Culture Gabfest - Just Wanted to Take Another Look at You Edition
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2018
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Julia Turner, Dana Stevens, and Stephen Metcalf discuss the film A Star is Born, the TV documentary America to Me, and bring critic Wesley Morris into the studio to discuss his New York Times Magazine piece "The Morality Wars" about the state of art criticism.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Stephen Metcalf, and this is the Slate Culture Gap Fest. |
| 0:16.0 | Just Wanted to Take Another Look at You Edition. |
| 0:18.6 | It's Wednesday, October 10th, 2018. On today's show, |
| 0:21.7 | a Star is born is one of those movies, maybe the only movie, if it's kind, really, that is |
| 0:26.0 | destined to be remade for each generation. I think this is the fourth iteration of the film. This one |
| 0:32.4 | is a hammy and glammy, two-hander. It stars Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper. And then the director of the 1994 documentary |
| 0:39.6 | Hoop Dreams is back. He has a new one. It's a 10-part docu-series. It's on Stars. And it focuses on an |
| 0:46.7 | integrated high school in the outskirts of Chicago. It's called America to Me. And it's amazing. |
| 0:52.7 | I will not poker face this one. |
| 0:54.8 | I love it. |
| 0:55.3 | And finally, how do we talk about art in an age of supercharged morality? |
| 1:00.4 | We are joined by a critic we love, Wesley Morris, very close friend of the program. |
| 1:07.0 | He's a Vic Fopp and the amazing Pulitzer Prize winning critic for the New York Times magazine. |
| 1:12.8 | Joining me today is Slate's editor Julia Turner. |
| 1:15.3 | Julia. |
| 1:15.9 | Hello. |
| 1:17.0 | Big news. |
| 1:18.2 | Big news. |
| 1:19.8 | Huge news. |
| 1:20.7 | Huge news. |
| 1:22.3 | My ontology is quivering at the borders. |
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