Dinner is Served! Edition

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Arts, Tv & Film, Music

4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2018

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Dana Stevens, Stephen Metcalf, and Laura Bennett discuss the Melissa McCarthy vehicle Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Netflix's filthy but heartfelt puberty cartoon Big Mouth, and the death of Stan Lee with Slate's Jamelle Bouie. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This Winter, memberships will never be the same again.
0:03.4	Amazon Prime presents Eddie Murphy's new Christmas movie, Candy Kane Lane, and Fast Delivery,
0:09.0	all for 899 a month. I've got to sign up now.
0:12.2	Get great entertainment and fast delivery, all for 899 a month.
0:16.0	It's on prime.
0:18.0	Geographic restrictions and Ties and Ties and Sies apply 18 plus.
0:20.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:23.2	I'm Stephen Metcalf and this is the Slate Culture Gap Fest. Dinner is Served Edition.
0:37.6	I cannot wait for Laura Bennett to explain what that title me.
0:41.0	I regret this presence on the show already. It is Wednesday, November 14th, 2018 on
0:49.5	today's show, Can You Ever Forgive Me, Starrs Melissa McCarthy is Lee Israel, the legendary literary forger.
0:55.6	The part is a serious dramatic turn for McCarthy and just FYI.
0:59.2	She absolutely nails it.
1:01.4	And then Big Mouth is an animated adult cart, very adult, really, really fucking adult cartoon on Netflix.
1:08.0	It's about the puberty, about puberty, about the lurid phantasms unleashed on us in early adolescence.
1:14.4	And finally, a legend has left us.
1:17.1	Stanley, the wizard behind Marvel Comics is dead at the age of 95.
1:21.6	We discuss a giant's legacy with the slate. Marvelologist?
1:25.7	Marvelologist? Marvelologist? Marvel... All right, but let's move on. Anyway, with Jamel Bowie, we're so psyched to have him back on the show. But first, we're really psyched to have Laura Bennett in,
1:38.0	features director of Slate filling in for Julia Turner. Hey.
1:42.0	Hi, I'm so glad to be here.
1:43.4	It's always a really fun time
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