September 9, 2018 - JOHN PLESHETTE ("Knots Landing," "Curb Your Enthusiasm") and TED MONTE (actor)

Summary: JOHN PLESHETTE, star of "Knots Landing," "Murder One" and "Curb Your Enthusiasm," is our featured guest this Sunday night! JOHN is best-known for his role as Richard Avery in "Knots Landing," but he's most proud of his Oswald in the 4-hour ABC mini-series "The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald;" for his Gary Blondo on two seasons of "Murder One," and as Larry's thong-wearing shrink on "Curb Your Enthusiasm." Although he is most familiar to audiences for his work on film and television, his first love was theatre. Before moving to Hollywood in 1975, he spent ten years in New York, appearing Off-Broadway with Marsha Mason in "It's Called the Sugar Plum" by Israel Horovitz; with Stacey Keach and William Devane in "MacBird!," in "The Revue" at the Manhattan Theatre Club; "Love's Labour's Lost," "Measure for Measure" and "Richard III" with Shakespeare in the Park, and on Broadway in "The Zulu and the Zayda" with Menasha Skulnik; as Dustin Hoffman's standby in Murray Schisgal's "Jimmy Shine" and a starring role in the ill-fated "Leda Had a Little Swan." JOHN is now appearing at the Matrix Theatre in the play "Jews, Christians and Screwing Stalin," part of an ensemble cast of an outrageous new comedy inspired by a true story about "family dysfunction, atonement and matzo balls." Also dropping by the show Sunday night is TED MONTE, actor, producer and writer. TED's feature film work includes direction from Jonathan Demme, David Mamet and James Ponsoldt. He has worked in films with Jodie Foster, Alison Janney, Cuba Gooding Jr., Christian Slater, Roddy McDowall, Joe Mantegna, Paul Sorvino and Tom Berringer. In television, he has worked with J.J. Abrams: Undercovers, The Young and the Restless, Melrose Place, Homicide: Life in the Streets and numerous Lifetime TV and SyFy movies of the week, including the indie hit Circus Kane. His stage credits include performances at Lincoln Center, the National Theatre in D.C and off-Broadway. TED is currently the starring in the world premiere of "Infidel," a suspense thriller that explores religious superstition and terrorism in the name of Islam versus unscrupulous Western imperialism and war mongering, at the Whitefire Theatre. TED plays John Norton, a specialist in early literature and writing whose purchase of an ancient Sumerian clay tablet from the Baghdad Museum is interrupted by the appearance of Islamic extremists.