| How to entertain yourself this weekend. |
Alan Ritchson seems like a cool guy, and we’re not just saying that because he could physically crush us. —Alex Pappademas, culture editor |
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It’s Friday again. Saturday Night Live celebrated its 50th anniversary this past weekend, which means there are only 2600-something weeks left until Saturday Night Live begins celebrating its 100th anniversary! Congratulations in advance to producer RoboLorneMichaels Mark XVII (and 97-year-old Kenan Thompson, probably.)
The third season of Amazon Prime’s hit series Reacher premiered this week, and GQ’s Matthew Roberson ate red meat in Brooklyn with Jack Reacher himself, Alan Ritchson. Like the military policeman turned itinerant vengeance specialist he plays on streaming TV, Ritchson is physically quite large; unlike Reacher (as far as we know) Ritchson is also an enthusiastic proponent of psilocybin and other therapeutic psychedelics who praises Bernie Sanders and has nothing nice to say about his old high-school classmate, former U.S. representative Matt Gaetz. “That motherf*cker—we are adversaries,” is how he puts it. (Which actually does sound like something Reacher would say.)
Second up: GQ’s Gabriella Paiella talked to legendary actor John Malkovich. In his upcoming film Opus, the wowed-’em-at-Sundance directorial debut of former GQ editor Mark Anthony Green, Malkovich plays an eccentric and mysterious pop-cultural icon. It’s a role Malkovich was seemingly born to play—but Paiella finds him in Boston, residing behind an actual white picket fence, surrounded by his granddaughter’s toys, occasionally Googling stuff on his MacBook. When confronted with this seeming dichotomy, Malkovich says “I think I’m the least eccentric person I know, actually.” But you can’t fool us, John Malkovich—that’s exactly how a mysterious and eccentric pop-cultural icon would answer that question!
Lastly and longest: Grayson Haver Currin files an epic report on the life and times of young Jake Lenderman, of M.J. Lenderman & the Wind, who became the toast of the indie-rock world last year with his fourth album Manning Fireworks. We’re obviously biased but we’re going to go ahead and call this the definitive Lenderman profile—the story of how a Guitar Hero-obsessed kid grew up, hooked up with a community of musicians in his native Asheville, then found himself launched from that cocoon into a very different reality that he’s still trying to get used to. Personal and professional breakups! Panic attacks! Random encounters with Shaquille O’Neal! And we find out which grill got left out in the rain! If you’ve ever made your loved ones concerned (or annoyed) by playing “Wristwatch” one too many times—as none other than Trey Anastasio recently told us he has—you won’t want to miss this one.
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The next generation of winterproof kicks might hail from the foothills of the Dolomites or the outskirts of the Finnish woods. |
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Timothée Chalamet’s next fashion frontier? Cargo pants. |
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