Lynne Bernfield: psychotherapist / author / consultant / speaker / musician / performer and media artist

10-4-11 Re-broadcast of Interview with Dick Smothers – Part 1

While I am in New York doing follow up interviews with the Cast and Creative Team of Bonnie and Clyde the Musical – which opens on Broadway December 2, 2011. I am re-broadcasting two of my favorite shows, both with the delightful Dickie Smothers. At the beginning of both shows I am talking about Brain Chemistry and how the chemicals our brain drops into our blood stream, cause us to think, feel and act in ways which, while once appropriate, even self-defensive, may have now become counterproductive. And what we can do about it.

September 15, 2009

Discussion – In this show I am recapping the concepts of Cover Story and Undercover. Also I am talking about the gift of denial and how it protects us from information about ourselves which we are not yet capable of enduring.

Interview – with actor, comedian, independent film maker Robert Mann, who discovered the magic of, and actually appeared in a film at 8 years old (at least his feet appeared), when he accompanied his mother to the film set of a director she was dating. Hear how he spent virtually every waking minute of his childhood experimenting with film, and how he pulled off his first independent horror film “Pumpkin Man,” and he may now actually be beginning to make money.

May 12, 2009

I continue the discussion on Modeling this time talking about the potential down-side of Modeling the same sex parent, and interview Los Angeles bases actor, comedian, screenwriter, independent film producer and director Robert Mann.

February 17, 2009

I continue to describe the impact of brain chemistry on beliefs and behaviors. And air the second half of my interview with the delightful Dickie Smothers in which he talks about the surprising and unexpected rise to stardom of the unlikely Smothers Brothers.

February 10, 2009

In this show I begin to talk about the brain – the world’s best labor saving device – and how the chemicals dropped by the brain into the bloodstream affect what we believe and what we do. Then I air the first half of my interview with Dickie Smothers in which he talks about his early life, how his brother Tommy was always putting on shows.