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'Booksmart' with Guest Host Ellington Wells

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4.7 • 932 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2019

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Book Smart   This week we’re joined by guest host Ellington Wells, a writer and comedian whose credits include The New Negroes and Adult Swim’s Lazor Wulf. The panel discuss the teen comedy Booksmart, and what distinguishes this film from others in the “one crazy night” genre. Kayla in Seattle called the Who Shot Line after seeing Captain Marvel, a movie that helped her shake off the idea of what women are supposed to be. She wondered if the panelists could point to any movies that helped them contextualize their place in the world. In news, Rotten Tomatoes fights back against review-bombing trolls, director Xavier Dolan takes issue with describing his latest film Matthias & Maxime as a ‘gay love story’, and former SNL star Chris Kattan’s new memoir Baby, Don’t Hurt Me alleges Lorne Michaels pressured him to have sex with ‘Clueless’ director Amy Heckerling. Staff Picks Drea: Fits and Starts Alonso: Godzilla: King of the Monsters Ellington: Strictly Ballroom With With Alonso Duralde, Drea Clark, and Ellington Wells. You can let us know what you think of Who Shot Ya? on Twitter or Facebook. Or email us atwhoshotya@maximumfun.org Call us on the "Who Shotline" - WSY-803-1664 Produced by Casey O'Brien and Laura Swisher for MaximumFun.org.

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0:00.0

They're coming to get you, Barbara.

0:04.0

I don't know what you come to do, but I'm going to create his name.

0:10.0

Because you'll never be anything but a common frump whose father lived over a grocery store

0:14.6

and whose mother took in washing.

0:16.7

Hello everyone and welcome to who shot you.

0:19.6

I'm your guest host this week, Ellington Wells.

0:22.1

Today we are joined by Film Reviews editor at

0:24.3

the rap, Alonzo Duralde. Alonzo, what's good with you?

0:27.6

Oh, Ellington, I'll tell you, this is one of my favorite times of year in Los Angeles,

0:31.7

and this might be a warning for visitors to

0:33.7

Los Angeles just a sort of planned accordingly. We have this thing here called

0:37.3

May Gray that sort of turns into June gloom and basically it's really overcast

0:42.3

and every year it seems to get colder like

0:45.0

there was a day this week where I got up and it was 46 degrees in the morning and I'm

0:48.6

all about it because it's warm around the East Coast yeah it is hotter in New York City

0:52.2

right now that it is in Los Angeles and you know look yes

0:55.7

that Southern California sunshine lifestyle great love it but sometimes I need a break and you know I

1:01.6

don't get it in the winter you know or most of the

1:03.5

autumn so it may and June roll around that I get some like some sort of

1:07.4

foggy sort of like wear a jacket days I'm yeah I'm loving However, it's hilarious to see tourists show up in their shorty shorts thinking, oh, May in California, it's going to be hot hot hot. So, you know, plan accordingly tourists. But yeah, I'm all about the glo.

1:22.4

What time are you waking up in the morning? Because it's definitely. plan accordingly tourists but yeah I'm all about the glo.

1:22.5

What time are you waking up in the morning because it's definitely been sunny when I've been waking up?

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