Culture Gabfest: Maid in Arrakis

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🗓️ 27 October 2021

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This week, Steve and Dana are joined by Slate senior editor Allegra Frank. First, senior producer of Slate’s Decoder Ring podcast, Benjamin Frisch, chimes in to review the sci-fi megafilm Dune. Next, the panel discusses Netflix’s Maid. Finally, the panel dives into the IATSE strike, and the tragic death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of Rust, involving the actor Alec Baldwin. In Slate Plus, the panel discusses Halloween as an adult. Email us at culturefest@slate.com. Endorsements Dana: Lauren Michele Jackson’s piece for The New Yorker about corporate social media and the way Netflix’s social media teams have responded to the Dave Chappelle controversy, titled “Dave Chappelle, Netflix, and the Illusions of Corporate Identity Politics.” Allegra: Lately, the videogame Super Smash Bros. Ultimate—which she has been playing on Nintendo Switch. Recently, the lead character of another video game franchise, Sora from Kingdom Hearts, has been added as an avatar you can play as in the game. Steve: First, the song “Precious Memories” by Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Then, British political scientist David Runciman discussed Peter Thiel, silicon valley investor, for the London Review of Books’ podcast, in an episode titled, “The Peter Thiel Paradox.” Podcast production by Jessamine Molli. Production assistance by Nadira Goffe. Outro music is “Precious Memories” by Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Stephen McAfin, this is the Slate culture gabfest made in Iraqis edition.
0:15.1	It's Wednesday, October 27th, 2021, and today's show, Frank Herbert's novel, Dune, it has
0:20.9	been notoriously hard to drag its 700 or so pages onto the big screen, all that metaphysics,
0:28.0	all that sand.
0:29.0	We discuss the director Dennis Villeneuve's take on the sci-fi classic, it stars Timothy
0:34.8	Shalame and Oscar Isaac among many, many others.
0:37.6	We'll be joined for that segment by Dunehead Benjamin Frish, and very close friend of this
0:41.6	program.
0:42.8	And then, made is a TV show on Netflix.
0:45.8	It's also an adaptation of the best-selling memoir by Stephanie Land.
0:49.4	It's about fleeing an abusive relationship and trying to make ends meet, i.e. it's about
0:54.0	the serial humiliations of being poor in America.
0:57.0	It stars Margaret Qualie and Andy McDowell, a real-life daughter-mother pair.
1:01.9	And finally, we were already going to talk about the IOTC strike, the Hollywood Union strike,
1:06.1	when the story broke that the cinematographer for a low-budget movie had been shot and killed
1:11.3	in an onset accident.
1:13.7	Involving, I think, is everyone now knows the actor, Alec Baldwin.
1:16.5	This is a heartbreaking story, and it only makes more urgent any discussion of the conditions
1:21.3	of ordinary workers in a town of wash and money and liberal piety.
1:26.3	Joining me today is Slate's senior editor, Allegra Frank.
1:30.4	Allegra, welcome back to the show.
1:32.1	Hey Steve, it's been a minute.
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