You Must Remember This is a storytelling podcast exploring the secret and/or forgotten histories of
In the early 90s, one of the biggest scripted shows on TV was Murphy Brown, starring 40-something Ca
One of the biggest hits of 1992, Basic Instinct was sold as Michael Douglas’s return to Fatal Attrac
In the five years after the release of Fatal Attraction, Hollywood scrambled to make one movie after
One of the most controversial movies of the 1990s, Thelma & Louise pushed every hot button of th
Hosted by Flea, founding member and bassist of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, This Little Light is a pod
An enigmatic sex symbol dating back to the 70s, Theresa Russell made a play for Hollywood stardom in
The first blockbuster about sex of the 90s, Pretty Woman both reinvigorated Richard Gere’s career, a
Erotic 80s began with a prologue about the short lived heyday of the X rating, pornography, and femi
American independent film is launched into the mainstream by Steven Soderbergh’s sex, lies and video
The 1988 baseball blockbuster Bull Durham confirms Kevin Costner as the ultimate squeaky-clean, all-
The erotic thriller goes commercially mainstream with Fatal Attraction, a film which starts a nation
Billed as the hottest Hollywood film since Last Tango, 9 ½ Weeks was considered to have missed the m
Just as the AIDS-related death of Rock Hudson was finally forcing straight people – and Hollywood –
In a time of bombastic blockbusters (and Reagan’s re-election), two auteurs defy the norms by releas
While the music video was still in its infancy as a cultural phenomenon, two films were released tha
1982 saw the release of three hit high school-set comedies about sex: Porky’s, The Last American Vir
The New Hollywood directors of the late 1960s and 70s were the first generation of Hollywood filmmak
One of the most aesthetically influential movies of the ‘80s, Paul Schrader’s American Gigolo sets a
The sleeper hit of late 1979 was Blake Edwards’s sex farce 10, a comedic vivisection of a male midli
In 1968, the Production Code gave way to the ratings system, and the brief legitimacy of the X-rated
