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Whatever happened to Kelly McGillis? She tells host Robin Milling that she took time off for her life to raise her children, maintain her personal sobriety and give back to others in her 'real job.' “I work at a drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility, Seabrook House in New Jersey. I interviewed for a job and they hired me. It makes me feel as if I'm genuinely being of service to others. I feel as if I have the potential to help others in a way that I don't have acting. Some people say, 'I'm talking to a movie star,' but I always remind them that's not why I'm there. I have a very clear boundary about that. I'm not there to talk about my work. I'm there to talk about recovery and help them stand in their integrity and their recovery.” As for her acting job, Kelly is currently starring in the zombie vampire flick, Stake Land.

Eric Schaeffer joins Robin Milling from his home in New York City to talk about his latest film, 'They're Out of the Business,' the long-awaited sequel to 'My Life's In Turnaround.' Pretty much an open book, Schaeffer shares what makes him tick personally which ultimately makes it's way into his movies such as his addiction to desserts, facing mid-life and relationship crisis, and what really happened when the cameras weren't watching in his road series, 'I Can't Believe I'm Still Single.'

Broadway star Maxwell Caulfield, currently starring in Cactus Flower at The Westside Theater in New York joins host Robin Milling backstage. Caulfield steps in as the playboy dentist made famous by Walter Matthau on the big screen, 'taking full advantage of the ladies in his chair.' Speaking of furniture, Caulfield recalls a table collapsing during a performance almost onto an unsuspecting audience member. The former Grease 2 star also reveals his younger years as a go go dancer!

Broadway star Robert Cuccioli stars in the musical revue Jacque Brel Returns at the Triad Theater in New York. Cuccioli joins host Robin Milling backstage to discuss performing the songs of Brel and other musical projects in the works including Cutman:A Boxing Musical.

Battle: Los Angeles stars Aaron Eckhart and Michelle Rodriguez join host Robin Milling to talk about Battle Boot Camp and how they got themselves into high gear to kick alien butt. Both stars say they sacrificed their aching bodies for the film. Eckhart tells Milling he broke his arm but didn't stop shooting. "I had to keep going because one if I was gonna break my arm I wanted it to be in the movie so I said, 'don't cut.' The second reason is it was for the character. I play a staff Sargent so I didn't tell anybody for a couple of days and then went to the doctor after work and they didn't put a cast on it or anything and it still works. It's healed but I couldn't afford to have it in a cast because I had to use it for towing around the weapon. The movie business is such a machine that you really can't afford to lose momentum. If they ask me again, I'll be waiting by the phone."

When Walking Dead star Andrew Lincoln is not blasting the heads off zombies, he is relaxing at home tinkling the ivories with his wife Gael, who also happens to be the daughter of Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson. Lincoln tells host Robin Milling of his rock star connections. "Actually Apple Martin was our flower girl and it was a lovely wedding (June 2006). I mean it does sound a bit Hello magazine but it's not like that. My wife Gael is good friends with the guys (in Coldplay) and so they were contacts. It's not like this some strange celebrity thing. I have old school friends as does my wife but we're sort of very quiet really. He (Ian Anderson) is extraordinary and a great guy and an amazing self-taught talented man. He's still touring. I'd like to think I'm musical but you'd have to ask my wife that! Sometimes I get behind a piano and think I'm Elton John."

Scott Cohen, currently starring with Oscar winner Natalie Portman in The Other Woman joins host Robin Milling for lunch and conversation at 12 Chairs in New York City. Cohen talks about how he landed the plum breakout role of Portman's hubby and his upcoming star turn in the USA Network summer series Necessary Roughness co-starring Rescue Me's Callie Thorne.

Soulful singer-songwriter Grayson Hugh joins host Robin Milling for music and conversation at Tapeworks Studio in Hartford, CT. With such hit songs as Talk It Over, Don't Look Back and Soul Cat Girl, Grayson, along with his wife Polly Messer, brings his unique blend of soul, country, folk, funk and rock to his new CD, An American Record.

Ben Vereen celebrates his 40 plus years in show business as a song and dance man with a new CD Steppin Out With Ben Vereen. The consummate entertainer who will have a one-night show at Town Hall February 18th in NYC tells host Robin Milling he'd like to bring his beloved Pippin back to Broadway. The star of Roots also hints about an autobiography in the works dealing with the discovery of his birth family.

X-Men star Vinnie Jones joins host Robin Milling to talk about his new role as Scales in The Cape, airing Mondays on NBC. Jones fesses up about harassing co-star David Lyons about his $600 Jeep Wrangler and his upcoming roles on the big screen.

Delroy Lindo stars in Chicago Code playing Alderman Ronin Gibbons, a corrupt politician butting heads with Chicago law enforcement. Lindo met with an alderman and attended an open house which he found helpful for the role. He tells host Robin Milling, "Basically what happens is at an open house people from the neighborhood can come in, make an appointment and air their grievances. In a couple of instances I was sitting in a corner off to the side observing it seemed to me the individuals were mentally unstable. What was interesting was the alderman was not disrespectful and everyone she spoke with was communicated with a seriousness even in the instances when it seemed to me they were quite unstable. They have to be diplomatic and giving people the time of day no matter what on some level." And Lindo says that would never fly with Mayor Bloomberg, "There wouldn't be enough time. The Mayor would be doing that for the rest of his career!"

Turns out not everybody loves Raymond which creator Phil Rosenthal quickly discovered when he set out to document the turning of the American series into a Russian sitcom in Exporting Raymond. Rosenthal tells host Robin Milling at the 26th annual Santa Barbara Film Festival that the beloved show about an every man and his family got lost in translation. "I have Ray Romano in my head so I'm looking for a guy like that from the (Russian) TV show who should be every man, a guy who likes to be left alone and is not very demonstrative. They didn't cast that guy, but he's the exact opposite of Ray like a serial killer!"

What really caused Paula Abdul to leave American Idol? Is there a secret Christian ministry behind the show? Why do pretty white boy with guitars always seem to win the competition? American Idol:The Untold Story author Richard Rushfield reveals these answers to host Robin Milling, and more!

Former Felicity heartthrob Scott Speedman stars in Barney's Version as Paul Giamatti's best friend. Scott tells host Robin Milling he could've been Boy Wonder, as he auditioned for Batman Forever on a dare. "I was dating this girl and she dared me to audition for Batman Forever. That's sort of how I got started. They were doing a big casting thing in North America and the casting director was in town so I did an audition for her and she got me an agent which started me. I auditioned for Robin. I was 18 at the time, which was the right age but I wanted to get out of my house so I was willing to do anything! If you go back and look at the tapes I'm sure it wasn't the best performance of all time. I was barely stringing two words together at that time acting-wise."

The superstar funnyman weighs in on slimming down for the title role in his big-screen remake of The Green Hornet, co-starring Cameron Diaz and Christoph Waltz. “There's really nothing good about it, to be honest. I bought a bunch of clothes that I barely fit into anymore,” he tells Milling About host Robin Milling. “People ask me a lot about losing the weight—which sucks. I don’t recommend it for everyone. Stay fat, people. That's my motto!”

Shooting the upcoming feature flick Drive with Ryan Gosling was hell for the Hellboy star. “We had this scene in the Pacific Ocean where he’s trying to kill me. We shot it during high tide at 3:30 in the morning,” Ron, whose new flick, Season of the Witch, co-stars Nicholas Cage, tells Milling About host Robin Milling. “My back was to the ocean, I was facing the beach and this wave just came and knocked me clear 20 feet in the air and I ended up ass-over-tea-kettle. I ripped something in my knee… It's hard to walk on it. I think I'm gonna need some surgery on this one. There's some structural damage in there.”

The star of the critically-acclaimed big-screen romance Blue Valentine chats about prepping to play opposite Michelle Willams. “Michelle was on board for six years and I was on board for four years. We had a lot of time to work on our characters,” Ryan tells Milling About host Robin Milling. “Michelle and I lived in the house that our characters lived in, in Carbondale, Pa. We celebrated Christmas and birthdays and we had a budget, based on how much our characters made in their jobs, for grocery shopping… We kind of tried to recreate as much as we could, this life together of memories, so when it came time to shoot it we could draw on it.”

Introducing British singer-songwriter Bobby Long, who co-wrote 'Let Me Sign' which buddy Robert Pattinson sung for the Twilight soundtrack creating quite the buzz for this soulful tune-smith and Pattinson. 'There's always a dark and a light,' Long tells host Robin Milling of Pattinson's fame. 'Mania is the bad side but now he's got choice and he could do what he loves to do. You have to go along with it and enjoy the ride as much as you can because it's not gonna last forever. Every 10 years two things bang and make a huge impact and what he's going through and that whole Twilight thing is one of the things. I just laugh in his face about it. You have to because it's just crazy and he laughs about it too. It's just what it is.' Long chats with Milling at a bohemian cafe on Manhattan's lower east side about bringing his music from My Space with a debut studio album, A Winter Tale.

Actor William Forsythe joins host Robin Milling to talk about how he got inside the chilling mind of infamous serial killer John Wayne Gacy for the film Dear Mr. Gacy. Forsythe went to Gacy's hometown of Chicago to meet people Gacy was close to so he could understand what made this monster tick and what he came to find out still unnerves him. Forsythe tells Robin he made the film as a cautionary tale for young people. "I want kids to realize that there's real evil out there. I've had young people come up to me and go, 'dude wow you played Gacy, he's one of my heroes.' I get so mad and look at them, 'you got to be kidding me. How would you like to have all 300 of his pounds sitting on you choking you out with your own underwear while he's raping you?!'"

The Oscar-nominated star of An Unmarried Woman and Starting Over, who passed away on Nov. 5, 2010 after a long battle with leukemia, spoke with Milling About host Robin Milling in 2001 about the state of comedy in Hollywood. “Funny, human and real roles are hard to come by at my age,” said the then-57-year-old actress in this never-before-aired interview. “It really irritates me when I watch TV and I see these women just demonized in their 60s— like they’re stupid and old. I don’t find it funny. I don’t know if anyone really finds stepmother humor or mother-in-law humor—whatever it’s called—very funny.”