Spiegel Stuff: Monica Lewinsky’s Shame and Survival; Five Grave Errors on the ‘Rust’ Set; Princesses Behaving Badly

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Shame and Survival

She tried public appearances. She tried being reclusive. She tried leaving the country, and she tried finding a job. But the epic humiliation of 1998, when her affair with Bill Clinton became an all-consuming story, has followed Monica Lewinsky every day. Hoping to help victims of internet shaming, she critiques the culture that put a 24-year-old through the wringer and calls out the feminists who joined the chorus.

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Legend With a Bullet

When Phil Spector was arrested on suspicion of having murdered former B-movie queen Lana Clarkson at his California estate, music-industry people seemed unsurprised. After all, in his reign as the mad genius of rock and roll, Spector had pulled guns on John Lennon, Dee Dee Ramone, and various girlfriends—wasn't it inevitable that somebody would end up dead? Robert Sam Anson takes a hard look at what happened in the wee hours of February 3, 2003.

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Princesses Behaving Badly

Despite her own romantic misadventures and the boozy antics of her third husband, Princess Caroline of Monaco was livid over her sister's string of déclassé liaisons (bodyguards, circus performers, their father's butler) in the early aughts. But Stephanie, the Grimaldis' wounded "wild child," showed no sign of being tamed.

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Event Cascade

In late October 2021, cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was tragically killed when a hot gun went off on the set of Alec Baldwin's movie Rust. Five errors led to a catastrophe that's shaken the film industry—and sent the district attorney on a quest to find answers.

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Clare's Conquests

Beautiful, talented, and breathtakingly ambitious, divorcée Clare Boothe Brokaw climbed swiftly from writing captions at Vogue to become the managing editor of Condé Nast's literary jewel, Vanity Fair, and author of the biting comedy The Women. Sylvia Jukes Morris reveals the extraordinary force of the woman who in 1934 captivated the grandly idiosyncratic, long-married Henry Luce, founder and editor in chief of Time, Fortune, and, later, Life, beginning one of the most remarkable romances of the 20th century.

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Conversations With Castro

Fidel Castro outlasted assassination attempts, 10 US presidents, and the Soviet regime that backed him—but in 1994 his island fiefdom was facing its most severe economic crisis since he took power. In a rare exclusive interview the Cuban leader sat down in Havana with Ann Louise Bardach and talked—until 3 a.m.—about Bill Clinton and relations with the US, machismo and the persecution of gays in Cuba, the country's woes, his future, and why the revolution would survive.

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Saturday, January 28, 2023

Monica Lewinsky’s Shame and Survival; Five Grave Errors on the ‘Rust’ Set; Princesses Behaving Badly

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