Innehållsförteckning för May 20-27, 2022 från Newsweek

1976 Gossip columns are back “in bolder typeface than ever,” wrote Newsweek, focusing not only on Hollywood stars and high society, but politicians and their families, businessmen, athletes and TV personalities. “Hard-news journalists have begun to explore the loamy terrain of personality reporting,” transforming American journalism into a race for the most entertaining news. Today, even journalists are finding themselves in the gossip headlines. Gossip columnists are zeroing in on Chris Cuomo, who was recently fired from CNN for breaching journalistic ethics. 1949 Judge Harold R. Medina became a household name for his steadfast composure despite histrionics from the defense during Dennis v. United States in which 11 Communist leaders were convicted of conspiracy. Similarly, newly appointed Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was praised for her poise during her…

FEATURED EPISODE The Parting Shot Your weekly dose of everything pop culture LOW-PRESSURE JOB ▸ A female hacker Mossad agent who is full of chutzpah—and who’s sensitive? No sweat. Niv Sultan comes clean about getting cast as the lead on the hit show Tehran and what it was like working with Glenn Close on the second season. Plus: Series cocreator and director Daniel Syrkin shares how Close leaned into learning Farsi for her role. HOST ▸ H. Alan Scott, culture writer, comedian IN THEIR WORDS ▸ “I loved [the script] because it wasn’t like Israelis against Iranians. It was much more complicated in a beautiful way. There isn’t one specific enemy, there isn’t good or bad.” DON’T MISS THE ROYAL REPORT Palace news—Meghan Markle to the Queen Whose Side Is the…

JUST OVER TWO MONTHS into Europe’s biggest war in decades, Newsweek sat down with former NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen to discuss a wide range of issues, as the alliance he led during Russia’s initial incursion into Ukraine eight years ago takes unprecedented measures against Moscow following its fullscale invasion. Rasmussen believes that democracies across the globe must form a coalition of their own to beat back a growing rival bloc dominated by autocratic powers. Prior to heading NATO from August 2009 to 2014, Rasmussen served as prime minister of his home country of Denmark. Today, he leads the Alliance of Democracies Foundation, an organization he founded in 2017 with the goal of strengthening the democratic nature of nations as well as the bonds between them. Rasmussen feels this goal…

OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS, A FUNNY THING happened to brick-and-mortar retailing. It didn’t die. Not only that, it appears to be thriving as American retailing continues its recovery from the pandemic. According to the National Retail Federation, total retail sales are expected to grow at a healthy clip of between 6 percent and 8 percent this year to $4.86 trillion, and most of those sales will take place not online but in actual stores. According to the NRF, e-commerce sales peaked at 19 percent of total retail sales in April 2020 and are now about 15 percent. All of which means, the experience of shopping in a store—the ability to touch and try different products in real life, to get sales help and advice, to enjoy the experience of…

Katie Taylor of Ireland (left) connects with Amanda Serrano of Puerto Rico during their World Boxing Association lightweight world championship fight at Madison Square Garden on April 30. The bout, dubbed the biggest women’s boxing match ever, was the first female fight to get top billing in the venue’s history. More than 1.5 million people globally watched Taylor defeat Serrano, setting a new viewership record for the sport.…

“I THINK THAT HITLER ALSO HAD JEWISH ORIGINS.”—Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov “I don't have the patience for this. So I signed her up for a private teacher.”—SERENA WILLIAMS ON TEACHING HER 4½ YEAR OLD TO PLAY TENNIS “The work of the Court will not be affected in any way.”—SUPREME COURT CHIEF JUSTICE JOHN ROBERTS ON THE LEAK OF A DRAFT OPINION STRIKING DOWN ROE V. WADE “My heart’s broken, and I feel so blessed. It’s a very strange dynamic, to be this broken and this blessed.”—WYNONNA JUDD BEING INDUCTED INTO THE COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME AFTER THE DEATH OF HER MOTHER, NAOMI “I DID SOMETHING I THOUGHT WAS FUNNY AND IT WASN’T TAKEN THAT WAY.”—Bill Murray on his new movie shutting production “We weren’t living. We were surviving.”—Aleksandr…

EVER SINCE A SERIES OF MYSTERIOUS BILLBOARDS FEATURING THE BLONDE bombshell appeared in 1984, Angelyne’s been an L.A. icon. “She’s the original influencer,” says Emmy Rossum, who portrays her in the Peacock original series Angelyne (May 19). “There would be no Kim Kardashian or Paris Hilton if Angelyne hadn’t done the brick-and-mortar version that captured an entire city’s attention.” Rossum’s fascination with Angelyne started when she was 13. “I asked people, ‘Who is this woman on all the billboards?’ Everyone would tell me a completely different story. That’s what I thought was so incredibly fascinating.” One of the things the series does so well is show how Angelyne is self-made. “Her fierce commitment to the hyper curation of her image in a way that feels incredibly authentic to her is…