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Sewers of Paris: There Was a Rage (Ep 467 - Star Wars/Karl Dunn)
🕑 Added 2024-05-09 16:00:07 +0000 UTC
My guest this week is writer, activist, and former gold trader Karl Dunn, whose new book How to Burn a Rainbow (available for pre-order on Amazon) is a memoir of how he pieced his life back together after a chaotic divorce. Karl’s journey from wedded bliss through a nightmare of legal battles and losing his livelihood and then ultimately finding inner peace sounds like a Hollywood narrative — which isn’t surprising, given that he worked for a time as a screenwriter, drawing on inspiration from wildly different sources from epic sci-fi novels to angry hip-hop to confrontational queer activism.
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Jim
I'm sorry, I have to tell my Star Wars story. In 1977, my college roommate and I had heard the hype about this movie, and we decided to go wait in line for the film. We went to the Avco Cinema Center in Westwood, next to the cemetery where Marilyn Monroe is interred, and waited for about five hours in line. The doors were just about to open, when everyone who had waited for hours in the long line witnessed Sonny and Cher being escorted to the front of the line and into the theater just as the doors were opening. The crowd could see what was transpiring and started hissing and booing loudly as Sonny and Cher walked by! The already divorced couple bowed their heads in embarrassment. Funny, I remember that more than the movie!
