Episode 118 - The Devil Wears Prada

The 2006 smash hit "The Devil Wears Prada" seemed to have
struck a chord on the piano that is the hearts of moviegoers
everywhere, but to us, with its weighty pile of missed notes,
it instead felt like ton of ivory falling on our heads. 


Based on the chick-lit novel of the same name, it tells the
fish-out-of-water story of a plucky young wannabe journalist
who decides to take a demanding job for heavy hitter in the
alien-to-her fashion industry of New York City. 


That boss is named Miranda Priestly (played by Meryl Streep in
an Oscar-nominated performance) and is clearly based on famous
longtime Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour. She’s mean to
everyone, but her husband leaves her, so we’re supposed to feel
bad for her I guess. Not sure why. 


Anne Hathaway plays Andrea "Andy" Sachs, a recent Northwestern
grad who is just trying to break into the journalism biz by, ya
know, not writing anything and instead becoming some evil
weirdo’s personal assistant. Because that’s how that
works. 


In a career-igniting role, Emily Blunt plays Miranda Priestly’s
co-assistant Emily Charlton who is an enemy of Andy’s and
treats her like garbage the whole time, but we’re somehow
supposed to feel bad for her, too. Also not sure why. 


Stanley Tucci plays the magazine’s art director Nigel Kipling,
who becomes the Fairy Godmother to Hathaway’s Cinderella.
That’s when he’s not constantly calling her fat and making her
cry because she doesn’t think high fashion is the most
important thing in the entire world. 


And of course, then there’s Andy’s awful, pretentious, annoying
and whiny chef of a boyfriend—played by Adrian Grenier of
“Entourage” fame, who has proven how fictional that show was,
because this dude is a horrible film actor that the likes of
Scorsese would never cast.


Join us as we try to figure out how women's clothes sizes work,
discuss the dirty world of emu magazines, and try to get to the
bottom of whether Madonna can actually sing or not. 


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