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Legendary Actor Barry Bostwick Guests On Harvey Brownstone Interviews 

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Barry Bostwick is a legendary actor who has brought us dozens of unforgettable performances in a career spanning over 5 decades. 

On Broadway, Barry Bostwick originated the role of “Danny Zuko” in “Grease”, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. He got another Tony Award nomination for his performance in “They Knew What They Wanted”, and he WON a Tony Award and got a Drama Desk Award nomination for his performance in “The Robber Bridegroom”. He also appeared on Broadway in “Cock-a-Doodle Dandy”, “Hamlet”, “Soon” and “Nick & Nora”, and he starred in the national tour of “The Pirates of Penzance”. 

On the big screen, while it is certainly true that Barry Bostwick will forever be immortalized as Susan Sarandon’s straight-laced, all-American boyfriend “Brad” in “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”, there can be no question that his talent, versatility and diverse body of work extend FAR beyond that one phenomenally successful cult classic movie. His many other movie credits include “Megaforce”, “Weekend at Bernie’s 2”, “Project: Metalbeast”, “Spy Hard”, “Evening”, “Holiday Baggage”, “Bedrooms”, “Finding Joy”, “The Field”, and of course, “Movie Movie”, for which he was nominated for a National Society of Film Critics Award and a New York Film Critics Circle Award. 

On television, we all remember Barry Bostwick as the childish, vain and outrageously inept mayor “Randall Winston” in the classic TV sitcom, “Spin City”. He’s also appeared in many other iconic TV shows like “Charlie’s Angels”, “Hawaii Five-O”, “Foul Play”, “Scrubs”, “Ugly Betty”, “Ghost Whisperer”, “Nip Tuck”, “Glee”, “Hot in Cleveland”, and he’s had recurring roles in numerous shows like “Law & Order: SVU”, “Cougar Town”, “Research”, “Inside the Extras Studio”, “Still the King”, “Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce” and “The Potwins”. 

He’s also starred in dozens of great TV movies and miniseries including “The Quinns”, “You Can’t Take it With You”, “Scruples”, “Red Flag: The Ultimate Game”, “George Washington”, “A Woman of Substance”, “Till We Meet Again”, “The Last U-Boat”, “Depth Charge”, “A Christmas Miracle”, and last but certainly not least, the multi-award winning miniseries “War and Remembrance”, for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor in a historic TIE with his co-star Sir John Gielgud. 

Harvey Brownstone is a retired judge of the Ontario Court of Justice and was the first openly gay judge in Canada. He is also the bestselling author of “Tug of War: A Judge’s Verdict on Separation, Custody Battles and the Bitter Realities of Family Court” and hosted “Family Matters with Justice Harvey Brownstone,” a television talk show on matters involving the family justice system.

​After a distinguished legal career, Harvey was appointed a judge at the age of 38 in 1995.  He has presided in family and criminal courts.   He has been a trailblazer in several ways.  He was the first openly gay judge in Canada.  He was the first sitting judge in the world to write a national best seller and to host a TV talk show.  

​Harvey has been a role model and icon in the LGBTQ community.  When same-sex marriage was legalized in Canada in 2003, he was the only judge to make himself publicly available to officiate at weddings for lesbian and gay couples travelling to Toronto from all over the world to get married.  In 2007, he officiated at the wedding of Edith Windsor and Thea Spyer, the American couple whose marriage triggered the 2013 United States Supreme Court decision overturning the definition of “spouse” in the federal Defense of Marriage Act.  

​In February 2021, Harvey launched his online talk show “Harvey Brownstone Interviews” on his own YouTube channel. He saw this as an interesting hobby.   Within several months, the show attracted hundreds of thousands – and then eventually, millions – of viewers.  Because of the overwhelming success of the show, Harvey decided to retire from the judiciary on December 31, 2021 after having presided as a full-time judge for 26 1/2 years.  Free from the constraints imposed upon judges regarding the expression of opinions and the endorsement of private enterprise, Harvey now happily devotes his full-time attention to hosting “Harvey Brownstone Interviews” as a regular member of the public – albeit one with a rather illustrious and unique career history.  

Watch Barry Bostwick on Harvey Brownstone Interviews on Youtube here: 

The official website for Harvey Brownstone Interviews may be found at https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com

Get “The Talk Show Blend” – Coffee For The Modern Day Trailblazer! By Harvey Brownstone from Breakfast At Dominique’s available at https://www.HollywoodBlends.com

For more information about Harvey Brownstone, here’s his Wikipedia page: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Brownstone

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2AP – Two Alien Planets Find Beauty in the Noise with “Sweet Harmony”

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What if the world isn’t too loud… what if it’s just your head?

Brno-based duo 2AP – Two Alien Planets tackle that familiar feeling in their new single “Sweet Harmony”: a warm, guitar-driven alternative track about finding your way back to the present when your mind refuses to switch off.

It starts with a bright guitar riff and Lenka K.’s airy soprano, sounding almost like a breath of fresh air. Then the song begins to expand. Guitars gather momentum, the rhythm lifts, and Jarek H.’s warm baritone joins the picture.

By the final chorus, it’s no longer one voice trying to quiet the noise. It’s two voices finding their way through it together.

And that’s where “Sweet Harmony” really hits.

The lyrics balance simple, beautiful things — wind, sunshine, rain, a strand of hair in the breeze — against a much less peaceful inner landscape: a “stormy brain,” angry birds and snakes of grief.

There are no wellness clichés here. No promise that everything suddenly becomes fine.

Instead, the song suggests something more realistic: maybe the beauty is already there. We just have to hear it.

Musically, 2AP blend the melodic warmth of alternative pop-rock with a cinematic indie atmosphere. It’s dreamy without drifting away, emotional without becoming gloomy, and driven by the chemistry between Lenka’s soprano and Jarek’s baritone.

Think 90s/2000s alternative warmth meeting contemporary indie songwriting, with enough guitar to keep things moving and enough space to let the lyrics breathe.

The artwork captures the same tension: warm flowers behind a dark fence. Beauty on one side. Something getting in the way on the other.

“Sweet Harmony” doesn’t ask you to tear the fence down.

It just asks you to look through it.

3:42 of dreamy guitars, two voices, and one very restless brain.

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