Episode 164: Marjane Satrapi, Fran Lebowitz, and Pizza Brains
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2012
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
This Week: “Persepolis” author/filmmaker Marjane Satrapi laughs in the face of death… satirist Fran Lebowitz plays Nanny to America… author Emma Straub narrates a Hollywood fable… multi-Oscar-winner Ve Neill makes up a Makeup list… and Brendan inhales info about air. Plus, a visit to Philly’s Pizza Museum, the high-cost of Tsarist-era beards, how to lose *yourself*, and indierockers Nude Beach expose their dinner party playlist.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the dinner party. This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:06.0 | This joke came from a 16-year-old girl on Twitter. |
| 0:09.0 | Why did the hipster burn his mouth on the pizza? |
| 0:13.0 | Because he ate it before it was cool. |
| 0:27.6 | I'm Rico Galeano. I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum, and from APM American Public Media, this is The Dinner Party, the culture show that gives you an edge in your weekend conversations. |
| 0:31.4 | You just got a joke from novelist Emma Straub, that'll help break the ice. |
| 0:35.2 | Emma's new book, Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures, comes out next week. |
| 0:38.7 | We'll hear her read from it later. |
| 0:40.2 | Also, we'll speak with Marjan Satrapi. |
| 0:42.9 | She may be Oscar-nominated movie Persepolis, and the new film, Chicken with Plumps. |
| 0:47.2 | Plus, author and satirist Fran Libowitz, has no problem telling you how to behave. |
| 0:51.4 | None. And V. Neal, Oscar-winning makeup artist, lists some of her |
| 0:54.7 | favorite makeup moments. Yeah. Is that why you're painted like a clown today? Nope. Okay. But first, |
| 1:03.2 | as at any dinner party, we start with small talks. All week long, you've been hearing these headlines. Isaac is still a big threat to Louisiana and Mississippi. |
| 1:14.6 | Tributes are pouring in for astronaut Neil Armstrong, who died this weekend at age 82. |
| 1:19.6 | Republican National Convention, in session and called to order. |
| 1:24.6 | Now for a story you might not have heard. |
| 1:29.0 | We are speaking with Richard Lawson. |
| 1:31.4 | He is senior writer at the Atlantic Wire. |
| 1:35.7 | Richard, what story are you going to be talking about at parties this weekend? |
| 1:40.6 | I'm going to be talking about a tourist in Iceland who went in search of herself quite literally. |
| 1:41.8 | Not literally. |
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