106: Death Becomes Her with The Bechdel Cast
Night Call
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 564 Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2020
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Plastic Surgery April continues with a call about the multiple sets of "Twinfluencers" that get matching plastic surgery - The Haze Twins, The Clermont Twins, and a debate about whether the Olsen Twins had a particular procedure done. Where is the most state of the art plastic surgery getting done right now? What's up with the private jet trips and plastic surgery makeovers rich people in Houston are doing during the pandemic? Then we are joined by Caitlin Durante and Jamie Loftus from our station sisters, film pod The Bechdel Cast! Jamie and Caitlin form a Voltron of feminist movie criticism with Tess, Molly and Emily to discuss Robert Zemeckis's Death Becomes Her (1992). Can a movie whose message is "women be vain" also be subversively feminist, even if it doesn't technically pass the Bechdel test? Whatever DID happen to Baby Jane? All this and a rousing back and forth about the imagined feeling of sitting on butt implants, at Night Call!
Footnotes:
Plastic Surgery and Private Jets in Houston
"The Gloriously Queer Afterlife of Death Becomes Her" at Vanity Fair
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed human. |
| 0:04.4 | It's 12.32 a.m. in the e-bell of Los Angeles, and you're listening to Night Call. |
| 0:14.5 | Hello, and welcome back to Night Call, a call-in show for our dystopian reality. |
| 0:23.6 | I am Tess Lynch in Los Angeles, and with me are Emily Yoshita and Molly Lambert. |
| 0:29.6 | Guys, welcome back. It is still plastic surgery April. So today we will be talking about the cosmetic surgery, black comedy. |
| 0:36.4 | Death becomes her with special guest Jamie Loftus and Caitlin Durante from the Bechdel cast, |
| 0:41.6 | as well as taking some questions from listeners. |
| 0:43.9 | Can't wait. |
| 0:44.9 | It's a great conversation. |
| 0:46.2 | Spoiler. |
| 0:46.7 | We already had it. |
| 0:50.5 | Everything's topsy-turvy. |
| 0:52.8 | How's everybody's plastic surgery April going? |
| 0:55.6 | Pretty good. |
| 0:56.6 | I know it's not spring break March anymore, but did anyone read the story about how |
| 1:02.1 | Gwyneth Paltrow got fired from her first job at a toy store because she went on spring |
| 1:06.2 | break? |
| 1:07.0 | No. |
| 1:08.2 | Oh, my God. |
| 1:09.2 | Do tell. |
| 1:10.0 | It's just amazing because there's a bunch of magazines coming out that were |
| 1:14.1 | finished before COVID happened. So they all have a disclaimer that's like this story was conducted |
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