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Plus: A Preview of Fall Festival Season's Most Anticipated Films View in your browser | Update your preferences A SPECIAL EDITION OF COCKTAIL HOUR September 2, 2021 THE BIG READ They Started a Ballet Company. It Ended in Death By Alice Robb The Charleston-based evangelicals had much in common: guns, God, Trump. What went wrong, only one of them could say. Read More If someone forwarded you this email, sign up for "Cocktail Hour" here. ENTER THE DRAGONS The Race to Inherit Trump's MAGA Base By Gabriel Sherman With the 2024 election in sight, Republican presidential contenders such as Ron DeSantis, Ted Cruz, and Mike Pompeo are scrambling to claim the party's base. That is, unless his MAGA-ness himself gets in the ring. Read More CHARACTER BUILDING To Become Monica Lewinsky, Beanie Feldstein Had to Feel Her Pain By Julie Miller "I just really dug down deep and was like, 'This is for Monica,'" says the Impeachment: American Crime Story star—especially when reenacting Lewinsky's betrayal by Linda Tripp. Read More EXTREMELY ONLINE Doomscrolling Through the Climate Catastrophe Outside Your Window By Delia Cai In accordance with all the horrors we've witnessed live on Twitter, the inevitable floodwaters arrived in New York on Wednesday night. It was as horrifying as it was uncanny. Read More U.S. OPEN Reilly Opelka's Radical Honesty By Nathan Taylor Pemberton The fantastically tall, magnificently bearded, art-gallery-sponsored U.S. pro with the unhittable serve is probably not the savior American men's tennis is forever in search of. He seems fine with that. Read More THE BUYLINE The Best New Books—And Shoes By Keziah Weir Run, don't walk, to your nearest bookstore in the season's best ballet flats. Read More AWARDS INSIDER The 19 Most Anticipated Films at the Venice and Telluride Film Festivals By Vanity Fair On this week's Little Gold Men podcast, an in-depth look at the festivals that kick off the fall moviegoing season. Read More 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 2021. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.