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Back to SearchWoody Harrelson: Contract Killers, JFK Conspiracies, and Fathers & Sons
Episode 8
One of Hollywood’s most eclectic and unpredictable actors, Woody Harrelson has played a hayseed barback, a streetball hustler, a natural born killer, a true detective, and so many more. But his most …
Published on 7 months, 3 weeks ago
Chris Farley: Raging Bulls, Insatiable Appetites, Dead Comics, and a Four-Day Plunge off the Edge
Episode 7
Everything about Chris Farley was larger than life. His comedy, his laughs, the risks he took in front of a live studio audience – they were all bigger than anyone else's. So were his appetites. Not …
Published on 7 months, 3 weeks ago
Bill Murray: Airport Drug Busts, Backstage Brawls, and Crashing Elvis’s Burial
Episode 6
Before Bill Murray was busting ghosts and living in a loop of deja vu, he was a drug-dealing premed student with a knack for comedy. When he was caught with five bricks of pot at the airport, his car…
Published on 7 months, 3 weeks ago
Richard Pryor: Stabbing, Shooting, F***ing, Burning, and Freebasing
Episode 5
Richard Pryor was one of the funniest people who ever lived. He elevated stand-up comedy to an art form. But the real life that informed his stand-up – a life of pool halls, brothels, stabbings, shoo…
Published on 7 months, 3 weeks ago
Dorothy Stratten: A Playboy Pinup, a Private Investigator, and a Chilling Murder
Episode 4
From Dairy Queen counter girl to Playboy pinup to murder victim – in just two years. Hugh Hefner called her the next Marilyn Monroe. A major Hollywood director wrote a role in his new film just for h…
Published on 7 months, 3 weeks ago
Dennis Hopper: Dynamite, Cocaine, Cheating Death, Subverting Hollywood, and Life on the Fringe
Episode 3
Dennis Hopper revolutionized American cinema by bringing the counterculture to the mainstream with his 1969 film Easy Rider. But he also lived his life in tandem with his art, on the fringes of socie…
Published on 7 months, 3 weeks ago
Marilyn Monroe (Part 2): The Three Deaths of an Iconic American Actress
Episode 2
The conspiracy theories surrounding Marilyn Monroe’s death in 1962 continue to entertain the imaginations of those obsessed with celebrity and scandal. The stories, many of them fantastical and one o…
Published on 7 months, 3 weeks ago
Marilyn Monroe (Part 1): Who killed Marilyn? JFK? RFK? The KKK? Probable Suicide and a Conspiracy Theory That Won’t Quit
Episode 1
Marilyn Monroe is one of the greatest Hollywood stars of all time. She rose from orphan to icon by creating an on screen character America could not peel their eyes away from. And she did it all whil…
Published on 7 months, 3 weeks ago