| CLAIRE HOWORTH,
EXECUTIVE EDITOR, FEATURES AND DEVELOPMENT |
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Oscar Wilde is credited with popularizing the phrase "expect the unexpected"—Mrs. Cheveley in An Ideal Husband notes that those who do so show "a thoroughly modern intellect." And so I guess anyone who saw coming the anti-MAGA turn of Marjorie Taylor Greene is a brain of Wildean proportions. "To be clear, no one should take Greene's comments and surprising new policy positions to mean that she's undergone a personality transplant," writes Bess Levin, "and isn't still the person who once suggested California wildfires were started by a Jewish space laser." Still, the curious case of MTG's new MO is worth a look, by Bess herself. |
After George Clooney agreed to top-line Jay Kelly, he learned that director Noah Baumbach prefers his actors to shoot a lot of takes. Though Clooney said yes less than 24 hours after receiving the screenplay, the star felt less than thrilled about that element. "I literally said to him, 'Noah, look, I love the script. I love you as a director, but I'm 63 years old, dude—I can't do 50 takes.'" |
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Clooney's points are core to Jay Kelly's delicious metatext. The film stars Clooney as a gigantic movie star in his 60s facing down a personal reckoning. His career has been characterized by consistent success, at times overwhelming fame, and the occasional criticism that he mostly plays himself onscreen. We're talking about Jay, not George.
Ahead, VF's David Canfield has your exclusive first look at Noah Baumbach's new Hollywood tale. |
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The Georgia representative has long been known for her staunch loyalty to Trump and his MAGA agenda, but lately Greene has been engaging in some extremely unexpected behaviors. |
Sydney Sweeney's new ad campaign for American Eagle jeans has the internet ablaze. The president and vice president decide to chime in. |
A new HBO docuseries pulls from three decades of interviews, taking a chilling and somber look at a 1991 quadruple homicide known as "the craziest crime in Texas." |
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People hear the name "Morris Katz" and picture a balding, 75-year-old accountant. "I get that quite frequently," he says with a laugh. Instead, Katz is a curly-haired, baby-faced, high-energy 28-year-old political strategist and one of the masterminds of Zohran Mamdani's surprising victory in June's Democratic New York City mayoral primary.
No matter who wins the mayor's seat, this year is likely to be remembered in New York politics as the Gen Z election—as in Z for Zohran, but also because of the outsized role that younger operatives and voters are playing in shaping the race. VF's Chris Smith examines their impact. |
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