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I'm Stephen Metcalf, and this is the Slate Culture Gab Fest live from Brooklyn Edition.

It's Wednesday, it's Wednesday, September 25th, 2013 on today's show.

Enough said, the wondrous, truly wondrousrous new film from the writer-director, Nicole

Hollefsenter.

And then, Brooklyn, yeah, we had to talk about it, from a raffish burrow that could

to a global brand about which nothing more can be said, and in under a decade.

And finally, we talk Grand Theft Auto 5.

We'll discuss the gaming behemoth with the New York Times contributing writer Chris Sullentrop. Joining me today is Slate's

deputy editor, Julia Turner. Hi, Steve. Is that what they're calling you these days? Julia Turner?

That remains my name, do you.

It remains your name.

All right, we'll go with it.

And, of course, our film critic, Dana Stevens, Dane.

Hello, Stephen.

All right, digging in.

If anyone is worrying about who is going to make gracefully observed small world comedies of manners when Woody Island hopefully decades hence

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