The following podcast contains explicit language.

I'm Stephen McHaff and this is the Slate Culture Gap Fest, Gap Tooth, Darub edition.

It's Wednesday, October 2nd, 2019.

On today's show, Judy tells the story of Judy Garland's

infamously triumphant, infamously troubled last stand at a series of club dates in London.

We'll be joined for that segment by Slate's own Sam Adams. That movie, by the way, stars Renee Zell

Werner, as Judy, I should say. And then Netflix has hit us with an epic feminist procedural.

The story of a rape investigation, though, that vastly undersells it. We'll get into that. Stars Merritt Weaver and

Tony Colette. We will be joined by Slate's own Ingu Kang to discuss. And finally, this is a heavy

Slate's own edition. Slate's own Simon Dunin has written a book on drag. It's always a

crazy pleasure when Simon joins us, as it is when Sam Adams does. Hey, Sam. Hello. Sam is

a senior editor at Slate and he is one of the three people filling in for the gigantic shoes of

Julia Turner. Welcome to the show. Dana Stevens is Slate's film critic. Hey,

Dana. Hey, hey. Renee Zellwiger stars as Judy, Judy Garland, America's sweetheart, as maybe

almost nobody remembers her, not Dorothy lost with Toto and Oz, but a middle-aged woman

whose career has all but vanished, in part because

as she herself says, she's uninsurable, nobody can stake a movie project on a woman so vulnerable

to alcohol and pills. As we discover, she is desperate for money, which will help her reacquire

custody of her kids, at least she believes it will, and she agrees to haul herself together

and play a series of shows in London. This film is directed by Rupert Gould. It's adapted from

the Broadway play End of the Rainbow. Let's listen to a clip. No. Come on. No, Sid. Judy. No. I'm

working harder than you would ever believe. Are you?

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