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Bob Dylan and Jenna Jameson in the same newsletter? Multitudes officially contained! —Alex Pappademas, culture editor |
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It’s Friday, we’ve got a hole in the floor of our bedroom, and the only thing that can fill it is… links to the week’s best GQ Culture stories. (Hey, look, if Deliver Me From Nowhere isn’t using the hole-in-the-floor thing anymore, we’re taking it.) Let’s do this:
(Alleged) Blood Relative on the Tracks Dept: If you hang out at a barbershop sooner or later you’re going to end up getting a haircut, and if you go around town telling people you might be Bob Dylan’s son, sooner or later somebody’s going to ask you to make a list of ten great Bob Dylan songs. This week Julia Pagnamenta talked to Sam Sussman, purported scion of folk-rock royalty, about his autobiographical(ish) novel(ish) Boy From the North Country, and Sussman picks ten Bob songs. Infidels mentioned; we can’t say for sure whose son he is, but the Jokermen mindset definitely runs in this guy’s veins. (Bonus tracks: Elizabeth Nelson on Bob’s bonkers movie career and Ian Grant on Bob’s Twitter career.)
Speaking of haircuts: Jesse Hassenger reviewed Bugonia, the latest from cinematic provocateur and Greek-league legend Yorgos Lanthinos, a film in which another Jesse (autumnal-dressin’ whiz Plemons) kidnaps a girlboss CEO (Emma Stone) and shaves her head because he thinks she’s an alien. Between this and Timmy rocking the Bene Gesserit cue-ball during the Marty Supreme press tour, big year for chromed domes; we respect you too much to make an “Oscar buzz” joke here. Also from Jesse this week: Leonardo DiCaprio movies, ranked definitively. This Leo guy might be going places; we’re keeping an eye on him.
The lighting round: Frazier Tharpe Tapped In with Task, the TV show of the year. Helen Holmes talked to writer and podcaster Molly Lambert about Lambert’s new series Jennaworld, which traces the career arc of ‘90s adult-entertainment megastar Jenna Jameson. Raymond Ang talked to Michael Stuhlbarg about being Luca Guadagnino’s Stradivarius. Paula Meija attempted to explain how the Now You See Me soon-to-be-trilogy became a box-office juggernaut. In an excerpt from his memoir Scene, director Abel Ferrara discussed about cooking crack and making movies—yes, at the same time, basically. Chris Black took another look at Soho House. AC/DC still rocks. And yes, if you’re going to a thing on Halloween, you have to wear a costume. —AP |
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