Rarified Heir Podcast
Joshua Mills

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Episode #132: Chrissy Quinn (Louis Quinn, Christine Nelson)
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05/30/23 • 72 min
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Today on another encore episode of the Rarified Heir Podcast, we speak with Chrissy Quinn, who has not one, but two famous parents. Her father, Louis Quinn is perhaps best remembered for his role on televisions 77 Sunset Strip where he played lovable Roscoe The Bookmaker. However his show business career goes back to radio when he wrote for Milton Berle and we discuss some legends Louis worked with like Ray Bolger and Edd “Kookie” Byrnes. We also talk about her mother, Christine Nelson, a funny lady who is deeply connected to Allan Sherman – she is in fact Sarah Jackman from his My Son The Folk Singer as well as her own comedy album Didj’a Come Here to Play Cards, Or to Talk? for all you deep dive comedy nerds. We say that with affection by the way.
We also hear about Chrissy’s own comedy career, a bonkers story about befriending Robin Williams before he was a megastar on Mork & Mindy as well as stories about having the real Bozo-The Clown appear at her birthday, her Godfather Sammy Davis Jr. & her dad’s role in the film: Vasectomy : A Delicate Matter. So join us won’t you on this encore edition of the Rarified Heir Podcast. Everyone has a story.
05/30/23 • 72 min


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Episode #147: Noopy Rodrigues (Rose Marie, Bobby Guy)
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09/12/23 • 111 min
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Today on the Rarified Heir Podcast, we are talking to Noopy Rodrigues, daughter of comedian and singer Rose Marie and trumpeter Bobby Guy. Talking to Noopy was a fun and lively experience because the thing that became clear from the word go was how many connections we had that we didn’t even know about. From Broadway theaters our mom’s performed in, being brought out on stage by famous entertainers when we were likely not even in Kindergarten, strong single mothers who raised their families after devastating losses, growing up in the San Fernando Valley and more.
Noopy also somehow connected the dots to other guests – as she was a segment producer on the Tomorrow show with Tom Snyder, whose daughter Ann Marie Snyder was prior guest as well as how her mother saved all sorts of amazing things including the very recordings that make up the new CD Rose Marie Sings: The Complete Mercury Recordings & More. If that sounds amazingly familiar to what host Josh Mills is working on as well, don’t worry, we made that connection already. Along the way we also talk Rosalind Russell, Phil Silvers, Morey Amsterdam, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis and some guy named Popcorn who really will blow your mind.
Take a listen to our conversation with Noopy Rodrigues on this episode of the Rarified Heir Podcast. Everyone has a story.
09/12/23 • 111 min


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Episode #: 149 : Rachel Pollack (Sydney Pollack)
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09/26/23 • 83 min
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Today on another encore episode of the Rarified Heir Podcast, we talk to Rachel Pollack, daughter of actor/director Sydney Pollack. We talk to Rachel about some truly amazing experiences that only a child of a celebrity could tell you. Like what you ask? How about being on set of Out of Africa IN AFRICA with Meryl Streep and Robert Redford and still wishing you were home in LA with your high school boyfriend? Or having to tell your dad who Dave Matthews was before a meeting? When your dad’s films are nominated for 48 Academy Awards, those things do tend to happen.
We also talk about Ben Stiller’s impression of her dad as Frankenstein on The Ben Stiller Show (which she didn’t know about), how her father met her mother in a very famous acting class in New York and how her mother gave up her dream so that they could raise a family together and – get this – her dad’s obsession with making BBQed ribs. I ask you, what other podcast can tell you that Sydney Pollack started making his ribs 24 hours in advance?
We hear stories about Tom Cruise, Tootsie, The Sopranos, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Burt Lancaster and much, much more. It was a truly fantastic discussion with Rachel and you get to hear about it right now, on this episode of the Rarified Heir Podcast. Everyone has a story.
09/26/23 • 83 min


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Episode 139: "Ernie in Kovacsland" Josh Mills, Ben Model & Pat Thomas (Bonus Episode)
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07/18/23 • 68 min
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Today on the Rarified Hair Podcast we are sending you across the orthicon tube with a special edition bonus episode in celebration of the upcoming Fantagraphics book, “Ernie in Kovacsland: Writings, Drawings and Photographs from Television’s Original Genius”. Our host today is co-author Pat Thomas (although left to Pat, you’d never know that as you will soon hear), co-author Ben Model and our Rarified Heir Podcast host & co-author Joshua Mills is talking about the in’s and out’s of creating this new book, coming July 25.
It's a deep dive today with details about the genesis of the book, why the book was even created and some great stories about how this book came to be. We talk Ernie. We talk Edie Adams. We talk Mia Kovacs and we talk about Josh’s dad, photographer Marty Mills. This time the child of a celebrity is interviewed not by the child of a celebrity but co-authors Pat Thomas and Ben Model. Everyone has a story. Here’s one about Ernie in Kovacsland. Take a listen.
07/18/23 • 68 min

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Episode #130: Victoria Price (Vincent Price)
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05/16/23 • 98 min
Today on the Rarified Heir Podcast, it’s Halloween in May as we talk to Victoria Price (and her dog Allie), daughter of the great Vincent Price. Victoria is a truly wonderful guest – smart, engaging, thoughtful, self-reflective and more. Perhaps that goes hand in hand with her life and career of finding joy (which we discuss) as well as being an inspirational speaker, author, holistic entrepreneur and ‘family brand ambassador’ for her father and her terrific mother, costumer designer Mary Grant.
We had pages of notes, things we wanted to ask Victoria and somehow, we barely even looked at them. Our interview somehow turned into a fun, insightful conversation. We of course discuss her father’s acting career, his love of food, how he loved being a public figure, his artwork and so on. However our conversation became more about growing up as the ‘family brand ambassador’ (there’s that word again), her education from a young age that people wanted to be associated with her father more than her or her artwork and how much fun it was to be with her dad just trying to find the best taquito in Los Angeles. We also learned about how and why Vincent became such a foodie via his family roots, her mother’s designing gigs on Broadway and in film and how important it was that her parents remained cordial after their divorce.
Along the way we discuss The Kenley Players, Hamburger Hamlet, Carol Burnett, crème brule, The Witchfinder General, Sears department stores, Broadway, Nat King Cole and much more. We thank you for taking a listen to Victoria Price on the episode of the Rarified Heir Podcast who is coming up now. Everyone has a story.
05/16/23 • 98 min

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Episode #138 : Precious Chong (Tommy Chong)
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07/11/23 • 79 min
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Today on the Rarified Heir Podcast, we are talking to Precious Chong, daughter of Tommy Chong, aka The Man, aka THE Chong in the comedy team Cheech and Chong. It was a real thrill to talk to Precious as she is someone Josh had never met before but was part of his peripheral circle as she was friends with a few of his childhood friends while we were growing up. Oh and Josh’s mom, Edie Adams, co-starred in Cheech and Chong’s Up In Smoke as Chong’s mother, Mrs. Stoner. Talk about connections!
We spoke to Precious about her very lean years growing up as Tommy Chong’s daughter which suddenly became very different with the success of the Cheech & Chong comedy albums, live shows and films in the mid 1970s and ballooned into superstardom in the 1980s. We also spoke to Precious about her years as an assistant in Hollywood (listen for the Val Kilmer story), her own career in comedy as well as her directing debut which was quite the buzzworthy indie film.
Along the way, we talk about long lost shooting scripts, lost LA restaurants, the comedy scene in Toronto, her dads incarceration on debatable charges, his status as a the elder statesmen of pot and much more. Precious had such a viv and verve talking to us that it was a real pleasure to have that energy at the other end of North America. So sit back and take a listen, to this episode of the Rarified Heir Podcast with Precious Chong. Another child of a celebrity interviewed by the child of a celebrity.
07/11/23 • 79 min

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Rarified Heir Podcast Episode #94: Kristen Hillaire Glasgow PhD (Part II) (Roy Silver, Kathryn Reynolds)
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09/06/22 • 68 min
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Today on the Rarified Heir Podcast it’s part two of or interview with Kristen Hillaire Glasgow PhD and we discuss her parents, manager/restauranteur Roy Silver, Actress mother Kathryn Reynolds & just tough the surface on stepmother, actress Dee Dee Rescher. This episode goes deep into uncharted 70s Sunset Strip lore with conversations about her dad’s Chinese restaurant Roy’s, the live show her dad produced at the Whisky El Grande De Coca-Cola, Casablanca Records Neil Bogart, the harsh realities of casting and aging in Hollywood, the ultimate show business temple, The Synagogue for the Performing Arts and lessons our father’s taught us.
We also bond on Melrose Ave. in the 80’s, food that makes you cry, cocaine dealing waitresses, would Hitler have considered us Jewish if the faith technically didn’t and many more inappropriate topics. Kristen was a wonderful guest and if all goes according to plan, she will be back for part three in the future if Dee Dee Rescher is a guest and much more. So take a listen and enjoy, part two of Kristen Hillaire Glasgow PhD coming right up.
09/06/22 • 68 min

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Rarified Heir Podcast Episode #93: Kristen Hillaire Glasgow PhD (Part 1) (Roy Silver, Kathryn Reynolds)
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08/30/22 • 72 min
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Today on the Rarified Heir Podcast, we bring you part one of our conversation with Kristen Hillaire Glasgow PhD, daughter of manager, restauranteur, impresario, raconteur Roy Silver and actress Kathryn Reynolds. The episode sparked literally, when Kristen made the connection on Twitter to the band Sparks in our conversation with Matt Asner a few episodes back. It turns out her dad, Roy Silver managed Sparks for a bit early in their career as well as musicians and entertainers like Joan Rivers, Cass Elliott, Bill Cosby, Jackson Browne and the rock band Fanny. What’s more, we learned that not only did Roy Silver manage Tiny Tim but that our host Josh Mills’ parents threw a party for Ron and Tiny Tim to ‘introduce’ Hollywood in Tiny Tim in July of 1968. And we have the proof to back that up.
We talked a lot about all things LA in the 70s & 80s, including restaurants (like Roy’s which her dad owned), how her dad ‘found’ Bill Cosby at The Bitter End in NYC, her mother’s folk mockumentary group Allen & Grier, her stepmother actress Dee Dee Rescher, the real story behind the all-female, all amazing rock band Fanny, the genius that was El Grande De Coca-Cola starring Ron Silver & Jeff Goldblum, the record label Tetragrammaton Records Silver and his partners founded which released Deep Purple debut album and the John Lennon and Yoko Ono album Two Virgins and much more. What’s more you ask? Well we have to break this interview up into two episodes. It was that good. Part one is here, so take a listen to the Rarified Heir Podcast right now.
08/30/22 • 72 min

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Rarified Heir Podcast #103: James Coburn Encore (James Coburn)
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11/08/22 • 70 min
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Today on the Rarified Heir Podcast encore edition, we are talking to James Coburn, son of, well James Coburn. We spoke with James during the Covid crisis and James was the perfect antidote. We learned about an array fascinating things the younger Coburn shared with us such as: being on the set of Peckinpah film, Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid in Mexico and In Like Flint in Jamaica, his dads love of cars (very fast cars), his good friend Bruce Lee, the Z Channel, a 4 year odyssey in Africa, the Muppets and much much more. Come to think of it, we need to get back with James to talk about the biography he and his wife were working on about his father when we recorded this episode. Maybe it’s time for part two if our interview. But for now, take a listen to this interview recorded during the time Covid. Oh so long and not very long ago. You are listening to the Rarified Heir Podcast.
11/08/22 • 70 min

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Rarified Heir Podcast #101: Ron DeFore (Don DeFore)
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10/25/22 • 85 min
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Today on the Rarified Heir Podcast, we are talking to Ron DeFore, son of actor Don DeFore and singer Marion Holmes. Ron came to us via a previous guest, Peter Ackerman so there is a true classic television connection. Don DeFore is best known for his roles as “Throny” in The Adventures of Ozzy and Harriet as well as Mr. B on Hazel. What we didn’t know when we were connected was that Don DeFore is the stuff of legend to Disneyland fans the world over. Why? Because Don owned the only restaurant in Disneyland history that featured a celebrity’s name on it. For five years, at the inception of Disneyland, you could chow down on home fixings at the Don DeFore’s Silver Banjo Barbeque restaurant in Frontierland. What’s more is that son Ron wrote a book that discusses that chapter in his life (and more) entitled Growing Up in Disneyland. And that’s literally too. Because when Walt gave the restaurant to his father, the DeFore’s bought a house in Anaheim and spent summers, weekends and holidays at Disneyland. A 10 year old’s dream if ever there was one.
We also talk to Ron about his mother, who while little known today, made one song very, very famous. Of course Josh picks the wrong song but you’ll hear all about it on the podcast. What’s more we discuss, President & actor Ronald Reagan, Captain Disco, ‘The Flying DJ”, John Lennon, The Odd Couple, long-lost Polynesian restaurant favorite Kelbo’s, more stories about SAG and how Don DeFore was instrumental in getting the Emmy Awards televised for the first time ever as the President of the Television Academy and much more. So set your internal clocks back a little bit for this episode of the Rarified Heir Podcast. Everyone has a story.
10/25/22 • 85 min

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How many episodes does Rarified Heir Podcast have?
Rarified Heir Podcast currently has 158 episodes available.
What topics does Rarified Heir Podcast cover?
The podcast is about Parents, Celebrity, Theater, Comedy, Podcasts, Arts, Children, Hollywood, Broadway, Nostalgia and Performing Arts.
What is the most popular episode on Rarified Heir Podcast?
The episode title 'Episode #132: Chrissy Quinn (Louis Quinn, Christine Nelson)' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Rarified Heir Podcast?
The average episode length on Rarified Heir Podcast is 77 minutes.
How often are episodes of Rarified Heir Podcast released?
Episodes of Rarified Heir Podcast are typically released every 7 days.
When was the first episode of Rarified Heir Podcast?
The first episode of Rarified Heir Podcast was released on Dec 8, 2020.
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