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Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen

PRX

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4.6 • 675 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

As Cupid takes aim this week, a look at how sex and sexuality are handled — and mishandled — on-screen. Kurt Andersen speaks with Slate’s Jeffrey Bloomer on depictions of first-time sex. Intimacy-scene consultant Alicia Rodis describes how she helps actors who are virtual strangers seem like they are deeply and lustilly in love during sex scenes. Desiree Akhavan’s show “The Bisexual” takes on what she sees as an anti-bisexual bias, a bias she demonstrates with clips from shows including “Sex and the City” and “Orange is the New Black.” Plus a look back at how “Reality Bites,”which hit theaters 25 years ago this week, helped channel the Gen X zeitgeist.

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0:00.0	from PRX
0:03.4	This is Studio 360.
0:10.3	I'm Kurt Aniston, and I'm sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
0:13.3	This first level of garden.
0:14.6	This is Thomas Jefferson's vegetable garden.
0:16.5	I like to have the roasted chicken piece.
0:18.2	Very well done.
0:19.3	Editing is all about timing.
0:21.0	I try to get a little bit away from the actual subject.
0:23.6	You must get sick of your own voice, right?
0:26.0	Studio 360.
0:28.1	It's good.
0:28.7	Anderson.
0:30.9	I think we should get naked.
0:33.8	What?
0:38.7	That was Owen Wilson in the Ben Stiller movie Zoolander at the beginning of its orgy scene.
0:44.8	It's a very funny sex scene, which makes it so unlike so many Hollywood sex scenes, which are comically bad.
0:57.8	Okay. scenes, which are comically bad. Because of Valentine's Day, we're taking a look at how movies and TV are evolving when it comes
1:04.0	to depicting sex and sexuality, which means some segments on this episode might not be right
1:09.7	for all listeners.
1:19.7	When I was a kid in the 1960s, 12 or 13, and occasionally got my hands on copies of Playboy,
1:25.4	one of my favorite things was a recurring series, the history of sex in cinema.
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