Episode 166: Anjelica Huston, Doomsday Planes, and Things about Chicken Wings
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2012
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
This week: We revisit one of our favorite episodes….Actress Anjelica Huston reveals her secret good-luck charm … Writer-provocateur Caitlin Flanagan blends etiquette, therapy, and cake… “The Artist’s” James Cromwell talks quiet… Chickens with four wings… Greeks invade Britain… We toast the end of the world… A poem from imprisoned dissident Liu Xiaobo… Plus, nurture-over-nature, and a Major find from the Asteroids Galaxy Tour.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the dinner party. This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:04.0 | Here's a joke, a North Korean joke from Jay Leno. |
| 0:08.0 | According to Kim Jong-yi's biography, he's been constantly accused of dishonesty, drunkenness, and sexual excess. |
| 0:15.0 | So if he lived here, he could be in Congress. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum. I'm Rico Gagliano. He could be in Congress. |
| 0:23.4 | I'm Brendan Francis Nune. |
| 0:27.2 | I'm Rico Gagliano, and from APM American Public Media. |
| 0:31.9 | This is The Dinner Party, the culture show that gives you an edge in your weekend conversations. |
| 0:36.6 | You just got a joke from Jay Leno, stolen by Korean-American author, Chris Lee. |
| 0:38.4 | That'll help break the ice. Please don't sue her, |
| 0:42.9 | Jay. Her latest short story collection is called Drifting House. And coming up, we'll hear from Angelica Houston star the NBC series Smash. And if this sounds familiar, that's because this is |
| 0:48.1 | an encore re-broadcast of an episode we first aired back in February. So you luckies get a chance |
| 0:54.0 | to catch all the details |
| 0:55.2 | you missed the first time. You're welcome. So cast your mind back to February when, as at any |
| 1:00.2 | dinner party. We started with Small Talk. All week long, you may have been hearing these cultural |
| 1:07.7 | headlines. Don Cornelius, host of Soul Train, died in Los Angeles at age 75. |
| 1:13.2 | The Mona Lisa might just have a twin. |
| 1:15.4 | The replica is due to be unveiled at the Prado Museum. |
| 1:18.1 | During the 2012 Super Bowl, this coming Sunday, Nikki Minaj and MIA will join Madonna on stage. |
| 1:23.4 | Now for something you might not have heard, we are talking to Jessica Cohen. |
| 1:27.1 | She is editor-in-chief of the women's culture website, jezebel.com. |
| 1:31.4 | Jessica, what story are you going to be talking about this weekend? |
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