It's also just thrilling to think about having to contact Patty Smith, not to interview her, but to be like,

hey, did you have beef with this one lady 50 years ago, or what?

But that's what you get for being culturally relevant, babe. Welcome to your wrong about. I'm Sarah Marshall and today we are talking about the Oscars. Not this year's Oscars of course, but the Oscars 50 years ago in

1974 when Robert Opel streaked across the stage and had his 15 minutes of fame.

Today I'm talking with New Yorker staff writer Michael Schulman,

author of Oscar Wars,

a history of Hollywood in gold, sweat, and tears about Robert Opel's life before, during, and after his 15 minutes of fame.

And it's also a story of gay history and the people we might never have met if someone hadn't got and learned about them for us.

This is also a story of murder, several murders in fact, including the assassination of Harvey Milk. It gets to some difficult places. We go to the realities of life for a gay man in 1970s America and those realities

sometimes meant death. So this episode might be for you today. It might not. This is not exactly a fluffy

Oscar's history episode, but it is an episode that is also about joy and

survival and the people whose acquaintance we are lucky enough to make

when we learn about history. If you want some bonus episodes we have been doing

our Brittany Spears book club with Eve Lindley over on

Patreon and Apple Plus we just released part two part three is coming in April

we hope you're enjoying those episodes if you're listening and if you're not you know

where to find them. Thank you so much for being with us. Thank you for joining us as we

enter the spring in the Northern Hemisphere anyway. Here's your episode.

Welcome to your wrong about the show where sometimes we get Oscar Fever. I don't know if that's a thing people say.

And with me today is Michael Schulman, and we're going to talk about the Oscar Streaker.

Are you a Michael or a Mike?

Or like a third thing?

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