Shoot This Now

We need a proper Bruce Lee biopic, one that addresses his profound influence on race relations and celebrity. This episode, "Bruce Lee: A Life" author Matthew Polly talks about Lee's influence on Quentin Tarantino, the Wu-Tang Clan, and all of us. (And why Chuck Norris hates talking about him.)

Buy "Bruce Lee: A Life": https://mattpolly.com

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Teal Swan is an internet guru who finds followers largely online. She presents herself as a healer, but critics say she is playing with fire and has dangerous ideas about treating people who may be suicidal.

She's the subject of Gizmodo's excellent The Gateway podcast. We're joined by host Jennings Brown and producer Jessica Glazer to talk about the trouble with Teal Swan.

Check out The Gateway: https://gizmodo.com/weve-launched-an-investigative-podcast-about-a-controve-1826416613

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In 1973, a robber who looked like Bill Skarsgard took hostages in a Swedish bank. He demanded money, a fast car, and the release of a "pop gangster" prison buddy who looked like Armie Hammer. The Swedish government delivered.

Reunited within the bank, the criminals quickly won over their captives -- a situation that coined the phrase "Stockholm Syndrome." We sometimes hear it today in reference to Patty Hearst and everyone living in America in 2018.

If you enjoy this episode, we recommend Jeffrey Toobin's terrific "American Heiress," his account of Patty Hearst's kidnapping.

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In February, we talked about why "Dear David," BuzzFeed writer Adam Ellis' internet ghost story, should be a movie. This week, we found out it's going to happen.

Special guest Beatrice Verhoeven joins us to talk about why she knew "Dear David" should be a movie, and how she exclusively broke the news that it will be.

Here's our episode from February: http://shootthisnow.libsyn.com/the-dear-david-story-feat-beatrice-verhoeven

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Neff Davis met Anna Delvey when Anna gave her $100 for a restaurant recommendation. Anna soon drew Neff into a moneyed game of trying to conquer New York City. Imagine if the Great Gatsby passed the Bechdel test.

Jessica Pressler's New York Magazine story about their relationship is a sensation, one that's drawing "a lot of interest" from Hollywood. Read it here: 

https://www.thecut.com/2018/05/how-anna-delvey-tricked-new-york.html

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Antonia Brenner wasn't the most likely woman to become a nun, much less a nun who moved into a Tijuana prison: Born into a wealthy family in Beverly Hills, she was a twice-divorced mother of seven when she chose to live in Tijuana's notorious La Mesa to care for its forgotten inmates. In 1994, she single-handedly stopped a Halloween-night prison riot.

She became known as the Prison Angel. 

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Every week on "Shoot This Now" we talk about a different story that should be a movie. This week: That time "wickedest man in the world" Aleister Crowley and poet Victor Benjamin Neuburg to bring a demon into the world using "sex magick"

We learned about this incident from Dan Cummins' wonderful "Timesuck" podcast: https://timesuckpodcast.com/Episodes

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In this special bonus episode, we talk to "Atlanta Monster" host and co-creator Payne Lindsey and co-creator Donald Albright about the odds of an "Atlanta Monster" TV show, the frustrations of talking to Wayne Williams, and whether Williams' musical group, "Gemini," ever had a chance.

"He lied to me about some very crucial things," Lindsey says.

They also talk about the status of their "Up and Vanished" TV show.

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In this, our name-droppingest episode ever, we discuss Gwyneth Paltrow and Blythe Danner's Goop Podcast discussion of the time 19-year-old Gwyneth shared a stage with a drunken Christopher Walken. Then, Tim recounts another embarrassing tale of ingenue meets drunkard at an "SNL" cast party, which spurs Trey and Matt to describe encounters with "Entourage" cast members. Finally, Tim talks about meeting Michael Jackson.  

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Every week we talk about stories that should be movies. This episode: TheWrap film reporter Trey Williams tells us about 23-year-old slave Robert Smalls, who seized a Confederate ship to free his family and crewmembers - then helped win the Civil War and integrate the Navy.

We also talk about Kanye West, why so many movies about slavery follow the same Oscar-baity but predictable formula, and the "This American Life" account of how an Oakland student inspired Steven Spielberg to make "Amistad."

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