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I'm Stephen Meckhalf and this is the Slate Culture Gap Fest. Why wouldn't King

Kong want a Lady Gorilla Edition? It's Wednesday, January 10th, 2018. On today's show we continue our run-up to Oscar season with

Guillermo del Toro's cinematic wonder the shape of water. And then the Golden Globes

are they're often considered something like the Oscars irreverent and possibly

inebriated younger sibling. This year however they were pretty dead serious in

their commitment to a Me Too and a Post Weinstein Hollywood. We will discuss both

the awards and the political

halo surrounding them. And finally, sleep is so strange, it's so

creaturely and it seems peculiar that we can't disrupt our way out of

this ancient thing. What is it and why do we do it? We discuss.

Joining me today is Laura Miller, the wonderful book critic. Hello Laura.

Hi Steve. Welcome back to the show. It's great to have you.

It's great to be back.

Good and of course Dana Stephen's the wonderful film critic for slate.com.

Hey Dana.

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