What 37 Hours in Hollywood Is Really Like

Plus: The Reported Republican Exodus in Congress

View in browser | Update preferences SUBSCRIBE FOR FULL ACCESS Lewis Hamilton was multitasking while getting his hair braided. Sombr had a sound check. Rachel Sennott relaxed after a late-night meal with her cowriters. It's all in a day's work! For our Hollywood Issue, we chronicled 37 hours with some of the biggest names in culture. Elsewhere, VF's Joy Press looks at what it really takes—and costs—to win an Oscar. LINDSEY UNDERWOOD, SENIOR EDITOR 37 Hours With Hollywood's Power Players BY JEREMY O. HARRIS Twenty-one movers and shakers. Twenty locations. Thirty-seven hours. Jimmy Kimmel, Teyana Taylor, James Cameron, and more all have one thing in common: They're standing at the crossroads of a new Hollywood. "It's a constant fight to keep our company alive, make projects. I don't even know how to explain it without throwing anybody under the bus," shared Dakota Johnson. Ahead, Jeremy O. Harris narrates the odyssey. READ MORE More Great Reads CRIME Zodiac Killer Project Reveals True Crime's Dirty Secrets BY EVE BATEY Charlie Shackleton tried to make a documentary about the infamous serial killer but ended up skewering the genre's most sacred tropes. READ MORE POLITICS The Reported Exodus of Republicans in Congress BY ERIC LUTZ Following Marjorie Taylor Greene's resignation announcement, other Republicans in Congress are reportedly also eyeing an exit: "This entire White House team has treated ALL members like garbage." READ MORE FILM An Oral History of Noah Baumbach's The Squid and the Whale BY REBECCA FORD Baumbach, Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney, Jesse Eisenberg, and more look back at the deeply personal indie darling on its 20th anniversary: "It was almost like I was haunting my childhood again." READ MORE From the Magazine How to Win an Oscar—or Go Broke Trying BY JOY PRESS Awards strategists act as unofficial tour guides through the prestige festival circus, helping studios plan complex campaigns, covertly shape the media narrative about a movie, and usher talent through the awards season gauntlet. Harvey Weinstein weaponized "for your consideration" campaigns back in the 1990s at Miramax, which became a training ground for many of today's awards gurus. In 2025, as the movie industry struggles, the quest for Oscars has only intensified. So has the price tag, inspiring one of Hollywood's favorite guessing games: Did one studio really spend $60 million on awards hype for a single film in a recent season, as some competitors have whispered? Nearly everyone involved seems to tolerate it at best. So why does Hollywood keep doing it? READ MORE Royal Watch King Charles Is "Testing the Waters" With Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie The sisters are "sticking together," say family friends, as the king hopes to limit his nieces' suffering in the face of their father Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's scandal. The Earrings Kate Middleton Keeps Going Back To When the Princess of Wales attended an event for early childhood education, she sent a special message to Princess Charlotte through her earrings. MORE FROM VANITY FAIR POLITICS BUSINESS HOLLYWOOD STYLE ROYALS CELEBRITY This e-mail was sent to you by VANITY FAIR. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, vanityfair@newsletter.vf.com, to your address book. View our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe Copyright © Condé Nast 2025. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.