Copie's Choice for the weekend of March 10

Published: Fri, 03/10/23

Hi ,

Happy Friday!

I hope that you’re staying safe as the latest atmospheric river sweeps across Northern California.

REMINDER: Be sure to charge all your devices as soon as you can if you’re in this region because widespread power outages are expected tonight and tomorrow morning.

REMINDER #2: This is the weekend we set our clocks ahead an hour, so it starts getting dark later in the evening. My favorite time of year! Saturday Night/Sunday Morning at 2 AM, bump your clock ahead to 3 AM. Most cell phones and computers should automatically reset themselves.

I’m still at the Marsh in San Francisco with my latest solo play, "Grandma & Me," now in its 6th month. I’m doing the show at 5 PM on Saturday evenings this month so, if you’re free and safely able to get there tomorrow night, please come check out the show that critics are call a “must see!”

Tickets available HERE.

If you’re in the Pleasanton, CA area (or you have friends there), on Saturday night March 18, I’m doing one very special performance of the show at the Firehouse Arts Center at 8 PM. It’s the only time the play will be in that neck of the woods. I’m told that tickets are going fast so get yours today.

I’ve been hooked on true crime the last two weeks. It’s almost become an obsession. My daughter, Carolyn, thinks I need to cut back. We were watching "Family Feud" the other night and the question was: Name something you find at the bottom of the ocean.

I yelled, “A body.”

Yeah, I’m watching and reading too much of this stuff but…that’s what I’ve got for you this week. A true crime edition…

Television

MURDAUGH MURDERS: A SOUTHERN SCANDAL

Netflix

This timely documentary series is a thorough investigation into the Alex Murdaugh case. Murdaugh was convicted last week in the double homicides of his wife and son. The doc goes into detail about the myriad of other bodies and suspicious deaths connected to the Murdaugh clan over the years. It’s an abject lesson of what can happen when people of privilege think and act as though they’re above the law. It’s fascinating.

Copie’s Choice: WATCH

Podcast

FEMALE CRIMINALS

Spotify

Okay, I will confess that I’m obsessed with this podcast. It’s a three-year-old series that chronicles the rises, crimes and falls of women who’ve behaved badly. The episodes range from the story of Typhoid Mary to Ma Barker to Susan Smith (who drove a car with her two toddlers strapped in back into a lake in the 90s and blamed an imaginary Black man) to Martha Stewart and her insider trading shenanigans. Most episodes are two-parters.

What really makes this show unique is that there is psychological analysis throughout each episode that looks at each pivotal event in each woman’s life and tries to explain how and why she committed the act that she did.

Copie’s Choice: LISTEN

Reading

AMERICAN HEIRESS

by Jeffrey Toobin

The episode of "Female Criminals" about Patty Hearst made me want to do a deep dive into this case. I was just a little boy when Ms. Hearst was kidnapped by members of the urban radical group, The Symbionese Liberation Army. She was first held as a hostage before joining her captor’s organization and helping them rob banks. To this day people don’t know if she was truly brainwashed as she claims or if she aided the group of her own volition.

I have vivid memories of being a little boy and hearing the audio tapes on television that the kidnappers and Ms. Hearst sent for release to the public. I don’t remember the content, only that it scared the hell out of me.

Toobin’s book is meticulously researched and is the definitive study of the whole ordeal.

Copie’s Choice: READ

Stay dry and I’ll check you out in two weeks. Enjoy your weekend!

Copie

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