The unforgettable Tab Hunter is our next Ken Boxer Live guest. For a full biography of this great actor, please visit his IMDb page.
We have limited seating available for audience members. If you would like complimentary tickets to our in-studio broadcast at the TVSB studios in Santa Barbara, please click here. This show tapes on Monday, November 2nd. Audience members generally arrive by 6:30 pm and take their seats at 6:45 pm.
Tab Hunter
“Island of Desire”
(This episode first airs Thursday, 11/05/2015, 10:00 PM, on TVSB-17, and is replayed numerous times throughout the following 14 days. You will find a complete schedule of times here. Additionally, a YouTube link to this episode, available about 24 hours before original airtime, will display immediately below.)
Terri Nunn, known to millions as the lead singer of the 1980s new wave band Berlin, is an upcoming Ken Boxer Live guest. A vegetarian or vegan since the age of 19, Nunn has enjoyed a career spanning the heights of the performing arts, finding success and fame both as a singer and as an actress.
Born in Los Angeles, Nunn joined Berlin in 1978. Her greatest success with the band was their pantingly erotic 1986 smash hit, “Take My Breath Away,” with these memorable, heart-thumping opening lyrics:
Watchin’ every motion in my foolish lover’s game On this endless ocean, finally lovers know no shame Turnin’ and returning to some secret place inside Watchin’ in slow motion as you turn around and say, ‘Take My Breath Away …’ (Berlin, “Take My Breath Away,” 1986)
Watching Nunn perform on stage, gyrating to some invisible visceral beat, with her obvious high charisma and raw sex appeal, every teen-aged guy (and older) was transfixed to the edge of his seat!
Terri Nunn
“Take My Breath Away”
In addition Nunn acted in many television shows during the 1970s and ’80s, including T.J. Hooker and Lou Grant. She also auditioned for the role of Princess Leia in Star Wars.
And back in 1977, Nunn, under the pseudonym “Betsy Harris,” memorably posed nude for the February issue of Penthouse. Since she was technically still a minor at the time, she didn’t admit for many years that she was indeed “Betsy.”
Ken and Tai are revved up and set to engage in a very lively interview with the great Terri Nunn. Please join them.
For more biographical information about Terri Nunn, please visit her IMDb page.
We have limited seating available for audience members. If you would like complimentary tickets to our in-studio broadcast at the TVSB studios in Santa Barbara, please click here. This show tapes on Monday, November 30th. Audience members generally arrive by 6:30 pm and take their seats at 6:45 pm.
(This episode first airs Thursday, 12/03/2015, 10:00 PM, on TVSB-17, and is replayed numerous times throughout the following 14 days. You will find a complete schedule of times here. Additionally, a YouTube link to this episode, available about 24 hours before original airtime, will display immediately below.)
Ken Boxer Live is delighted to have as its guest the talented American actress Lee Purcell, nominated twice for an Emmy Award. Her major films include Mr. Majestyk, Big Wednesday, Stir Crazy, and Valley Girl.
Purcell debuted as a performer when she was only five, appearing on a Memphis, Tennessee, television show. After attending Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri, she arrived in California in 1967 to study acting, supporting herself by acting in commercials and by selling clothes.
Her big break came in 1969 when Steve McQueen chose her for a significant part in the movie Adam at Six A.M., co-starring a 20-something Michael Douglas. McQueen later said that he had chosen Purcell from hundreds of other actresses auditioning for the part because “Lee seemed to jump right out of the screen” at him.
Lee Purcell
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With a long and full filmography going back decades, Purcell is a genuine American talent. And we are so very happy to have her as our guest.
For more biographical information about Lee Purcell, please visit her website.
We have limited seating available for audience members. If you would like complimentary tickets to our in-studio broadcast at the TVSB studios in Santa Barbara, please click here. This show tapes on Monday, October 5th. Audience members generally arrive by 6:30 pm and take their seats at 6:45 pm.
(This episode first airs Thursday, 10/08/2015, 10:00 PM, on TVSB-17, and is replayed numerous times throughout the following 14 days. You will find a complete schedule of times here. Additionally, a YouTube link to this episode, available about 24 hours before original airtime, will display immediately below.)
We’re very happy to announce that our next Ken Boxer Live guest is the very talented Frank Stallone. The younger brother of Sylvester Stallone (Rocky, Rambo), Frank Stallone started his career while still in high school, singing and playing his guitar on street corners.
In a vocal style reminiscent of Frank Sinatra, Stallone sings in the tradition of American big band jazz and popular music, touring with his own orchestra. One of his many works includes “Far From Over,” a song he wrote for the 1983 mega hit movie, Staying Alive, starring John Travolta. The song was nominated for a Golden Globe award for Best Original Song and a Grammy Award for Best Album of Original Score.
Frank Stallone Singing
“Far From Over” from
‘Staying Alive’ (1983)
Stallone is also an amateur boxer. Once during an appearance on The Howard Stern Show, Stallone had a boxing match with television correspondent Geraldo Rivera. Stallone won!
With numerous songs and movies to his credit, Stallone is a true American talent. Ken and Tai look forward to sharing an entertaining and informative interview with him.
For further information about Frank Stallone, please visit his website.
We have limited seating available for audience members. If you would like complimentary tickets to our in-studio broadcast at the TVSB studios in Santa Barbara, please click here. This show tapes on Monday, September 28th. Audience members generally arrive by 6:30 pm and take their seats at 6:45 pm.
(This episode first airs Thursday, 10/01/2015, 10:00 PM, on TVSB-17, and is replayed numerous times throughout the following 14 days. You will find a complete schedule of times here. Additionally, a YouTube link to this episode, available about 24 hours before original airtime, will display immediately below.)
We welcome our next guest Cherie Currie to Ken Boxer Live. An icon from the 70’s punk rock scene, Currie is best remembered as the lead vocalist and songwriter of the Runaways, a band that truly personified that era. Apart from her time with The Runaways, Currie is known for her critically acclaimed role in the movie Foxes with Jodie Foster.
Joining The Runaways at the young age of 15, Currie was the inspiration behind their rock anthem “Cherry Bomb,” which was written for her. Many at the time saw her struttings across stage in her underwear as a symbol of the then-nascent women’s liberation movement, carving out new territories for female musicians. Others, however, had a more sober assessment, considering it more likely that her influence at that time was more hormonal, as amply demonstrated by her “agitated” and predominately male audience who, no doubt, had things on its collective mind other than music!
The Runaways,
“Cherry Bomb”
As is all too often the case with young celebrities in the various arts, Currie struggled with drug addiction during her younger years, which abruptly paused her career, a subject she covers in her memoir, Neon Angel.
So please join Ken and Tai for what promises to be an exciting and informative interview.
For further information about Cherie Currie, please visit her website.
We have limited seating available for audience members. If you would like complimentary tickets to our in-studio broadcast at the TVSB studios in Santa Barbara, please click here. This show tapes on Monday, August 24th. Audience members generally arrive by 6:30 pm and take their seats at 6:45 pm.
(This episode first airs Thursday, 08/27/2015, 10:00 PM, on TVSB-17, and is replayed numerous times throughout the following 14 days. You will find a complete schedule of times here. Additionally, a YouTube link to this episode, available about 24 hours before original airtime, will display immediately below.)
For this week’s Ken Boxer Live episode we have as our guest a truly great American actor—Academy Award winner Louis Gossett, Jr. The breadth of his talent is wide, which includes film, television, and theatre. But many of us remember him best from his Academy Award-winning— and spectacularly convincing—role as Gunnery Sergeant Foley in the 1982 film An Officer and a Gentleman, and from his Emmy Award-winning roll in the ABC television miniseries Roots.
Although the year 1982, when An Officer and a Gentleman hit the screen, is relatively recent, and especially today after the normalcy of seven years of an African-American president, it’s somewhat amazing to consider that when Gossett won his Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, he was the first African-American to do so.
Louis Gossett Jr,
“An Officer and a Gentleman”
Gossett had his stage debut at 17 in a school play after a sports injury had spurred his decision to take his first acting class. Later while attending New York University, Gossett, standing at 6’4″, declined an athletic scholarship offered him to play varsity basketball so that he could concentrate fully on theatre.
This great actor will sit with us for a full 30-minute interview, and we cannot be more pleased. So join Ken and Tai for what will surely be an exciting and informative show.
To read more of Gossett’s biography, please visit his Wikipedia Page.
We have limited seating available for audience members. If you would like complimentary tickets to our in-studio broadcast at the TVSB studios in Santa Barbara, please click here. This show tapes on Monday, June 29th. Audience members generally arrive by 6:30 pm and take their seats at 6:45 pm.
(This episode first airs Thursday, 07/02/2015, 10:00 PM, on TVSB-17, and is replayed numerous times throughout the following 14 days. You will find a complete schedule of times here. Additionally, a YouTube link to this episode, available about 24 hours before original airtime, will display immediately below.)
Ken Boxer Live is quite honored to welcome as our upcoming guest well-known actor Ted Lange, whom we all remember as the bartender Issac from the 1970s television series The Love Boat. His toothy smile and iconic hand greeting from the show are both well-seeped into our television collective memory. Not a day goes by, Lange has said, when he isn’t either given the “hand” greeting or asked to perform it.
After the series ended after ten successful seasons, Lange appeared in various films and guest roles, which include 227, The Cleaveland Show, Glitch, and the The King of Queens.
In addition to his on-screen work, Lange has an extensive career in theater. In 1968 he debuted on Broadway in Hair, a pivotal and culturally consequential play that summed up the then-Aquarian age of “love, peace, and understanding,” presaging both Woodstock and the inner-focused 1970s generation right around the corner—as the 1960s drew its final gasps. We will be sure to ask Lange about his memories of this time, not only as an actor, but, in particular, as a black actor.
From “The Love Boat”
More recently (2006) Lange co-wrote a sex and advice column for the (now defunct) American edition of FHM (For Him Magazine) entitled “Ask Issac.” His co-writer was adult actress Jenna Jameson.
You can read more about Ted Lange’s biography at this site.
We have limited seating available for audience members. If you would like complimentary tickets to our in-studio broadcast at the TVSB studios in Santa Barbara, please click here. This show tapes on Monday, June 15th. Audience members generally arrive by 6:30 pm and take their seats at 6:45 pm.
(This episode first airs Thursday, 06/18/2015, 10:00 PM, on TVSB-17, and is replayed numerous times throughout the following 14 days. You will find a complete schedule of times here. Additionally, a YouTube link to this episode, available about 24 hours before original airtime, will display immediately below.)
We have a great show for you. Our guest is Kristy Swanson, the talented and sexy film star who has graced our movie and television screens for decades. Ken and Tai have a host of tantalizing questions for this exciting star, questions that will bring out the true Kristy Swanson, as we welcome her to Ken Boxer Live.
Swanson is best known for her starring role in the 1992 Twentieth Century Fox film Buffy the Vampire Slayer, later spun off into the popular WB television series Buffy. “When the movie came out, it was enormously successful, and I was thrilled. At the time there were no films where girls had a heroine to look up to,” says Swanson. To this day the film remains a cult classic.
After starting her career at Hollywood’s The Actors Workshop with R. J Adams, her talent and good looks quickly moved her into television commercials and several television series, such as Cagney and Lacey and Alfred Hitchcock Presents. In 1986, at the age of 17, she debuted in the acclaimed Pretty in Pink. Later that year Swanson received her first starring role in Deadly Friend, where she played “the girl next door.”
Swanson’s most critically acclaimed role is her portrayal of Kristen Connor, in Higher Learning, where she plays a student discovering her sexuality.
Kristy Swanson
in “Zebra Lounge”
In 2002 Swanson turned her attention to something a bit different, gracing the cover of Playboy Magazine, along with an eight-page pictorial spread. Reflecting on this, Swanson says, “I could not pass up the opportunity to work with the renowned photographer, Phillip Dixon, and by the look of my pictorial, I think I made the perfect choice.” Taking a quick peek at her pictorial, I must agree!
During the 2006 season of Skating with Celebrities, Swanson, paired with Olympian pair skater Lloyd Eisner, a personal friend of our own Olympian pair skater Tai Babilonia, took the crown, defeating five other teams. A romance between Swanson and Eisner ensued, and they later married.
This show will surely be fun and exciting so do not miss it.
(For more information about Kristy Swanson, please visit her website.)
We have limited seating available for audience members. If you would like complimentary tickets to our in-studio broadcast at the TVSB studios in Santa Barbara, please click here. This show tapes on Monday, June 1st. Audience members generally arrive by 6:30 pm and take their seats at 6:45 pm.
(This episode first airs Thursday, 06/04/2015, 10:00 PM, on TVSB-17, and is replayed numerous times throughout the following 14 days. You will find a complete schedule of times here. Additionally, a YouTube link to this episode, available about 24 hours before original airtime, will display immediately below.)
Ken Caillat—director, studio engineer, author, and musician—widely known as the studio engineer of the 1977 groundbreaking Fleetwood Mac Rumours and Tusk recording sessions, is our upcoming Ken Boxer Live guest.
In addition to his engineering of Rumours, for which he won a Grammy Award, Caillat has worked on albums for stars such as Billy Idol, Frank Sinatra, Pat Benatar, and Alice Cooper, to name just a few.
And, yes, Caillat is the proud father of singer-songwriter Colbie Caillat, for whom he has produced her numerous successful albums.
Ken Caillat
1979 “Tusk” Sessions
Caillat’s most recent work as an author is his behind-the-scenes book Making Rumours, which in addition to describing the making of Rumours, also details his bird’s eye view of the often complex inter-personality drama among the members of that most influential band, Fleetwood Mac, whose members were continually in and out of romantic relationships with each other.
For more information about Ken Caillat, please visit his website.
Ken and Tai welcome you to join with us during this sure-to-be exciting interview.
We have limited seating available for audience members. If you would like complimentary tickets to our in-studio broadcast at the TVSB studios in Santa Barbara, please click here. This show tapes on Monday, May 18th. Audience members generally arrive by 6:30 pm and take their seats at 6:45 pm.
(This episode first airs Thursday, 05/21/2015, 10:00 PM, on TVSB-17, and is replayed numerous times throughout the following 14 days. You will find a complete schedule of times here. Additionally, a YouTube link to this episode, available about 24 hours before original airtime, will display immediately below.)
We are so very honored to have the lovely and talented Dawn Wells with us as our upcoming guest. Although her acting career is broad and deep, most of us remember her best from her delightful role as the hot pants-wearing, adorable vixen Mary Ann from the 1960s television series Gilligan’s Island. To this day men (and no doubt many women) still debate the age-old metaphysical question: “Who is hotter? Mary Ann or Ginger?”
Dawn Wells, who was crowned Miss Nevada in 1960 and represented her state in that year’s Miss America pageant, made her acting debut on ABC’s The Roaring 20s. Afterwards she was cast in many other early-1960s popular series, such as 77 Sunset Strip, The Cheyenne Show, Maverick, and Bonanza. These ultimately led to her role on Gilligan’s Island.
Dawn Wells on
Gilligan’s Island
After her universally loved role in Gilligan’s Island, Wells turned her attention to theatre acting, appearing in nearly 100 theatrical productions over the succeeding years, including recent years. Most of her time during the ’70s and ’80s were spent touring in musical theatre productions, including a one-woman show at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas.
For more biographical and other information about Dawn Wells, please visit her website and her Wikipedia page.
Ken and Tai look forward to an engaging and memorable interview with this most beloved star.
We have limited seating available for audience members. If you would like complimentary tickets to our in-studio broadcast at the TVSB studios in Santa Barbara, please click here. This show tapes on Monday, May 4th. Audience members generally arrive by 6:30 pm and take their seats at 6:45 pm.
(This episode first airs Thursday, 05/07/2015, 10:00 PM, on TVSB-17, and is replayed numerous times throughout the following 14 days. You will find a complete schedule of times here. Additionally, a YouTube link to this episode, available about 24 hours before original airtime, will display immediately below.)
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