Monday December 24 2007John Dickson
John ‘plays Santa’ on the phone during Christmas when kids mistakenly call his 1 800 Santa Barbara number thinking they’re calling Santa Claus. John runs an online visitors site for Santa Barbara. 44 year old Dickson received nationwide media attention last year for taking phone calls from children across the country hoping to talk to Santa. Instead of dialing 1- 800-SANTACLAUS, they accidentally called his business line, 1-800-SANTABARBARA, just one digit off. And so as not to diminish the hopes of the little ones, he cheerfully played along. Michael Maccoby
Author, "The Leaders We Need: And What Makes Us Follow". Maccoby calls for a new kind of leader: collaborators rather than stern bureaucrats, who are able to attract a new kind of follower. He is a psychoanalyst, anthropologist, and consultant.
http://www.maccoby.com Fran Baskerville
The Singing Psychic with her New Year’s predictions
http://www.www.singingpsychic.com Friday December 21 2007Laura Lee Anderson & Isis Masoud
Isis is the leader of the Pole-ite Girls who recently won $10,000 in a contest on DareJunkies.com after submitting a video of her and three friends dancing on 'stripper poles' in the NYC subway.
http://myspace.com/pole_itegirls Tim Connaghan
Director of a school for Santas runs Real Santas, where you can rent a Santa, and Santa Hollywood. Will comment on the 5-foot-4 Connecticut woman who suprised a mall Santa and took the spirit of Christmas too far when "she had contact with his genitals through his Santa suit" Saturday night, one of the busiest times of the year at the Danbury Fair Mall.
http://www.realsantas.com & http://www.santahollywood.com Darlene Love
Promoting her new CD, "It's Christmas, Of Course". For seventeen years straight, Darlene Love has sung her Spector produced classic, "(Christmas) Baby Please Come," on The Late Show with David Letterman. Now, she updates the holiday songbook with her first Christmas album, featuring fresh versions of '70s and '80s neo-classics originally recorded by The Pretenders, XTC, James Brown, Tom Petty, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and more. Thursday December 20 2007Chris Elliott
Promoting his book ‘Into Hot Air: Mounting Mount Everest’. "Everyone who goes there comes back missing a nose." The former Late Show with David Letterman and Saturday Night Live writer and performer spoofs everything from survival adventures to celebrity charities to his own failed acting career in his goofy second novel. Mike & Ryan Gaboff
Crazy Mike Gaboff and his brother Ryan promoting new DVD Hella Crazy 2
http://www.weplaycrazy.com Gabby Gaborik
Gabby Gaborik is among several dozen volunteers who believe in the Santa cause, opening crates full of letters, as many as 12,000 a day come crunch time. He helps send off preprinted replies to children who sent return addresses to Santa at the North Pole.
http://www.santasmailbag.org Wednesday December 19 2007Andrea Fisher
aka Fluter Scooter. Performed the National Anthem at MSG for the Knicks on Nov 6th which received great reveiws. Fisher again amazed another stadium on Dec 13th the Staple Center Lakers / Spurs on TNT. She has played with John Legend, 50 Cent, Herbie Hancock, Jethro Tull, Marcus Miller at Lincoln Center, shows at Carnegie Hall. She is also the only female driver for Kool Man ice cream, a company based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn NY and one of the few women driving ice cream trucks in New York City.
www.myspace.com/dreatheflutegirl Sam Elliott
Promoting 'The Golden Compass'. He’s doing press now to defend it from critics who claim it is anti-religious.
http://www.goldencompassmovie.com Louie Scarcella
President of the Coney Island Polar Bear Club. 56 year old Scarcella, a retired New York City homicide detective, swims in the Atlantic every day and first took the plunge on New Year’s Day 2001. The club was most recently publicized on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, in a taped segment by Dan Bakkedahl about the effects of global warming on the club in faux-nature documentary style. It's the oldest winter bathing organization in the United States. The club has 100 members and was founded by famed health advocate Bernarr McFadden in 1903.
http://www.polarbearclub.org Tuesday December 18 2007 Kathryn Petras
Co-author, "Unusually Stupid Politicians: Washington's Weak in Review". Kathryn Petras and Ross Petras (brother & sister) bestselling authors of the scathingly funny The 776 Stupidest Things Ever Said, Unusually Stupid Americans, and Unusually Stupid Celebrities. Tony Lepore
"The Dancing Cop" of Providence RI, Tony Lepore was a full time police officer for 17 years and retired in 1989. You can book Tony to make an appearance as well as buy Dancing Cop hats, t-shirts, and a Tony bean bag doll from the website.
http://www.providencedancingcop.com & http://www.youtube.com/breadbutterbullets Guy Robinson
Promoting his trivia books: Do You Know...TV Stars? Do You Know...Movie Lines? Do You Know...Rock 'N' Roll? Do You Know...the Movies? Do You Know...TV Trivia? Do You Know...Country Music? Monday December 17 2007Jim Dunigan
Exec VP & CIO of PNC Wealth Management. 23rd Annual PNC Christmas Price Index UP 3.1 %. Each year, the Pittsburgh-based PNC bank does a tongue-in-cheek tally of how much the swans, geese and drummers would cost if you purchased them at today's prices. PNC has been calculating the cost of Christmas since 1984.
http://www.pncchristmaspriceindex.com & http://www.pnc.com Michael & Rosina Lequori
Their home’s Christmas decorations as seen in USA Today. After 20 years of all-out decorating, Michael and Rosina Liquori's yard is a Long Island legend. It's filled with more than 400 plastic blow molds (formed plastic creations) and countless lights. It stops traffic. Their street is always packed with onlookers and satellite trucks filming the spectacle for the television news. Address: 33 Francis Terrace, Glen Cove, Long Island, N.Y. Eric Holzle
A premier dating service that creates matches with actual physical chemistry. Patent-pending technology uses your DNA to find others with a natural odor you'll love.
http://www.scientificmatch.com Friday December 14 2007Larry Ashmead
Author, "‘Bertha Venation: And Hundreds of Other Funny Names of Real People". An ideal gift book with personality and charm, Bertha Venation is a legendary editor's lifetime collection of the amazing names of actual people, with his own inimitable wit, commentary, and stories. Matthew Heller
HornBlasters.com products have been featured on Pimp My Ride, Monster Garage and many other automotive shows. The Black Finish 4 Horn Train Horn Kit has been installed on many trucks and cars around the nation and internationally to give vehicles a genuine train horn sound.
http://www.hornblasters.com Thursday December 13 2007Beth Ostroski
February 14, 2007 Howard Stern announced on his radio show that he proposed to Ostrosky in the nude a day prior. Promoting Giftscriptions™, the magazine gift certificate in a box. It’s the fun, unique way to give and get a magazine gift subscription. Most recently seen in the new season of G4 show Filter, and the Spike TV series Casino Cinema. She has also appeared in her own line of calendars as well as on the covers of several magazines. Ostrosky has been named in the Top 100 Sexiest Women of the Year in 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2007(#76) by the readers of FHM. She is number 96 in the AskMen.com Most Desirable Women for 2007.
http://www.betho.com (her North Shore Animal League site) & http://www.giftscriptions.com Cindy Lu
Author, "The Four Man Plan: A Romantic Science". Author and actress Cindy Lu knew for a long time that she sucked at love. For years, she dated one wrong guy after another. Then she decided to use her math skills to fix her romantic life. The result is The Four Man Plan—a brilliant system for finding love that combines the certainties of math and human behavior into a sure-fire formula for finding Mr. Right.
http://www.thefourmanplan.com Dr. Elmo
He’s best-known for his recording of "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer," the Christmas classic which has sold more than 10 million copies since it was first broadcast by a San Francisco radio station in 1979. Dr. Elmo will appear at four New York concerts in December with Brenda Lee. He recently performed in Christmas concerts on the bill with Hilary Duff, Gwen Stefani, Avril Lavigne, and Peter Frampton.
http://www.drelmo.com Wednesday December 12 2007Barbara Lee Cohen & Karen Murphy
Barbara is league president and Karen is a player in the Granny All-Star Basketball Leagues. This exciting new program allows Women – ages 50 to 90 years or older - who are agile - to take part in a gentle athletic program, that promotes wellness, camaraderie, and opportunities to be involved in very productive activities which will also benefit the community at large…as teams are available to make appearances at civic and charitable events, as well as other projects that prove life after 50 can be phenomenally rewarding and enjoyable.
http://www.grannyallstarleagues.com John Hoffman
Author, "Dumpster Diving: The Advanced Course: How to Turn Other People's Trash into Money, Publicity & Power". Explains dumpster diving for holiday gifts & eats. Mike Merritt and his grandson Tre Merritt
Dewitt, Arkansas County boy killed a black bear Sunday weighing more than 400 pounds. Tuesday December 11 2007Adam Arber
Roadkill toy designer has come up with a gory end for teddy bears and other cuddly animal toys. The toys' creators, Compost Communications, have styled themselves 'toy terrorists' and according to their website: 'We squash and burn and bludgeon and maim. But we're also toy fanatics like you. We love toys".
http://www.roadkilltoys.com Iris Bahr
She has appeared on television programs such as Friends (as Glenda in The One with Ross's Tan), Curb Your Enthusiasm (recurring character Rachel Heinemann), and The King of Queens. Bahr also played a lead role in the 2006 film Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector. Bahr earned a Drama Desk Award nomination in 2007 for Outstanding Solo Performance in her Off-Broadway one woman show Dai (Enough). It's now playing a limited run at the 47th Street Theater. In the show, she plays ten different characters in a Tel Aviv restaurant.
http://www.irisbahr.com & http://www.daitheplay.com Dr. Susie Ellis
Executive Director of the International Rhino Foundation (IRF). You may find rhino poop under your Christmas tree. IRF is auctioning off endangered feces -- poop from endangered rhino species. It's all part of an effort to save one of Earth's most recognizable, but most threatened wild animals. The Adopt-a-Rhino program allows individuals to make donations that will support a Sumatran rhino of their choice. For $30, donors can support the care and feeding of rhinos Andalas, Bina, Torgamba, Ratu or Rosa for 2 days; $60 will double the time to 4 days. The donation also ensures veterinary care for your rhino.
http://www.rhinos-irf.org & http://www.endangeredfeces.org Monday December 10 2007Terry Franz
President of Cars 4 Christmas. A not for profit that provides free basic transportation to disadvantaged individuals. On Christmas Eve last year, The Car Santa gave away more than one hundred cars in various towns in the Midwest.
http://cars4christmas.org Jordan Belfort
Author, ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’. The autobiography of a veteran con man with movie rights already sold to Martin Scorsese. It's rumored Leonardo DiCaprio will play him. Jordan Belfort is the biggest Wall Street crook you've never heard of. He was the king of funny business (not in the ha-ha way) during the bull market of the '90s, nicknamed "The Wolf of Wall Street." He is writing a second book. David Fantle
Vice president of public relations for Visit Milwaukee which has plans for a bronze statue of "The Fonz" to be erected in downtown Milwaukee will come to fruition after organizers raised two-thirds of the funding necessary for the project. The Fonz is no. 32 on Entertainment Weekly and TV Land's list of the top TV icons of all time.
http://www.bronzethefonz.com Thursday December 6 2007Gary Sohmers
"The Psychic Appraiser" and star of Antiques Road Show will do 'psychic appraisals' and "Toys Made in China May Not Be Good Gifts for Kids for the Holidays". Buying classic, reproduction or even antique toys can be a wiser decision. He tell you what classics not to buy. He’ll discuss recalled toys of the 50s-90s, current memorabilia news, including OJ's trial, holiday buying suggestions, what to do about your collection in case of flood or fire, etc. He just finished a huge Toy Auction in Worcester, MA on Dec. 1. Gary Sohmers will be appearing at the Comedy Studio Friday December 21. Located at 1238 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA, on the third floor of the Hong Kong restaurant.     617 661 6507
http://www.allcollectors.com Reverend Billy
Reverend Billy and his Stop Shopping Gospel Choir is an activist performance group based in New York City, led by Reverend Billy, the stage name of Bill Talen. The cross-country journey that Reverend Billy and his choir made in the month prior to Christmas 2005, culminating in his arrest at Disneyland, is depicted in a documentary, titled What Would Jesus Buy? produced by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Morgan Spurlock.
http://www.revbilly.com & http://www.wwjbmovie.com Dennis Hoff, Glen Heggsted and Brooke Taylor
This December, capping off what has been a most memorable year at the Moonlite Bunny Ranch, HBO rings in the New Year with a special holiday treat premiering right after midnight: a sexy, singing-and-dancing edition of Cathouse! This 45-minute special is highlighted by a lively musical revue, played out between steamy stints in the Ranch bar and bedrooms, in which a handful of working girls perform ten popular show tunes individually and collectively. The musical show takes place onstage at a nearby Nevada theater where the girls, clad in an assortment of slinky siren gowns, practice and perform several numbers by such composers as Cole Porter, Jimmy McHugh and Dorothy Fields, and Al Dubin and Harry Warren. http://www.bunnyranch.com Wednesday December 5 2007Aphrodite Jones
With eight best selling crime books under her belt, 49 year old Aphrodite Jones has become a internationally recognized authority on true crime. For over a decade, Jones has provided TV commentary and insight into the psychological profiles of criminals and victims on such shows as The Today Show, MSNBC Investigates, Catherine Crier Live, American Justice, America's Most Wanted, The CBS Early Show, CNN Newsstand, The Abrams Report, Live with Paula Zahn, Geraldo at Large, Inside Edition, Extra!, The New Detectives, Montel Williams, Medical Detectives, Primetime Justice with Nancy Grace, The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch, Heartland, The Live Desk, The Big Story, and The O'Reilly Factor.
http://www.aphroditejones.com Bill Quinn
From ChristmasTreeForMe.com to talk about Christmas tree trends for 2007. He’s been on the show the past two Christmases.
http://www.christmastreeforme.com Monday December 3 2007 Pat Buchanan
Promoting the paperback edition of his book, "State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America". Hunter S. Thompson considered Buchanan a friend. Buchanan was among dozens who offered a statement in Rolling Stone after the journalist's suicide in 2005. About Buchanan, Thompson once wrote, "We disagree so violently on almost everything that it's a real pleasure to drink with him."
http://www.buchanan.org Hans Zeiger
A 21-year-old Eagle Scout from Puyallup, Wash., and author of "Get Off My Honor: the Assault on the Boy Scouts of America" and "Reagan's Children: Taking Back the City on the Hill". He's outraged about what he calls the City of Philadelphia’s latest assault on family values. City officials stated that they cannot legally rent taxpayer-owned property for a dollar a year to a private organization, the Boy Scouts, that discriminates because of sexual orientation or religion.
http://www.hanszeiger.net Dr. Anne-Renee Testa
The nationally renowned psychologist and relationship coach will talk on Peterson case and promote her latest book, "The Bully In Your Relationship: How to Stop Emotional Abuse and Get the Love You Deserve". She guides and encourages readers every step of the way as they gain the courage to stop emotional abuse – also known as bullying -- in their intimate relationships.
http://www.drtesta.com |
