Culture Gabfest: What's Love Got to Do With It?

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🗓️ 7 April 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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This week Steve and Dana are joined by Slate senior editor Allegra Frank. First the hosts discuss the Oscar contender Judas and the Black Messiah and the performances of its two stars, Daniel Kaluuya and Lakeith Stanfield. Then pop critic and UVA professor Jack Hamilton joins the show to offer his thoughts on Tina, the new documentary about the life of rock n' roll icon Tina Turner. After that, the hosts talk to Slate writer Rebecca Onion about her re-examination of The Beauty Myth, a modern feminist classic with an increasingly controversial author. In the exclusive Slate Plus segment, Steve, Dana, and Allegra talk about being evangelists for the art they like and discuss whether pushing your cultural taste on other people is a good or bad practice. Outro music: "Death Dance" by Luftmensch Podcast production by Cameron Drews. Production assistance by Rachael Allen. Email the hosts at culturefest@slate.com Slate Plus members get a bonus segment in each episode of the Culture Gabfest and access to exclusive shows like Dana Stevens’ classic movies podcast Flashback. Sign up now to listen and support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Steven Mekhaven, this is the Slate Culture Gab Fest.
0:13.4	What's love got to do with it?
0:14.9	Edition.
0:15.9	It's Wednesday, April 7th, 2021.
0:18.5	On today's show, we continue moving through the various Oscar nominations this week, we
0:22.2	discuss Best Picture nominee, Judas and the Black Messiah.
0:26.3	The movie tells the story behind the assassination of Fred Hampton at the time.
0:29.5	The charismatic leader of the Black Panthers in Chicago, stars Daniel Callulia as Fred
0:34.2	Hampton and the Keith Standfield as William O'Neill, the torment and informant who helped
0:39.0	bring Hampton down.
0:41.3	And then Tina is the documentary on HBO about the legendary singer Tina Turner, recounts
0:46.5	her years of abuse by Ike Turner, but also in a way rebukes us for paying too much attention
0:51.4	to that one aspect of a remarkable woman and her remarkable career.
0:56.1	And finally, Naomi Wolf was a feminist icon.
0:58.5	She still is.
0:59.5	She's certainly now something of a crank we discussed this with Slate's own Rebecca Onion.
1:04.4	Joining me today is Allegra Frank, who is a senior editor at Slate.
1:08.6	Allegra, welcome back to the show.
1:10.4	Hi, thanks for having me again, so excited to be back.
1:13.8	Yeah, it's wonderful, it's your sophomore appearance.
1:17.2	And now we can sort of officially say, you're gunning for Julia Turner's job.
1:23.1	Hope Julia does not tune in this week, but I am here.
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