Episodios

  • Bonus Episode: When ‘Taxi Driver’ Got Booed at Cannes and Inspired a Real-Life Vigilante
    Nov 19 2025
    On this week’s Wrap Party, Zeth digs into Taxi Driver – and what happens when a film about alienation, obsession, and twisted vigilante justice is mirrored in the real world. Call or text (617) 906-6638, email disgracelandpod@gmail.com, or reach out on socials @disgracelandpod. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    36 m
  • Jodie Foster: A Teenage Star-Turn, a Deranged Stalker, and the Attempted Assassination of Ronald Reagan
    Nov 17 2025
    After being nominated for an Academy Award for her role as a child prostitute in the 1976 film Taxi Driver, Jodi Foster gave up acting to go to college. It was there that her Oscar-nominated performance made her the target of a deranged stalker. That stalker, John Hinckley Jr., was obsessed with Jodie Foster. He wrote her letters and called her on the phone. He was convinced she needed to be saved and that he was the one to do it. And in 1981, in Washington, D.C., Jodie Foster was the unknowing inspiration for and motive behind Hinckley’s attempted assassination of a sitting American President. This episode contains themes that may be disturbing to some listeners, including stalking and suicide. If you’re thinking about suicide, or are worried about a friend or loved one, call the Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-8255. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    38 m
  • Bonus Episode: From the Great Train Robbery to Natural Born Killers, How Movie Culture Is Crime Culture
    Nov 12 2025
    On this week’s Wrap Party, Zeth is talking about the ways in which crime, criminals, corruption, and redemption always have and always will be at the core of the moviegoing experience. What crime film do you think holds a mirror up to a specific moment in history? Call or text (617) 906-6638, email disgracelandpod@gmail.com, or reach out on socials @disgracelandpod. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    36 m
  • Humphrey Bogart: Mob Assassins, Rat Packs, and the Downfall of Murder, Inc.
    Nov 10 2025
    Murder for hire. Murder for business. Murder for profit. In the 1940s, a crew called Murder, Inc. protected the interests of the Commission, a collective of American gangsters who banded together to run the American underworld like a legit business. Murder, Inc. thugs shot, stabbed, and strangled upwards of 1,000 snitches who dared rat on the mob. But the mob never bargained that their chief executive executor would himself turn rat. Or that the story of their downfall would be laid out for all to see on the big screen – pursued and prosecuted by Humphrey Bogart, who proved what it really takes to be a tough guy. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    40 m
  • Bonus Episode: Gangsters and Movie Stars, Deliver Me from Nowhere, and Days of Heaven
    Nov 5 2025
    On this week’s Wrap Party, Zeth is talking about Al Capone and Howard Hawks, James Caan and the Colombo crime family, and the mob’s long history in Hollywood. Plus Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, Santana’s “Winning,” the 90-minute epic Days of Heaven, going into brain overdrive with Underworld, and more. And tell us: what is the most underrated mob movie of all time? Call or text (617) 906-6638, email disgracelandpod@gmail.com, or reach out on socials @disgracelandpod. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    37 m
  • Lana Turner: The Preeminent Pinup Girl, the King of Los Angeles, and the Death of Johnny Stompanato
    Nov 3 2025
    As captivating as actress Lana Turner was on screen, her personal life off screen was more dramatic than any movie could hope to be. Her father, turning up dead over a poker pot. Her co-star, Sean Connery, throwing down with pre-Bond panache when her boyfriend threatened to beat her up. And that same boyfriend, Johnny Stompanato, winding up dead in her Hollywood home after another of their infamous arguments. This episode contains themes that may be disturbing to some listeners, including domestic violence and child sexual assault. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    38 m
  • Bonus Episode: The Coroner to the Stars, Evil Dead 2, They Live, and Other Movie Blind Spots
    Oct 29 2025
    On this week’s Wrap Party, Zeth is talking about the so-called “Coroner to the Stars,” Thomas Noguchi, who famously performed autopsies on Marilyn Monroe, Sharon Tate, Janis Joplin, and this week’s Hollywoodland subject, Natalie Wood. Also, you guys bring the fall movie recommendations and we’re talking movie blind spots. What are some of the movies you’ve never seen and why? Call or text (617) 906-6638, email disgracelandpod@gmail.com, or reach out on socials @disgracelandpod. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    38 m
  • Natalie Wood: Secrets, Prophecies, Pills, and When the Wrong Dreams Come True
    Oct 27 2025
    Natalie Wood was one of the most loved child stars of the silver screen in the mid-20th century, and the rare celebrity who was able to transition gracefully into grown-up roles all while maintaining an air of dignity and grace. She acted alongside Orson Welles, James Dean, Warren Beatty, and Bette Davis, and many of her roles remain iconic decades later. But beneath her unprecedented professional success was a life unseen by the public – a life full of fears, paranoias, pills, gypsy curses, and secrets. And when she drowned at the age of 43, more secrets would come floating to the surface. This episode contains themes that may be disturbing to some listeners, including sexual assault and suicide. If you’re thinking about suicide, or are worried about a friend or loved one, call the Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-8255. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    40 m