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Hollywood Darling: Claudia Lonow

Oct 7, 2013

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Oct 7, 2013

C. Brian Smith re-welcomes Claudia Lonow, who starred in Knots Landing, Fantasy Island, and The Love Boat, and wrote/created Rude Awakering, Good Girls Don't, Accidentally on Purpose, and, most recently, ABC's How to Live WIth Your Parents (For The Rest of Your Life.) She is exactly a darling. (Note: 10PM EST)

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C. Brian Smith · 2:00 AM

Welcome to “Hollywood Darlings”! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fElh8TKLiYM
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C. Brian Smith · 2:00 AM

My guest tonight is the fabulous writer, actor and comedienne Claudia Lonow. Hey, Claudia. Watch your step on the way in.
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claudia rapaport · 2:03 AM

is this working?
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claudia rapaport · 2:03 AM

I'm here, is what I'm trying to say
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C. Brian Smith · 2:03 AM

Hooray!
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claudia rapaport · 2:04 AM

Whaddaya wanna know?
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C. Brian Smith · 2:04 AM

First, to the audience, We’re glad you’re here. Speak up. Be active. If comments are “liked” we will see them. if we like them we’ll spotlight them,
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C. Brian Smith · 2:04 AM

and that’s all I got on that.
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claudia rapaport · 2:05 AM

Wouldn't it be awful if nobody came or cared?
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claudia rapaport · 2:05 AM

I mean, I'd get to talk to you, Brian, of course
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C. Brian Smith · 2:05 AM

Well we aren't unaffected by the shutdown, I'm afraid.
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claudia rapaport · 2:05 AM

Really?
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C. Brian Smith · 2:05 AM

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-march-17-2009/rage-in-the-streets
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C. Brian Smith · 2:05 AM

1:05
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claudia rapaport · 2:06 AM

I saw Gravity last night. it's great. I heard a guy on the way out say, "I love Miss Congenialty 3"
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C. Brian Smith · 2:06 AM

I actually went to Gravity solo.
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C. Brian Smith · 2:06 AM

felt weird.
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C. Brian Smith · 2:06 AM

left an hour in.
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claudia rapaport · 2:07 AM

Really. Well, Jonathan and I liked it
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C. Brian Smith · 2:07 AM

I just stopped caring, I guess.
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claudia rapaport · 2:07 AM

Caring is essential
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C. Brian Smith · 2:07 AM

I guess so.
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C. Brian Smith · 2:07 AM

What do you care about?
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claudia rapaport · 2:08 AM

In general?
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C. Brian Smith · 2:08 AM

Sure.
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claudia rapaport · 2:08 AM

Gee, I care about people trying to improve in whatever it is they're trying to do
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claudia rapaport · 2:09 AM

I care about Lauren Hutton's make up line
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claudia rapaport · 2:09 AM

I care about politics
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C. Brian Smith · 2:09 AM

All of that sounds pretty good.
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claudia rapaport · 2:09 AM

I'm in music. Indie, alternative. Comedy. Movies.
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claudia rapaport · 2:09 AM

into music I mean
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C. Brian Smith · 2:09 AM

And in music, if we're being real.
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C. Brian Smith · 2:09 AM

and we're being so real, dear.
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claudia rapaport · 2:10 AM

Well, my music abilities are limited
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C. Brian Smith · 2:10 AM

★ Spotlighted from Jordan Birnbaum

“Gravity was so intense I lost 6 pounds!”

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claudia rapaport · 2:10 AM

I'm alright
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C. Brian Smith · 2:10 AM

They should put that on the poster.
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claudia rapaport · 2:10 AM

I really care about the progress of the characters on Real Housewives of New Jersey. I want them all to be okay
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C. Brian Smith · 2:11 AM

Do you think that's possible?
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claudia rapaport · 2:11 AM

I like to think everyone will be okay
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C. Brian Smith · 2:11 AM

So, I wrote a story last year about great moments in sitcom history to which you contributed. http://www.getkempt.com/whats-what/great-moments-in-sitcom-history-a-eulogy-part-1-of-5.php I wanted to revisit a couple moments that you brought up.
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claudia rapaport · 2:11 AM

Sure
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C. Brian Smith · 2:12 AM

One of your responses was: “Mork’s first appearance on Happy Days. But maybe that’s just because Robin Williams had been sleeping on my floor for a month.”
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claudia rapaport · 2:12 AM

Yeah, true
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C. Brian Smith · 2:12 AM

Without getting to EXTRA on you, can you explain?
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claudia rapaport · 2:12 AM

Sure. Elayne Boosler was my mom's best friend when we lived in New York.
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claudia rapaport · 2:13 AM

I don't remember why, but she lived with us for awhile
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claudia rapaport · 2:13 AM

I remember her clothes were mostly camel colored. Like she had so many camel colored shirt.
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claudia rapaport · 2:13 AM

shirts
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claudia rapaport · 2:13 AM

and she was great at blowdrying her hair. Anyway, she had a relationship with Robin, so he lived with us, too.
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C. Brian Smith · 2:14 AM

that's such a strange color for everything to be
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claudia rapaport · 2:14 AM

Shortly afterward he got laugh in, and Elayne learned he was actually engaged to another woman in LA
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claudia rapaport · 2:14 AM

Who he married
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claudia rapaport · 2:14 AM

I know, camel. Beige. I mean, I thought it was very classy.
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C. Brian Smith · 2:14 AM

oooh. so you were in the soup
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claudia rapaport · 2:14 AM

I was pretty young, so I was just, like, "huh."
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C. Brian Smith · 2:15 AM

did you have any trouble with his back hair clogging up the drains?
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claudia rapaport · 2:15 AM

Noooooo. That's bad.
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claudia rapaport · 2:15 AM

Though he is hairy
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C. Brian Smith · 2:15 AM

he sure is. and back on TV this week.
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C. Brian Smith · 2:15 AM

we wish him the best.
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claudia rapaport · 2:16 AM

The show I'm working on is opposite his show. Life, huh?
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C. Brian Smith · 2:16 AM

How about that!
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claudia rapaport · 2:16 AM

I read the interview you guys did with Amy Holmes. That was good!
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C. Brian Smith · 2:16 AM

Speaking of TV, let's talk about something else you mentioned in my story.
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claudia rapaport · 2:16 AM

oh, okay. soure
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C. Brian Smith · 2:17 AM

you said Friends season 4 ending was the best ever. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOZ7gdvOE6w
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claudia rapaport · 2:17 AM

Oh yeah that was awesome
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claudia rapaport · 2:18 AM

I remember it. I think I was watching it with my stepdaughter, and we were like, "oh snap." (Can I curse on this?)
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C. Brian Smith · 2:18 AM

and I asked Greg Malins, who was the showrunner then, about it, and he said: we knew that Ross was going to marry that British girl Emily in the season finale
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C. Brian Smith · 2:18 AM

but we had no idea how it was going to end. Should Rachel stop the wedding? Should he stop it? Should Chandler and Joey talk him out of it?
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C. Brian Smith · 2:18 AM

We were filming an episode a few weeks before and Ross had a scene where he was supposed to come into the apartment and say something like, “The cab is waiting downstairs, Emily.”
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C. Brian Smith · 2:19 AM

But David mistakenly said, “The cab is waiting downstairs, Rachel.” I realized that’s what should happen in the finale: Ross should mistakenly say, “I take thee, Rachel” instead of “Emily.”
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claudia rapaport · 2:19 AM

It's so awesome
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C. Brian Smith · 2:19 AM

Interesting how shit like that works, I think.
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claudia rapaport · 2:19 AM

I remember people would talk smack about that show, so I didn't want to admit how much I loved it. But I loved it, and I still love it when I watch it now
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claudia rapaport · 2:20 AM

Shit like that happens all the time in shows. Especially when they've been going for awhile and the writers really know the characters.
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C. Brian Smith · 2:20 AM

i love that you love it.
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C. Brian Smith · 2:20 AM

i get the sense you guys were there with your last show
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C. Brian Smith · 2:21 AM

"How to Live with Your Parents" (for the rest of your life)
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claudia rapaport · 2:21 AM

Oh God, I loved that show so much. I'm still so fucking mad.
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C. Brian Smith · 2:21 AM

Let’s have a quick look. nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASJTh-qQbag.
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C. Brian Smith · 2:21 AM

It really was a great show.
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C. Brian Smith · 2:21 AM

regarding the parents (played by Elizabeth Perkins and Brad Garret), I love that while they were certainly wacky and… some might say parentally inept, there was a ton of love there.
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claudia rapaport · 2:22 AM

I know!
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C. Brian Smith · 2:22 AM

Any unexpected fallout from writing about your family?
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claudia rapaport · 2:23 AM

Uh... they loved it. I mean, they still people they're the parents. They loved it so much, that the unexpected fall out for me was how sad I was that they weren't going to be on tv anymore
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claudia rapaport · 2:23 AM

sorry, they still tell people they're the parents
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C. Brian Smith · 2:23 AM

That's really great.
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C. Brian Smith · 2:24 AM

How do you deal with the anger after something like that happens?
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claudia rapaport · 2:24 AM

I am still sad about that. I worked so long on that area, and it was so awesome to finally get to do it. I'm trying to think of other ways to do it now. Maybe a feature. But, like, that's a lot of work.
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claudia rapaport · 2:25 AM

Honestly, it's very difficult. I try to focus on other projects. And, I mean, show business is very tough.
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C. Brian Smith · 2:25 AM

I mean, it's hard for all of us.
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C. Brian Smith · 2:25 AM

So tell me what you're focused on now.
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claudia rapaport · 2:26 AM

Yeah, it's ridiculous. You have to focus on what you can control, but I'm only human and sometimes I get sad about it.
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C. Brian Smith · 2:26 AM

That's where the Serenity Prayer wins.
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claudia rapaport · 2:27 AM

Oh yeah.
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claudia rapaport · 2:27 AM

Seriously, I can't make sense about it
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C. Brian Smith · 2:27 AM

Here's something you can make sense of...
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C. Brian Smith · 2:28 AM

You were 16 years old when you joined the cast of a Dallas spinoff called Knots Landing, Knotts Landing
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claudia rapaport · 2:28 AM

Yes I was
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claudia rapaport · 2:28 AM

The pilot of that was my 2nd job
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C. Brian Smith · 2:28 AM

Just one "Knotts Landing"
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claudia rapaport · 2:28 AM

Just one T
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C. Brian Smith · 2:29 AM

You know me and my spelling prowess
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claudia rapaport · 2:29 AM

ha
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C. Brian Smith · 2:29 AM

Am I write you were 16?
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C. Brian Smith · 2:29 AM

right
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C. Brian Smith · 2:29 AM

ha!
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C. Brian Smith · 2:29 AM

homonyms are the worst
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claudia rapaport · 2:30 AM

whaddaya wanna know about knots? is this a big flop cause no one is here?
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C. Brian Smith · 2:31 AM

Yeah, I'm gonna put a sock in this one, and suggest we find another time. maybe jordan can suggest one that has better traffic.
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C. Brian Smith · 2:31 AM

that fits with your work sched
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claudia rapaport · 2:31 AM

okay. love you. i'm ordering dinner
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C. Brian Smith · 2:31 AM

(and mine - i have my first day of work tomorrow)
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C. Brian Smith · 2:31 AM

kookoo roo?
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claudia rapaport · 2:32 AM

pace
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C. Brian Smith · 2:32 AM

fancy
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claudia rapaport · 2:32 AM

eh, it's close
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C. Brian Smith · 2:32 AM

i'm flying in october 31
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C. Brian Smith · 2:32 AM

and i'm back for good
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claudia rapaport · 2:32 AM

awesome!
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C. Brian Smith · 2:32 AM

it will be so wonderful to see you.
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C. Brian Smith · 2:32 AM

ok stay tuned on take three
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claudia rapaport · 2:32 AM

can't wait to see you. and for you to see my new place... though i probably won't move in till november
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claudia rapaport · 2:33 AM

bye qt
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C. Brian Smith · 2:33 AM

yay!