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But it’s his obsessive ruminations that perhaps most effectively signal what has become Einstein-the-character, a culmination of all the gossip, public appearances, private words, and first-hand accounts of one of the best-known scientists to have ever lived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13963016']Krimstein pairs Einstein’s story with that of Franz Kafka, who was 28, virtually unpublished, and living with his parents in a house in Prague when Einstein arrived for his short but impactful stay. What binds the two together, in addition to an alleged one-time meeting at a weekly salon, is a complementary preoccupation with getting at the truth — “the true truth” — against all odds, and against many other people’s better judgements. 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He depicts Einstein debating with his foe, Max Abraham; taking fantastical trips into a four-dimensional world with Euclid; and walking and talking with Austrian physicist, and dear friend, Paul Ehrenfest. And he exposes, too, scenes of the future Nobel Prize winner in the bath, trying to kill off bedbugs; or engaging with his young children, and wife, in Gedankenexperiments (thought experiments), to help him think through the problems that continually occupy him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13962965']At its heart, \u003cem>Einstein in Kafkaland \u003c/em>is the story of ordinary genius. It unwraps the ways in which genius so often arises out of ordinary circumstances. Perhaps even more compellingly, the book tracks how unimaginable discoveries develop following exchanges with others — friends and family, colleagues and nemeses, neighbors and role models. 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The tabletop role playing game (TTRPG) has gone through a slew of revised editions, expansions and hack ‘n’ slay imitators, weathered a Satanic panic or two, seen itself replaced in the hearts and minds of the nation’s nerds by games like \u003cem>Magic: The Gathering\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Pokemon\u003c/em>, only to experience a bold popular resurgence in recent years, thanks in no small part to so-called Actual Play TTRPG podcasts and web series like \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/c/criticalrole\">\u003cem>\u003cu>Critical Role\u003c/u>\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/dimension20show\">\u003cem>\u003cu>Dimension 20\u003c/u>\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://maximumfun.org/podcasts/adventure-zone/\">\u003cem>\u003cu>The Adventure Zone\u003c/u>\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13960471']In other words: As a pop culture phenomenon, it’s been hacked, but it still slays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I played my first game of D&D in 1978, just four years after its launch. I was 10 years old; it was summer. My friend down the street invited me over to his house, which usually meant forcing me to play catch with him in his backyard (read: He’d whip a baseball at my face, I’d flinch and let it bounce off me, I’d pick it up and toss it back so it landed in the grass 3 feet in front of him with a woeful thud; repeat until dinner time). On this occasion, to my surprise and delight, we sat on his screened-in porch as he took out what I have since learned was the box of rulebooks and polyhedral dice known as the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons_Basic_Set\">\u003cem>\u003cu>Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set\u003c/u>\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13963312\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13963312\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/old-game.png\" alt=\"A grainy photo of a miniature figures and two books with covers featuring demonic looking figures. \" width=\"2000\" height=\"1529\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/old-game.png 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/old-game-800x612.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/old-game-1020x780.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/old-game-160x122.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/old-game-768x587.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/old-game-1536x1174.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/old-game-1920x1468.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dungeons and Dragons game pieces, photographed in 1986. \u003ccite>(Joel Congdon/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I loved it from the jump, largely because everything about the game was so deeply indebted to my beloved Tolkien (Wizards! Halflings! Orcs! That titular dragon on the box cover, atop its pile of gold!). But it didn’t last; my neighbor started at a new school in the fall, and we lost touch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_10178']I didn’t start playing my first real, sustained D&D campaign until three years later. My friend David wanted to try his hand at being a dungeon master and invited me and three other kids I didn’t know to form an adventuring party. When I arrived at that very first session in David’s bedroom, they’d already created their characters — a fighter, a thief and a ranger. They urged me to play as a cleric, who could hang back and heal them whenever they got beaten up. I liked the idea of staying out of the heat of battle and just being the guy who patched my friends up, earning their deep and abiding gratitude. Feeling needed, appreciated. It was tempting, I admit. But then destiny, in the form of my nascent queerness, intervened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David invited me to look through a thin paperback D&D supplemental rulebook called \u003cem>The Rogues Gallery\u003c/em> — page after page of ready-made characters I could choose from. I flipped through the clerics, but nothing grabbed me. But then, on page 12, just above the chart of a class of characters called Illusionists, I saw it. Him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13963310\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1298px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13963310\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Screenshot-2024-08-27-at-10.56.52%E2%80%AFPM.png\" alt=\"A line drawing of a flamboyant and slender man appearing from mist surrounded by mythical creatures.\" width=\"1298\" height=\"976\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Screenshot-2024-08-27-at-10.56.52 PM.png 1298w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Screenshot-2024-08-27-at-10.56.52 PM-800x602.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Screenshot-2024-08-27-at-10.56.52 PM-1020x767.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Screenshot-2024-08-27-at-10.56.52 PM-160x120.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Screenshot-2024-08-27-at-10.56.52 PM-768x577.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1298px) 100vw, 1298px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Illusionist in question from ‘Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: The Rogues Gallery,’ by Brian Blume with Dave Cook and Jean Wells. \u003ccite>(1980, TSR Games.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was a pencil sketch by illustrator Jeff Dee. A tall, thin male figure stands facing the viewer. In his right hand he holds a staff, while his left is open, palm up. He holds his arms slightly away from his body, and sets his shoulders at a rakish tilt — the resulting stance is somewhere between that of an insouciant shrug and a hearty “ta-DAHHH!” He is surrounded by a thick fog — the spell he is presumably casting — out of which leer several monstrous faces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I liked that. But what I \u003cem>loved\u003c/em>, what moved me, what sealed the deal for my young, closeted, queer self, was his outfit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thigh boots, for one thing. I mean, what was I, made of \u003cem>stone\u003c/em>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, scandalously tight pants set off by a belt and dagger. And clinging to every ridge of his slim, muscular torso, a sleeveless tunic — a tank-top, basically — that still somehow managed to boast kicky shoulder pads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13960838']This is the important bit, the part you must understand: I’m not just talking thin, epaulet-like shoulder bumps. No, these were dramatic, flared, Ming the Merciless meets Julia Sugarbaker \u003cem>shoulder pads\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other stuff — the parted-down-the-middle blowout, the cheekbones, the diadem, the big chunky necklace? Icing on the cake. Superfluous. I’m self-aware enough to know that it was that tank top with shoulder pads that did it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to be an Illusionist,” I said, firmly, which caused my fellow players to roll their eyes and mutter the first of what would turn out to be a sustained pattern of homophobic slurs in my general direction. I didn’t, and still don’t, care. I was fierce, and I was \u003cem>fabulous\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I fell hard for the game, then. I subscribed to \u003cem>Dragon \u003c/em>magazine, and regularly pestered my mom to schlep me to \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Dragon%27s+lair%22+%22independence+mall%22&rlz=1C1GCEJ_enUS1083US1083&oq=%22Dragon%27s+lair%22+%22independence+mall%22&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQIRigATIHCAIQIRigATIHCAMQIRigATIHCAQQIRigATIHCAUQIRigATIHCAYQIRirAtIBCTEyOTI5ajBqNKgCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:7e8f5c94,vid:KnSlDFn3Zxg,st:0\">\u003cu>Dragon’s Lair, in a sad strip mall just north of Wilmington, Del.\u003c/u>\u003c/a>, where I dutifully bought more rulebooks, more dice, more dungeon modules and a steady stream of lead miniatures that I painted very, very, \u003cem>very \u003c/em>badly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t easy. Just as I was entering my heedless, full-bore devotion to the game, the Philly paper ran an article in its Sunday magazine which cited “experts” about the game’s purported Satanic roots. An article that, the following Sunday, caused the sweet, kindly pastor at our sleepy suburban Grove United Methodist Church to launch into what was (for him, anyway) a fire-and-brimstone sermon decrying the game. About the same time, novelist Rona Jaffe published \u003cem>Mazes & Monsters\u003c/em>, an extended bout of literary hand-wringing over the game’s supposed deleterious effect on the youth of America, which was promptly made into a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX5ClJ1Y1ik\">\u003cu>profoundly cheesy, absolute hoot-and-a-half of a TV movie\u003c/u>\u003c/a> starring a young Tom Hanks as a dude who suffers a psychotic break attributed to the game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13963311\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13963311\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/dandd.png\" alt=\"A newspaper cover featuring a fire-breathing dragon with wings.\" width=\"1600\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/dandd.png 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/dandd-800x1000.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/dandd-1020x1275.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/dandd-160x200.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/dandd-768x960.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/dandd-1229x1536.png 1229w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This ‘Philadelphia Inquirer’ article from July 1981 included psychologists fretting that players used it to escape reality, and religious figures who warned that the game was a work of Satan. \u003ccite>(Today, the Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine/ via Newspapers.com)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the handful of years I played D&D in earnest, back then, I had to talk my parents off the ledge every time some new magazine article or \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yShqF1YSfDs\">\u003cem>\u003cu>60 Minutes\u003c/u>\u003c/em>\u003cu> segment\u003c/u>\u003c/a> came out spotlighting the entirely manufactured “controversy” around the game. It was exhausting. But I kept at it; I had to. I \u003cem>needed \u003c/em>to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13962783']Because there was this one time? When my friends and I were being rushed by a phalanx of orcs, and I cast an illusion of a deep pit on the ground in front of us, filled with bubbling acid and metal spikes, and the orcs failed their saving throws and believed they fell into said illusory pit, and impaled themselves on the illusory spikes, and dissolved in the illusory acid and thus died actual deaths?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That? That was cool. And, for just those few fleeting seconds, down there in the deepest, most tortured throes of my closeted, excruciatingly awkward puberty, so was I.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ta-dah.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This piece also appeared in NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour newsletter. \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/newsletter/pop-culture\">\u003cem>Sign up for the newsletter\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, plus get weekly recommendations about what’s making us happy.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Listen to Pop Culture Happy Hour on \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://n.pr/3xNgYt9\">\u003cem>Apple Podcasts\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://n.pr/3ELR3n6\">\u003cem>Spotify\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In other words: As a pop culture phenomenon, it’s been hacked, but it still slays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I played my first game of D&D in 1978, just four years after its launch. I was 10 years old; it was summer. My friend down the street invited me over to his house, which usually meant forcing me to play catch with him in his backyard (read: He’d whip a baseball at my face, I’d flinch and let it bounce off me, I’d pick it up and toss it back so it landed in the grass 3 feet in front of him with a woeful thud; repeat until dinner time). On this occasion, to my surprise and delight, we sat on his screened-in porch as he took out what I have since learned was the box of rulebooks and polyhedral dice known as the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons_Basic_Set\">\u003cem>\u003cu>Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set\u003c/u>\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13963312\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13963312\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/old-game.png\" alt=\"A grainy photo of a miniature figures and two books with covers featuring demonic looking figures. \" width=\"2000\" height=\"1529\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/old-game.png 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/old-game-800x612.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/old-game-1020x780.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/old-game-160x122.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/old-game-768x587.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/old-game-1536x1174.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/old-game-1920x1468.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dungeons and Dragons game pieces, photographed in 1986. \u003ccite>(Joel Congdon/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I loved it from the jump, largely because everything about the game was so deeply indebted to my beloved Tolkien (Wizards! Halflings! Orcs! That titular dragon on the box cover, atop its pile of gold!). But it didn’t last; my neighbor started at a new school in the fall, and we lost touch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Late night bands often embody and amplify the tone of a show — Johnny Carson’s \u003cem>Tonight Show\u003c/em> had a rollicking, old school big band, while Jimmy Fallon’s version has the urbane cool of rap/soul/funk stars The Roots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that 8G joins the ranks of bands of the past, I’m reflecting on more late night bands that have — or will one day — go down in history. Here’s a list of the best.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>#1: The World’s Most Dangerous Band/CBS Orchestra\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Late Night with David Letterman (NBC) and The Late Show with David Letterman (CBS)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video\">\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUPSilcJFrQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This group was squarely in my generation — a band I was hooked on from their early days with Letterman on NBC in the mid 1980s, right up until his retirement on CBS in 2015. It began as a hip four piece packed with the best session musicians in New York, including drummer Steve Jordan (now with the Rolling Stones), bassist Will Lee and often-barefoot guitarist Hiram Bullock, led by keyboardist and \u003cem>Saturday Night Live\u003c/em> alum Paul Shaffer. Their stripped-down, funky sound was a welcome change from Carson’s massive, more traditional jazz band.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the years, the group evolved into a much larger unit with two guitar players and a horn section; P-Funk keyboard legend Bernie Worrell even played with them for a time. And the band was capable of everything from skin-tight backing of James Brown to including guest musicians like David Sanborn and trading quips with Letterman himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I watched them all the time … and just felt like they were on another level from what I was doing,” Janney said. “Also, they seemed to be having the best f—ing time. 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The band, which Batiste had put together with classmates from Julliard well before they landed on Colbert‘s show, effortlessly moved from jazz and R&B to pop and even classical — with a cool way of playing while walking through the audience that recalled the Second Line marching bands from Batiste’s native New Orleans.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>#5: David Sanborn and friends\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sunday Night/Night Music (NBC)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video\">\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwgOUzodS6E\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Executive produced by \u003cem>SNL \u003c/em>showrunner Lorne Michaels, this show was an offbeat experiment which aired for two seasons beginning in 1988, featuring the late jazz saxophonist Sanborn and co-host Jools Holland with a band of ace backing musicians, performing with a wide array of different artists in one show. 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"content": "\u003cp>There’s been a lot of wishful thinking lately about who Taylor Swift might endorse for President.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You cannot make this up!” said TikToker Johnny Palmadessa in one of the many hopeful — if not fact-based — social media videos posted recently. “Taylor Swift is getting ready to endorse Kamala Harris!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px\" cite=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@johnnypalmadessa/video/7400430047162666282\" data-video-id=\"7400430047162666282\">\n\u003csection>\u003ca title=\"@johnnypalmadessa\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@johnnypalmadessa?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@johnnypalmadessa\u003c/a> Taylor Swift might be endorsing Kamala Harris soon! She picked this photo for a reason. \u003ca title=\"kamalaharris\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/kamalaharris?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#KamalaHarris\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"taylorswift\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/taylorswift?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#TaylorSwift\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"legal\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/legal?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Legal\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"law\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/law?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Law\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"donaldtrump\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/donaldtrump?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#DonaldTrump\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"♬ original sound - Johnny Palmadessa\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/music/original-sound-7400429951364729643?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">♬ original sound – Johnny Palmadessa\u003c/a>\u003c/section>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[tiktok]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump \u003ca href=\"https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/112984762512136574\">reposted an AI-generated image\u003c/a> of the pop star wearing an Uncle Sam outfit, in which he accepted her seeming endorsement of his campaign. The post appeared on the politician’s Truth Social network earlier this week. (He’s since \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/Grady_Trimble/status/1826405658172031219\">denied \u003c/a>he knows anything about the images.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In reality, Swift has not endorsed Trump or any other candidate in this election cycle so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/606x888+0+0/resize/1200/quality/75/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fa9%2Fa7%2Fcd83044743528cce61c49c6484d9%2Fscreenshot-2024-08-22-at-09-26-18.png\" alt=\"Donald Trump reposted this AI-generated image of Taylor Swift on social media.\">\u003cfigcaption>Donald Trump reposted this AI-generated image of Taylor Swift on social media. \u003ccite> (Truth Social)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But other celebrities have already come out in support of Harris and Trump in the run-up to the November election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The best chance we have to give our babies a better life is to elect Donald Trump President of the United States,” said Amber Rose in a speech at the Republican National Convention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Megan Thee Stallion shared her enthusiasm for Kamala Harris in a performance at a recent rally. “We’re about to make history with the first female president!” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Why celebrity endorsements matter\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Celebrity endorsements are as much a thing in politics as they are in consumer products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='news_11999092']“Celebrities draw increased engagement, increased attention, and they increase conversation,” said Ashley Spillane, the author of a \u003ca href=\"https://ash.harvard.edu/resources/celebrities-strengthening-our-culture-of-democracy/\">new study\u003c/a> from Harvard’s Kennedy School on celebrity engagement in politics — focusing on civic participation. “And no matter the political party or the candidate, there is a real hunger to be affiliated with the celebrities that can do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spillane said her research shows you don’t have to be a star as big as Swift to influence voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the other folks with a smaller base were having just as significant an impact because they have an incredibly engaged base of support as well,” she said.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a long history of big names throwing their weight behind White House hopefuls. It extends back to 1920 when film stars Mary Pickford and Al Jolson endorsed Warren G. Harding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frank Sinatra \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBeIZN8pYK8\">explained his support\u003c/a> of future president Ronald Reagan at a fundraising event in Boston in 1979.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why do I support Governor Reagan?” Sinatra said. “Because I think he’s the proper man to be President of the United States. 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It showed the media star was responsible for around one million additional votes for the 44th president.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Celebrity endorsements can be tricky\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>But other research tells a different story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, a \u003ca href=\"https://news.ncsu.edu/2010/04/wmscobbcelebrity/\">2010 report\u003c/a> from North Carolina State University found celebrity endorsements by George Clooney and Angelina Jolie did not help political candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And having famous people cheerleading for your political campaign isn’t foolproof.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It could backfire,” said Wharton School of Business professor of neuroscience, psychology, and marketing Michael Platt, the author of a \u003ca href=\"https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/the-marketing-psychology-behind-celebrity-endorsements/\">2023 study\u003c/a> on celebrity endorsement. “Maybe it’s a celebrity that you don’t like or is not aligned with you politically.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also the potential problem of the celebrity being \u003cem>too\u003c/em> famous. Platt calls this the “Vampire Effect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They suck up all our attention, right?” he said. “Which means there’s less attention, less processing, that’s given to the candidate that you might be endorsing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The rise of fake AI celebrity endorsements\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The rise of social media and deep-fakes created by artificial intelligence, such as those of Swift falsely appearing to endorse Trump, is also an issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13962624']“There have been manipulated celebrity photographs since the beginning of photography, certainly, but the rampant use of AI and its ubiquity are what is new,” said Douglas Mirell, an entertainment lawyer with the Los Angeles firm Greenberg Glusker who works to curb unauthorized uses of AI. “It is so pervasive and so potentially manipulable, that people can’t tell what’s true and what’s not true. 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No fool, Fanny recognized Sargent’s depiction as yet another attempt by an admirer of her husband’s to diminish her. “I am but a cipher under the shadow,” she complained to Sargent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Camille Peri’s lively and substantive dual biography of the Stevensons, called \u003cem>A Wilder Shore\u003c/em>, whisks those obscuring draperies off Fanny and restores her to full personhood. But, Peri aims for something even more ambitious than a feminist recovery of a mostly forgotten wife of a famous writer. 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Speaking for myself, after reading \u003cem>A Wilder Shore\u003c/em>, I’m inspired to do two things: I want to reread Robert Louis Stevenson’s three great works of fiction: \u003cem>Treasure Island\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Kidnapped\u003c/em> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2010/01/01/272028836/excerpt-the-strange-case-of-dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde\">\u003cem>The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>. \u003c/em>And, I want to schedule a séance with Fanny to get some one-on-one instruction on how to live more fearlessly as a woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peri opens \u003cem>A Wilder Shore \u003c/em>with a scene that could have been written by Louis but, instead, was lived by Fanny: In the summer of 1875, she and her three children and their governess rushed aboard a train in San Francisco to cross the country and catch a ship in New York harbor that would carry them to Belgium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13962625']This was no pleasure trip: To reach their destination the little band rode a wagon through floodwaters, but Fanny was desperate to escape her humiliating marriage to a prospector who lived openly with his mistress. With the little money she’d earned by sewing, Fanny planned to enroll herself and her teenaged daughter in art school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hurtling into the unknown put the 36-year-old, still-married mother of three in the orbit of Robert Louis Stevenson — a sickly Scottish writer who was 10 years her junior. It was love at first sight, at least for Louis. Peri says that:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cp>Fanny likely saw their affair as something that could not last. For him, though, sexual intimacy with Fanny was not simply a romp with an older woman. It cemented his emotional commitment to her — a kind of role reversal that is striking for a Victorian man.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Peri details how the bohemian relationship that evolved between Fanny and Louis included other such gender role reversals: The frail “Louis was what the Scots call a “handless” man,” she writes. During the couple’s honeymoon spent squatting in an abandoned silver mine in California, it was Fanny who “out of scraps of wood and packing crates … nailed together furniture.” Of course, the Stevensons’ union caused dismay among Louis’ friends who disparaged Fanny for her age, her American-ness, her short hair and cigarette smoking, and, most virulently, her olive skin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13962885']As convincing as she is about the progressive relationship between the Stevensons, Peri is also clear-eyed about the fact that Fanny still got the somewhat shorter end of the stick. While Louis respected Fanny as his best critic, he also assumed she would handle the mundane household routine and provide nursing care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Louis’ undiagnosed illness — he chronically coughed up blood — did have the “upside” of broadening the couple’s life through travel in search of a healthier climate. 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"content": "\u003cp>Heigh-ho, heigh-ho, it’s off to online uproar factory we go. The first teaser trailer for the upcoming live-action remake of \u003cem>Disney’s\u003c/em> \u003cem>Snow White\u003c/em> is here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starring Rachel Zegler as Snow White and Gal Gadot as the Evil Queen, the pair introduced the highly anticipated teaser at Disney’s D23 Expo Friday evening, with a release scheduled for March 21, 2025. 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It may be a tough sell for Disney fans and other extremely online critics, whose scrutiny of the latest adaptation began years before the trailer dropped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here is a brief overview of their grievances, explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Snow White who’s not white enough\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When news broke in 2021 that Zegler, who had her breakout role as Maria in Steven Spielberg’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13907124/steven-spielbergs-west-side-story-will-make-you-believe-in-movies-again\">\u003cem>West Side Story \u003c/em>\u003c/a>remake, would be playing the titular character, it \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/08/18/1194702228/rachel-zegler-snow-white-disney-remake\">provoked\u003c/a> a string of racist comments on social media. People questioned why an actress of Latin descent would be playing a character with “skin white as snow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13919105']Zegler, who is of Polish-Colombian background, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/rachelzegler/status/1680225020772057088\">responded to the comments on X\u003c/a> by saying she didn’t want to be dragged into the “nonsensical discourse”about her casting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really, truly do not want to see it,” Zegler wrote in a post that included photos of her as a child dressed as a princess. “I hope every child knows they can be a princess no matter what.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A reimagination deemed too “woke” by some critics\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RVg3yetTE4\">interview with \u003cem>Variety\u003c/em>\u003c/a> in 2022, Zegler and Gadot talked about how the story of \u003cem>Snow White \u003c/em>was being adapted with a “modern edge” — one that would nix the part about Snow White being saved by a prince.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s the proactive one,” Gadot said. “She’s the one who sets the terms. It’s [these factors] that make it so relevant to today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s not going to be dreaming about true love. She’s dreaming about becoming the leader she knows she can be, and the leader that her late father told her that she could be if she was fearless, fair, brave and true,” Zegler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_112736']In another interview, Zegler referred to the prince as a “stalker” and said the messaging would be updated to reference a woman’s power in the modern world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The cartoon was made 85 years ago, and therefore it’s extremely dated when it comes to ideas of women being in roles of power and what a woman is fit for in the world,” Zegler said. “So, when we came to reimagining the actual role of Snow White, it became about the ‘fairest of them all’ meaning who is the most just and who can become a fantastic leader, and the reality is Snow White has to learn a lot of lessons about coming in to her own power before she can come into power over a kingdom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The comments provoked a wave of backlash on social media, notably from “anti-woke” accounts and from several conservative media outlets including the Daily Wire, which responded by saying it was \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailywire.com/news/brett-cooper-drops-new-details-about-bentkeys-snow-white-and-the-evil-queen\">producing its own version of the classic\u003c/a> that would be written “in line with the values in which it was written.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1690588204603215872\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others, like TikTok user @reubenwoodall, criticized Disney’s attempt to turn Snow White into a “girl boss.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The point of Snow White’s fairytale isn’t that she’s going to try and become a leader,” Woodall said in a video that amassed more than 1.3 million likes. “She’s not supposed to be this girl boss, leader, queen, feminist icon. 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"content": "\u003cp>Now that Tim Walz has been named the Democratic candidate for vice president, it’s time to tackle the most pressing question left in media and politics: Who will play the earnest ex-schoolteacher-turned-governor-turned-dad jokes magnet on \u003cem>Saturday Night Live\u003c/em>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One favorite has already dropped out: comic actor Steve Martin told \u003cem>The Los Angeles Times\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2024-08-07/steve-martin-will-not-play-tim-walz-on-saturday-night-live\">he turned down an offer\u003c/a> from SNL executive producer Lorne Michaels to play the Minnesota governor, a fellow balding, white-haired guy with a wide smile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13955101']“I said, ‘Lorne, I’m not an impressionist,’” Martin told \u003cem>Times\u003c/em> columnist Glenn Whipp. “You need someone who can really nail the guy.’ I was picked because I have gray hair and glasses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fans had been circulating pictures of Martin online with \u003cem>SNL\u003c/em> alum Maya Rudolph, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/23/nx-s1-5049585/maya-rudolph-kamala-harris-snl\">adding to buzz\u003c/a> she may reprise playing Vice President Harris — this time as the Democratic presidential nominee — when the show returns to new episodes this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Why this discussion matters\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Excitement over Martin reminded me of the moment Sarah Palin was named a vice presidential candidate in 2008, prompting loads of comedy nerds to send around emails noting how much Palin looked like another \u003cem>SNL\u003c/em> alum, Tina Fey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fey’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSOLz1YBFG0\">impression of Palin\u003c/a> eventually dominated pop culture so much, people believed the politician — then Alaska’s governor — really said, “I can see Russia from my house,” a line that Fey actually dropped during \u003cem>SNL\u003c/em>’s season premiere in September 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSOLz1YBFG0&t=118s\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Images of Gerald Ford as a clumsy doofus, George H.W. Bush as a patrician so stiff his words sounded like gibberish, and Al Gore as a stuffy know-it-all obsessed with the word “lockbox,” all come from devastating \u003cem>SNL\u003c/em> parodies. So who plays Walz — and how — may affect how history remembers him more than anything he actually does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Ditto for GOP vice presidential candidate JD Vance, whose selection didn’t quite inspire the same level of \u003cem>SNL\u003c/em> fancasting online).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I sympathize with purists who insist one of the show’s castmembers should get a shot at playing new figures like Walz or Vance — in the same way James Austin Johnson has electrified viewers with his amazing take on former President Donald Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Izukxr-SfsM\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Michaels discovered long ago that stunt casting celebrities brings attention and ratings. Even if they don’t really bother trying to imitate the people they’re playing, like Robert DeNiro and Ben Stiller (as Robert Mueller and Michael Cohen, respectively).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So here’s my short list of the folks left who Michaels should consider casting as Walz — along with a couple recommendations for Vance. Because teaching us how to laugh at these people just might help us understand them — or at least learn to tolerate them.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Jim Gaffigan\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>PROS: \u003c/strong>He’s a brilliant standup comic, with multiple Grammy nominations and specials aired or about to debut on Netflix, Prime Video and Hulu. He’s from the Midwest — raised in Indiana, championed by fellow Hoosier David Letterman — with bits centered on being a father of five, married to a wife so devout he calls her a “Shiite Catholic.” He’s got the stocky build and blonde, thinning hair, along with acting chops from loads of TV and film work, including TV Land’s \u003cem>The Jim Gaffigan Show\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Law & Order\u003c/em> and, recently, pal Jerry Seinfeld’s Netflix movie \u003cem>Unfrosted\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13886669']\u003cstrong>CONS:\u003c/strong> He doesn’t seem to be down with the \u003cem>SNL\u003c/em> crew; despite a long career in comedy, he’s never hosted the show.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Tracy Letts\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>PROS:\u003c/strong> A consummate actor and playwright who has won Tony awards and a Pulitzer prize, he’s better known for his self-described specialty playing “a—holes in suits” in films and TV shows like \u003cem>Ford v. Ferrari, Lady Bird\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Winning Time\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CONS:\u003c/strong> Though he had early roles in sitcoms like \u003cem>Seinfeld \u003c/em>and \u003cem>The Drew Carey Show\u003c/em>, he’s not really known for comedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Melissa McCarthy\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>PROS:\u003c/strong> Hear me out. She’s a brilliant comedic actor with a long history of guesting on the show. And she delivered a sidesplitting take on Trump’s former spokesperson Sean Spicer that perfectly captured his clueless bluster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWuc18xISwI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CONS:\u003c/strong> Despite his Big Dad Energy, Walz is such a masculine guy — hunter, former football coach ex-military — that, funny as it might be to see McCarthy give it a shot, \u003cem>SNL\u003c/em> may just want a guy in the role.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Will Ferrell\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>PROS:\u003c/strong> Amazing at improvisational and sketch comedy, he’s an SNL alum who has played everyone from George W. Bush to former Attorney General Janet Reno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CONS:\u003c/strong> His oddball energy is a little eccentric and sharp for playing a guy who comes off as America’s goofy father figure.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The ghost of Chris Farley\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13961732']\u003cstrong>PROS:\u003c/strong> The \u003cem>SNL\u003c/em> star had an over-the-top exuberance, unkempt blonde hair and talent for self-deprecating humor that seemed like a cartoonishly exaggerated version of Walz’s vibe — perfect for a parody sketch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CONS: \u003c/strong>Just another reminder of what the comedy world lost in 1997 when he died at age 33 after an overdose. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I said, ‘Lorne, I’m not an impressionist,’” Martin told \u003cem>Times\u003c/em> columnist Glenn Whipp. “You need someone who can really nail the guy.’ I was picked because I have gray hair and glasses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fans had been circulating pictures of Martin online with \u003cem>SNL\u003c/em> alum Maya Rudolph, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/23/nx-s1-5049585/maya-rudolph-kamala-harris-snl\">adding to buzz\u003c/a> she may reprise playing Vice President Harris — this time as the Democratic presidential nominee — when the show returns to new episodes this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Why this discussion matters\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Excitement over Martin reminded me of the moment Sarah Palin was named a vice presidential candidate in 2008, prompting loads of comedy nerds to send around emails noting how much Palin looked like another \u003cem>SNL\u003c/em> alum, Tina Fey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fey’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSOLz1YBFG0\">impression of Palin\u003c/a> eventually dominated pop culture so much, people believed the politician — then Alaska’s governor — really said, “I can see Russia from my house,” a line that Fey actually dropped during \u003cem>SNL\u003c/em>’s season premiere in September 2008.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/vSOLz1YBFG0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/vSOLz1YBFG0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Images of Gerald Ford as a clumsy doofus, George H.W. Bush as a patrician so stiff his words sounded like gibberish, and Al Gore as a stuffy know-it-all obsessed with the word “lockbox,” all come from devastating \u003cem>SNL\u003c/em> parodies. So who plays Walz — and how — may affect how history remembers him more than anything he actually does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Ditto for GOP vice presidential candidate JD Vance, whose selection didn’t quite inspire the same level of \u003cem>SNL\u003c/em> fancasting online).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I sympathize with purists who insist one of the show’s castmembers should get a shot at playing new figures like Walz or Vance — in the same way James Austin Johnson has electrified viewers with his amazing take on former President Donald Trump.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/Izukxr-SfsM'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/Izukxr-SfsM'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>But Michaels discovered long ago that stunt casting celebrities brings attention and ratings. Even if they don’t really bother trying to imitate the people they’re playing, like Robert DeNiro and Ben Stiller (as Robert Mueller and Michael Cohen, respectively).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So here’s my short list of the folks left who Michaels should consider casting as Walz — along with a couple recommendations for Vance. Because teaching us how to laugh at these people just might help us understand them — or at least learn to tolerate them.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Jim Gaffigan\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>PROS: \u003c/strong>He’s a brilliant standup comic, with multiple Grammy nominations and specials aired or about to debut on Netflix, Prime Video and Hulu. He’s from the Midwest — raised in Indiana, championed by fellow Hoosier David Letterman — with bits centered on being a father of five, married to a wife so devout he calls her a “Shiite Catholic.” He’s got the stocky build and blonde, thinning hair, along with acting chops from loads of TV and film work, including TV Land’s \u003cem>The Jim Gaffigan Show\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Law & Order\u003c/em> and, recently, pal Jerry Seinfeld’s Netflix movie \u003cem>Unfrosted\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CONS:\u003c/strong> He doesn’t seem to be down with the \u003cem>SNL\u003c/em> crew; despite a long career in comedy, he’s never hosted the show.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Tracy Letts\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>PROS:\u003c/strong> A consummate actor and playwright who has won Tony awards and a Pulitzer prize, he’s better known for his self-described specialty playing “a—holes in suits” in films and TV shows like \u003cem>Ford v. Ferrari, Lady Bird\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Winning Time\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CONS:\u003c/strong> Though he had early roles in sitcoms like \u003cem>Seinfeld \u003c/em>and \u003cem>The Drew Carey Show\u003c/em>, he’s not really known for comedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Melissa McCarthy\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>PROS:\u003c/strong> Hear me out. She’s a brilliant comedic actor with a long history of guesting on the show. And she delivered a sidesplitting take on Trump’s former spokesperson Sean Spicer that perfectly captured his clueless bluster.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/UWuc18xISwI'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/UWuc18xISwI'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CONS:\u003c/strong> Despite his Big Dad Energy, Walz is such a masculine guy — hunter, former football coach ex-military — that, funny as it might be to see McCarthy give it a shot, \u003cem>SNL\u003c/em> may just want a guy in the role.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Will Ferrell\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>PROS:\u003c/strong> Amazing at improvisational and sketch comedy, he’s an SNL alum who has played everyone from George W. Bush to former Attorney General Janet Reno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CONS:\u003c/strong> His oddball energy is a little eccentric and sharp for playing a guy who comes off as America’s goofy father figure.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The ghost of Chris Farley\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cstrong>PROS:\u003c/strong> The \u003cem>SNL\u003c/em> star had an over-the-top exuberance, unkempt blonde hair and talent for self-deprecating humor that seemed like a cartoonishly exaggerated version of Walz’s vibe — perfect for a parody sketch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CONS: \u003c/strong>Just another reminder of what the comedy world lost in 1997 when he died at age 33 after an overdose. (Though his younger brother, comic and actor Kevin Farley, might also be an able contender).\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Jason Sudeikis — as Walz and/or Vance\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>PROS:\u003c/strong> An alum of the show, he knows his way around sketch comedy and political impressions — he played Joe Biden and Mitt Romney at different times. He’s also got a facility with corny, dad-style humor, as evidenced by his time playing the earnest, fictional coach on \u003cem>Ted Lasso\u003c/em>. Anyone who remembers his work as one half of a self-centered yuppie couple in the “Two A-holes” sketches (with another \u003cem>SNL\u003c/em> ace, Kristen Wiig), also knows he has a knack for playing haughty, entitled white guys.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/gUCaOV5nbyk'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/gUCaOV5nbyk'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CONS\u003c/strong>: He doesn’t quite look like Walz — frankly, he’s a little too thin and good looking. And his success as Vance might be directly proportional to the quality of the fake beard and hairpiece they can slap on him.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>My first choice for Vance: Zach Galifianakis\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>PROS\u003c/strong>: He’s got the bushy brown beard, the shock of thick hair and a talent for playing clueless egotists honed on his interview parody show, \u003cem>Between Two Ferns\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CONS:\u003c/strong> He’ll be so good we may forget how odd Vance is in real life.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Another great Vance: Jon Hamm\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>PROS: \u003c/strong>An ace dramatic actor whose secret weapon is a sharp knack for comedy (see \u003cem>30 Rock, Bridesmaids\u003c/em>), he’s also great at making audiences love difficult people (see \u003cem>Mad Men\u003c/em>). His turn as a cult leader on \u003cem>The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt\u003c/em> proves he can make great comedy out of playing quirky big shots. And he’s also a friend of \u003cem>SNL\u003c/em>, hosting the show three times and making cameos in multiple skits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The real Olympic medals are given out according to rules about speed, scores, perfection, actually defeating your opponent, all that boring stuff. But what if they weren’t?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What if there were another set of medals we could give to some of the best achievements of the games, even if they weren’t in officially recognized sports? We tried to think of what we’d hand out. So here are nine additional medals — call them the Extra Golds — for some of the additional feats of strength and cleverness that have delighted us in the last two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The one-man lift of one man\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13962361\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1296px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13962361\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/wrestler.png\" alt=\"A gleeful looking wrestler falls to the ground dragging his coach with him.\" width=\"1296\" height=\"860\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/wrestler.png 1296w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/wrestler-800x531.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/wrestler-1020x677.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/wrestler-160x106.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/wrestler-768x510.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1296px) 100vw, 1296px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mijain Lopez Nunez (R) celebrates with his coach on Aug. 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Punit Paranjpe/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It would have been enough that Cuba’s Mijain Lopez Nunez won his fifth consecutive gold medal for Greco-Roman wrestling — becoming the first Summer Olympian ever to hit that milestone. After he finished, he unlaced his shoes and set them on the mat to mark his retirement. But it wasn’t all poignancy — he also playfully flipped one coach onto his back, then lifted another and carried him a few steps. It’s one thing to win your match; it’s another to set a record in a grueling event and then celebrate by picking up an entire wrestling coach and carrying him around.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The 400-meter WHAAAAT?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13962362\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1292px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13962362\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Quincy-Hall.png\" alt=\"Five Olympic runners sprinting down a track.\" width=\"1292\" height=\"858\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Quincy-Hall.png 1292w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Quincy-Hall-800x531.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Quincy-Hall-1020x677.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Quincy-Hall-160x106.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Quincy-Hall-768x510.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1292px) 100vw, 1292px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Quincy Hall on the home straight in the Men’s 400m final on Aug. 7, 2024. \u003ccite>(Richard Heathcote/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Team USA sprinter Quincy Hall was going to lose the men’s 400 meters. It was obvious. Heading into the last 150 meters or so, he seemed to have been bested by not one, not two, but three of the other guys in the race. And then \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/08/07/g-s1-15858/quincy-hall-olympic-400m-gold-paris\">he just accelerated.\u003c/a> It looked magical. One of the curious things about sprinters is that when they’re speeding up, it can almost look like they’re slowing down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Hall pushed toward the finish line, if you were watching him in a vacuum, you might think he was \u003cem>more \u003c/em>spent, \u003cem>more \u003c/em>tapped out. But he was somehow passing everybody! And he leaned at the finish line and just edged out Matthew Hudson-Smith of Great Britain to win the gold medal. We still have to admit: We don’t entirely get what happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The athlete drop\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13962365\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1296px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13962365\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/athlete-drop.png\" alt=\"Four canoes with people in them being dropped from a great height.\" width=\"1296\" height=\"810\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/athlete-drop.png 1296w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/athlete-drop-800x500.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/athlete-drop-1020x638.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/athlete-drop-160x100.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/athlete-drop-768x480.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1296px) 100vw, 1296px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The beginning of the Canoe Slalom Women’s Kayak Cross heats on Aug. 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Alex Davidson/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Olympic sports begin in a lot of ways. A whistle blows, or a pistol bangs, or an athlete runs or serves or jumps. But the gold medal in athlete-dropping can only go to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/08/02/nx-s1-4927314/kayak-cross-olympic-debut-paris\">the kayak cross.\u003c/a> In this event, several competitors are kept suspended above the course they are about to paddle through. Then they are dropped. Yes, they are flat-out indifferently dumped into the water the way you would release an undersized fish. And, crowded together, they have to navigate a course of buoys and get to the finish line. Anybody can run when a whistle blows or start a game when the referee says so. This is something entirely different.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The 6.25-meter maximum flex\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13962367\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1294px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13962367\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Armand-Duplantis.png\" alt=\"A high-jumper glides over the top of a high jump pole.\" width=\"1294\" height=\"862\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Armand-Duplantis.png 1294w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Armand-Duplantis-800x533.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Armand-Duplantis-1020x679.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Armand-Duplantis-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Armand-Duplantis-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1294px) 100vw, 1294px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Armand Duplantis set the new Olympic record in the men’s pole vault final on Aug. 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(Kirill Kudrtavtsev/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Swedish-American pole vaulter Armand Duplantis — Mondo — already was guaranteed a gold medal. He didn’t need to jump anymore. But Mondo does not jump because he needs to. No, Mondo jumps because he \u003cem>wishes \u003c/em>to. And at the Paris finals, even when he already knew he had won, he wished to do something more: swipe the world record held by his greatest rival … [checks notes] himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, Duplantis jumped 6.24 meters. So what was next? \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/08/05/g-s1-15440/mondo-pole-vault-gold-sweden-paris-olympics\">6.25 meters, obviously.\u003c/a> Never one to deny his loyal audience the drama they crave, he took three jumps to clear the bar at that height, but on that last one, he nailed it. Who knows what he’ll do next? Dare we hope for … 6.26 meters?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Audience participation\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13962369\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1294px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13962369\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Le%CC%81on-Marchand.png\" alt=\"A male Olympic swimmer props himself up on a lane divider in a swimming pool and smiles broadly.\" width=\"1294\" height=\"832\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Léon-Marchand.png 1294w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Léon-Marchand-800x514.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Léon-Marchand-1020x656.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Léon-Marchand-160x103.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Léon-Marchand-768x494.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1294px) 100vw, 1294px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Léon Marchand reacts after competing in the Men’s 400m Individual Medley Heats on July 28, 2024. \u003ccite>(Sarah Stier/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Paris crowds have been thrilling to listen to, overall. Particularly in support of French athletes, they cheer, they yell, they chant, they roar. But they may have peaked when swimmer Léon Marchand was in the pool. Marchand swam in four individual races, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/08/03/nx-s1-5062365/leon-marchand-france-swimmer-olympic-gold\">he won four gold medals\u003c/a>. And every time, the crowd didn’t just yell for him; they \u003cem>pulsated \u003c/em>for him. Whenever he was doing a stroke that brought him rhythmically up out of the water, the crowd made sure that every time they saw his head, they gave him a fresh shout. Let’s be honest: It’s hard to know whether any of this is intelligible to a guy whose head is still mostly underwater and who is hyperfocused on things like his own arms and legs. But it was as if the people watching his races wanted you to be \u003cem>sure \u003c/em>they were cheering for no one else, \u003cem>sure \u003c/em>they were there for him. And indeed, we knew.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The out of left field leader\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13962370\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1296px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13962370\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Kristen-Faulkner.png\" alt=\"A cycling finish line filmed from above. A lone female cyclist crosses without any other competitors in sight.\" width=\"1296\" height=\"950\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Kristen-Faulkner.png 1296w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Kristen-Faulkner-800x586.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Kristen-Faulkner-1020x748.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Kristen-Faulkner-160x117.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Kristen-Faulkner-768x563.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1296px) 100vw, 1296px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kristen Faulkner passes the finish line during the women’s road race of cycling on Aug. 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Wu Huiwo/Xinhua - Pool/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>U.S. competitor Kristen Faulkner didn’t think until relatively recently that she was going to compete in the women’s road race that runs almost 100 miles through the streets of Paris and surrounding towns. She didn’t even think she was coming to the Olympics until \u003ca href=\"https://www.thecut.com/article/2024-olympics-kristen-faulkner-is-the-underdog-of-the-games.html\">another competitor resigned from the team\u003c/a> in July. As in, this July, last month. But things happen, and there she was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13961967']Late in the road race, she was in a chasing pair with another cyclist, separated by a few seconds from the leading pair. The announcers talked about whether the chasing pair could make a move — did they have enough left to get close? Could they close the gap? Well, they did close the gap. But almost as soon as the two pairs met and became four competitors together, Faulkner \u003cem>took off\u003c/em>. Nobody followed. The announcer yelled, “Nobody is chasing! Nobody is chasing the American, Kristen Faulkner, the gap is exploding!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faulkner — who only picked up cycling in \u003cem>2016 —\u003c/em> started her move with about two miles to go, and she ultimately won by almost a full minute. She was simply gone. Oh — and a couple days later, she won a gold medal in the track cycling team pursuit, making her the first U.S. woman to win gold medals in \u003ca href=\"https://www.teamusa.com/news/2024/august/07/team-usa-is-golden-in-women-s-team-pursuit-kristen-faulkner-becomes-first-u-s-woman-to-win-olympic-gold-in-two-different-disciplines\">two different disciplines\u003c/a>. Not the August she thought she was going to have in July, huh?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The last-minute lean\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13962372\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1290px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13962372\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Noah-Lyles.png\" alt=\"A race track viewed from above as 8 runners all cross the finish line close together.\" width=\"1290\" height=\"734\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Noah-Lyles.png 1290w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Noah-Lyles-800x455.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Noah-Lyles-1020x580.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Noah-Lyles-160x91.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Noah-Lyles-768x437.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1290px) 100vw, 1290px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Noah Lyles crosses the finish line to win the Men’s 100m Final on Aug. 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Richard Heathcote/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All of the sprinting events rely on the lean, for the simple reason that the rules state that you cross the finish line with your torso, not your head or your foot. (Quincy Hall, noted above, leaned, too.) Even after the men’s 100-meter dash, many of us believed that Team USA’s Noah Lyles had not won it. We were not even sure he had medaled. When they said he had, in fact, won the gold by five one-thousandths of a second, it felt like … no, he didn’t. He didn’t, did he? As it turned out, he did. Kishane Thompson of Jamaica looked like his essence, his general being, was ahead of Lyles. Your eyes might have told you he was the winner — at least one commentator’s eyes told her he was. Ah, but Lyles has the lean. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/08/04/g-s1-15308/noah-lyles-gold-100m-final-paris\">He won\u003c/a> by pushing his chest forward just enough. Lyles ran a remarkable race overall; he’d been in last place at the 40-yard mark. But you have to respect the lean that ultimately sealed the deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A note: It was only after I first added Lyles to this list that the news broke that he had competed in the 200 meters after \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/08/08/nx-s1-5068339/botswanas-letsile-tebogo-noah-lyles-olympic-gold-200-meter\">testing positive for COVID.\u003c/a> It was a sobering reminder of the lingering effects of COVID on these games that what had been such a uniformly great story turned troubling. Lyles is \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/29/nx-s1-5055889/covid-british-olympic-swimmer-adam-peaty\">far from the only athlete\u003c/a> who has gotten COVID or competed with COVID. But he has asthma, and particularly given what we know about long COVID, the sight of him leaving the field in a wheelchair was a reminder of the risks that remain, especially in the absence of meaningful precautions.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Use of an accessory\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13962373\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1296px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13962373\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Stephen-Nedoroscik.png\" alt=\"A man wearing a track jacket waves a pair of spectacles over his head.\" width=\"1296\" height=\"920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Stephen-Nedoroscik.png 1296w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Stephen-Nedoroscik-800x568.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Stephen-Nedoroscik-1020x724.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Stephen-Nedoroscik-160x114.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Stephen-Nedoroscik-768x545.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1296px) 100vw, 1296px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephen Nedoroscik celebrates after the Artistic Gymnastics Men’s Pommel Horse Final on Aug. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Jamie Squire/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Look, by now we all know about Stephen Nedoroscik, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/30/nx-s1-5057146/pommel-horse-stephen-nedoroscik-olympics\">“Pommel Horse Guy,”\u003c/a> who helped clinch the bronze medal for the U.S. men’s gymnastics team. We know that he is great at pommel horse — a specialist, in fact. We know that he was the last to go, that he had to hit and hit hard in order to win the bronze that was obviously so special to those guys that it might as well have been gold. But we must also recognize the power of his accessory game. Nedoroscik has a couple conditions — coloboma and strabismus — that affect his eyesight, and he says that when he competes on pommel horse, he’s doing it by feel, so he leaves his glasses behind. We (his fans) got to the point where the sight of his glasses hanging on the chalk bowl — as they did during the team final, and as they did when he won an individual bronze medal in pommel horse — had an unmistakable, “Oh, it’s HAPPENING” feeling. Like lots of us, he doesn’t wear his glasses for fashion, but that doesn’t mean they can’t be cool.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Enthusiasm management\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13962374\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1296px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13962374\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Sammy-Sullivan.png\" alt=\"A blonde woman wearing an Olympic USA t-shirt points at a medal hanging around her neck and looks overjoyed.\" width=\"1296\" height=\"860\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Sammy-Sullivan.png 1296w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Sammy-Sullivan-800x531.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Sammy-Sullivan-1020x677.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Sammy-Sullivan-160x106.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Sammy-Sullivan-768x510.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1296px) 100vw, 1296px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sammy Sullivan wasn’t ready to celebrate until the win was official. \u003ccite>(Kristy Sparow/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/08/01/nx-s1-5059158/olympics-womens-rugby-sevens-appreciation\">the U.S. women won a bronze medal\u003c/a> by beating Australia in rugby sevens, it was an absolutely classic last-minute sports moment. With Team USA down 12-7 in the closing seconds, Alex Sedrick ran all the way down the field from almost the opposite end and scored a “try,” tying the match at 12. Team USA would still need a conversion — a pretty easy-looking one, but still — in order to actually win. And so, as the team celebrated Sedrick’s score, one face on the sideline was not ready to celebrate. Sammy Sullivan served the very important function of jinx avoider, because as they waited to see whether they would actually get that conversion, she told her teammates: \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@seekclarity.friends/video/7397491452995063082\">“SHUT UP.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13962267']We’ve all been there, teetering on the edge of jubilation, afraid that other people will ruin it just by admitting it’s happening. We have all lived with the fear that our moment of victory is impossibly fragile and hubris will make it shatter. Sammy Sullivan was all of us: “SHUT UP.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This piece also appeared in NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour newsletter. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/newsletter/pop-culture\">Sign up for the newsletter\u003c/a> so you don’t miss the next one, plus get weekly recommendations about what’s making us happy.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Listen to Pop Culture Happy Hour on \u003ca href=\"http://n.pr/3xNgYt9\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://n.pr/3ELR3n6\">Spotify\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The real Olympic medals are given out according to rules about speed, scores, perfection, actually defeating your opponent, all that boring stuff. But what if they weren’t?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What if there were another set of medals we could give to some of the best achievements of the games, even if they weren’t in officially recognized sports? We tried to think of what we’d hand out. So here are nine additional medals — call them the Extra Golds — for some of the additional feats of strength and cleverness that have delighted us in the last two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The one-man lift of one man\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13962361\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1296px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13962361\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/wrestler.png\" alt=\"A gleeful looking wrestler falls to the ground dragging his coach with him.\" width=\"1296\" height=\"860\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/wrestler.png 1296w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/wrestler-800x531.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/wrestler-1020x677.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/wrestler-160x106.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/wrestler-768x510.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1296px) 100vw, 1296px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mijain Lopez Nunez (R) celebrates with his coach on Aug. 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Punit Paranjpe/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It would have been enough that Cuba’s Mijain Lopez Nunez won his fifth consecutive gold medal for Greco-Roman wrestling — becoming the first Summer Olympian ever to hit that milestone. After he finished, he unlaced his shoes and set them on the mat to mark his retirement. But it wasn’t all poignancy — he also playfully flipped one coach onto his back, then lifted another and carried him a few steps. It’s one thing to win your match; it’s another to set a record in a grueling event and then celebrate by picking up an entire wrestling coach and carrying him around.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The 400-meter WHAAAAT?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13962362\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1292px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13962362\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Quincy-Hall.png\" alt=\"Five Olympic runners sprinting down a track.\" width=\"1292\" height=\"858\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Quincy-Hall.png 1292w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Quincy-Hall-800x531.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Quincy-Hall-1020x677.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Quincy-Hall-160x106.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Quincy-Hall-768x510.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1292px) 100vw, 1292px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Quincy Hall on the home straight in the Men’s 400m final on Aug. 7, 2024. \u003ccite>(Richard Heathcote/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Team USA sprinter Quincy Hall was going to lose the men’s 400 meters. It was obvious. Heading into the last 150 meters or so, he seemed to have been bested by not one, not two, but three of the other guys in the race. And then \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/08/07/g-s1-15858/quincy-hall-olympic-400m-gold-paris\">he just accelerated.\u003c/a> It looked magical. One of the curious things about sprinters is that when they’re speeding up, it can almost look like they’re slowing down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Hall pushed toward the finish line, if you were watching him in a vacuum, you might think he was \u003cem>more \u003c/em>spent, \u003cem>more \u003c/em>tapped out. But he was somehow passing everybody! And he leaned at the finish line and just edged out Matthew Hudson-Smith of Great Britain to win the gold medal. We still have to admit: We don’t entirely get what happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The athlete drop\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13962365\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1296px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13962365\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/athlete-drop.png\" alt=\"Four canoes with people in them being dropped from a great height.\" width=\"1296\" height=\"810\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/athlete-drop.png 1296w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/athlete-drop-800x500.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/athlete-drop-1020x638.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/athlete-drop-160x100.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/athlete-drop-768x480.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1296px) 100vw, 1296px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The beginning of the Canoe Slalom Women’s Kayak Cross heats on Aug. 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Alex Davidson/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Olympic sports begin in a lot of ways. A whistle blows, or a pistol bangs, or an athlete runs or serves or jumps. But the gold medal in athlete-dropping can only go to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/08/02/nx-s1-4927314/kayak-cross-olympic-debut-paris\">the kayak cross.\u003c/a> In this event, several competitors are kept suspended above the course they are about to paddle through. Then they are dropped. Yes, they are flat-out indifferently dumped into the water the way you would release an undersized fish. And, crowded together, they have to navigate a course of buoys and get to the finish line. Anybody can run when a whistle blows or start a game when the referee says so. This is something entirely different.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The 6.25-meter maximum flex\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13962367\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1294px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13962367\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Armand-Duplantis.png\" alt=\"A high-jumper glides over the top of a high jump pole.\" width=\"1294\" height=\"862\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Armand-Duplantis.png 1294w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Armand-Duplantis-800x533.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Armand-Duplantis-1020x679.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Armand-Duplantis-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Armand-Duplantis-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1294px) 100vw, 1294px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Armand Duplantis set the new Olympic record in the men’s pole vault final on Aug. 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(Kirill Kudrtavtsev/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Swedish-American pole vaulter Armand Duplantis — Mondo — already was guaranteed a gold medal. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Late in the road race, she was in a chasing pair with another cyclist, separated by a few seconds from the leading pair. The announcers talked about whether the chasing pair could make a move — did they have enough left to get close? Could they close the gap? Well, they did close the gap. But almost as soon as the two pairs met and became four competitors together, Faulkner \u003cem>took off\u003c/em>. Nobody followed. The announcer yelled, “Nobody is chasing! Nobody is chasing the American, Kristen Faulkner, the gap is exploding!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faulkner — who only picked up cycling in \u003cem>2016 —\u003c/em> started her move with about two miles to go, and she ultimately won by almost a full minute. She was simply gone. Oh — and a couple days later, she won a gold medal in the track cycling team pursuit, making her the first U.S. woman to win gold medals in \u003ca href=\"https://www.teamusa.com/news/2024/august/07/team-usa-is-golden-in-women-s-team-pursuit-kristen-faulkner-becomes-first-u-s-woman-to-win-olympic-gold-in-two-different-disciplines\">two different disciplines\u003c/a>. Not the August she thought she was going to have in July, huh?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The last-minute lean\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13962372\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1290px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13962372\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Noah-Lyles.png\" alt=\"A race track viewed from above as 8 runners all cross the finish line close together.\" width=\"1290\" height=\"734\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Noah-Lyles.png 1290w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Noah-Lyles-800x455.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Noah-Lyles-1020x580.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Noah-Lyles-160x91.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Noah-Lyles-768x437.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1290px) 100vw, 1290px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Noah Lyles crosses the finish line to win the Men’s 100m Final on Aug. 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Richard Heathcote/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All of the sprinting events rely on the lean, for the simple reason that the rules state that you cross the finish line with your torso, not your head or your foot. (Quincy Hall, noted above, leaned, too.) Even after the men’s 100-meter dash, many of us believed that Team USA’s Noah Lyles had not won it. We were not even sure he had medaled. When they said he had, in fact, won the gold by five one-thousandths of a second, it felt like … no, he didn’t. He didn’t, did he? As it turned out, he did. Kishane Thompson of Jamaica looked like his essence, his general being, was ahead of Lyles. Your eyes might have told you he was the winner — at least one commentator’s eyes told her he was. Ah, but Lyles has the lean. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/08/04/g-s1-15308/noah-lyles-gold-100m-final-paris\">He won\u003c/a> by pushing his chest forward just enough. Lyles ran a remarkable race overall; he’d been in last place at the 40-yard mark. But you have to respect the lean that ultimately sealed the deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A note: It was only after I first added Lyles to this list that the news broke that he had competed in the 200 meters after \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/08/08/nx-s1-5068339/botswanas-letsile-tebogo-noah-lyles-olympic-gold-200-meter\">testing positive for COVID.\u003c/a> It was a sobering reminder of the lingering effects of COVID on these games that what had been such a uniformly great story turned troubling. Lyles is \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/29/nx-s1-5055889/covid-british-olympic-swimmer-adam-peaty\">far from the only athlete\u003c/a> who has gotten COVID or competed with COVID. But he has asthma, and particularly given what we know about long COVID, the sight of him leaving the field in a wheelchair was a reminder of the risks that remain, especially in the absence of meaningful precautions.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Use of an accessory\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13962373\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1296px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13962373\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Stephen-Nedoroscik.png\" alt=\"A man wearing a track jacket waves a pair of spectacles over his head.\" width=\"1296\" height=\"920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Stephen-Nedoroscik.png 1296w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Stephen-Nedoroscik-800x568.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Stephen-Nedoroscik-1020x724.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Stephen-Nedoroscik-160x114.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Stephen-Nedoroscik-768x545.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1296px) 100vw, 1296px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephen Nedoroscik celebrates after the Artistic Gymnastics Men’s Pommel Horse Final on Aug. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Jamie Squire/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Look, by now we all know about Stephen Nedoroscik, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/30/nx-s1-5057146/pommel-horse-stephen-nedoroscik-olympics\">“Pommel Horse Guy,”\u003c/a> who helped clinch the bronze medal for the U.S. men’s gymnastics team. We know that he is great at pommel horse — a specialist, in fact. We know that he was the last to go, that he had to hit and hit hard in order to win the bronze that was obviously so special to those guys that it might as well have been gold. But we must also recognize the power of his accessory game. Nedoroscik has a couple conditions — coloboma and strabismus — that affect his eyesight, and he says that when he competes on pommel horse, he’s doing it by feel, so he leaves his glasses behind. We (his fans) got to the point where the sight of his glasses hanging on the chalk bowl — as they did during the team final, and as they did when he won an individual bronze medal in pommel horse — had an unmistakable, “Oh, it’s HAPPENING” feeling. Like lots of us, he doesn’t wear his glasses for fashion, but that doesn’t mean they can’t be cool.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Enthusiasm management\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13962374\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1296px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13962374\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Sammy-Sullivan.png\" alt=\"A blonde woman wearing an Olympic USA t-shirt points at a medal hanging around her neck and looks overjoyed.\" width=\"1296\" height=\"860\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Sammy-Sullivan.png 1296w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Sammy-Sullivan-800x531.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Sammy-Sullivan-1020x677.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Sammy-Sullivan-160x106.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Sammy-Sullivan-768x510.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1296px) 100vw, 1296px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sammy Sullivan wasn’t ready to celebrate until the win was official. \u003ccite>(Kristy Sparow/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/08/01/nx-s1-5059158/olympics-womens-rugby-sevens-appreciation\">the U.S. women won a bronze medal\u003c/a> by beating Australia in rugby sevens, it was an absolutely classic last-minute sports moment. With Team USA down 12-7 in the closing seconds, Alex Sedrick ran all the way down the field from almost the opposite end and scored a “try,” tying the match at 12. Team USA would still need a conversion — a pretty easy-looking one, but still — in order to actually win. And so, as the team celebrated Sedrick’s score, one face on the sideline was not ready to celebrate. Sammy Sullivan served the very important function of jinx avoider, because as they waited to see whether they would actually get that conversion, she told her teammates: \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@seekclarity.friends/video/7397491452995063082\">“SHUT UP.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Over the years, TV has offered up an entire precinct worth of women cops — from Angie Dickinson’s spicy Pepper Anderson in the ‘70s hit \u003cem>Police Woman,\u003c/em> to Helen Mirren’s flinty Jane Tennison in the great ’90s series \u003cem>Prime Suspect,\u003c/em> to Mariska Hargitay’s driven Olivia Benson, who will doubtless still be solving sex crimes on \u003cem>Law & Order: SVU\u003c/em> long after the oceans have swallowed New York City. We’ve watched so many women with badges that it’s easy to forget there was a time when most men believed there shouldn’t be any.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That belief is the starting point of a new Mexican-made TV series, \u003cem>Women in Blue\u003c/em> which is streaming on AppleTV+. Set in the hyper-conservative Mexico of 1971, this lively 10-part drama focuses on four vastly different women who go to work for the police and discover that it’s easier to capture a serial killer than to deal with the assorted misogynies of the men around them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13960144']As the story begins, Mexico City is being terrorized by a woman-killing maniac known as the Undresser, for the way he leaves his victims. To distract from the force’s failure to catch this killer, the police chief cooks up a publicity stunt. He announces that he’s opening up the police department to women, an idea he feels sure will get scads of upbeat coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We follow four new recruits. Foremost among them is María, who once dreamed of being a detective but wound up an elegant bourgeois mother with a husband you know is cheating the instant you see him. There’s her sister Valentina, a revved-up feminist who hates the government. There’s Ángeles, a loner who does most of the actual crime solving. And finally there’s Gabina, a born cop whose policeman father slaps her face for joining the force against his wishes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These four shine in training, but when it comes time to do the job — dressed in blue mini-skirts! — they’re treated as a joke. Sent out to patrol a park, they’re given not weapons but a bag with coins — to call the cops if they uncover a crime. Naturally, they \u003cem>do\u003c/em> uncover one — they find the Undresser’s latest victim. And even though they’re ordered not to, they throw themselves into tracking down the killer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqHDHnGq2O0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early on, I got a bit bored watching the relentless sexism faced by our heroines. I don’t doubt its realism, but nothing is more tiresome than having to watch people be bigoted in stupid ways that the world has passed by. This is 2024, and hearing some macho detective snarl that women can’t be cops made me fear that \u003cem>Women in Blue\u003c/em> might be one of those shows that simply flatters its audience by letting us feel more enlightened than the people from an earlier era.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Happily, the show grows more interesting, with each of the quartet facing a different form of misogyny, even within their own families. And like them, we discover some startling wrinkles in Mexican law back then — like Article 169 of the country’s civil code. It held that a Mexican woman could be forced to quit a job if it affects the “integrity” of her family — and the person who got to decide on this was her husband. It’s since been repealed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13960317']Although there are original works about the shocking level of femicide in Mexico — most famously \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2007/04/28/9852989/poets-and-gangsters-discovering-roberto-bolano\">Roberto Bolaño\u003c/a>’s great novel \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2009/01/27/99517680/a-final-epic-work-from-roberto-bolano\">\u003cem>2666\u003c/em>\u003c/a> — \u003cem>Women in Blue\u003c/em>’s crime plot is pretty generic. It resorts to such tired standbys as the cultivated serial killer who gives them brainy tips from his prison cell and the murderer deciding to target the women in blue who are investigating him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The show’s real strength lies in showing how each of the heroines is transformed by joining the force, be it Ángeles breaking free of her emotional isolation or the idealistic Gabina discovering the brutal, corrupt truth about policing in Mexico. The story’s feminist angle is clearest in María, who, with her nice house, fancy clothes and George Clooney-looking husband, is the one who would seem to have it made. She’s the one who must decide whether she’ll sacrifice comfort to work in a police department whose men don’t want women in it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the end of \u003cem>Women in Blue\u003c/em>, its heroines — and its audience — come face to face with a radical truth: What drives the Undresser to kill women is grounded in the ingrained patriarchal values that ordinary women lived with every single day.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘Women in Blue’ is streaming on Apple TV+ now.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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His winning quality, the internet decided, was his seeming nonchalance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13961861']While many of Dikec’s competitors were decked out in large ear protectors, visors and sci fi-esque shooting glasses, he played it a different kind of cool with regular eyeglasses and barely visible ear plugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wearing a jersey that looked like an ordinary T-shirt, and shooting with his free hand tucked in his pants pocket, the 51-year-old gave off a noticeably casual vibe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So casual, in fact, that scores of social media users jokingly wondered whether Turkey had \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/boredpanda/status/1818939728558764274\">sent a hitman\u003c/a> to the Olympics. 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He’s also a cat lover, as social media sleuths quickly discovered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His philosophy, ironically, is, “Success doesn’t come with your hands in your pockets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>His unique style comes down to personal preference\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13961972\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1290px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13961972\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Screenshot-2024-08-01-at-5.23.54%E2%80%AFPM.png\" alt=\"A woman and man in red polo shirts stand in front of the Eiffel Tower, which is decorated with Olympic rings. 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