Happy New Year!

My web site has been redesigned and will be launching early in the new year, so stay tuned for the announcement. There will be lots of new videos, photos, and fun over at www.billboggs.com

I want to wish all the readers of this blog a happy, healthy, prosperous 2012!

Natalie Wood

Sad to see the story of Natalie Wood's death again...I have an interview with her
in her radiant prime at the link HERE.

Joe Frazier

Joe Frazier was a great friend of mine from Philadelphia. We did many TV shows together. Here we're sitting on a board atop a man on a bed of nails. The color shot below was taken on a more serious occasion—at an interview the week of his second fight with Foreman. he was a man who truly loved to help people...seemingly uneffected by fame and fortune.

I left my heart...

With Tony Bennett at the fabled Oak Room at Algonquin Hotel, NYC.

A Great Show!

With Karen Akers after her brilliant Sondheim show at Oak Room, NYC. Sondheim himself was in the audience and I spoke to him afterward and he was so happy and pleased with this riveting show.

A Tidbit from Page Six Today!

Talent Scout

Tennis, anyone?

Goodnight, Irene

GOT WHAT IT TAKES? Leadership Workshop

Here I am with Dick Singer at Arnold Palmer's Treesdale Country Club for the Got What It Takes? Leadership Workshop.

Gala Team-Building Event at Maritime Parc

Here are a few photos from the recent Culinary Team-Building event at Maritime Parc restaurant with chef Chris Siversen for Dr. Reddy's Laboratories in Liberty Park, New Jersey.

Breaking News

I'm with Itzhak Perlman at Perlman Music Program filming new segment for PBS' MY GENERATION...on the value of mentoring.

Also please note that my interview with Danny Aiello is "live" online at

www.billboggs.com

Borgo Finocchieto, Tuscany 2011

Tuscany in July.

I stayed at the Borgo Finocchieto. (See cover story "Travel & Leisure" July '11 issue.) This is part of the vista of one of the most peaceful and creatively restorative places I've yet to visit.

Florence on a summer Saturday has a superior one-day market of stalls. Shopping shots not included here.

The Borgo is located about 30 minutes southwest of Sienna. Here are two of the five buildings that have occupied the hill top for centuries.

The castle is still occupied, but the moat is filled in.

My fellow guests—we were a group of ten friends—poolside after lunch.

The vista on the patio just before cocktails.

The 50-meter pool has an unparalleled location.

Sit in this chair and the world you left behind will be in a newly clear perspective. I was truly happy and superbly relaxed during my week at Borgo Finocchetti. A one-of-a-kind destination.

"The Creative Process" - New Video Online!

My interview with photographer Robert Weingarten has just

been launched. It's a fascinating look at the man's approach to making art.

Click here to view it & have a great weekend!

MY GENERATION Norminated for Emmy!

MY GENERATION, the show I host on PBS, has just been nominated for a daytime Emmy.

Here's the news:


WASHINGTON – Today, AARP’s national lifestyle television program My Generation received its first nomination from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for a Daytime Entertainment Emmy® Award. Syndicated nationally on public television, the AARP program focuses on the stories, opportunities and challenges of Americans 50+ on topics including health, money, relationships, volunteering and how to get the most out of life. My Generation is nominated in the category of Outstanding Lifestyle Program, where it will compete against The Style Network’s How Do I Look?, Hallmark’s The Martha Stewart Show, and The Nate Berkus Show.

View clips frpom the show here.

5 New Videos are "Live"

Don't miss my interviews with Deborah Norville, Harry Smith, Jane Seymour, Eddie Fisher, Lloyd Price & Wilson Pickett at www.billboggs.com

And there's more coming soon—enjoy!

New Videos Launched!

If you missed my recent celebrity interviews on MY GENERATION on PBS, you can catch 4 new releases at billboggs.com. These include Guy Fieri, Brooke Shields, Daisy Fuentes, and Norma Miller, the Queen of Swing.

A swinging quartet in time for Spring Break—enjoy!

Swing into Spring

My interview with the QUEEN OF SWING—Norma Miller—airs next week on MY GENERATION on PBS.

Check your local listings, it's a good way to swing into spring!

Molly, Daisy, Leslie, Fergie (& Cheech, oh my!)

If that title sounds like a celebrity potpourri, well it is. A new batch of my TV interviews have just been launched at billboggs.com

Now's your chance to catch the one and only Cheech Marin—as well as Leslie "Naked Gun" Nielson, Daisy Fuentes, Molly Ringwald...plus Part Two of my chat with "Fergie" —Dutchess of York.

Enjoy!

"The Creative Process"

Here I am with artistic photographer Robert Weingarten in his Malibu studio for an interview about "The Creative Process" for the My Generation PBS TV series.

To view video highlights from My Generation, visit www.billboggs.com

Hot Meals

Over on BillBoggs.com we're serving up some tasty videos, including my interviews with chefs Bobby Flay and Marcus Samuelsson; Fabio; Peter Fonda; and comedian Pat Cooper.

For dessert there's a tennis skit I wrote featuring Bob McLean.

Bon Appetit!

New Vids in Town

We just launched a new batch of videos over at www.billboggs.com including one of the earliest TV skits I ever wrote—"What's My Talent?"—featuring a masked Mitch Miller, Buddy Rich, and Vivian Blaine.

Don't miss my lively interview with the Baldwin brothers, Billie and Stephen.

You'll also find a clip with Tom Bergeron, host of the hit reality series Dancing with the Stars.

Click here and enjoy!

February Highlights

With Brooke Shields at Feinstein's after the debut of her nightclub act.

With Vistage Think Tank leader Steve Ramerini following my three~hour leadership seminar, "Got What it Takes?" in Jericho, New York.

More soon.

ALL STARS ARRIVE ON SUPER BOWL SUNDAY!

It seems fitting. Over at billboggs.com we've just released the "ALL STAR Series"— three compilation videos featuring short clips of my interviews. These include...

TV ALL STARS: Eddie Albert, Dan Rather, Ricardo Montalban, Art Linkletter, Charles Kuralt, Jim Nabors, Shelly Berman, and Andy Griffith. Click here to view.

MUSIC ALL STARS: Chubby Checker, Glen Campbell, Sonny & Cher, Duke Ellington, Lester Lanin, and Bo Didley. Click here to view.

MISCELLANEOUS ALL STARS: Jack Anderson, Margaret Mead, Vidal Sassoon, Senator Birch Byah, James Dickey, Arnold Palmer, and Vincent Price. Click here to view.

If you're looking for some half time entertainment, visit the links above.

Enjoy the game!

"Fun at Food Network" Luncheon

I had a great time on stage at the National Arts Club, NYC

presenting "Fun at Food Network.

Received the nice note below from Nancy Dunnan, editor

of TravelSmart. (Click on the note for a larger view)

Full Moon Shadow, NYC

Photo by B.B.

A spectacular Manhattan moonlit landscape, 5:AM

Steve Ross at Oak Room

Here's a link to a review (scroll down a bit) of Steve Ross at Oak Room last Tuesday, I found his Rythmn & Romance show spellbinding.

Here's a group shot from the opening night:

Leslie Bennets, Bill Boggs, KT Sullivan, Steve Ross, Jim Brochu, and Steve Schalchlin

Tweet-Tweet

A quick note to let you know you can follow me on Twitter now: twitter.com/RealBillBoggs

Wish you all sweet tweets!

Winter 2011, New York (photo by B.B.)

Click on the image for a larger view

Happy New Year!

Hope you all had a terrific New Year's Eve.

Over at billboggs.com we've started the year off by adding five videos to our enormous collection. Links below will take you directly to the video pages.

• An amusing TV Prank Joyce Brothers and I played on Morton Downey Jr.
• A Newlywed Game Special with Bob Eubanks
• My interview with Margaret Trudeau – ex-wife of Pierre Trudeau, former PM of Canada
• Historic interview with Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassin, James Earl Ray
• A chat with musician/band-leader Peter Duchin

Let's hope 2011 turns out to be a smash hit for us all!