A frequent co-star of Roscoe Arbuckle’s, Mabel Normand was the definitive female screen comedienne of her generation. But it wasn’t her association with Arbuckle that brought Normand’s career to an abrupt close and her life to an early end. Today we’ll interrogate Hollywood Babylon’s claim that Normand was a cocaine addict, explore Normand’s involvement in v ... Show More
Aug 2018
Wallace Reid (Fake News: Fact Checking Hollywood Babylon Episode 6)
According to Hollywood Babylon, actor Wallace Reid—a morphine addict who died in an asylum at the age of 31—was the first sacrificial lamb of the post-scandal era, and Reid’s wife, a former teen star named Dorothy Davenport, was the ultimate opportunistic hypocrite. What made Rei ... Show More
1h 2m
Aug 2018
Will Hays and "Pre-Code" Hollywood (Fake News: Fact-Checking Hollywood Babylon Episode 7)
Who was Will Hays, and how did he come to put his name on the censorship “Code” that would shape the content of movies more than any other single force from the early 1930s into the 1960s? How much power did Hays really have in 1920s Hollywood, how corrupt was he, and why did it ... Show More
54m 13s
Aug 2018
Peggy Hopkins Joyce and Charlie Chaplin (Fake News: Fact-Checking Hollywood Babylon, Episode 8)
The Kim Kardashian of her day, Peggy Hopkins Joyce was famous for being rich and famous—and for her marriages and involvements with rich and famous men, including Charlie Chaplin. Did Peggy really ask Chaplin on their first date if he was “hung like a horse?” We’ll investigate th ... Show More
1h 5m
May 2021
Episode 34: The Glee Club
On today’s show, Mark-Paul and Dashiell discuss the episode where the gang tries to win a singing competition for a trip to Hawaii. Plus, Tori Spelling joins to share her memories from playing the beloved character, Violet Bickerstaff. To learn more about listener data and our pr ... Show More
1h 8m
Aug 2019
Laura Prepon, Tyler Cameron & Dakota Johnson's Gap?
Today on Who’s There, we spend far too much time talking about ConEdison (yet again), but manage to swerve into new topics like Laura Prepon (actor slash YouTuber), Tyler Cameron (reality TV star slash alleged object of Gigi Hadid’s affection), and Dakota Johnson’s gap (Chris Mar ... Show More
1h 2m
May 2024
Who Killed the Video Star: The Story of MTV | RIP MTV News
For now anyway, we have heard the last of the place where you used to hear it first. While we were recording this podcast, as part of a round of layoffs at Paramount, MTV News was officially euthanized. So we’re taking a moment to talk to some of the people who built the one news ... Show More
39m 14s