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Blackjack with Griffin and David

Black Jack with Griffin and David

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All you need to know is that the name of the show is blank check

I'm stuck between wanting to do podcasts and not wanting to do podcasts at all.

That's great. What was that?

That's my favorite line in the movie, which is when she's at the party with the neighborhood families. Yes. And the woman asked her, what do you do?

Yeah, I'm a writer or whatever. No, no, that's not what she says. She doesn't say that. In fact, what she says is the thing I just quoted. She said, I'm stuck between wanting to do something and not wanting to do anything at all. Yeah. You're right. That's a good line. It's been there. It's relatable. incredibly relatable. It's a real

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captured You're right. That's a good line. It's a relatable. It's incredibly relatable. It's a real, you have captured something in words, perfectly performed by one of our most powerful movie stars that I have never been able to quite get my hands around.

Jennifer Lawrence.

Is she one of our most?

She is, I guess. I'm choosing the word powerful. You can use a different word? In terms of the power of what she does, like her work. You remember how when Angelina Jolie was sort of the number one most famous actress of her age, right? Like, was the, I guess, consensus A--list movie star, who was a woman. Of her generation? No question. Right. And, like, every so often, people would be like, she's never been in a good movie or really, like, made a proper hit. And I would always push back on that. I would be like, no, no, no, you can look at her career and she took like a salt or even a fucking Maleficent and like you can tell that she plused it, you know, box office wise, right? You know what I mean? It's bullshit. The good movie is an ongoing conversation. This is what I'm saying. So, does J-Law have her beat? No question. J-Law is sort of the, maybe the Jolie-esque, you know.

Okay, Alison, please talk.

I would say yes. But also, I think she has yet to really do the thing that Jolie did, which is to come into a movie and just, like, blow everyone else out of office. You know, like, girl interrupted. I feel like in that movie she just comes in and you're just like, who is that?

Like she, you know.

Right.

I would argue that Winter's Bone was a version of that. I mean,

she's great in that. But also it is like a role that is almost like built around, uh, I don't know,

like a showcase for her in a way that is, I think, and it is an incredible one. I was going to say Silver Linings Playbook does have that girl interrupted energy in it.

The difference is that the rest of the movie is closer to her level than maybe girl interrupted.

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