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To sign up for this newsletter click here. | | | | | | | | | Also, Modernized Shakespeare | New York’s cultural firmament is downright shaken by a corporate sponsorship controversy that played out over the weekend. The long-running Shakespeare in the Park summer program decided to stage the bard’s Julius Caesar this year but with a modern twist: they styled the titular character as Donald Trump. As is typical for Shakespearian tragedies, the main character dies, thus some conservatives claim that the onstage murder of the Trump-like character crossed the line. Fox News and Donald Trump Jr. naturally got in on fanning the flames. Corporate sponsors Delta Airlines and Bank Of America decided to pull their funding amidst the controversy, which only ended up causing a backlash of its own from the left. Nevermind that a theater had produced an Obama-ized Caesar in the past to little controversy, nor the fact that the point of the play is that the on-stage murder doesn’t work out for anyone in the end. In related Shakespeare news: TNT has decided to modernize the Bard in their own way. He’s the star of a very sexy-seeming new series set to debut in July simply called Will. It’s set in the playwright's actual times, but, as per the first trailer, ahistorically features things like nipple pasties, metallic body paint and bejeweled mankinis. Basically, it looks like some renaissance version of the Life Ball. | | |  | | | Troubled Child Stars Getting It Together | | |  | | Nowadays all our former child stars seem to just grow up into extremely woke adults (see: Zendaya, Cole Sprouse, Mara Wilson, etc), but it wasn’t too long ago when we were more regularly following their troubled lives as they spun out of control through tabloids than we were following their political awakenings on Twitter. Disney alum Lindsay Lohan and former Nickelodeon princess Amanda Bynes were the tragic poster children of the times, but, thankfully, both of them seem to have gotten things back together. Bynes recently gave her first interview in years and revealed that she’s been sober for three years, is studying fashion, and hopes to return to acting sometime. She seems to be in a much better place, and the courts agree. She also recently won back control over her own finances. Meanwhile, Lohan, who has been mostly absent from screens both big and small for the past few years, has a new gig. She’s joining the second season of British TV series Sick Note. There she’ll find herself teamed with another redheaded former child star: Harry Potter’s Rupert Grint. | | | | | | Unlikely Fashion Ad Stars | | Pretty Young Things All The Time | You expect leggy supermodels and buzzy young Hollywood things to grace fashion campaigns, but even fashion is kind of getting tired of all of that. At least all the time. To mix things up in recent years, certain labels have gone a different way by casting what we’ll call the unlikely fashion icon. Think Missy Elliott and Marilyn Manson popping up in Marc Jacobs ads, Joan Didion for Céline, or Boy George for Dior Homme. Prada is the latest to get in on the ever growing trend by announcing Pedro Almodóvar, the famed Spanish director, as its latest men’s campaign star. "One of the few remaining auteurs in contemporary filmmaking, the cult Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar is universally celebrated for his unmistakable creative imprint, distinct aesthetic and unique, ‘Almodóvariano’ point of view," said the label in the statement. "He is an embodiment of iconoclasm, across all disciplines." Collaborations between film directors and fashion houses aren’t unheard of-and Prada is in fact a big proponent-but usually it involves the director staying behind the camera and directing a short film or commercial, not jumping in front of it as model. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In honor of the upcoming Father’s Day holiday, please enjoy this picture of male supermodel Will Chalker and his son Arthur. | | | | | | | | | | Aaron Taylor-Johnson, 27 (Mr. Sam Taylor-Johnson) Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, 31 (Official Signs of the Gemini)
Chris Evans, 36 (Political Tweeter)
Christo, 82 (Epic Installation Artist)
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