Show Notes
We break away from the Meryl Box in honour of our special guest, Movie/TV Columnist (Globe & Mail, Metro, Toronto Star) Johanna Schneller! She joins us to talk 2002's meta-comedy 'Adaptation' and discuss Meryl's take on author Susan Orlean, Chris Cooper's sexiness, and Nicolas Cage embodying Charlie Kaufman's writer's block (not to mention his weight problem, which Meryl points out hilariously).
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