Oh how we’ve missed you, our little turkeys! We are here this week with actor and director LisaGay Hamilton.You Might Know Her From The Practice, Beloved, Winning Time, The Lincoln Lawyer, The Dropout, Vice, Nine Lives, House of Cards, Jackie Brown, and her Peabody-winning documentary Beah: A Black Woman Speaks. LisaGay gave us the skinny on network TV vs. the streamers, how Rebecca Washington’s natural hair was revolutionary on The Practice, and how she formed a bond with legendary actress Beah Richards on the set of Beloved that later turned into a film. All that plus, we finally figured out the stories behind LisaGay’s mystery roles in The L Word and Halloween: H20. This one was surprising at every turn.

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Discussed this week:

“I’m going to howl at the moon now”

Adam and Steve written and directed by Craig Chester who was best friends with Parker Posey

9th Street Video Columbia, MO 

The Anniversary Party written and directed by Alan Cumming and Jennifer Jason Leigh

The Staircase on HBO a series based on the Netflix documentary

Trini Alvarado coming out of retirement to star in The Staircase with Toni Collette, Juliette Binoche

Barney documentary, I Love You, You Hate Me
Anne watched Teletubbies and we both watched Mighty Morphin Power Rangers

Lambchop (and Hushpuppy) are vaudeville (Intimate Nights mentioned Shari Lewis was allegedly horrible)

Madame (and Wayland Flowers) is vaudeville  

Starred on The Dropout (HULU) and Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers (HBOMax)

LisaGay Hamilton IMDB

Starred as young Sethe in the film adaptation of Toni Morrison’s novel, Beloved (1998, dir: Jonathan Demme)

LisaGay worked with Beah Richards in Beloved and later created a documentary about her life, Beah: A Black Woman Speaks

Worked with: Adam Mckay (Vice), Eastwood (True Crime), Quentin Tarantino (Jackie Brown), Terry Gilliam (12 Monkeys)

Played Rebecca Hamilton in The Practice (David E Kelley) who eventually gets made partner

Nine Lives, Mother & Child (dir: Rodrigo Garcia) 

Came into To Kill a Mockingbird on Broadway in November 2019, right before COVID hit

Most of her scenes from The L Word were cut because of lack of sexual chemistry with Jennifer Beals (had played her mom in tv movie, (A House Divided)

Cherry Street, South of Maine sitcom pilot with Salma Hayek (written by Tom Arnold and Roseanne Barr)

Is “The Full Jaffrey” a real thing (reference YMKHF ep #25 with Sakina Jaffrey)

LisaGay starred in an episode of Sex and the City (S5, Ep6) but never watched it OR the reboot

Servy-n-Bernice 4Ever (play with Cynthia, her dear friend)

Halloween: H20 voiceover with LL Cool J

Worked with these legends: Pam Grier (Jackie Brown), Danny Glover (Honeydripper), Brad Pitt (Ad Astra), Cicely Tyson (House of Cards) Who was most prepared? Brad and Pam!

Played Condoleeza Rice in Vice

RuPaul’s “Peanut Butter”

Buy tickets to see Topdog/Underdog on Broadway

Craig Chester interview with Illeana Douglas 

Jason Lee apparently no longer a Scientologist (whoops he left the church in 2016)