Episode 168: Tim Gunn, Rian Johnson, and Salman Rushdie
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2012
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
This week, “Looper” director Rian Johnson rolls the bones… “Project Runway’s” Tim Gunn dresses down America for dressing down… Salman Rushdie talks fatwas and fake hair… famed author Sherman Alexie makes a Protest… A “Simpsons” writer’s favorite odd adaptations… And NYTimes photographer Todd Selby turns his camera on cooks. Plus: How corn helped thaw the cold war, and the official “best word ever.”
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the dinner party. This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:06.0 | So these two Indians are standing on a bluff when the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria land, |
| 0:11.0 | and Christopher Columbus walks down to the beach. |
| 0:14.0 | One Indian turns to the other and says, well, there goes the neighborhood. |
| 0:22.2 | I'm Rico Galliano. I'm Rico Galeano. |
| 0:24.0 | I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum, and from APM American Public Media, this is The Dinner Party, |
| 0:29.1 | the culture show that gives you an edge in your weekend conversations. |
| 0:32.0 | You just got a joke from Native American author Sherman Alexi. |
| 0:35.4 | He's got a new collection of stories out called blasphemy that |
| 0:38.2 | we'll hear more about later. And speaking of blasphemy, author Salman Rushdie is here to talk about |
| 0:43.4 | living life under a fatwa. Also coming up, we hear from Ryan Johnson, director of the new film |
| 0:48.2 | Looper, photographer and blogger Todd Selby, and Project Runways Tim Gunn stops by to answer your |
| 0:53.8 | etiquette questions. |
| 0:55.1 | Be warned, no sweatpants allowed. |
| 0:56.8 | But first, as at any dinner party, we start with small talk. |
| 1:02.2 | All week long, you've been hearing these headlines? |
| 1:04.5 | National Football League officials are going back to work. |
| 1:07.4 | The heaviest rain in decades has pounded Nigeria. |
| 1:10.1 | Some 2,000 workers at a Foxcon factory in |
| 1:13.2 | Central China rioted Sunday night. Now for a story you might not have heard, we are joined by Sadie Stein. |
| 1:18.7 | She is the deputy editor of the Paris Review. Sadie, what story are you going to be talking about this |
| 1:23.5 | weekend? I'll definitely be talking about the fact that the best word ever has been declared. |
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