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| | Julie Salamon's book The Devil's Candy, about the making of the movie The Bonfire of the Vanities, is a favorite of mine. I was delighted to hear that Salamon herself was making and narrating a new season of the Turner Classic Movies podcast The Plot Thickens, which tells the story in podcast form. The first episode is entertaining -- and just as juicy as the book. One of my favorite recent Twitter follows is Ryan Ken, a master of the "looks easy to get right, is actually hard to get right" captioned video comedy format. Their stuff is often not just funny, but provocative and insightful. Last weekend, I binge-watched the HBO MAX (originally BBC) show All That Glitters, which is meant to be the jewelry-making equivalent of The Great British Baking Show or The Great Pottery Throwdown or the glass-blowing show Blown Away. While it didn't thrill me quite as much as some comparable programs do, it was a very enjoyable afternoon of viewing, and I know a lot more about bracelets than I used to. The terrific actor John Benjamin Hickey talked to the terrific writer Dave Holmes for Esquire about getting older as a gay man, and their conversation is a great read. |
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On Monday, Aisha and I wrapped up our discussion about the Fast & Furious franchise with our friends Sam Sanders and Ayesha Rascoe. On Tuesday, Glen spoke to Margaret Willison and Christina Tucker about Loki. Aisha wrote about Zola, and on our Wednesday episode, she talked about it with Mallory Yu, Jourdain Searles, and Sidney Madden. On Thursday, we celebrated summer by revisiting an episode where Glen and Stephen talked to Gene Demby and Margaret Willison about memories of amusement parks. And on Friday, Aisha and Stephen talked to Audie Cornish and Ari Shapiro about the terrific concert film Summer Of Soul. I wrote up some recommendations of things you might want to try out in July, including both movies and TV, old and new. And Stephen can be found, as he so often can, over at NPR Music's New Music Friday. |
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