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Quirky news about these rather curious days

La Dolce Vita dei Media

Is Gianni Agnelli’s grandson taking a page from Jeff Bezos?

Trouble in Berlin

The ultra-liberal Berlin Film Festival faces criticism as its founder is revealed to have been a member of the Nazi Party

The View from Here

It’s time for de Blasio to step up—and Bloomberg to pony up—to save New York City. Before it’s too late

Party Like It’s 1929!

Americans are finagling their way around international-travel bans and decamping to Europe, where the living is (comparatively) easy

Did You Hear About … ?

Quirky news about these rather curious days

Suits Yourself

A British court keeps rejecting Meghan’s pre-trial arguments in a privacy case that could cost her more than $2.3 million

Take a Right at the Second Cloud

After 50 years, is one man’s dream of flying cars closer to reality?

Tempest in a Teacup

The author of a naughty tell-all memoir is driven into hiding while le tout London wonders what on earth Sasha Swire was thinking

“Off with Their Euros!”

Welcome to Royalist theme park Puy du Fou, the least woke place in France

Whatever You Say, Sir!

Trust in the media is as low as the president’s approval rating. Here are the Top 10 media remora of the Trump era

Soldier of Misfortune

William Barr helps Michael Flynn leave a mess—and a man—behind

“The Best Eyes in the Business”

During the Swinging 60s, Valerie Askew ran the largest modeling agency in Europe and partied with the Beatles

Did You Hear About … ?

Quirky news about these curious days

Magisterial Meghan

Prince Harry’s wife and master fires the lawyer who successfully defended Johnny Depp and picks his biggest rival to pursue her defamation suit

Sex Education

Two elite British universities—including Prince William’s alma mater—unravel amid horrific accusations of assault on campus

Tattle Tales

What I know about the Tory wives titillating London with their deliciously disloyal tell-alls

Vick Hope

The rising star in British radio and television brings a focus on diversity and mental health

Covid in Connecticut

What a difference six months make

The View from Here

Read ’em and weep: all the president’s biographers find different ways to paint the same horrifying portrait

Is Serge Gainsbourg #Annulé?

The French intelligentsia now see him as Harvey Weinstein in dirty denim

Toulouse-Lautrec’s Family Is Shortchanged

The artist’s 91-year-old great-grandniece gets grifted out of the château

Boundless as the Sea

The Italian couple who fell in love across their balconies during the height of the coronavirus are finally united—and engaged

The Woman in Black

Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s unanswerable power of argument