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I'm Stephen Metcalf, and this is the Slate Culture Gab Fest Pune and Gratiation Edition.

This is also the daily podcast from slate.com for Wednesday, December 30th, 2009.

On today's program, the Nancy Meyer Myers comedy hit, It's Complicated,

the recently and dearly departed singer-songwriter Vic Chestnut

and our obligatory decade wrap-up and predictions for the decade to come.

Joining me today are Slate's foreign editor, June Thomas, June.

Hello.

Hello, Stephen.

And our film critic, Dana Stevens. Hey, Dana.

Steven. Great to see you guys. Let's plunge right in with Nancy Meyer. Is it Myers or Meyer?

Myers. Myers. Okay. Sorry. I'm at exactly that age where the thought that old people still have sex is horrifying to me And the thought that they don't have sex is also

horrifying to me. So I'm completely unclear on the degree to which I should be horrified by this

movie, which is basically a golden age rom-com. Dana, I thought your review was charming,

delightful summation. But wrong? But completely wrong. No, I thought it was accurate. So why don't

you walk us through your feelings about this movie and tell us a little bit about Nancy

Myers and why this movie is interesting? I will. And then I want you guys to walk me through

a little bit and help me to understand why I have so much more tolerance for this movie than I ever thought I would have. So Nancy Myers, what's her back catalog? Let's try to remember here. She did something's got to give, which was that big hit, you know, romance and other old folks romance between Diane Keaton and Jack Nicholson a few years ago. She made the holiday. The parent trap. Oh, the parent trap. Right. She remade the parent trap. Totally useless. Baby boom, right. Private Benjamin. Oh my. She goes further back than I remember. She goes way back. I mean, she's got quite the resume. Those early ones were made with her then partner. Right. Charles Shire. Romantic and business, I guess. I guess. Who, i guess they stayed together for some time after

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