Culture Gabfest - [Chuck Berry Guitar Lick] Edition
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2017
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Julia Turner, Gabriel Roth, and Willa Paskin discuss the new film Personal Shopper, the legacy of Chuck Berry with the New York Times Magazine's Jody Rosen, and the sale of Us Weekly with the hosts of the podcast Who Weekly.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:12.8 | I'm Julia Turner, and this is the Slate Culture Gab Fest edition. |
| 0:20.0 | It's Wednesday, March 22nd, 2017. On today's show, Personal Shopper, the new thriller from Olivier Aceas, about a celebrity assistant played by Kristen Stewart, haunted by the spirit of her dead brother. Then Chuck Berry, the extraordinary musician who, it is not a stretch to say, invented rock and roll with a friend of the podcast Jody Rosen. |
| 0:39.3 | And finally, we chat about the sale of us weekly to the company that owns the National Enquirer with Who else, Lindsay Weber and Bobby Finger of the spectacular podcast, Who Weekly. |
| 0:49.1 | Steve and Dana are on vacation, but worry not because we've got two GabFest All-Stars to fill in. |
| 0:54.0 | I'm joined today by Slate Senior Editor and Editorial Director of Slate Plus, Gabriel Roth. |
| 0:58.3 | Hi, Julia. |
| 0:59.4 | And Slate's TV critic, Willa Pasquette. Hello, Willa. |
| 1:01.7 | Hi. |
| 1:03.0 | Personal Shopper is the new film by Olivier Aseas, starring Kristen Stewart as the assistant to a celebrity who jets around Paris on a Vespa and occasionally |
| 1:12.8 | to other European capitals getting fancy clothes for the celebrity and resenting her. |
| 1:19.0 | Part of why she resents the job is that she's mourning her twin brother. |
| 1:23.5 | And the movie also has some spooky spiritual woo-woo stuff in it that you'll get a bit of a sense of from this clip in which Kristen Stewart's character talks to a German journalist who knows her boss. |
| 1:39.0 | What are you waiting for? |
| 1:45.9 | My brother died here |
| 1:47.3 | my my twin brother |
| 1:49.5 | died in Paris |
| 1:50.8 | an accident |
| 1:52.5 | no |
| 1:53.7 | no heart attack |
| 1:57.5 | I actually have the same malformation. |
| 2:04.8 | You're staying here tomorrow. |
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