85: The Blacklist Part 15: Frank Sinatra and ...

How did the Blacklist come to an end? If you ask Kirk Douglas, the end began with his hiring of Dalton Trumbo to write Spartacus -- or, rather Douglas flaunting of that hiring. Otto Preminger, who hired Trumbo to write Exodus, might see it differently. In truth, the end of the bl ...  Show more

In order to understand Joan Crawford’s rise to fame, we have to talk about what Joan - born Lucille LeSueur, and called “Billie Cassin” for much of her childhood - was like before she got to Hollywood, and what Hollywood was like before she got there. To accomplish the latter, we ...  Show more

In two weeks it will be 60 years since one of the most shattering moments in American history when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in the streets of Dallas. Even today there are few more complex, controversial or fundamentally, unknowable events than the Kennedy assass ...  Show more

In this episode, hosts Brittany and Ronald discuss The Invisible Pilot, a three-part docuseries that begins with a mysterious disappearance and dark family secrets, and ends up inside one of the biggest political scandals of our time: The Iran Contra Affair. After a conversation ...  Show more

Americans are planning to hit the road in record numbers this holiday weekend, President Trump is escalating his war on “woke” arts programming at The Kennedy Center, Vice President Vance discussed online dating with Pope Leo XIV for some reason, and the new interim U.S. attorney ...  Show more

In this fourth podcast, actor Gary Oldman tells Telegraph film critic Robbie Collin how his own love of Churchill's speeches inspired him through the extraordinary process of playing the great man on film.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Noti ...  Show more