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🗓️ 31 July 2013

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Slate critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner discuss Woody Allen's surprise box office hit Blue Jasmine, the overt racism on the reality show Big Brother, and the drawing power in fiction of a good opening line.Show notes at www.slate.com/culturefest.

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0:33.1	The following podcast contains explicit language.
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0:47.6	I'm Stephen McAfin. This is the Slate Culture GabFest. It was a dark and stormy gap fest edition.
0:56.1	It's Wednesday, July 31st. Yes, it's true. I had to look up how many days there were in July. I admit it completely pathetic. There are, I hope there are 31.
1:04.3	30 days have September, April, June, and November. Okay. A little mnemonic rhyme from Julia. Thank you. A student. Julia gets a star.
1:27.6	On today's show, Blue Jasmine is the new Woody Allen film, and it's taking off at the box office. And then we'll discuss how racism has erupted on the CBS reality show Big Brother. And finally, the opening lines of great novels. Why did they have such uncanny staying power? Joining me today is Slate's deputy editor, Julia Turner. Hello, Julia. Hi, Steve. And of course, Slate's film critic Dana. Dana. Hey, Dana. Hey, Stephen. All right, well, I'm digging right in.
1:28.9	Blue Jasmine is the latest movie from writer-director, Woody Allen.
1:32.0	It's a portrait of a woman possibly coming apart at the seams in the aftermath of her husband being exposed as a Bernie-Madoff-type fraudster.
1:39.5	The film stars Kate Blanchett, Alec, Alec, and Bobby Cannavali, and Louis C.K. It beat the open and gross for
1:45.7	midnight in Paris, which went on to become Woody Allen's most commercially successful film.
1:51.1	And some are claiming that, critically, that this is his strongest movie in years. Before we
1:55.1	dive into it, Dana, why don't we listen to a clip from the movie?
1:58.4	It's forced to take a, selling shoes on Madison Avenue.
2:02.7	So humiliating.
2:04.9	Friends, I'd had at dinner parties, our apartment came in, and I waited on them.
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