Where is Bobbie Gentry?

Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen

PRX

Arts

4.6 • 675 Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2017

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

A theater in Memphis decided to stop showing “Gone with the Wind,” and Aisha Harris, a Slate culture writer and host of the podcast Represent, joins Kurt to talk about what many see as a nostalgia for slavery in the movie. At 50, there are two central questions surrounding the song, “Ode to Billie Joe”: Why did Billie Joe McAllister jump off the Tallahatchie Bridge, and why, decades ago, did the woman who sang it, Bobbie Gentry, disappear from public view? And finally, Kurt talks to another Omahan done good, the director Alexander Payne, about his new movie, “Downsizing.”

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0:11.4	That's it
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0:12.2	Right
0:12.6	Studio
0:13.4	360
0:14.4	With Cardo Andersson
0:16.1	Kurt Anderson
0:16.9	I listen to it on the radio in my car
0:20.4	Don't be sniffy about.
0:21.6	Nothing sniffy.
0:22.6	I think you are.
0:23.6	No, no.
0:24.6	You've got a nose for it.
0:25.6	Oh, gosh.
0:26.6	What are you saying over there?
0:28.6	Today on the show, Alexander Payne on his new movie downsizing.
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