Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth Interview with Susan Anton, Renowned TV, Screen Star & Recording Artist.
Susan Anton is a highly popular, multi-talented international star who’s been dazzling audiences for over 4 decades in television, film, theater, recordings and concert venues.
She received a Golden Globe nomination for her very first performance in a feature film, “Golden Girl”, followed by “Spring Fever”, “Cannonball Run 2”, “Lena’s Holiday”, “New Jersey Turnpikes”, “Playing With Fire”, “Painter”, and many more. On television, she’s hosted 2 variety shows, “Presenting Susan Anton”, and “Mel & Susan Together”, co-starring Mel Tillis, earning her a Photoplay Award nomination in 1979 for Favorite Variety Star, and Time Magazine named her one of the most promising faces of 1979.
She’s appeared in hundreds of TV shows and movies over the years including “The Great American Beauty Contest”, “The Girl Who Saved the World”, “Stop Susan Williams”, “Hotel”, “Quantum Leap”, “Baywatch”, “Law & Order: SVU”, “Family Friends”, and many more – not to mention her dozens of appearances on every major awards show, variety show and talk show. On Broadway, she appeared in “Hurlyburly” and “The Will Rogers Follies”, and she’s also starred onstage in “All Shook Up”, “Hairspray”, “They’re Playing Our Song”, and the hilarious comedy, “A Couple-a-White Chicks Sitting Around Talking”.
And for 7 years, she starred in the The Great Radio City Music Hall Spectacular with the legendary Rockettes in Las Vegas. As a recording artist, she had a top 10 country hit with her song “Killing Time”, and a Gold record for her hit, “Foxy”.
She has shared the stage with dozens of legendary entertainers including Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Tom Jones, Lou Rawls, Placido Domingo and many more. And she toured with country super star Kenny Rogers. Our guest is also a successful producer.
She and her husband, director Jeff Lester, have a production company, Big Picture Studios, which has brought us some great award-winning films, including “The Last Real Cowboys”, starring Billy Bob Thornton, and the documentary “Speed of Life”. And if all of that weren’t enough, our guest also hosted a wonderful talk show on Retro TV called “Idol Chat”, which reunited cast members from classic films, TV shows and music.
She has also been a strong supporter of the She Angels Foundation, which consists of a panel of successful businesswomen who finance and mentor female entrepreneurs to launch their unique ideas into the business world.
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.
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