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In some of Hollywood’s best-loved movies, Jack Nicholson played jokers, sailors, inmates – even the Devil himself. But he never played by the rules. He allegedly mooned a crowd of thousands at a basketball game. His bedroom kinks were laid bare in the papers. He fought the MPAA and the LAPD. And in 1994, he attempted to establish his own set of rules when he attacked an idling Mercedes-Benz with a two-iron.

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This week in the Screening Room, Zeth is talking about death’s head moths, Ford Pintos, fava beans, and the 1991 Jonathan Demme film ‘The Silence of the Lambs.’ Plus we make a mixtape inspired by the film with songs by Guided by Voices, Gram Parsons, Phish, and more. Become an All Access member and get ad-free listening by visiting disgracelandpod.com.

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In this week’s Wrap Party, Zeth is looking back at the dawn of New Hollywood and wondering if the 1967 film ‘Point Blank’ has proved more impactful than ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ on ‘70s classics like ‘Taxi Driver.’ And we’ve got some dirty recs for autumnal movies to watch now that Halloween season is over. Plus, we hear from you and respond to your voicemails, texts, and emails. Become an All Access member today by visiting disgracelandpod.com.

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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 assass...

This week in the Screening Room, Zeth is talking about seances, possession, grief, demon kings from hell, and the 2018 Ari Aster film ‘Hereditary.’ Plus we make a mixtape inspired by the film with songs by the Rolling Stones, Morrissey, Super Furry Animals, and more. Become an All Access member and get ad-free listening by visiting disgracelandpod.com.

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In this week’s Wrap Party, Zeth is talking about ‘You Can See Everything,’ the new A24 documentary directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, and moments in film history when movies broke the mold and rewrote the rules. Later, Jake Brennan of Disgraceland joins to give recommendations for movies and albums that felt like they broke the mold and disrupted the narrative. Plus, we hear from you and respond to your voicemails, texts, and emails. Become an All Access member today by visiting disgracelandpod.com.

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Whether she was filming Hollywood’s first major nude scenes, or posing against a backdrop of Satanic skulls and pentagrams, Jayne Mansfield lived for exhibitionism. As a leading sexpot of the 1950s, Jayne was a genius, a bombshell, and a mother in an industry that demanded women be single, dumb, and blonde. When people whispered that Jayne lived in Marilyn Monroe’s shadow, she fled to the Church of Satan and started dancing in the shadows with its founder, Anton LaVey. Her final headlines sensationalized how she lost her head in a car crash and blamed her death on a Sa...

This week in the Screening Room, Zeth is talking about bedsheets with the eyes cut out, time and eternity, and the 2017 David Lowery film ‘A Ghost Story.’ Plus we make a mixtape inspired by the film with songs by David Bowie, Joni Mitchell, Stevie Wonder, and more. Become an All Access member and get ad-free listening by visiting disgracelandpod.com.

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In this week’s Wrap Party, Zeth is talking about the “comfort horror” subgenre that he may or may not have just made up, as well as ‘Rosemary’s Baby,’ ‘Poltergeist,’ and other so-called “cursed” films. Later, Jake Brennan of Disgraceland joins to give Halloween-season recommendations on stuff to watch and listen to. Plus, we hear from you and respond to your voicemails, texts, and emails. Become an All Access member today by visiting disgracelandpod.com.

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Four different actors from the 1980s horror franchise Poltergeist died within a 6-year span. Dominique Dunne was murdered. Julian Beck succumbed to stomach cancer. Will Sampson suffered from a degenerative disease. And Heather O’Rourke’s death at the age of 12, was deemed “distinctly unusual.” Was it an eerie coincidence...or something more sinister?

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This week in the Screening Room, Zeth is talking about 9/11 in cinema, the life that came so close to never happening, and Spike Lee’s 2002 film ‘25th Hour’ starring Edward Norton, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Rosario Dawson. Plus we make a mixtape inspired by the film with songs by Bruce Springsteen, Fear, Daft Punk, and more. Become an All Access member and get ad-free listening by visiting disgracelandpod.com.

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In this week’s Wrap Party, Zeth is talking 1991, ‘Home Improvement,’ ‘Twin Peaks,’ and the chasm between Tim Allen’s public persona and his criminal past. And Jake Brennan of Disgraceland joins to give dirty recs for our favorite film scores. Plus, we hear from you and respond to your voicemails, texts, and emails. Become an All Access member today by visiting disgracelandpod.com.

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Before he was headed to infinity and beyond, Tim Allen was headed to life in prison for a low-level drug deal in Michigan. This is the story about how his first career ended in a life-changing bust, and what he had to do in order to survive and find a way out.

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This week in the Screening Room, Zeth is talking about dreams, doubles, mysteries, and the 2001 David Lynch film ‘Mulholland Drive.’ Plus we make a mixtape inspired by the film with songs by Missing Persons, Frank Black, Big Star, and more. Become an All Access member and get ad-free listening by visiting disgracelandpod.com.

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In this week’s Wrap Party, Zeth is talking about movies as dreams, movies as mystery, and the mystery of the dreamlike David Lynch. And Jake Brennan of Disgraceland joins to give dirty recs for dreamy movies and music. Plus, we hear from you and respond to your voicemails, texts, and emails. Become an All Access member today by visiting disgracelandpod.com.

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In 1908, a girl was brutally murdered in a small town in upstate New York. The town was seemingly idyllic, but beneath the surface, it was crawling with prostitution, orgies, deceit, and corruption. It was fueled by a political machine so powerful it could cover up not just one but multiple murders. The truth behind the murder of Hazel Drew was meant to remain unsolvable. Just like the television show it inspired over 80 years later.

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This week in the Screening Room, Zeth is talking about beat poetry, Alcatraz, noggins so big they’re virtual planetoids, and the 1993 romantic comedy ‘So I Married an Axe Murderer” starring Mike Myers, Nancy Travis, and a scene-stealing Phil Hartman. Plus we make a mixtape inspired by the film with songs by Nick Lowe, Fine Young Cannibals, Otis Reddings, and more. Become an All Access member and get ad-free listening by visiting disgracelandpod.com. 

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In this week’s Wrap Party, Zeth is talking about the glaring omission of ‘The Sopranos’ from the New York Times’ 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century, Phil Hartman’s legendary unproduced horror-comedy script, and movie soundtracks that double as studio albums of new material. Plus, we hear from you and respond to your voicemails, texts, and emails. Become an All Access member today by visiting disgracelandpod.com.

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Before he was deemed “the Glue” by his castmates at Saturday Night Live, Phil Hartman worked as a rock ‘n roll roadie and a graphic designer. He created album covers for the bands Poco and America, as well as the logo for Crosby, Stills & Nash. He did those things as a card-carrying member of the peace and love movement. A movement that was infamously disrupted by the Manson family, a ragtag group of hippies gone evil that just so happened to include one of his former friends from high school. A friend who would later attempt to assassinate an Americ...

This week in the Screening Room, Zeth is talking about bugs, wiretaps, hidden cameras, and the 1998 Tony Scott film ‘Enemy of the State’ starring Will Smith and Gene Hackman. Plus we make a mixtape inspired by the film with songs by Guns N’ Roses, Talking Heads, and more.Become an All Access member and get ad-free listening by visiting disgracelandpod.com. 

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In this week’s Wrap Party, Zeth is talking about George Lucas, Guillermo del Toro, and the use of AI in film. Plus, dirty recs with Disgraceland’s Jake Brennan about musicians and actors who have crossed over to make great films and records – and your voicemails, texts, and emails. Become an All Access member today by visiting disgracelandpod.com.

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In 1989, shortly after winning his first Grammy Award at just 20 years old, Will Smith was arrested and charged with assault after a brawl at a popular Philadelphia radio station left one man nearly blind. It almost ended his career just as things were getting started. But Will Smith overcame this challenge, and so many others, to become one of the most successful actors in Hollywood. That is, until decades later, at the 2022 Academy Awards ceremony, when trouble once again bubbled to the surface.

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This week in the Screening Room, Zeth is talking about pit bosses, shift bosses, floor men, box men, the eye in the sky, and Martin Scorsese’s 1995 film ‘Casino.’ Plus we make a mixtape inspired by the film with songs by Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Zappa, the Flying Burrito Brothers, and more. Become an All Access member and get ad-free listening by visiting disgracelandpod.com.

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In this week’s Wrap Party, Zeth is fed up with award shows and discusses Sharon Stone’s dual nominations for a Golden Globe and a Razzie Award – for the same performance. Plus, dirty recs with Disgraceland’s Jake Brennan about movies and music so bad they’re good – and your voicemails, texts, and emails. Become an All Access member today by visiting disgracelandpod.com.

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In a single year, Sharon Stone was nominated for awards for both Best Actress and Worst Actress – for the same role. She launched a million sexual awakenings with one quick display in Basic Instinct. Her performance in that film was so vivid that it inspired stalkers to track her down. It may have even served as the inspiration for one fan to commit murder, cannibalism, and necrophilia.

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This week in the Screening Room, Zeth is talking about deplorable studio executives, vindictive screenwriters, Hollywood satire, and Robert Altman’s 1992 comeback film ‘The Player.’ Plus we make a mixtape inspired by the film with songs by The Soft Boys, Built to Spill, Public Enemy, and more. Become an All Access member and get ad-free listening by visiting disgracelandpod.com.

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In this week’s Wrap Party, Zeth is talking about Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, William Desmond Taylor, Mabel Normand, and the birth of the Hollywood scandal. Plus, dirty recs with Disgraceland’s Jake Brennan about scandalous movies and songs – and your voicemails, texts, and emails. Become an All Access member today by visiting disgracelandpod.com.

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A century ago, at the birth of movie superstardom, silent film star Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle was at the center of a scandal that rocked Hollywood to its core. He was accused of a murderous sex crime so depraved that it turned the nation not only against him but against Hollywood itself. It led to the trial of the century, and a test of whether America’s elite veil of privilege could be pierced by the long arm of justice. The tide of public opinion that followed was so strong that it made Hollywood change the way Hollywood did business – at least...

This week in the Screening Room, Zeth is talking about TV westerns, stuntmen turned handymen, the scourge of hippies invading the movie industry, and Quentin Tarantino’s 2019 film Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood. Plus we make a mixtape inspired by the film with songs by Primal Scream, James Taylor, Buffalo Springfield, and more. Become an All Access member and get ad-free listening by visiting disgracelandpod.com.

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In this week’s Wrap Party, Zeth is talking about Sharon Tate, Woodstock, Joan Didion, and the improbable becoming probable in the year 1969. Plus, dirty recs with Jake Brennan for movies and songs from or about 1969 – and your voicemails, texts, and emails. Become an All Access member today by visiting disgracelandpod.com.

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Sharon Tate’s entanglement with Charles Manson and her husband, filmmaker Roman Polanski, as well as her involvement in some of the long-rumored hedonistic events at her home on Cielo Drive put her at the center of a counter-narrative that explosively disrupts the supposed motive for the Manson family murders. Was Sharon Tate blissfully ignorant of the darkness that had been bubbling beneath Hollywood’s shiny veneer for years? Or is there more to this story than we’ve been told in the past?

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Sharon Tate was a sophisticated beauty who literally stopped traffic when she walked down the street. She began her movie career when America was becoming sexually liberated, and despite the ease with which she was made a sex symbol, she aspired to be respected as a serious actress. Decades later, however, she is perhaps best-remembered as one of the victims found brutally murdered at her Cielo Drive home, the one she shared with her husband, director Roman Polanski. Sharon and Roman welcomed regular guests to that home, including Sharon’s friend, Mama Cass Elliot, who was at the center of...

This week in the Screening Room, Zeth is breaking down Anna Kendrick’s 2024 directorial debut Woman of the Hour, which tells the story of serial killer Rodney Alcala appearing as an eligible bachelor on The Dating Game TV show, as seen through the eyes of the show’s “bachelorette,” Sheryl Bradshaw. Plus we make a mixtape inspired by the film with songs by St. Vincent, Aimee Mann, the Kinks, and more. Become an All Access member and get ad-free listening by visiting disgracelandpod.com.

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In this week’s Wrap Party, Zeth is talking about the Dating Game Killer in the US, the Bullseye Killer in the UK, and just how in the hell serial killers find themselves contestants on TV game shows in the first place. Plus, dirty recs with Jake Brennan for movies and songs about TV, and your voicemails, texts, and emails. Become an All Access member today by visiting disgracelandpod.com.

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Rodney Alcala, AKA The Dating Game Killer, was a depraved murderer who eluded authorities for years. He hid his true identity behind charm and persuasion. He worked as a summer camp counselor while on the lam for the savage assault of an eight-year-old girl. He convinced his parole officer to let him take a vacation to the other side of the country, where he proceeded to commit another of his many murders. While New Yorkers were watching their backs for the Son of Sam in the summer of ’77, he killed again. And at the height of his killing spree, he...

This week in the Screening Room, Zeth is breaking down Terry Gilliam’s 1991 film The Fisher King, starring Robin Williams, Jeff Bridges, Mercedes Ruehl, and Amanda Plummer. Plus we make a mixtape inspired by the film with songs by Simon & Garfunkel, The Smiths, Queens of the Stone Age, and more. Become an All Access member and get ad-free listening by visiting disgracelandpod.com.

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In this week’s Wrap Party, Zeth is talking about flow states, improvisation, stolen jokes, and the late, great Robin Williams. Later in the episode, Disgraceland’s Jake Brennan joins to give flow state-themed movie and music recommendations. Plus, your voicemails, texts, and emails. Become an All Access member today by visiting disgracelandpod.com.

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Robin Williams’ manic mind moved at such a breakneck speed that cocaine had the opposite effect than it had on most other people: it slowed him down. Robin’s primary addiction, however, wasn’t cocaine. He was addicted to the dopamine rush of being on a stage, where he could let his mind run wild with free association, and be rewarded with uproarious laughter. He was addicted to proving himself as a dramatic actor, even if that meant attempting to trigger his own mental breakdown by running in place for hours. And when he died tragically at the age of 63...

This week in the Screening Room, Dr. Lundy is conflicted on how he feels about Bob Fosse’s 1983 film Star 80, starring Mariel Hemingway and Eric Roberts. Plus we make a mixtape inspired by the film with songs by the J. Geils Band, the Mountain Goats, and more. Become an All Access member and get ad-free listening by visiting disgracelandpod.com.

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In this week’s Wrap Party, Zeth is talking about director Peter Bogdanovich and his disgraceful behavior following the murder of 20-year old model and actress Dorothy Stratten in 1980. Later, Jake Brennan of Disgraceland joins to give private investigator-themed movie and music recommendations. Plus, your voicemails, texts, and emails. Become an All Access member today by visiting disgracelandpod.com.

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