“Be Our Guest” to this latest Erratic Dialogues podcast, in which Claudette and Gabriella review Disney’s live-action Beauty and the Beast (2017), directed by Bill Condon and starring Emma Watson, Dan Stevens, Luke Evans and Emma Thompson.

Length: 50mins, Recorded March 2017

iTunes Link/Download HERE

Notes:

• Gabriella and Claudette did not have time to discuss LeFou, but please look at Hailey Bachrach’s “We’ve Already Had a Gay LeFou”
• The Greats podcast episode, in which Gabriella and Claudette first document their hatred of Rococo
• Droit du seigneur
• Beyond the Lights (2014): Gugu Mbatha-Raw’s Beyonce-inspired turn.
• Buff Kangaroo. Buff Kangaroo with a tin.
• Dan Stevens. Cousin Matthew. Man Booker Judge.
• Jean Cocteau’s 1946 La Belle et la Bête (Beauty & the Beast)
• “Evermore”, the Beast’s excruciating, eminently forgettable new song.
• La Belle et la Bete (2014) starring Léa Seydoux and Vincent Cassel.
• Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber (1979) featuring ‘The Courtship of Mr Lyon’ and ‘The Tiger’s Bride’. Full text here.
• Lin Manuel Miranda on the exquisiteness of Howard Ashman’s lyrical phrasing in Beauty and the Beast (1991)