Today on the Rarified Heir Podcast we bring you our another interview with a sibling of a former guest. Dinah Dillman Kaufman is our guest this week and she is the sister of guest Pam Dillman from episode number 254. She's also the daughter of actor/writer Bradford Dillman and model/actress Suzy Parker. Dinah was connected to the podcast via a Patreon member just recently and her enthusiasm to talk about her parents was so infectious we had to have her on immediately because it's clear just how much she still connects to her parents even today.

Dinah spoke to us about everything from the personal to the pedestrian, the intense to the positively necromantic. Literally. Dinah indulged us gladly in telling us everything about her parents that was fit to print. We spoke about everything from the estate her father grew up on that became a University of California campus as well her mother's life as a stay-at-home mom after becoming one of the best known, most famous and biggest money earners of her era. We spoke about how her mom was a breadwinner in the late fifties which we identified with, we spoke about how Shirley Temple helped get her dad back to the United States after making The Bridge at Remagen in Czechoslovakia & a harrowing story of her own as a little girl that has to be heard to be believed.

We also spoke about the station wagon her mother drove the kids in carpool, how her parents met and the first words they said to each other, how she kept her father's diaries after he passed, the actor most fans mistakenly referred to him as and a literal ghost story that somehow connected us. This is the Rarified Heir Podcast and everyone has a story. Take it away Dinah.

Today on another episode of the Rarified Heir Podcast, we are talking to professor Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor, daughter of the great comedian, writer, director Richard Pryor. Elizabeth was terrific to talk to as recently we had the great pleasure to see a book reading & conversation with her at Book Soup in Los Angeles for her new book, Something We Said: Richard Pryor, a Notorious Word and Me. Part memoir as well as a historical look at one very difficult word, the book meshes together how that notorious word connects to her personally and American landscape as well. Recently covered in NPR, the New York Times and Forbes, the book is getting much attention for its deeply personal autobiographical look from Elizabeth's first hand recollections of one of the greatest comedians this country has ever produced, her own story of connecting with her father as well as deep dive into America's deeply troubled use and context of THAT notorious word.

Now if you remember, we actually spoke to Elizabeth's sister Rain Pryor in a previous episode and one of the things we love on this podcast is speaking to more than one sibling of celebrities because it's a fascinating look at how two people intimately remember the same person. Elizabeth spoke to us about everything from her time growing up in Massachusetts with her Jewish mother and family and moving to Los Angeles to be closer to her father when her mother sensed she needed her father. Moreover we get a look at what it was like in the Pryor household, the cars he drove (you will never guess which was his favorite) as well as the foods he loved.

We also dig into the Elizabeth's life as a professor at Smith College and how an incident with a student in her classroom, quoting a line from the film Blazing Saddles that included that notorious word in her book title begat her journey in trying to understand how that incident led to the writing of this book. While likely a line her father wrote for the movie, the question in her classroom, none the less set up a sort of crisis for Elizabeth that we discuss in the upcoming episode. Our conversation jumps around from light to intense as we discuss race, family trauma and the understanding that Richard Pryor was more than a comedian. He was a seeker, a thinker, a regular person thought it all and also a father who was there when it counted. Take a listen to this episode of the Rarified Heir Podcast. Everyone has a story.

Today on part two of an encore episode of the Rarified Heir Podcast, we are talking to returning guest, voice actor Cam Clarke, who we know from last week's episode is perhaps 1/37th of the massive "First Family of Song", the King Family. We recorded this episode just before Cam's massive coffee table book, Not Their All Here: the King Family: Over 100 years of Entertainment from America's First Family of Song was released in 2025. It's one heck of a book that covers a century of music and performance from literally generations of this family who started in vaudeville and somehow goes all the way though to video games. It's a wild and often untold story.

We spent some time on King family / Cam Clarke specific projects like his main gig as the voice actor behind the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles character Leonardo for more than 30+ years, performing in the Mormon/Christian rock opera Saturday's Child, written by his brother Lex de Azevedo at 16 years old, his father, actor Robert Clarke who is star of an iconic B-movie, his bizarrely hilarious interaction with Jeff Goldblum, a surreal and wonderful meeting with a cast member of One Day at a Time and stalkers. Ooooooo, scary.

So take a listen to part two of our conversation with guest Cam Clarke on his return visit to the Rarified Heir Podcast. Everyone has a story. Ah, but do you have 37 of them? Now therein lies the rub.