Culture Gabfest - $13,000 Bottle of Whine
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🗓️ 10 February 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Steve, Dana, and Julia kick things off by discussing Minari, the semi-autobiographical movie by the filmmaker Lee Isaac Chung that focuses on a Korean family trying to build a life for themselves in rural Arkansas. After that, New York Magazine writer Mark Harris joins the show to to talk about his new biography of the director Mike Nichols. Then the hosts pick apart the latest Chrissy Teigan controversy and offer opinions about wealth, celebrity, and privilege during the pandemic.
In Slate Plus, the hosts remember the actor Christopher Plummer who passed away last week at age 91.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Stephen McAfin. This is the Slate Culture Gab Fest $13,000 bottle of wine. That's W-H-I-N-E-H-I-N-E. |
| 0:17.8 | Edition. It's Wednesday, February 10, 2021. On today's show, the movie Minari tells the story of a |
| 0:24.5 | Korean-American family in the rural south of the 1980s. It is generating a ton of awards buzz. You can |
| 0:30.3 | start streaming it this Friday we will discuss. And then Mike Nichols is one of the most successful |
| 0:35.3 | film and theater directors in the American Pantheon. His life story was as remarkable, every bit as remarkable really as his career. |
| 0:42.9 | And it's gotten the biography it deserves. We discuss Mike Nichols-A-Life with its author Mark Harris. |
| 0:48.4 | And finally, reason not the need, Chrissy Teigen, a $13,000 bottle of wine, and the perils |
| 0:54.0 | of online celebrity in an age |
| 0:56.1 | of hyper-capitalism. Joining me today is Julia Turner, the deputy managing editor of the LA Times. |
| 1:03.4 | Julia, hey. Hello, hello. And of course, Dana Stevens is the film critic for Slate. Hey, Dana. |
| 1:08.9 | Hello, Stephen. Shall we? We ready? |
| 1:12.0 | Let us go. |
| 1:14.3 | Let us go then, you and I. |
| 1:16.2 | I was wondering if you were going to go there. |
| 1:18.0 | That sounds like the imitation of that poem that some friend of mine used to do years ago. |
| 1:22.7 | If everyone's really good today, I'll do my T.S. Lian impression. |
| 1:27.1 | The American filmmaker Lee Isaac Chung |
| 1:29.4 | Grop, the son of Korean immigrants in the Deep South. His new film, Minare, is a really deeply |
| 1:34.5 | felt autobiographical reminiscence. In the movie, the Yi family moves from Los Angeles to rural |
| 1:40.0 | Arkansas, where the patriarch Jacob wants to start a farm. He's bought a pretty patch of land with a |
| 1:45.8 | double wide as a house, and he's desperate to leverage these into no longer being a wage earner. |
| 1:51.7 | He's a chicken sexer, and I live in a rural community. I actually knew what this was. I have met |
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