L.A. Is Back, Baby
►The taste of freedom. L.A. restaurants have been able to return to full-capacity indoor dining, and vaccinated patrons are not required to wear masks even at check-in. But the lifting of restrictions does not mean the end of the hardships the restaurant industry is facing.
The story. —
"The roaring '20s thing seems likely." L.A. nightlife veteran Jared Meisler, the impresario behind Bar Lubitsch, The Roger Room, The Little Friend and Venice’s beloved The Brig, spoke with
THR about the state of the bar and restaurant scene as restrictions become a distant memory and summer kicks off.
The interview. —
Rebound incoming. As office work returns, with entertainment employees who left town during the pandemic trickling back, the Los Angeles apartment market is expected to heat back up: "It’s going to be a reversal of the downtrend we’ve seen."
The story. —
$700 dog massage. Tourists are flocking back to L.A. and they’re spending money like a drunken sailor. On top of paying exorbitant prices to pamper pets, one high-net-worth Midwesterner recently flew two "members of staff" to the city by private jet and treated them to a $30,000 shopping spree at Neiman Marcus.
The story. In other news... —Daytime Emmys apologize
for misidentifying Marguerite Ray during in memoriam segment.
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Following cockroach photobomb, could
The Talk set be infested?
—Comcast’s Sky
increasing on-set safety measures in wake of U.K. #metoo scandal.
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Bruce Springsteen’s Broadway show reopens with first full-capacity show.
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Max Rosenthal, father of
Everybody Loves Raymond creator Phil Rosenthal, dies at 95.
—Swizz Beatz and D-Nice’s quarantine innovation honored at
Culture Creators Awards.
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RTL Group sells Belgian operations to DPG Media, Groupe Rossel in $300m deal.
—Real estate agents reveal how they sell
houses with sordid pasts.
What else we're reading... —"
Ziwe Is Trapped in an Interminable Dance with Whiteness" [
New Yorker]
—"His Insurrection: Inside the Oval Office on January 6." [
New York Magazine]
—"Robot Rock: Can Big Tech Pick Pop’s Next Megastar?" [
The Guardian]
—"TV's Hero Cops Are Under Scrutiny. But
Bosch Knew The System Was Broken All Along" [
Los Angeles Times]
—"John McAfee and the Birth of Modern American Paranoia" [
Rolling Stone]
—"Is This TV's Most Toxic Stereotype?" [
BBC]
Today... ... in 1985, Columbia released Joel Schumacher's
St. Elmo's Fire, an angsty, R-rated post-college drama starring the leading lights of the Brat Pack.
The original review.
Today's birthdays:
John Cusack (55), Mel Brooks (95), Kathy Bates (73), Ayelet Zurer (52), Mary Stuart Masterson (55), Alessandro Nivola (49), Mike White (51), Florian Zeller (42), Jon Watts (40), Jessica Hecht (56)
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