#amightywind

How about we not generalize? Most dog folks in CO don’t respect the rules here so they get ticketed (I’m not kidding). I think it’s just that animal folks have to learn to respect rules no matter what animals we choose to live with.

peterzachari

Ed Begley Live on Game Changers with Vicki Abelson

Today I got to hang with Ed Begley who makes me laugh and think and feel and want to do better and be better.

7x Emmy Award Nominee - St Elsewhere, Better Call Saul, Best In Show, Saturday Night Live, Spinal Tap, Mary Hartman Mary Hartman, Going South, She Devil, My Three Sons, The Dating Game, oh yes he did… even winning a date to Australia… we talked them all and then some… Nicholson, Brando, Streep, Cindy Williams, Carrie Fisher, Bruno Kirby, Charles Manson, John Belushi, Harry Nilsson, Harry Dean Stanton, Lorne Michaels, Michael Richard’s… Ed Begley Sr, the Chinatown connection, addiction, recovery, slips, righting wrongs, and righting so much right. A power of example in so, so many ways. We talked his just dropped sure to be a bestseller, To The Temple of Tranquility… and Step On It! The book’s a provocative, oft shocking, thrilling peek behind the Hollywood scene… get his book… and step on it… you’ll be so glad you did. https://bit.ly/40gzHtb

Ed’s humble, honest to the max, self-effacing, and self-aware… and he knows absolutely everybody! Ed walks his talk... an environmental hero... a loving husband and father... an amazingly supportive friend who suits up and shows up whenever, wherever he’s needed to better the world or help a friend, Unless he’s working, and with Ed, that happens a lot.

I so adore, admire, and respect this man. Loved every second!

Ed Begley Jr.  Live on Game Changers with Vicki Abelson

Wednesday, November 1, 5 PM PT, 8 PM ET 

Streamed Live on my Facebook

Replay here:

Today, LIVE! 7x Emmy Award Nominee, From Better Call Saul, St. Elsewhere, Ghostbusters, Six Feet Under, Arrested Development, Portlandia, Grace and Frankie, and Future Man, to name but a very few, Ed Begley will be here! With his just dropped sure to be a bestseller, To The Temple of Tranquility… and Step On It! plus hundreds of television, film, and stage appearances, and perhaps more than that, Ed walks his talk... an environmental hero... a loving husband and father... an amazingly supportive friend who suits up and shows up whenever, wherever he’s needed to better the world or help a friend, Unless he’s working, and with Ed, that happens a lot.

Get Ed’s book here… and step on it! 

Oh, how I adore the man! 

Ed Begley Jr.  Live on Game Changers with Vicki Abelson

Wednesday, November 1, 5 PM PT, 8 PM ET 

Streaming Live on my Facebook

I’ve had the great good fortune to sit down with innumerable heroes. Not sure anyone is more beloved by… everyone… than Ed Begley Jr. Notes and messages flooded in before, during, and after the Live. Besides being a gifted actor in all genres, 7x Emmy Award Nominee, Ed’s a spectacular human who walks the talk like no one I’ve ever known. 

We addressed the Covid, how it impacted his life, and career––not much it turns out, the man who never stops working, didn’t! Even getting the virus recently barely slowed him down. Ed’s miraculous one-hour post-Paxlovid cocktail “cure” is hopeful and inspiring. Currently, on the air in Better Call Saul, and Young Sheldon, Ed’s got an exciting film in the can he couldn’t yet talk about, a memoir in the works with a hinted-at story alone worth the price of admission, a film he’s about to say, “yes” to, and, a promised Part 2 here with us. 

We went back to Ed’s youth, his Academy Award Winning brilliant father, Ed Begley, a conservationist of a somewhat different variety who instilled in Ed the activism he’s carried forth with gusto from the first Earth Day to today… with everything from the car he drives, the food he grows and eats, the home he built, the products he uses, we’d be hard pressed to find Ed cheating on his beliefs, anywhere. His unwavering commitment to being of service was modeled by his beloved sister. 

A hysterical walk down memory lane, from his first gig (My Three Sons at 10!) to the rocky next 6 years––HA!  Partnering and killing with Michael Richards, yeah, that one, to opening rock shows for 18 thousand people, to the drinking and pot, which had gotten quite excessive, to how he gave it up and got sober 42 or is it 43, years ago. Scratching the surface of his brilliant career with The In-Laws, his relationship with Alan Arkin and Peter Falk, when the clock struck 6. 

A promised Part 2 awaits, and I promise, I shan’t let it slip. 

Ed is a human to admire, adore, emulate, and if lucky, hang with. I cherish this time with him, and all time with him,  and can’t wait for more. 

Ed Begley Jr. Live on Game Changers With Vicki Abelson

Wednesday, 7/20/22, 5 pm PT, 8 pm ET

Streamed Live on my Facebook

Replay here:

Today, Live! 7x Emmy Award Nominee, From St. Elsewhere, Ghostbusters, Six Feet Under, Arrested Development, Portlandia, Grace and Frankie, Future Man, currently on Better Call Saul, to name but a very few, Ed Begley will be here! With hundreds of television, film, and stage appearances, and perhaps more than that, Ed walks his talk... an environmental hero... a loving husband and father... an amazingly supportive friend who suits up and shows up whenever, wherever he’s needed to better the world or help a friend, Unless he’s working, and with Ed, that happens a lot.

Warm, accessible, and funny as hell, bring on the Ed!

Ed Begley Jr. Live on Game Changers With Vicki Abelson

Wednesday, 7/20/22, 5 pm PT, 8 pm ET

Streaming Live on my Facebook