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The Royal Soap Opera A Debtor’s Prison Are Prince Andrew’s fragile finances to blame for his entanglement in the Jeffrey Epstein debacle? By Va***i Chamberlain Read On Great Lives The Robespierre of Lafayette Street The director who first staged The Normal Heart remembers the many-sided activist-playwright Larry Kramer By Michael Lindsay-Hogg Read On Small Talk “O.K., well, think about it, but remember, I find my own food, I’m quiet, and you don’t have to take me for walks.” Scandal c***mings and Goings Boris Johnson’s top Brexit attack dog, Dominic c***mings, tries to explain why he broke lockdown—while infected—to frolic in the country By Stuart Heritage Read On Style Previous Next The Linen s***rt Frame Call us contrarian, but we prefer long sleeves to sunscreen when it comes to sun protection, at least… The Umbrella Ombrellone Visconti Does this beauty look familiar? If so, you have likely been a (lucky) guest at Mezzatorre, the new hotel… The Espadrilles Castañer Did we buy a fabulous pair of leather Gucci mules, at the same price as a round-trip airfare to Paris… The All-in-One Exfoliator Dr. Dennis Gross Prone to the periodic breakout, we thought we’d use lockdown time to rid ourselves… The Linen s***rt Frame Call us contrarian, but we prefer long sleeves to sunscreen when it comes to sun protection, at least… The Umbrella Ombrellone Visconti Does this beauty look familiar? If so, you have likely been a (lucky) guest at Mezzatorre, the new hotel… The Espadrilles Castañer Did we buy a fabulous pair of leather Gucci mules, at the same price as a round-trip airfare to Paris… The All-in-One Exfoliator Dr. Dennis Gross Prone to the periodic breakout, we thought we’d use lockdown time to rid ourselves… The Planet Bees Do It. Very, Very Well New research reveals they know a little trick to make a garden buzz with delight By Rhys Blakely Read On Small Talk “Not to alarm you, but the other newborns are already ahead.” Scandale! Death Becomes Him Stéphane Bourgoin enjoyed a dazzling career as France’s top expert on serial killers. There was only one little problem … By Alexandra Marshall Read On Click here to visit Don’t Miss KENNEDY SPACE CENTER Capsule collection: artwork hitches a ride on SpaceX … LOS ANGELES It’s a centenarian’s world: 106-year-old Morrie Markoff, who lost a brother to the Spanish flu, takes up blogging … ROME Pa***ing the baton: conductor Riccardo Muti gives music lessons … ONLINE Not Harry Potter, but it’ll do: J. K. Rowling releases a new story for young readers … INSTAGRAM Stick your neck out: a painting tutorial from Donald Robertson, featuring the illustrator’s beloved giraffes … Modern Times Don’t Call It a Comeback Where are they now? Wis***ng you a happy birthday (or anniversary, etc.) for a fee on Cameo By George Kalogerakis Read On West End Story Is It Curtains for British Theater? After the lockdown, fears of a “total collapse” By Lanre Bakare Read On Plus de scandale! Final Cut Parisian cinephiles are in an uproar over the actions of an American real-estate investor By Kim Willsher Read On Welcome To Air Mail Pilot Think of it as Air Mail Jr. for your pre-teen kids under lockdown. Stories that celebrate the greatest thing this sometimes troubled world has to offer: being alive. The Critic’s Eye Walter, Walter, Everywhere Walter Presents, the streaming service specializing in foreign content, moves into book publis***ng By Stephen Armstrong Read On Highlight Party Time Though the Public Theater doesn’t have complete records going back to its first year of operation—1954, when Joseph Papp founded the New York Shakespeare Workshop; it became the Public in 1967—annual celebrations have been the norm. This year is no different, despite the pandemic that has brought the city that never sleeps to a hyper-alert standstill. “Just because we are hobbled by this medical crisis doesn’t mean we’re allowed to put down our mission,” Oskar Eustis, the Public’s beloved artistic director, tells AIR MAIL . READ ON Streaming digitally, the We Are One Public gala features Meryl Streep, Lin-Manuel Miranda, John Leguizamo, and other friends of the New York theater. Read On Discover Small Talk Open Book Good in Bed Cinema’s dreamiest movie scenes are a lesson in lounging glamorously 10 Previous Next It all begins in the bedroom: top, Tracy Camilla Johns and Tommy Redmond Hicks in Spike Lee’s She’s Gotta Have It (1986); above, Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg in Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless (1960). Read between the sheets: top, Raoul Lévy and Anny Duperey in Jean-Luc Godard’s Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967); above, Claude Jade and Jean-Pierre Léaud in François Truffaut’s Bed & Board (1970). Sleep it off: top, Joseph Cotten in Alfred Hitchc****’s Shadow of a Doubt (1943); above, Audrey Hepburn in Blake Edwards’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961). Golden hour: top, Elizabeth Taylor and Robert Forster in John Huston’s Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967); above, Sean Connery and s***rley Eaton in Guy Hamilton’s Goldfinger (1964). Bed heads: top, Madonna in Susan Seidelman’s Desperately Seeking Susan (1985); above, Marilyn Monroe in Henry Hathaway’s Niagara (1953). Beauty sleep: top, Vivien Leigh in Victor Fleming’s Gone with the Wind (1939); above, Snow White and the seven dwarfs in Disney’s 1937 production. Call it a day: top, Barbara Stanwyck in Anatole Litvak’s Sorry, Wrong Number (1948); above, Al Pacino and Diane Keaton in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather (1972). Eat, sleep, repeat: top, Jean Harlow in George Cukor’s Dinner at Eight (1933); above, Robert Benchley in Nick Grinde’s How to Sleep (1935). Miles to go before they sleep: top, Oskar Werner and Jeanne Moreau in François Truffaut’s Jules and Jim (1962); above: Angela Lansbury, David Tomlinson, Ian Weighill, Cindy O’Callaghan, and Roy Snart in Robert Stevenson’s Bedk****s and Broomsticks (1971). Bedroom politics: top, Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie in Tony Scott’s The Hunger (1983); above, Jean-Louis Trintignant and Milly in Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Conformist (1970). Read On Best Previous Next Listen Environments Perhaps you’re wondering if you’ll get to hear the crash of the ocean this summer or the chatter of cicadas… Watch Quiz British playwright and screenwriter James Graham tells a story familiar to many of us—at least those of us… Clean Drillbrush Stress cleaning: it’s a thing. While spending a disproportionate amount of time with a bottle of Clorox… Fix Toast Workshops Learning a language, mastering pie dough—basically, making lemonade is a common response to lemons… Listen Environments Perhaps you’re wondering if you’ll get to hear the crash of the ocean this summer or the chatter of cicadas… Watch Quiz British playwright and screenwriter James Graham tells a story familiar to many of us—at least those of us… Clean Drillbrush Stress cleaning: it’s a thing. While spending a disproportionate amount of time with a bottle of Clorox… Fix Toast Workshops Learning a language, mastering pie dough—basically, making lemonade is a common response to lemons… Books Max McGuinness On Diary of a Foreigner in Paris by Curzio Malaparte Read On Ruth Peltason On The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friends***p, and Liberation in the 1960s by Maggie Doherty Read On Murder, They Wrote by Lisa Henricksson Read On Inside Story Call Him “Mr. President” Behind the doors of the Élysée Palace By William Drozdiak Read On Close-up Haifaa Al Mansour The Saudi filmmaker gives audiences a picture of life in her secretive, ultra-conservative home country By Bridget a****nault Read On Food and Wine Is This New York’s Best Pizza Right Now? A critic discovers a four-star chef making mouthwatering takeout in Little Italy By Alan Richman Read On The Perfect Ending Richard Quinn The fantastical young British designer answers 29 of life’s most pressing questions Read On Air Play View this playlist on Spotify Grant Shaffer’s Sketchbook “In 1995, the gold-domed cupola atop the Sohmer Piano Building (to the right) was my first N.Y.C. art studio. From that tiny, octagonal room I found myself painting the Flatiron Building over and over again. Drawing it now feels like I’m visiting with an old, beautiful neighbor.” Before you leave, click here to visit our Arts Intel Report The only search engine for what’s online at the world’s greatest cultural inst**utions It’s easy to use and free to Air Mail subscribers! 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