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🗓️ 18 May 2011

⏱️ 42 minutes

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This week our critics discuss the global reactions to the arrest of Dominique Strauss-Kahn,Eurotrash at the Eurovision Song Contest, and the raunchy new comedy Bridesmaids.

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:08.6	The Culture GabFest is brought to you by FreshBooks, the easy online invoicing service
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0:18.5	at freshbooks.com.
0:27.8	I'm Stephen Metcalf, and this is the Slate Culture Gapfest, tacky but vigorous edition.
0:30.0	It's Wednesday, May 18th, 2011.
0:37.1	On today's program, Dominique Strauss-Con and French and American sexual mores with Slate, France's Cecil de Hezden,
0:40.1	and the Eurovision Song Contest with Slate's owned Simon Dunin and the movie bridesmaids cheap homance or feminist triumph or both.
0:45.4	Joining me today are Slate's deputy editor.
0:47.7	No, she's not here.
0:50.0	Joining me today is Slate's film critic, Dana Stevens.
0:58.1	Hey, Dana Stevens. Hey, Dana. And Slate's foreign editor. Are you still the foreign editor?
1:05.5	Still. June. Thomas, June. Welcome. Thank you. Joining us on the phone now is Slate, France's Cecil de Hesden.
1:08.5	Cecile, how badly did I mangle your name just then?
1:11.0	Yeah, that was actually pretty good.
1:14.1	You know, French people have a hard time with my name, so you're fine.
1:14.4	All right.
1:14.9	Give me a... Give me a...
1:15.9	Do it for us.
1:18.5	Let's hear it.
1:19.9	Cecil de'estine.
1:21.4	Du es d'Ein.
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