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I'm Stephen Metcalf, and this is the Slate Culture Gab Fest flavor burst edition. It's Wednesday,

August 11, 2010, and on today's program, we're going to talk about Scott Pilgrim, the new movie

opening this Friday,

the statute of limitations on spoilers. And we remember the historian, Tony Jutt, with Jacob Weisberg.

Joining me today, our Slate's deputy editor, Julia Turner, hello, Julia. Hi, Steve. And our film

critic, Dana Stevens, Dana, so nice to see you again. Hey, Steve, good to be back. And on the phone from Washington, D.C., we are joined also by film critic for the Village Voice and Washington Post, Dan Koyce.

And Dan, we should also say you contribute to Slate with some regularity, some fidelity.

Indeed. It's my first love.

And that you have a book whose title I'm going to defer to you on. It's called

Facing Future, and it's about Israel, Kamako Vibo Ole, the Hawaiian ukulele player and singer who's

sang that version of somewhere over the rainbow that you heard at your last six rehearsal dinners.

I love it. I should just add that having read Dan's book, I can really highly recommend it.

I never would have thought that I would have cared about the big fat Hawaiian guy who sang that version of somewhere with a rainbow.

But it's a really fascinating story of how that album was recorded and about his life.

And I'll be talking about it on Thursday, this coming Thursday at 7 o'clock at Housing Works in New York with Nate Chinin from the New York Times. If you want to come join us. Terrific. Well, you're joining us today for two segments. The first of which is on the forthcoming movie Scott Pilgrim, which we already had occasion to talk about a little bit because we were talking about Comic-Con where it was something of the hit. I should say, I have not seen the movie. I'm going to sit out the segment for the most part. But take it away, Julia.

Talk about Scott Pilgrim.

So Scott Pilgrim is the film adaptation starring Michael Sarah of a series of comic books, graphic novels.

You could define them any number of ways, by Lee O'Malley.

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