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The Dinner Party: Outsourcing homework, the age of actors in high school movies and more
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Feb 28, 2013
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The Dinner Party: Outsourcing homework, the age of actors in high school movies and more
The Dinner Party hosts join us to talk about a Chinese business man who outsourced his daughter's homework, the history of Woolworth's and teen movies.
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The Dinner Party hosts join us to talk about a Chinese business man who outsourced his daughter's homework, the history of Woolworth's and teen movies.

Every week we get your weekend conversation starters with Rico Gagliano and Brendan Newnam, the hosts of the Dinner Party Download.

In China, an executive was caught outsourcing his 12 year old daughter's homework to professionals. Apparently he hired a film crew to help her with a project to document her life.

We all know Hollywood likes to cast older actors to play high-schoolers. But how much older? College Humor recently did a survey of teen movies and found the average age of an actor playing a teen is around 21.

This week in 1878 the first "Woolworth's Great Five Cent's Store" in Utica New York.