Episode #7: The Stardom Episode aka Star-dumb and Star-dumber

What this episode covers

In this episode, Evgenia and Eileen admit our shameful star crushes (okay, Eileen is ashamed, Evgenia is out and proud). Eileen describes horribly boring Hollywood parties full of famous people like Carrie Fisher, Penny Marshall, and Francis Coppola, making us wonder what happened to the great old days of star hedonism. And guest Dolores McElroy, our star expert, joins us in ranting about the origins and significance of movie stahs, dahling. Dolores McElroy co-taught a course on Stardom & Cinema with Eileen at UC Berkeley, and is currently writing a dissertation on the figure of the diva that Hollywood cinema inherited from grand opera.

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