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Hot and Bothered

How To: Spot a Movie Star

Hot and Bothered

Not Sorry Productions

Society & Culture, Feminism, Books, Relationships, Arts, Intersectionality

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

The success of How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days is built around the chemistry and star-power of its two leading actors: Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey. To truly understand this film, we have to understand the way movie stars operate in Hollywood, what casting these two actors meant in 2003, and what it means today.


Helping us in that task is Russell Meeuf, a professor in the school of Journalism and Mass Media at the University of Idaho. His work focuses on celebrity culture, popular cinema, masculinity studies and disability studies. He is the author of several books on media culture, including White Terror: The Horror Film from Obama to Trump, Rebellious Bodies: Stardom Citizenship, and the New Body Politics as well as John Wayne's World: Transnational Masculinity in the Fifties.


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0:00.0

Hi everybody I am just dropping into your feet here to let you know that starting

0:07.0

June 6th you were invited to a class living joyfully with me living joyfully is going to be a four week class dedicated to

0:15.5

bringing more joy to the everyday. Every Thursday in June we will come together

0:20.3

over Zoom to think through big questions like what is joy? What

0:24.8

relationship do I want to have with joy? Where am I missing opportunities to bring a

0:29.8

joyful spirit to my daily life? I ran a month-long class like this in January that focused

0:35.6

on courage and after getting really incredible participant feedback I'm

0:39.4

thrilled to be using the same model with this new focus of joy instead of courage.

0:44.8

Each week we're going to begin with a journal prompt.

0:46.9

We'll then have a conversation focused on a different aspect of joy,

0:50.9

and then we will do a sacred reading practice to see what meaning we can glean from

0:55.0

texts about joy.

0:56.9

If you know that you want some self-reflection in your life but struggle to hold time and space

1:01.2

for it, then this glass is for you.

1:03.2

This kind of internal work is often really easier to perform in regards seriously

1:07.4

when it's undertaken with a like-minded community.

1:10.4

And so through four weeks of supportive, collaborative work, we will build intention and develop rituals for more joyful living. Register before June 6th by heading to Not Sorry Works.com, that's N-O o r r r r y w o r k s dot com

1:28.8

i really hope to see you there it will bring me joy. The point of an actor is to disappear into a role. A great performance by a famous actor is like a magic eye illusion. You look one way and it's Merrill Street. You squint a different way and you can barely see Merrill at all.

1:59.4

The point of a movie star is to never disappear.

2:03.5

You see them on the sides of buses.

2:06.4

Movie stars are supposed to be products,

2:09.1

people who you can never take your eyes off of,

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