Podcast
It Happened In Hollywood
On this podcast, Seth Abramovitch, senior writer at The Hollywood Reporter, takes you behind the scenes of the indelible pop culture moments that shaped Hollywood history — with special guests who were actually there. In a town where everything old is eventually new again, Seth gives listeners a front-row seat to the way things were. Welcome to IT HAPPENED IN HOLLYWOOD!
Theme music composed by: Paul Masvidal and Sean Malone
- Film History chart
- #9
- Episodes
- 89
- Releases
- Weekly
- Typical length
- 44 min
- On air since
- 2018
- Latest episode
- 2 months ago
Episodes
89 episodes, newest first
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49 min
Julie Klausner: ‘Difficult People’
Show notes
The showrunner and star discusses her groundbreaker sitcom in front of a live audience at Televerse.
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52 min
Richard Linklater: ‘Boyhood’
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The season 9 finale sees the director tell Seth how he pulled off one of the most audacious feats in movie history.
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30 min
Nicolas Winding Refn: 'Drive'
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The enigmatic director reflects on the breakthrough that turned a getaway driver into a pop culture icon.
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45 min
Guy Maddin: 'My Winnipeg'
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The acclaimed filmmaker about memory, mythmaking, hometowns and turning personal history into cinematic gold.
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34 min
Mary Harron: ‘I Shot Andy Warhol’
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The director on her extraordinary docudrama about the near-assassination of an art world superstar.
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41 min
John Badham: 'Saturday Night Fever'
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The director remembers how a TV heartthrob, a light-up dance floor and a white suit ignited the disco era.
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35 min
Tom Courtenay: 'The Dresser’
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The legendary British actor looks back on the film that earned him an Oscar nomination and a front-row seat to Albert Finney at his most ferocious.
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43 min
Jonathan Lynn: ‘Clue’
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Seth sits down with the writer-director who turned a board game into one of Hollywood's greatest cult comedies.
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47 min
Ron Howard and Brian Grazer: ‘Splash’
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The Imagine duo relay the David-vs.-Goliath tale of Hollywood’s dueling mermaid movies — minting a superstar out of Tom Hanks in the process.
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38 min
Eric Roberts: ‘Star 80’
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The star of Bob Fosse’s final film unpacks the obsession, ambition and moral rot behind one of Hollywood’s darkest true crimes.
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48 min
Amy Heckerling: ‘Fast Times at Ridgemont High’
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The director reveals how she transformed Cameron Crowe’s undercover reporting into a defining portrait of messy, horny, sun-bleached youth.
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45 min
Andrew McCarthy: ‘Pretty in Pink’
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The reluctant heartthrob from John Hughes’ 1986 teen classic revisits Brat Pack mania and the last-minute ending that changed everything.
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44 min
Henry Thomas: ’E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial’
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The star of the beloved sci-fi film from 1982 looks back on how a tearful, instinctive audition won him screen immortality and childhood superstardom.
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41 min
Jane Alexander and Lynne Littman: ‘Testament’
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The Oscar-nominated star and director of the 1983 nuclear war drama join Seth as the podcast kicks off a new season.
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36 min
Mira Nair: 'Salaam Bombay!'
Episode 75
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The writer-director joins Seth to share tales of the making of this gritty and entrancing tale of life in the slums of India.
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52 min
Larry Smith: 'Eyes Wide Shut'
Episode 74
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Cinematographer Larry Smith describes executing Stanley Kubrick’s exacting vision on what would be his final film.
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41 min
William Petersen: 'Manhunter'
Episode 73
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The star of Hollywood’s first take on Hannibal Lecter reveals the obsessive lengths gone to by Michael Mann to craft a procedural masterpiece.
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27 min
Adrian Lyne: ‘Jacob’s Ladder’
Episode 72
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The director revisits the making of his nightmarish 1990 vision of life after the battlefield starring Tim Robbins.
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57 min
Patty McCormack: ‘The Bad Seed’
Episode 71
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The star of the 1956 thriller that introduced the “evil child” genre joins Seth to retell the making of a horror classic.
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41 min
Philippe Rousselot: ‘Diva’
Episode 70
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The Oscar-winning cinematographer walks Seth through the making of the gorgeous cult French film from 1981.
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