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  • Guest: Our obsession with true crime

    Peter Funt|Mar 18, 2024

    In television, now more than ever, crime pays. A search for "true crime" on Netflix produced 300 titles. Nearly half of Apple's top 20 podcasts in the U.S. are devoted to true crime, and the internet is chockablock with recommendations for the best new true crime books. As I type this, Paramount+ is announcing that Dennis Quaid will play the real-life serial killer notoriously called "Happy Face," based on the "Happy Face" podcast from iHeart. And Village Roadshow Entertainment is announcing...

  • Guest: Oy Tannenbaum

    Peter Funt|Dec 12, 2022

    I grew up believing that you judge a man by the size of his Christmas tree. Each December my father and I would jump in our Willys Jeep and rush over to the local drive-in theater. Though closed to moviegoers for the season, the spacious parking area was rented out to the Lions Club for its annual Christmas tree sale. Dad never failed to ask the sellers, "Don't you have anything bigger?" And he was always certain to assure me, "Don't worry, Pete, it will fit in the living room." The Lions were h...