“Hollywood has always loved the children of famous people. In 2022, the internet reduced them to two little words.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week’s list features stories from Shara Johnson. Paul Fischer, John Woodrow Cox, Marc Hogan, and Angelica Jade Bastién.
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What Was Brangelina?
“They were known for their image-making savvy. As their divorce reenters the press cycle, who’s better at it.”
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The Lost Diary of Anthony Bourdain
“When his celebrity was at its height and he couldn’t walk a street on this planet without getting recognized, jiujitsu gave Bourdain a new, anonymous world to traverse, one where he was just one of us.”
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Sinead O’Connor Remembers Things Differently
“The mainstream narrative is that a pop star ripped up a photo of the pope on ‘Saturday Night Live’ and derailed her life. What if the opposite were true?”
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The Dolly Moment
“Only a society that willfully believes itself ‘post-racist’ could produce such a queen.”
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Dear IU, Our Bodies Are Fine
“I knew my body wasn’t ‘right’; it didn’t look like the bodies of the K-pop idols and Korean actresses I grew up admiring.”
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Britney Spears Was a New Mom and No One Tried to Help Her
“I’ve never met a woman who did not at some point, in those first early weeks of motherhood, break down.”
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Buying Myself Back
Emily Ratajkowski writes an essay on celebrity, objectification, and consent. “I’ve become more familiar with seeing myself through the paparazzi’s lenses than I am with looking at myself in the mirror. And I have learned that my image, my reflection, is not my own.”
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Inside Cameo, the Celebrity Shoutout App Hungry For Fame
Cameo lets you buy personalized greetings from sports stars, singers, influencers, and zoo animals. What does it say about the nature of modern celebrity?