The following podcast contains explicit language.

I'm Stephen McHaff and this is the Slate Culture Gapfest,

life-changing magic of making a Black Friend edition.

It's Wednesday, January 16th, 2019.

On today show, Green Book, was a surprise winner at the Golden Globes.

I say a surprise because it did middling business to the box office and was widely panned

as an anachronistic racial reconciliation drama.

We discussed the movie and its dubious politics with Kay Austin Collins of Vanity Fair.

And then Marie Kondo scored a big hit, not middling at all, with her book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up.

She now has a Netflix show derived from that called Tidying Up with Marie Kondo.

And finally, the art of the hatch job, the pan, our scathingly bad reviews, a sign of a healthy and open debate or of the diseased conscience of the sallow little creep, Dana Stevens, known as the critic.

Joining me today is Slate's film critic Dana Stevens.

Salar, who's the sallow little creeper?

We all know it's me, which is why i can get away with making that

joke dana you're not a hatchet lady at all i mean ever really we'll get there we'll get there

i welcome your insults in the meantime these are not insults oh my god they're boomeranging

directly into the bridge of my nose. I mean, come on.

And of course, everybody knows the job title of Julia Turner, who is the deputy managing editor

of the Los Angeles Times in charge of entertainment and culture.

That is correct.

Hello, sir.

Good morning.

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