My Big Fat Greek Wedding
6/1/20261 hr 20 min
My Big Fat... Latina Wedding? This week, Chris & Lizzie dive into the magical, seemingly impossible indie-darling that could, My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Learn how Nia Vardalos turned what Hollywood perceived to be her biggest liability (her Greek heritage) into a movie so specifically hilarious, it felt universal. This is the unlikely story of how a one-woman show (and a $500 ad in the LA Times) found Rita Wilson and Tom Hanks in its audience and birthed one of the most successful indie films in the history of Hollywood.
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When you picture the First World War, you probably think of barbed wire, artillery fire, and mud.
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What you probably don't think of, drag shows, love letters passed between those in uniform, queer lives hiding in plain sight.
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In our new series, we're looking at the stories that didn't make it into the official record.
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Because they were too tender, too queer, or too dangerous to preserve.
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From Canadian soldiers performing in drag at the front to forbidden love in the trenches, to nurses whose lifelong relationship was reduced to friendship.
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History looked away.
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But we don't.
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