The year is 2001, and you were first runner up of Miss Hawaiian Tropic.

Why would you throw that away for a podcast?

In the movie?

Legally blonde.

Hello everybody, and welcome to Unspooled!

I am Paul Sheer joined as always by Amy Nicholson, and we are going to break it down today about

the Reese Witherspoon classically-gly blonde.

We do this every single week looking at some of the best movies ever made, and really

asking the question, are they that good or do we just remember them that way?

Paul of course is coming at us from the perspective of being a brilliant mind, a filmmaker,

an actor, a writer, a man who makes, let's say, interesting documentaries that are

interesting.

Yes, we'll hopefully, we'll all edit together well, and Amy Nicholson is one of my favorite

voices in cinema, a writer, a podcaster, a radio personality, and I've been loving your

reviews in New York Times.

You actually made me laugh out loud a couple of weeks ago about your review of that film

based on an ancient Chinese legend.

Are you talking about the Monkey King?

Yes, yes.

You actually, your review of the Monkey King really made me laugh out loud when you described

the lack of research that this movie did about this quote-unquote true story they were

telling.

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