That Time Sean Young Just Wanted to Audition for Catwoman

We sure went on a wild ride with American Crime Story: Impeachment, but the final leg of this trip was well with it. We got nuance; we got Acting; we got vulnerability. And we got a dramatization of Linda Tripp and Monica Lewinsky testifying—to VERY different results—before a grand jury. Join Kasey Howe & Mark Peikert as they wrap up the 10-episode season with their take on the final two installments, which find Monica and Linda handling their newfound fame very differently, and Paula Jones left to fend for herself by the people who used and then discarded her. Logo: Jessica Balaschak Music: Caveman of Los Angeles by Party Store Music

11 Marras 202133min

If you know Boss Tweed today, it's probably from political cartoons from the 19th century about greed and graft in NYC politics. And you're right! But what you probably didn't learn is that Boss Tweed eventually went to jail—for a while. Here, Kasey Howe recounts his checkered career, the high cost of chairs in in the 1800s, and why an escape by sea for a man who suffered from seasickness was never going to be an easy choice. Check out Thomas Nast's political cartoons here: https://www.thoughtco.com/thomas-nasts-campaign-against-boss-tweed-4039578 Logo: Jessica Balaschak Music: Caveman of Los Angeles by Party Store Music

9 Marras 202138min

When it comes to Hollywood scandals, L.A. native Andrea Van Landingham knows where the bodies are buried. Figuratively speaking! On this special episode of Shocking! Lurid! Tawdry! Mark is flying solo the author of Hollywood Horrors: Murders, Scandals, and Coverups From Tinseltown to dish on the stories that formed her, the ones she wasn't able to include, and why we're still fascinated by the lives of the stars whose movies we no longer watch.  Hollywood Horrors is out November 1 from Lyons Press. https://amzn.to/3At4pkq Logo: Jessica Balaschak Music: Caveman of Los Angeles by Party Store Music

2 Marras 202130min

... And Hillary Clinton pissed off Tammy Wynette. We're not gonna lie: Episodes 7 & 8 of Impeachment: American Crime Story (titled "The Assassination of Monica Lewinsky" and "Stand By Your Man") were tough to watch. But they're also the first time the show proved its need to exist. Giving Monica Lewinsky, Linda Tripp, and Hillary Clinton layers and nuances and showing how wide the chasm between their realities and the public's perception of them proved to be, these are powerhouse episodes of TV that all end in the same lesson: Men get to play semantics and smirk, while women get left out to dry. Plus Edie Falco is finally out of bed as Hillary and acting up a storm with her glass of red while Monica takes up handicrafts and Linda watches Saturday Night Live (don't do it, Linda!). Logo: Jessica Balaschak Music: Caveman of Los Angeles by Party Store Music

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Truman Capote promised a masterpiece as his follow-up to In Cold Blood. Instead, Esquire readers got "La Côte Basque," a scandalous short story that dished the details of his best friend's most intimate secrets. Almost 50 years later, we're still gossiping about the fallout from that story—but only how it destroyed Truman Capote's life. This week, Mark shares the collateral damage from that story, which was a lot bigger than Babe Paley never speaking to Capote again. Meet Ann Woodward, or, as Truman dubbed her in the story, "Annie Get Your Gun." Logo: Jessica Balaschak Music: Caveman of Los Angeles by Party Store Music

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In this week's episode we learn that no good deed goes unpunished. Gary Webb was just trying to do his job when the CIA started hassling him for no reason! (Well, maybe his series of articles on the CIA and crack cocaine had something to do with it?) Meanwhile the country could not be bothered because we only cared about a blowjob. Logo: Jessica Balaschak Music: Caveman of Los Angeles by Party Store Music

19 Loka 202130min

Monica knows her malls, but she didn't see the trap Linda Tripp set for her in Pentagon City. She does spot a nice wine decanter though! That's right, we're at the interrogation portion of Monica's story, with special appearances from her mom, Ann Coulter, and 6 bottles of Champagne. What do you think Linda bought at Bath and Bodyworks? What show did Monica's grandmother see that night? And what will Monica do now? None of those questions are answered, but we're going to keep asking anyway! Logo: Jessica Balaschak Music: Caveman of Los Angeles by Party Store Music

13 Loka 202124min

The book that quickly outsold Gone With the Wind has one of the most famous opening lines in literature: "Indian summer is like a woman. Ripe, hotly passionate, but fickle, she comes and goes as she pleases so that one is never sure whether she will come at all, nor for how long she will stay." As it turns out, Indian summer was a lot like the woman behind those words. Grace Metalious landed into the national consciousness with the subtlety of an atom bomb upon publication of her first novel, Peyton Place, in 1956. What we take for granted after multiple seasons of Desperate Housewives (that small-town life is just as sinful as big city living) was a new concept then, and Grace's neighbor were not thrilled to be thrust under the microscope. Especially when she was so cavalier as to use an actual neighbor's name and physical description for one of her characters. But as it turns out, Grace's fame was as fleeting as Indian summer. In 1956 she was a phenomenon. Eight years later, she was dead at age 39 of cirrhosis of the liver. Join Mark Peikert as he takes you on a journey through mid-century America that encompasses everything from incest to Lana Turner to a Bloody Mary thrown in a screenwriter's face. Logo: Jessica Balaschak Music: Caveman of Los Angeles by Party Store Music

12 Loka 202139min