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E41 - Ava Roosevelt

Miss D and Ava discuss her start in Poland at a convent before being discovered and having success as a model. During her modeling career, she became friends with Roman Polanski, Sharon Tate, and their friends when she moved to L.A. and was supposed to be with them on the night of the Manson Family massacre. They cover her working for a company vetting people for banks and writing her novel, The Racing Heart, which is available now.

www.TheRacingHeart.com

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E40 - Francois Dubouays, Part 1

Part 1:
Miss D and Francois discuss how he fell in love with Latin American and African music. They cover his collection of 50,000 CDs, listen to a number of African songs, and analyze how social and political circumstances influenced the music throughout the continent.

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E39 - Roberto Monticello

Miss D and Roberto discuss his start in Cuba with his Mother as a dancer from Spain and his Father as a circus performer. After going to theater school in Cuba, he was sent to a rehabilitation camp for protesting the government’s round-up of his gay friends, escaped while he was harvesting sugarcane, and swam to Guantanamo Bay, gaining his freedom. They cover his rise to success in filmmaking, being called the Mayor of the Meatpacking District, and his many humanitarian efforts.
www.RobertoMonticello.com

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E38 - Prince Dimitri De Yougoslavie

Miss D and Prince Dimitri discuss his royal background with his Mother as the eldest daughter of the King and Queen of Italy and his Father as the son of the Prince Regent of Yugoslavia and the Princess of Greece and Denmark.

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E37 - Catherine Hart

Miss D and Catherine discuss her background as a “recovering” lawyer before creating SkinnyJeans. The start of her fashion career was trial and error but eventually she discovered a way to create slimming blue jeans.

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E36 - Polly Onet

Miss D and Polly discuss her background in college throwing parties which led to her interest in event planning. In college, before being sent to Katharine Gibbs College, she was nicknamed Polly Plan-a-Party.

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E35 - Greg Arnold

Miss D and Greg, discuss his background as a keyboard player for Diana Ross and many 80’s bands before moving into composing television, film, and commercials.

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E34 - Philippe Bigar

Miss D and Philippe, discuss his background in marketing backgammon and a board game called Petropolis, which was similar to Monopoly. The start of his music career was at Juilliard.

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E33 - Cole Rumbough

Miss D and Cole, discuss his family’s background in music and how that led to his music career. His start was in the Second Congregational Church in Greenwich, Connecticut (where he grew up) and he traveled all over Europe performing with them.

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E32 - Amy Rivard

Miss D and Amy, discuss her songs and music which she writes and performs. Her start was in musical theatre with “Riverdance” and “Camelot.”

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E31 - Karen Moody Tompkins

Miss D and Karen, discuss her art which reflects the infinite cosmos in which we are all connected. Her subject matter includes the 118 elements of the periodic table, the Messier Catalogue, Galileo and sun spots.

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E30 - Christophe von Hohenberg

Miss D and Christophe discuss photographing Andy Warhol’s funeral - published in his book “Andy Warhol: The Day The Factory Died.” They reminisce on New York’s wild side captured in his book “Another Planet: New York Portraits 1976-1996.”

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E29 - Ty Jeffries

Miss D and Ty, composer and cabaret performer, discuss his writing at 5, 1st publishing deal at 16 and signing to Rocket Music (Elton John’s label) in his mid-20’s. His parents were actors (father was Lionel Jeffries) and his grandparents were musicians.

Tells story about rise to fame, his father’s film career, Peggy Lee, and more.
Twitter: @tyjeffriesmusic

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E28 - John Rendall

Miss D & John Rendall discuss how he and Anthony “Ace” Bourke purchased Christian the Lion, a 3-month old lion, from Harrod’s Zoo Department in 1969 for 250 guineas, who lived beneath their pine furniture store. The story would later become a book entitled "A Lion Called Christian: The True Story of the Remarkable Bond Between Two Friends and a Lion".

Creators of Born Free contacted George Adamson to reform him for the wild and re-release into Kenya. The documentary called "Christian the Lion" had 50 million viewers. George successfully rehabilitated Christian and he still has lions with his lineage out there.

Created the George Adamson National Preserve.
www.GeorgeAdamson.org

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E27 - Melinda Hughes

Melinda is an opera singer and performer with a wide range of voices (Soprano). Miss D and Melinda discuss her studying voice in Holland and upon graduation she was employed by AndréRieu to tour around Europe. She played leads in Madame Butterfly, Aida, and more.

Melinda performs “Please Don’t Invite Me To Your Country Estate,” “Where Flamingoes Fly” and “Take Me Home."

Performing at Crazy Coqs on November 9th (www.brasseriezedel.com).

Started a Berlin Cabaret (www.kissandtellcabaret.com).

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E26 - Miss Hope Springs

Miss Hope Springs sings “A Seedy Little Nightclub in Pigalle,” “Show Off Your Assets,” “Devil Made Me Do It” and “Carnival" live for Miss D. Catch her at Wilton’s Music Hall - August 9-11th, 2016.

CDs are available on her website.
www.MissHopeSprings.com

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E25 - Victoria Fisher

Miss D and Victoria discuss working with Freddie at "Freddie’s Flowers" (company delivers flowers weekly for 20 pounds a week) and designing and sending flowers all over the UK.
www.FreddiesFlowers.com

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E24 - Amy Minty

Miss D and Amy, an erotic fiction author, discuss female power, controversy, male readers, novels ("For Better or Money," "For Love or Sanity," "Sink or Swim" - all 3 books are in a series of the same protagonist’s life), being a bartender, magazine views on spicing up your marriage, playsuits, where you can buy her books, and old cliches.
www.AmyMinty.com

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E23 - Kay Gilman

Miss D and Kay discuss growing up with her father owning the New York Jets, her book "Inside the Pressure Cooker: A Season in the Life of the New York Jets," working with Asbury Park Press, being the first woman writer at The Daily News and Vogue, interviewing Evel Knievel, Billie Jean King, Joe Namath, and Joe Frazier, women in sports, her book "The Savvy
Woman’s Success Bible" (with co-author Tina Flaherty), her company Hemming and Gilman, Alzheimer’s, Football Players, female sportswriters today, and heavyweight boxers.

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E22 - Dale Coudert

Miss D and Dale discuss helping women, Mad Men, Russia and her quest for women’s rights, forming Seeds of Peace with John Wallach, Palm Beach, working at the Aspen Institute and Metropolitan Institute of Art, the Coudert Institute, bringing people together to discuss serious issues and Cuba. Finally a joke about a man wanting to win the lottery and praying.
www.CoudertInstitute.org

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