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explicit language. I'm Stephen Metcalfe, and this is the Slate Culture Gab Fest on Tenterhooks edition.

It's Wednesday, November 7, 2012.

On today's program, Flight, the new movie directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Denzel, Washington,

and then George Lucas has sold his share of Star Wars, which is John Sansberg, 100% owner of the Star Wars franchise.

Way to Look Alive to Disney for $4 billion. We'll talk about what that means for Star Wars.

And then finally, the poetry of hashtags with a very, very special guest, Julia Turner.

Hello, Julia.

Hi, Steve.

How are you?

I'm good.

Good. And we're joined today by John Swansberg. John, Julia. Hi, Steve. How are you? I'm good. Good. And we're joined today by

John Swansberg. John, you have a extremely fancy new title at Slate. I do. Who are you? I am the

editorial director of Slate. Really? Yeah. What does that precisely mean? Well, Julia and David Plotz

felt I needed more time to devote to trying to get you to write.

And they thought if I had this fancy new title that I could maybe lord it over you since

Culture Editor had produced, I think, one and a half pieces over the last three years.

So it's an experiment. We'll see how it works.

All right.

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