Jennifer Lopez's love affair with love

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🗓️ 12 March 2024

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It's basically spring - which means wedding season is starting to rev up. And no one does weddings quite like Jennifer Lopez - both on-screen and off. Host Brittany Luse revisits her conversation with New York Magazine features writer Rachel Handler to break down J.Lo's wedding planning movies, how they add to J.Lo's brand, and what they say about our investment in the real-life wedding industrial complex.

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0:00.0	Support for this podcast and the following message come from Dignity Memorial.
0:04.6	When your celebration of life is prepaid today, your family is protected tomorrow.
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0:17.1	Hello hello. I'm Brittany Loose and you're listening to It's been a minute from NPR, a show about
0:26.0	what's going on in culture and why it doesn't happen by accident. Spring is basically here and for many of us, it marks the beginning
0:44.2	of wedding season.
0:45.9	And nobody, nobody does weddings
0:48.9	quite like Jennifer Lopez.
0:50.9	She's been engaged six times in real life and on screen she's tied the knot a lot
0:57.1	so let's just do it let's just get married right now I do and I'm not the only one who's noticed this pattern.
1:05.0	Which brings me to today's guest.
1:08.0	New York Magazine features writer Rachel handler.
1:11.0	Not only had I seen like 10 movies where she got married, but I had seen four movies where
1:16.1	she planned a wedding and I was like that's really strange and fascinating.
1:20.5	Yeah, it's kind of like your Jerry Seinfeld moment.
1:22.5	Like, what's up with that?
1:24.1	What's up with that?
1:25.9	What's up with that?
1:26.9	Now, this was a conversation I had with Rachel last year.
1:30.4	After she wrote an article for New York magazine where she calls these four movies
1:34.4	The J-Low Wedding Industrial Complex Cannon. It starts with the wedding planner.
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