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At almost 350 episodes, Christopher and Eric often suffer from a case of “Have we done this one before?” But this serving of a haunting New York disappearance includes new details and confirms their old suspicions about this strange and disturbing case. HOMICIDE NEW YORK – not to be confused with NEW YORK HOMICIDE, authors of our previous episode — is one of the best new true crime series to come down the pike in years and their treatment of this *suggestive* story is the best coverage it’s gotten yet. What truly went down at the afterhours party that saw handsome, young Joey Coumnale vanish off the face of one of Manhattan’s toniest neighborhoods? In the second episode of their second New York focused season entitled “Party Monster”, this slick, Dick Wolf produced special allows its interview subjects to voice suspicions Christopher and Eric shouted at their television the first time they saw this story covered.
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Summer In The City Month continues with this devastating, emotional and ultimately inspiring tale of an urban community rising up against the hate in its midst. If someone doesn’t make this story into a movie, Christopher and Eric just might. Jackson Heights, Queens. 1990. The AIDS epidemic is at its peak and gay men are being targeted for violent attacks throughout the country. But we’re supposed to believe out and proud Julio Rivera was savagely beaten to death with multiple blunt objects by multiple assailants as the result of a drug deal gone bad? (Gurl, please.) The tenth episode of the second season of NEW YORK HOMICIDE entitled “Shine A Light On Hate” offers an inspiring history lesson about activism, justice and community building. Sometimes there’s more than safety in numbers, there’s change.
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Christopher and Eric are kicking off a month of True Crime TV Club set in Manhattan and the outer boroughs. They’re calling it Summer In The City Month because only a killer would enjoy New York in July. And it’s still Pride Season which is why they’re starting off with this tale of cold hearted predators stalking gay men in the city. In the second episode of the ninth season of venerable true crime favorite PEOPLE MAGAZINE INVESTIGATES entitled “Death In Hell’s Kitchen”, they learn how homophobic stereotyping can infect supposedly progressive police forces even in 2022. They also ask if one of these victims might still be alive today if the investigators hadn’t made bigoted assumptions early in the case. Breaking News! Have you pre-ordered the special 50th anniversary edition of INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE yet? Head to AnneRice.com and order yours today to be eligible for an exclusive pre-order bonus. It’s an absolutely gorgeous hardcover and your hosts can’t shut up about it.
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Christopher and Eric wrap up their special month of Pride Pairings by serving up a boisterous biopic of the great Oscar Wilde that didn’t age quite as well as they’d hoped. In WILDE, Stephen Fry’s excellent performance as the title subject is hypnotic, and Jude Law scorches a hole in the screen as his manipulative young lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. But does this sprawling film truly capture the magnetism, wit and appetites of the iconic literary figure at its center? Or is it held back by the constraints of late 90’s cinema? And, of course, most important in a Dinner Partners Pairing, do the facts hold up?
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As Christopher and Eric continue their month of special Pride Pairings, they launch their two-episode exploration of literary great Oscar Wilde with a True Crime TV Club installment they assumed would be focused on the young lover many blame for Wilde’s personal destruction or at the very least the young man’s father. Turns out this documentary assigned that role to someone entirely unexpected. Who knew? (The Irish did, apparently but they forgot. You’ll see what we mean.) In the BBC Select documentary, THE MAN WHO DESTROYED OSCAR WILDE, your hosts meet an unexpected and astonishing host and take a surprising journey into the “recently” rediscovered transcripts of a trial that brought about the ruin of one of England’s greatest authors and playwrights and one of the wittiest and most brilliant queer men to ever walk the planet. It’s a nice warm up for next week’s serving of the 1997 biopic, WILDE, starring Stephen Fry.
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We have a new rule here at Dinner Partners. Every Pride celebration should involve a stunning performance by Coleman Domingo. As Christopher and Eric continue their special Pride Pairings, they explore how Netflix biopic RUSTIN compares to the facts of the iconic civil rights leader Bayard Rustin’s life as revealed in last week’s documentary. Your hosts are largely impressed by this sweeping, sumptuous and star-studded treatment of one of gay culture’s and the civil rights movement’s most overlooked figures. Also, Coleman Domingo. Always. In everything. And watch out for that sweet, sweet Netflix money!
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Christopher and Eric kick off their Pride Month celebration with a series of special Pride Pairings in which documentarians and dramatists alike illuminate the personal lives of two of gay culture’s most towering figures. In this episode, we begin a two-part exploration of one of the civil rights movement’s greatest – and previously unsung — heroes, Bayard Rustin, whose indefatigable nature and awe inspiring commitment to non-violence set the stage for one of the defining events of the entire civil rights era, the March on Washington. The documentary BROTHER OUTSIDER: THE LIFE OF BAYARD RUSTIN takes us inside his once secret relationships with other men, his mistreatment at the hands of some of his fellow civil rights activists and the causes to which he gave his heart after the Civil Rights Act became law due in no small part to his tireless efforts. It’s a nice preparation for next week’s serving of RUSTIN, the starry Netflix biopic based on his life and directed by George C. Wolfe.
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In this episode, Eric’s wit, wisdom and incisive commentary on life take center stage. More so than usual. Why? Because those are the things you told us you wanted to hear more of. (That and Christopher messing up his own notes during installments of True Crime TV Club.) We hope all of you aren’t living entirely according to the life lessons Eric serves up in between commenting on gruesome murders and morally bankrupt real life villains. (If you are, please sign this release and review our disclaimers.) How does he measure up to the other fancy queen of advice giving, Miss Manners herself? We decided to find out. We also presented him with some of the questions on life you submitted through our Facebook page. (Again, please sign this release.)
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You can’t have Homecoming Month on a true crime-centric podcast if you don’t include an episode of true crime television that actually has the word homecoming in the title. Homecoming queen, no less. Such is the case with the thirty-fifth episode of the twenty-fourth season of the always in a class by itself DATELINE entitled “The Hometown Hero and the Homecoming Queen.” If the match sounds too good to be true, congratulations, you’re suspicious and jaded enough to enjoy this podcast! This tale starts with an Olympic Gold medalist (well, bronze, actually, but you get the idea) and ends with a hail of gunfire in a peaceful Oxnard, California neighborhood, and Eric’s got big opinions about the final judgment.
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Christopher and Eric have identified many recurrent and grievous sins when it comes to the world of true crime television, but the first episode of season 22 of CRUISE SHIP KILLERS entitled “Nadia,” might have birthed an entirely new but nevertheless jaw dropping transgression. You’ll have to listen to find out what it is. But we’ll warn you. If this tale of murder and betrayal during a floating high school reunion sounds too twisted to be true then…We’ll stop right there. Set sail with a new installment of Homecoming Month. Google the details in this episode and you might be as shocked as we were.
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Homecoming Month begins with a Dinner Partners style house tour. You’ve been asking for the final chapter of Eric’s home renovation saga, and it’s high time we blew the drywall dust of ourselves and delivered it to you. And this raised a very important question. Our beloved premier party person Anne Rice passed away before Eric started his journey into headaches and hot water heaters. Would she have approved of the end result? To find our answer, we travel back through time to discuss the homes Anne lived in throughout her career, from the classic and understated elegance of the San Francisco Edwardian where she wrote “The Vampire Lestat” to the gothic splendor of the Garden District mansion where “The Witching Hour” exploded onto the page. Take a very special peek behind the heavy velvet curtAnnes.
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Sometimes the rankest easter eggs during Easter Eggs Month are the ones buried in the basement. Don’t say we didn’t warn you. To close out this month devoted to all the things that didn’t survive the growing season, Christopher and Eric serve up both installments of the recent HBO Max documentary MURDER IN GLITTERBALL CITY. Some of the subjects feel uncomfortably familiar. (Did we date any of these guys?) And many of the houses on display are charming. But is this expose of two addicts moving murderous mayhem into a quaint historic neighborhood in Louisville, Kentucky a new ‘Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil’ or a cautionary tale of filmmakers losing focus? And are we still in a place where owning bondage gear for private sexual acts is enough to implicate you in a murder? Christopher and Eric debate these and other questions as Easter Eggs Month rolls to a stop.
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Christopher and Eric are the proud inventors of the term “recincrapments” – actually, we think it was Eric, but Christopher likes to steal half the credit — and they feel justified in bestowing this dubious honor on the absolutely hideous re-enactments smeared all over this week’s serving. If there was ever an episode of television for which the term “reincraptacular” was invented, it’s THE PERFECT MURDER (OK. Eric really did invent that one.) As Easter Eggs Month continues, we include those who honor the Passover season by serving up the first episode of the second season of this badly acted masterclass in slut shaming and condescending detective work, “The Kosher Killer”.
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Easter Eggs Month continues with a depraved and disturbing crime that unfolded in the dead of Easter Sunday night on an isolated Nebraska farm, shattering a respected local family in the process. In typical DATELINE style, Christopher and Eric are taken down winding, labyrinthine roads peopled by vicious late night intruders, devastated families and dubious confessions obtained under duress. They’re serving it all up for you by way of the fourth episode of the iconic true crime show’s nineteenth season entitled “In The Dead of Night”. Whoever said the only real monsters roam the city has clearly never visited these haunting prairies.
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Welcome to Easter Eggs Month, where the only thing that’s risen is the scent of death and deception. Christopher and Eric begin their dark celebration of the growing season with this tale of Spring Break gone to hell. While they’re pleasantly surprised by the production quality of the luridly entitled MURDER IN THE HEARTLAND, the arresting and emotional tale served up by the fourth episode of the ninth season, entitled “Spring Breaking Up”, walloped them both with a stomach churning twist. But this tale of a community coming together to find one of its own while overcoming racial bias is one that will stick with them forever.
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When money isn't a motive, a dirty prosecutor will use sex shaming and sexual discrimination to make up for a lack of evidence or investigation. How's that for carrying the theme of the month all the way through to the end? Dirty Sexy Money Month concludes with a serving of two-part, Peacock true crime special, WHO KILLED ROBERT WONE? If their March birthdays only aged Christopher and Eric by another year, watching this special aged them both by several more. Christopher was stunned by the number of forensic twists and turns on display, and Eric was left outraged by the actions of the detectives and prosecutors. What transpires is a real trial based on a fictional story.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that the hosts of Dinner Partners are total suckers for any true crime special that uses the word "sassy" in the narration more than once. Such is the case with second episode of the second season of SOUTHERN FRIED HOMICIDE, portentously entitled "Romance Is Dead". Dirty Sexy Money Month continues with a toxic blend of all three ingredients. Being the mayor of a small South Carolina town can make you a lot of enemies. Now add in being it's pre-eminent lawyer and landlord and the list of suspects in your violent and untimely demise only gets longer. But is the real culprit in this tale of pain pill addicted ambitious shop owners and mouthy confidential informants closer to home? This year, Eric's best birthday present is that he lives a safe distance from South Carolina.
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Sometimes the dirtiest money is the kind that only exists in one man's imagination. That's the case in this new installment of Christopher & Eric's True Crime TV Club. Dirty Sexy Money Month continues, a month long birthday celebration for both of your hosts. True crime TV series VANITY FAIR CONFIDENTIAL is the gift that keeps on giving, and episode 2 of season 5, "The Perfectly Sinister Mr. Rockefeller" has all the ingredients your hosts love to serve. Deceit, old money, long cons and shrewd detective work by law enforcement and journalists alike. This saga stretches from an affluent Southern California suburb to the halls of high finance in New York City to an Alpine village in Germany. By the time you've made the trip, you'll be amazed one man could get away with so much. Christopher and Eric sure were.
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March is Birthday Month for Christopher and Eric and so we're spending this month of episodes serving up the things they love most — Dirty Sexy Money. Not necessarily in that order, but usually in combination. What better way to kick off a birthday celebration than with a surprise visit from one of their favorite TV hosts of all time? After hearing their salacious True Crime TV Club serving of his true crime confection THE PRINCE, THE WHIZ KID AND THE MILLIONAIRE on Episode 317, famed DATELINE host Josh Mankiewicz reached out and asked to visit the Dinner Partners studio in West Hollywood so he could discuss this unforgettable real life tale of gay con men, murderers and chain smoking Palm Springs gossip columnists. He agrees — it's the Gayest Dateline Ever! After forcing him to endure strict security protocols to ensure that he was, indeed, Josh Mankiewicz, your hosts were overjoyed to welcome him. Not only do they discuss the very colorful cast of characters on the DATELINE episode in question, they talk about what goes into making the most well-known and highly regarded true crime television series on the planet. And yes, they remembered to take a picture with him.
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Bromance Month goes dark again — really dark — with this new look at a hideous, landmark serial killing case, the first of its kind to be covered by national media as body after body was discovered inside a sweltering boat shed baking in the merciless heat of Houston Texas. In THE SERIAL KILLER'S APPRENTICE, psychologist Katherine Ramsland — who also wrote a biography of Christopher's mother — interviews the imprisoned accomplice to Dean Corll, the so-called Candyman Killer, who tortured, murdered and raped young men throughout Texas in the 1960's. Was Wayne Henley a willing accomplice and a budding serial killer himself? Or was he pitched into a state of "temporary psychopathy" by mean circumstances, a broken home and a ruthless killer and sadist who kept him in a state of fear?
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