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Milt Larsen, founder of The Magic Castle, and jazz vocalist Erin Dickins will join us this weekend on TV CONFIDENTIAL, Friday at 7pm ET and PT on Share-a-Vision Radio, KSAV.org.

Long before J.K. Rowling created the world of Harry Potter, Milt Larsen pursued a family legacy of magic by founding The Magic Castle, a new book—The Magic Castle: Beyond Smoke and Mirrors by The Magic Castl the Magic Castle in Hollywood, where many of the most celebrated magicians in the world performed their craft, including David Cooperfield, Harry Blackstone, Siegfried & Roy, Lance Burton and Doug Henning, as well as such celebrated amateur magicians as Johnny Carson, Cary Grant, Orson Welles, Jason Alexander and Neil Patrick Harris. The Castle has also been featured in dozens of movies and TV shows over the past five decades, including Bedknobs & Broomsticks, Houdini, Hart to Hart, Murder She Wrote, Perry Mason, and, of course, The Magician starring Bill Bixby.

If you’ve never been to The Magic Castle, a new book—The Magic Castle: Beyond Smoke and Mirrors by Milt’s longtime collaborator Carol Marie—provides an illustrated guided tour of every nook and cranny of the Castle, while also capturing the heart and soul of this historical mecca for magicians and their guests. We’ll talk about the book, plus hear some of the behind-the-scenes stories of its most famous attractions, when Milt Larsen joins us in our second hour.

Also joining us this week will be award-winning jazz vocalist Erin Dickins. One of the founding members of the original Manhattan Transfer, Erin has also performed or recorded with such well known artists as James Taylor, Gregg Allman, The Talking Heads, Roberta Flack, Yoko Ono, James Brown and Leonard Cohen. As a solo artist, Erin captivates audiences with her stunning voice and upbeat humor. That certainly comes across in her new album, Vignettes, which will be released in the U.S. on Friday, October 20. We’ll ask Erin about some of the choices she made in putting together Vignettes when she joins us in our first hour.

For our listeners in Southern California, Erin Dickins will be performing in Los Angeles on November 3, 4 and 5. For more information, go to ErinDickins.com.

TV CONFIDENTIAL: A radio talk show about television
Fri 7pm ET and PT on Share-a-Vision Radio, KSAV.org and CX Radio Brazil
Sat 8pm ET, 5pm PT and Sun 6pm ET, 3pm PT on Indiana Talks (Marion, IN)
Sat 10pm ET, 7pm PT on WON 920 The Apple (Brooklyn, NY)
Sun 9am ET, 6am PT KSCO-AM 1080 (San Jose, Santa Cruz and Salinas, CA)
Sun 9am ET, 6am PT KOMY-AM 1340 (La Selva Beach and Watsonville, CA)
Sun 1pm ET, 10am PT CROC Radio (British Columbia, Canada)
Sun 9pm PT, Mon Mid ET on KHMB-AM and FM (Half Moon Bay, CA)
Mon 10pm ET, 7pm PT on The Radio Slot Network (San Francisco, CA)
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Actress, comedienne, entrepreneur and author Rhonda Shear will join us this weekend on TV CONFIDENTIAL, Friday at 7pm ET and PT on Share-a-Vision Radio, KSAV.org.

Most of you probably know Rhonda Shear as the host of USA’s Up All Night, which she did for eight years throughout the 1990s. Some of you know her for her award-winning brand of intimate apparel, which includes the revolutionary Ahh Bra, as well as her many appearances on HSN, the Home Shopping Network. What you may not know is that Rhonda is also a beauty queen, model, actress, comedienne, dancer, hostess, businesswoman, designer, philanthropist, political operator, onetime political candidate, mentor, and diva… all rolled into one. Not only that, everything that Rhonda accomplished in show business, she did it on her own terms—using her beauty and wit to her advantage, at a time when the entertainment industry was still very much male-dominated and women were objectified.

Rhonda’s new book, Up All Night: From Hollywood Bombshell to Lingerie Model: Life Lessons from an Accidental Feminist, has great stories about her life and career in the pageant, entertainment and garment industries, including how her longtime association with Chuck Barris (and how that cost her a chance at being Miss America), the ups and downs of her experience on Happy Days, the time when she nearly decapitated Bob Hope while auditioning for an NBC special, and nearly decapitated Bob Hope, and how her experience as a stand-up comic prepared her for her current career as hostess on HSN. But the book also shares many lessons that she learned along the way that you can apply, whether you’re female or male, and whatever career path you happen to take. Rhonda Shear will join us in our second hour.

Our first hour will include This Week in TV History, a Debra Messing-centric edition of our regular DVD report, and a replay our Sounds of Lost Television segment that focused on Playboy’s Playhouse, an early television effort by Hugh Hefner that essentially served as a precursor to Playboy After Dark.

TV CONFIDENTIAL: A radio talk show about television
Fri 7pm ET and PT on Share-a-Vision Radio, KSAV.org and CX Radio Brazil
Sat 8pm ET, 5pm PT and Sun 6pm ET, 3pm PT on Indiana Talks (Marion, IN)
Sat 10pm ET, 7pm PT on WON 920 The Apple (Brooklyn, NY)
Sun 9am ET, 6am PT KSCO-AM 1080 (San Jose, Santa Cruz and Salinas, CA)
Sun 9am ET, 6am PT KOMY-AM 1340 (La Selva Beach and Watsonville, CA)
Sun 1pm ET, 10am PT CROC Radio (British Columbia, Canada)
Sun 9pm PT, Mon Mid ET on KHMB-AM and FM (Half Moon Bay, CA)
Mon 10pm ET, 7pm PT on The Radio Slot Network (San Francisco, CA)
Replays various times throughout the week on the Entertainment Channel at PWRNetwork
Tape us now, listen to us later, using DAR.fm/tvconfidential
Also available as a podcast via iTunes, FeedBurner, SoundCloud
and now on your mobile phone via Stitcher.com
Follow us online at www.tvconfidential.net
Follow us now on Twitter: Twitter.com/tvconfidential
Like our Fan Page at www.facebook.com/tvconfidential