NEW: My Wellbella print/podcast interview with "Rizzoli & Isles" star Sasha Alexander, who spills on her TNT series and mother-in-law Sophia Loren!

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Check out my new print and podcast interview with the effervescent, eco-savvy actress. And while you're at it, check out  the snazzy new Wellbella website -- which includes many of my healthy celebrity cover stories for the magazine. (Coming in October: My in-depth Wellbella interview with Suzanne Somers!)

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Check out my new cover stories on supermodel Carol Alt and Olympic gold medalist Nathan Adrian (and eight other Olympic athletes!)

In the July issues of Muscle & Body and Wellbella magazines, available nationally through GNC stores.

Retroality's "Reimagine That!" podcast, episode 13! ............................................................ Chris Mann's special guests: Greg Lott (Part 3 of 3), remembers his longtime secret love, Farrah Fawcett; and "Retired at 35" star Johnathan McClain on his Funny or Die videos, his "Happy Days" connection and conjuring his "inner Leather"

Greg Lott, Pt 3; "Retired at 35" star Johnathan McClain ... It's a "Reimagine That!" double matinee, featuring lively interviews with TV Land's "Retired at 35" star Johnathan McClain and, in part three of his three-part Retroality.TV exclusive, Farrah Fawcett's longtime secret lover, Greg Lott.

First, McClain spills on the second season of "Retired at 35," premiering June 26 on TV Land. The 42-year-old actor explains how "35" is evolving into more of an ensemble family sitcom (cough cough, “Happy Days”?!?) with the addition of Marissa Jaret Winokur ("Hairspray") as his sister—a heretofore largely MIA character who may indeed be the love child of Chuck Cunningham and Jenny Piccolo. Watching and learning from his TV parents—Hollywood legends George Segal (“Just Shoot Me!,” “The Longest Day”) and Jessica Walter (“Arrested Development,” “Play Misty for Me”)—McClain tells how he reimagined his life at 35 and beyond while merging his realities of being a New York stage actor and a Los Angeles sitcom star. Among his small-screen experiences: Being cast in Jessica Simpson’s ABC sitcom pilot and surviving Jenny McCarthy’s failed UPN sitcom “The Bad Girl’s Guide." (The latter of which taped on the same Paramount soundstage where Fonzie loved Pinky, where a pre- and post-spun-off Joanie loved Chachi—and where, 20 years later, McClain would find his “inner Leather.”) Finally, McClain talks about his buzzed-about Funny or Die political satire videos featuring “Lost” star Michael Emerson, “Eight is Enough” references and more!

Next … on a more serious note commemorating the third anniversary of her tragic death from cancer on June 25, 2009, Farrah Fawcett’s longtime secret lover, Greg Lott, opens up about Farrah’s struggles with Ryan O’Neal and son Redmond’s heavily publicized drug problems. In this final installment of his in-depth three-part Retroality.TV interview, Lott reveals how he—not the cancer-stricken Ryan O’Neal—was Farrah’s true love in the final 11 years of her life. He also offers additional thoughts on Alana Stewart and explains why he’s had such a difficult time getting the U.S. media to allow him to tell his story.

Also, in the show monologue I give a shout out to my friend, TV historian/author David Hofstede, who just launched his own blog, "Comfort TV" (http://comforttv.blogspot.com/).

Finally … in the conclusion of her two-part “coming to America” story, dream analyst Yvonne Ryba tells how her nocturnal subconscious paved the way for her own spiritual reinvention once she moved from England to Texas in the “Dallas”-rich 1980s.

Host: Chris Mann

Announcer: Linda Kay

Created by: Chris Mann

Producers: Linda Kay, Chris Mann

Copyright 2012 by Chris Mann/Retroality.TV (http://Retroality.TV)

Retroality's "Reimagine That!" podcast, episode 12! ............................................................ Chris Mann's special guest, Greg Lott (Part 2 of 3), sounds off on Farrah Fawcett estate controversies, Ryan O'Neal and Alana Stewart ALSO: Texas-sized dreams, "Dallas" 2.0, young "Three's Company" fans

In the second of three parts, Greg Lott opens up exclusively to Retroality.TV about his secret love affair with the late Farrah Fawcett, whom he first romanced in the mid-1960s during their tenure at the University of Texas.

Here, Lott tells how he was cut out of the TV angel's life -- reportedly by Ryan O'Neal -- two and a half months before the iconic actress succumbed to cancer on June 25, 2009. He also opens up about his role in the UT's investigation into Fawcett's estate -- namely, O'Neal's possession of a highly valuable Andy Warhol portrait of the "Charlie's Angels" star that the UT contends Fawcett bequeathed to her alma mater upon her death. (The UT sued O'Neal last year, demanding he relinquish the artwork, which the "Love Story" star contends he owns. That case is headed to trial this fall.) Lott also reveals his thoughts about Fawcett's friend Alana Stewart and questions the origin of the Stewart-helmed charity The Farrah Fawcett Foundation, which is currrently under investigation by the California Attorney General's Office of Charitable Trust.

On a lighter note ... host Chris Mann discusses the multi-generational allure of the 1978-91 TV hit "Dallas" (revived this month on TNT) and -- thanks to a Jenilee Harrison segue -- marvels at the ongoing youth appeal of the 1977-84 classic series "Three's Company." As he prepares a special anniversary edition of his 1998 tell-all book "Come and Knock on Our Door" (due in late 2012 or, if 36th anniversaries count, 2013), Chris salutes the "next generation" of Company fans, including 14-year-old aspiring documentary filmmaker Isaiah Reaves, 23-year-old funnygal-slash-Chrissy Snow-spoofmeister Ashlee Anno and 30something radio producer/"Three's Company Throwdown" trivia king Andy Hermann. (In previous "Reimagine That!" episode(s)/Retroality.TV stories, we've mentioned Sitcoms Online news director and Jack's Bistro webmaster Pavan Patel, who broke news of Suzanne Somers and Joyce DeWitt's recent YouTube reconciliation.)

Finally, our dream weaver Yvonne Ryba recounts her Texas-sized dreams of coming to America in the "Dallas"-rich early 1980s.

Host: Chris Mann

Announcer: Linda Kay

Created by: Chris Mann

Producers: Linda Kay, Chris Mann

Copyright 2012 by Chris Mann/Retroality.TV (http://Retroality.TV)

Retroality's "Reimagine That!" podcast, episode 11! ............................................................ Chris Mann's special guest, Greg Lott, sounds off on his secret 11-year love affair with Farrah Fawcett and disputes Ryan O'Neal's new book "Both of Us" ALSO: Chris's "Groundhog Day"-esque dream

Greg Lott, Pt. 1 ... Farrah Fawcett's secret longtime lover, Greg Lott, opens up in this Retroality.TV exclusive about Ryan O'Neal's contentious new tell-all book, "Both of Us." Here, in the first segment of his explosive three-part interview, Lott -- who famously confronted O'Neal in public on camera after the "Love Story" star reportedly barred Lott from contacting Farrah in her final months in spring 2009 -- strongly refutes O'Neal's less-than-flattering written portrayal of Fawcett, the celebrated Tinseltown couple's tumultuous relationship and her role in raising their troubled son, Redmond, now 27.

Fawcett's college sweetheart before the ethereal beauty left The University of Texas for Hollywood stardom in 1968, Lott lost touch with the iconic TV angel-turned-Emmy-nominated "Burning Bed" and Golden Globe-nominated "Extremities" star during his two incarcerations on drug trafficking charges in the early 1970s and early 1980s. Lott resumed contact with Farrah during her separation from Lee Majors in the late 1970s and again following her split with O'Neal in the late 1990s. As documented by Farrah's love letters to Lott, the longtime friends maintained a private love affair during the final 11 years of her life.

In this installment of Lott's in-depth interview, the onetime UT Longhorn football star also sounds off on controversy surrounding Ryan O'Neal's 2008 felony drug-possession arrest and subsequent guilty plea, Fawcett's living trust and Ryan's related legal troubles with The University of Texas, and Farrah's stormy relationship with producer-director James Orr, who was convicted in 1998 on a misdemeanor charge of beating Fawcett in 1997.

Also ... on a much lighter note, Chris spotlights two new Tinseltown tomes, Suzanne Sumner-Ferry's "The Day the Stars Stood Still: A Memoir about Logan Fleming, the Former Top Wax Artist of Movieland Wax Museum" and Patty Farmer's "The Persian Room Presents: An Oral History of New York's Most Magical Night Spot."

Finally ... resident "Reimagine That!" dream interpreter Yvonne Ryba analyzes host Chris Mann's recurring, "Groundhog Day"-esque dream harking back to his own college days as editor-in-chief of the student newspaper at The University of Tulsa in the early 1990s.

Host: Chris Mann

Announcer: Linda Kay

Created by: Chris Mann

Producers: Linda Kay, Chris Mann

Copyright 2012 by Chris Mann/Retroality.TV (http://Retroality.TV)