Under the Tuscan Sun with Rose McGowan

Sentimental Garbage

Justice for Dumb Women

Sex And The City, Arts, Musicals, Society & Culture, Culture, Queer, Movies, Camp, Literature, Tv

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Warning: fans of Frances Mayes' 1996 travel memoir Under The Tuscan Sun won't find a lot of meaningful discussion of the book here, because neither Caroline nor our guest Rose McGowan liked it very much. Instead, we talk about Italy, Rose's childhood in a religious cult, her experience writing her book BRAVE, the relationship between women and gay men, her experiences speaking out against sexual abuse in Hollywood and being raised to think of herself without gender. We also do some fairly unkind impressions of Frances Mayes, so please don't send this podcast to Frances Mayes.

Music by Harry Harris, artwork by Gavin Day. Recorded at Acast and produced by Hannah Varrall.

Rose McGowan's book BRAVE is published in paperback on the 5th of March.

Harvey Weinstein currently denies all allegations made against him.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hello and welcome sentimental garbage a podcast where we talk about the
0:07.7	chicklet that made us who we are. My name is Karyadonahue and I'm a novelist
0:11.2	a journalist and a farmhouse in the foothills of Tuscany.
0:14.0	Joining me is activist and author of Brave, Rose McGowan to talk about Francis May's
0:18.6	96 travel book Under the Tuscan Sun.
0:21.5	Hey Rose!
0:22.6	Hey!
0:24.1	I believe you have a confession to make.
0:25.6	I have a confession to make.
0:28.0	When I was originally, when we talked about doing this podcast together I had picked Jane Eyre as
0:34.7	Chicklet and that was rejected. I was like oh okay let me think of
0:40.2	chicklet and for some reason the only thing that came to my mind was under the
0:43.8	Tuscan Sun by Francis Mays but I realized too late as I was rereading the book
0:49.6	to prep for the podcast that in fact I had never read the book and I had only seen the movie
0:54.8	but somehow the movie drilled into my head that I had read the book so I'm reading the
0:58.8	book the book is wildly different to the movie it's really about home restoration in Italy and a lot of
1:05.1	food and recipes and there are no hot Italians, men, there are no
1:10.4	hot people in this book. There are zero hot people in this book.
1:13.2	She has a husband already.
1:15.0	I was very confused and so I must confess that I found the book to be kind of boring.
1:23.7	Oh my God, I hated it the book so much.
1:26.5	I was reading it like, what?
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Justice for Dumb Women, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Justice for Dumb Women and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.