Culture Gabfest - Bogus Journey

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🗓️ 2 September 2020

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Summary

On this week’s episode, Steve, Dana, and Julia discuss Bill & Ted Face the Music, the decades-later sequel to the 1989 and 1991 originals. (This was also Dana’s first movie review for Slate after the pandemic’s monthslong disruption! Check it out here.) Next, the panel talks about Chadwick Boseman’s legacy with Wesley Morris, a critic-at-large for the New York Times who wrote about the late actor’s powerful approach to biographical moviemaking. Finally, they dive into Dana’s comfort pick—Days of Heaven.

In Slate Plus, the hosts talk about moviegoing with Sam Adams, Slate’s very own writer who ventured into a newly opened theater to review Tenet.

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Endorsements:

Dana:

Alex Winter’s Showbiz Kids, an HBO documentary about child stars.

Julia:

Plus One, starring Maya Erskine and Jack Quaid.

https://www.amazon.com/Plus-One-Maya-Erskine/dp/B07RYT666R

Stephen:

“American Fascism: It Has Happened Here,” by Sarah Churchwell in the New York Review of Books.

“Ur-Fascism,” by Umberto Eco in the New York Review of Books in 1995.

Podcast production by Cameron Drews. Production assistance by Rachael Allen.

Outro music: Spinning the Wheels by Dusty Decks

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0:00.0	I'm Stephen Maccalf, and this is the Slate Culture Gap Fest, Bogus Journey Edition.
0:14.8	It's Wednesday, September 2nd, 2020.
0:17.5	On today's most excellent show, Bill and Ted Face the music. It's the belated sequel to the
0:23.1	wonderfully inane movies of the 80s and early 90s, starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter. They return
0:28.6	as their most egregiously non-bogous middle-aged selves, Bill and Ted. And then Chadwick
0:33.4	Bozeman has died at the age of 43. We're joined by Wesley Morris of the New York Times to
0:37.8	discuss the legacy of a great actor and movie star lost before his time. And finally, Dana
0:43.5	had what appears to be maybe our final comfort pick, at least for now. She chose Days of Heaven,
0:48.9	the Terrence Malick movie from the late 1970s. It stars Richard Geer, Sam Shepard, Brooke Adams,
0:55.6	and Linda Mans,
1:01.5	who herself has just passed away. We will discuss. Joining me today is Julia Turner, who's the deputy managing editor of the LA Times. Hey, Julia. Hello, hello. And of course, Dana Stevens,
1:07.7	the film critic for slate.com. Hey, Dana. Hey, Steve.
1:11.3	Okay, before we dig in, Dana, we do have some good news.
1:14.0	Yes, we have some very good news for us. And I hope for our listeners, too, which is that
1:18.0	the Slate Culture Gapest is going weekly again with the coming of fall and the crisping of the leaves
1:23.2	and the somewhat adjusting of the economy to our new pandemic circumstances. we can now afford to make our show every week once more.
1:31.8	So in the grand tradition of the Slate CultureGab Fest, you will be hearing from us every week going forward.
1:37.2	Yay.
1:38.1	Thank you all so much for hanging in through our fortnightitude.
1:43.1	And thanks, of course, to anyone who helped it happen by joining Slate Plus during this
1:47.2	interregnum period of bi-weekliness.
1:50.4	But this is not an excuse to Slack. Keep signing up for Slate Plus. We still need you.
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