Season Two - Trailer →

October 14, 2021

Introducing Season Two!

Your host Angelo D'Agostino is back with all the sizzling details this second season has to offer...

Okay, so an entire season dedicated to Marilyn Monroe wasn't your bag? Yah, we heard you...we heard you (sheesh)!!! Hold onto your hats and pigtails, because this season, we're switching gears and going full-on episodic! That's right, individual episodes dedicated to the weird, wonderful and fascinating (of course).
It all kicks off with the season premiere "The Curse of Rudolph Valentino"…

FASCINATION PODCAST EPISODE GUIDE

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Angelo D'Agostino

October 14, 2021

Season Two - Trailer

Angelo D'Agostino

October 14, 2021

Angelo D'Agostino

October 14, 2021

Season One, Episode Ten - Cursum Perficio (feat. Bernardo Vega) - Season One Finale

Angelo D'Agostino

February 6, 2021

Season One, Episode Ten - Cursum Perficio (feat. Bernardo Vega) - Season One Finale

Angelo D'Agostino

February 6, 2021

Angelo D'Agostino

February 6, 2021

Season One, Episode Nine - The Things We Keep (Part II)

Angelo D'Agostino

December 17, 2020

Season One, Episode Nine - The Things We Keep (Part II)

Angelo D'Agostino

December 17, 2020

Long have we been told that when there's blood in the water, the shark comes chasing… but what if the shark was really the one bleeding…what if the desperation was not coming so much from the prey, but from the predator?

When Hildi Greenson gifted her late husband's collection of writings, lectures and ephemera to the UCLA Library of Special Collections, it should have been a relatively quiet transaction. A credit to any archive, some of the contents among the many, many boxes shuttled over from the Greenson residence came one strict previso…boxes concerning Dr. Ralph Greenson's work with Marilyn Monroe were to be sealed until January 1st, 2039.

"Box 39" as it's come to be known - may hold the answers some us are looking for, it may even disclose Greenson's own assessment of what happened that final day. Whatever the reason for sealing up those documents, it's apparent that Hildi Greenson was striving to guard the memory of Monroe her husband tried so hard to preserve. While all of the players in this tragedy are all gone from this world - the story is far from over.

Angelo D'Agostino

December 17, 2020

Season One, Episode Eight - The Things We Keep - Part I

Angelo D'Agostino

December 13, 2020

Season One, Episode Eight - The Things We Keep - Part I

Angelo D'Agostino

December 13, 2020

The John Huston film 'The Misfits' remains Marilyn Monroe's final, completed appearance in a motion picture. Making the movie was like a trip to a salt mine for the entire cast…and for Marilyn the emotional impact was devastating. It left her depleted, defeated, depressed.
The whole endeavor was art imitating life for everyone involved…
'The Misfits' was Arthur Miller's warped "valentine" to Monroe…and their failing marriage. It would be a non-comedic role for Marilyn, one that allowed her to flex her chops and stage a bit of a Hollywood perception intervention. The personal and professional pressure Monroe was under was intensified by the location, the harsh, dry Nevada desert where they filmed.
Cast alongside the dark-hearted heartthrob Montgomery Clift and the "King" of the silver screen Clark Gable, ‘The Misfits’ was marquee gold. A tepid response at the box office, the loss of Gable (who suffered a fatal heart attack just two weeks after filming ended) and the collapse of her third marriage - Monroe soon found herself involuntarily committed to the Payne-Whitney Psychiatric Clinic in New York.

Angelo D'Agostino

December 13, 2020

Season One, Episode Seven - A Beautiful Child

Angelo D'Agostino

November 19, 2020

Season One, Episode Seven - A Beautiful Child

Angelo D'Agostino

November 19, 2020

SCENE: We stumble into a funeral parlor on the Upper East Side - Truman Capote has arrived amid the mourners gathered…where he's waiting in the wings for a late companion… unsure of either what to wear and how to get there unbothered by photo hounds - Marilyn Monroe arrives in a bit of a harried display, to pay her respects to Constance Collier, a former drama coach who'd been recommended to her by Truman himself…

Angelo D'Agostino

November 19, 2020

Angelo D'Agostino

November 16, 2020

Season One, Episode Six - Folie à Trois

Angelo D'Agostino

November 16, 2020

“Johnny Hyde had more than a few notable discoveries - Rita Hayworth, Bob Hope - and his greatest creation until that fabled New Year's Eve - Lana Turner… Hyde had become a very powerful man - but steamrolled into submission when he met Marilyn Monroe. That night, Johnny arranged for Marilyn to join him and some invited guests at his home in Palm Springs the next day - to discuss business. It would begin for Marilyn, who was in need of steady guidance - a blue print for stardom.”

Angelo D'Agostino

November 16, 2020

Season One, Episode Five - Students of Illusion (feat. Jimmy James)

Angelo D'Agostino

October 22, 2020

Season One, Episode Five - Students of Illusion (feat. Jimmy James)

Angelo D'Agostino

October 22, 2020

Marilyn's work as an actor sometimes eclipsed the woman she fought hard to become. But the enduring legacy of her on-screen characters are testament to the work and dedication she held - sometimes in spite of the movie business itself. 'The Thinking Body' by Mabel Elsworth Todd would become synonymous with Monroe. A handbook, she herself, credited with developing the seductively choreographed movements that seemed to steal focus and burn scenery….

Angelo D'Agostino

October 22, 2020

Season One, Episode Four - By Divine Rite (feat. Madame Pamita)

Angelo D'Agostino

October 12, 2020

Season One, Episode Four - By Divine Rite (feat. Madame Pamita)

Angelo D'Agostino

October 12, 2020

In previous episodes we've explored the traumas and abuses that plagued Marilyn Monroe’s life. For this episode we're joined by Los Angeles based Spiritualist, Madame Pamita - who'll give her own unique and spirit guided perspectives on Marilyn and much of her spirit's "unfinished business".

Angelo D'Agostino

October 12, 2020

Season One, Episode Three - The Siren as Muse (feat. Gregory Arlt)

Angelo D'Agostino

October 1, 2020

Season One, Episode Three - The Siren as Muse (feat. Gregory Arlt)

Angelo D'Agostino

October 1, 2020

As a Muse, one of Marilyn's most successful friendships was with her make-up artist, Allan "Whitey" Snyder. Though largely uncredited for most of his work with Monroe, Snyder perfected the "look" we so closely identify with the star.

In this episode we dive into the world of glam with Emmy® Nominated, Celebrity Make-up Artist Gregory Arlt, discussing make-up as the medium for the Muse - and a whole lot more!

Angelo D'Agostino

October 1, 2020

Season One, Episode Two - Formation of a Star (feat. Dr. Chris Donaghue)

Angelo D'Agostino

September 23, 2020

Season One, Episode Two - Formation of a Star (feat. Dr. Chris Donaghue)

Angelo D'Agostino

September 23, 2020

“Anyone even remotely familiar with Hollywood, or the concept of Hollywood - understands the almost erratic, random elements needed to explode into a supernova of fame…To us, on the outside – the glossy veneer of celebrity seems like a dream, but it is we who have made it such. We pin dreams on people we want to be like, someone we want to look or sound like. Those unreachable few, catapulted into the canopy of fame almost certainly get there by a perfect storm…”

Angelo D'Agostino

September 23, 2020

FASCINATION SEASON ONE

Marilyn Monroe

She was as much a myth in her own time as she is today. Her allure vibrates with glamour but isn’t limited to her obvious beauty or the whispers of manufactured scandal. Behind the marquee and in front of the celluloid character Monroe minted, is a woman who was fiercely alive, fighting to be recognized as her own genius, and not a byproduct of the Hollywood factory or an overexploited muse.

In this first season of FASCINATION we stitch the spotlight together with stories about Marilyn that personalize her impact and color the vibrant nature of her character. The approach is anchored in more editorial storytelling, anchored with discovery, opinions, interviews and more.