Episode 4: Karina Longworth

Karina Longworth is the creator and host of the podcast You Must Remember This and the author of the book Seduction: Sex, Lies and Stardom in Howard Hughes’s Hollywood.

I definitely have memories of being on the city bus for long periods of time. There is something, I think, sort of romantic and cinematic about watching the neighborhoods change outside the window. I definitely spent a lot of time looking out those windows, listening to music on a Walkman, and just sort of thinking about things in a way that you actually can’t if you’re driving. I think I had a romanticism about living in such a vast place where there could be interconnected lives. 

Notes and references from this episode: 

You Must Remember This podcast, by Karina Longworth

Love is a Crime podcast, by Karina Longworth and Vanessa Hope

Seduction: Sex, Lies and Stardom in Howard Hughes’s Hollywood, by Karina Longworth

Los Angeles Plays Itself, directed by Thom Andersen

“Polly Platt: The Invisible Woman,” You Must Remember This

The Last Picture Show, directed by Peter Bogdanovich

“Gossip Girls: Louella Parsons and Hedda Hopper,” You Must Remember This

“She's Done Everything (except direct),” by Rachel Abramowitz, Premiere

“Fake News: Fact-Checking Hollywood Babylon,” You Must Remember This      

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