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I'm Stephen Metcalf, and this is the Slay Culture Gap Fest, Climb Inside My Fur Edition.

It's Wednesday, September 18th, 2019.

On today's show, Hustlers is the delicious new

movie starring Jennifer Lopez is a stripper who takes revenge on Wall Street and Constance

Wu, I should say, plays her protege. You Had Me at Distaff Magic Mike. And then Ken Burns has made

another epic, epic, epic, epic documentary. This one is about country music. All 16 hours of it are on PBS.

And finally, the crazily seductive story of Instagram influencer Caroline Calloway and her supposed

alleged possibly a ghostwriter Natalie Beach. Joining me today is Julia Turner, who's deputy managing

editor of The LA Times. Hey, Julia,

how's it going? Hello, hello. All is well. And of course, Slate's film critic is Dana Stevens. Hey, Dana.

Hello. The movie Hustlers is based on a 2015 New York magazine article about a group of New York

city strippers who ran a scam against their clients. They drugged

them and ran up huge tabs on their credit cards, then virtually dared them to go to the police.

The movie focuses on Destiny, an Asian American with a young daughter and an absconded baby daddy.

She's just trying to make ends meet, but this being America, the ends, they keep moving farther

and farther apart.

She's taken under the wing, are really in a very memorable early scene into the luscious folds

of Jalo's fur coat. Lopez plays Ramona, a wise, cynical, money-lusty stripper who teaches the kid

the ropes, then leads her into a dark conspiracy. What follows is a parable about sex, money, transactional lusts, broken maternity, and the 08 financial crisis.

I am telling the truth there.

The film is directed, I should say, by Lorene Scafaria.

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