Culture Gabfest - What's Love Got to Do With It?
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🗓️ 7 April 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
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
Endorsements:
Dana: This unusual and excellent bottle of white wine called La Foradada
Allegra: Worn Stories
Steve: Call My Agent! and the band Life Without Buildings
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Stephen Meckhaff, and this is the Slate Culture Gab Fest. |
| 0:13.3 | What's Love Got to Do With It Edition? |
| 0:15.8 | It's Wednesday, April 7, 2021. |
| 0:18.5 | On today's show, we continue moving through the various Oscar nominations. This |
| 0:21.9 | week, we discuss Best Picture nominee, Judas and the Black Messiah. The movie tells the story |
| 0:27.1 | behind the assassination of Fred Hampton at the time, the charismatic leader of the Black |
| 0:30.9 | Panthers in Chicago, stars Daniel Kalulia as Fred Hampton and Lakeith Stanfield as William |
| 0:36.3 | O'Neill, the tormentant and informant who helped bring Hampton down. |
| 0:41.2 | And then Tina is the documentary on HBO about the legendary singer Tina Turner, recounts her years of abuse by Ike Turner, |
| 0:48.7 | but also in a way rebukes us for paying too much attention to that one aspect of a remarkable woman and her remarkable career. |
| 0:56.1 | And finally, Naomi Wolf was a feminist icon. Maybe she still is. She's certainly now something of a |
| 1:00.7 | crank. We discussed this with Slate's own Rebecca Onion. Joining me today is Allegra Frank, who is a senior |
| 1:07.2 | editor at Slate. Allegra, welcome back to the show. Hi, thanks for having me again. |
| 1:12.2 | I'm so excited to be back. |
| 1:13.9 | Yeah, it's wonderful. |
| 1:15.1 | It's your sophomore appearance. |
| 1:17.1 | And now we can sort of officially say, you're gunning for Julia Turner's job. |
| 1:22.8 | Hope Julia does not tune in this week, but I am here, assuming I don't hit a sophomore slump. So fingers crossed for me this week. Fair enough. And of course, Dana Stevens is the film critic for Slate.com. Hey, Dana. Hello. How are you? Pretty well. How are y'all? Yeah, good. Hanging in there. Though I will add, Dana, you're going to drop out for one of the topics when we discussed the Tina Turner documentary with Jack Hamilton of Slate. |
| 1:51.2 | Yeah, that's right, but I'll be here for everything else. |
| 1:56.1 | After the assassinations of Dr. King and Malcolm X, it looked as though Fred Hampton, supremely charismatic and |
| 2:01.9 | supremely young head of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panthers, might carry their legacy |
| 2:06.5 | forward into the 1970s. Hampton brought a special emphasis to hands-on social services to the urban |
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