| | | | | | | | Tuesday, April 11th, 2017 | | | | | | "Confidence will come from knowing what you want."
-Pat Cleveland
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-Pat Cleveland
To sign up for this newsletter click here. | | | | | | | | While concerns that President Trump and his family will profit off his presidency still rage on, not all of the Trump family’s business ventures are benefiting. Indeed, Trump Model Management, the modeling agency our president founded 18 years ago is by all accounts about to close up shop. The agency leaves something of a mixed legacy. It never quite launched a star, and contracts were handed out to Miss Universe contestants (another former Trump-owned business). It also signed Paris Hilton back when she was 19. However, the agency’s Legends division, which signed supermodel vets like Beverly Johnson and Pat Cleveland, was considered respectable in its particular niche. However, both models and staffers had begun to jump ship, and some in the fashion industry reportedly boycotted the business. Indeed, a Trump Organization spokesman told The New York Post that it is “choosing to exit the modeling industry.” | | A Pulitzer and an Oscar is Great News For Amazon | | |  | | Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos sure had to be excited about the Pulitzer Prizes when they were announced on Monday. Sure, the newspaper he owns, The Washington Post, won the prize for National Reporting for reporter David Fahrenthold’s deep dive into President Trump’s shady “charitable” donations. Yet, it’s another award, that may end up benefiting his other business, Amazon. Colson Whitehead’s historical novel The Underground Railroad won the award for fiction (a previous Whitehead novel, John Henry Days, was a finalist for the award in 2002). As it turns out, Amazon has optioned the novel to turn into a series for its streaming service. That project is being written and directed by none other than Barry Jenkins, the director and writer behind Oscar-winning Moonlight. It certainly seems destined to win a bunch of Emmys (or at least a Peabody). Other notable Pulitzer winners: The New Yorker’s theater critic Hilton Als won for criticism, Lynn Nottage’s play Sweat for Drama, and Tyehimba Jess for poetry. | | |  | | | | | | Kate Bush is one of a handful of major artists to have never played a concert in America (the closest she came was a 1978 appearance on Saturday Night Live). To be fair, that’s because she hasn’t played many concerts at all. She took a 35-year break from the live stage until a triumphant return in 2014 with a series of concerts in London. She’s also never been quite as popular in the U.S. as she is in her native England, though she’s certainly built a sizeable cult following on our shores. “Running Up That Hill” is an international standard. In fact, Bush apparently might have been open to playing Coachella, but The New Yorker reports that festival organizer Paul Tollett nixed it. “No! No one is going to understand it,” is how Marc Geiger, the head of William Morris Endeavor's music division, characterized his response. One might have thought Coachella would have jumped on the chance for the prestige alone. It’s certainly not like no one was going to understand. Yet, maybe he’s right that Coachella’s core audience, cool teens and Millennials in tank tops, might not have quite understood it. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Japanese Animator ShiShi Yamazaki just turned Cara Delevingne into a cartoon for Chanel, and also has a cute Instagram filled with her whimsical work. | | | | | | | | | | Joss Stone, 30 (British Soul Fanatic) Stephanie Pratt, 31 (American Fame Fanatic) Sebastien Grainger, 38 (Canadian Punk Fanatic) Jeremy Clarkson, 57 (British Car Fanatic) | | | | | | | | |
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