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Bob & Suzanne have a candid and free-wheeling conversation with Paul Petersen, once a child actor and pop music teen idol, now a prominent social activist and prolific novelist, and the driving force behind "A Minor Consideration" working on behalf of young performers everywhere.   Breaking into show business as one of the original Mousketeers on Disney’s Mickey Mouse Club, Petersen went on to a co-starring role on one of the most iconic television series of all time, The Donna Reed Show, playing what he describes as “the classic gap-toothed wisecracking younger brother”.   Paul recalls the professional acting lessons he learned performing opposite movie greats Cary Grant and Sophia Loren in Houseboat, and then from Emmy-winner Carl Betz and Oscar-winner Donna Reed on The Donna Reed Show.  He then shares the gritty real-world of Hollywood studio casting when The Donna Reed Show went off the air after eight years, and he suddenly went from young star to struggling actor.    Articulate and painf