Hillary Clinton has done a series of interviews tied to the upcoming Hulu docuseries Hillary, and now she is going into production herself.
She has partnered with iHeartRadio to coproduce an original podcast series, set to debut sometime in the second quarter, in the midst of the 2020 presidential race and just before the summer party conventions.
More information on format, guests, series length and launch date is expected in the coming weeks, according to an iHeartMedia spokesperson.
According to Politico, which first reported the news of the series, the show will feature her in conversation with a brand-name guest. The search also is on for “a Robin Quivers-like sidekick,” according to the site, and she has already hired two podcast veterans, Kathleen Russo and Julie Subrin, to produce.
Politico’s Ryan Lizza reported that Clinton was inspired to do a show after appearing with her daughter Chelsea on Conan O’Brien’s podcast,...
She has partnered with iHeartRadio to coproduce an original podcast series, set to debut sometime in the second quarter, in the midst of the 2020 presidential race and just before the summer party conventions.
More information on format, guests, series length and launch date is expected in the coming weeks, according to an iHeartMedia spokesperson.
According to Politico, which first reported the news of the series, the show will feature her in conversation with a brand-name guest. The search also is on for “a Robin Quivers-like sidekick,” according to the site, and she has already hired two podcast veterans, Kathleen Russo and Julie Subrin, to produce.
Politico’s Ryan Lizza reported that Clinton was inspired to do a show after appearing with her daughter Chelsea on Conan O’Brien’s podcast,...
- 2/28/2020
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
After watching Steven Soderbergh's new biographical documentary about the iconic monologist Spalding Gray - entitled And Everything is Going Fine - I invited Gray's widow Kathleen Russo in to talk about the film. Given the tragic nature of Gray's suicide almost seven years ago, I expected to meet someone still wrestling with grief, single motherhood, and betrayal. Instead, Russo - who is also a producer on the film - is an amazingly resilient woman, whose pragmatic candor and optimism shine through every story she tells about her late husband, and about their two sons. Russo was also quite open about Gray's suicide and the two months of uncertainty that followed. It was a lovely interview, as you'll soon see. Tribeca: I've been in New York for 20 years, and always remember seeing Spalding - he was such a fixture at literary and artistic events. It was wonderful to revisit his life through his own words.
- 12/16/2010
- TribecaFilm.com
John C. Reilly is to star in a film about the events leading to the death of comedian and actor Spalding Gray after a car accident in Ireland in 2001 and his subsequent treatment in a rural hospital. Gray suffered severe injuries in the crash which later led to his suicide after he jumped off the Staten island ferry. He described his treatment in Ireland as primitive. In the crash, Gray, who had always battled his hereditary depression and bipolar tendencies, suffered a badly broken hip, leaving his right leg almost immobilized, and a fracture in his skull that left a gruesome, jagged scar on his forehead. He now suffered not only from depression but from a brain injury. During surgery in which a titanium plate was placed over the break in his skull, surgeons removed dozens of bone fragments from his frontal cortex. Shattered both physically and emotionally, he spent...
- 7/4/2010
- IrishCentral
The costume designer widow of actor and writer Spalding Gray has revealed her late husband lost the will to live after suffering brain damage in a car accident in Ireland.
Gray committed suicide by jumping off the Staten Island Ferry in New York in 2004, but his widow Kathleen Russo believes something died inside him years before.
She tells WENN, "The car accident in Ireland is really what led him to commit suicide, which a lot of people don't know about.
"We were in Ireland in 2001 to celebrate his 60th birthday in County Meath and it was our second night there and we were coming back from a restaurant... and someone hit us head on.
"We were on a country road and there's not really room for two cars to go by and it was just getting dark and I was driving and Spalding was behind me in the back seat and he wasn't wearing his seat belt. There were three people in the car and I was the only one wearing a seat belt.
"Spalding flew into the back of my head. I needed stitches and he crushed his skull on the right side. We didn't know about that until a couple of weeks after when his head collapsed in and I noticed a dent in his forehead. We were there for the whole summer for his surgeries.
"When we heard he needed a head operation we flew home to New York... He had right frontal lobe damage and scar tissue developed, which led to brain damage and that led him to commit suicide and jump off the Staten Island Ferry."
Gray disappeared for two months before his body was found in the East River and Russo admits the press coverage surrounding his whereabouts was particularly difficult for the family.
She adds, "The hardest thing was when he was missing for two months and people were sending me pictures and saying, 'This is him.' I knew he was not a cruel person and would never start a new life somewhere else, which is what the media was saying."...
Gray committed suicide by jumping off the Staten Island Ferry in New York in 2004, but his widow Kathleen Russo believes something died inside him years before.
She tells WENN, "The car accident in Ireland is really what led him to commit suicide, which a lot of people don't know about.
"We were in Ireland in 2001 to celebrate his 60th birthday in County Meath and it was our second night there and we were coming back from a restaurant... and someone hit us head on.
"We were on a country road and there's not really room for two cars to go by and it was just getting dark and I was driving and Spalding was behind me in the back seat and he wasn't wearing his seat belt. There were three people in the car and I was the only one wearing a seat belt.
"Spalding flew into the back of my head. I needed stitches and he crushed his skull on the right side. We didn't know about that until a couple of weeks after when his head collapsed in and I noticed a dent in his forehead. We were there for the whole summer for his surgeries.
"When we heard he needed a head operation we flew home to New York... He had right frontal lobe damage and scar tissue developed, which led to brain damage and that led him to commit suicide and jump off the Staten Island Ferry."
Gray disappeared for two months before his body was found in the East River and Russo admits the press coverage surrounding his whereabouts was particularly difficult for the family.
She adds, "The hardest thing was when he was missing for two months and people were sending me pictures and saying, 'This is him.' I knew he was not a cruel person and would never start a new life somewhere else, which is what the media was saying."...
- 6/28/2010
- WENN
Actor/writer Spalding Gray's widow is keeping her late husband's legacy alive by writing a book about her time with him and a play and film based on his journals. Kathleen Russo was left devastated when Gray committed suicide by jumping off the Staten Island Ferry in New York in 2004, and she's committed to keeping her dead husband's memory alive.
Currently producing Steven Soderbergh's documentary about Gray's life, "And Everything is Going Fine", the Hollywood costume designer has big plans for 2011. She tells WENN, "There is so much work that I'm doing. There's a book for (publishers) Knoft next year and I'm doing a play based on his journals that will tour Britain, called 'There Are Stories to Tell'. It comes to Glasgow next March. It's a cast of five people that represent a part of his life - the adventurer, the journal reader, the family man, the lover and the career person.
Currently producing Steven Soderbergh's documentary about Gray's life, "And Everything is Going Fine", the Hollywood costume designer has big plans for 2011. She tells WENN, "There is so much work that I'm doing. There's a book for (publishers) Knoft next year and I'm doing a play based on his journals that will tour Britain, called 'There Are Stories to Tell'. It comes to Glasgow next March. It's a cast of five people that represent a part of his life - the adventurer, the journal reader, the family man, the lover and the career person.
- 6/24/2010
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
Actor/writer Spalding Gray's widow is keeping her late husband's legacy alive by writing a book about her time with him and a play and film based on his journals.
Kathleen Russo was left devastated when Gray committed suicide by jumping off the Staten Island Ferry in New York in 2004, and she's committed to keeping her dead husband's memory alive.
Currently producing Steven Soderbergh's documentary about Gray's life, And Everything is Going Fine, the Hollywood costume designer has big plans for 2011.
She tells WENN, "There is so much work that I'm doing. There's a book for (publishers) Knoft next year and I'm doing a play based on his journals that will tour Britain, called There Are Stories to Tell. It comes to Glasgow next March. It's a cast of five people that represent a part of his life - the adventurer, the journal reader, the family man, the lover and the career person.
"It will also be a film; Whoopi Goldberg is one of the producers on the film. John C. Reilly is gonna be in it, we think, as The Family Man and John Leguizamo as The Lover and Whoopi as The Career Person. Lucy Sexton and I worked on the script and we're starting to get the money together."
Sexton, who will direct the film, is married to filmmaker Stephen Daldry.
Kathleen Russo was left devastated when Gray committed suicide by jumping off the Staten Island Ferry in New York in 2004, and she's committed to keeping her dead husband's memory alive.
Currently producing Steven Soderbergh's documentary about Gray's life, And Everything is Going Fine, the Hollywood costume designer has big plans for 2011.
She tells WENN, "There is so much work that I'm doing. There's a book for (publishers) Knoft next year and I'm doing a play based on his journals that will tour Britain, called There Are Stories to Tell. It comes to Glasgow next March. It's a cast of five people that represent a part of his life - the adventurer, the journal reader, the family man, the lover and the career person.
"It will also be a film; Whoopi Goldberg is one of the producers on the film. John C. Reilly is gonna be in it, we think, as The Family Man and John Leguizamo as The Lover and Whoopi as The Career Person. Lucy Sexton and I worked on the script and we're starting to get the money together."
Sexton, who will direct the film, is married to filmmaker Stephen Daldry.
- 6/23/2010
- WENN
Performance Space 122 announced that Radiohole is the recipient of the third Spalding Gray Award. The award is a special commission created in Spalding Gray's honor by Performance Space 122, together with Kathleen Russo, UCLA Live, and The Walker Arts Center. The recipient of this year's award receives a full production in the 2009-10 seasons at P.S. 122 and The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, as well as a stipend for its creation. The Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh was also announced as a partner in the award.
- 3/10/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
The body of Spalding Gray was found this weekend in the East River, confirming suspicions that the actor, writer and monologuist had died two months ago, when he left his Manhattan apartment and never returned; he was 62. While the official cause of death had not yet been determined, it was widely reported that Gray had battled severe depression and had previously attempted suicide, including a 2002 attempt in which he tried to jump from a Long Island bridge. Last seen on January 10, Gray's family had kept up a search for him despite pressing evidence that he may have taken his own life. A superb live performer, Gray began his acting career in the 70s, but came to prominence with Swimming to Cambodia, a staged monologue that recounted his adventures while making the 1984 film The Killing Fields; Jonathan Demme filmed Cambodia in 1987. The resulting acclaim helped garner Gray roles in such films as True Stories, Beaches, King of the Hill, The Paper, and Kate & Leopold, among others, and his recounting of his travails with an eye condition was turned into Gray's Anatomy (1996), directed by Steven Soderbergh. Despite his film career, Gray continued to work onstage, playing the Stage Manager in a Tony Award-winning revival of Our Town, and turning his midlife crises into another acclaimed monologue, It's a Slippery Slope. Gray's life was marred by tragedy in recent years, as he suffered a horrible car accident in Ireland in 2001, which jeopardized his health, derailed his most recent monologue, Blind Spot, and seemed to accelerate his depression. Gray is survived by his wife, Kathleen Russo, and their two children. --Prepared by IMDb staff...
- 3/8/2004
- WENN
The anxious family of missing actor and writer Spalding Gray still hope he will return home alive. The depressed Swimming to Cambodia star, 62, vanished from his Manhattan, New York apartment on January 11, and despite 36 tips from witnesses police have found no clues to his whereabouts. His devastated wife Kathleen Russo says, "Everyone that looks like him from behind, I go up and check to make sure it's not him. If someone calls and hangs up, I always do star-69. You're always thinking, 'maybe'." Several reliable witnesses believe they saw Gray on the Staten Island ferry the night he left his home, leading Russo to fear he may have tried to jump off the boat. Russo admits it has been difficult after sightings have turned out to be cases of mistaken identities or lookalikes. She explains, "Spalding had one of those faces. People often told him, 'You look really familiar.' He looks like a professor they once had or something." Russo is increasingly frustrated at repeatedly having to tell their children, aged 11 and six, that "Dad's missing and the police are looking". Despite her hopes Gray may still return, Russo is begging to rationalize "he's had some kind of accident, either intentional or not. "If you can imagine, it's pretty awful. There's no closure, no answers no definitive outcome right now."...
- 3/4/2004
- WENN
Family and friends of actor and writer Spalding Gray are anxiously awaiting news from New York police, after the depressed Kate & Leopold star went missing on Sunday. Cops in Manhattan and the Southampton area of New York, where Gray lives, have confirmed they're searching for the star who tried to commit suicide in 2001 following a long battle with depression. His brother, Rockwell Gray, admits Gray was in a troubled state when he saw him over Christmas. He says, "I wouldn't say he was in a happy state. (But) it wasn't unusual. He's been in a fairly depressed condition for some time." Gray's wife Kathleen Russo is refusing to discuss his disappearance. The 62-year-old - who co-founded the experimental Wooster Group Theater in New York in 1977 - is best known for writing and appearing in the autobiographical 1987 film Swimming To Cambodia, for which he received two Independent Spirit Award nominations. He has featured in such films as 1984's The Killing Fields, 1988's Beaches and 1994's The Paper.
- 1/14/2004
- WENN
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