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The illustrious Camilla Anvar (a duly-noted favorite herself) plays favorites tonight! We talk everything from the lore of Phoebe Bridgers, to how we got to know each other's unique senses of humor, to the subtextual complexity of Megamind, to an anecdote both of us find incomparably funny. Plus, around 18 minutes, Camilla bestows a true honor upon me. Listen in! It's Playing Favorites!

And see Camilla now, (if you haven't already!!) in The Arbitrator! Streaming on YouTube at: https://youtu.be/rOtt3nsSZxY

Sharp and talented actress, artist, and music conversationalist Sophie Boyle joins us tonight, to discuss everything from plane food to silent discos to the multiple Fringe runs we have worked on together to the private life and musical brilliance of Kendrick Lamar! It's Playing Favorites!

And catch Sophie (if you haven't already!) in The Arbitrator! Streaming on YouTubeat: https://youtu.be/rOtt3nsSZxY

The charming, well-traveled, and always interesting David Ruffin joins today! He may not be the one from The Temptations, but this David Ruffin did bring in some excellent Smokey Robinson stories, a great travelogue relating to his decades-long love for David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia, and the great Chris Rock's connection between bad cops and airlines. It's a great chat, on Playing Favorites.

Mouse associate and old friend Jack Arnholz is on tonight, discussing his favorite landmarks of Maine, the spectacle of Eric André vs. Lauren Conrad, the cinema of Alejandro Jabberwocky (sic), and his fondness for pediatricians. Catch Jack's podcast "Buried or Cremated (and Also Paintings and Buildings)" on a near horizon. It's Playing Favorites!

Thespian, musician, and one of the stars of Distance Remaining, which premieres this week, Reuben Joseph joins us tonight! We talk summery Belgian getaways, the satire of Taika Waititi, and chimneys. See Reuben in this hearty film here (distanceremaining.com) and catch nifty Behind-the-Scenes documentary The Making of Distance Remaining here (youtu.be/wDYBM8bmeLo). It's Playing Favorites!

It's Giulia De Vita! A tremendously lovely person and great film conversationalist, joining us tonight to discuss everything from her love and memories of Rome, to our time studying together in King's College London, to our shared interest in haptic theories of cinema - no matter how niche they may initially seem! It's Playing Favorites.

Long-time listener first-time guest and big friend of the show Callum Pope is with us tonight! We talk all manner of topics, from our coincidentally familiar experiences in and around Aldeburgh, to the filmmaking of Stanley Tucci, to our mutual level of appreciation for Transformers (save perhaps when it has clearly not aged well), to which song was the first Callum bought on iTunes - you will never, ever guess.

Also see Callum in (you guessed it!) The Arbitrator! Streaming now!!

Briana Pegado! One of the loveliest people around! On the show tonight! We chat everything from Blink-182 to Black DC punk rockers, to our respective approaches to facial expressions, to the comedy stylings of Elsa Majimbo, and beyond. She's a great person, with a great great laugh, and I'm lucky to have known her so long! It's another Playing Favorites!

Twenty episodes in! Marking the occasion with me is renowned historian and author of such works as Herzl, A Concise History of Austria, Antisemitism: A Very Short Introduction, Democracy: All That Matters, and The Habsburg Monarchy 1815-1918, who also happens to be a very amusing and interesting person, and also my dad: Steven Beller!