| MATTHEW LYNCH,
EXECUTIVE EDITOR |
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At the end of a long week, there are a lot of institutional forces grappling with what’s to come in today’s edition: network television with the future of late-night comedy; Hollywood with artificial intelligence’s possibilities and pitfalls; Maxine Waters with Donald Trump’s “Crypto Week.” For those looking for slightly less heady hand-to-hand concerns, there’s also the Coldplay CEO. Elsewhere, we revisit Palm Beach in the 1980s and talk to the director of this weekend’s I Know What You Did Last Summer reboot.
Hopefully your weekend skews toward less tussle. More on Monday… |
At the start of this year, Brady Corbet’s immigrant epic The Brutalist was entangled in a scandal befitting our era—a controversy surrounding its relatively minor use of generative artificial intelligence. Where else was AI being used that we didn’t know about? How could an average viewer—or, for that matter, an awards voter—track where the human craft ended and the wonders of modern technology began? In Hollywood, the trade guilds—and their respective awards—are working out these questions in real time.
One guild has temporarily banned the use of generative AI; another doesn’t even require disclosure of its usage. VF Hollywood correspondent David Canfield breaks down the mad dash to define the technology that’s sweeping Tinseltown. |
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As the Genius Act lands on the president’s desk, the California lawmaker says she’s concerned that “the rug will be pulled out from under the unsuspecting investors.” |
Director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson tells VF all the bloodshed could’ve been avoided had certain men gone to therapy: “If you have the right tools, that pain is maybe not then turned into a murder spree.” |
CBS has called the cancellation of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert “a purely financial decision”—but it feels like only the beginning of the end for an entire genre. |
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Palm Beach people talk about Palm Beach people constantly. It is a subject that never seems to exhaust itself, and any one of them, at any event where they are gathered, can give you an instant précis of any other one’s life. “She’s Mollie Netcher Bragno Bostwick Wilmot. She lives next to Rose Kennedy, and last year a tanker ran aground on her seawall and practically landed in her living room.”
In 1986, VF writer Dominick Dunne and photographer Helmut Newton went over the bridge to the fantasy island to report on a society where, as Dunne wrote, “the women are the generals” and the men just “black-tied bystanders.” |
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