Lady', 'Watchmen', and the upcoming season of 'Heels and Mike'. Follow Coley on Instagram @coleycampany.Listen in to hear the incredible footprint that these two Changemakers are creating now that they want to leave behind. Next week my guest is Mariama Bah. She has a focus on Global Public Health Nutrition and is the author of the book, Free and Whole: My Journey Towards Education and Freedom as a Fulani and Muslim Girl. Please Subscribe, Like, Share, Review and Download!YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChTpwqeDDJ9wUfg43eiBC1AStream: https://todayisthedaychangemakers.buzzsprout.com/Today Is the Day Website: https://todayisthedayliveit.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/todayisthedayliveitInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/todayisthedayliveit/The Applaud Our Kids FoundationWebsite: www.applaudourkids.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/applaudourkids Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/applaudourkids/ To sign-up for our mailing list, schedule a conversation with Jodi or ask a Changemaker a question: jodi@todayisthedayliveit.comHave a great week everyone!

Welcome to season 2, episode 29 of the Today is the Day Changemakers Podcast. This is a special two-part episode. This week my guests are Kim Berrios Lin and Coley Campany. It is important to note that we are talking about some very top-of-mind topics that also may have some trigger points for some who listen. This podcast episode was recorded just days before the Roe vs. Wade decision was overturned. This is a very personal topic for Coley as she shares about having four miscarriages and the traumatic story behind having two late-term abortions. These experiences changed Coley's life in many ways.  Kim shares about being a somewhat a depressed child and living with an eating disorder from the age of 11 to age 32. She shares her personal experience in order to help others.Coley and Kim are friends or as they call themselves 'Soul Sisters'.Kim Berrios Lin is an actor, producer, writer & advocate.  You can catch her in HBO Max's ‘Pretty Little Liars' airing July 28th in a recurring role. Other credits include 'Better Nate Than Ever' (Disney plus), ‘Pose' (FX), ‘New Amsterdam' (NBC), ‘Almost Family' (Fox), ‘Bull' (CBS), and 'The Politician' (Netflix). Her Acting passion projects include: A Love fest of a comedic series currently making a festival tour called ‘Supermodel Twinning', playing Karula in ‘Karula's Dream Show Live', and performing in ‘Still Birth': a play about pregnancy loss.Kim is the founder of the award winning, socially conscious indie production company ‘And She Flew®', co-founder of the social justice theatre org ‘Colors of Community', is on the Advisory Committee for ‘Zzak G. Applaud Our Kids'.  As a writer, her poem “I am We' was recently published in Yellow Arrow's Journal ‘Renascence.' Kim is also the soon to be proud patent owner of a product she invented called Yogisaver®.Follow Kim on Instagram @kimrioslin.Coley Campany is a writer, director, actress, producer, and advocate. Coley began her artistic career as a professional ballet dancer in Memphis, TN. Coley connected with the Labyrinth Theater Intensive Ensemble, where she began her path as a writer and visual storyteller. It's also where she met Kim! She co-wrote a play in 2016 called Still, Birth. a play about pregnancy loss that combines stories of various ways pregnancies end. Coley includes her own story of having two late-term abortions in the play. She continues to tell her story to spread awareness for women's reproductive rights. Several sketches were created during the pandemic, including Supermodel Twinning with Kim Berrios Lin. This year, Coley finished a passion project that is now making the festival circuit called A Skosh Askew, a two-women filmed sketch series. Coley can be seen on screen in 'Candy' on Hulu and  'The Eyes of Tammy Faye,'  'The First Lady', 'Watchmen', and the upcoming season of 'Heels and Mike'. Follow Coley on Instagram @coleycampany.Listen in to hear the incredible footprint that these two Changemakers are creating now that they want to leave behind. Stay tuned for part 2 of this episode coming soon. Please Subscribe, Like, Share, Review and Download!YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChTpwqeDDJ9wUfg43eiBC1AStream: https://todayisthedaychangemakers.buzzsprout.com/Today Is the Day Website: https://todayisthedayliveit.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/todayisthedayliveitInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/todayisthedayliveit/The Applaud Our Kids FoundationWebsite: www.applaudourkids.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/applaudourkids Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/applaudourkids/ To sign-up for our mailing list, schedule a conversation with Jodi or ask a Changemaker a question: jodi@todayisthedayliveit.comHave a great week everyone!

Follow us into the misty moors as we discuss whether or not this really is a love story, how much we're enjoying the gothic drama, and if Bertha really was crazy. We also talk about what the teenage versions of ourselves might have thought of this book and how much we need to read more from all the Bronte sisters. Episode Drink: From Tequila Mockingbird by Tim Federle    Gin Eyre   8 sprigs of fresh mint, washed 2 oz English gin 1 oz lemon juice 1 ½ tsp granulated sugar 2 dashes orange bitters   Tear the mint leaves and put into a shaker. Put other ingredients in shaker with ice. Shake well and strain into a cocktail glass.   “Now nurse that drink like a good nanny” Take a drink: Whenever someone says something mean to Jane Whenever Mr. Rochester is an asshole Whenever you eyeroll at the outdated expectations Whenever the a ghost haunts a house or a room Take two drinks whenever someone proposes marriage to Jane Roll your eyes when men just keep vocalizing their stupid expectations of Jane when it's none of their fucking business Take a  drink when you really give a second, third, and fourth thought to how crazy was Bertha and was she really crazy? Finish your drink when you realize maybe this wasn't a love story after all.  COVID Comforts Emily - Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner Jordan - Frenchman's Creek by Daphne Du Maurier   A Novel Adaptation was created by Emily Eppley and Jordan Redwine. See more details at www.anoveladaptation.com and see what's coming up next to read along with us. Find us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Goodreads to join the conversation. Our artwork is by Kit Bernal. Our music is “Harlequin” by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0.

In episode 48, the Mamas are joined by everyone's favorite uncle to celebrate Pride month and chat about Tim Federle's middle grade character, Nate Foster, a theater lover who stars in a book series and a new Disney musical. The trio follows up the book vs.movie discussion with 6-ish adult and kid books that turned them into readers (or book nerds as Margie no-so-lovingly puts it). Johnny also spills the tea on Margie's grad school years from a century ago. Get your hot goss here!Book Chat:Better Nate Than Ever by Tim FederlePick 6: Books That Turned Us into ReadersA Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'EngleThe Hobbit by J.R.R. TokeinBridge to Terabithia by Katherine PatersonPride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Call Me by Your Name by Andre AcimanFever 1793 by Laurie Halse AndersonThe Island of the Sequined Love Nun by Christopher Moorewww.twolitmamas.com

“Well . . . I should clean out my closet, then, I guess.” ― Tim Federle, Five, Six, Seven, Nate! S4E5 steps 4,5,6,7

Maren and Martha skew a little younger today to discuss the Disney+ middle grade adaptation of Better Nate Than Ever (2022, dir. Tim Federle).

This week, Brenna and Joe are headed to Broadway to discuss Tim Federle's 2013 Middle Grade book and his 2022 Disney+ adaptation. We love the Adventures in Babysitting vibe of the book, which has real stakes as Nate navigates the dangers of NY through rose-coloured glasses. The film mistakenly gives best friend Libby (played well by Aria Brooks) and older brother Anthony (played horribly by Joshua Bassett) more to do...to the film's detriment.Plus: why this film is the perfect synthesis of Disney's current "Don't Say Gay" woes, and co-star Lisa Kudrow's terrible hair and gorgeous Queens apartment. Wanna connect with the show? Follow us on Twitter @HKHSPod or use the hashtag #HKHSPod:Brenna: @brennacgrayJoe: @bstolemyremoteHave something longer to say or a comment about banned book club? Email us at hkhspod@gmail.com or tweet us your responses before the following deadlines:April 19: George (or Melissa) by Alex GinoMay 19: Go Ask Alice by Anonymous See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In which the Mister and Monsters join me in reviewing BETTER NATE THAN EVER (2022), currently streaming on Disney+. The film follows Nate (Rueby Wood) who's biggest goal in life is to go to Broadway and be a star, following in the footsteps of his Aunt Heidi (Lisa Kudrow). His BFF Libby (Aria Brooks) puts him onto the NY casting for a new Broadway show based on LILO AND STITCH. They formulate a plan and soon find themselves in the Big Apple and Nate so close to realizing his dreams. The film is written and directed by Tim Federle, from his book. The film has a run time of 1 h 34 m and is rated PG. Please note there are SPOILERS in this review. Opening intro music: GOAT by Wayne Jones, courtesy of YouTube Audio Library. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jokagoge/support

Rueby Wood & Aria Brooks share their behind the scenes story of making the newly released Disney+ film - Better Nate Than Ever! Broadway Workshop director and Little Me host, Marc Tumminelli is reunited with Better Nate Than Ever stars - Rueby Wood and Aria Brooks to break down their experience making the new Disney+ film. Marc, who served as the movie's acting/dialogue coach gets Rueby and Aria to open up about their audition process, the first day of filming, what it was like working with co-stars - Lisa Kudrow & Joshua Bassett, their relationship with director Tim Federle, their most challenging and rewarding days on set, the LA and NY premieres, their incredible families and their unbelievable connection "being the same person in different fonts"! Watch Better Nate Than Ever on Disney + Produced by The Broadway Podcast Network and Marc Tumminelli Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Walt Disney Company takes home six Academy Awards, Only Murders in the Building season 2 trailer and release date reveled, heroes like Belle and Sully fend off evil forces in the new mobile game Disney Mirrorverse, Eggstravaganza 2022 is happening now at Disneyland Resort, H2O Glow After Hours returns this summer, Star Wars Celebration announces its first guests, and Margaret Cho has joined the cast of Disney+'s teen rom-com Prom Pact. Plus, Better Nate Than Ever director Tim Federle on making Lilo & Stitch a musical, Sister Act 3, and what to expect on season three of High School Musical: The Musical: The Series.

From 2013- Tim Federle discusses his book "Better Nate than Ever," which tells the story of a 13-year-old boy whose passionate love of musical theater and his dreams to perform on Broadway puts him out of step with most of his peers. The book has recently been transformed into a film (written and directed by the author) which will premiere on Disney-Plus on April 1st.

Hi guys, I had to get this book for English class and was surprised with how good it was, so I decided to do an episode on it, enjoy! (If I said his name wrong, send me a voice message telling me how to say it correctly.)

From 2013- Tim Federle talks about his novel for young readers "Better Nate than Never." 13-year-old Nate's biggest dream is to appear in a Broadway show. The author actually performed in the Broadway production of GYPSY starring Bernadette Peters.

NORBERT LEO FREAKING BUTZ IS HERE!!!! 11 Broadway shows. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Rent, Wicked, My Fair Lady... Have you seen Bloodline? Just stop what you're doing and watch the Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Tony performance and then binge Bloodline. We can't keep it together this week. Joe is fan boy mess. This was one of our favorite conversations yet. This week we talk with Norbert about how singing in bar bands can be the best vocal training, that time he wept in Jason Robert Brown's bathroom, how the biggest job you ever have might be the least rewarding, and the genius of Jack O'Brien. We talk about his leap from stage to screen and what he learned from Sissy Spacek and Linda Cardellini while working on Bloodline. We have looked up to this man for so long (if you can't tell by Joe's rambling) and we're still blown away that the man spent so much time with us. He was generous, vulnerable, and a WELL of knowledge. his best advice? Don't take any fucking advice. Listen in this week! Check this out for a resume... On Broadway. My Fairy Lady, Thou Shalt Not, Big Fish, Dead Accounts, Catch Me If You Can, Enron, Speed-The-Plow, Is He Dead?, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Wicked, Rent. Most recently, Butz stars in NBC's Debris series and nabbed a lead role as Rex Foster in the Disney+ adaptation of Tim Federle's YA novel Better Nate Than Ever. Other TV credits include playing Dr. Byron Hale in David Zabel and Ridley Scott's PBS series Mercy Street, performing the role of Kevin Rayburn in the Netflix series Bloodline, and playing Paddy Chayefsky on the FX limited series Fosse/Verdon. His film credits include Peter Hedges' Dan in Real Life, Vera Farmiga's Sony feature Higher Ground, Craig Zisk's The English Teacher, and writer-directors Geoff Moore and David Posamentier's Better Living Through Chemistry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Good heavens! We have so much to say about this classic piece of literature. We mostly talk about our favorite parts and forget to dissect the adaptation but, Mr. Bennet, please we can't help ourselves. Em is flabbergasted that Jordan hasn't seen the BBC version and Jordan admits why she has a hard time with this version of Mr. Darcy.    Episode Drink: Rye and Prejudice 3 oz grapefruit juice 1 ½ oz rye whiskey   Pour the ingredients over ice in a rocks glass, stirring like a complicated heart. We hold no prejudice against marrying up ladies, but you don't need a castle (or a king) to be a queen.    Recipe From: Tequila Mockingbird by Tim Federle   YouTube Mentions: Lizzie and Darcy Fight Scene Breakdown by Jill Barup The Lizzie Bennet Diaries   Our Drinking Game for this Story  Take a drink: Every time Mr. Darcy is a dick Every time Mr. Wickham tells a lie Every time Mr. Collins is a dick Every time Lydia makes you roll your eyes Every time Mrs Bennet wheedles Mr Bennet to do something to help the girls marry rich Take 2 drinks: Whenever a marriage proposal occurs   Indie Bookstore Recommendations: Em: Quest Bookshop - Seattle, WA Jordan : Boulder Bookstore - Boulder, CO   A Novel Adaptation was created by Emily Eppley and Jordan Redwine. See more details at www.anoveladaptation.com and see what's coming up next to read along with us. Find us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Goodreads to join the conversation. Our artwork is by Kit Bernal. Our music is “Harlequin” by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0.

Enjoy our presentation of The Great American Whatever written by Tim Federle and published by Simon & Schuster. Teenaged Quinn, an aspiring screenwriter, copes with his sister's death while his best friend forces him back out into the world to face his reality.This title was named by ALA to the Rainbow Project Book List.The Great American Whatever is recommended for ages 15+ for language and depictions of depression and death. Please visit Kirkus for more information and reviews:  http://bit.ly/WhateverReviewsThis title is available as an audiobook on Hoopla: http://bit.ly/WhateverHooplaAudioPlease visit www.calvertlibrary.info for more information.Music: Sad Clown (excerpt) by Orquesta Arrecife. Licensed under CC BY-SA 1.0 http://www.opsound.org/artist/orquestaarrecife/

Connor and Dylan are joined by Big Red himself, Larry Saperstein (High School Musical: The Musical: The Series). Larry makes a confession about his own drivers license. They also discuss the Bravo show Summer House, being friends with Andrew Barth Feldman, 42nd Street on Broadway, the Golden Age of Disney Channel, working with Tim Federle, Kate Reinders as Miss Jenn and Glinda, tap dancing, the finale of Drag Race season 13, our obsession with Gottmik, and all things HSMTMTS. You don’t want to miss this.You can watch our interview with Larry HERE by joining our Patreon.Follow Larry on Twitter & InstagramFollow DRAMA. on Twitter & InstagramFollow Connor MacDowell on Twitter & InstagramFollow Dylan MacDowell on Twitter & InstagramEdited by Maggie Montalto | Twitter & InstagramHERE is where you find official DRAMA. merch!Don’t forget to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, rate us 5 stars, and leave a review!

Madeline tells Lesley about the whale of a life of Herman Melville. So sit back on your boat, grab that whale burger, and a Moby Drink cocktail (created by Tim Federle) and enjoy!

On this episode I am joined by the lovely and talented, not to mention hilarious, Cocoa Brown! I had been trying to figure out what to say for weeks, I was that excited about having her on as a guest. You might have seen her in GCB, 2 Broke Girls, Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23, Psych, The Single Moms Club, Ted 2, American Crime Story, For Better or Worse, Never Have I Ever, or 9-1-1. You might have also seen her doing stand-up, seriously though, if you haven't see her comedy, go look her up on YouTube right now! This woman is a hustler, she's got her hands in several baskets....actress, comedian, host, writer, producer, business owner including her nonprofit, Wigs of Love LLC. (www.thecocoabrowncollection.com) (www.cocoascravables.com). We discuss the new Netflix from Ryan Murphy Ratched starring Sarah Paulson, Finn Wittrock, Cynthia Nixon, Judy Davis, Jon Jon Briones, Charlie Carver, Amanda Plummer and Sharon Stone. This show is a prequel to One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest; set in 1947, Mildred Ratched begins working as a nurse at a leading psychiatric hospital after a killer is scheduled to be taken to said hospital for the death of several priests. Ryan Murphy never seems to fail, his shows are always incredible and leave you wanting more. One Flew Over the Cosmos Nest (Tequila Mockingbird Cocktails with a Literary Twist by Tim Federle): 1 1/2 ounces of vodka 1 ounce of cranberry juice 1/2 ounce of triple sec 1/2 ounce of lime juice Combine the ingredients with ice in a shaker. Shake well and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. *Code Blue: It's hard to stop at just one of these - especially if all the other voices in your head are parched, too. Drinking Game (movie boozer.com): Since I failed to find an actual drinking game as of now for Ratched, I will provide an altered version for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Drink a shot every time Nurse Ratched acts like an "elfin B-word". And drink yourself silly every time the word "crazy" is spoken (but do not drink too much, please, or else a viewer could fly over the cuckoo's nest, too!). As always, please leave me a 5 star review on Apple, or email be at linedrunk@gmail.com if you can't leave me 5 stars. I'm also on Twitter and Instagram at @Line_Drunk and would love for you to be a guest on an episode, or if you have a guest in mind, or if you would love to suggest a film or an episode from a tv show. Drink responsibly, don't drink and drive. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/linedrunk/support

In today’s episode, Jess speaks with Tim Federle, the producer of Disney+’s hit show “High School Musical: The Musical: The Series.” He shares incredible insights throughout the conversation about his own experience being bullied as a boy, how being a theatre kid “saved his life,” and how he now gets paid for doing all the things for which people used to make fun of him. Tim’s search for living The Good Life has him redefining his version of success, and he talks about how, as adults, we need to give ourselves permission to change our aspirations and dreams. Jess and Tim bond over  their shared theatre roots, their love of connecting with kids, and how they both feel leadership is ultimately about bringing out the good in people.  IG + Twitter: @TimFederle

Enjoy our presentation of Better Nate Than Ever written by Tim Federle and published by Simon & Schuster. Eighth grader Nate Foster dreams of performing in a Broadway musical. With his friend Libby, Nate concocts a plan to run away from his small Pennsylvania town to New York, where he'll audition for the role of Elliot in the musical version of E.T. Will Nate hit it big, or be stuck with those small town blues?Better Nate Than Ever is a Stonewall Honor Book and was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year. Better Nate Than Ever is recommended for ages 10 and up for mature themes and language.  Please see common sense media here for more information and reviews: https://bit.ly/NateReviews This title is available digitally in the following formats: Libby Ebook - https://bit.ly/NateLibbyEbookLibby Audiobook - https://bit.ly/NateLibbyAudiobookHoopla Audiobook - https://bit.ly/NateHooplaAudiobookPlease visit www.calvertlibrary.info for more information. Music: Dub the Uke (excerpt) by Kara Square (c) copyright 2016. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/mindmapthat/53340

Grab a bucket of water to cool yourself down because we have some hot takes in this episode. We get into the virtues and vices of trying to modernize a classic piece of work and when it's worth it. Jordan and Emily disagree about humanity itself and then try to discern if Bradbury was a “stuffy old man.” Grab the fire hoses - the ones with water - because it's about to get lit.   Episode Drink: The Fahrenheit 151 6 cups apple cider 1 cup cranberry juice 1 cup orange juice 1 cup pineapple juice 6 cloves 4 cinnamon sticks 8 oz of Bacardi 151 Instructions Put all ingredients, sans rum, into a crockpot.Warm for approx. 1 hour. Once everyone has turned in their cell phone, pour in the rum. Stir and server.  Recipe From Our Favorite Book: Tequila Mockingbird by Tim Federle    What Books Would We Read for Humanity? Em: The Guide to Good Living by William B. Irvine Jordan: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini   Our Drinking Game for this Story   Take a drink any time a book you're familiar with gets burned Take a shot any time they mention book you've actually read Take a drink every time you recognize a historical event they reference Take a drink every time you roll your eyes at the shallow nature of the movie Finish your drink for all the unnecessary deaths in this movie.  Bonus extra pour for that one unnecessary death in the book   Cheerful Ears: Jordan: The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller Emily: American Gods by Neil Gaiman   A Novel Adaptation was created by Emily Eppley and Jordan Redwine. See more details at www.anoveladaptation.com and see what's coming up next to read along with us. Find us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Goodreads to join the conversation. Our artwork is by Kit Bernal. Our music is “Harlequin” by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0.

Little Me host, Marc Tumminelli talks with the star of the Broadway musical Tuck Everlasting - Sarah Charles Lewis. Sarah Charles tell the wild story of going from living a small town in Georgia to headlining in the 2016 Broadway musical Tuck Everlasting at age 11. Sarah Charles chats about her TV obsession Outer banks, playing Annie in Atlanta, doing the out of town tryout of Tuck Everlasting at the Alliance Theater, working with Tim Federle, Carolee Carmello, Andrew Keenan-Bolger, Casey Nicholaw, making her Broadway debut, recording the cast album of Tuck Everlasting, her high school theater and how her Broadway experience changed her life forever! Produced by the Broadway Podcast Network Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We’re back for the penultimate episode of Season 1 — it’s opening night and everyone is stressed, excited, and eager to get the show rolling. Palmer and Petrana break down the highs and lows of the first act and take a look at showrunner Tim Federle’s pitch bible (https://twitter.com/TimFederle/status/1213605071272833026).

Palmer and Petrana return to discuss episode 6, which finally puts the show itself in jeopardy. We’ve got some thoughts about popular ships (Rina rights???), lots of Big Red love (what else is new), and a shifting perspective as we start to feel a bit more sympathetic towards Miss Jenn (even if the thing with Ricky’s dad is a little oof, on both ends). Also, Tim Federle gave us a definitive answer about Seb’s cow from the Homecoming episode.

Author and screenwriter Tim Federle (Ferdinand) about his career and new Disney+ series, High School Musical: The Musical - The Series.

País Estados Unidos Dirección Carlos Saldanha Guion Robert L. Baird, Tim Federle, Brad Copeland (Historia: Ron Burch, David Kidd, Don Rhymer. Cuento: Munro Leaf) Música John Powell Fotografía Animation, Renato Falcão Sinopsis Ferdinand es un novillo muy tranquilo que prefiere sentarse bajo un árbol a oler las flores que saltar, resoplar y embestirse con otros toros. A medida que va creciendo y haciéndose fuerte, su temperamento no cambia y sigue siendo un toro manso. Un día, unos hombres vienen buscando al toro más grande, rápido y bravo... y Ferdinand es elegido equivocadamente para las corridas de toros de Madrid.

Writer Tim Federle joins Rory to talk about his new Disney+ series, "High School Musical: The Musical: The Series" starting streaming November 12th. Plus, his work on the Academy Award nominated Ferdinand and his long career in New York!

In this episode we discuss the Adam Silvera/Becky Albertali collaboration, What If It's Us. We discuss whether we're team Arthur or Ben, and have a long discussion about punctuality. I'm super embarrassed to have realized that our discussion of punctuality does not include a discussion of class. Arthur comes from money; Ben does not, and I somehow managed to miss that when talking about the fact that Ben has to rely on modes of more affordable transportation. I wish we'd had this conversation, and I may ask us to get back together to record an amendment to this episode in the future. But feel free to take us to task for missing it here. We'd love to hear your take. Additionally, Lindsey suggests More Nate Than Ever by Tim Federle. Molly suggests The Sun Is Also A Star by Nicola Yoon. Amy suggests The Art of Being Normal by Lisa Williamson, every book by David Levithan, and Becky Albertali's books. Cash Money suggests The Summer of Jordi Perez (and the Best Burger in Los Angeles) by Amy Spalding and From Twinkle With Love by Sandhya Menon.

This week, Alice and Kim discuss arson, mesmerism, and murder in a true crime-themed episode. Find your scary nonfiction here this month on For Real. This week’s episode is sponsored by Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margarita by Tim Federle, and The Golden Boy: A Doctor’s Journey With Addiction by Grant Matheson. Don’t forget to check out Book Riot’s new subscription service offering Tailored Book Recommendations for readers of all stripes. Visit mytbr.co to learn more. FOLLOW UP Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding, Its Apocalyptic Weather, Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-Class Metropolis by Sam Anderson NEW BOOKS The Library Book by Susan Orlean Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster by Stephen L. Carter Noncompliant: A Lone Whistleblower Exposes the Giants of Wall Street by Carmen Segarra My Squirrel Days by Ellie Kemper In the Hurricane’s Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown by Nathaniel Philbrick Impeachment: An American History by by Jon Meacham, Timothy Naftali, Peter Baker, and Jeffrey Engel WEEKLY THEME: True Crime Bonanza The Red Parts by Maggie Nelson The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule After the Eclipse: A Mother’s Murder and a Daughter’s Search by Sarah Perry I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara The Infamous Harry Hayward: A True Account of Murder and Mesmerism in Gilded Age Minneapolis by Shawn Francis Peters American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land by Monica Hesse SEGMENT THREE: Short Nonfiction II Tell Me How it Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions by Valeria Luiselli My Friend Dahmer by Derk Backderf Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit READING NOW Good and Mad by Rebecca Traister The Good Pig by Sy Montgomery In Cold Blood by Truman Capote EXTRAS Allie Brosh/Felicia Day Interview

Discover the wholly satisfying conclusion to Tim Federle’s Odyssey honor middle-grade series. As both author and narrator, Tim Federle fully embodies Nate, making sure that we understand him and his vibrant and dynamic personality — and his insecurities. Nate’s just come off of a summer of performing on Broadway, and now has to handle going back to high school, where he hasn’t yet come out as gay. Listeners will want to get to know Nate in the first two audiobooks in this series, BETTER NATE THAN EVER and FIVE, SIX, SEVEN, NATE, before leaping into this final chapter. For more free audiobook recommendations, sign up for AudioFile Magazine’s newsletter on our website. On today’s episode are Jo Reed and AudioFile Magazine assistant editor Emily Connelly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Martha's guests are Karen Duffy, Tim Federle, and Panio Gianopoulos. With a short story from Martha Frankel herself.

In honor of Jane Austen's birthday on December 16, Amanda and Jenn recommend their favorite readalikes in this week's Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Life is Like A Musical by Tim Federle and The Austen Escape by Katherine Reay.   Books Discussed: The Clockwork Dynasty by Daniel H. Wilson Batman: Nightwalker by Marie Lu Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho The Dark Days Club by Alison Goodman Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray Heartstone by Elle Katharine White The Living is Easy by Dorothy West The Ruin of a Rake by Cat Sebastian Longbourn by Jo Baker Pride and Prejudice and Mistletoe by Melissa de la Cruz Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey & Maturin series (Master & Commander #1) Death Comes to Pemberley by PD James For Real by Alexis Hall These Old Shades by Georgette Heyer Top 20 Giveaway!

You are the star of your own movie - how to live, love and lead like a star with Tim Federle.What You'll Learn in this Episode: Why it's important to congratulate the person that got “your” part (or promotion). How to give compliment sandwiches. Why you need to remember “feelings aren't facts” when things don't go your way. Why you need to find your “I Want” song. Why “living in a suitcase” is beneficial. How to forgive yourself after a bad performance. Why you should forget your resume and polish your reputation. How to realize you are the lead in your own life. More from the book Life is Like a Musical, How to Live, Love and Lead Like a Star. Supercharge your brain and reverse memory loss, pick up a copy of Memory Rescue today. - sponsor  Connect with TimInstagram Share the Show! If you enjoyed this show, please rate it on iTunes and write a brief review. That would help us tremendously in getting the word out and raising the visibility of the show. Sponsor:Supercharge your brain and reverse memory loss, pick up a copy of Memory Rescue today.

You are the star of your own movie - how to live, love and lead like a star with Tim Federle.What You’ll Learn in this Episode: Why it’s important to congratulate the person that got “your” part (or promotion). How to give compliment sandwiches. Why you need to remember “feelings aren’t facts” when things don’t go your way. Why you need to find your “I Want” song. Why “living in a suitcase” is beneficial. How to forgive yourself after a bad performance. Why you should forget your resume and polish your reputation. How to realize you are the lead in your own life. More from the book Life is Like a Musical, How to Live, Love and Lead Like a Star. Supercharge your brain and reverse memory loss, pick up a copy of Memory Rescue today. - sponsor  Connect with TimInstagram Share the Show! If you enjoyed this show, please rate it on iTunes and write a brief review. That would help us tremendously in getting the word out and raising the visibility of the show. Sponsor:Supercharge your brain and reverse memory loss, pick up a copy of Memory Rescue today.

Life Is Like a Musical: How to Live, Love, and Lead Like a Star with Tim FederleTim Federle is an award-winning writer and former Broadway dancer whose works include the novels “The Great American Whatever” and “Better Nate Than Ever” (both named New York Times Notable Books of the Year), the bestselling recipe book “Tequila Mockingbird: Cocktails with a Literary Twist,” and the Tony-nominated musical “Tuck Everlasting.” Originally from San Francisco and raised in Pittsburgh, Tim now splits his time between New York and the Internet. https://timfederle.comThe ABC’s of Parenthood with Deborah CopakenDeborah Copaken is a New York Times–bestselling author, screenwriter, New York Observer columnist, award-winning and internationally exhibited photographer, and former Emmy Award–winning news producer at ABC and NBC. She lives in Manhattan. http://www.deborahcopakenkogan.com

Host Cyrus Webb welcomes author Tim Federle back to #ConversationsLIVE to discuss his new book LIFE IS LIKE A MUSICAL.

Right around Broadway performer Tim Federle's third career transition, he realized how many of his hard-won showbiz lessons he could apply to not just being a successful performer, but to being a successful all-around person too. Life is Like a Musical is for people who find themselves desiring something-- stronger relationships, or a better job or a clearer way of seeing their own lives. So silence your cell phones, and get ready to break a leg (so to speak) and schedule an interview with the lively and very musical, author/writer, Tim Federle, whose advice will let the performance speak for itself. LIFE IS LIKE A MUSICAL How to Live, Love, and Lead Like a Star by Tim Federle Step into the leading role of your own life! On Tuesday, October 3rd, the self-help book with a showbiz twist, LIFE IS LIKE A MUSICAL, will be available wherever books are sold. Life is Like a Musical (Running Press) is the latest non-fiction title from Tim Federle, whose bestselling cocktail recipe books Tequila Mockingbird and Gone With the Gin turned book clubs upside-down. This time, Tim gets personal, with 50 essays drawn from his life as a theater kid-turned-chorus boy-turned Broadway playwright. It’s Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff, with jazz hands—and it’s already been hailed as “hilarious, wise, and one-of-a-kind.” Life is Like a Musical isn't necessarily for people who spontaneously break into dance routines in the middle of the street. It’s for anyone who wants to find their own song, whatever that means to them. From “Cast Yourself in the Role You Want,” to “Life is Not a Dress Rehearsal,” Tim guides readers on how they, too, can benefit from wisdom learned backstage, onstage, and in between gigs. No theater experience required. Just a desire to take on the role of a lifetime—one’s own. ABOUT Tim Federle is a former Broadway dancer turned award-winning writer whose works include the bestselling cocktail recipe books Tequila Mockingbird and Gone with the Gin, the novels Better Nate Than Ever and The Great American Whatever (each named New York Times Notable Books of the Year), and the Tony-nominated Broadway musical Tuck Everlasting. A native of San Francisco who grew up in Pittsburgh, Tim now divides his time between New York and the internet. Connect with him online @TimFederle on Twitter and Instagram

This episode is crafted to help you with your workplace woes. This month we take on three classic workplace woes: toxic work environments, losing your job, and feeling like you can’t be yourself at work. Every question you’ll hear on today’s show has been sent in by a fellow listener. We are always taking new questions, so if you want some advice from Momma B, please request advice: http://www.advicefrom.mom/request/. You can also leave a voicemail or text us your request: 706-9-ASK-MOM. Less fancifully, that number is (706) 927-5666. We are currently working on upcoming episodes about break-ups and creative pursuits. Send those questions in pronto! QUESTION 1: RECOVERING FROM A TOXIC WORK ENVIRONMENT For the complete question, go to: http://www.advicefrom.mom/listen/ The guests in this segment are Sadia Harper of Collective Health and Julie Mora-Blanco of Adobe. QUESTION 2: BUILDING BACK YOUR CONFIDENCE AFTER LOSING YOUR JOB The guest in this segment is Robert (Tre) Laughlin. He runs All Systems Health ( www.allsystemshealth.com ). and has a Masters Degree in Oriental Medicine, certified medical qigong practitioner, certified as a functional medicine practitioner, and is currently pursuing his doctorate in Longevity at Yo San University in L.A., a Chinese and Integrative Medicine University founded and informed by the Ni family, that holds a 39 generation lineage in Taoist healing. In addition to being a master acupuncturist and herbalist, he loves geeking out on specialized lab tests that can help see the big picture for ultimate health and wellbeing. Tre also loves biohacking, and considers Chinese Medicine to be the original biohacking platform. He combines the most ancient medicines with the most cutting edge tech to create a personalized and optimized treatment plan. QUESTION 3: BRINGING YOUR PERSONAL TO WORK The guests in this segment are Kelli Dragovich is the SVP of People at Hired ( https://hired.com ). Tim Federle (https://timfederle.com ) is the author of Better Nate Than Ever and the bestselling recipe books, including Tequila Mockingbird (over 200,000 copies sold) and Gone With the Gin. Advice from Mom is a production of Wise Ones Advice Services. It produced & edited by me, RGB. Sound engineering by Bryan Garza. Our theme music is Love, Jerks. Big thanks to everyone who sent us questions, and to all my friends who gave input & advice for this episode—Natalie, Aviva, Serena, Hadley, Rick, Jocelyn, Ash, Mbot, Ali, Ginny, Jane, & Emily. This podcast is for informational purposes only and is not intended to offer diagnosis or treatment of any medical or psychological condition. All treatment decisions should be made in partnership with your health professional.

This week's podcast continues Tales of the Cocktail 2016 coverage with a chat with Tim Master on Chartreuse, Jim Meehan, founder of PDT in Manhattan and Jetta Bates, Cocktail Enthusiast and Creator of the blog, Jetta Setting. It's the Bartender Journey Podcast Number 178, supported by ​ Partender. Listen with the audio player on this page, on BartenderJourney.net or subscribe on iTunes, Android or Stitcher Radio. Book of the Week: Tequila Mockingbird: Cocktails with a Literary Twist by Tim Federle.  Its a fun book with easy to make cocktails named after classic books. ​Cocktail of the Week: Last Word Mix equal parts Green Chartreuse, Maraschino Liqueur, and Fresh Lime Juice.  Shake with ice.  Double strain into a chilled Coupe glass.  Garnish with a Lime Wheel. Toast of the week: "Here’s to the nights we can't remember, with the friends we'll never forget"

Writing news from Jeff opens the show this week before the guys talk about out Olympians. Jeff read and reviews two books: The Great American Whatever by Tim Federle and How to Be a Normal Person by TJ Klune. The 2016 GRL Blog Tour continues with Lex Chase discussing her new book Urban Fairy Tale, which comes out August 19, as well as her love of the show Lost. Joanna Penn returns for the second part of her interview. This week she talks about running an author business and focusing on the long game as well as more about author mindset. Complete shownotes for episode 45, and the chance to enter the Big GRL Blog Tour Giveaway, are at BigGayFictionPodcast.com.

Podcast Ep 9: Tim Federle Hickory Daiquiri Dock  Cocktails with a Nursery Rhyme Twist KidLit TV has a special podcast episode... Read more » The post KidLit Podcast: Tim Federle After Hours appeared first on KidLit TV.

Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Ginger Strand, Warren Zanes and Tim Federle.

Podcast Ep3: Tim Federle KidLit TV’s Rocco Staino interviews author Tim Federle. In this podcast Tim talks about his kid lit... Read more » The post KidLit Podcast: Tim Federle appeared first on KidLit TV.

Julie Gribble (@JulieGribbleNYC) and Rocco Staino (@RoccoA), founders of Kidlit.TV (@nymediaworks), stop by to talk about the journey so far of their online resource to children's literatures, developing a show in the vein of Inside the Actor's Studio meets The Tonight Show, and picking up dance moves from Tim Federle.  

Live listeners asks questions of hilarious author Tim Federle. Eric is accused of being cranky. Formerly exiled travel expert Tanya Lee Musgrave is back with another installment of Best Served Warm.

Fairly imbalanced newsman Breck Artery is up in arms about international arms. Christopher decries the lack of effective regulations at the exploded fertilizer plant in West, Texas. Eric asks if the era of small government is turning the U.S.A into an underfunded banana republic. The Restless Leg Dancers make their dangerous debut.

Eric gives his DA VINCI'S DEMONS update; another episode, more straight washing of the legendary gay genius. Twan, Queen of the Stars, reads the star signs before they read you. Christopher refuses to talk about his mother's pornography even though everyone on the Facebook page wants him to talk about it, everyone including his mother. Relationship “expert” JoNell Samms talks multiculturalism.

The hilarious writer and former Broadway dancer Tim Federle joins the table to talk Broadway dish and his new young adult novel, BETTER NATE THAN EVER. Critic-at-large Jordan Ampersand tries to convince Eric that his near-death experience made him more spiritual. Another installment of World's Worst Pitch Meeting.