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Pop Culture Happy Hour

Book Club: The Next Chapter

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4.511.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Book Club: The Next Chapter is a sequel that reunites four legendary actresses: Jane Fonda, Diane Keaton, Candice Bergen, and Mary Steenburgen. In this iteration, the ladies jet-set to Italy. It's a light-hearted, very silly romp with a meet-cute, an old paramour, lost luggage, and multiple jokes about meatballs.

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Book Club, the next chapter is a sequel that reunites four legendary actresses,

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Jane Fonda, Diane Keaton, Candice Bergen, and Mary Steenburgent.

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In this iteration, the ladies jet set to Italy.

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It's a light-hearted, very silly rob that also features Andy Garcia, Don Johnson,

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and multiple jokes about meatballs. I'm Aisha Harris and today we're talking

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about Book Club, the next chapter on Pop-What your happy hour from NPR. Joining me today is Kristen Mindser. She co-host the podcast The Daily Fail and is the

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co-author of How to Be Fine.

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Hey, Kristen.

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Hey Aisha, so excited to be back

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to talk about this Romped Through Italy with you.

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I know.

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I've Romped through Italy once before,

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and this was a nice little living vicariously through four fabulous

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ladies. Yes, yes. So if you recall the original book club and let's face it you probably don't I didn't before I

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went into this film the premise is about as sweet and easy to sip as a limachello

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Book Club the next chapter is, of course, no different.

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Jane Fondo plays a hotel magnate and lifelong bachelorette who's about to marry her long lost love,

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played by Don Johnson.

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Diane Keaton plays a widow who's found love again with a pilot played by Andy Garcia.

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Kansas Bergen plays a divorcee in a recently retired judge and Mary Steenbergen plays a

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former restaurateur whose husband has recently had a heart attack.

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He's played by Craig T Nelson.

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