In this episode, we dig into Ryan Murphy’s limited series, Hollywood, now airing on Netflix. Murphy’s sexy fairy tale is a “what if” story from the classic era of Hollywood. It’s a mix of fact and fiction, and what it was like for the wanna-bees, the has-beens, the mucky-mucks, and muckrakers. Hollywood has an ensemble cast, including a heartbreaking role for Holland Taylor, Dylan McDermott, as an aging Lothario and Jim Parsons as you’ve have never seen before!
The Music
Hollywood has a great soundtrack full of songs from the big band and swing era. Refinery29 put together a slideshow called Every Song In Netflix’s Hollywood Is A Throwback To The Golden Age Of Movies where you can sample every song featured in the series, and click through to Spotify to listen to the full versions.
Did we? Or did we not?
We give you an update on whether or not we got tested for COVID-19, and our trip to the no contact carwash.
We wrap up the show with a tribute to two great talents that we lost this week, director Lynn Shelton and national comedy treasure, Fred Willard, with a look back on their careers and some personal stories.
Elaine’s favorite scene from Best in Show.
Finally, we introduce our new mini-pods, Shorties!
Starting with Raymond Burr, we’ll be putting up short 5 to 10 minute stories about stars, big and small from every era of Hollywood and some personalities and juicy stories you may have never heard before.
Big thanks as always to Johnny Stromboli!
Since we decided to do this show from our dining room table while sheltering at home, Johnny has been helping is with sound and we can’t thank him enough. Give him a listen on his Soundcloud page.
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