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Gab Fest, Drinkable Suede Edition. It's Wednesday, April 13th, 2011. On today's program, remembering

the great film director, Sydney Lumet, the new PBS show, Vine Talk, and Megan O'Rourke joins us to talk about her new memoir, The Long

Goodbye. Joining me today are Slate's deputy editor Julia Turner. Hello, Julia. Hi, Steve. Someone

on the Facebook page wants me to do something other than say hello to you because for some

reason the repetition of me saying hello, Julia, and you saying hi.

But what would we do? Should we high five?

Should we fist bump?

Do we have to reinvent human greeting here on the gabbest?

I mean, but that's this.

What up, Steve?

You know, it's just so funny what your fingernails are to someone else's interior blackboard. It's just,

it's just the most peculiar thing in the world. In the spirit of that, I say, hey, Dana.

Fuck you.

Oh, dear. Dana, let's, the obvious place to start is with you. You're a film critic.

Sydney Lumet once said, good style to me is unseen you. You're a film critic. Sydney Lumet once said,

good style to me is unseen style. It is style that is felt. We just all watched a Sydney

Lumet film in the same way in which we all watched a Elizabeth Taylor movie in order to talk about

a quite long and distinguished career in order to focus a discussion about a quite long and distinguished career.

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