It’s the twenty fifth anniversary of 9/11 right now. That appears inconceivable. My coronary heart all the time and eternally goes out to the folks we misplaced, and to these of you who had been within the metropolis, close to the Pentagon, within the neighborhood of the United flight, who had buddies and family members within the towers, within the planes, within the streets, within the ruins digging anybody or something they may out of the rubble… That was a unique day for you than it was for the remainder of us, as a result of for you that wasn’t only a day, it wasn’t only a week, wasn’t only a month. This anniversary is merely the day everybody else revisits it, too. I hope with every passing yr, the imprint it left hurts any quantity much less.
As a reminder, the Emmy Awards are on Monday evening on NBC. We shall be live-chatting all through the crimson carpet and the present with the paid subscribers of Drinks With Broads, and we’re additionally chipping in some commentary to Substack’s new event page dedicated to the awards, the place a bunch of its writers — Hailee Steinfeld, Evan Ross Katz, Hunter Hayes, Gabriela Karefa-Johnson, the women of LaineyGossip’s The Squawk — shall be riffing on the occasion in a stream of posts that echoes, say, Twitter again when it was at its greatest. (That is when it’s very useful that there’s two of us — we might be in every single place directly, and we shall be!) If you want to join us at DWB, you know what to do. We now have a LOT of content material for the paids en route — Ted Lasso recaps at the moment, plus The Gilded Age, the second half of Rivals, Solely Murders, after which awards season — so it’s a great time to come back on board.
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On GFY this week, we admired Connor Storrie’s buzzcut, discussed Saoirse Ronan’s microbangs, and praised the generally well-dressed attendees of the first round of Emmy awards. They fared significantly better than the National Television Awards attendees in the U.K. We additionally lamented Julia Garner’s smoky Elle cover.
Over at Drinks With Broads, we picked Emmy winners, and winced at the Justin and Hailey Bieber photoshoot in the brand-new WYouth magazine, full with an completely empty name-your-favorites sort of article. I additionally took one for the group, which nobody requested me to do, and tried the Pop Tarts BuzzBallz flavor. And another BuzzBallz. It was BadBallz.
And across the internet:
Wait a minute. Did anybody else NOT know that Henry Winkler and Tom Hanks — two guys thought of among the many most likable on the town, notably Winkler — apparently have a longstanding… if not animosity, then at least tension? That is additionally how I discovered that Winkler was employed after which fired from directing Turner and Hooch, which is the place it began. WHO HATES HENRY WINKLER. No one. [People]
At Sports activities Illustrated, from Jon Wertheim: “Amid the Horrors of 9/11, Sports Became the Cultural Force That Brought Us Together”
Veronique Hyland at Elle chatted with high-fashion model Cleo Glyde, of the late ’80s/early ’90s, who let her peek at Glyde’s spectacular archive of footage from behind-the-scenes of these days. That is sobering, of the tip of her profession at age 23: “She was nonetheless in her early twenties, which sounds younger to her now (and, in truth, is). “However then it was like, you’ve already been retired like one of many Blade Runner robots. You’ve received a really warped sense of age and weight and physique picture. So it actually does depart a scar in your soul in that sense. There’s a value to pay for being given a lot so younger.”
Over at The Ringer, Seerat Sohi looks at the rocky and ultimately unpopular tenure of commissioner Cathy Engelbert, who has “determined to retire” on the finish of this yr. The league has seen large development in press and recognition since Caitlin Clark’s arrival, but in addition in criticism and controversy — from refereeing, to racism, to bad-faith actors like Enes Kanter Freedom, to vocal anti-trans gamers like Sophie Cunningham. As Sohi places it: “In the long run, the qualities that made her an efficient commissioner when the WNBA wanted stability turned liabilities when the league wanted ambition. […] She couldn’t management what she couldn’t management, however she didn’t management what she might.”
This was revealed a number of months in the past and was just lately re-shared on Bluesky; I don’t know if Jessica already linked it right here, however it’s related given Sophie Cunningham and the hateful trans panic gripping this nation, particularly because it pertains to sports activities and ladies: “Let Them Play: Three recent books make the case that welcoming trans athletes can help improve sports culture for all.” From the piece: “All three of those books are heavy reads. They doc hurt. They clarify how misinformation is being weaponized in opposition to a marginalized group, a lot of whom are kids, and so they counsel that issues will worsen earlier than they get higher. Probably the most affirming a part of every e book is listening to from and concerning the many gender-expansive athletes who love sports activities, are attempting to create space inside present sporting areas, and are dreaming of higher sporting communities sooner or later. There’s such deep humanity in all of this.” Facet notice: I discover trans swimmer Schuyler Bailar, @pinkmantaray on Instagram, to be an actual dose of pleasure and sanity and readability on these points. [Texas Observer]
The Yellowjackets showrunners promise that the final season “gets a little crazy.” Are… you saying that biting folks’s pores and skin off and feeding it to them wasn’t ALREADY loopy?!? [EW]
The Kate Spade outlet is having its large sale this month, with as much as 70% off, and $25 off orders greater than $150. That is harmful. I do not need this fuchsia suede tote. Oh no, this fuchsia LEATHER tote bag is even cheaper. Possibly a gold wallet? Sigh.
This Nathan Fielder/Lance Oppenheim documentary the place they embed with Elizabeth Holmes for a month, You Can See The whole lot, appears FASCINATING. Two individuals who play with actuality, one as a method of honing his weird artwork type (Fielder) and one who’s an inveterate liar, or maybe only a… wholly dedicated self-preservationist (Holmes). Sarah over at LaineyGossip thinks — hopes? — films are coming for the rich liars and poster-children for toxic tech, from You Can See The whole lot to Alex Gibney’s Musk, to Luca Guadagnino’s Synthetic about Sam Altman of OpenAI. I’d add the forthcoming Social Community sequel to that checklist, too; I don’t assume you rent Jeremy Robust to play Zuck when you’re trying to coddle him. [LaineyGossip.com]
Chilling op-ed from Alison Tablet within the NYT: “I Was a Child Actor. No One Deserves That Fate.” Tablet writes, “I additionally take into consideration how my physique was handled as a commodity. I couldn’t minimize or dye my hair with out permission. I couldn’t achieve weight or have pimples with out it being famous by not solely these round me but in addition these in studio workplace buildings far-off. […] I couldn’t escape crew members — grown males — asking me whether or not I had a boyfriend. Principally, I linger on one thing tougher to grasp: How did spending a lot of my childhood residing in a faux world, the place faux unhealthy issues occur, with adults who had been additionally pretending, form my psyche? Facet notice: That could be a gifted hyperlink. To one of the best of my information you shouldn’t be required to subscribe to learn a gifted hyperlink, but when there is no such thing as a “proceed with out subscribing” hyperlink, that’s not one thing we management and we don’t revenue or in any other case profit from you signing up in any method. Additionally, hat-tip to Lainey for this hyperlink; it ran Aug. 26 however I solely simply noticed it.
The Bills announced that for the first time, they’ll play both the Canadian and American national anthems before the home opener. The Barenaked Girls will carry out “O Canada” and Auli’i Cravalho will do “The Star Spangled Banner.” Unclear whether or not they’ll do all of it season; this is customary at hockey video games basically if a Canadian group is on the town, however apparently the Buffalo Sabres do it earlier than each recreation regardless, so apparently this metropolis is REALLY carrying the torch right here for US-Canada relations (they are geographically shut, so). If solely this had been sufficient. [CBC]
J.Crew Manufacturing unit is the place I store essentially the most currently (I simply received these brown loafers and they’re excellent and wanted no breaking-in and are true-to-size). As a result of it’s SUPPOSED to be fall quickly, a bunch of summer stuff is an extra 60% off right now with AUTUMN60. This lightweight striped knit tank is right down to $2o — it’s a sleeveless model of the Fug Nation fave beach sweater, which itself is simply $22 — so if it’s nonetheless scorching as Hades the place you might be, there are offers to be discovered. Nonetheless, I’m dysfunctional and thus looking for the autumn climate I WANT, not the 100-degree, file humidity, local weather distress we’re getting as a substitute, so in fact I’m eyeballing a $49 argyle cardigan. SOMEDAY I’ll want it?!?
Dustin at Pajiba asks the vital query: “Does Gal Gadot Ever Stop Running in The Runner?“Additionally at Pajiba, Kayleigh Donaldson examines why Sydney Sweeney’s lingerie line — the one you almost certainly didn’t remember existed — is doing poorly.
Aaron Rodgers, one of many true egomaniacs of our time, went on a podcast and trashed his exes Shailene Woodley and Danica Patrick — who’ve each claimed he was a “monster” boyfriend — by calling them “two women who nobody gives a fuck about unless they drop my name.” He makes enjoyable of Danica for being depressed and boring (I’m paraphrasing however barely), and claims that when he proposed to newly minted Emmy Award winner Shailene, she was immediately like, “Uh, I gotta go fuck this other guy first.” The whole lot about the way in which he tells that story makes me like her extra, and as if she felt trapped into saying sure and instantly tried to get out of there, and but he claims there’s a “silent majority” of people that actually dig what he has to say. I assume that “silent majority” is on the identical sofa as his invisible spouse. [Page Six]
Deadline studies that, regardless of its Muppet Present one-off profitable an Emmy, no one can agree on a possible premise for bringing it back regularly. The Web has already torn {that a} new one in every of the methods you may think about, however it IS hilarious that they’ll’t provide you with an concept for The Muppet Present which is itself ALREADY AN IDEA.
Oh, what’s that? You’d like to see photos of Lee Pace — um, I imply, learn an article about Lee Tempo? I might help. [Flaunt magazine]
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