Sex Is Back (On Screen)!
Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
This week, Rebecca and John take a pause from this year's Oscar races to dish about Emerald Fennell's buzzy, divisive, and tongue-forward "Wuthering Heights". Then, VF Staff Writer Chris Murphy joins to break down why sexy TV shows like Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette and Heated Rivalry have captured our imagination and created rabid fan bases for its stars. They also discuss how the Academy has historically rewarded (or not) depictions of romance and sexuality, and whether there might be an imbalance in the accolades.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men, |
| 0:06.3 | Vanity Affairs Podcast for Film, TV, and Awards Lovers. |
| 0:09.8 | I'm Rebecca Ford. |
| 0:11.0 | And I'm John Ross. |
| 0:13.0 | John, a busy weekend. |
| 0:14.5 | I think I'll say that every week until we get to the Oscars. |
| 0:16.8 | But how are you doing? |
| 0:17.9 | Well, it was less busy than last weekend, |
| 0:20.8 | but I went to the DGAs on Saturday, |
| 0:24.8 | which is a very long award show. |
| 0:28.7 | But, you know, listen, I don't think there was a lot of surprises, |
| 0:33.5 | as in there was none. |
| 0:36.8 | Paul Thomas Anderson won the big award. |
| 0:41.2 | What was really interesting, |
| 0:43.6 | I guess I didn't fully realize, or I didn't put two and two together, |
| 0:48.3 | but Christopher Nolan as the president of the DGA is like a big deal. |
| 0:54.3 | A big deal. Yeah. |
| 0:55.2 | They kept calling him President Nolan on the stage, like, as a joke. |
| 1:00.2 | And he got up there and his speech was short but pointed. |
| 1:09.7 | And he was very, like, clear. He was like, there are still audiences for the work |
| 1:17.3 | that we're doing. We just need to make sure that we're being taken care of. And then he sort of |
| 1:22.6 | looked at Ted Sarandos, Pam Abdi, and Mike DeLuca, who were sitting in the front row. |
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