Podcast: Be our guest at ‘Beauty and the Beast’ premiere Straight Up Hollywood talks to Josh Gad; talks politics on ‘Americans,’ ‘American Crime.’ Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/2mb9Cb3 Two of our intrepid podcast correspondents, West Coast entertainment editor Andrea Mandell and entertainment reporter Carly Mallenbaum , spill details on what it was like at the glamorous Hollywood premiere of Disney’s live-action version of Beauty and the Beast .