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Larry King Chats With Sarah Paulson “The People v. O.J. Simpson” star Sarah Paulson sits down with Larry King on the Emmy-nominated series “ Larry King Now ,” where she explains why she hasn’t seen the acclaimed series, weighs in on gender inequality in Hollywood, and talks “American Horror Story” season 6. Despite the massive critical acclaim surrounding her portrayal as Marcia Clark in “American Crime Story,” Sarah Paulson reveals that she is not watching the hit series because she is “one who is very likely to sort of pick everything apart.” The actress explains, “I’m very self critical, so I figured I should just let myself enjoy this and let people say nice things and enjoy being a part of something that is such a phenomenon.” Larry also played a clip for Sarah Paulson, when Marcia Clark revealed recently on “Larry King Now” what it’s been like watching Sarah Paulson portray her. “The People v. O.J. Simpson” star has highlighted the sexism Marcia C...

Tyler Posey On Larry King MTV’s “Teen Wolf” star Tyler Posey sat down with Larry King on the Emmy nominated series “Larry King Now” and discussed his forthcoming directorial debut on the hit MTV show, his funniest moments on set and how he deals with the show's legions of loyal fans. Tyler also finds out for the first time that his previous “Teen Wolf” cast mate Charlie Carver officially announced he's gay via a very poignant Instagram post. “This is the first time hearing of that. I’ve definitely known, that’s so great man. Oh my god. I had no idea.” Larry asks, “Does it mean anything anymore? Who cares!” Tyler followed up, “I think it’s getting easier and easier to do for people, like the other day I was driving by these 2 kids wearing backpacks from high school and they were holding hands, boys, and I loved it. I thought it was so cool. I really dug it. I thought it was really cool.” Plus, Tyler details his plans to take over for Larry King ...

50 Cent On Larry King Now On the Season 4 premiere of the Emmy nominated series Larry King Now Grammy winner and multi-platinum artist 50 Cent sits down with Larry King for an in-depth interview about his recent legal troubles, his view on policy brutality and his friendships with Floyd Mayweather. Plus, a sneak peek at his new movie Southpaw and is 50 going to be the next host of The Apprentice? 50 Cent responds to the media scrutiny following the recent news that he’s filed for bankruptcy and answers-- is it hard to have your legal woes in the spotlight? “I’ve seen so many things said about me on social networking at points and when you don’t anticipate it, it lands a little harder on you...I can see what’s going to come from people.” He continues saying “It’s strategic. It’s a move that’s necessary for me to make at this point.”

Russell Simmons Hip-Hop mogul and activist Russell Simmons tells Larry King about his fight to reform the U.S. justice system and end America's War on Drugs . Plus, why he believes his inner-city arts programs are saving lives. KING: Business magnate, author, activist, and one of the most influential and outspoken and media moguls of our time, Russell Simmons on this edition of PoliticKING. Larry King Welcome to PoliticKING, I’m Larry King. You know for more than 30 years you’ve known Russell Simmons as the highly successful and extremely influential force behind Def Jam recordings and those famous fashions as well. As well as a New York Times best selling author. He’s also an outspoken activist, who’s never shy about lending his considerable clout to promote or fight against issues he considers important. One of his most recent ventures has him partnering with the Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series program which supports emerging artists across the coun...

Bill Paxton With Larry King Hollywood veteran Bill Paxton sits down with Larry King on the Emmy nominated series Larry King Now for an in-depth interview that looks back on his career with stories from Apollo 13, Titanic, Big Love and his new miniseries, Texas Rising. Titanic’ actor Bill Paxton tells the story behind the incident that occurred on set of the Oscar-winning film Titanic which left some cast and crew members high on the drug PCP. He begins the story by having dinner from the catering truck with Director Jim Cameron. “We ladled up the clam chowder not knowing it was laced with PCP.” Bill adds, “So all of a sudden, here’s 150 crew members stumbling into the emergency room of a very small hospital at 1am. You see some people are freaking out, some people are conga dancing, some people are euphoric,” he laughs. Who did it you might ask? “I don’t know who did it or why…. I thought it was a neurotoxin in the clams!” In addition to ...

William Shatner And Wine Editor Ray Isle Executive Wine Editor of “Food & Wine Magazine” Ray Isle knows his vintages. He joined William Shatner this season on Brown Bag Wine Tasting to discuss the best wines to pair with Texas BBQ and put his journalism background to test while describing mystery wine in writing terms. Before Bill puts the wine expert to the ultimate test, Isle reveals he drank wine from a Civil War blockade runner shipwreck, making it about 200 years old. Was it tasty? His answer may surprise you. Shatner pours Isle some mystery wine and asks him to describe what he tastes in writer’s terms. Isle gives his take, “Even though it’s a red wine, I would say it’s black ink. It’s not blue ink or red ink. It’s black ink. It’s really dark, it’s intense.” He adds that it’s “handwritten,” rating the Stag’s Lear Wine Cellars 2012 Artemis Cabernet Sauvignon an overall 92 points on a scale of 100. The new Ora TV web series Brown Bag Wine Tasting follow...

Jesse Ventura Jesse Ventura has often been critical of the "official" story the government gives us when it comes to 9/11. This week on his political talk show "Off The Grid" the former governor is calling for Washington to pass House Resolution Bill 14, which would declassify the 28 pages of the 9/11 report that deal with Saudi Arabia's involvement in funding the hijackers. He also talks to former Senator Bob Graham, the former Chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, who wrote the 28 redacted pages. Senator Graham asks the American people to call their representatives to tell them to vote for HR 14. This episode of "Off The Grid" aired on RT America Yesterday. “Let’s go back in history," says Jesse Ventura. "There wasn’t even going to be an investigation at all. They told us what happened and we were expected to believe it, and most people did. So don’t tell me there’s been anything open about 9/11.” ...

Larry King With Ethan Hawke Four-time Oscar nominee Ethan Hawke sits down with Larry on the Emmy nominated series Larry King Now for the first time in their careers to discuss his controversial new film, Good Kill, his Boyhood co-star Patricia Arquette and the highly anticipated remake he's starring in. Responding to a compliment by his Boyhood co-star Patricia Arquette, and in an era where ‘selfies’ and what’s best for the individual seem to reign, Ethan Hawke simply yet beautifully explained why people are better off working as a “collective,” “That's my life's goal, is to you know, contribute and make substance of art, but do it as a collective, because that's how good things get done, as a collective… It has to do with, I think, a psychological stance of putting the whole ahead of the individual, and it’s something that has been taught to me, and something I most would like to pass on to my daughter and son.” The actor opened up about...

**** LARRY KING POLITICKING **** Sean Astin Chats With Larry King Actor & filmmaker Sean Astin ("The Lord of the Rings," "Goonies," "Rudy") tells Larry King about the moment Hillary Clinton earned his support and what led to his twitter feud with Adam Baldwin over the recent violence in Baltimore. Plus, he opens up about " Goonies 2 " rumors. KING: You got into a little Twitter tiff with fellow actor Adam Baldwin of ‘Full Metal Jacket’ fame and ‘The Last Ship,’ when he took a seemingly critical view of a tweet you sent out regarding Baltimore. Let me get it straight. You tweeted, “Baltimore’s situation is so distressing. Angry can be useful but in modern media era, chaos plays into the hands of authority’s. Civil disobedience.” Baldwin replied to Sean Astin, “Can’t have your cake and eat it too. Depend on big government, get bigger and bigger government policing. Anarchy is just a transitional phase.” You res...

Larry King With Cat Deeley So You Think You Can Dance's Cat Deeley sits down with Larry King on the Emmy nominated series Larry King Now and chats about the additions of Paula Abdul and Jason Derulo to the upcoming 12th season of the show. She also talks to Larry about her Hulu comedy Deadbeat. English television host Cat Deeley filled Larry in on the new judges of the upcoming season of So You Think You Can Dance. On Jason Derulo, Deeley said, “You think he’s kind of really “dude-y” […] but actually he’s a stage school kid. He’s a tapper. He was writing music for Puff Daddy before he was Jason Derulo and he’s got a great sense of humor. Quite a naughty sense of humor, which is brilliant.” And on Paula Abdul, Deeley gushed, “I don’t know how she does it, but absolutely everybody falls in love with her as they meet her. I mean they swoon. Men, women, children, beasts.” The charming reality TV personality revealed how the show plans to keep its audience h...

Richard Dreyfuss On PoliticKING Larry King Guest Richard Dreyfuss explains his movement to bring American civics back into the classroom and why he doesn't vote. DREYFUSS: So all the guys that are in Congress now, the Young Turks, and the Republican party, they never took civics. They never studied the Constitution, they never studied the Bill of Rights, and that’s why they say such stupid things. There’s two points I want to make here: First, Inarguable points. No one in this country understands the stories on the front page of any newspaper in this country. No one. We don’t understand the bail out, Wall Street, foreign policy, the fed, the prime mortgage controversy, the bank-- we don’t understand any story on the front page. Two: Western kids are now joining ISIS. KING: Not in multitudes. DREYFUSS: Well, it starts with a trickle. Why? Because even though it sounds crazy, it’s the only spiritual movement being talked about in the media. No one...

Matthew Weiner Teases Larry King Mad Men creator and executive producer, Matthew Weiner teases Larry King on the Emmy nominated series Larry King Now about the last season and final episode of the acclaimed series while taking a look back at one of the most acclaimed dramas of our time. Director of the final two episodes of Mad Men, Matthew Weiner told Larry writing the final season was an “emotional experience.” On what to expect during the final 14 episodes, Matthew revealed, “I guess the question is, Don's material needs have been met. And he has created a wake of confusion behind him, and he's become the success that he pretended to be. So what else is there? That's kind of why we started the premiere of this part of it with 'Is That All There Is?' by Peggy Lee." On complaints that Mad Men glorifies workplace sexism, the executive producer responded, “Half of the ad men would come out and say it wasn’t like that, we didn’t drink tha...

Larry King With Ludacris Rapper, actor and entrepreneur Chris 'Ludacris' Bridges sat down with Larry King on the Emmy nominated series “Larry King Now” to talk about 'Furious 7,' the passing of friend and co-star Paul Walker, his new album 'Ludaversal' and his early days working the graveyard shift as a radio DJ. Best known for his role as Tej Parker from the 'The Fast and the Furious' film series, the actor shared with Larry how Paul Walker's death affected the cast and crew of 'Furious 7,' “This movie almost didn’t see the light of day. And with that being said, we didn’t know what was going to happen. But we were able to come together as a unit. Everybody that knew him - kinda like we got through it together. And from there we came up with a very creative way to end this movie and we felt that we needed to honor him and pay homage to him. And that’s exactly what we did.” Ludacris also then told Larry why he was offend...

Larry King With Ryan Phillippe “Secrets & Lies” star Ryan Phillippe sat down with Larry King on the Emmy nominated series “Larry King Now” to discuss his ABC crime drama, the state of his relationship with ex-wife Reese Witherspoon and the rumors surrounding a "MacGruber" sequel. "MacGruber" star Ryan Phillippe told Larry King that Will Forte is working on the script for a sequel to their 2010 comedy that has developed a cult following, “That’s what we’re talking about. Will Forte and Jorma Taccone, who directed it, are working on the script now, and it’s become a real cult classic that movie. There are drinking games associated with "MacGruber." Every comedian that I know loves it and they want to be in the sequel.” Actor Ryan Phillippe admitted that the season finale of his ABC crime drama will leave viewers “devastated." He shared with Larry, "But what’s interesting about this too is that other shows you’re like,...

Larry King Black Eyed Peas' co-creator Will.i.am sits down with Larry King on the Emmy nominated series “ Larry King Now ” to talk about his exciting new smart watch venture, what he thinks about Taylor Swift, why the media demonizes his friend Justin Bieber and why he's "disappointed" in President Obama, plus his desperate plea for the crisis in Ferguson. Will.i.am revealed why he's "disappointed" in President Obama, whom he helped elect, “I’m not going to sit here and claim I’m the expert at politics. I don’t understand it. The idea of Obama was an amazing idea. The execution of it, how you executed—education reform to me should have been the first thing we should’ve been fighting for.” 

Misha Collins And William Shatner In this episode of “Brown Bag Wine Tasting”, William Shatner sits down with his Twitter nemesis, CW’s “Supernatural’s” very own Misha Collins. Misha talks about his charity work and what it’s like to play a TV archangel before the two enjoy some mystery wine together…if only William could remember Misha’s name! The hilarious interview that is going viral ends in a headlock. At the end of the interview, Shatner passes Collins a brown bag hiding the mystery wine and asks the actor to describe what he tastes in “Supernatural”, un-normalcy and impractical terms. Misha describes the wine as “waft of amphibian, a primordial sacrifice” like Aztecs. He adds, “In the mouth of the wine, it’s tasting like the blood of infidel.” Mischa adds the chardonnay has a “nice, abnormal, abhorrent, deviant finish [...] There’s a tom tom to it, anarchistic and delicious.” The new Ora TV web series “Brown Bag Wine Tasting” follows Shatner’s adventure...

Nick Carter Newlyweds Nick Carter and Lauren Kitt Carter sit down with Larry King to discuss their new reality show “I Heart Nick Carter” on VH1 and how they felt something special from their very first date. Plus, we learn the good and bad about marrying a celebrity, Nick’s rough past and his similarities to Justin Bieber & his ‘rival’ Justin Timberlake on the latest episode of the Emmy nominated series “ Larry King Now ”. Nick and Larry chatted about what happened when the boy band craze slowed down and Nick had some personal time to try and better himself, "I personally went through those same things that Bieber's going through right now, except it didn't have social media to expose it to the degree that it is right now." The former backstreet boy told Larry that his wife, Lauren, was his rock through his drinking problem, "It was difficult for me to find someone who related to the things I had gone through. [...] I'm deep and I'...

**** A FAREWELL TO JOAN RIVERS **** Larry King's Tribute To Joan Rivers Hollywood has been mourning the death of comedic legend Joan Rivers. There's no one like her. In a special episode of the Emmy nominated series “Larry King Now”, Larry welcomes Jane Lynch, Lily Tomlin, Regis Philbin, Ryan Seacrest, Margaret Cho and Don Rickles to pay tribute to their friend: the beloved, iconic, indefatigable Joan Rivers. The episode just premiered on Ora.tv and Hulu.com . We’ve all heard about Joan’s personal wishes for her star-studded funeral where she said “ I want Meryl Streep crying, in five different accents…[and] I want to be buried in a Valentino gown.” Margaret Cho opened up to Larry King about Joan Rivers’ funeral, including Howard Stern’s hilarious eulogy and Hugh Jackman’s emotional performance. Cho explained “Joan Rivers Would Have Loved Her Funeral.” The special episode also features Regis Philbin sharing one of his favorite memories of Joan, about h...

**** GO GET THEM GOVERNOR **** Jesse Ventura Anderson Cooper, Sarah Palin, and Bill O'Reilly have been critical of the jury's verdict in Jesse Ventura's recent lawsuit against the estate of Chris Kyle. Jesse Ventura explains that none of these pundits reviewed the actual evidence. He responds to these pundits on his podcast, "We the People with Jesse Ventura" available on iTunes and AdamCarolla.com . One of the biggest misleading points fueled by Cooper, Palin, and O'Reilly is that Jesse Ventura's award money is coming from Chris Kyle's widow, Taya. However, this is completely false. The insurance company for Chris Kyle's book publisher (HarperCollins) not only paid all fees associated with the trial, but will also be paying the full $1.8 million that the jury awarded Ventura.  Here's quotes from Jesse Ventura's response to Anderson Cooper: Anderson Cooper doesn’t know a thing about this case ...

Larry King And Craig Ferguson Larry King got the EXCLUSIVE first sit down with CBS’ "The Late Late Show" host Craig Ferguson since announcing leaving the show. Ferguson opened up about why he’s moving on; who should replace him; & if, given the chance, he’d have taken Dave Letterman’s gig. You can see it all on ORATV . Photo Courtesy Of: ORA TV