Episode 170: Martin McDonagh, Ed Asner, and Real American Cheese
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American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2012
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
This week: Playwright & “Seven Psychopaths” filmmaker Martin McDonagh laughs in the face of death… TV legend Ed Asner calls us out… Mary Elizabeth Winstead lists some sobering cinema… ’5 under 35′ honoree Justin Torres reads from his celebrated novella… New Yorker critic David Denby divines film’s future… and Brendan seeks the *real* American cheese. Plus, a historic Niagara fall, a crushed dinosaur dream, and a wild new track from Tame Impala.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the dinner party. This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:06.0 | What do you do if you get swallowed by hippopotamus? |
| 0:10.0 | I don't know. |
| 0:11.0 | You run around inside until you get all pooped out. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm Rico Galliano. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum and from APM American Public Media, this is The Dinner Party, |
| 0:25.4 | the culture show that gives you an edge in your weekend conversations. |
| 0:28.3 | You just got a not-so-classy joke from Ryan Johnson. |
| 0:32.0 | He is director of the new quite-classy film, Looper. |
| 0:34.9 | That'll help break the ice. |
| 0:36.3 | Later, we'll speak with another director, Martin McDonough. His new comedy's Seven Psychopaths, comes out this weekend. |
| 0:41.3 | Also coming up, we search for an American cheese worthy of the name. |
| 0:45.3 | New Yorker movie critic David Demby asks if the movies have a future, and film and TV legend |
| 0:50.3 | Ed Asner has this gentle message for our listeners. |
| 0:53.3 | Audience, you need help. |
| 0:55.2 | He's right, and we are here to provide it. |
| 0:57.1 | Yep. |
| 0:57.4 | But first, as at any dinner party, we start with Small Talk. |
| 1:03.5 | All week long, you've been hearing these headlines. |
| 1:06.3 | The VP candidates square off tonight. |
| 1:08.1 | For the second time now, in five days, Walmart workers walked off the job in protest. |
| 1:13.0 | A member of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot has been freed by a Moscow appeals court. |
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