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The director on her extraordinary docudrama about the near-assassination of an art world superstar. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hosted by The Hollywood Reporter · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 84 episodes
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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
The Hollywood Reporter hosts It Happened In Hollywood, a tv show with 84 episodes published.

The director on her extraordinary docudrama about the near-assassination of an art world superstar. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The director remembers how a TV heartthrob, a light-up dance floor and a white suit ignited the disco era. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Seth sits down with the writer-director who turned a board game into one of Hollywood's greatest cult comedies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The star of Bob Fosse’s final film unpacks the obsession, ambition and moral rot behind one of Hollywood’s darkest true crimes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The director reveals how she transformed Cameron Crowe’s undercover reporting into a defining portrait of messy, horny, sun-bleached youth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The reluctant heartthrob from John Hughes’ 1986 teen classic revisits Brat Pack mania and the last-minute ending that changed everything. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Oscar-nominated star and director of the 1983 nuclear war drama join Seth as the podcast kicks off a new season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The writer-director joins Seth to share tales of the making of this gritty and entrancing tale of life in the slums of India. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cinematographer Larry Smith describes executing Stanley Kubrick’s exacting vision on what would be his final film. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The star of Hollywood’s first take on Hannibal Lecter reveals the obsessive lengths gone to by Michael Mann to craft a procedural masterpiece. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The director revisits the making of his nightmarish 1990 vision of life after the battlefield starring Tim Robbins. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The star of the 1956 thriller that introduced the “evil child” genre joins Seth to retell the making of a horror classic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Oscar-winning cinematographer walks Seth through the making of the gorgeous cult French film from 1981. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The director of the landmark 1984 mockumentary joins Seth for an unforgettable conversation about the making of a comedy classic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Oscar-winner breaks down the making of his 2008 postmodern mindbender starring the late Philip Seymour Hoffman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Oscar-winning writer-director revisits his landmark first film about the bond between two orphaned siblings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Oscar-winning Anora director shares memories of creating his first festival film. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ron Howard
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Brian Grazer
Oscar-Winning Film Producer
1 appearance on this show
Andrew McCarthy
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Henry Thomas
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Jane Alexander
1 appearance on this show
Mira Nair
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Larry Smith
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Rob Reiner
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Charlie Kaufman
1 appearance on this show
Sean Baker
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David Chase
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Alex Gibney
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