Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: Arroe Collins Like Its Live Unplugged And Totally Uncut
Episode: Batman Day Is Back Samuel Garza Bernstein Celebrates It With Cesar Romero The Joker Is Wild
Description: Dynamic and debonair, Cesar Romero was best known for creating the role of the Joker in the 1960s Batman television series. As the first actor to play Batman and Robin's villainous nemesis, Romero established the character's giddy, manic tone and the distinctive laugh that subsequent actors like Jack Nicholson, Heath Ledger, and Joaquin Phoenix would use as the starting points in their own Oscar-nominated (Nicholson) and Oscar-winning (Ledger and Phoenix) performances. As a closeted gay man of Latin American descent, Romero gracefully faced many personal challenges while maintaining his suave public image and starring opposite legends ranging fr...