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This is the Slate Culture Gapfest. Nobody bucks me on the head with the baguette

addition. It's Wednesday January 24th, 2018 on today's show,

the assassination of Johnny Versace,

season two of Ryan Murphy's American Crime Story.

Then we'll sit down for some marmalade sandwiches

and an in-depth discussion of the best film of 2018,

Paddington II.

And finally, the New York Times explores

in a remarkable depth the current state of the art of drag.

Thanks in large part to RuPaul's Drag race,

Queens have greater cultural prominence than ever before, but what happens to the art form when a handful of TV stars suck up all the oxygen?

I'm Dan Koyce, I'm an editor at Slate, and the co-author of the forthcoming, The World Only Spins Forward,

The Assent of Angels in America,

based on the explosive slate cover story.

Steve, Julia, and Dana are in Sundance

as we're recording.

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