Gossip Girls: Louella Parsons And Hedda Hopper (The Queens Are Dead, Episode 9)
You Must Remember This
Karina Longworth
4.6 • 15.7K Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2021
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
The Hollywood studio system begins to crumble, and Louella and Hedda decline and fall, too. But just as a new generation of filmmakers rises from the ashes and reinvents the movie business, so too does gossip find new life in a new look. We’ll end our season by talking about a woman who was the antithesis of Louella and Hedda -- liberal, Jewish, sexually forward, and so unwilling to play the industry’s games that she may have ensured the death of the gossip columnist as star.
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| 0:00.0 | Ch儿aman |
| 0:26.0 | Welcome to another episode of You Must Remember This, the podcast dedicated to exploring |
| 0:34.6 | the secret and or forgotten histories of Hollywood's first century. |
| 0:41.6 | I'm your host, Karina Longworth, and this is the last installment of our ongoing series, |
| 0:49.8 | Gossip Girls. |
| 0:50.8 | The desire of people to tell a story that is the dream of which my cow was built. |
| 0:57.8 | What a spark to be in there are two of them in town. |
| 1:00.8 | It is in Lwala Parsons, it must be in the shadows. |
| 1:03.8 | What about public insults? |
| 1:04.8 | Did you ever suffer at the hands of the old crack Slelly and get in? |
| 1:08.8 | Hollywood's best known, best loved, most distinguished reporter. |
| 1:11.8 | Moving news from both Hollywood and New York. |
| 1:14.8 | And that dream will remain forever. |
| 1:21.8 | Today, we're going to talk about how Lwala Parsons and Hedda Hopper ended their careers |
| 1:27.8 | and lives. |
| 1:29.8 | That'll take us up to the mid-1960s, to the point just before what we think of as the Hollywood |
| 1:35.8 | New Wave, in which films like The Graduate and The Godfather forced Hollywood to modernize |
| 1:42.6 | to catch up with their audiences. |
| 1:45.5 | This was about a decade before movie gossip became a force in nightly television, and four |
| 1:52.8 | decades before it moved to the internet. |
| 1:57.6 | How did we get from there, from the golden era of Hedda and Lwala, to the extremely different |
| 2:04.6 | world of the 21st century? |
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