Reality Life with Kate Casey

Tom Schulman, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Dead Poets Society, joins me to look back on the 1989 classic that still has generations standing on their desks. Set in 1959 at Welton Academy, an elite Vermont boarding school, the film follows John Keating (Robin Williams), an unconventional English teacher who urges his students to seize the day, inspiring a group of boys, including painfully shy Todd Anderson (Ethan Hawke) and aspiring actor Neil Perry (Robert Sean Leonard), to revive a secret poetry club and find their own voices against the expectations of their parents and school. 

  

Tom shares the teachers who inspired Keating, the agent who loved the script but didn't think anyone would make it, the first version of the movie that ended with its sets burned to the ground, the improv session that unlocked Robin Williams's performance, how the unforgettable "O Captain! My Captain!" ending took shape, why Todd is the character most like him, and the night he accepted his Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay from Jane Fonda. This episode includes discussion of suicide as it relates to the film's storyline. 

  

Reality Life with Kate Casey 

What to Watch List: https://katecasey.substack.com 

Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/katecaseyca 

Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@itskatecasey?lang=en 

Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/113157919338245 

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@realitylifewithkatecasey 

Amazon List: https://www.amazon.com/shop/katecasey 

X: https://twitter.com/katecasey 

Vanity Fair Article: https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/story/martha-moxleys-diary 

Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/katecasey

Chris DeRosa joins Kate to discuss episodes 9-11 of Netflix's Love Is Blind: Boston, breaking down the family and apartment visits. 
   
Reality Life with Kate Casey 
What to Watch List: https://katecasey.substack.com 
Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/katecaseyca 
Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@itskatecasey?lang=en 
Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/113157919338245 
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@realitylifewithkatecasey 
Amazon List: https://www.amazon.com/shop/katecasey 
X: https://twitter.com/katecasey 
Vanity Fair Article: https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/story/martha-moxleys-diary 
Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/katecasey

Who killed baby Tegan Lane, or is she still alive? In 1996, Keli Lane walked out of a Sydney hospital with her two-day-old daughter, and no one has confirmed seeing Tegan since. Keli was a water polo standout from the beach suburb of Manly, a police officer's daughter with Olympic dreams, and she had hidden multiple pregnancies from her family, her boyfriend and her teammates. In this episode, Kate walks through the case pregnancy by pregnancy, from the social worker who noticed a gap in the records in 1999 to the decade-long search for a man named Andrew Norris and the murder trial that convicted Keli with no body, no witness and no cause of death. She also covers how a 2022 law has kept her behind bars past her parole date. The case is the subject of Exposed: The Case of Keli Lane, a three-part documentary that began with a letter Keli wrote from prison, now streaming on Amazon Prime Video. 


 
 
  
Reality Life with Kate Casey 
What to Watch List: https://katecasey.substack.com 
The Story Behind My Podcast: https://katecasey.substack.com/p/i-was-the-narrator-of-my-own-family 
Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/katecasey 
Twitter: https://twitter.com/katecasey 
Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/katecaseyca 
Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@itskatecasey?lang=en 
Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/113157919338245 
Amazon List: https://www.amazon.com/shop/katecasey 
Like it to Know It: https://www.shopltk.com/explore/katecasey 
Vanity Fair Article: https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/story/martha-moxleys-diary

Jane Lipsitz, executive producer, and Trymaine Lee, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author, discuss The New Stanford Prison Experiment, the six-part Netflix series in which thirty volunteers enter a prison facility and are randomly assigned as guards or prisoners. They explore the controversial 1971 study that inspired the series, the safeguards behind this new version, and what unfolds when ordinary people are given power over others. 
  
Kate and Trymaine also share a personal connection: both attended the Milton Hershey School. Kate explains why the series reminded her of her own experience there, bringing a personal perspective to questions about authority, conformity, belonging, and individuality. 
  
  
Reality Life with Kate Casey 
What to Watch List: https://katecasey.substack.com 
Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/katecaseyca 
Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@itskatecasey?lang=en 
Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/113157919338245 
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@realitylifewithkatecasey 
Amazon List: https://www.amazon.com/shop/katecasey 
X: https://twitter.com/katecasey 
Vanity Fair Article: https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/story/martha-moxleys-diary 
Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/katecasey

Brian Moylan joins Kate to break down this week's Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, Orange County, New York, and Potomac. They discuss the drama, shifting alliances, and whether the franchises have become more about power within the cast than the women's actual lives. 
  
Reality Life with Kate Casey 
What to Watch List: https://katecasey.substack.com 
Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/katecaseyca 
Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@itskatecasey?lang=en 
Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/113157919338245 
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@realitylifewithkatecasey 
Amazon List: https://www.amazon.com/shop/katecasey 
X: https://twitter.com/katecasey 
Vanity Fair Article: https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/story/martha-moxleys-diary 
Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/katecasey