Culture Gabfest: the Beyhive swarms the box office
Life and Art from FT Weekend
Forhecz Topher
4.6 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Life & Art presents a special episode from Slate’s Culture Gabfest podcast, hosted by culture critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner. The three hosts first explore Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé with Slate culture writer (and Beyhive stan) Nadira Goffe. Then, they consider Todd Haynes’ May December, an emotionally curious, tonally dissonant study of life’s grey areas starring Natalie Portman, longtime collaborator Julianne Moore and Charles Melton. Finally, the three are joined by EEFOP (Exceedingly Exceptional Friend of the Pod), Slate writer Dan Kois to discuss Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Lost Christmas!, a posthumous sequel to Theodor Geisel’s iconic 1957 children’s book. Life & Art will return with regular episodes next week.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone, it's Lila. We are still off this week for the holidays, but we're sharing another show with you that we think you'll enjoy, especially if you're craving more art talk. It's Slate's Culture Gab Fest. The Gab Fest is a weekly show featuring culture critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner. We love it, but so does the New York Times critic Dwight Garner, who says, |
| 0:21.8 | The Slate Culture Gab Fest is one of the highlights of my week. The episode we're sharing |
| 0:26.8 | discusses three topics. First is Renaissance, a film by Beyonce. Then they explore the tonal |
| 0:33.1 | and emotional tenor of Todd Haynes's May December. And finally, |
| 0:39.3 | an answer to the pressing question, |
| 0:41.2 | did we really need a sequel to how the Grinch stole Christmas? |
| 0:43.1 | To follow the show, search Culture Gab Fest |
| 0:45.4 | wherever you get your podcasts, and |
| 0:47.4 | we will be back on Friday, January |
| 0:49.2 | 5th. With that, |
| 0:51.3 | here's Stephen. |
| 1:03.2 | No. With that, here's Stephen. I'm Stephen McHaff and this is the Slate Culture Gap Fest. |
| 1:06.4 | The Beehive Swarms the Box Office edition. |
| 1:09.0 | It's Wednesday, December 6th, 2003 on today's show, |
| 1:13.5 | Renaissance, the concert film produced, starring, and everything else. Queen, Diva, Beyonce, |
| 1:19.4 | but she's so much more than a diva. This is so much more than a concert movie. And anyway, |
| 1:25.3 | it won the weekend, and we'll discuss. We're joined by Slate's own Naderigoff for that segment. And anyway, it won the weekend and we'll discuss. We're joined by Slate's own |
| 1:29.2 | Naderigoff for that segment. And then the director, Todd Haynes returns with May |
| 1:34.3 | December, the story of the extended afterlife of a wildly inappropriate and age-discrepant |
| 1:39.8 | relationship that resulted in a marriage and children. It stars Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore. |
| 1:45.3 | And finally, how much Grinch is too much Grinch? We will discuss a new Grinch book, |
| 1:51.5 | a posthumous Grinch sequel with Slate's own Dan Cois. But joining me first is Julia Turner of the LA Times. |
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