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The Weekend Press: On ‘Melania,’ and Chugging Milk with RFK Jr.
Plus: Martin Shaw on the myths we need to understand life—and death. River Page needs everyone to calm down about the sexy ice-hockey show. Abigail…
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The First Lady Really Doesn’t Care. Do U?
Plus: Kanye West apologizes again, climbing the tallest building in Taiwan, and ‘Bridgerton’ has a dirty conservative secret.
Suzy Weiss
Odessa A’zion Needs to Stop Listening to the Mob
The ‘Marty Supreme’ actor let insane people on the internet bully her out of playing a half-Mexican character in her next movie, writing: ‘I AGREE WITH…
Suzy Weiss
The Innocent Origins of Internet Brainrot
Plus: I love Kylie Jenner. “Soft partying” is in. Mattel has introduced a Barbie with autism. And more!
Sascha Seinfeld
‘Marty Supreme’ Is a Victim of Its Own Hype
Timothée Chalamet’s Ping-Pong movie has been a huge hit online, but does it deserve the acclaim?
Suzy Weiss
The Weekend Press: My Interfaith Marriage
Plus: The year celebrities stopped saying sorry. A man should know how to wear a tuxedo. And Abigail Shrier has stern words for a reader who’s…
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Conquer Your Trauma Like Ebenezer Scrooge
Decades before Freud, ‘A Christmas Carol’ showed how to face childhood anguish and choose a better life.
Charles Lane
The Reiners’ Tragedy Without End
Hearing tragic echoes in the Reiners’ murder, we asked Jonathan Rosen to reflect on his study of his childhood friend Michael, who murdered his own…
Jonathan Rosen
The Weekend Press: Meeting My Birth Family
Plus: Suzy Weiss roasts the new ‘Avatar’ film. How young is too young to get married? Two Drinks with Bill Maher. And guys, don’t just let your wives…
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Harems Are Back
Plus: Everything that’s wrong with the new Avatar movie.
Suzy Weiss
The New ‘Animal Farm’ Movie Is Less Equal Than the Book
An animated adaptation drops the clear critique of Stalinism that makes George Orwell’s novella great.
Eli Lake
Rob Reiner Deserved a Happily Ever After
He wasn’t supposed to be this talented and he wasn’t supposed to be this nice. But he was.
Hadley Freeman
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