Culture Gabfest: Passages Is Not For the Prudes

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🗓️ 23 August 2023

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This week, Dana is joined by Slate’s books and culture columnist, Laura Miller, and senior editor Rebecca Onion (who are filling in for Julia and Stephen). The panel begins by unraveling Passages, the sexy but also, at times, repelling feature from director Ira Sachs about a complicated love triangle. The film received a controversial NC-17 rating from the Motion Picture Association. Then, they head to Detroit to discuss Justified: City Primeval, FX’s revival of the Raylan Givens cult classic that ran for six seasons. Finally, the three consider Michael Oher’s recent legal allegation that the Tuohy family (immortalized in the 2009 Oscar-winning movie The Blind Side) never really adopted him but instead, placed him in a conservatorship. It’s a scandal at the fascinating convergence of exploitation, fame, race, and adoption. In the exclusive Slate Plus segment, the panel examines nature writing and their relationship to the form, inspired by Jonathan Franzen’s essay for The New Yorker, “The Problem with Nature Writing.” Email us at [email protected]. Endorsements: Laura: Her quest for a new detective series (that isn’t stupid or cliché) is over: Laura endorses Deadloch, a Prime Video comedy set in Tasmania that’s equal parts genuine mystery and delicious social satire. Rebecca: Anya Liftig’s memoir, Holler Rat, beautifully recounts her upbringing where she often felt caught between two worlds: the comfortable, upper-middle-class life in Connecticut where she lived, and the summers spent in Appalachia, her mother’s home. Dana: A behind-the-scenes video for, what could potentially be the song of the summer, “I’m Just Ken” has just been released. In it, we see Ryan Gosling rehearsing and cameos from Greta Gerwig, Simu Liu and co-writer Mark Ronson, and it’s just super fun. Outro music: “I Want a Change” by The Big Let Down. Podcast production by Cameron Drews. Production assistance by Kat Hong. This episode is sponsored by the podcast About the Journey. Learn more here: https://traveler.marriott.com/about-the-journey/ If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and exclusive content on many shows. You’ll also be supporting the work we do here on the Culture Gabfest. Sign up now at Slate.com/cultureplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Dana Stevens and this is the Slate Culture Gab Fest.
0:14.1	Passages is not for the Prood's edition.
0:16.2	It's Wednesday, August 23rd, 2023, and on today's show, Passages, the eighth film from
0:21.4	the independent writer-director Iris Sachs, has been the subject of some controversy in
0:25.6	the week since its release.
0:27.3	Passages of its NC-17 rating and its explicit gay and straight sex scenes.
0:31.9	The movie tells the story of a complicated and ultimately toxic love triangle unfolding
0:36.1	in Paris.
0:37.1	It stars Franz Wagowski, Ben Wysza, and Adele Xarkopoulos, we will discuss.
0:42.1	Then the FX series justified, based on an Elmore-Linard novella and starring Timothy
0:46.9	Olephant as a US Marshal in Harlan County, Kentucky, came to an end in 2015 after six seasons.
0:53.4	Now, Olephant's character, the laid back yet hot tempered railing givens, is back in
0:58.3	a limited series on Hulu called Justified City Primeval.
1:02.3	This time he's enforcing the law, not in the hollers of Appalachia, but in the streets
1:06.4	of Detroit.
1:07.4	We'll discuss that show.
1:09.0	And finally, the one-time NFL star, Michael Orr, whose life story was the subject of the
1:13.5	Oscar-winning 2009 movie The Blind Side, has filed papers to end the conservatorship that
1:18.6	he says he was tricked into signing at age 18 by Leanne and Sean Toey, the white Memphis
1:23.7	couple who took him into their home.
1:25.9	His case is a fascinating convergence of issues having to do with race, adoption, exploitation,
1:30.5	and fame.
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