Hello, Friend,
This week’s rebooted The Lady Party Podcast interview from 2019 features my dear friend Ben Sander. Ben is best known for portraying his iconic character, Brini Maxwell, for five years on NY Public Access TV and later for two spectacular seasons on The Style Network. A throwback to the 1960s and 70s, Brini is a “prototypical, pre-feminist, 1960s homemaker” who has been described as a composite of Doris Day, Mary Tyler Moore, Auntie Mame, That Girl, and Donna Reed. Ben describes Brini as “so non-threatening as a character, so innocent and so sweet, that she fools people into being comfortable and can insinuate herself into society that way.”
If you visit Brini’s YouTube Channel, you can find an array of videos sharing her unique approach to ‘gracious living.’ Join Brini, Mary Ellen, and me as we bake up a Weiner Loaf together. Yes, it’s as weird as it sounds.
Beyond Brini, Ben has a fashion design degree from FIT where he has since taught classes on MidCentury Design. His NYC apartment is an homage to this time period and you can explore that on his Interior Design website. If you’re in the NYC area, you can join Brini every Tuesday evening from 6-8 pm at Club Cumming (Alan Cumming’s eponymous bar) where she hosts a fun filled crafty good time called Make it with Brini!
Join me for more of these COVID era interviews every Friday here at The Lady Party with Margot Potter and in late spring we’ll be launching Season Two!
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