143. Six Degrees of Robert Evans | The Kid and The Cotton Club Murder

Done & Dunne

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True Crime, History

4.7 • 630 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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This week in our continuing journey of the Six Degrees of Robert Evans, we take The Kid into the fabulous 1980s, which weren’t quite so fabulous at all for him. Busted for a cocaine possession, and his reputation ruined, Evans is then fueled with an obsession of bringing The Cotton Club to the screen. That is all before the murder of Roy Radin in 1983, which connects into it all, although it will take almost a decade to see justice for that crime, and Robert’s name to be cleared.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dun & Dun. I'm Alicia, your hostess on this podcast journey, All Things Dominic Dunn, where we continue connecting the six degrees of Robert Evans this week as we move the kid into the 1980s.
0:15.9	Included in this episode, a cocaine bust, a lot of drugs, and an obsession for Robert Evans. What is that
0:24.0	obsession? Making a little film called The Cotton Club. In his memoir, the kid stays in the
0:30.4	picture, Robert Evans writes, intrigue, anger, blackmail, deceit, pussy galore, macho grandstanding, backstabbing and threats to life and career
0:41.1	plagued the five-year making and near unmaking of the Cotton Club. The treacheries involved were so
0:49.5	bizarre that the Godfather and Scarface combined pale in comparison.
0:55.4	I can only tell some of the story, not wanting my life insurance canceled.
1:00.9	It had all the makings of a mega hit, but the Cotton Club seemed doomed from the start,
1:07.6	from script issues, fights between Robert Evans and Francis Ford Coppola, casting
1:13.0	problems and financial troubles, the film had every problem imaginable, and that was before
1:20.1	Roy Radin's murder was attached to the project. Yes, there's a murder in this episode two,
1:29.8	and a lengthy period of time where Robert Evans, who is not a murderer, gets slung up in almost a decade of nasty, nasty business.
1:39.6	Before we dip into the 1980s today, I do have some big thanks to give to a few folks out there.
1:46.5	First up, big love to JLZ, who sent along quite the gifts to me this week in the form of some research books and source letters.
1:58.6	Stay tuned for those investigators.
2:00.7	You will have Miss Jay to thank soon enough as well.
2:05.0	Also a huge round of love to our latest supporters over at patreon.com slash done and done.
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2:39.2	We roll ad-free in early episodes weekly, not done yet, bonus episodes too.
2:45.5	We talked about Diane Keaton last week and are not done yet, and I have a whole lot of surprises coming for every single level this week on Patreon.
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