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Jennifer Lopez's love affair with love
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Jennifer Lopez's love affair with love

It's basically spring - which means wedding season is starting to rev up. And no one does weddings quite like Jennifer Lopez - both on-screen and off. Host Brittany Luse revisits her conversation with New York Magazine features writer Rachel Handler to break down J.Lo's wedding planning movies, how they add to J.Lo's brand, and what they say about our investment in the real-life wedding industrial complex.

Jennifer Lopez's love affair with love

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Jennifer Lopez: Then and now

Jennifer Lopez, from her film This Is Me...Now © Amazon Content Services LLC Dave Meyers, director/Courtesy of Prime hide caption

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Jennifer Lopez: Then and now

Jennifer Lopez offers a companion to her 2002 album This Is Me...Then. On This Is Me...Now she is once again inspired by falling in love with Ben Affleck.

Jennifer Lopez: Then and now

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What's Your Monoculture Moment: The Olympics Or Bennifer 2.0?

Jennifer Lopez & Ben Affleck sparked a romance nearly 20 years ago, when phones were bigger and times were very, very different. Chris Weeks/WireImage hide caption

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What's Your Monoculture Moment: The Olympics Or Bennifer 2.0?

Sam is joined by LA Times television editor Matt Brennan to understand why ratings for this year's Olympics are not just dismal, but symbolic of changes in our culture. Then, culture writers Hunter Harris and Alessa Dominguez join the show to talk all things Bennifer.

What's Your Monoculture Moment: The Olympics Or Bennifer 2.0?

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Shakira And Jennifer Lopez's Halftime Show Unpacked

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Shakira And Jennifer Lopez's Halftime Show Unpacked

Shakira and Jennifer Lopez did more than shake things up on the Super Bowl stage. A panel of sociologists and music writers unpack the dialog.

Shakira And Jennifer Lopez's Halftime Show Unpacked

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How Jennifer Lopez Fought For Her 'Second Act'

Jennifer Lopez says women are increasingly realizing: "We have worth, and value, and that we deserve everything that we want." (Above) Lopez performs during the 2018 American Music Awards on Oct. 9 in Los Angeles. Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images hide caption

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How Jennifer Lopez Fought For Her 'Second Act'

Lopez talks with NPR's Sam Sanders about her decades of superstardom, her work imitating her life, and about being a boundary-breaking Latina woman in the entertainment industry.

How Jennifer Lopez Fought For Her 'Second Act'

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Jennifer Lopez Sorry She Sang For Turkmenistan's Dictator

Jennifer Lopez on stage Saturday in Avaza, Turkmenistan. Igor Sasin/AFP/Getty Images hide caption

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Jennifer Lopez Sorry She Sang For Turkmenistan's Dictator

If she had known about the human rights record of Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov's government, the singer would not have performed, her publicist says. Turkmenistan's use of torture and political imprisonments has been reported about extensively by the State Department and human rights watchdogs.

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