BFG Podcast #141: We talk about J. Lo, Bob Marley, and Truman Capote

This week's show gets right into what's important in our culture. Host Neal Pollack welcomes Jennifer Lopez obsessive Adam Hirschfelder to the podcast, and he is all about 'This Is Me...Now,' J. Lo's music video and album that has recast J. Lo's image as someone who's both ironically and unironically finding herself. She has learned to love herself and Ben Affleck, and the video, airing on Amazon Prime, features her in therapy and also dancing on the set of Singin' In The Rain. Neal can't quite suss out what the big deal is about J. Lo, but Adam, who has some regional identification with the former Jenny from the Block, says her great subject is the nature of celebrity itself. We don't know if it's that calculated, but maybe it is.

Ryan Murphy is back doing Ryan Murphy things in 'Feud: Capote Versus the Swans,' and Neal and Matthew Ehrlich break it down. Matthew's main criticism is that Capote had plenty of feuds in his life, but his feud with the swans was really more like an excommunication. They examine the various actors doing their various swan schticks, and while Matthew thinks that Tom Hollander does a pitch-perfect Capote impression, he finds this version of Truman quite creepy and not at all magnetic and compelling.

Kingsley Ben-Adir's Bob Marley is the opposite of creepy. Adam Hirschfelder returns to the show to discuss Bob Marley: One Love, which he likens to the posters for Bob Marley's Legend greatest hits album that adorned the walls of many white people in college dorms in the 1980s and 1990s. The film, which Marley's estate made in full consultation with the director, is a continuation of Marley's hagiography. Adam wanted more explanation and information, Neal wanted either more or less religion, but audiences seem not to care, as the music is a huge hit, because Marley's music is eternal.

Enjoy the podcast!