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I'm Stephen McAffe, and this is this late Culture Gap Fest, Samba, and Tapas edition.

It's Wednesday, January 4th, 2017.

Loud and Proud, baby.

On today's show, we're talking about all movies, No despair. We're starting with Lala Land, the new musical from the director of Whiplash. It stars Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone as Hollywood Creative Strivers. It's a musical. And then Manchester by the Sea is the new Kenneth O'Annegan joint. It stars Casey Athlick and Michelle Williams. We'll be discussing that with

John Swansburg, Julia Turner. Tell us what John's unique qualification is for this particular

segment. He lives near Manchester by the sea or grew up there. He has regional thoughts,

I believe, that he wants to add to, he has some regional input. He has regional thoughts, exactly.

I'm from the South Shore of Boston, and so can't possibly comprehend the movies,

and we needed to bring in someone from the North Shore.

Also, you know, astute critic, beloved guest, et cetera.

Excellent, of course.

And then it's that time of year again.

It's Slate's Movie Club.

We'll be discussing it with its doy and Dana Stevens. Speaking of which, hey Dana. Hey, how you doing, Steve? Happy New Year.

Happy New Year. Dana Stevens is of course Slate's film critic and Julia Turner is its editor in chief,

the doion among doion. I'm not even sure I know what the word doion means, but... I think Dana and I will own being a doion if Dana will. But somebody's going to correct us in the pronunciation. Like it's got to be duyen. Oh, why. Don't you know? Does it? I think it would be more of a wah kind of sound in French. But as established on our advice show, we can use our English vocables any time we want. It's Toyen. You are Julia Turner, by the way. I don't know if I said that.

Yes. Hi. Hello. Happy New Year. Before we dig it, Happy New Year. Before we dig in, doubtlessly, there's business, yeah? Yeah, the main piece of business I have for our listeners is just to tell them about our Slate Plus segment.

So we were struck, because I'm sure many listeners were by the terrible end to the terrible year of deaths of artists whose work we love and cherish.

And in particular, the very sad deaths of Carrie Fisher and then a day later her mother, Debbie Reynolds. And in honor of their passing, we decided to rewatch the movie Postcards from the Edge, which is the Mike Nichols, Carrie Fisher adaptation of her novel of the same name about a mother or daughter actress duo in Hollywood and struggles with addiction and

country songs and all else.

So join us in Slate Plus to talk about those women, their careers in that movie.

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