Tippi Hedren takes on Alfred Hitchcock via the small screen! PODCAST INTERVIEW - Mr. Media Interview

Today's Guest: Tippi Hedren, actress, The Birds, Marnie, founder of Roar Foundation
Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of creepy old men with British accents, cigars and pot bellies who keep promising to put me in moving pictures… in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida!

We know Tippi Hedren for many reasons.

As a young model, she was plucked from a successful career in one field by British film director Alfred Hitchcock to star in two of his most fondly remembered works, The Birds and Marnie.

A falling out with Hitchcock over sexual harassment accusations slowed her career opportunities when she refused his advances, but the beautiful young woman found ways of staying in the public consciousness. And she never stopped working in a variety of roles, large and small, over the years.
TIPPI HEDREN audio excerpt: "Stop the breeding. Just plain stop it! There is a special interest group trying very hard to stop the Big Cat bill in Congress. It's the circus -- Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey -- and Kenneth Feld. I think when God needs money, he calls Kenneth Feld. This man controls Washington, whatever he wants. He has made noises that he doesn't like this bill. I have written an open letter to Congress: 'Will anyone stand beside me against Kenneth Feld?' He's got to be stopped." 
You can LISTEN to this interview with actress TIPPI HEDREN, star of THE BIRDS and MARNIE, by clicking the audio player above!

She is also the mother of another prominent American actress, Melanie Griffith, Academy Award nominated star of Working Girl.

And her philanthropic commitment to abandoned exotic felines – lions, tigers, cougars, black and spotted leopards, servals, bobcats, and Asian leopard cats – showed the public another side of her when she founded The Roar Foundation and Shambala Preserve on the outskirts of Los Angeles in 1983.

The Preserve is home to 50 retired big c