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The Originals
Hosted by Andrew Goldman, busybody/interviewer, LA Mag, NY Mag, NY Times, WSJ Mag · EN
Secrets will be spilled, names will be named, feelings won't be spared as intrepid interviewer Andrew Goldman sits down with cultural icons who have seen it all.
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The Originals #25 Rex Reed
Mar 21, 2022Tap to summarizeAgree with Observer critic Rex Reed that 2022 is "the worst year in history for Oscars"? If so, have we got an eyebrow-singeing hour for you. Not only does the 83 year-old icon give the business to Best Picture nominees The Power of the Dog ("I fell asleep several times") Licorice Pizza ("one of the worst movies ever made") and Belfast ("I couldn't understand more than every third word"), Reed reignites feuds with both the living and the dead. Why Reed believes Melissa McCarthy owes him a big thank you for calling her a "tractor-sized" "female hippo" in a 2013 review. Why John Lennon was "very square." How Lauren Bacall was "mean as a snake." As for King of Pop Michael Jackson? "No talent!" Our episode guarantee: No listener will emerge unoffended. PLUS: a torrent of Haterade for Barbra Streisand and Warren Beatty--as well as a defense of "friend" Woody Allen. Fasten your seatbelts! Mentioned in episode: Earbuds Podcast Collective includes The Originals on a Best Of list. The Originals recommends: The Industry With Dan Delgado.
Transcribe →The Originals #22 Jon Cryer
Dec 20, 2021Tap to summarizeA top-to-bottom reassessment of 1986 classic Pretty In Pink with Duckie himself, Jon Cryer. Which team was Duckie playing for? Was Duckie a stalker? Why did Molly Ringwald end up with Blane, "a major appliance" when he was obviously such a dud? Why were co-stars Molly Ringwald and Andrew McCarthy so lame on set to the Duck-ster? Plus, a ten-year retrospective on the testosterone (or was it oxy?) meltdown of Cryer's Two And A Half Men costar Charlie Sheen, peddler of disembodies vagina pics, and possibly the 47th POTUS. PLUS: Trump v Sheen tale of the tape, No, Jon's not Matthew Broderick, not-really getting his cherry popped by Demi Moore, and all the HUGE similarities Cryer has with Pete Davidson. AND—an unfortunate Goldman/Cryer duet en español.
Transcribe →The Originals #15 Moby
May 28, 2021Tap to summarizeMoby, the biggest selling electronica artist in history, ponders the question: why did so many people hate my guts? Born Richard Melville Hall (so nicknamed because Moby Dick author Herman Melville's an ancestor) he grew up on food stamps in fancy Darien, CT, became an NYC DJ and released the huge-in-Europe dance single "Go" in 1991. Fame and fortune (and many threesomes) followed the release of 1999's Play, but happiness eluded him. His surreal new documentary Moby Doc documents his brutal childhood, his rise and fall from pop stardom, and the drugs and booze that nearly did him in. Host Andrew Goldman goes deep on sex, coke, sex-on-coke, artistic purity and what he learned from that Natalie Portman kerfuffle. Plus! That time he put his penis on Donald Trump.
Transcribe →The Originals #14 Ron Galella
Feb 8, 2021Tap to summarizeYou may or may not recognize his name, but you definitely know the pictures of, as he likes to call himself, "Paparazzo Extraordinaire" Ron Galella. There was that famous shot of "Fat Liz" [Taylor] at Studio 54, David Bowie and John Lennon at a Grammy afterparty, and Robert Redford rocking mirrored shades. He's however best known for his decades long pursuit of Jackie O, which resulted in his most famous photo, shot in 1971, "Windblown Jackie." In this sometimes funny, but often dark encounter with the iconic lensman, we get to hear Galella's side of the story. Did Jackie O, as Galella professes, actually enjoy the attention? Andrew tracks down a longtime member Jackie O's Secret Service detail to factcheck Galella's claims. Catch Andrew talking about this and others episodes on Feb 11, 2021's episode of the always hilarious pop culture current events podcast, Nope.
Transcribe →The Originals #2 Gay Talese
Nov 28, 2018Tap to summarizeAndrew and iconic new journalist Gay Talese settle an old beef involving Sinatra's hairpiece, then go deep into Talese's sexy years researching Thy Neighbor's Wife and the big headaches that came with his blockbuster New Yorker story, "The Voyeur's Motel."
Transcribe →The Originals #1 Allen Kovac
Oct 18, 2018Tap to summarizeAndrew Goldman interviews "Master of Chaos" music manager Allen Kovac, who shares all the grisly details of managing Mötley Crüe, Meatloaf, Duran Duran....and Richard Marx.
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