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Billy Haines was a silent movie star who made the transition to sound, but when the studio head made the openly gay actor an ultimatum \\u2014 a sham marriage to a woman, or the end of his movie career. Haines chose love, quitting the movies, holding onto a relationship his friend Joan Crawford called "the happiest marriage in Hollywood," and got the best revenge of all: living well. Haines reinvented himself as the influential designer of the Hollywood Regency style, hobnobbing with movie stars and heads of state.

Shane Harris \\u2014 Washington Post reporter, author of the books @War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex, The Watchers: The Rise of America\'s Surveillance State, and host of the podcast Chatter, which interviews people at the intersection of storytelling and national security \\u2014 joins us to talk about the man who invented Old Hollywood glamour, and which director\'s personal connection to Haines makes him the perfect choice to tell his story.