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Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

Karina Longworth

Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

Arts, Comedy, Tv & Film, Visual Arts

4.84K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2022

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Karina Longworth -- author, film critic, and host of the award-winning Hollywood history podcast, "You Must Remember This" -- joins Gilbert and Frank for a deep dive into a variety of fascinating topics, including: the reclusiveness of Dean Martin, the kinkiness of "The Black Cat," the mysterious deaths of Thomas Ince and William Desmond Taylor, the curious friendship between Ed Wood and Bela Lugosi and the premiere of YMRT's new season, "Erotic 80s." Also, Orson Welles romances Eartha Kitt, Patton Oswalt portrays Boris Karloff, JFK turns his back on Sammy Davis Jr. and William Randolph Hearst "takes a shot" at Charlie Chaplin. PLUS: The genius of Polly Platt! The trials of Fatty Arbuckle! The "secret" life of Errol Flynn! The dark magic of Kenneth Anger! And Gilbert and Karina debate the talents of Lon Chaney Jr! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi, this is Gilbert Gottfried. This is Gilbert Gottfried's amazing colossal podcast with

0:23.3

my co-host Frank Santopadre. Our guest this week is a writer, researcher, journalist, historian,

0:31.4

and a creator, writer, producer, and narrator of the award-winning storytelling podcast. You

0:39.3

must remember this. Dedicated to the secret and forgotten histories of Hollywood, first

0:47.8

century. She's also a former editor at the LA Weekly and Village Voice as well as a contributor

0:55.7

to Vanity Fair, New York Magazine, Slate, and the Daily Beast. Just a name of you. Her

1:04.6

collected film criticism won Entertainment Reviews of the Year award from Los Angeles Press Club,

1:13.9

and she's also received a National Entertainment Journalism Award along with other honors. As an

1:23.7

author, she's also written a book's seduction, sex and lives, and starred them in Howard Hughes Hollywood,

1:31.9

and Hollywood frame by frame about the history of Hollywood still photography. She's also the author

1:42.2

of Masters of Cinema, George Lucas, as well as books about the acting careers of both Al Pacino

1:52.0

and Meryl Street. Her immensely popular and much admired podcast, now in its ninth year,

2:00.4

has covered topics ranging from the careers of Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. to Kenneth

2:08.9

Angers, Hollywood Babylon, to the history of MGM Studios, to the Hollywood Blacklist, and

2:19.6

has featured guest voices and appearances from performers including John Mulaney, Dana

2:28.6

Harvey, Fred Savage, and Pat Nazwald. The show has also garnered praise from the Washington Post,

2:38.9

Esquire, Entertainment Weekly, and The New York Times, and was named the best podcast of 2020 by

2:49.4

time Rolling Stone, Fulture and Sightened Sound. Frank and I are looking forward to talking to a

2:58.6

fellow podcaster and show his obsessive, and a woman who says she finds herself strangely

3:09.0

attracted to Belalagosi, possibly because of his resemblance to Bengazara. Well, that's

3:19.7

something we haven't come. The talented, Carina Longworth. Wow, with an intro, thank you so much.

3:30.6

Yeah, it doubles. It doubled session of Bituary. You just have to have found it in Hollywood

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