AUTHORPEDIA Podcast

Hollywood Biographer Herbie J Pilato, unbosoms his latest book, Mary: The Mary Tyler Moore Story!

September 23, 2020 Chris Douglas, Host of AUTHORPEDIA LIVE Episode 8
AUTHORPEDIA Podcast
Hollywood Biographer Herbie J Pilato, unbosoms his latest book, Mary: The Mary Tyler Moore Story!
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Herbie J Pilato a.k.a. Herbert James Pilato  (b. Oct 9, 1960) is a writer, producer, singer/songwriter, actor, and TV personality who has worked on several television shows including Bravo’s hit five-part series, The 100 Greatest TV Characters, Bewitched: The E! True Hollywood Story (the seventh-highest rated True Hollywood Story in E!’s history), A&E’s Biography of Lee Majors, TLC’s Behind the Fame specials on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Bob Newhart Show, Hill Street Blues, and L.A. Law, among others.
 
Herbie J has also served as a consulting producer and on-screen cultural commentator on various classic TV DVD documentaries for Sony, NBC Universal, and Warner Bros., including The Six Million Dollar Man boxed set, Kung Fu, and CHiPs.

Pilato’s lengthy list of successful pop-culture/media tie-in books include Mary: The Mary Tyler Moore Story, Dashing, Daring and Debonair: TV’s Top Male Icons from the ‘50s, ‘60s and ‘70s, Glamour Gidgets and the Girl Next Door, The Essential Elizabeth Montgomery: A Guide To Her Magical Performances, Twitch Upon a Star: The Bewitched Life and Career of Elizabeth Montgomery, Bewitched Forever, The Bewitched Book, The Bionic Book: The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman Reconstructed, Life Story: The Book of Life Goes On, The Kung Fu Book of Wisdom, The Kung Fu Book of Caine, and NBC & ME: My Life as a Page in a Book.
 
In 2010, he founded the Classic TV Preservation Society, a formal 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to the positive social influence of classic television programming.

Pilato now lives in Los Angeles where, for the last twenty years, he has served as a Contributing Editor Emeritus for Larry Brody's heralded website, www.TVWriter.com.
 
Since 2015, Pilato has been a contributing writer for the Television Academy's distinguished www.Emmys.com, and is a pop-culture consultant for various media outlets, including Closer Weekly Magazine, and the Do You Remember websites.
 
In the summer of 2015, Pilato began hosting "Throwback Thursday" retro/pop-culture  live events that ultimately lead to his hosting of Then Again with Herbie J Pilato, a classic TV talk show now streaming on Amazon Prime and Amazon Prime UK, for which he serves as executive producer with Joel Eisenberg and Steve Hillard of Council Tree Productions.

AUTOGRAPHED BOOKS: www.HerbieJPilato.com
Mary: The Mary Tyler More Story: https://amzn.to/3qVPDhr
Pilato's page on AUTHPRPÆDIA: https://authorpedia.org/herbie-j-pilato/

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