| | | | | | | | | | | | "Men broke the country and now you need the ladies to come in and make it all better. No, it’s fine, honey, we’ll do it. You just go back to sleep. We were getting bored just holding down full-time jobs and raising our kids anyway."
-Samantha Bee
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-Diana Vreeland
To sign up for this newsletter click here. | | | | | | | | | |  | | | |  | | Emma Watson might have ruled the box office just a short time ago as a certain princess, and Tom Hanks is, well, Tom Hanks. Their powers combined however didn’t put much of a dent in the box office. Their tech thriller The Circle under performed over the weekend with just $9.3 million, opening in fourth place. While The Fate of the Furious notched another weekend in the top spot, the real story is the films in second and third place. How To Be A Latin Lover took in $12 million. That's the film starring Eugenio Derbez, who has some minor roles in English-language films on his IMDb page, but is a major star in Latin America. Lover, which paired him with Salma Hayek, was his second English-language starring role, and it seems it played out nicely. Eighty nine percent of the audience was Hispanic, demonstrating the potential box office power of a demographic not particularly well served by Hollywood, though its studio hopes it crosses over to a wider demographic in coming weeks. Even more interesting is third-place finisher Baahubali 2: The Conclusion. The sequel to a major blockbuster in India, the film opened in just 425 theaters but racked up a solid $10.3 million. It now stands as the largest Indian film opening in America, and Hollywood is still trying to wrap its head around how it managed to beat a new Tom Hanks movie at the box office. | | | | | Well, at least everyone who got physically caught up the spectacle of the failed Fyre Festival is safely back home. There will be no more live tweets from The Lord of the Flies-like disaster. Though, organizers are still dealing with the fallout. Co-founder Ja Rule has apologized, as has at least one of the supermodels who appeared in promotional imagery for the fest. Bella Hadid took to Twitter to say she feels “so sorry and badly,” and said she originally trusted the promoters as well. Though, the festival’s other founder, 25-year-old Billy McFarlard, promises to make things better by throwing another, better Fyre festival somewhere in the US next year. Good luck with that. ABC News now reports that the not-quite-festival’s site has been locked down by the Bahamian Government, because the fest didn’t pay customs duty taxes on materials that hey had imported for the fest. | | | | | | | | | The White House Correspondents' Dinner is usually prom for political journalists, but in a year where opinions vary over which is a biggest disaster-the White House or the media that covers it-the whole weekend took on a surreal experience. The Daily Show correspondent Hasan Minhaj hosted the traditional dinner, even if some of his best jokes seemed to go over the heads of attendees, maybe because more those media power house attendees were the butt of them. “A lot of people don’t trust you right now, and can you blame them?…Remember election night? That was your Steve Harvey–Miss Universe moment,” Minhaj quipped. Of course, Donald Trump himself wasn’t there. He held his own media-bashing rally in Pennsylvania celebrating his 100th day of a job he doesn't seem to actually like . The most successful event of the weekend was Samantha Bee’s Not The White House Correspondents' Dinner. She was complimentary of political journalists' unenviable job. “POTUS has convinced 88 percent of his fans that you’re an enemy of the people. You basically get paid to stand in a cage while a geriatric orangutan and his pet mob scream at you. It’s like a reverse zoo. But you carry on,” she said. But she wasn’t afraid to poke the media for its coverage of the election. Bee also pulled off something of a comedy coup: she got Will Ferrell to show up and dust off his George W. Bush impression. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Ahead of tonight’s Met Gala, Chloë Sevigny celebrated the woman behind the label Comme Des Garçons who is at the center of this year’s theme and exhibit, Rei Kawakubo. Sevigny even shared a bit of Rei’s wisdom: "I make clothes for a woman who is not swayed by what her husband thinks.”. | | | | | | | | | | Jamie Dornan, 35 (Fictional BDSM-ist)
Wes Anderson, 48 (Particular. Very Particular.)
oanna Lumley, 71 (Sweetie, Darling)
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