Episodi

  • Episode 424- Bugsy
    Apr 27 2026
    In this episode, I spoke with mobster expert Larry Gragg about the film "Bugsy".
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    24 min
  • Episode 423-With Author Mayukh Sen- "Love Queenie: Merlie Oberon, Hollywood's First South Asian Star"
    Apr 23 2026
    In this episode, I spoke with author Mayukh Sen about his book "Love Queenie: Merlie Oberon, Hollywood's First South Asian Star". A beautiful reclamation of a pioneering South Asian actress captures her glittering, complicated life and lasting impact on Hollywood.
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    23 min
  • Episode 422- "Vietnam on the Big Screen: How the Vietnam War Changed Hollywood"
    Apr 20 2026
    In this episode, I spoke with author Joseph Hulihan about his book "Vietnam on the Big Screen: How the Vietnam War Changed Hollywood". America, it is said, deals with its trauma through the medium of Hollywood, and few experiences have been more traumatic than its involvement in the Vietnam War. As the last US helicopters fled the American Embassy compound during the fall of Saigon, they left behind a country devastated by twenty years of death and destruction.
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    22 min
  • Episode 421- Hollywood Haunts with author Robert Guffey
    Apr 16 2026
    In this episode, I spoke with author Robert Guffey about his Book "Hollywood Haunts the World". In Hollywood Haunts the World: An Investigation into the Cinema of Occulted Taboos, Robert Guffey deconstructs the most powerful taboos of the twentieth century (and the initial decades of the twenty-first century) by analyzing how disturbing and transgressive ideas involving Theosophy, Gnosticism, Freemasonry, Darwinian Evolution, Surrealism, Freudian and Jungian psychology, race relations, paranoia, UFOs, xenophobia, political conspiracies, the JFK assassination, virtual reality, and alternate dimensions have been reflected in films―both American and foreign―throughout the past one hundred years.
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    25 min
  • Episode 420- "Marilyn Monroe Day by Day: A Timeline of People, Places and Events."
    Apr 13 2026
    In this episode, I spoke with author Carl Rollyson about his book "Marilyn Monroe Day by Day: A Timeline of People, Places and Events." From hefty biographies and fact-based novels to photograph collections and memoirs, more books have been written about Marilyn Monroe than any other female over the past century
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    20 min
  • Episode 419-Gilmore Girls: Pop Culture Reference Guide with author Matt Browning
    Apr 9 2026
    In this episode, I spoke with author Matt Browning about his latest book "Gilmore Girls: Pop Culture Reference Guide". Finally understand every single pop culture joke, obscure reference, and witty one-liner that makes Gilmore Girls one of the most reference-packed shows in television history.
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    23 min
  • Episode 418 Stage Door with Author Kathleen Brady
    Apr 6 2026
    IN this episode I spoke with author Kathleen Brady to discuss one of her favorite Lucille Ball films Stage Door. A boardinghouse for female theater actresses gets a new arrival in the form of Terry Randall (Katharine Hepburn), an upper-class woman pursuing her dreams against her wealthy father's wishes. At first, her status makes her unpopular with the other boarders, particularly her roommate, Jean (Ginger Rogers). As Terry becomes better acquainted with the other girls and their shared ambitions, rivalry -- both professional and romantic -- explodes among them
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    22 min
  • Episode 417- Ben Hur
    Apr 2 2026
    In this episode Robert Ray comes on to discuss Ben-Hur (1959) in 4K for the Easter season.
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    22 min