Speaker 1: With Ray. I'm wbs. He costs two hours down, two
Speaker 1: hours to go, and I'm still full of energy, rip
Speaker 1: roaring and ready to go. And I'm smiling. Why am
Speaker 1: I smiling because of my next guest. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: get this name to catch on with all the people
Speaker 1: who are fans of hers. I called her about a
Speaker 1: month ago or so, and her husband answered, and I
Speaker 1: asked to speak to the Empress, and he knew.
Speaker 2: You know, after forty six years, he knows, he.
Speaker 1: Knew you weren't available, you weren't home, but your husband
Speaker 1: knew you are the Empress of entertainment. You've you've been
Speaker 1: such going back to the eighties, when did you start
Speaker 1: at BC?
Speaker 2: I think it was eighteen eighty.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, no, no, I.
Speaker 2: Think it was. Actually the truth is it was nineteen
Speaker 2: seventy eight, Okay, yeah, And it was a show called
Speaker 2: Evening Magazine, right so, and that was, you know, syndicated
Speaker 2: across the country and it was a terrific show. Was
Speaker 2: a brand new show when I first started, and that
Speaker 2: was my first gig on television. It was amazing. I
Speaker 2: used to demonstrate fads and gadgets. I used to tell
Speaker 2: people about how to have fun on an instant weekend.
Speaker 2: I used to tell people where they could go on
Speaker 2: a tank away. I did a lot of different pos.
Speaker 1: Oh that's an interesting concept.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it was great. One tank of gas, Yeah,
Speaker 2: one tank of gas. Where can you go? And I
Speaker 2: ended up doing stories actually abroad. I went to Liechtenstein
Speaker 2: and did something on the watch industry. I went to Switzerland,
Speaker 2: of course, do something on the watch industry. I did
Speaker 2: a lot of a lot of very interesting things.
Speaker 1: You could have gone to wall Sam saved some frequent
Speaker 1: flyer miles. They they were famous for watches as.
Speaker 2: Well, Yes they were, you know. I was just thinking
Speaker 2: about fads and gadgets. Some of the things I used
Speaker 2: to demonstrate. We used to look through all these strange
Speaker 2: catalogs like hammock Er, Schlemmer and see what was out there.
Speaker 2: And I remember once closer to home, you know, the snowboard. Yeah,
Speaker 2: for snowboarding was a thing. Well, there was a guy
Speaker 2: I forgot his first name, but Burton invented the snowboarder,
Speaker 2: created the snowboard, and we heard about it and he
Speaker 2: sent one over and I actually demonstrated that and snowboards
Speaker 2: when they first came out actually had a rope attached
Speaker 2: to them and you could hold onto this rope. Well,
Speaker 2: you had both feet on this snowboard going down, you know,
Speaker 2: a slope. And I always wondered, what the heck did
Speaker 2: I ever do with that snowboard? It was like the
Speaker 2: original snowboard.
Speaker 1: How was your balance?
Speaker 2: It would probably be in the Smithsonian or.
Speaker 3: Something, you know, how was your balance?
Speaker 2: Oh? It was marvelous, just marvelous. I was so incredibly athletic,
Speaker 2: nots but I still have a video of this, and
Speaker 2: it's just hysterical to me. Some of the things. I
Speaker 2: remember putting on a great, big rubber suit and jumping
Speaker 2: into the Charles River and floating down the river for
Speaker 2: some bizarre reason. I don't know. Just I did a
Speaker 2: lot of interesting things before I ended up on the news,
Speaker 2: reporting on all the arts and entertainment in Boston and beyond.
Speaker 2: And I mean from you know, red carpets at the Oscars,
Speaker 2: the Grammys, the Tony's covering, you know, things abroad, covering
Speaker 2: things in Los Angeles. Just what, and also all around
Speaker 2: our wonderful city of Boston.
Speaker 1: You've had a great career. It's not over me. Sad
Speaker 1: mill out there Joyce's Choices is still a website you
Speaker 1: can go to. Now. I've got a break in three minutes. Now,
Speaker 1: I know you and I are going to talk about cats,
Speaker 1: and I'll sell that when we come back. But you
Speaker 1: were here, and there were two dare I say it,
Speaker 1: big summer movies opening up within a week or so.
Speaker 1: We've got Superman and Jurassic whatever. They keep flirting with
Speaker 1: the names. But let's talk about those two films and
Speaker 1: then we'll take it up. All right, Well, what do
Speaker 1: you know about them?
Speaker 2: But I can tell you that I did see F
Speaker 2: one and we can talk about.
Speaker 1: That, okay, and we Our main subject is you and
Speaker 1: I wrapped around cats when we first decided what we're
Speaker 1: going to do.
Speaker 2: I love talking about kitty cats.
Speaker 1: How many do you have?
Speaker 2: I just have one at the moment. Virgil, who's just lovely.
Speaker 2: He had a brother, Jackson. But Jackson was born with
Speaker 2: a congenital heart defect and we only had him for
Speaker 2: two years. We didn't know if we were going to
Speaker 2: have him for two years or ten years. They said,
Speaker 2: there's no telling. And he lived a very full but
Speaker 2: short life. Jackson. He was adorable. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Our cat Gray just turned five and he owns me.
Speaker 1: He owns Nancy wherever he wants. I'm surprised he doesn't
Speaker 1: have a set of keys to come and go.
Speaker 2: Mine doesn't need a set of keys. My cat totally
Speaker 2: bosses me out. She has me completely training to do
Speaker 2: whatever he wants me to do. And wait till I
Speaker 2: tell you some of the routines were into. It's hysterical.
Speaker 2: It's really pretty funny.
Speaker 1: He likes There used to be temptation treats, but we
Speaker 1: get another brand now. He loves those, and you could
Speaker 1: give him. We try to only give him three at
Speaker 1: a time, but that rule has been long since thrown away,
Speaker 1: and you could give him literally twenty something thirty something,
Speaker 1: and he'll take his paw and either touch the back
Speaker 1: of your hand or touch the container therein to say,
Speaker 1: you know, like Oliver, please, I want some more.
Speaker 2: They do make themselves understood.
Speaker 1: They do so for anybody who owns a cat. Joyce
Speaker 1: and I are going to get into a cat conversation
Speaker 1: that will encourage you to call and participate.
Speaker 2: And I do have a couple of you know, movie
Speaker 2: suggestions about cats as well, So there you.
Speaker 1: Go, all right, Either we have one caller waiting he
Speaker 1: needs to open line six one, seven, two, five, four,
Speaker 1: ten thirty or eight eight, eight, nine to nine, ten
Speaker 1: thirty time now and temperature here on nightside ten point
Speaker 1: fifteen seventy one degrees.
Speaker 4: You're on night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's
Speaker 4: news radio.
Speaker 1: Den Ray's are for the next Dare I say it?
Speaker 1: Seven nightsides next week, but he'll be back the following Monday.
Speaker 1: I am here with the Empress of Entertainment, Joyce Kohewic Joyce.
Speaker 1: Before we take phone calls, tell people about F one.
Speaker 2: Oh f one, Okay, F one the movie F one
Speaker 2: being short for Formula one, as in the Formula one
Speaker 2: race car races. And these are the best racers in
Speaker 2: the world, and these races take place all around the world.
Speaker 2: And the movie just opened this past Friday, starring Brad
Speaker 2: Pitt and Javier Bardem and it's about well, it's a
Speaker 2: really exciting entertainment. It's not art, it's definitely entertainment. And
Speaker 2: it's actually brought to you by some of the same
Speaker 2: team that did the top cruise film Top Gun Maverick,
Speaker 2: which was so fabulous it was a huge global hit
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty two. So this is the same team
Speaker 2: that brought you that they know what they're doing. And
Speaker 2: Brad Pitt plays a race car driver who's passed his prime.
Speaker 2: He had a big accident early on when he was
Speaker 2: the most promising driver on the planet and turned out
Speaker 2: to be you know, ended up that ended up sort
Speaker 2: of derailing his career and he ended up being sort
Speaker 2: of an itinerant race car driver until one day, thirty
Speaker 2: years after this accident, a friend of his who owns
Speaker 2: a Formula One team but the team's in trouble, feels
Speaker 2: like he needs brad Pitt's character named Sonny Hayes to
Speaker 2: come back and get in the car and even out
Speaker 2: his team because he's got a hot shot rookie who
Speaker 2: needs some experience. So they they get together on the
Speaker 2: track and it's all about you know, what happens with them,
Speaker 2: and it's it's exciting. You feel like you're in the
Speaker 2: driver's seat. It's it's a pretty exciting film so far.
Speaker 2: It's in the lead for the most exciting film of
Speaker 2: the summer ever run.
Speaker 1: The movie trying to help the man with potential reach
Speaker 1: that potential.
Speaker 2: Exactly both of them essentially to become a team so
Speaker 2: that maybe they win the Grand Prix, which in the
Speaker 2: in the film takes place in Abu Dhabi, So there's
Speaker 2: a lot of stuff that goes on. I mean, it's
Speaker 2: really incredibly thrilling. Apparently they really trained for months. They
Speaker 2: actually are dry the cars at certain key points. They
Speaker 2: have special cameras rigged up that that show you all
Speaker 2: parts of the course and also inside the car. I mean,
Speaker 2: I was gripping the armress, holding my breath. It was.
Speaker 2: It was really exciting. I mean there's a lot of
Speaker 2: cliches too. It's old versus young, it's about competition, there's
Speaker 2: a little romance. It's it's about redemption, you know. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's about a lot of things. And and then there's
Speaker 2: Brad Pitt, who looks amazing.
Speaker 1: He really has maintained that look.
Speaker 2: Oh man, the guy is hot. He really is something else.
Speaker 2: But he plays it real cool, like in the you know,
Speaker 2: sort of the Steve McQueen kind of.
Speaker 1: Now, let's talk about cats, okay, a documentary that you saw,
Speaker 1: Oh yes, talk about.
Speaker 2: It all right. This documentary really kind of opened my
Speaker 2: eyes to something about cats that I really did not know.
Speaker 2: And I know cats so well. I've loved cats my
Speaker 2: entire life. I've had cats my entire life. I used
Speaker 2: to take in strays and find homes for them when
Speaker 2: I was a little girl, and I would interview people
Speaker 2: and make sure they were, you know, the right kind
Speaker 2: of folks who understood cats. And if they decided it
Speaker 2: didn't work out, there had to be a trial period,
Speaker 2: and if it didn't work out, they had to give
Speaker 2: the cat back to me. They couldn't just release the cat,
Speaker 2: you know. So I was always very committed to them
Speaker 2: and love everything about them, and I thought I knew
Speaker 2: everything about them, but I didn't know this. There is
Speaker 2: a film that was sent to me called American Cats,
Speaker 2: The Good, the Bad, and the Cuddy title. It's an
Speaker 2: award winning documentary. You see it on demand, and what
Speaker 2: it's about is like sort of sounds like a cute
Speaker 2: cat film, but it unveils the controversial world of cat declawing,
Speaker 2: which I thought was a harmless something you could do
Speaker 2: to a cat if you lived in the city and
Speaker 2: you didn't want to let your cat out and he
Speaker 2: was calling up your furniture or you know. I mean,
Speaker 2: that's one of the things about cats. You have to
Speaker 2: kind of figure out you can trim their claws, but
Speaker 2: if they never go out, lots of people choose to
Speaker 2: declaw their cats, and I thought, okay, well, I get that.
Speaker 2: You know, it's just the front paws usually because they
Speaker 2: need their back paws to scratch themselves, et cetera, and
Speaker 2: for some grooming. But it turns out that when you
Speaker 2: declaw a cat, you're not just removing the claw sort
Speaker 2: of in a surgical way and leaving the whole paw intact.
Speaker 2: Oh No, they go in and they chop off the
Speaker 2: first joint, which is an incredibly painful and mutilating thing
Speaker 2: to do to a cat. And some cats are so
Speaker 2: distressed by this that they end up sort of walking
Speaker 2: on their elbows. It's painful. When they put their paws down,
Speaker 2: they can't. It's it's just a it's a really difficult,
Speaker 2: risky thing you do to a cat. It's really inhuman.
Speaker 2: It's actually outlawed in many states. I think it's it's
Speaker 2: outlawed in the California or they're moving to band cat
Speaker 2: decline in that state. California would then join five other states,
Speaker 2: including the District of Columbia, New York, Rhode Island, Maryland,
Speaker 2: and Virginia. The reason it's not out and out just
Speaker 2: banned is because it is a big money maker for
Speaker 2: a lot of events. This thing that they do to
Speaker 2: the cats is real quick. It's like ten minutes they're
Speaker 2: in and out, and they make a bundle on it.
Speaker 2: And a lot of people just don't know how bad
Speaker 2: it is. And there are lots of vets who will
Speaker 2: just tell you, oh, it's fine, they're you know, but
Speaker 2: these are not cat lovers. These are people, you know.
Speaker 2: It's like in any profession, there are always people who
Speaker 2: are in it for the wrong reasons, don't care what
Speaker 2: they do.
Speaker 1: There are money lovers and that's it.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, this is really cruel and I had
Speaker 2: no idea. Now I will tell you it's not a
Speaker 2: gruesome documentary. I mean, that would be very hard for
Speaker 2: me to watch. It's actually hosted by someone who's pretty comedic,
Speaker 2: who's pretty funny, and she ends up calling veterinarians and
Speaker 2: posing as somebody who wants to declaw cat and asks
Speaker 2: you know, all kinds of questions and they just lie, lie, lie,
Speaker 2: on the other end, It's really kind of amazing. I
Speaker 2: totally recommend this documentary.
Speaker 1: Tell people where they can find it again on their
Speaker 1: cable system.
Speaker 2: You can watch this on demand and it's on all
Speaker 2: digital platforms anywhere that you purchase or rent your films,
Speaker 2: and it I think it became available on June seventeenth,
Speaker 2: so it is just out in the last two or
Speaker 2: three weeks. It is called American Cats, The Good, the Bad,
Speaker 2: and the Cudley. And if you look at the poster
Speaker 2: is the poster is actually kind of amusing, which is
Speaker 2: a sort of this ironic way they approach the subject
Speaker 2: so that you can actually watch it again. You're not
Speaker 2: going to see anything bloody and gruesome, but you're going
Speaker 2: to hear the gruesome details. You're gonna you're going to
Speaker 2: understand why you should never do.
Speaker 1: This to a cat, and everybody can learn something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this was a This was a shocker to me
Speaker 2: and I'm so glad I never declawed a cat. I mean,
Speaker 2: I you know, I think there was a time when
Speaker 2: I might have thought about it. But you know, I
Speaker 2: let my cats in and out, but we live, you know, suburbs,
Speaker 2: so it works, and I don't let them out at
Speaker 2: night because you know, we do have coyotes around here.
Speaker 2: Actually lost a kitty to a coyote. Louis my poor Louis. Yuh,
Speaker 2: I mean it happens. It happens, and Louis killed many
Speaker 2: a bird and many a mouse, so you know, it's
Speaker 2: all part of the natural cycle, as it were. But no,
Speaker 2: I'm careful about when I let the cat out. But yeah,
Speaker 2: I never I never did have a catty claude, and
Speaker 2: now I'm actively advocating against it.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm going to tell the three people on hold. Jack,
Speaker 1: you've been holding for like seventeen minutes, and I appreciate that. Jack,
Speaker 1: Dixie and Kirk. We'll get to your calls with Joyce
Speaker 1: after the news, I promise you. And if you're dialing
Speaker 1: six one, seven two, fourteen thirty or eight eight, eight
Speaker 1: nine to nineteen thirty kar on night Side, you can't
Speaker 1: get through because I just mentioned I got three people
Speaker 1: on hold, So be patient. As one gets a chance
Speaker 1: to call in interact with Joyce, clear a line, they
Speaker 1: will be your opportunity. And now I'm going to take
Speaker 1: the break, So get ready. Time and temperature ten twenty
Speaker 1: nine seventy one degrees.
Speaker 4: You're on night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's
Speaker 4: news radio.
Speaker 1: Nightside goes on every weekday eight to midnight Dan Ray
Speaker 1: usually is here, but give the man a break. He
Speaker 1: deserves vacation time. So he's off for the next seven
Speaker 1: night sides tonight, tomorrow and all next week. He'll be back,
Speaker 1: I promise you, Jack and Dorchester. You've got the Empress
Speaker 1: of entertainment here on BZ.
Speaker 2: Hey right, how are you hi, Jack?
Speaker 5: How are you doing? Joyce?
Speaker 2: Very well? Thank you?
Speaker 5: Yeah, you got me on TV one time. What were
Speaker 5: you doing You're at the Middle East. Of course, Peter
Speaker 5: Wolf is an house besides being a musician and your
Speaker 5: interview about his show.
Speaker 2: So yeah, with Peter Wolf.
Speaker 5: Peter Wolf.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's such a doll, what a gentleman. He's so fabulous.
Speaker 2: Whenever I see him, he he kisses my hand because
Speaker 2: old school. He's great.
Speaker 1: And I'm going to say this, Bradley Jay next week
Speaker 1: is going to have Peter Wolf as a guest.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I've met Peter Wolf a couple of times. Well,
Speaker 5: besides with you, uh and uh uh. Well, he used
Speaker 5: to go to a lot of the shows around Cambridge.
Speaker 5: They bring a couple of bottles away. Great, you know
Speaker 5: they're right.
Speaker 3: Well, and he just wrote a book.
Speaker 2: He just wrote a terrific book all about his experiences,
Speaker 2: which is really phenomenally interesting. The guy's very, you know,
Speaker 2: very literate and really really interesting person.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I know, well my brother has the book. I'm waiting
Speaker 5: you get it at any right? You tied at Brookline?
Speaker 5: How you am?
Speaker 1: I correct?
Speaker 2: I did. I taught there for two and a half years.
Speaker 2: I think it was from nineteen seventy six till about
Speaker 2: nineteen seventy eight, and then I quit and found a
Speaker 2: job on television. It was that.
Speaker 1: Summer lucky you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was kind of an amazing thing. But yes,
Speaker 2: why were you a student there?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 5: But well I'm just wondering. Did you have Conan O'Brien
Speaker 5: as a student by any kids?
Speaker 2: Conan O'Brien's brother was in my homeroom, believe it or not.
Speaker 3: Okay, but I did.
Speaker 2: Actually when Conan took over the show, you know, when
Speaker 2: he got on television like so many Boston people do.
Speaker 2: I don't know what it is. It's something in the
Speaker 2: water here, something about comedians hosting hosting talk shows. Conan
Speaker 2: O'Brien had me down to New York and we did
Speaker 2: an interview, and then I went to his home in Brookline.
Speaker 2: I met his parents and his sister. Just incredible guy.
Speaker 2: And now he's just gotten a huge award, the Mark
Speaker 2: Twain Award for Comedy. But yeah, we go, we go
Speaker 2: way back to Brookline High. But I didn't have Conan.
Speaker 2: I had his brother, his brother in my homeroom.
Speaker 1: And you were there in seventy six. I graduated in
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy one.
Speaker 2: Oh you're kidding.
Speaker 1: Thought you knew there?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't remember that. Now we missed. We just
Speaker 2: missed each other in years.
Speaker 1: All right, Jack? What else? Real quick?
Speaker 5: Okay?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 5: Well, if I can fill in a blank, The Rolling
Speaker 5: Stones caught the gym down in Green Airport in Rhode
Speaker 5: Island and Kevin Moore and they were supposed to play
Speaker 5: in Boston. Kevin White had to get them out of
Speaker 5: jail and get them up to uh Boston, God and all,
Speaker 5: there was going to be a riot.
Speaker 2: If anyone could do it, it was Kevin White.
Speaker 5: Oh God, he was an amazing mirror. Kevin Hagen, Kevin
Speaker 5: from Heaven. Uh Dap O'Neill used to call him that.
Speaker 5: Ay right, okay, great, nice talking to you, and thanks
Speaker 5: for getting me on TV.
Speaker 2: Are you so welcome? Jack? Nice to nice to catch up.
Speaker 1: Take care of Jack, bye bye, and now, without further ado,
Speaker 1: a guest, I'm Morgan coming up next week. Actually, here's Dixie.
Speaker 6: Yes, you have to call me and tell me when
Speaker 6: I'm on.
Speaker 1: All right, well, hold on, talk to Joyce. Why I
Speaker 1: flipped through some pages.
Speaker 6: I've been waiting to talk to Joyce for about fifteen years.
Speaker 2: Well yeah, get in line, pal, and what do you mean?
Speaker 6: And calling her the empress sounds like hyperbole, but in
Speaker 6: this case it's probably an understatement.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, So where have you been all my life?
Speaker 2: Why have you been waiting for fifteen years? What's going on?
Speaker 6: I have two film questions. But first of all, I'm
Speaker 6: talking kitties because I have four that were Ferrells and
Speaker 6: I have had him for fifteen years. Oh wow, I
Speaker 6: believe I told I was the first person to tell
Speaker 6: Morgan what he should expect when he got his kiddy.
Speaker 2: Oh, because he's got Maine coon cats or a Maine
Speaker 2: coon cat.
Speaker 1: I used to They have both unfortunately passed on. But
Speaker 1: Gray is a British short.
Speaker 2: Hair Oh yeah, those are so beautiful. I love those cats.
Speaker 2: But I'm interested in the feral cats. You have four
Speaker 2: cats who were feral, and you were able to domesticate
Speaker 2: them to some extent.
Speaker 6: I brought they were brought into the house by me,
Speaker 6: very carefully, very slowly, fifteen years ago, when their mother
Speaker 6: decided this was going to be a good house in
Speaker 6: which to leave them.
Speaker 2: Oh, I know, that's wonderful. So they're all they're litter mats.
Speaker 6: They're litter mats. I actually had more, but a couple
Speaker 6: of them have passed away, but I still have four.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Oh, they're just so. Are they all different from
Speaker 2: each other? Too?
Speaker 6: Oh? Yes, absolutely, I have twos about cats.
Speaker 2: Two tigers, super dogs too.
Speaker 6: But I have two tigers and two blacks. And one
Speaker 6: black is the step the step brother of the other three.
Speaker 6: Same father, I mean, same mother, different father.
Speaker 2: Interesting, Yeah, they can do You can do that in
Speaker 2: the same litter actually, that that can happen.
Speaker 6: Well, the mother thought it was a good idea the
Speaker 6: first time, and she thought it was a good idea
Speaker 6: the second time the second time.
Speaker 1: Oh and by the way, Dixie, Dixie, a week from tomorrow,
Speaker 1: A week from tomorrow, the eleventh of July. Okay, you're
Speaker 1: on ten to midnight.
Speaker 6: Okay, fine, okay, all right, Joyce, here are your two
Speaker 6: film questions. We're gonna get in mister Peabody's time machine
Speaker 6: for a second. Wait, okay, I have been waiting to
Speaker 6: ask you these two questions for a very long time.
Speaker 6: Question number one is, on a scale of ten, give
Speaker 6: me your performance rating for Madonna in A League of
Speaker 6: Their Own?
Speaker 2: Oh, she was terrific League of their Own performance rating. Honestly,
Speaker 2: she was probably like a nine out of ten. She
Speaker 2: was great in that. And Madonna was not the best
Speaker 2: actress in the world. She could be so stiff and
Speaker 2: cold on camera and not be able to do anything.
Speaker 2: But A League of their Own was quite promising, and
Speaker 2: the other one was desperately seeking Susan. She was actually
Speaker 2: quite good in that. But I love that movie, A
Speaker 2: League of their Own. That's a terrific film, and she
Speaker 2: was very funny in it, and they cast her just right.
Speaker 1: Suppose I'm going for a fly ball and suppose Yeah,
Speaker 1: a great movie line.
Speaker 6: My favorite thirty seconds in that movie is when Shirley
Speaker 6: Baker doesn't know that her name is on the list
Speaker 6: because she can't read right. I know there's something that
Speaker 6: could have been put on the cutting room floor. Nobody
Speaker 6: would have known it, but it was exactly great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, terrific. I love. I have to say my favorite
Speaker 2: line from that film is nobody cries in base in baseball,
Speaker 2: Oh my god. Tom Hanks was so great. He was perfect.
Speaker 6: He was perfect form.
Speaker 2: And as you miss Geena Davis, I just miss her period.
Speaker 2: But she's gone on to do wonderful things about women
Speaker 2: in film and media.
Speaker 6: So yeah, okay. The second question take us back to
Speaker 6: you sitting in the theater the very first time, the
Speaker 6: first two minutes of you sitting and watching the opening
Speaker 6: scene of Star Wars number one. What are you thinking?
Speaker 2: Oh gosh, I knew you were going to ask me
Speaker 2: about Star Wars. This is so funny because when that,
Speaker 2: I have to tell you, I remember being amazed, just
Speaker 2: by the credits, Yeah, just by the credit it said.
Speaker 2: I felt like, well, it felt like the world was
Speaker 2: doubling in size somehow, and who knew, but the cinematic
Speaker 2: world really was, and we were being ushered into this
Speaker 2: whole franchise. But we weren't even calling it a franchise.
Speaker 2: It was just stuff we hadn't seen before. So I
Speaker 2: do remember that. I can't remember too much more about that,
Speaker 2: you know, I mean only that I loved the film
Speaker 2: and I do remember that my predecessor on wb Z
Speaker 2: And I'm just blanking on her name. Maybe my husband
Speaker 2: remembers it. No, it was somebody she did arts and entertainment,
Speaker 2: like just movies. I think it was a.
Speaker 1: Name, and I can't remember it either. It'll come to me.
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm trying to remember. In any case, she trashed
Speaker 2: the film. She trashed the film but didn't compute at all.
Speaker 2: And I remember when I saw it. I remember feeling
Speaker 2: like my world was opening up and it was delightful.
Speaker 2: What was what was her name? Oh yeah, Mary Stuart,
Speaker 2: Mary Stuart.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: In any case, that's that's all I can tell you.
Speaker 2: I remember I enjoyed it. I thought it was It
Speaker 2: had a very interesting tone. It was funny, but it
Speaker 2: was also exciting, and it had these quirky characters. And
Speaker 2: I remember loving Harrison Ford and I just I mean,
Speaker 2: it was the credits that just popped from me, like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, We're off on an adventure, and it
Speaker 2: was it was like my world doubled in size. It
Speaker 2: was amazing.
Speaker 6: I know. I remember the first two minutes. I was
Speaker 6: sitting there in whatever theater I was in, and I
Speaker 6: just said, holy blank blank, what is coming next.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you were soaring through space. It was amazing.
Speaker 1: If you saw it in Boston, you probably started the
Speaker 1: Childs Theater there for a year.
Speaker 6: That's right, I did see it there.
Speaker 2: I think that's where I saw it as a matter
Speaker 2: of fact, And of course that's that's not there. But
Speaker 2: we're talking about that theater that's on, that was on.
Speaker 2: Is it Tremont Street?
Speaker 1: That is Cambridge Street.
Speaker 7: At the Cambridge Street Cambridge Street, it becomes Tremont in
Speaker 7: like fright, the other part of Tremont Street, and it's
Speaker 7: it's Cambridge Street and a great big theater set way
Speaker 7: back in like a plaza, a shopping.
Speaker 1: Plaza, yes, a stop and drop plaza.
Speaker 2: Yeah, amazing, amazing.
Speaker 1: All right, Dixie, I got a break to take, so thank.
Speaker 6: You very much. It was worth the fifteen years.
Speaker 2: Wait, thank you very much.
Speaker 1: All right, I'm going to take the last break of
Speaker 1: this hour. Kirk will be next. And I thought I
Speaker 1: saw Alison on hold, but she's not there now. So
Speaker 1: whomever is the next call, I guarantee you'll get a
Speaker 1: chance to speak with the Impress of Entertainment, Joyce Kulheywick
Speaker 1: here on bz's night Side Time ten forty six temperature
Speaker 1: seventy one degrees.
Speaker 4: Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: And before we take Kirk in Baltimore, Joyce My Nancy
Speaker 1: wanted to have me ask you a question of all
Speaker 1: the gazillions of movies you have watched and enjoyed. Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to restrict it to one, but give
Speaker 1: me three top favorites.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, again, this is so hard. I mean,
Speaker 2: the first one that comes to mind, obviously is The Godfather.
Speaker 2: Oh you whatever, that's not I just get sucked in.
Speaker 2: In fact, I just watched another one the other night.
Speaker 2: And by the way, I'm remembering that as Marlon Branda
Speaker 2: was sitting there during the wedding behind his desk, as
Speaker 2: various people are coming into, you know, pay homage, et cetera,
Speaker 2: he's stroking a cat. He's playing with the beautiful little
Speaker 2: kitty cat, and it goes on and on and on
Speaker 2: in that scene. I'm just remembering that. No, I don't
Speaker 2: think he ever had a name. Pretty really, yeah, what
Speaker 2: what was what was the cat's name? The cat's name
Speaker 2: was Brando.
Speaker 1: That's what I've heard. The cat's name was Brando.
Speaker 2: Well, that's pretty cool. That's pretty cool. So the Godfather
Speaker 2: is right there. Other films that come to mind right
Speaker 2: away Days of Heaven Early Richard gear film and Terrence
Speaker 2: Malick cinematography, uh and Nsral Mendros, Fanny and Alexander Igmar
Speaker 2: Bergmann phenomenal. And then I like movies that I can
Speaker 2: just watch over and over again whenever they're on. I
Speaker 2: love watching The Fugitive with Harrison Ford as the fugitive,
Speaker 2: doctor Richard Kimball, Tommy Lee Jones after him. They're perfectly matched.
Speaker 2: I love die Hard. I love Sense and Sensibility with
Speaker 2: Kate Winslet and Emma Thompson and Hugh Grant. I love
Speaker 2: Something's Gotta Give with Diane Keaton and Jack Nicholson and
Speaker 2: Keanu Reeves. I mean, there are so many, so many,
Speaker 2: so many, And.
Speaker 1: I like that scene from The Fugitive where he's on
Speaker 1: the act. The fugitive is on the aqueductor and it's
Speaker 1: either arender or jump fifty feet into the water.
Speaker 2: It looks like more than fifty feet. It's crazy. It's
Speaker 2: so crazy.
Speaker 1: I didn't kill my wife, and Jones says Richard, I
Speaker 1: don't care.
Speaker 2: I don't care, which becomes this lightmotif through the entire film,
Speaker 2: right right up to the last scene where they're sitting
Speaker 2: in the car, sitting in the in the police bark.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's take our last call the night. Kirk in
Speaker 1: Baltimore spoke with you a week or so ago. Welcome back, Kirk.
Speaker 3: Oh, good evening, Morgan, Good evening, Joyce. I told you
Speaker 3: I called back for your kiddie show. Mister Vinn. He's
Speaker 3: sitting on the porch right now contemplating his past glories
Speaker 3: when he had upper fangs. But that's anyway. I'll just
Speaker 3: tell you real quick. My mother used to work for
Speaker 3: a vet down here in Maryland, and this is thirty
Speaker 3: years ago. He would not declawe any cats when people
Speaker 3: brought him in he refused.
Speaker 2: I'm so glad to hear it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he was very adamant. And since you like feral cats.
Speaker 3: Real quick. I worked for the CSX. I'm a low
Speaker 3: locomotive engineer and we have yard cats and I take
Speaker 3: care of them, and I've seen them and my and
Speaker 3: when we come back in the evening from our run
Speaker 3: and put the put the engine away, my conductor and
Speaker 3: the yard master called the big cat because they all
Speaker 3: come over to the engine and they wait for me
Speaker 3: to get off of it. Now there's only one I
Speaker 3: can pet, and the rest of them keep their distance,
Speaker 3: but they all wait till the big cat comes over.
Speaker 3: We have dried me out, and I give them a
Speaker 3: cannon wet food at night and they sit there on
Speaker 3: a bench and just relax with them, and they just
Speaker 3: and then they just disappear. But so I do, my little.
Speaker 2: Sweet I love that story. I just love that story.
Speaker 2: And you know, the cat cats are just so well,
Speaker 2: they're they're very subtle, obviously, and they're all quite different
Speaker 2: from each other. But they do like human companionship. But
Speaker 2: they're lone creatures. You know, they're solitary, and I sort
Speaker 2: of admire that about them. They're very independent.
Speaker 1: Kirk. Let me ask you, because i've heard this about
Speaker 1: rail yards, is there a rodent problem that the cats
Speaker 1: kind of keep in check?
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, they handle all the mice. And it's funny.
Speaker 3: We have and we have foxes running around and we
Speaker 3: do Baltimore City, so those foxes are rough.
Speaker 2: Once in a while, I have foxes out here where
Speaker 2: I live, and they're so gorgeous.
Speaker 3: Well, we had a pair when we left out of
Speaker 3: the yard. We have an interlocking, which is a bunch
Speaker 3: of power switches, and there was a mother and I
Speaker 3: guess they call them kits, right, there was three of
Speaker 3: them running around in the springtime, and then a little
Speaker 3: stand out there playing and you're just like, and you
Speaker 3: guys just have a rough I'm feeding the cats. I
Speaker 3: feel sorry for the foxes. I don't know. I got
Speaker 3: to stop them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, don't stop. It's wonderful. It's absolutely wonderful.
Speaker 1: Kirk. Do you know what they call a female fox?
Speaker 3: A vixen?
Speaker 2: Wonderful?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I know, my creatures. But you can just
Speaker 3: refer to me as the big cat in the future.
Speaker 2: You know. It's so funny. Kirk. You have the name
Speaker 2: of the cat next door. They have a cat named Kirk.
Speaker 2: And this cat over to my house all the time,
Speaker 2: and he's an incredible hunter. And my cat, Virgil does
Speaker 2: not like him at all. They sort of, you know,
Speaker 2: they've they've they've managed to keep their distance and kind of,
Speaker 2: you know, tolerate each other. But I think Kirk is
Speaker 2: such a great cat name. But you're the big Kirk.
Speaker 2: You're the big cat.
Speaker 3: Yes, well, thank you, little thing. Now I'll get off
Speaker 3: of here. Mister of Vinnie. He's twenty years old. Great cat.
Speaker 3: Apparently he's going to my new next door neighbor's house
Speaker 3: and he sits on their porch and stairs at their
Speaker 3: cats are in doors, and I'm just like anybody, you
Speaker 3: got to give it up. You're too old, you got
Speaker 3: no fat, You're not going out with anybody he hangs
Speaker 3: out with. They had a black female and they sit
Speaker 3: there and mail through the door, and I'm going, Minnie, this.
Speaker 2: Is you know the door, and but Kirk is determined
Speaker 2: to get into my house. And one day I closed
Speaker 2: the door downstairs and I said, okay, Kirk, that's it, goodbye.
Speaker 2: I go upstairs. I'm gonna jump into the shower. I'm
Speaker 2: in the set and floor and I turn around and
Speaker 2: Kirk is on the roof of my house peaking in
Speaker 2: the second floor window at me.
Speaker 1: I thought, well, now, well, now, Kirk, thank you for I.
Speaker 2: Was standing on but it was that's Kirk, yeah.
Speaker 1: Kirk, yeah, bye you take care, Bye bye bye bye, Joyce.
Speaker 1: I can't thank you enough. Well know what you bring
Speaker 1: to my radio radio shows, whether it's Night Side or
Speaker 1: The Morgan Show. Your contribution is superb.
Speaker 2: And I say, oh, thank you do. I get to
Speaker 2: pitch one more.
Speaker 6: Thing real quick.
Speaker 1: Thirty seconds.
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Speaker 1: The Empress of Entertainment, Joyce Goohey with Joyce, thank you.
Speaker 1: Next up, doctor Rhonda Gooddal talking about helping your kids
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