{"id":934,"date":"2026-09-30T10:29:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T14:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/?p=934"},"modified":"2026-09-30T10:29:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T14:29:41","slug":"on-its-30th-anniversary-our-podcast-discusses-the-1996-film-grace-of-my-heart-a-fictionalized-version-of-singer-songwriter-carole-kings-life-starring-illeana-douglas-john-turturro-eric-stoltz-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/?p=934","title":{"rendered":"On its 30th anniversary, our podcast discusses the 1996 film Grace of My Heart, a fictionalized version of singer\/songwriter Carole King&#8217;s life, starring Illeana Douglas, John Turturro, Eric Stoltz and Matt Dillon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Join us on our deep dive into Grace of My Heart to celebrate its 30th anniversary. This Alison Anders film is a heavily fictionalized version of Carole King&#8217;s life, starring Illeana Douglas, John Turturro, Eric Stoltz, and Matt Dillon. We look at the music of the 1960s, the men and women of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brill_Building\">Brill Building<\/a>, and why we need to give every last bit of minutia and trivia about our subjects.<\/p>\n<p>On <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/2ckpTOdTEcCjZI8dldwwAN\">Spotify<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/grace-of-my-heart\/id1738865725?i=1000789484848\">Apple Podcasts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/linktr.ee\/rocklopedia\">Everything else!<\/a><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/p18438_p_v10_aa.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[934]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/p18438_p_v10_aa-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-935\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/p18438_p_v10_aa-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/p18438_p_v10_aa-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/p18438_p_v10_aa-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/p18438_p_v10_aa.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join us on our deep dive into Grace of My Heart to celebrate its 30th anniversary. This Alison Anders film is a heavily fictionalized version of Carole King&#8217;s life, starring Illeana Douglas, John Turturro, Eric Stoltz, and Matt Dillon. We look at the music of the 1960s, the men and women of the Brill Building, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-update"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paCRfe-f4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":936,"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions\/936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}