Carol Channing; Peter Sellers
Carol Channing
Larry Mantle talks with Carol Channing about her new memoir Just Lucky I Guess: A Memoir of Sorts (Simon & Schuster). In it, Channing highlights her illustrious career, delving into her personal life as well as some of the setbacks that she has encountered along the way. Channing’s many starring roles include “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,” “Hello Dolly,” as well as her film appearance in “Thoroughly Modern Millie” that earned her an Academy Award nomination.
Peter Sellers
He has been called one of the few comic geniuses of the 20th century. Fellow actors found Sellers so funny, they often had difficulty finishing scenes without bursting into fits of laughter. Yet he had a sad, strange and deeply troubled personal life, one few people knew about, and even fewer understood. Larry talks with author Ed Sikov about his new, exhaustively-researched biography of Peter Sellers, Mr. Strangelove: A Biography of Peter Sellers. (Hyperion).