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Here's The Thing with Alec Baldwin

Alex and Jamie Bernstein

Here's The Thing with Alec Baldwin

iHeartPodcasts

Tv & Film, Music, Music Interviews, Arts, Performing Arts, Film Interviews

4.48.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2012

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This week Alec sits down with Jamie and Alex Bernstein, to hear about growing up with the maestro, Leonard Bernstein. Bernstein had three children: Jamie, Alexander and Nina. And while they knew him in the tux and tails, they also knew him as the dad who loved games – he was a killer at anagrams – and always up for tennis or squash or skiing or touch football.

Jamie and Alexander talk to Alec about listening to music – Jamie says she learned “more about music by listening to The Beatles with my dad than I think I did any other way” – and how their father's relationship to fame evolved during his lifetime. Alex remembers his dad saying, “I’m so sick of Leonard Bernstein. I’ve had it with him."

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0:00.0

This is the story of a man who's fascinated me.

0:03.5

His name was Sweet Daddy Grace, and that's a name you don't forget.

0:08.0

He was a visionary who built a fortune as a black man during Jim Crow, during the Depression.

0:15.0

But today, not many people know about him.

0:18.0

He raised, sort of wiped out, and I wonder if this was done intentionally.

0:23.0

Listen to Sweet Daddy Grace on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:30.0

Hi, it's Elvis Durand on my new podcast, Thinking Out Loud with Elvis Durand.

0:35.0

I'll be bringing you candid and maybe sometimes a little crazy interviews with people from all walks of life.

0:40.0

We'll touch on subjects that you just can't talk about on the radio, like life, love, success, failure, whatever else comes to mind.

0:46.0

But I'll jacked up because after being in this business for as long as I have,

0:50.0

I want to get to the bottom of what makes people tick.

0:53.0

Listen to my new podcast, Thinking Out Loud on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,

0:58.0

or wherever you get your podcasts.

1:01.0

I'm Carol Fisher, and I'm hosting a podcast called The Girl Friends.

1:06.0

It's Las Vegas, it's the 1990s, and it is time to find a husband.

1:11.0

There were four Jewish doctors who were felt to be eligible bachelors.

1:17.0

One of them was Bob Barryman.

1:20.0

On paper, he was perfect, but in reality...

1:25.0

He choked into the point she went unconscious.

1:29.0

I would call him, and I would say, I know you killed my sister.

1:32.0

You can listen to The Girl Friends on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

1:39.0

This is Alec Baldwin, and you're listening to Here's the Thing.

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