Episode 76: Sofia Coppola, Air-ial Assaults, and Superflops

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Society & Culture

4.5 • 822 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2010

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

This week: Writer-director Sofia Coppola reveals she was heir to *another* Hollywood legend… A killer smog chokes London… And Broadway’s Spiderman breaks several legs. Plus: a dear joke from Badly Drawn Boy, and a holiday tune from Bishop Allen.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Dinner Party Download.
0:04.6	This is your icebreaker.
0:06.6	A friend of mine just called me.
0:08.3	He's just been offered eight legs of venison for $200.
0:12.2	And he asked me, is that too dear?
0:18.1	I'm Rico Galliano.
0:19.7	I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum, and from American Public Media, this is The Dinner Party
0:24.3	Download, the show that equips you to win your next dinner party.
0:27.7	Our icebreaker this week came from musician Damon Gow, aka Badly Drawn Boy.
0:32.3	His new album is called Photographing Snowflakes.
0:35.2	And coming up, Sophia Coppola, The Not So Amazing Spider-Man, Killer Smog, and Bishop
0:40.1	Allen.
0:40.8	But first, time for small talk.
0:45.7	So all week long, you've been hearing this.
0:47.3	The Don't Ask Don't Tell repeal will become law this week.
0:50.5	California is under the grip of some record storms.
0:53.5	The Yukon women's basketball team
0:55.3	going for a record 89th consecutive victory. Now for something you haven't heard, we turn to Jessica
1:00.3	Cohen. She's editor-in-chief of Jezebel, a woman's culture blog. Jessica, what story are you going to be
1:05.4	talking about this weekend? I'm really focused on the new Spider-Man musical on Broadway. This is
1:10.3	the Julie Tamor U2 Opus?
1:11.8	Yes.
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