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Culture Gabfest: Portrait of Taylor on Fire
FromSlate Culture
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Length:
80 minutes
Released:
Feb 26, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
This week on the Culture Gabfest, Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner, and guest host and Slate staff writer Dan Kois talk about Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire. Next, they discuss Taylor Swift’s documentary Miss Americana. Finally, the panel dives into “garbage language” a.k.a corporate buzzwords—unnecessary or effective?
On the Slate Plus segment this week, the panel discusses a contentious subject—whether Leonardo DiCaprio was already a star before Titanic?
Podcast production by Jessamine Molli. Production assistance by Rachael Allen. Additional production help by Rosemary Belson.
Outro Music: 'The Man' by Taylor Swift
Endorsements
Dan: Reading Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies before The Mirror & the Light, the third book in the trilogy, is released March 10.
Julia: Golden State by Ben H. Winters.
Steve: “Reading Sade in the Age of Epstein” by Mitchell Abidor in The New York Review of Books.
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On the Slate Plus segment this week, the panel discusses a contentious subject—whether Leonardo DiCaprio was already a star before Titanic?
Podcast production by Jessamine Molli. Production assistance by Rachael Allen. Additional production help by Rosemary Belson.
Outro Music: 'The Man' by Taylor Swift
Endorsements
Dan: Reading Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies before The Mirror & the Light, the third book in the trilogy, is released March 10.
Julia: Golden State by Ben H. Winters.
Steve: “Reading Sade in the Age of Epstein” by Mitchell Abidor in The New York Review of Books.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Released:
Feb 26, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
The Culture Gabfest: This is Sparta Edition: Slate critics Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner, and Dana Stevens discuss if the movie 22 Jump Street is too self aware to be any good, whether poetry can go mainstream, and how to predict your song of the summer with Slate's Chris Molanphy. by Slate Culture