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Back to Search7243: Miles Davis — The Relentless Genius Who Never Looked Back | pplpod
Episode 7243
Miles Davis reinvented jazz at least five times. Every time the world caught up to what he was doing, he abandoned it and started something new. Cool…
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7244: Sandy Koufax — Why Baseball's Most Dominant Pitcher Walked Away at Thirty | pplpod
Episode 7244
Sandy Koufax pitched four no-hitters, won three Cy Young Awards, and was the most dominant pitcher in baseball. Then, at thirty years old and at the …
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7237: Billy Wilder — The Refugee Who Invented Modern American Comedy | pplpod
Episode 7237
Billy Wilder fled Austria ahead of the Nazis, arrived in Hollywood speaking almost no English, and became the sharpest comedy writer-director in Amer…
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7241: Joe Montana — The Invisible Metrics Behind Football's Coolest Quarterback | pplpod
Episode 7241
Joe Montana never had the strongest arm or the fastest legs. What he had was an ability to process information under pressure that no metric could ca…
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7238: Lauren Bacall — The Relentless Reinvention of a Hollywood Legend | pplpod
Episode 7238
Lauren Bacall was nineteen when she told Humphrey Bogart to whistle for her and became a star overnight. When Bogart died twelve years later, Hollywo…
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7239: Freddie Mercury — The Shy Refugee Behind Rock's Greatest Frontman | pplpod
Episode 7239
Freddie Mercury was born Farrokh Bulsara in Zanzibar, fled a revolution as a teenager, and arrived in England as a quiet, self-conscious immigrant. H…
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7242: Edmund Hillary — The Shy Beekeeper Who Conquered Mount Everest | pplpod
Episode 7242
Edmund Hillary kept bees for a living and described himself as an average New Zealander with modest abilities. In 1953 he and Tenzing Norgay became t…
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7240: Hayao Miyazaki — The Fierce Contradictions of Animation's Greatest Living Artist | pplpod
Episode 7240
Hayao Miyazaki has announced his retirement at least four times and come back every time. He hand-draws thousands of frames for films that gross hund…
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7235: John Ford — The Paradoxical Life of America's Greatest Film Director | pplpod
Episode 7235
John Ford won six Academy Awards and created the visual language of the American Western. He was also a bully who humiliated actors on set, an Irish-…
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7234: Don Siegel — The Man Who Built Clint Eastwood's Toughest Persona | pplpod
Episode 7234
Don Siegel directed five films with Clint Eastwood, including Dirty Harry, and shaped the screen persona that made Eastwood the biggest movie star in…
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