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A Hollywood star scandal gets some Vanity Fair pizzazz; 007’s stolen Aston Martin makes for a fun true crime podcast; and the cast of Chris Morris’s seminal news satire look back fondlyLove Is a Crime Vanity Fair/Cadence13The Great James Bond Car Robbery SpyscapeThe Reunion: The Day Today BBC Radio 4 | BBC SoundsJoan Bennett may not be a Hollywood name that readily trips off the tongue. Blame an incident in 1951, when the man she was with, her agent and lover, Jennings Lang, got shot twice – once directly in the groin. Before it, Joan was a pioneering film-noir femme fatale, star of the films of Fritz Lang. She’d also just played Liz Taylor’s mother in Father of the Bride, and was building a career in TV. After the shooting, her career collapsed, never to fully recover. Lang’s attacker continued his career much like before. He was the film producer Walter Wanger, Bennett’s husband, to whom she would stay married for the next 14 years. Continue reading...