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36: BARBIE Book club with George Hahn & M.G. Lord | Booked Up with Jen Taub
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July 30, 2023
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1:07:48Now PlayingToday is all about BARBIE. The new film, the doll, the legend. Too much hype? No, not enough. This month’s new blockbuster film directed by Greta Gurwig starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling has more than just the best one-liners “She’s everything. He’s just Ken.” It also provides theater audiences the opportunity to share howls of laughter delight about the humorous send up of the patriarchy, and also sob openly about what our lives could have been if more girl’s imaginations were able to flourish as grown women, instead of us becoming accessories, enlisted in service of the ambitions of powerful men.
Because Booked Up centers on books, our Barbie Book Club members today include M.G. Lord author of Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll, originally published in 1994. Plus, M.G. has a fresh 3-part podcast series out now called "LA Made: The Barbie Tapes” which includes audio from her one-on-one interviews with Barbie inventor and Mattel founder, Ruth Handler, among others. We’ll get into that. M.G. has written for numerous publications including the New York Times Book Review , The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times . She is an Associate Professor of the Practice of English at the University of Southern California.
Also joining the Barbie Book Club today is George Hahn. Cuter than a Ken Doll, more awesome than Allan, there is no better example of how to live an urban bon vivant life while on a bicycle than George Hahn. George in his own witty words “ is a selfmade thousandaire playboy who wears tailored clothing, drinks coffee, talks on podcasts and occasionally writes and does TV.” You may know George from his screen roles in “Sex and the City,” “Law and OrderCriminal Intent,” and Miramax’s “Kate & Leopold.” He also has a new podcast called HahnSolo and website GeorgeHahn.com () that’s spelled HAHN that features menswear, grooming, lifestyle essays and advice.
Contact Booked Up:
You can email Jen & the Booked Up team at: BOOKEDUP@POLITICON.COM (mailto:BOOKEDUP@POLITICON.COM) or by writing to:
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Get More from M.G. Lord:
Podcast () | Website () | Author of FOREVER BARBIE and several other books ()
Get More from George Hahn:
Twitter () | Website| () Podcast HahnSolo ()
Get More from Jen Taub:
taubjen on Threads () | Money & Gossip Substack () | Author of BIG DIRTY MONEY ()
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