Podcast appearances and mentions of Todd S Purdum

In this episode, I spoke with Todd S. Purdum regarding his book "Desi Arnaz: The Man Who Invented Television". An illuminating biography of Desi Arnaz, the visionary, trailblazing Cuban American who revolutionized television and brought laughter to millions as Lucille Ball's beloved husband on I Love Lucy, leaving a remarkable legacy that continues to influence American culture today.Forgotten Hollywood is on Facebook!  Doug Hess is the host!

Steve interviews author and former journalist Todd S. Purdum all about his concise and fascinating biography Desi Arnaz: The Man Who Invented Television.

This week, Sam Tanenhaus discusses the life of William F. Buckley Jr., the man who set the blueprint for the modern conservative movement, which has reached a new iteration in Donald Trump. Then, speaking of consequential figures, we consider a man who left an enormous impact on Hollywood: Desi Arnaz. Todd S. Purdum tells us all about Arnaz's groundbreaking life and career. And finally, a special treat: Cazzie David joins us from Los Angeles to share her answers to 50 of life's most pressing questions in this week's Perfect Ending.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This week, Todd S. Purdum, a longtime political reporter for The New York Times, explains why Democrats have only themselves to blame for the Mexican standoff they're now locked in with a very stubborn octogenarian. Then, we all know how Ozempic and Wegovy have reduced millions of waistlines around the world in the last few years. But in Denmark, where the drugs are exclusively manufactured, Ozempic and Wegovy have made many people very, very wealthy. In fact, the drugs have added almost 2 percent to the country's G.D.P. So what are these people doing with their money? Mary Holland tells us about the beautiful coastal town where all these newly rich Danes love to escape to. Finally, Stuart Heritage will explain why Neil Gaiman, one of the most popular writers of the past three decades and the creator of such hits as The Sandman, finds himself accused of sexual assault.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Jessica Humphrey is the President of the Musical Theater Educators' Alliance and an Assistant Professor at Texas Christian University. In this episode we discuss the Musical Theater Common Prescreen Criteria developed in partnership with MTEA, Accptd, and several Musical Theater programs across the country. We also discuss the upcoming MTEA conference in London at the Guilford School of Acting from July 23rd to July 25th, 2024. Her recommendations include: Something Wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway Revolution by Todd S. Purdum and getting an “old-fashioned” planner!  Jessica is a native of Dallas, Texas and attended Western Carolina University where she received a Bachelors of Music in Musical Theatre. This is where she first started working as a dance captain for Tony nominee Charlotte d'Amboise and assistant to Tony Award nominee Terrence Mann both on productions and at their summer intensive, Triple Arts. She has continued to assist the husband and wife team until she moved to TCU. Both Terrence and Charlotte directed Jessica in shows such as A Chorus Line (where she eventually took over the role of Cassie when Tony nominated actress Ariana DeBose suffered an injury), Sweeney Todd (Johanna) and Pirates of Penzance (Edith). Jessica went on to work as a dance captain for original Rent dance captain, Owen Johnston and spent two summers as the dance captain for Wild Adventures Theme Park. After graduating in 2011, she moved to New York City where she performed in several regional shows including the regional debut of The Boy from Oz, Cats (Rumpleteazer) and Into the Woods (Little Red). Some other favorite productions have included Dames at Sea (Joan), West Side Story (Anybodys) and Brigadoon (Bonnie Jean).  Eventually she decided it was time to further her education and completed her Masters in Musical Theatre at San Diego State University where she received support from the Roscoe-Tiffany MFA Musical Theatre Scholarship and the Marion Ross Scholarship. The program is one of only a few in the nation with a terminal degree in musical theatre, and the only one that has a clear focus on both performance and academia. An important aspect of this program is working on developing new musical theatre works. Jessica worked with Dallas natives in developing the show “On the Eve” and with Tony Award Winner BD Wong and Wayne Barker on the show, “Mister Doctor”. Jessica went on to work with BD and Wayne again in New York, on a new musicalized version of Mister Holland's Opus. Jessica taught classes such as History of Musical Theatre, Acting I, and Musical Theatre performance. While completing her thesis on the evolution of rap in musical theatre, Jessica left California in order to perform in Alaska as Peter in Peter Pan. While flying every night, and completing her thesis, she also worked to choreograph numbers for the Aztec Follies, a cabaret of graduate students filmed for PBS. During her time in grad school, Jessica also worked at the famed La Jolla Playhouse, in the Development Department and the Musical Theatre Archive at SDSU, the largest Musical Theatre Archive west of the Mississippi. After moving back to New York City, where she resided until August 2018, Humphrey worked with organizations such as the Ziegfeld Society, Rosie's Theatre Kids, and Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp. She continues to study voice with the esteemed instructor Andrew Byrne and works as a performer both onstage and in voiceover.

For Martin Luther King Day - from the archives (2014) - Todd S. Purdum, author of "An Idea Whose Time Has Come: Two Presidents, Two Parties, and the Battle for the Civil Rights Act of 1964."

Hillary and Tina cover Howard Stern runs for Governor of New York and civil rights activists Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner. Hillary's Story Throughout his career, shock jock Howard Stern fought for free speech against the FCC. BUT he shocks everyone when he runs for governor of New York. Tina's Story In June 1964, three civil rights activists made their way to investigate a firebombed church in Mississippi. BUT when no one hears from them for days, everyone fears the worst. Sources Hillary's Story Independent The Candidate Has Landed (https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/the-candidate-has-landed-howard-stern-america-s-top-shockjock-is-seeking-the-dignity-of-high-office-and-his-campaign-to-be-elected-governor-of-new-york-is-proving-to-be-more-than-just-a-bad-joke-kevin-jackson-reports-1435861.html)--by Kevin Jackson Los Angeles Times Howard Stern Ends Bid for Governor; Won't Divulge Data (https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-08-05-mn-23782-story.html) Method Shop Howard Stern For Governor? A Look Back At The Shock Jock's 1994 Run For Governor Of New York State (https://methodshop.com/howard-stern-for-governor/)--by Jay Frank Wilson The New York Times Gov. Howard Stern? Some Fail to See Humor (https://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/03/us/gov-howard-stern-some-fail-to-see-humor.html)--by Todd S. Purdum The Things The Truth About Howard Stern's Run For Governor (https://www.thethings.com/the-truth-about-howard-sterns-run-for-governor/)--by Dylan Parker UPI Howard Stern quits N.Y. gov race (https://www.upi.com/Archives/1994/08/04/Howard-Stern-quits-NY-gov-race/6841775972800/)--By TRACEY L. MILLER The Washington Post What Howard Stern for governor can teach us about Donald Trump (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/08/11/long-before-donald-trump-for-president-there-was-howard-stern-for-governor/)--by Amber Phillips Wikipedia Howard Stern (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Stern) 1994 New York gubernatorial election (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_New_York_gubernatorial_election#:~:text=The%20original%20Libertarian%20candidate%20was,show%20on%20March%2022%2C%201994) YouTube COMEDY CENTRAL-HOWARD STERN FOR GOVERNOR-1994-Part 1 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9epqTo4heJw) Howard Stern for Governor on Hard Copy (1994) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKdvdyD_SSE) Photos Stern at Press Conference (https://methodshop.com/wp-content/uploads/howard-stern-libertarian-party-nomination-800x450.jpg)--Photo by Ted Van Pelt via Method Shop Stern at Press Conference with Robin Quivers--by Chrystyna Czajkowsky, AP (https://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/4a5c3543c40e135bc942c661bf8082818024c55b/c=0-126-1996-1254/local/-/media/2016/06/29/USATODAY/USATODAY/636027985707254761-AP-GOVERNOR-STERN-228955.JPG?width=1320&height=746&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp) via USA Today Gov Pataki and Stern at bill signing (https://editorial01.shutterstock.com/wm-preview-1500/6516433b/1985808c/Shutterstock_6516433b.jpg)--Photo by Kathy Willens, AP via Shutterstock Tina's Story Associated Press Man convicted of 3 killing civil rights workers dies in jail (https://apnews.com/article/north-america-us-news-ap-top-news-mississippi-ms-state-wire-3d82e778b5d643088268c3214ae904f8)--By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS and REBECCA SANTANA Facts about Mississippi Sovereignty Commission (https://www.mdcbowen.org/p2/bh/badco/missSov.htm) The Atlantic The Cost of Closing the ‘Mississippi Burning' Murder Case (https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/06/mississippi-civil-rights-killings-goodman-chaney-schwerner/487907/)--by Juleyka Lantigua-Williams Biography Andrew Goodman (https://www.biography.com/people/andrew-goodman) CBS News Case files and photos from 1964 "Mississippi Burning" murders of civil rights workers made public for first time (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mississippi-burning-murders-case-files-public-james-chaney-andrew-goodman-michael-schwerner/) Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner (http://www.core-online.org/History/Chaney,%20Goodman%20%26%20Schwerner.htm) FBI History Mississippi Burning (https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/mississippi-burning) Ferris State University MICHAEL HENRY SCHWERNER, JAMES EARL CHANEY, AND ANDREW GOODMAN (https://www.ferris.edu/HTMLS/news/jimcrow/witnesses/schwerner.htm) History Slain Civil Rights Workers Found (https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/slain-civil-rights-workers-found) James Earl Chaney Foundation James Earl Chaney (http://jecf.org/James%20Chaney2.htm) Metropolitan District Commission The New York Times The Blessing and Burden of Being John Lewis (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/insider/john-lewis-memory.html)--by Sheryl Gay Stolberg NPR: The Two Way Officials Close Investigation Into 1964 'Mississippi Burning' Killings (https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/06/21/482914440/officials-close-investigation-into-1964-mississippi-burning-killings)--by Camila Domonoske Penn Live Ku Klux Klansman arrested 15 years ago in murder case that inspired ‘Mississippi Burning' (https://www.pennlive.com/nation-world/2020/01/ku-klux-klansman-arrested-15-years-ago-in-murder-case-that-inspired-mississippi-burning.html)--by Deb Kiner PBS: An American Experience Murder in Mississippi (https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/freedomsummer-murder/) SNCC Digital Bodies of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner discovered (https://snccdigital.org/events/bodies-chaney-goodman-schwerner-discovered/) Stanford University -Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute Congress of Racial Equality (https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/congress-racial-equality-core) Teen Vogue The Mississippi Burning Murders Changed Civil Rights History (https://www.teenvogue.com/story/mississippi-burning-murders-history)--by Alexa Stevens University of Missouri Kansas City Michael Schwerner (https://web.archive.org/web/20080515025355/http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/price%26bowers/Schwerner.htm) Zinn Education Project June 21, 1964: Three Civil Rights Workers Murdered in Mississippi (https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/chaney-goodman-schwerner-murdered/) Photos Missing Photo (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/FBI_Poster_of_Missing_Civil_Rights_Workers.jpg)--via FBI (Public Domain) Remains Found (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/Civil_Rights_Workers.jpg)--via FBI (Public Domain) CORE Vigil Photo (https://www.zinnedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Schwerner-Chaney-and-Goodman-Zinn-Education-Project.jpg)--via Zinn Education Project Chaney Obituary (https://archives.qc.cuny.edu/civilrights/files/original/ae4b08979b585a5417dfe5ba4d71f993.jpg)--via City University of New York Archives

In the third installment of the CPF Fellows Roundtable Series of 2021, Spring 2021 CPF Fellows Barbara Comstock and Todd S. Purdum are joined by former Fellow Ron Christie (Fall 2019) to discuss how new far right outlets are challenging Fox News, the influence of these new far right outlets on conservatism, and why conservatives don't trust "mainstream" outlets. This discussion was moderated by CPF Fellows Manager, Harry Burke. Featuring: Ron Christie: Former Special Assistant to President George W. Bush and CPF Fall 2019 Fellow Barbara Comstock: Former U.S. Representative (R-VA) and CPF Spring 2021 Fellow Todd S. Purdum: Former New York Times Reporter and Staff Writer at The Atlantic; CPF Spring 2021 Fellow

In the third installment of the CPF Fellows Roundtable Series of 2021, Spring 2021 CPF Fellows Barbara Comstock and Todd S. Purdum are joined by former Fellow Ron Christie (Fall 2019) to discuss how new far right outlets are challenging Fox News, the influence of these new far right outlets on conservatism, and why conservatives don't trust "mainstream" outlets. This discussion was moderated by CPF Fellows Manager, Harry Burke. Featuring: Ron Christie: Former Special Assistant to President George W. Bush and CPF Fall 2019 Fellow Barbara Comstock: Former U.S. Representative (R-VA) and CPF Spring 2021 Fellow Todd S. Purdum: Former New York Times Reporter and Staff Writer at The Atlantic; CPF Spring 2021 Fellow

In the first installment of the CPF Fellows Roundtable Series of 2021, CPF Fellows Barbara Comstock, Shaniqua McClendon, and Todd S. Purdum discussed the institutional aspects of American democracy from the Senate and the filibuster to gerrymandering and political parties. This discussion was moderated by CPF Fellows Manager, Harry Burke. Featuring: Barbara Comstock: Former U.S. Representative (R-VA) and CPF Spring 2021 Fellow Shaniqua McClendon: Political Director, Crooked Media and CPF Spring 2021 Fellow Todd S. Purdum: Former New York Times Reporter and Staff Writer at The Atlantic; CPF Spring 2021 Fellow

In the first installment of the CPF Fellows Roundtable Series of 2021, CPF Fellows Barbara Comstock, Shaniqua McClendon, and Todd S. Purdum discussed the institutional aspects of American democracy from the Senate and the filibuster to gerrymandering and political parties. This discussion was moderated by CPF Fellows Manager, Harry Burke. Featuring: Barbara Comstock: Former U.S. Representative (R-VA) and CPF Spring 2021 Fellow Shaniqua McClendon: Political Director, Crooked Media and CPF Spring 2021 Fellow Todd S. Purdum: Former New York Times Reporter and Staff Writer at The Atlantic; CPF Spring 2021 Fellow

CPF Co-Directors Bob Shrum and Mike Murphy are joined by the Center's Spring 2021 Fellows to recap President Joe Biden's inauguration and share their insights on the country’s future under the Biden Administration. Featuring: Barbara Comstock - Former U.S. Representative (R-VA) and CPF Spring 2021 Fellow Shaniqua McClendon - Political Director, Crooked Media and CPF Spring 2021 Fellow Todd S. Purdum - Former New York Times Reporter and Staff Writer at The Atlantic; CPF Spring 2021 Fellow

Adam Schiff and the impeachment managers wrapped up three days of tightly focused and at times stirring argument that with few exceptions seemed to full on deaf ears of Republican senators. Paul Fishman, Anne Milgram, Asha Rangappa, and Todd S. Purdum (calling in from the hearings) join Harry to discuss the legal strategies of both sides, Adam Schiff's momentous performance, the comportment of the Senators, and the legal and political maneuvers over calling John Bolton and others as witnesses. 

Todd S. Purdum, staff writer at The Atlantic, discusses his new book, Something Wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Broadway Revolution, with Don Aucoin, chief theater critic for The Boston Globe.

“Something Wonderful Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway Revolution” book by Todd Purdum. Reno Lovison theater reviewer and executive producer at ChicagoBroadcastingNetwork.com provides a book review with a Chicago spin as well as his personal connection to the works for Rodgers and Hammerstein.

Welcome to another fun recurring guest to the show!  Today we have Jean or @Bookmama789.  She is a former bookseller, former teacher, former librarian, and now full time professional reader/book reviewer. Jean lives in Maryland with my husband and twin daughters, and she has been blogging about books for over 8 years. In this episode, we chat:  The process of getting Advanced Readers Copy  Where you should start when looking for arcs Jean reads a variety of genre, however this past year she has read mostly non-fiction books Great list of book recommendations  BOOKS MENTIONED:  Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce The Girl who Smiled Beads by Clemantine Wamariya The Dinner List by Rebecca Serle Girl Wash your Face by Rachel Hollis Braided: A Journey Of A Thousand Challahs by Beth Ricanati, MD Something Wonderful by Todd S. Purdum The Dream Daughter by Diane Chamberlain Of Blood And Bone by Nora Roberts The Witch Elm by Tana French My Squirrel Days by Ellie Kemper CONNECT WITH JEAN  Instagram  Facebook  Website 

We’re joined in the studio by author Todd S. Purdum to discuss the wonderful world of Rodgers and Hammerstein from his brand-new book that chronicles their revolutionary collaboration. Songs from all the major shows performed by Julie Andrews, Leslie Odom, Jr., Barbara Cook, and many others.

Todd S. Purdum talks about “Something Wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Broadway Revolution,” and Fran Leadon discusses “Broadway: A History of New York City in Thirteen Miles.”