Michael Rispoli from Friends and Romans

If you're an Italian actor. You're probably going to be typecast as a Mafia figure, a thug or stuck in a pizza place. That's what this movie is about! Taking the Italian actors in New York and getting them to star in a Shakespeare play. From the iHeart Radio Studio I'm Unplugged and Totally Uncut with actor Michael Rispoli. A veteran of film, television, and the stage, as well as being a writer, Michael Rispoli launched his acting career at New York's famed Circle in the Square. Subsequently appearing for many years on the New York stage, Rispoli was in Twelfth Night, MacBeth, and A Midsummer Night's Dream, among other productions. Early film and television appearances include Household Saints and Above the Rim. His penchant for humor led Rispoli to expand his cinematic territory into comedy and lighter material such as Hacks and Death to Smoochy. After a memorable supporting role in the romantic comedy While You Were Sleeping, Rispoli leapt into leading man territory in the warmly regarded romantic drama, Two Family House. Other features include Mr. 3000, The Weatherman, Lonely Hearts, Invincible, The Taking of Pelham 1, 2, 3, Kick-Ass, The Rum Diary, Empire State, Pain & Gain, and Rob the Mob. Rispoli has made frequent appearances on various television series, including Third Watch, Big Apple, Magic City, Those who Kill, and The Good Wife. Most notably, Rispoli was on the award-winning HBO show The Sopranos. On stage, he appeared in Stephen Adley Guirgis’ new play, Between Riverside and Crazy, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2015. Rispoli is also the co-screenwriter of FRIENDS AND ROMANS. ABOUT FRIENDS AND ROMANS FRIENDS AND ROMANS is a classic farce about Nick DeMaio (Michael Rispoli), a frustrated Italian-American actor who is determined to rise above the typecasting that perpetually finds him playing the role of “Mobster Number 3.” When he and his thespian friends – most of them perennial extras in gangster movies – stage a production of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar to showcase their talents, art intersects with real-life as mobsters and federal agents mistake them for genuine “wiseguys.” With the help of his wife Angela (Annabella Sciorra), his daughter Gina (Katie Stevens), and a large ensemble that includes numerous veterans of HBO's The Sopranos (namely, Tony Sirico, Anthony DeSando, Tony Darrow, John Bianco, Armen Garo, Donnamarie Recco, and Joe D’Onofrio), Nick attempts to navigate his way through a host of comic complications both on stage and in life.

Delia Ephron

I grew up thinking I had the world's meanest parents. They came with rules. And if I didn't abide by them. I paid the price. One look at today's kids and what they get away with. I'm still convinced I have the world's meanest parents. Now there is hope for parents that are having troubles getting the little Kings and Queens under control. From the iHeart Radio Studio I'm Unplugged and Totally Uncut with Delia Ephron. Twenty-five years after its original publication, DO I HAVE TO SAY HELLO? Aunt Delia’s Manners Quiz for Kids and Their Grownups is back, and do we and our kids all need it. In a series of light-hearted multiple choice quizzes, alternative scenarios, and true-or-false questions, Delia Ephron and Edward Koren, the author and illustrator team who brought us the best-selling How to Eat Like a Child, depict a range of possibilities that reflect life as it is as well as life as it ought to be. Covering table manners, car manners, video game manners, school manners, soccer manners and more, this is a book that is sure to delight (and horrify) adults and children of all ages. Aunt Delia knows what makes the difference between a pleasant and an excruciating visit to a friend’s house in the company of a young child. She accounts for every possibility in an awkward situation, and asks us to put some things in the correct order: (a) Throw up; (b) Get out of the car; (c) Ask Uncle Jerry to pull over. In short, she is practical and basic: she does not get into fish forks, but she knows how not to ask for vegetables – “Yo, corn.” She deals with such things as kindness, sharing, consideration, generosity, conversation, and diplomacy. Delia Ephron’s painfully on-target text is complemented by Edward Koren’s hilarious drawings, which – as ever – present us not as we might wish to appear, but as we really are. DO I HAVE TO SAY HELLO? is a high-spirited and wickedly funny guide to manners for readers of all ages. About the Authors Delia Ephron is a bestselling author and screenwriter. Her movies include The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, You’ve Got Mail, Hanging Up (based on her novel), and Michael. She has written novels for adults and teenagers, including her most recent, The Lion Is In; books of humor, including How to Eat Like a Child; and essays. Her journalism has appeared frequently in The New York Times, and also in Vogue and Vanity Fair. Edward Koren, a cartoonist and illustrator, is a regular contributor to The New Yorker. Among his many books are How to Eat Like a Child and Teenage Romance, both published with Delia Ephron.

Bryan Adams Get Up

Not only is Bryan Adams back. But guess who he invited to the music celebration? Jeff Lynne from Electric Light Orchestra and Traveling Wilbury's. From the iHeart Radio Studio I'm Unplugged and Totally Uncut with Bryan Adams. Bryan Adams wasn’t planning on making an album when he first started collaborating with Jeff Lynne. “It came together quite by chance,” Adams says of working with the Electric Light Orchestra leader for his latest record Get Up!, via phone from London, England. “Although I’d known Jeff in the past, I’d wanted to work with him for years. Jim (Vallance, Adams’ longtime songwriting partner) and used to talk about how there were two or three producers that we both really admired, one was Mutt Lange and the other was Jeff Lynne. I just went to hang out with him one and day and he asked if I’d be up for doing a track and I said, ‘Yeah!’ I just happened to have some songs and I played him my songs and he chose one and we did one and it sounded great. So he said, ‘What about doing another?’ It went on like that for about two years.” Working with Vallance and Lynne remotely, sending demos and pieces of tracks back and forth via the Web thousands of kilometres apart from each other, yielded Adams’ 13th album, a record that took shape in a very random way. Adams had known Lynne personally since meeting him in 1987 at a show Adams was playing in Birmingham, England. “He came down with a bunch of his friends to see my show and it was quite casual. Even though we’d met a couple other times over the last umpteen years, it was more in the last couple years that we were able to do some music together. So it’s the right timing for me for sure. “I remember seeing ELO in 1973,” Adams, 55, adds. “I always liked the songs and the production and what he’s done with other bands and other artists. His reputation is impeccable. I always thought our songs would work really well with his style. I didn’t realize they would work this well, but I was always quietly confident that he’d like it. “There was never any talk ever of doing an album. We were just making music.” Despite not coming to life in one specific location (“something I’ve been doing for years now,” Adams says), Get Up! is easily one of Adams’ strongest and most free-flowing and eclectic releases in years. The songs just click instantly, buoyed by the lyrical and musical chemistry that has bound Adams and Vallance since the Vancouver-bred rocker burst onto the scene in the early ’80s. Featuring 13 songs — nine full band songs and four stripped down acoustic selections from the main album song list — Get Up! is layered with Lynne’s signature production style. "We Did It All," the first song Vallance and Adams wrote for Lynne, is a victory anthem given a Wings-esque sense of momentum and panache. “We wanted it to be a song that he could really sink his teeth into,” Adams says. "That’s Rock And Roll" could easily fit within the Traveling Wilburys song list. (Lynne was a member of the supergroup that also featured Tom Petty, George Harrison and Roy Orbison.) On a song like "Thunderbolt," Lynne gives Adams’ material a classic ELO sheen, with subtle washes of glitzy synths and phaser effects. “Thunderbolt" started when I had a guitar made for a photo session with diamante thunderbolts on it and I liked it so much that I thought, ‘This would be a good idea for an album title.’ My working title for the album for a long time was "Thunderbolt." In terms of the production of the track, every time I sent Jeff my demos, within a couple of weeks he’d come back and turn them into records.” On "You Belong To Me," Adams connects with his rockabilly side, a side he had shown masterfully on his rendition of Eddie Cochran’s "C’mon Everybody," featured as a bonus tune on his last album Tracks Of My Years. That album, released in 2014, was a collection of material that was a tip of the hat to some of the songs and artists (The Beatles, Bob Dylan, and Chuck Berry, for example) that helped shape his musical vision. “(The rockabilly side) came out of being asked to do a pilot for a TV series or a film,” Adams says. “A friend of mine’s a director and he wanted songs that were kind of ’60s sounding. Jim and I sat down trying to do a Buddy Holly song and that’s why it sounds like that.” Although the project never fully materialized Adams says, “It’s OK. It doesn’t matter where the inspiration comes from if you can get songs. There’s another song on the album that came from that request, a song called "Don’t Even Try.” The key song on the album is "Brand New Day," a tune that contains a core melodic line reminiscent of Adams’ classic "Summer of 69." It also contains the album’s title in its lyrics, and the words “get up” also show up in "That’s Rock And Roll." “I actually tried to write a song called "Get Up!" and that’s what "Brand New Day" is.” The videos for "Brand New Day" (featuring actress Helena Bonham Carter) and "You Belong To Me" were both shot and directed by Adams and feature his signature black and white photography style. Last month Adams — whose portraits have included a number of notable celebrities, artists, musicians and even Queen Elizabeth II — was awarded an honourary fellowship in London’s Royal Photographic Society. Adams has published two books: Exposed, which featured portraits of artists like Sir Ben Kingsley and the late Amy Winehouse, and Wounded — The Legacy of War, which collected intimate photos of wounded British soldiers returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. “It’s nice to get a nod from your peers. What can I say?” Fresh off a recent tour that saw him celebrate the 30th anniversary of his classic album Reckless, Adams guarantees he will hit the road sooner than later to showcase material from Get Up! “Well, that’s no question,” he says with an audible grin.

Judge Jeanine Pirro He Killed Them All

This is the map to what is about to become one of the most talked about murder cases this decade. From the iHeart Radio Studio I'm Unplugged and Totally Uncut with Judge Jeanine Pirro. Former prosecutor Jeanine Pirro—the “true hero” (New York Post) of the hit HBO documentary series The Jinx—offers the transfixing true story of her tireless fifteen-year investigation into accused murderer Robert Durst for the disappearance of his wife Kathleen Durst. Former district attorney Jeanine Pirro was cast as the bad guy fifteen years ago when she reopened the cold case of Kathleen Durst, a young and beautiful fourth-year medical student who disappeared without a trace in 1982, never to be seen again. Kathie Durst’s husband was millionaire real estate heir Robert Durst, son of one of the wealthiest families in New York City—but though her friends and family suspected him of the worst, he escaped police investigation. Pirro, now the host of Justice with Judge Jeanine on Fox News, always believed in Durst’s guilt, and in this shocking book, she makes her case beyond a shadow of a doubt, revealing stunning, previously unknown secrets about the crimes he is accused of committing. For years, Pirro has crusaded for justice for the victims, and her impassioned perspective in the captivating HBO documentary series The Jinx made her one of its breakout stars. Featuring Pirro’s unique insider’s perspective on the crimes, as well as her exclusive interviews with many of the major players featured in the The Jinx, this comprehensive book is the definitive story of Robert Durst and his gruesome crimes—the one you didn’t see on television. JEANIE PIRRO BIO Jeanine Pirro joined the Fox News Channel (FNC) in 2006 and currently serves as a legal analyst as well as the host of "Justice with Judge Jeanine," a weekend prime-time program (Saturday, 9 p.m. ET) that presents her legal insights on the news of the week, current high profile cases, as well as recent issues and trends in the world of crime and justice. Formerly Westchester District Attorney, Judge Pirro was also the host of a syndicated weekday court show distributed by Warner Brothers -- for which she won an Emmy. Her notable legal career spans over 30 years. In 1975, she became an assistant district attorney for Westchester County, New York and was the first female to prosecute murder cases there. In 1990, Pirro was elected as the first woman to serve as a Westchester County Court judge. In 1978, Pirro started the first domestic violence unit in a prosecutors office, in the nation. Additionally, in 1997, she was appointed by then-Governor George Pataki to chair the New York State Commission on Domestic Violence Fatality Review Board, whose research helped pass increased protection for domestic violence victims. In 2006, the Republican Party chose her as its candidate for New York state attorney general. Pirro earned a BA from the University of Buffalo, magna cum laude, graduating Phi Beta Kappa and received her Juris Doctor (J.D.) law degree from Albany Law School, where she was on law review. She is a native of New York.

Carrigan Chantz

I've lived my life one way being a radio on-air talent. Make sure every break counts. You never know how a single thought can reach beyond the knobs on the control board. Singer/songwriter Carrigan Chantz is proof of that. In the 1980's he was that teenager that endlessly called in night after night requesting songs. But it wasn't always because he called it a favorite. Carrigan was studying the art of how the artist brought their sound to an over saturated airwaves. Through his loyalty to music he's just released his third album. Sitting back for a moment after our conversation I was given a deep thought to hold onto, "What if I hadn't taken the time to listen to this kids musical dreams and aspirations? What if I had gotten tired of him calling night after night?" If only those on the radio playing their upbeat songs while squeezing jokes in between took a more serious look at the stage they truly present. It's not about the radio disc jockey. It's the continuation of the art of creative flow. Thank you Carrigan for not quitting your dreams. I always knew you were onto something as a teenager. I just couldn't call you an artist until 30 years later.

Buddy Baron The Magic Stocking

Several things make this conversation something beyond a holiday gift. First... He's a former radio personality that discovered there is writing success in Hollywood. Second... He shares the secret to get Hallmark to accept your story. Third... a movie about magical stockings. Children will never look at them the same. From the iHeart Radio Studio I'm Unplugged and Totally Uncut with Buddy Baron. This holiday tale surrounds Lindsey Monroe – a widow still mourning her husband’s death – and daughter Hannah. When Hannah buys a stocking at their town’s Christmas craft fair, Lindsey suddenly starts to magically find things inside it that begin holding importance in her everyday life. The stocking holds a power and energy that quickly becomes clear, restoring Lindsey’s faith in life and love – and leading her to open up her heart after meeting a handsome artist.

Pastor Aubrey Shines

Within the circle of the political race to become President. It didn't take too long for the Religion lines in the sand to be drawn. What came out as headlines on computer screens did what most conversations about religion does. It pushes people away. I needed to know more. From the iHeart Radio Studio I'm Unplugged and Totally Uncut with Pastor Aubrey Shines. Pastor Aubrey Shines, is Founder of Glory To Glory Ministries located in the inner city of both Tampa and Orlando Florida. "Ben Carson's faith as a Seventh-day Adventist came under fire at a Donald Trump rally on Saturday when the billionaire suggested his Presbyterian faith was superior. Having recently slipped behind Carson in the Iowa polls, Trump told a crowd in Florida, "I love Iowa. And, look, I don't have to say it, I'm Presbyterian. Can you believe it? Nobody believes I'm Presbyterian. I'm Presbyterian. I'm Presbyterian. I'm Presbyterian . . . Boy, that's down the middle of the road folks, in all fairness. I mean, Seventh-day Adventist, I don't know about. I just don't know about." On Sunday, Carson was given the opportunity to respond on Fox News, but said "I really refuse to really get into the mud pit" with Trump. Gathered below are 12 things you may or may not know about Seventh-day Adventists and their unique system of belief..." READ: http://www.newsmax.com/TheWire/ben-carson-seventh-day-adventist-faith/2015/10/26/id/699052/ BIO: Pastor Aubrey Shines, a Chicago native, began ministering in the Cook County Correctional System in Chicago, IL as an evangelical minister licensed by the late Bishop D. Husband (Churches of God in Christ). In 1987 God moved greatly upon Pastor Shines’ heart and he became founder of Glory To Glory Ministries. The ministry has since transcended denominational, cultural, and ethnic boundaries. Glory To Glory Ministries is now located in the inner city of Tampa, Florida. Over the past twelve years, this congregation has grown tremendously because of the anointing that God has placed on Pastor Shine’s life. In September of 2014, Glory to Glory Ministries International will extend its boundaries by opening the doors of ministry in their second location, Glory to Glory Ministries of Orlando, Florida. Pastor Shines most recent accomplishment is being one of the seven founders of the International Communion of Evangelical Churches organization under the dynamic leadership of Presiding Bishop Harry R. Jackson, Jr. PLUG BOOK: aubreyshines.com/book WEBSITE: glorytoglory.org TWITTER: @Glory2GloryFL