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    DON'S GREATEST HITS AND THE ADDICTIONS THAT KILLED HIM

    DON'S GREATEST HITS AND THE ADDICTIONS THAT KILLED HIM

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    DON'S GREATEST HITS AND THE ADDICTIONS THAT KILLED HIM

    FromTHE DON

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    Length:
    24 minutes
    Released:
    May 26, 2022
    Format:
    Podcast episode

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    Season 2 of "The Don" is a twelve episode double-order. We’re going all the way to the end... From Don’s greatest hits- Flashdance, Beverly Hills Cop, Top Gun, Days of Thunder-- to his final days as a recluse hooked on pharmaceuticals holed up in his Bel Air mansion trying to make one last comeback in the film business. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
    Released:
    May 26, 2022
    Format:
    Podcast episode

    Titles in the series (20)

    THE DON is a docu-drama on the life of the producer of TOP GUN, Don Simpson, which uses narration, clips, and fictional re-enactments via “lost tapes'' to take you behind the scenes into Hollywood’s decade of decadence, the 1980s. Before the era of MeToo, there was Don Simpson the poster boy of toxic masculinity, whose outlandish behavior was not only tolerated but encouraged by the film industry who profited greatly off Don’s movies. Don Simpson was, like the character he named after himself in his movie TOP GUN, a maverick. His signature style of filmmaking created one hit after another— AMERICAN GIGOLO, FLASHDANCE, BEVERLY HILLS COP, TOP GUN- they all came from the mind of Don Simpson. Don loved the movies so much that he created a mythological persona known as “The Don” to match his signature movies— loud, ballsy, cheesy— his movies were full of homo-erotic testoterone-driven race car drivers and navy fighter pilots and stripper/welders who wanted to be ballerinas— these were the movies from Don’s absurd fantasy world— this was the world that Don actually lived in— there was no separation between life and art. And that movie persona that he created— “The Don”— grew more and more outrageous and more extreme— until ultimately… it killed him.