The Collection with Brad Gilmore

Greg Grunberg

Although he is the first to admit that much of his success is due to his longtime friendship with writer/director/producer J.J. Abrams — who cast Grunberg in plum roles on Felicity and Alias — this lovable actor is no slouch on his own. After studying business in college, Grunberg founded a successful frozen-yogurt business and assisted film producers Dino De Laurentiis and Joel Silver before segueing into acting. The quintessential Average Joe, he quickly landed TV guest spots, small film roles and a number of commercials, often portraying blue-collar guys. But his kindergarten pal Abrams lifted him out of the ranks of no-name players by writing him a role as a sarcastic inventor on Felicity. 2001 found Grunberg briefly appearing on two Abrams shows simultaneously, when he took on a recurring part as a CIA field agent on Alias in addition to his Felicity duties. Although TV remained his primary medium, he popped up in small film roles, notably the Abrams-directed Mission: Impossible III. In 2006 he snagged his highest-profile role to date as a hapless cop who can read minds on Heroes. But Grunberg has proven that his talents aren't limited to the screen. He plays in the charity-benefiting music act Band From TV, which features a star-studded lineup including Hugh Laurie, James Denton, Bob Gulney, Jesse Spencer, Adrian Pasdar and Scott Grimes. Though the band raises money for an array of causes, Grunberg is primarily involved in epilepsy research as his oldest son, Jake, has the disorder. He also created talkaboutit.org, a website to raise awareness for epilepsy and featuring several celebrity videos, and organizes frequent benefits and fund-raisers.

Cameron Douglas

LONG WAY HOME (on-sale October 22nd) is remarkable for its candor about growing up in a Hollywood royal family and for the unflinching portrait of a life lost to both addiction and crime. Kirkus Reviews calls Cameron Douglas’s book “consistently unadorned…an affecting memoir of crime and punishment…a tale full of horrors and redemption and an ideal text for scaring at-risk youth straight.”
 
Cameron is the son of Michael Douglas and grandson of Kirk Douglas. Theirs was like any other family, except Cameron’s mom, Diandra, had a menagerie of strange pets including a semi-leopard that would pounce on visitors and a monkey that would steal car keys and cigarettes. Also, Cameron’ s dad was perhaps the greatest movie star of his era (Cameron’s first exposure to fame was being slung naked over Michael’s shoulder on the cover of Rolling Stone). This book is infused with jet-setting players and far-flung locales – Jack Nicholson, Jann Wenner, Sean Lennon, Mallorca, Hollywood, and New York – and the accompanying lifestyle. What could go possibly wrong?
 
A lot, as it turns out. Cameron was sent to boarding school, where he was expelled for drugs. This caused friction at home. His father became distant and cut off funds. Cameron began moving in questionable crowds. He started using drugs (injecting cocaine and later heroin). He struggled with addiction that resulted in multiple overdoses. He started stealing to feed his addiction. He bought a glock, taught himself how to use it, and then started to deal. This was not going to end well. His father wrote him off because he thought Cameron was going to die from an overdose or be killed by a cartel. Luckily for Cameron, he got busted before either outcome. Not by the cops. But by the DEA. He writes about the time he spent behind bars (seven years, two of which were spent in solitary confinement), the pressure to snitch (he didn’t), and what life was like in prison (turns out there is sex and drugs and even lobster, just like life on the outside). But it’s also a violent place – a kill-or-be-killed environment. Would he ever make it out? More importantly, would he ever be welcomed home?
 

Jamie Kennedy

Jamie Kennedy became interested in acting at the age of 15, and appeared in a movie for the first time at age 19, as an extra in Dead Poets Society. His first role in a movie was as Brad in the film Road to Flin Flon, which was filmed in the early 1990s but was not released until spring 2000. He is most popular for playing the role of the movie buff, geeky Randy Meeks, in Scream, Scream 2, and Scream 3. In 1998, he won a Blockbuster Award for Best Supporting Actor in a horror movie for his role as Randy Meeks in Scream 2.
 
Brad talks with Jaime about the new film, TRICK. On Halloween night in 2015, Patrick “Trick” Weaver massacred his classmates at a costume party. After being arrested, he managed to escape police custody, but not before being shot five times by Detective Mike Denver (Epps). Everyone believes Trick must be dead, but when a masked killer reappears the following Halloween, and every Halloween after that, they realize the nightmare is not over. With Trick wreaking havoc and killing innocent people in increasingly terrifying ways, Denver will stop at nothing to finish what he started and bring the carnage to an end.
 

Crispin Glover

Crispin Glover is known for portraying eccentric characters on screen, such as George McFly in Back to the Future (1985), Layne in River's Edge (1986), Bobby McBurney in What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993), the Thin Man in Charlie's Angels (2000) and its sequel (2003), Willard Stiles in the Willard (2003), Grendel in Beowulf (2007), Phil Wedmaier in Hot Tub Time Machine (2010) and The Knave of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland (2010). He currently stars in the Starz television series American Gods (2017–) as Mr. World
 
From writer/director Roger Avary, the Oscar®-winning writer of Pulp Fiction and Killing Zoe, comes Lucky Day, an explosive crime saga about a paroled safe-cracker and his family confronting a psychotic hit-man out for revenge. Lucky Day stars Luke Bracey, Nina Dobrev and Crispin Glover and will be playing in select theaters and everywhere On Demand on Friday, October 11 from Lionsgate.
 
 

Lola Monroe

Rapper, TV Star and Model Lola Monroe joins Brad Gilmore on the show to talk about her new record "Blah Blah", her transition from modeling into MCing, how LO$ has pushed her to be the best rapper, her top 5 all-time, being a mother and more!

"Mr. Feeny" William Daniels

Eric Zala of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation'

Today marks the return of The Brad Gilmore Show! Brad welcomes Eric Zala of Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation. In 1982, in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, Chris Strompolos, eleven, asked Eric Zala, twelve, a question: “Would you like to help me do a remake Raiders of the Lost Ark?  I'm playing Indiana Jones.” And they did it. Every shot, every line of dialogue, every stunt. They borrowed and collected costumes, convinced neighborhood kids to wear grass skirts and play natives, cast a fifteen-year-old as Indys love interest, rounded up seven thousand snakes (sort of), built the Ark, the Idol, the huge boulder, found a desert in Mississippi, and melted the bad guys faces off.
 
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Mike "The Truth" Jackson

Mike Jackson versus CM Punk