Culture Gabfest: Portrait of Taylor on Fire

Published: Feb. 26, 2020, 10 a.m.

b"This week on the Culture Gabfest, Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner, and guest host and Slate staff writer Dan Kois talk about C\\xe9line Sciamma\\u2019s Portrait of a Lady on Fire. Next, they discuss Taylor Swift\\u2019s documentary Miss Americana. Finally, the panel dives into \\u201cgarbage language\\u201d a.k.a corporate buzzwords\\u2014unnecessary or effective?\\xa0\\n\\nOn the Slate Plus segment this week, the panel discusses a contentious subject\\u2014whether Leonardo DiCaprio was already a star before Titanic?\\n\\nPodcast production by Jessamine Molli. Production assistance by Rachael Allen. Additional production help by Rosemary Belson.\\n\\nOutro Music: 'The Man' by Taylor Swift\\n\\nEndorsements\\n\\nDan: Reading Hilary Mantel\\u2019s Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies before The Mirror & the Light, the third book in the trilogy, is released March 10.\\xa0\\n\\nJulia: Golden State by Ben H. Winters.\\n\\nSteve: \\u201cReading Sade in the Age of Epstein\\u201d by Mitchell Abidor in The New York Review of Books.\\n\\xa0\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices"