Mum's the Word Edition

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🗓️ 21 November 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Julia Turner returns with Stephen Metcalf and Dana Stevens to discuss the film Widows, The British import The Bodyguard on Netflix, and the life and work of William Goldman and what the role of screenwriter means today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.2	The following podcast contains explicit language. I'm Stephen Metcapp and this is the Slate Culture Gap Fest Mums the Word Edition.
0:47.0	It's Wednesday, November 21st, 2018.
0:50.5	Widows is the latest from Director Steve McQueen. It stars Viola Davis as the Widows is the latest from director Steve McQueen.
0:53.0	It stars Viola Davis as the widow of a legendary Chicago criminal
0:56.7	who must save her own skin and pull off one last big heist.
1:01.2	And then bodyguard as a shiny pulpy BBC import thriller it's about
1:06.7	a hottie guarding another hottie and finally I'm wrong, and then finally,
1:13.0	William Goldman was maybe the greatest American screenwriter
1:16.0	since Ben hacked, maybe the greatest of all time.
1:19.0	His death this past week at the age of 87
1:21.0	has us asking, what was his legacy certainly it was
1:24.6	remarkable but what else was his legacy and who and what is a screenwriter
1:28.5	then and now joining me today is oh oh my gosh, the words they just form so pavlovianly in my mouth.
1:39.5	You are not the editor of Slate.
1:41.6	Julia, the end of a friggin era what what are you what manner of creature are you
1:47.8	I'm a deputy managing editor at the LA Times
1:51.8	we're still dealing Deputy Managing Editor at the L.A. Times.
1:54.0	We're still dealing.
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