I'm Stephen McAff, and this is the Slate Culture Gab Fest. You Lost Me a Bonjour edition.

It's Wednesday, October 7, 2020. On today's show, The Gloria's is a Julie Tameur directed

biopic of the feminist icon

Gloria Steinem. It's based on Steinem's own memoir, My Life on the Road, and it stars Julianne Moore,

among others. And then Darren Starr is best known, I would say, as the creator of Sex in the City.

His new show is on Netflix. It's called Emily in Paris. And we will be joined by Lauren in Paris. That's Lauren Collins of the

New Yorker to discuss the show. And finally, the reality show known as reality continues with its

wildest episode. Yet Trump has COVID. Joining me today is Laura Miller, who is the Books and Culture

columnist for Slate.com. Hey, Laura. Hi, Steve. And of course, Julia Turner is the

deputy managing editor of the LA Times. Hey, Julia. Hello, hello. And we should note, Steve,

that the reason Dana is not here this week is her continuing new profession as a stage mom,

but she'll be back with us soon. And Laura, we can't wait to talk

with you. Is she what's known as a momager? I mean, she's clearly headed in that direction. We've all,

we've all seen her dark and controlling side low this decade or so, so could go to a tough place.

Yeah, it's intervention time. All right. Yeah. Dane, if you're listening, we love you.

The Gloria's is an adaptation of Gloria Steinem's memoir, My Life on the Road.

It's sort of a conventional biopic cut up into nonlinear pieces and salted through with surrealistic digressions.

Let me try to explain what I just said.

The movie is built around a central conceit, more or less, rather than telling the story of Steinem's life in sequence,

it's told non-chronologically, mostly non-chronologically, with four actresses playing her at different times in her life.

They're often depicted as riding together on a Greyhound bus.

So that is you've got her childhood, her teenage, her young adult and her more fully formed adult self, all on the road together off and on throughout the movie, trying to justify themselves to one another, at least to a degree. This is only one of the surrealistic touches of the movie, though. There are a lot of very wild hallucinatory sequences. We'll get into that. The movie's directed and co-written by Julie Tammar, Starr's Julianne Moore, Alicia Vicander, Timothy Hutton, Bett Midler, Janelma and I. In the clip that we're going to hear, it's the young adult Gloria Steinem, as played by Alicia Vicander. Love the Bobby piece. You're a good writer, Gloria. In fact, you write like a man.

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