Culture Gabfest - Party Down Parties Again
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
This week, Dana, Julia, and Stephen begin by talking about the return of the Starz comedy Party Down. Then they discuss Andrea Riseborough’s Oscar-nominated performance in To Leslie. Finally, NPR’s Aisha Harris joins to chat about the newest entries to the Black Film Canon; a collaboration between Slate and NPR.
In Slate Plus, the panel talks about the controversial changes to Roald Dahl’s books.
Email us at culturefest@slate.com.
Endorsements:
Dana: Nathan Hiller’s article ‘The End of the English Major’ in The New Yorker.
Julia: Art But Make It Sports on Instagram
Stephen: ‘Are You Sure’ by Willie Nelson from The Demos Project: Volume One
Podcast production by Cameron Drews. Production assistance by Yesica Balderrama.
Outro music: "Backwards" by Staffan Carlen.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Jonathan Braylock, I'm Dra. Milligan, and I'm James III. And we're those of Black |
| 0:09.2 | Man Kenchup in Hollywood. It's a comedic podcast that reviews films with leading actors |
| 0:13.7 | of color and analyze them in the context of race and Hollywood's diversity issues. |
| 0:17.7 | Yeah, listen to new episodes on Mondays. Find us wherever you get your podcasts. I don't |
| 0:22.7 | care where you get them. I just want you to listen. Don't threaten the people we need |
| 0:26.9 | them to listen. Okay. Okay. Okay. Sorry, guys. Listen. Listen to us. Yeah. Yeah. Put |
| 0:32.1 | on a happy voice. Hey, everybody. It's Tim Heidecker. You know me, Tim and Eric Bridesmaids |
| 0:43.2 | and Fantastic Four. I'd like to personally invite you to listen to the office hours live |
| 0:47.9 | with me and my co-hosts DJ Doug Pound. Hello. And Vic Berger. Howdy. Every week we bring |
| 0:53.6 | you last fun games and lots of other surprises. It's live. We take your Zoom calls. We love |
| 0:58.5 | having fun. Excuse me. Vic said something. It's a song. I like having fun. I like to laugh. |
| 1:05.8 | I like to meet people who can make me laugh. Please subscribe. No. |
| 1:23.7 | This is the slate culture gap fest. Party down. Party's on edition. It's Wednesday, March 1st, |
| 1:29.6 | 2023. On today's show, Party Down, the short-lived, but much blubbed show from, I'm going to say |
| 1:36.2 | about a decade ago is back. The sitcom about a Hollywood catering company returns. Adam Scott, |
| 1:42.1 | Ken Marino, Jane Lynch, many of the other original cast members. And it's on stars exclamation |
| 1:49.3 | point. And then the very, very indie film, very small budget indie film, two Leslie stars, |
| 1:55.4 | Andrea Reisbrows, a Texas woman down in a look after having won the lottery 10 or so years ago, |
| 2:01.7 | the harrowing depiction of her journey into the darkest heart of alcoholism has earned Reisbrows |
| 2:07.9 | best actress nod. Remarkable for a tiny budget in movie, but this is also making headlines, |
| 2:13.8 | et cetera, because there's a controversy behind that nomination. We will discuss it. And finally, |
| 2:20.3 | slate and NPR have teamed up on the new black film can and a list that has been expanded from |
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