Great piece, but I strongly doubt it. Most of the speculation involves problems for a while in finding advertisers willing to buy around their content, which also would explain why there was no real match in terms of even dumping it to someone else rather than shutting it down entirely.

Jez had gone downhill a lot since its glory days - arguably the steepest dive of all the G/O properties - but I’ll still miss the occasional peek over there.

It’s a hollow cover version that vanishes in the ether.

The protagonists, both old and new, are saddled with serious soap opera-level storylines...the winning curiosity that previously drove so much of FAM takes a back seat to some dragged-out, redundant narrative threads.

Sounds like it has very little to do with the book outside of using some of the structural concepts.

On the other, you’ve got Fergie and whatever that was in 2018.

I’d forgotten the Dream On connection, one of my favorite shows of the early 90s. I probably watched more of that than Friends, come to think of it.

I see kids with shaped sandwiches and peeled cucumber and fruit on toothpick skewers with fun little colour patterns depicting a flag of the week

it feels time to move on

The Descendants is a favorite of mine partially because it’s one of the tiny, tiny handful of movies that gets Hawaii right, and partially because Clooney sells the hell out of making the affair plausible (from the flip flop run to the “oh, we were just fighting” setting from the neighbors that eventually culminates…

Your guess at his percentage is not too far off: in the book, Clooney’s character’s grandfather was 1/2, which would make him 1/8th, and while it’s been a while since I’ve watched it the movie may have even added another generation to that. The response you’re getting is also incorrect from both the perspective of the…

And for someone who is bipolar, many classes of stimulants have a real risk of exacerbating mania and even sending someone into psychosis, especially if they’re not on a mood stabilizer.

I had to go to bed early and take whatever medication they told me to take

There are seven levels of writers; EP is the highest paid.

I don’t disagree that trying to get a read on anything internal in that marriage is an exercise in futility, which includes why they’re still together in whatever format that they wish to call it. Got me, and your speculation could be as potentially accurate or not as anyone else’s, including mine.

Or like someone who has been emotionally abused for years upon years, which I’d never really considered until the book and his responses.

He praised his wife (if that is the appropriate term) in an email to the NYT

Interesting stuff.  Thanks.

Hers was one of the more inspiring stories about someone who Hollywood wanted to cast off for standing up for themselves and who had the last laugh (although a lot of her later life money making was sketchy as all hell.)

This was inevitable after McCarthy didn’t have the votes to win the Speakership back in January but then agreed to the single-member-vacate-the-chair rule change to get it done.