Thank you Lena Dunham for bringing back discourse! Every headline I read is making me more excited for this book, including “Lena Dunham Reveals She Cheated on Jack Antonoff Before Split: Biggest Bombshells From New Book.” It’s like reality TV for people who have an Artforum subscription.

The romantic relationships are getting a lot of play but I’m most curious about her fallout with Jenni Konner. That kind of friendship/work partner breakup is formative.

W Magazine is launching W Youth and I love it. I’m all for the expansion of media – more magazines, ezines, websites. I’m curious to see the masthead on this, I think they will tap a top-tier nepo baby to lead it.

The theatre-kid-energy level on this set will be unprecedented. Showtunes for breakfast, lunch and dinner. The immediate bonding, the cliques, the bathroom breakdowns, the dramatic fallouts, the possible affairs – who is going to faint first at rehearsal?

There’s an interesting shift in the most plugged-in outlet in tabloid media, TMZ. Their editorial approach is scoop, scoop, scoop and that is done with a lot of first responder, hospital and police contacts. I’m not commenting on the ethics of this, but highlighting the machinations. They dig deep and have deep pockets and that’s how they have maintained their position at the top of the fast food chain. If TMZ posts a story on a celebrity crime or death or divorce, I believe it. I don’t trust their editorial-driven stories but the nuts-and-bolts factual stuff, like court documents, is reputable. Recently, TMZ has turned its attention to US political reporting. I don’t know what the long game here is but in the short term, the politicians with anything, and I mean anything, to hide should be afraid. Very afraid.

John Waters wants Will Smith and Chris Rock to present at the Oscars together. This is brilliant and anyone who would scoff at this doesn’t understand show business. It would be the highest-rated Oscars in history, hands down.

Lena Dunham arrives at The Drew Barrymore Show in NYC, April 14, 2026

 

 

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