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Jan 2025
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Flashback: Peter Bogdanovich and the Wom...

Karina Longworth
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This episode was originally released on June 3, 2020. Listen to help prep for the next episode of our new season, The Old Man is Still Alive. After the death of her first husband and creative partner, Polly moves to New York, where she swiftly meets and falls in love with Peter Bogdanovich. Together Polly and Peter build a life around the obsessive consumpti ... Show More
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John Ford 1962-1972 (The Old Man is Still Alive, Part 3)
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