2: Frank Sinatra in Outer Space

2: Frank Sinatra in Outer Space

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3: Happy 110th Birthday, Val Lewton

A Very Special Halloween Episode! The writer-producer Val Lewton produced and ghost-wrote 11 films in just three years as head of the horror unit at RKO, many of which — Cat People, I Walked With A Zombie, The Curse of the Cat People, The Body Snatcher — were huge hits, helping t ...  Show more

4: (The Printing of) the Legend of Frances Farmer

During the last year of his life, Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain was obsessed with Frances Farmer, an actress from his hometown of Seattle who died in 1970. Farmer’s beauty and unique screen presence made her a star, but her no-bullshit ballsiness made her a pariah — and a target of the h ...  Show more

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