Dear Readers,
As you are reading, I am winging my way back. Departing from news of a tsunami warning, heading into a massive winter storm. Take your pick. That’s just about the way the last month has gone. Sheesh.
Let’s play the Media Edition of Love, Hate, or Meh: The Covid Recap
West Side Story — Mehhhh-Love
Don’t Look Up — Love (don’t believe the haters)
Macbeth — Love
Being The Ricardos — Meh but Loved parts of it
Power Of The Dog — Meh (controversial, I know)
House Of Gucci — Meh
Licorice Pizza — Meh
The French Dispatch — M-Bored
No Time To Die — Mehhh-Love (no, really, it was sad to say goodbye to Daniel Craig!)
Cyrano — M-Didn’t Finish (I’m sorry, Peter Dinklage!)
Tick Tick Boom — M-Hate (I’m sorry, Lin Manuel Miranda!)
Zola — a last but far far far from least: Love!
TV:
Sex Lives Of College Girls — Love
Most Recent Season Of ‘Curb — Love (but am conflicted about it)
And Just Like That — Love (be quiet, haters)
I am racing to finish packing at our lovely (still rainy, yet tsunami-free) Hollywood Hills rental so that I can get to my beloved Tower Bar for a farewell dinner.
After isolating, quarantining, and generally keeping to myself and family for a few weeks, venturing out for just a smattering of business and leisure actual activities yielded some classic Hollywood tidbits, only one of which I will share: we got a very Hollywood download on Bob Saget’s funeral/memorial service at dinner last night. #RIP Bob Saget. Okay I guess I can also say that we had an excellent Jeff Goldblum sighting in a very cool downtown clothing shop. I will also say that I had a short, intense, and yet fun conversation with one of the uber-stars of Succession, courtesy of a fabulous friend I was lunching with; had a short, effective catch-up conversation with one of the all time great movie-moguls, who then turned out to be lunching with one of my favorite agents and do-gooders of all time, who is a reader of this newsletter. R.—should I have said your name? And he happens to be the agent of the friend I was lunching with! Small fishbowl. I mean world, ain’t it?
Back to New York where the fabulous also are. But somehow I don’t see them so much. Maybe I need to get out more, again. The past two years of hibernation may have to give way. After the temperature gets above 12 degrees, that is.
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The Pic(k) of the Week:
On Her Way Up: Yankees Tap Woman As Minor League Manager via The New York Times
BUSINESS & TECH:
Why Did Facebook Reject These Ads? via The New York TImes
In The Race For Batteries, One Scientist Has Seen It All via The Wall Street Journal
POLITICS:
Lani Guanier Taught Me Almost Everything I Know About Voting Rights via The Nation
The Senate’s First Woman Was Also It’s Last Enslaver via The Washington Post
WORLD:
The Lost Girls Of Covid via Bloomberg Businessweek
HEALTH & WELLNESS:
Girl Power Gets Sober via The Cut
THE ARTS & POP CULTURE:
The Movie That Understands The Secret Shame Of Motherhood via The Atlantic
Janet Jackson Is Still In Control via Allure
Shame and Fish Filets: Diary Of A Comedian Trapped In A Covid Cruise Ship Quarantine via The Los Angeles Times
Sex and The City Said It Would Stand For Friendship Over Men. It Didn’t. via Vox
Lidiya Yankovskaya Discusses Giving Birth Between Conducting Operas via ABC News
Jeanette Winterson, My Therapist, And Me via The New York Review
There’s No Such Thing As A ‘Pro-Life Feminist’ via Jezebel
SPORTS:
Erin Jackson Almost Didn’t Make Olympic Team USA, But Luckily A Friend Stepped In via NPR
OBITUARY:
Ronnie Spector’s Swagger Made Her A Rock ‘n’ Roll Immortal. It Also Saved Her Life. via The Los Angeles Times
AND WHAT’S NOT TO LOVE ABOUT…?:
Susie Essman Unpacks Her Eye-Popping ‘Curb’ Wardrobe via Gawker
