Broads Next Door

One of the greatest voices of all time, Whitney Houston was born into a musical family, from her beginnings singing in the church choir, to helping her mom Cissy with backup tracks, being discovered by Clive Davis, in this episode we’ll be exploring the life and career of Whitney Houston, as well as her relationships with fame, the media, and her husband Bobby Brown. Finally, we’ll get into the years leading up to Whitney’s untimely death, and the eerie similarities when her only child, daughter Bobbi Kristina, passes away just a few years later. sources: Ammons, Nancy (1998). Good Girl, Bad Girl: An Insider's Biography of Whitney Houston. Secaucus, NJ: Carol Publ. Group Bowman, Jeffery (1995). Diva: The Totally Unauthorized Biography of Whitney Houston. New York: Harper. Dansby, Andrew (June 7, 2000). "Whitney Insider Tells of Drug Use, Failed Intervention". Rolling Stone. DeCurtis, Anthony (June 10, 1993). "Whitney Houston: Down and Dirty". Rolling Stone Wilson, Julee (February 13, 2012). "Whitney Houston Graces Cover Of Seventeen Magazine, November 1981 (PHOTO)". HuffPost. Bobbi Kristina Brown Passes Away Months After Being Found Unconscious ABC News Bobbi Kristina's Last Day with Her Mother Oprah's Next Chapter, Oprah Winfrey Network (2012) 'Sparkle,' Whitney Houston's Final Bow ABC News, 2012 Whitney Houston’s Best Friend Breaks Her Silence (Video) Today, 2019, YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBwT63NXGQA "Fears for Whitney Houston Grow". TCM Breaking News. September 11, 2001 "Whitney Scores As Producer and Star". Ebony, (November 1997) Whitney Houston Dies at 48 ABC NEWS (February, 2012) "Whitney Houston World Tour '99 Becomes Europe's Highest Grossing Arena Tour of the Year". AllBusiness.com. (October 19, 1999) "Whitney Houston biography". Rolling Stone. (2012) Winfrey, Oprah (September 2009). "Remembering Whitney: The Oprah Winfrey Interview" (video). Oprah Winfrey Network. Zeitchik, Steven Whitney Houston, ‘The Bodyguard’ and beyond: her career in film Los Angeles Times, 2012, https://www.latimes.com/archives/blogs/24-frames/story/2012-02-12/whitney-houston-the-bodyguard-and-beyond-her-career-in-film Whitney Houston 2002 Diane Sawyer ABC News Interview (video) ABC News, YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nzV5UL4CjA&t=42s Clive Davis discovers Whitney Houston at a New York City lounge (video) ABC NEWS. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn1bmIhqljU Today in History: 1967 Newark riots begin (video) WUSA9 News, YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0ncqB0oeMQ Being Bobby Brown, 2005 (Reality Television Series). Bravo TV Whitney Houston Reminisces About 80s Music on MTV (2001 interview). MTV, 2001 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/broadsnextdoor/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/broadsnextdoor/support

In this episode we’ll be going through the time period after Casey’s arrest on July 16th and before her arraignment on October 14th. We’ll also be hearing her jail house visits, the Timer55 Theory, George and Cindy’s media interviews and media appearances as well as talking about missing children’s cases and how they play out in the media, and meeting a new character of this story Nancy Grace. When we last left off it was July 17th and Casey was booked into The Orange County Jail. She’d been arrested less than 24 hours after her mother Cindy had made three 911 calls, the last one frantically explaining “my granddaughter has been taken she’s been missing for a month, my daughter admitted to me she’s been missing for a month I just found my daughter But I can’t find my granddaughter. I found my daughters car today and it smells like there’s been a dead body in the damn car….This is a three year old little girl… I need to find her,” when police arrived Casey explained to them, she had left Caylee with her longterm nanny Zanny 31 days ago at Sawgrass aparmtments, she met Zanny through co-workers and her closest friends at Universal Studios where she’d worked for four years, when the detectives went to Sawgrass Apartment unit 210 had been empty for months; when Casey led detectives to her office at Universal Studios where she worked as a party planner they hit a literal dead end and told detectives “I don’t really work here,” she’s interrogated and placed under arrest. She gets her one jailhouse phone call asking for her boyfriend’s number, the Anthony’s do not realize this will later be played on the news, and she aquires Jose Baez as her attorney. Jose Baez writes in his book that one of the State’s biggest mistakes was how quickly Casey was arrested, because once she was lawyered up, that was that she was not talking— but both the prosecutor Jeff Ashton and Jose Baez do offer a reason that made sense to them on the swiftness of the arrest, and that reason was a woman named Melinda Duckett. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/broadsnextdoor/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/broadsnextdoor/support

Today we’re talking about the Radium Girls and the Unsolved Death of Karen Silkwood. Normally, we’d never start any story reflecting on the dead with “she lit up a room,” but the radium girls aren’t really a story as much as they are a lesson, and when we say they lit up a room we mean it in a literal sense. Not only did radium girls make three times more money than the average factory worker but when they left the studio where they painted watch dials all day, they actually glowed. Radium was safe, everyone knew that. Not only safe but kind of sexy, kind of glamorous. With radium spas and facial potions, you couldn’t open up a paper without seeing the benefits of radium. And they believed in these benefits, until you know, their bones started falling out. How did the Radium Girls find justice? We will also tell you the story of Karen Silkwood, a worker at Kerr-Mcgee Plutonium factory in the 1970s, who became a whistleblower and safety activist, after witnessing her coworkers fall ill due to plutonium exposure. After joining the Union, and speaking out about her concerns, Karen became exposed herself. A week later she died. We will unpack the mysterious circumstances surrounding her death, and the Academy Award nominated film, starring Meryl Steep, Kurt Russell, and Cher, inspired by her life. Sources: The Genius of Marie Curie, Tedx Radium City, Documentary, 2011 These Women Were Poisoned by their Job for Years, Bailey Sarian, YouTube The Radium Girls, Kate Moore, 2016 Radium Girls, Film, 2018 The Nuclear Safety Activist Whose Mysterious Death Inspired A Movie, Jennifer Latson, 2014, Time. A substantially Accurate Drama About Karen Silkwood, The New York Times, 1984. Silkwood, MIke Nichols, ABC Motion Pictures, 1983. When Nora Met Alice, John Blades, Chicago Tribune, 1990. Nora Ephron Biography, Biography.com, 2014. Silkwood, Roger Ebert, Rogerebert.com, 1983. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/broadsnextdoor/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/broadsnextdoor/support

For 65 years investigators and the public tried to figure out the identity of the body of a young boy who was found badly beaten in a box on the side of the road, now he finally has a name…. This is our first mini episode and an excerpt from Part 2 of our Caylee Marie Anthony episode. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/broadsnextdoor/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/broadsnextdoor/support

In Episode 11, The Life and Death of Brittany Murphy, we will celebrate Brittany’s life & career, and examine the tragic circumstances surrounding her death. In this episode, we take a look at Brittany’s early life, and career achievements, as well as, her family dynamics and interpersonal relationships. We will also explore the impact of negative media attention, the pressures that surround women in Hollywood, and body image standards of the early 2000s. Lastly, we will unpack Brittany and her husband Simons death, and the factors that may have contributed to their demise. Please share, subscribe to our patreon, and become a monthly $upporter so we can keep making episodes for you!! links in bio!! HBO Max’s What Happened, Brittany Murphy The Smithosnian, The Curious Life and Death of Brittany Murphy Ebert, Roger. Uptown Girls, Rogerebert.com, 2003. Logan, Elizabeth. Melanie Lynsky Rnemebers Brittany Murphys Self-Image Issues. Glamour, 2022. June, Sophia. Clueless Director Reveals What Made Her Cast Brittany Murphy, Nylon, 2021. Brittany Murphy Biography, Biography.com, 2014. https://www.biography.com/actor/brittany-murphy Johnson, Christen. Everything to Know about Brittany Murpy’s Husabnd, Simon Monjack. Cosmopolitan, 2021. https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/celebs/a37939234/brittany-murphy-husband- Kranc, Lauren, Esquire Magazine, 2021. https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a37962982/true-story-what-happened-brittany-murphy-death-hbo-max/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/broadsnextdoor/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/broadsnextdoor/support

We’re doing the ultimate deep dive on Caylee Anthony & her mom Casey. Join us as we try and gain a broader understanding of how any of this happened. This is part one of a four part series. The Thirty-One days are often reduced to a series of soundbites but we’re going to tell you about each day. In this episode we’ll be looking at the disappearance of Caylee Anthony starting with the events of June 16th. We’ll go over Casey’s phone and computer records as well as testimony from all her friends and family members to form a timeline of what was going on each day and try and give this timeline in the most unbiased way possible while we lay down the ground work for our other episodes. From Casey’s job at Universal Studios, her best friend and co-worker Juliet Lewis, her ex co-worker current lover and Zanny’s ex-boyfriend Jeffrey Hopkins. The timeline Casey gives Cindy. The discovery of Casey’s car abandoned in an Amscot parking lot. The smell. A computer search for full proof suffocation. The three 911 calls Cindy makes. The people Casey spent her time with from boyfriend Tony Lazzaro and what they rented at Blockbuster the night Caylee disappeared, to best friend Amy Hazinga and all those trips to Target. Fusion Ultra Lounge infamous hot body contest photos. Sawgrass Apartments and investigators desperate attempts to find Zanny the Nanny. Ending with Casey’s arrest and her first phone call home. In Part 2 we will explore the media’s influence on the case, Jose Baez and Casey’s team building their drowning defense and setting their sights on George Anthony while Jeff Ashton and the prosecution start building their case against Casey with chloroform and the car smell, Casey’s brief release from prison, Nancy Grace and the nightly news… all while examining the psychology of lying and why we are so fascinated by it. In Part 3 we will focus on the trial and Part 4 will be about the aftermath and all the documentaries that followed You can find us on social media @broadsnextdoor More content on Patreon! Listener support is greatly appreciated. Thank you from the Broads Next Door, Daniela Scrima & Brooke Fisher --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/broadsnextdoor/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/broadsnextdoor/support

We go over the history of diets, eating disorders, body tropes in film and media while telling you about our own experiences, we try and gain a broader understanding of how we got here by examining diet propaganda, unrealistic ideals, and of course our bodies and ourselves. Sources:Shanberg, Meera. Misunderstood: A Cultural HIstory of Eating Disorders, Appolon Journal, 2020. Mina Le- History of Dieting, The National- To the Bone, TED-Ex- What Are Eating Disorders? HBO- Thin, The Take- The Funny Fat Girl Trope, Cbs News. 150 Years of Dieting Fads: An American Story, 2015. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/broadsnextdoor/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/broadsnextdoor/support

On this episode we’re getting a makeover…. from new hairstyles to new bodies— we explore the beauty myth, ask if anti-aging is anti-feminism, examine a century of beauty standards and beauty routines, we learn about face positivity and plastic surgery while telling you why a body shouldn’t be a trend. We also share our own beauty routines and talk about the procedures we’ve had done. This is part one of a two part episode. Sources: Simone de Beauvoir- The Second Sex Simone de Beauvoir- The Woman Destroyed Betty Friedan- The Feminine Mystique Jenna Jameson- How to Make Love like a Naomi Wolf- The Beauty Myth Mary Wolstencraft - A Vindication of the Rights of Women The Take, The Pretty Girl Trope and The Movie Makeover, Mina Le- My Problem With Plastic Surgery Adegoke, Yomi When Will We Stop Reducing Women’s Body Types to Trends?, Vogue, 2022 Allaire, Christian. Rating 20 Movie Makeovers, From the Lazy to the Jaw-Dropping, Vogue, 2015 Mew, Andrea The Insane History Of Beauty Standards Since 1900, Evie Magazine, 2022 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/broadsnextdoor/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/broadsnextdoor/support

Do we all speak like Valley Girls now? How did television change the American teenager? Why is the mean girl mean? What was a better one season show Freaks & Geeks or My So-Called Life? Did the teen movie become too self-aware? Is Euphoria made for millennials? We explore the history of television & the American teenager, the history of the televised teen drama, the mean girl trope, movies like Heathers, Clueless, Mean Girls, Now and Then, Can’t Hardly Wait, Young Adult, Bring It On & many more while getting into what make girl groups so powerful & telling you all a about our own teenage years we also get a 90’s fashion lesson & learn about Vocal Fry & Uptalk. Plus, 90’s & 2000’s television, reality TV fights & the impact of bullying. Books As If! The Oral History of Clueless, As Told by Amy Heckerling, the Cast, and the Crew by Jen Chaney Bitch by Elizabeth Wurtzel Articles Cheney, Jen. (June, 9, 2015). An Oral History of How Clueless Became an Iconic 90s Classic. Variety. Thompson, Amy (July 19,2020). Clueless: Director Amy Heckerling and Designer Mona May Break Down the Film's Iconic Outfits. Variety, Hafford, Michael. A Brief History of the Teen, Mel Magazine Highfill, Samantha. For the love of teen TV: How the genre has evolved and why it's so powerful, Entertainment Weekly Thompson, Derek. A Brief History of Teenagers, The Saturday Evening Post Videos: The Take The Mean Girl Trope, Bring It On The Fall of the-all American Cheerleader Wired, Accent Expert Breaks Down Language Pet Peeves Comedy Hype- Why UPN’s Black Sitcoms Ended Cloud English, Are We Slowly Becoming Valley Girls? Vice, The Dark Side of the 90’s --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/broadsnextdoor/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/broadsnextdoor/support

What does it mean to be a bad girl & what are the consequences of being treated like a one dimensional character? In this episode we’ll be talking about femme fatales, good girls gone bad & modern takes on female revenge. This episode contains spoilers for Carrie, Jennifer’s Body & Promising Young Woman. Content Warning for s*xual assault & violence. Sources: The Steubenville Victim Tells Her Story, The Atlantic, 2013 Oppel Junior, Richard A. (March 17, 2013). "Ohio Teenagers Guilty in Rape That Social Media Brought to Light". The New York Times. Davidson, Amy. "Life After the Steubenville Rape Trial: Are the Defendants' Lives Really Over?". The New Yorker. King, Stephen. On Writing Ford, Clementine. "There was only one victim in Steubenville". Daily Life. Bartuska, Aaron. (April 5, 2022) The History of Stephen King's Carrie. Video Libratrian. Golden, Eve. Vamp: The Rise and Fall of Theda Bara. Vestal, New York: Emprise Publishing, Inc, 1996. Sutton, Halley. (December 5, 2019) The Evolution of the Femme Fatale in Film Noir. Crime Reads. Martin Heesacker. (2015) The Media’s Sexual Objectification of Women, Rape Myth Acceptance, and Interpersonal Violence. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma, pages 569-587. Cynthia A. Lanier DrPH, Bradley A. Green PhD. (2006) Principal Component Analysis of the College Date Rape Attitude Survey (CDRAS). Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma, pages 79-93. Patricia D. Rozee, Mary P. Koss. (2001) Rape: A Century of Resistance. Psychology of Women Quarterly Wurtzel, Elizabeth. “Manufacturing Fascination.” 1999 Videos: The Take, The Good Girl Trope, Why Women Can’t Win The Take, Promising Young Woman Explained The Take, Why Women in Movies Get Makeovers The Take, Why the Madonna & The Whore Complex still Reigns The Take, The Angry Woman Trope The Manipulative Victim Trope News Clips: ABC News- Harvey Weinstein ABC News- Steubenville Poems: The Iliad, Homer The Odyssey, Homer Plays: The Orestes Trilogy, Aeschylus Medea, Euripides Iphigenia in Aulis Films: Carrie, film, 1976 Jennifer’s Body, film, 2009 The Lovely Bones, film, 2009 Promising Young Woman, 2020 Documentaries: Roll Red Roll, 2018, Nancy Shwartzman Untouchable- Harvey Weinstein, Hulu, 2019 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/broadsnextdoor/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/broadsnextdoor/support

We’re talking about the history of the bimbo and how Gen Z is reclaiming the term, The Dumb Blonde & Bright Brunette tropes as well as groupies, Dolly Parton, Buffy, femme fatales, the metoo movement and social media, early 2000’s celebrity backlash the negative treatment of young women in media, the need for inclusion within feminist spaces & so much more. This will be a two part episode!! Sources: Bimbofication Is Taking Over. What Does That Mean for You? Vice. Arielle Richards , 2022. Yours Cruelly, Elvira. Cassandra Peterson, 20201 Please Kill Me, Legs McNeil & Gillian McCain Elizabeth Wurtzel, Bitch, 1999 Gentleman Prefer Blondes, Anita Loos Gentleman Prefer Blondes, film Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Truman Capote Why do men find blonde women so very attractive? Carol Jahme, The Guardian References
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Ridley, M (1993) The Take, The Bimbo Trope Explained, Himbos & Legally Blonde Barbara Walters Interviews Dolly Parton 1979 Courtney Love 2005 Red Carpet --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/broadsnextdoor/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/broadsnextdoor/support

Examining the “Crazy” Girl Trope In this episode we’re getting into the “crazy girl” trope. Are these portrayals helpful or harmful? Both? Is it okay to laugh at our sadness? Can depression ever be glamorous? We discuss Girl, Interrupted, the return of Tumblr, the idea of the Femcel, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Sylvia Plath, Issa Rae, Michaela Coel, Frances Farmer, Zelda Fitzgerald, Gone Girl & the cool girl monologue, Edie Sedgwick & the sad little rich girl, Orange is the New Black, Glenn Close, Fatal Attraction & the femme fatale, pathological liars, the lack of mental healthcare available, and most importantly how these portrayals in media and in our personal lives impact how we treat celebrities, each other, and ourselves. CONTENT WARNING: We do talk about suicide, sexual assault, disordered eating & self-harm in this episode— nothing graphic or too detailed but we want you to know it’s in there Sources: Girl Interrupted: Stop Your Whining Little Girl, The New York Times, Stephen Holden, 1999 Everything You Forgot About Girl Interrupted and Why the Story Remain So Vital, E News!, Natalie Finn, 2019 Is Gone Girl Feminist or Misogynist? Eliana Docterman, October 6, 2014, Time Z, Amazon Prime The Take, The “Crazy” Ex-Girlfriend - A Manufactured Trope The Femme Fatale Trope, Explained YouTube Mina Lee, toxic femininity: what's up with girlbloggers, female manipulators, and femcels? YouTube Girl Interrupted, Susanna Kaysen, 1993 Girl Interrupted, Film 1999 Bitch, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Anchor Books, 1999 Madness- Elizabeth Wurtzel, from the introduction Gone Girl- Gillian Flynn Gone Girl, film, 2012 Frances, trailer, 1987 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/broadsnextdoor/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/broadsnextdoor/support

Are curses real? Do ghosts exist? This week we attempt to answer those questions by looking at some of the most famous “cursed” movie sets and telling some of our own & favorite celebrity ghost stories. **Content Warning** This episode carries a trigger warning for violence and sexual assault. Don’t worry, we don’t go into too much detail, but if you are uncomfortable about that kind of thing, you may want to skip ahead when we give the warning during the episode. Thank you! Sources: Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi Celebrity Ghost Stories: Joan Didion, Cassandra Peterson, Bret Michaels, John Waters E! True Hollywood Story: The Poltergeist Curse E! True Hollywood Story: Dominique Dunne Blue Nights Joan Didion JUSTICE: A Father's Account of the Trial of His Daughter's Killer by Dominick Dunne, Vanity Fair, June 1984 The Most Cursed Movie Ever Made, Rosemary Counter, Vanity Fair, 2017 How Charles Manson Took Sick Inspiration from The Beatles Helter Skelter, Lesley Kennedy, 2019 Roman Polanski’s Alleged Sexual Assault: What You Need To Know, Jessica Wakeman, Rolling Stone, 2017 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/broadsnextdoor/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/broadsnextdoor/support

Broads Next Door Episode 2: You’re Being Hysterical In this episode we get into sleepover rituals, stuff we watched when that we shouldn’t have as kids, cases of psychogenic illness & the most popular (vibrating) myth about curing female hysteria. Sources: Barker, K. Brandon, and Rice, Claiborne. 2012. "Folk Illusions: An Unrecognized Genre of Folklore." Journal of American Folklore Bartholmew, Robert. 2009, Little Green Men, Meowing Nuns & Head Hunting Panics Butkus, Cathy Jo. 1977. “Ouija Whirlwind.” Fife Folklore Archive, Utah State University. Comella, Lynn 2017. Vibrator Nation Cursed History, Cat Nuns of France, YouTube Didion, Joan. 2011. Blue Nights Dodson, Bette. 2016. Sex by Design: The Betty Dodson Story Ellis, Bill. 1994. Speak to the Devil: Ouija Board Rituals Among American Adolescents Gandes, Alan. 2002. Bloody Mary in the Mirror: A Ritual Reflection of Pre-Pubescent Anxiety Prefrontal Lobotomy in the Treatment off Mental Disorders (GWU, 1942) Lieberman, Halley, 2020. (Almost) Everything You Know About the Vibrator is Wrong Lieberman, Halley, 2017. Buzz: The Stimulating History of the Sex Toy Maines, Rachel. 2001. The Technology of Orgasm Morley, Carol, 2014 Mass Hysteria is a Powerful Group Activity National Geographic, Cleopatra’s Vibr. YouTub Beattie M, Lenihan P (2018). Counselling Skills for Working with Gender Diversity and Identity. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers Rhode Island Medical Journal, Psychiatric Casualties of The Exorcist, 1974 Nerve-Vibration and Excitation, J. Mortimer Granville, M.D. J &A Churchill, 1883 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/broadsnextdoor/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/broadsnextdoor/support

On our very first episode, We discuss Anna Nicole Smith’s early life, her marriage to billionaire J. Howard Marshall, his death & the lawsuits that followed, the history of breast augmentation, 90’s beauty ideals & early 2000’s Internet & diet culture. Concluding with Anna’s untimely death. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/broadsnextdoor/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/broadsnextdoor/support