7238: Lauren Bacall — The Relentless Reinvention of a Hollywood Legend | pplpod
Lauren Bacall was nineteen when she told Humphrey Bogart to whistle for her and became a star overnight. When Bogart died twelve years later, Hollywood assumed her career was over too. She spent the n...
16 Jun 22min
7237: Billy Wilder — The Refugee Who Invented Modern American Comedy | pplpod
Billy Wilder fled Austria ahead of the Nazis, arrived in Hollywood speaking almost no English, and became the sharpest comedy writer-director in American film history. Some Like It Hot, The Apartment,...
16 Jun 21min
7236: Janis Joplin — The Raw Nerve and Unfiltered Pain Behind Rock's Greatest Voice | pplpod
Janis Joplin sang like she was tearing something open inside herself. The power came from pain — a childhood of relentless bullying in Port Arthur, Texas, that left wounds no amount of fame could clos...
16 Jun 21min
7235: John Ford — The Paradoxical Life of America's Greatest Film Director | pplpod
John Ford won six Academy Awards and created the visual language of the American Western. He was also a bully who humiliated actors on set, an Irish-American who romanticized a frontier built on the d...
16 Jun 21min
7234: Don Siegel — The Man Who Built Clint Eastwood's Toughest Persona | pplpod
Don Siegel directed five films with Clint Eastwood, including Dirty Harry, and shaped the screen persona that made Eastwood the biggest movie star in the world. While Sergio Leone gave Eastwood the po...
16 Jun 22min
7233: Arnold Palmer — The King Who Built the Blueprint for the Modern Athlete-Brand | pplpod
Arnold Palmer did not just win golf tournaments. He invented the concept of the athlete as brand. Before Palmer, professional athletes played sports and went home. Palmer turned charisma into endorsem...
16 Jun 19min
7232: Keith Richards — The Choirboy Behind Rock's Most Dangerous Myth | pplpod
Keith Richards sang in a church choir as a boy soprano and was praised by his choirmaster for his pure tone. Decades later he became the most famous drug survivor in rock history, a walking contradict...
16 Jun 24min
7231: Tiger Woods — The Building and Breaking of Golf's Greatest Prodigy | pplpod
Tiger Woods was engineered from birth to dominate golf. His father put a club in his hands before he could walk, trained him with military psychological techniques, and produced the most dominant golf...
16 Jun 17min
