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Fashion & style
fromDefector
1 day ago

The Devil Wears Prada, Too | Defector

The Devil Wears Prada drew on publishing and fashion PR horror stories, and Vogue’s stance shifted from cautious distance to widespread coverage around later releases.
fromVulture
2 months ago

A Grand Theory of Celebrity and Who-dom

And by "Who-dom," I don't mean the Seussian variety but the taxonomy coined by 's Lindsey Weber and Bobby Finger: the vast, sub-stratospheric tier of celebrity occupied by figures whose fame is intensely meaningful to some and virtually nonexistent to everyone else. Whos are defined in opposition to Thems, the indisputable celebrities known to most except those living under a rock or who willingly reject the very notion of pop culture,
Books
fromFast Company
5 months ago

Here's how YouTube became the most-watched video provider in the U.S.

In its early days, the odds seemed good that YouTube was destined for failure. After a false start as a dating website, it wasn't clear whether the company could cover the cost of streaming video content, or avoid the fate of Napster, which was sued out of business for copyright infringement.
Tech industry
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
6 months ago

Elizabeth Olsen believes she will die old and alone in a foggy English coastal town. Here are her options

Elizabeth Olsen promotes her film by saying she expects to die alone in a foggy coastal English town.
fromThe Atlantic
7 months ago

Politicians Aren't Cool Enough to Curse This Much

The winter of early 1981 was a simpler time, a gentler time. Like so many college students, I was watching Saturday Night Live in the living room of my small dorm when the SNL cast member Charles Rocket dropped an f-bomb on live television. I looked around at my fellow students. Did we just hear that? The show was already struggling with ratings, and within a few weeks, Rocket and the producer-and eventually, most of the cast-were fired.
US politics
fromwww.esquire.com
9 months ago

What the Sydney Sweeney American Eagle Reaction Says About Right-Wing Media

The tagline Sydney Sweeney Has Great Genes appears onscreen. View full post on YouTube Get it? Genes sounds like jeans, and she has both great genes (in terms of being conventionally attractive) and great jeans (in terms of wearing American Eagle denim).
US politics
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