- In November 1924, newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst took his much-younger movie star mistress Marion Davies and a number of other well-known personalities out for a cruise on his private yacht. The pleasure trip ended with a murder, and became a true Hollywood scandal. Now that scandal is the subject of a new film by one of Hollywood's most acclaimed directors, Peter Bogdanovich.www.npr.org/programs/atc/features/2002/apr/bogdonavich