Credits: This episode was written, narrated, and produced by Karina Longworth. Our editor this season is Evan Viola. Research and production assistant:...
Credits: This episode was written, narrated, and produced by Karina Longworth. Our editor this season is Evan Viola. Research and production assistant:...
Music: The music used in this episode, with the exception of the intro, was sourced from royalty-free music libraries and licensed music...
Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. This season, we look at the movies, music and lives of Sammy Davis...
In the early 40s, both Dean and Sammy idolized Frank Sinatra. 20 years later, they became Sinatra’s cohorts in the Rat Pack,...
Released in 1965, Sammy Davis Jr.’s autobiography became an instant classic, one of the most dynamic celebrity memoirs ever published and a...
In the mid-1960s, 47 year-old Dean Martin proves he’s still got it by knocking the Beatles off the top of the pop...
Desperate to be seen as cool and not a relic of an earlier age in 70s America, Sammy gets into porn and...
Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Here in 2022, there is more public conversation about the nuances of human...
SHOW NOTES: Sources: Film Reviews: American Gigolo, Variety, Jan 30, 1980 American Gigolo, Films in Review, March 1980, Vol 31 Iss 3...
SHOW NOTES: Sources: Easy Riders Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-And Rock ‘N Roll Generation by Peter Biskind Send Yourself Roses: Thoughts on...
SHOW NOTES: Sources: Long Live the New Flesh! Or, Why Video Stores With Real Employees Will Always Win, By Ross Scarano, Matt...
SHOW NOTES: Sources: Make My Day: Movie Culture in the Age of Reagan by J. Hoberman Altered States by Ken Russell Double...
SHOW NOTES: Sources: Hollywood Animal by Joe Eszterhas Murdering Women For Entertainment by Rita Kempley, aliciapatterson.org, 2002 Hudson Has Aids, Spokesman Says,...
SHOW NOTES: Sources:Nine and a Half Weeks: A Memoir of a Love Affair by Elizabeth McNeill Beauty, Disrupted: The Carre Otis Story,...