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Posted Wednesday, June 22, 2011, at 10:49 AM

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The Culture Gabfest weekly endorsements:

Dana's pick: Prince's song "Cream" from the 1991 album Diamonds and Pearls.
Julia's pick: Tony Scott's 2011 runaway train thriller Unstoppable.
Steve's picks: Christopher Hitchens' takedown of David Mamet's newfound conservative beliefs in the New York Times Book Review, * and the music of Sufjan Stevens (you can listen to "Chicago" and "John Wayne Gacy, Jr." on YouTube).

Outro: "Summertime" by the Sundays.

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Correction, June 23, 2011: This article originally misidentified the New York Times Book Review. (Return to the corrected sentence.)

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