Hello everybody and welcome to Little Gold Men, the podcast that demonstrates emphatically that award season is a year-round

affair.

And we are now headed right into award season.

I keep saying this, but it's right around the corner.

We're almost there.

Right, Richard? Yeah.

And in fact, we're starting to get to the place where we can talk about things that happen in

awards season.

But at first I got to introduce everybody.

I'm Mike Hogan, digital director of Vanity Fair.

I'm here with our film critic Richard Lawson. Hello?

And Skyping in from the Bay Area, our senior writer Joanna Robinson.

Hello, good morning.

Good morning. So like I was saying, it's almost award season. Awards things are starting

to happen. I went to a Peggy Siegel screening last night. It felt very awards-esque. She was telling me the movies that she hasn't seen in the movies that she has seen.

She has not seen Lala Land and she's fired up to see it.

Okay. She hasn't seen Warren's movie. She's fired up to see Warren's movie.

I bet, yeah, that seems up her alley certainly.

She has seen loving and thought it was quite good. Okay. Oh great.

So I got that was my little you know I'm going to I'll have something report next week I'm going to I'll have something to report next week I'm going to a

Peggy Segal event in the Hamptons. Oh I'm going to that too.

Oh are you? We can talk about it. We can dish about it next week. The Snowden thing.

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