Nancy and Sarah are here to talk about beauty and wonder and love and heartbreak, from a wave of Natives in film to a new twist on an old reality show. But first, they discuss the utter failure of media outlets covering the missile strike on a Gaza hospital, most likely a misfire from a Palestinian group that was initially reported as an Israeli rocket because, well, Hamas said so. We hope the journalistic fails of the past week prove a corrective, as there are grave consequences to misreporting when the situation is this hot, including a story Nancy was told several days ago, when she decided to see what was going on around NYU:
Onto beauty and wonder! Namely the release of Killers of the Flower Moon, the three-plus-hour Scorsese adaption of David Grann’s 2017 book, which Sarah and Nancy saw on opening day. Discussed:
How Scorsese changed the screenplay after meeting with Osage members
The greatness of Leo and the luminosity of Lily
We will not spoil the movie, but we will say: It has big twists!
That time Charlton Heston played Geronimo, and other historical absurdities
Why “The Bachelor” franchise is the hunger games of love
Is “The Golden Bachelor” the most transgressive of the “Bachelor” shows?
What films Sarah has still not seen, for god’s sake!?
Plus, a memoir on the Cultural Revolution, revisiting a journalism fraud - and Nancy and Sarah discover they have the same crush! Photo reveal in final episode note.
Postscript: Nancy’s article, “The Long, Strange, Beautiful Trip to ‘Killers of the Flower Moon” published the day after we recorded. That can be found on The Free Press.
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