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🗓️ 4 October 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Every other week this fall, we will be airing some of Alec’s favorite episodes from our archives. This week features two incredible authors: chronicler of Hollywood legends, Sam Wasson, and the Pulitzer-Prize winning The New Yorker writer, Lawrence Wright. Sam Wasson tackles distinctive creators and seminal moments in Hollywood history, from Blake Edwards and Paul Mazursky, to Audrey Hepburn and the history of improv. Alec loved Sam Wasson’s book, The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood. In this fascinating conversation, Wasson tells the story of the four men behind the 1974 film: producer Robert Evans, screenwriter Robert Towne, director Roman Polanski, and star Jack Nicholson - and how the film was a turning point in each of their lives. Lawrence Wright is an author, screenwriter, playwright, and staff writer for The New Yorker magazine. Filmmaker Alex Gibney directed an HBO documentary based on Wright's reporting in Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Unbelief. In his in-depth and varied reporting, Wright has documented the Jonestown massacre, explored allegations of Satan worship, profiled brimstone-tinged gospel preachers, and tracked the histories of al-Qaeda and the Church of Scientology.
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0:00.0 | Yellowstone, television's number one show returns on Paramount Network. |
0:03.8 | I John Dudley, who solemnly swear through a poll, |
0:06.4 | the Constitution of the State of Montana, |
0:08.6 | against all enemies, foreign and domestic. |
0:10.9 | Featuring an all-star cast led by Academy Award winner Kevin Costner, |
0:13.9 | the invasion is over. They will fight you dirty. |
0:16.1 | Is there any other way? |
0:17.2 | As the Dudley family fights to protect their legacy, |
0:19.6 | they'll learn power has a price. |
0:21.2 | Signing this is a declaration of war. |
0:23.2 | We're already at war. |
0:24.4 | Yellowstone returns Sunday at 8 p.m. Eastern for an |
0:26.8 | epic two-hour premiere event exclusively on Paramount Network. |
0:30.5 | This is Alec Baldwin, and you're listening to Here's the Thing from I Heart |
0:35.0 | Radio. This week we're featuring two incredible authors, |
0:39.6 | Sam Wassen, Observer of Hollywood and its artists, |
0:43.2 | and the Pulitzer Prize-winning New Yorker writer, |
0:46.2 | Laurence Wright. Here's my interview with Sam Wassen from 2021. |
0:59.8 | My guest today is author Sam Wassen. |
1:03.5 | Whether he's writing about directors such as Blake Edwards, |
1:07.1 | Paul Miseryski, or the history of improv, |
1:10.8 | a consistent theme running through Wassen's books |
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