Heart Of It All – Details, episodes & analysis

Read Kate Hagen’s incredible essay: Fat Girls On Film: https://letterboxd.com/journal/fat-girls-on-film

Read Kate Hagen’s article: In Search of the Last Great Video Store: https://blog.blcklst.com/in-search-of-the-last-great-video-store-efcc393f2982 and her TED talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scqUwK8lgpE

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Read Kate Hagen’s incredible essay, Fat Girls On Film: https://letterboxd.com/journal/fat-girls-on-film

Follow Melissa Baumgart on X: @fatgirlinohio

Check out Melissa Baumgart’s piece, You Have to Fail A Little: https://www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2018/06/13/you-have-to-fail-a-little-on-hearts-of-darkness/

Super nerd alert, to dig even further down the rabbit hole- Check out Tetragrammaton Rick Rubin’s interview with Edward Norton about Marlon Brando (starts at 2:12:00), very interesting insight into Marlon Brando.

Episode Notes: 

Here's a great article from CANVAS on Cleveland Filmmaker Robert Banks.

Find out more about Ohio University's School of Film.

Great talk with Wes Craven on his childhood and beginning his career as a filmmaker.

Watch All That We Destroy on HULU.

Watch Satanic Panic here.

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This episode was edited and engineered by Adam Rich and produced by Liz Pahl and Assistant Producer Rory Ball. 

Support provided by WOUB Public Media.

This episode was recorded in December of 2022

Hear Megana’s fantastic work on the Scriptnotes podcast 

Power of the Pen- Ohio’s Original Interscholastic Creative Writing Program for Middle Schools 

Glee (2009-2015) TV series based in Lima, Ohio 

Heathers (1988), a dark comedy set in fictional Sherwood, Ohio written by Ohioan Daniel Waters

Bad Sisters- Written by Sharon Horgan 

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This episode was edited and engineered by Adam Rich and produced by Liz Pahl and Assistant Producer Rory Ball. 

Support provided by WOUB Public Media.

Show notes:

A fantastic 1976 article about Jack Hanrahan : the Laugh-In writer who started the "Cleveland being a joke" phenomenon!

Jimmy Kimmel and Tom Holland clip on Cleveland, The Browns and the Russo Brothers. 

McHale’s Navy: Tim Conway was from Chagrin Falls, Ohio

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This episode was edited and engineered by Adam Rich, Audio Supervisor at WOUB Public Media 

Support provided by WOUB Public Media.

LA Curbed article written by Hadley Meares on the Mother of Hollywood!

Vanity Fair, Old Hollywood Book Club article with Carole Lombard and Clark Gable

For history buffs; a very cool article on the Street Car and Hollywood. Lots of details about Daeida and Harvey Wilcox. Also some really cool photos of Paul de Longpre’s gorgeous estate.

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This episode was edited and engineered by Adam Rich, Audio Supervisor WOUB Public Media

Support provided by WOUB Public Media.

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*This episode was originally recorded in July, 2025.