Sydney Sweeney has had a busy week promoting her new Apple TV+ film, Echo Valley. Here she is out and about in various outfits. Honestly, the wardrobe changes do me in just thinking about them. I know it’s strategized, and everything is already laid out, it’s not like she’s standing in front of a closet picking these looks last minute, but still. Exhausting to think about.

 

My favorite of these looks is the white short suit by Mugler. 

 

I like the power suit lines of the jacket, and the short and shoes combo make her legs look great. She tried another suit ensemble in grey for The Tonight Show, which I don’t like as much even though it’s vintage Galliano x Givenchy.

I’m not always 100% in on Sydney’s style, but this has been a good week for her on that front.

 

What else happened today…

Oof, this hits hard in my Millennial heart: The Lorelai Gilmorification of Modern Moms. I’m not saying Lorelai was perfect, but Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life convinced me that Rory is the bigger problem. Lorelai understood the poisonous effect of growing up with generational wealth, she tried to raise Rory away from it, but Rory ended up running straight into the arms of privilege and then floundered when it turned out she wasn’t special, and she couldn’t adjust to just being a person. 

 

Lorelai, however, knew she wasn’t special and built a life around just being a person. Rory is the problem! I will not be told otherwise! Anyway, take parenting advice from Lorelai Gilmore, I guess, but remember that despite her best efforts her daughter turned out to be a pill. (Popsugar)

Prints galore at the Black Women on Broadway event. (Go Fug Yourself)

 

Parker Posey went on Smartless and talked about being pigeonholed as an Indie It Girl in the Nineties, and losing out on major opportunities, like Speed, because she was “too indie”, saying she was “gaslit” into believing she couldn’t do studio films. For sure, actors were put into much stricter boxes in the Nineties (and earlier), and women definitely didn’t credit for putting projects together and producing their own work like they do now. It’s really one of the biggest shifts in Hollywood in the last 30 years, that more women are producing their own work now. Pretty much every major actress under 40—and several over 40—are producing their own work and enjoying richer careers because of it. A secret Lucille Ball and Marilyn Monroe whispered sixty years ago! (Celebitchy)

Podcast rec! Atlas Obscura has a pod about strange and mysterious happenings. This week it’s the “Allagash Four”, a group of men who saw a UFO in 1976. Or did they? Alien experience or collective hallucination? (Atlas Obscura)