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Hot and Bothered

Sleepless in Seattle

Hot and Bothered

Not Sorry Productions

Society & Culture, Feminism, Books, Relationships, Arts, Intersectionality

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Vanessa Zoltan and Hannah McGregor meet at the top of The Empire State Building to record their first episode of Hot and Bothered together, all about the 1993 classic Sleepless in Seattle. It’s got Meg Ryan, it’s got Tom Hanks, it’s directed by Nora Ephron. What more could you want? 


For the next nine weeks, we’re thinking about the influence and impact of Meg Ryan as a rom-com super star. Next week, we look at the final scene of Sleepless in Seattle. In two weeks, join us for When Harry Met Sally.


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0:17.2

Hi everybody. We have a really exciting class coming up. I know we are in the dog days of summer, but we are looking at the fall. As many of you know, November is National Novel Writing Month. And we really love Nana Raimo this month because it inspires us to write something quickly and not focus on perfectionism, but the joy of creating art and belief that

0:25.2

creating art is in and of itself a good thing. So for the last couple of years

0:29.7

what we've done is spent the month of October getting ready to write something for the whole

0:35.1

month of November and then in the month of November creating a community in which we support

0:39.8

each other and encourage each other and coach each other as to how to hit this 50,000 word mark.

0:45.3

This year we have two different classes available.

0:48.3

In October you can either study writing romantic stories with me and the incredible novelist and

0:54.6

podcaster and screenwriter Dana Schwartz or you can take a memoir writing class

1:00.0

with me an incredible storyteller from this American life and the moth

1:04.4

Michaela Bly. The reason I am talking to you in summer about this is because we have an

1:10.5

early bird special available through July 31st. If you sign up between now and

1:16.8

July 31st for either or both of these classes you will get 10% off.

1:23.0

I know you have a story in you,

1:24.8

whether it is about your life or a great romantic story

1:28.4

that you've always wanted to write.

1:30.3

We really want to read them and hear about them and support you through the process of writing them.

1:36.0

You can find out more by going to not sorry works.com.

1:40.0

That's not sorry works.com and I love this class so I can't wait to see you in October and November

1:57.0

Here we are ready to talk about romance movies. We're talking chick flicks here, a derided form of entertainment that I don't just believe is culturally significant,

2:06.0

but I also think deeply impacts our lives and how we see the world.

2:11.0

These movies shape our ideas of love, of friendship, of body image,

2:17.1

aging, apartment sizes, and careers. So let's do it. Let's study them. Here is Tamar Jeffers McDonald who is a professor in

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