It’s the 25th anniversary of 9/11 today. That seems impossible. My heart always and forever goes out to the people we lost, and to those of you who were in the city, near the Pentagon, in the vicinity of the United flight, who had friends and loved ones in the towers, in the planes, in the streets, in the ruins digging anyone or anything they could out of the rubble… That was a different day for you than it was for the rest of us, because for you that wasn’t just a day, it wasn’t just a week, wasn’t just a month. This anniversary is merely the day everyone else revisits it, too. I hope with each passing year, the imprint it left hurts any amount less.
As a reminder, the Emmy Awards are on Monday night on NBC. We will be live-chatting throughout the red carpet and the show with the paid subscribers of Drinks With Broads, and we’re also chipping in some commentary to Substack’s new event page dedicated to the awards, where a bunch of its writers — Hailee Steinfeld, Evan Ross Katz, Hunter Hayes, Gabriela Karefa-Johnson, the ladies of LaineyGossip’s The Squawk — will be riffing on the event in a stream of posts that echoes, say, Twitter back when it was at its best. (This is when it’s very helpful that there’s two of us — we can be everywhere at once, and we will be!) If you want to join us at DWB, you know what to do. We have a LOT of content for the paids en route — Ted Lasso recaps currently, plus The Gilded Age, the second half of Rivals, Only Murders, and then awards season — so it’s a good time to come on board.
Around these parts…:
On GFY this week, we admired Connor Storrie’s buzzcut, discussed Saoirse Ronan’s microbangs, and praised the generally well-dressed attendees of the first round of Emmy awards. They fared much better than the National Television Awards attendees in the U.K. We also lamented Julia Garner’s smoky Elle cover.
Over at Drinks With Broads, we picked Emmy winners, and winced at the Justin and Hailey Bieber photoshoot in the brand-new WYouth magazine, complete with an utterly empty name-your-favorites type of article. I also took one for the team, which no one asked me to do, and tried the Pop Tarts BuzzBallz flavor. And some other BuzzBallz. It was BadBallz.
And around the web:
Wait a minute. Did anyone else NOT know that Henry Winkler and Tom Hanks — two guys considered among the most likable in town, particularly Winkler — apparently have a longstanding… if not animosity, then at least tension? This is also how I learned that Winkler was hired and then fired from directing Turner and Hooch, which is where it all started. WHO HATES HENRY WINKLER. Nobody. [People]
At Sports Illustrated, from Jon Wertheim: “Amid the Horrors of 9/11, Sports Became the Cultural Force That Brought Us Together”
Veronique Hyland at Elle chatted with high-fashion model Cleo Glyde, of the late ’80s/early ’90s, who let her peek at Glyde’s impressive archive of footage from behind-the-scenes of those days. This is sobering, of the end of her career at age 23: “She was still in her early twenties, which sounds young to her now (and, in fact, is). “But then it was like, you’ve already been retired like one of the Blade Runner robots. You’ve got a very warped sense of age and weight and body image. So it really does leave a scar on your soul in that sense. There’s a price to pay for being given so much so young.”
Over at The Ringer, Seerat Sohi looks at the rocky and ultimately unpopular tenure of commissioner Cathy Engelbert, who has “decided to retire” at the end of this year. The league has seen massive growth in press and popularity since Caitlin Clark’s arrival, but also in criticism and controversy — from refereeing, to racism, to bad-faith actors like Enes Kanter Freedom, to vocal anti-trans players like Sophie Cunningham. As Sohi puts it: “In the end, the qualities that made her an effective commissioner when the WNBA needed stability became liabilities when the league needed ambition. […] She couldn’t control what she couldn’t control, but she didn’t control what she could.”
This was published a few months ago and was recently re-shared on Bluesky; I don’t know if Jessica already linked it here, but it’s relevant given Sophie Cunningham and the hateful trans panic gripping this country, especially as it relates to sports and women: “Let Them Play: Three recent books make the case that welcoming trans athletes can help improve sports culture for all.” From the piece: “All three of these books are heavy reads. They document harm. They explain how misinformation is being weaponized against a marginalized group, many of whom are children, and they suggest that things will get worse before they get better. The most affirming part of each book is hearing from and about the many gender-expansive athletes who love sports, are trying to make space within current sporting spaces, and are dreaming of better sporting communities in the future. There is such deep humanity in all of this.” Side note: I find trans swimmer Schuyler Bailar, @pinkmantaray on Instagram, to be a real dose of joy and sanity and clarity on these issues. [Texas Observer]
The Yellowjackets showrunners promise that the final season “gets a little crazy.” Are… you saying that biting people’s skin off and feeding it to them wasn’t ALREADY crazy?!? [EW]
The Kate Spade outlet is having its huge sale this month, with up to 70% off, and $25 off orders more than $150. This is dangerous. I do not need this fuchsia suede tote. Oh no, this fuchsia LEATHER tote bag is even cheaper. Maybe a gold wallet? Sigh.
This Nathan Fielder/Lance Oppenheim documentary where they embed with Elizabeth Holmes for a month, You Can See Everything, looks FASCINATING. Two people who play with reality, one as a way of honing his bizarre art form (Fielder) and one who is an inveterate liar, or perhaps just a… wholly committed self-preservationist (Holmes). Sarah over at LaineyGossip thinks — hopes? — films are coming for the rich liars and poster-children for toxic tech, from You Can See Everything to Alex Gibney’s Musk, to Luca Guadagnino’s Artificial about Sam Altman of OpenAI. I’d add the forthcoming Social Network sequel to that list, too; I don’t think you hire Jeremy Strong to play Zuck if you’re looking to coddle him. [LaineyGossip.com]
Chilling op-ed from Alison Pill in the NYT: “I Was a Child Actor. No One Deserves That Fate.” Pill writes, “I also think about how my body was treated as a commodity. I couldn’t cut or dye my hair without permission. I couldn’t gain weight or have pimples without it being noted by not only those around me but also those in studio office buildings far away. […] I couldn’t escape crew members — grown men — asking me whether I had a boyfriend. Mostly, I linger on something harder to understand: How did spending so much of my childhood living in a pretend world, where pretend bad things happen, with adults who were also pretending, shape my psyche? Side note: That is a gifted link. To the best of my knowledge you should not be required to subscribe to read a gifted link, but if there is no “continue without subscribing” link, that’s not something we control and we don’t profit or otherwise benefit from you signing up in any way. Also, hat-tip to Lainey for this link; it ran Aug. 26 but I only just saw it.
The Bills announced that for the first time, they’ll play both the Canadian and American national anthems before the home opener. The Barenaked Ladies will perform “O Canada” and Auli’i Cravalho will do “The Star Spangled Banner.” Unclear whether they’ll do it all season; this is customary at hockey games in general if a Canadian team is in town, but apparently the Buffalo Sabres do it before every game regardless, so apparently this city is REALLY carrying the torch here for US-Canada relations (they are geographically close, so). If only this were enough. [CBC]
J.Crew Factory is the place I shop the most lately (I just got these brown loafers and they are perfect and needed no breaking-in and are true-to-size). Because it’s SUPPOSED to be fall soon, a bunch of summer stuff is an extra 60% off right now with AUTUMN60. This lightweight striped knit tank is down to $2o — it’s a sleeveless version of the Fug Nation fave beach sweater, which itself is only $22 — so if it’s still hot as Hades where you are, there are deals to be found. However, I am dysfunctional and thus shopping for the fall weather I WANT, not the 100-degree, record humidity, climate misery we are getting instead, so of course I’m eyeballing a $49 argyle cardigan. SOMEDAY I will need it?!?
Dustin at Pajiba asks the important question: “Does Gal Gadot Ever Stop Running in The Runner?“Also at Pajiba, Kayleigh Donaldson examines why Sydney Sweeney’s lingerie line — the one you almost certainly didn’t remember existed — is doing poorly.
Aaron Rodgers, one of the true egomaniacs of our time, went on a podcast and trashed his exes Shailene Woodley and Danica Patrick — who have both claimed he was a “monster” boyfriend — by calling them “two women who nobody gives a fuck about unless they drop my name.” He makes fun of Danica for being depressed and boring (I’m paraphrasing but barely), and claims that when he proposed to newly minted Emmy Award winner Shailene, she was immediately like, “Uh, I gotta go fuck this other guy first.” Everything about the way he tells that story makes me like her more, and as if she felt trapped into saying yes and immediately tried to get out of there, and yet he claims there’s a “silent majority” of people who really dig what he has to say. I assume that “silent majority” is on the same couch as his invisible wife. [Page Six]
Deadline reports that, despite its Muppet Show one-off winning an Emmy, no one can agree on a possible premise for bringing it back regularly. The Internet has already torn that a new one in all the ways you can imagine, but it IS hilarious that they can’t come up with an idea for The Muppet Show which is itself ALREADY AN IDEA.
Oh, what’s that? You’d like to see photos of Lee Pace — um, I mean, read an article about Lee Pace? I can help. [Flaunt magazine]
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