Culture Gabfest - The Culture Gabfest: Luhrmania Edition
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2013
⏱️ 51 minutes
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| 0:45.5 | I'm Stephen Metcalf, and this is the Slate Culture Gab Fest Lermania edition. |
| 0:49.9 | It's Wednesday, May 15th, 2013. |
| 0:52.4 | On today's show, the Australian film director Baz Luhrman reinterprets F. Scott Fitzgerald's iconic novel, The Great Gatsby. Then we talk about the comedian and podcaster Mark Maron and his new TV show, Marin, on IFC. And finally, Time magazine claims that millennials are whiny and titled Twits. We will discuss that at length, I'm sure. Joining me today is Slate's film critic, Dana Stevens. Hey, Anna. Hello, Stephen. And of course, Slate's culture critic, |
| 1:14.5 | June Thomas. Hey, June. Hello, old sport. All right, well, before we get to our first topic, |
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