Pop This! episode 244: Sunset Boulevard

Aug 26, 2020

Summary:

 

This week we take on one of the greatest movies of all time: Sunset Boulevard. We also discuss how Jennifer Lopez is now the same age as Norma Desmond, Orville Peck has a new EP, and find out that moving to #NewWest would be Andrea Warner's definition of remote living.

 

 

Show notes:

 

Sunset Boulevard: what Billy Wilder's satire really tells us about Hollywood (Guardian) 

 

Feminist Friday: Sunset Boulevard (1950) (Citizen Dame)

 

Recommendations:

Lisa: Hurricane Heist (Netflix)

Andrea W.:  Orville Peck, Show Pony (EP)

Andrea G.:  Dirty John: Betty (Netflix)

Music credits:

"Back to the '90s" by Douglas Mulvey AKA D-REX
From Free Music Archive
CC BY 3.0

 

Theme song "Pyro Flow" by Kevin Macleod

From Incompetch

CC BY 3.0

Intro bed: "OLPC" by Marco Raaphorst

Courtesy of Free Music Archive

CC BY-SA 3.0 NL

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Pop This! is two women talking about pop culture.

Lisa Christiansen is a broadcaster, journalist and longtime metal head. Andrea Warner is a music critic, author and former horoscopes columnist.

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Pop This! podcast is produced by Andrea Gin and recorded at the Vancouver Public Library's wonderful Inspiration Lab.