Katharine Hepburn: The Rainmaker

Katharine Hepburn: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

We're back! And with a great episode all about Katharine Hepburn's second Oscar win for 1967's Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. She starred alongside Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier and her real-life niece in this movie that tackles interracial marriage.  Join Michael (@mjdomanico) and Walter (@walthickey) as we discuss the partnership of Hepburn and Tracy, our thoughts on The Graduate, and whether this could have been a stage play instead.  Subscribe here: http://apple.co/2xNuu0Q [http://apple.co/2xNuu0Q] Thank you to Lyanne Natividad for our podcast artwork and Braxton Burks for our theme music!

Katharine Hepburn: Long Day's Journey Into Night

Today, we're diving into an Oscar race that is so fraught with history that an entire episode of Ryan Murphy's Feud was dedicated to it. It's the 1962 race featuring Katharine Hepburn in Long Day's Journey Into Night vs. Anne Bancroft in The Miracle Worker. Oh, and Bette Davis was nominated for What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?  Join Michael (@mjdomanico) and Walter (@walthickey) as we break down the American canon, Patty Duke's thoughts on The Miracle Worker, and whether Joan Crawford had successfully contacted Hepburn to accept the Oscar on her behalf.  Subscribe here: http://apple.co/2xNuu0Q [http://apple.co/2xNuu0Q] Thank you to Lyanne Natividad for our podcast artwork and Braxton Burks for our theme music!

For The Record: Bonus Episode

Emergency podcast alert: Framing Britney Spears dropped last week, and as a lifelong Britney fan, I had to talk to someone about it. So I called up my sister Laura, a true Britney disciple, to do a deep dive. We talk about the documentary, Britney's enduring appeal, what the #FreeBritney movement gets right, and also what we think it gets wrong. If you want a supplement to Framing Britney Spears, then you're in the right place.  We'll be back soon with a normal episode on Katharine Hepburn (already recorded!), but for now, enjoy this brief diversion.  Fun fact: both of us saved all of our thoughts for the podcast, and right before recording we both said we had learned exactly two things from the doc. Those ended up being the same two things. Listen to find out what we, as Britney scholars, learned.

Katharine Hepburn: Suddenly, Last Summer

Katharine Hepburn. Elizabeth Taylor. Montgomery Clift. 1959's Suddenly, Last Summer is a star-studded adaptation of a Tennessee Williams play that touches on everything from homosexuality to insanity to cannibalism. It's a pretty wild ride.  Join Michael (@mjdomanico) and special guest Matt Erspamer (@erspamer_matt) as they discuss Katharine Hepburn as an ultra-rich Southern widow, how this film got past the censors, and some of the women who didn't make it into the Best Actress race that year.  Subscribe here: http://apple.co/2xNuu0Q [http://apple.co/2xNuu0Q] Thank you to Lyanne Natividad for our podcast artwork and Braxton Burks for our theme music!

Katharine Hepburn: The Rainmaker

Sorry for the absence — we were going across towns in the American Midwest trying to sell folks a drum that will produce rain. If that sounds up your alley, boy do we have an episode for you. Katharine Hepburn was nominated for Best Actress for her role in 1956's The Rainmaker, but she ultimately lost to Ingrid Bergman, whose portrayal of a would-be royal is deeply... not good?  Join Michael (@mjdomanico) and Walt (@walthickey) as we discuss reading The Rainmaker as a trans text, whether boxers play "matches" or "games," and why Deborah Kerr never won an Oscar.  Subscribe here: http://apple.co/2xNuu0Q [http://apple.co/2xNuu0Q] Thank you to Lyanne Natividad for our podcast artwork and Braxton Burks for our theme music!