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Today in Feed Me: I ask you all to assemble your dream itinerary for a New York City staycation, two former WSA employees are moving to the West Coast, Dealbook is expanding its Washington coverage, and new faces have appeared on the NYFW calendar.
☀️🍎 Today, we’re asking Feed Me readers to suggest an itinerary for their ideal New York City staycation. The rules are:
The staycation must take place in one of the five boroughs. Hotel, at home, anything goes.
It must be 24-48 hours long.
Bonus points for providing specific tips and tricks (“Go to Giando on the Water on a weeknight before sunset, and order a mezcal Negroni.”)
There are no budgetary limits (once you’re saving on the flight and hotel, you’re playing with house money).
Teddy finally reviews The Drama. By Teddy Kim
Stay Tuned is a Feed Me guest column about film and entertainment, written by Teddy Kim.
The first half of the movie year is behind us, which makes it a good time to take stock of what’s come out so far. Normally I’d give you a whole list of great movies you should see, but I really just want to focus on one. That’d be Kristoffer Borgli’s The Drama, starring Robert Pattinson and Zendaya, which came out in April and is hitting HBO Max at the end of the month.
Given how well it did at the box office ($130M with a $30M budget), and the polarizing reaction to it, I’m surprised by how few of my friends actually saw it. It’s a shame because The Drama is an emotionally gripping and laugh-out-loud funny movie with a lot to say, and my personal favorite of the year so far.
I think The Drama was misread by some critics, who wanted it to be something that it wasn’t and was never trying to be. Unlike Eddington, which was a story of national politics and ideologies destroying the personal and communal relationships in a small town, The Drama isn’t really a “social issues” kind of film at all. And that’s okay.
It’s a movie about people that have their own personal experiences. Zendaya’s character, who reveals a big secret to her fiancé and friends just before her wedding, isn’t defined by her past. It doesn’t even come up until right before the wedding, and it wasn’t some lurking dark secret people could sense was hiding. After the revelation, people react as if she’s a different person, but in fact she never even became that person at all. Should we be judged for the people we almost became?
(Spoilers ahead: Let me pause here to say that if you haven’t seen the movie yet, do not look up anything about it. Do not watch the trailer. Do not pass Go. Just wait until it’s streaming and watch for yourself. Better yet, just rent it for a few dollars from Prime Video or Apple TV and watch it this weekend.)
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