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Things Read in May

Articles & Essays:

Could this pottery shard be a 1,000 year old hand grenade? Signs point to yes

How a24 became the ultimate film cult

How many well intentioned people dehumanize children

Just how white is the book industry?

Nintendo mario movie leaks: dmca used to suppress spoiler discussion

Do the poor pay more for housing? Exploitation, profit, and risk in rental markets

After years of declines, numbers of wintering monarch butterflies rise by 35% in mexico

My chemical romance's gerard way: the six pack q&a

No way out but war

#metoo is over if we don't listen to imperfect victims

'Arrows for the war'

How to respond to criticism

Why young koreans love to splurge

Which birds are the biggest jerks at the feeder?

A tale of two utopias: musk and bezos in outer space

Religion, racism and the church of england in doctor who

Aerial photos by bernhard lang capture the largest aircraft boneyard in the world

California is about to test its first solar canals

How I started to see trees as smart

The movie star and me

The movies discover the teen-age girl

In yellowjackets, the girls are hungry to live

In defense of purple prose

Maybe she had so much money she just lost track of it

As an added bonus, she paid for everything: my bright-lights misadventure with a magician of manhattan

Jessica pressler on what's real and not about inventing anna

Mysteries persist after initial report into china eastern jet crash

Revisiting scenes from the suburbs, spike jonze and arcade fire's take on spielberg-style suburbia

Online trolls actually just assholes all the time, study finds

In spite of it all, we are still living: interview with ada limón

Poetry:

Fuck your lecture on craft, my people are dying by noor hindi

The rules by leila chatti

Lessons from a mirror by thylias moss

May by jonathan galassi

Foaling season by ada limón

Summer by robin coste lewis

Summer by joanna fuhrman

Summer by heather christle

Peach by d. h. lawrence

Phenomenal woman by maya angelou

Books & Short Stories:

Cherry by Nico Walker

WLT: A Radio Romance by Garrison Keillor

Something Weird I Heard About Rebecca by Yves

On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection by Susan Stewart

Children of the Corn by Stephen King

Q & A: A Novel by Vikas Swarup

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229 - Magic Mike XXL

Listeners, are you ready to be exalted?! This week, we welcome back author, screenwriter, Listen to Sassy co-host, and now OSCAR NOMINEE Pamela Ribon. And to welcome her back we’re going on a road trip with some exotic male dancers for Magic Mike XXL. The somewhat surprising sequel to the 2012 original (previously discussed on this podcast) dispensed with the commentary on capitalism and gave us everything we wanted from Mike and the boys: more dancing, more skin, and more guys being dudes. But softer box office and softer reviews kept this totally-not-directed-by-Soderbergh-not-at-all sequel out of serious awards contention, excluding some late-year critical reassessment.

This episode, we celebrate Pam’s success with her animated short My Year of Dicks and our high hopes for Mike’s swan song, Magic Mike’s Last Dance. We also discuss Roxanne Gay’s recap, Magic Mike Live, and the film’s genius film ensemble including Jada Pinkett Smith, Andie MacDowell, and Elizabeth Banks.

Topics also include campaign rules, “going to nationals” as a concept, and Joe Manganiello causing your pants to rip.

Links:

The 2015 Oscar nominations

Roxanne Gay’s Magic Mike XXL Recap

Jessica Pressler Interviews Channing Tatum

Vulture Movies Fantasy League

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Channing Tatum Is Working on a Romance Novel Channing Tatum wants you to know that he's way more than a sexy hunk with glistening abs that stars in movies, he's a sexy hunk with glistening abs that writes books too!In a new cover story for Vanity Fair, Tatum opens up about distancing himself from his Hollywood heartthrob image, closing out the Magic Mike franchise and growing close with Zoë Kravitz. However, it was the news that the actor was writing a “fun and sexy” romance novel with Roxane Gay that happened to pique our interest.To be fair, if you blinked you could easily miss Jessica Pressler's brief mention of the project's existence amidst the Bad Feminist and Hunger author's praise of Tatum's wokeness. “For whatever reason, he is intimately aware of his privilege,” Gay remarks. “He doesn’t apologize for it, which is, frankly, refreshing. Like, you’re an absurdly attractive famous wealthy white man. Please don’t pretend that isn’t great. But he treats people well.” That being said, apart from the passing confirmation that this romance novel collaboration exists, neither Gay nor Tatum go on to share any further details about the book.Upon a little digging, it turns out that romance novel has been a thing since at least 2017 when Gay revealed to The Advocate that not only was Tatum a fan of her work, but they were actually working together on a new project. "I thought my friends were playing a joke on me," Gay toldThe Advocate's podcast, explaining that she feared her agent was leaving her when she first emailed her about the project. "And so, things proceeded, and then she gave me an address and said, 'Go here at such and such time.' And I said, 'Okay.' It was around my birthday, so I just thought, My friends are hilarious. They're putting together this surprise party, even though I hate surprise parties, and they're using this ruse of Channing Tatum. I went up into the hills, and he was standing on his front balcony. I was just like, 'Oh, I'm pregnant.' It was really good."And while Gay didn't let many specifics about the project slip apart from the fact that "it's really good," it's nice to know that the book is still a thing six years later. It's worth pointing out that this top-secret romance novel wouldn't be the first book Tatum's written. It turns out that Tatum is already the author of a series of New York Times-bestselling children's books with his most recent one, The One and Only Sparkella Makes a Plan, having been written during quarantine for his eight-year-old daughter, Everly.Photo via Getty/Kelly Defina https://www.papermag.com/channing-tatum-roxanne-gay-novel-2659282603.html

#Roxanne gay #Novel #Romance novel #Book #Literature #Magic mike #Magic mike's last dance #Sparkella #Channing tatum #Matt Moen #PAPER

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Here Are 7 Wild, Wacky, And Truly Unbelievable Things From "Inventing Anna" That Happened IRL, And 6 Things That Were Made Up For The Show The truth is honestly just as strange as fiction.

In case you're not watching, the show follows the legendary Anna Delvey, who claimed to be a German heiress with over $60 million in bank accounts overseas. Delvey (whose real last name is Sorokin) became a staple of the New York social scene, and was able to con businesses into loaning her massive amounts of money so she could start her own social club, only to have the whole scheme unravel.

The show is based on a 2018 article written by Jessica Pressler for The Cut, and while it nails a lot of the IRL details, showrunner Shonda Rhimes took some creative liberties in telling Anna's story.

I broke down which plot points are fact and which are fiction, and TBH, some of them might surprise you: Major spoilers ahead, so if you haven't finished the show yet, proceed with caution!

1. Fact: Yes, Anna really did steal a jet. If you've finished the show, you might recall that Anna (played by Julia Garner) "steals" a private jet when she charters it to take her to billionaire Warren Buffet's annual conference held in Omaha, Nebraska, and ends up never paying for it. As wild as it sounds, this did actually happen! Anna and Rob Wiesenthal, the CEO of Blade, a company that chartered private jets and helicopters, ran in similar social circles. When Anna chartered a $35,000 private jet from New Jersey to Omaha, Wiesenthal thought nothing of it. Anna sent the company a forged wire transfer confirmation, and the payment obviously never came."We’ve let people slide in the past, quite frankly, and they’ve paid," Kathleen McCormack, Blade's CFO testified during Anna's trial. Because Wiesenthal socially knew Anna and the types of people she hung out with, "we felt she was good for payment, so we booked her for the flight."

2. Fiction: Anna's boyfriend, Chase Sikorski, is technically not a real person. While the original magazine article mentions that Anna had a boyfriend, he is never mentioned by name. Instead, he is referred to as "a futurist on the TED-Talks circuit who’d been profiled in The New Yorker." In fact, Chase Sikorski (Saamer Usmani) is a completely made-up character. Last week, Anna shared on her Instagram stories she would share the name of her ex-boyfriend with media outlets for $10,000, but friends beat her to it, revealing that Anna used to date Hunter Lee Soik, a tech entrepreneur. “Hunter is the person who got her into the scene,” a source told Page Six. “He is a social person globally. No one knew what he did, but he was always giving advice on how to climb the corporate ladder.”

3. Fact: Vivian Kent (aka Jessica Pressler) was pregnant while writing the article. Jessica Pressler, the journalist who the character of Vivian Kent (played by Anna Chlumsky) was based on, was actually pregnant while writing the article, but it wasn't quite as intense as the show made it seem. Instead of turning in the story while in labor, Pressler submitted her draft when she was eight months pregnant.

"It was not a thing where there was a towel on the floor of the office, but they did tell me she was going to be pregnant," Pressler told Vulture. "I think Shonda liked the idea of a woman being pregnant, and it was an interesting thing to show that you can live your life while being pregnant."

4. Fiction: Pressler's baby nursery was not actually covered in a web of pics of Anna. While the "murder wall" was a nice visual touch for the show, Pressler said that she didn't actually pin up pictures of Anna and her friends in her baby's nursery. Instead, she kept up with all of the people involved in a much more tech-friendly way.

"To be clear, there wasn’t a murder wall. I had a spreadsheet. But that’s not very visual. That would have been Google Docs: The Show," she joked to Vulture.

5. Fact: Anna really knew Billy MacFarland (of Fyre Festival fame), and Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli. t's only fitting that a bunch of convicted scammers were all friends, right?

Anna actually roomed with Billy MacFarland while he was in the throes of planning the Fyre Festival, which was notoriously disastrous. Sorokin lived at the headquarters of Magnises, MacFarland's now-shuttered credit card company for four months in 2013. In a very Anna-like twist, she asked to stay for a few days as a favor, and ended up living in the headquarters for months without paying rent.

“She had Balenciaga bags and clothes everywhere," an anonymous source told Page Six in 2018. "The company wound up moving into a townhouse. That’s the only way they got her out! She had been there for four months!”

You might also remember the character from the dinner party who played unreleased Lil Wayne tracks for the group. He's also a real person Anna was friends with. Martin Shkreli, also known as the "Pharma Bro", is currently in prison for fraud after making the price of an anti-malaria drug (that was also used to treat HIV) skyrocket by more than 4,000%. And as for the Lil Wayne songs? According to Anna's friend, Neff Davis, who was at the party, Shkreli played them the album nearly six months before it was set to release. Neff recalled that when she tweeted about hearing the album, Anna got angry with her. "I wanted everybody to know that I heard this album that the world is waiting on! But Anna was pretty mad," she told Pressler. "She didn't come down to my desk for maybe three days."

6. Fiction: Anna didn't get any special treatment in prison during her interviews. The show depicts Anna frequently pushing Vivian to schedule media visits in order to get a private room and special treatment. Once Vivian follows through on Anna's request, they end up in a private room, complete with tea and comfier chairs. Sorokin herself debunked this, telling the New York Times that there "def was no tea" at Rikers. She added that when she was sent to prison in upstate New York, there was a cash-only coffee machine visitors were welcome to use. She made sure to clarify that "it doesn’t come in porcelain cups,” so that detail was just a little bit of TV magic. Pressler has also said that she never brought Anna a fresh supply of underwear while in prison, as seen in the show.

7. Fact: Jessica Pressler loaned Anna clothes for her trial. While Pressler didn't actually cover the trial, she did lend Anna clothes for her time in court, as depicted on the show. In the show, Vivian struggles with the decision to loan Anna clothes once her husband questions how invested in the case she is. Pressler said that the actual situation wasn't as emotionally charged as portrayed. "It was more like this kind of screwball sequence of ridiculousness," Pressler said. As discussed in the show, defendants have to wear civilian clothes during trial. After a series of issues with getting the outfits approved by the court, and Anna's refusal to wear some of the clothes, Anna's lawyer Todd Spodek (played by Arian Moayed)asked Pressler to go to H&M to pick up a new outfit for Anna to wear. "That sort of opened the door for me to fill the gap whenever there was a 'wardrobe malfunction,' as the prosecutor put it," Pressler told Vulture. "I did throw in one of my dresses at one point, but it was black. I did not feel like it was a conflict at all. I felt like, 'This will be a funny story someday.'"

8. Fiction: Jessica Pressler didn't really attempt to break into Anna's family home in Germany, although she did visit to research for a potential book. Jessica Pressler did go to Germany to scope out the truth about Anna's family life, but she didn't actually snoop through Anna's family's windows like Vivian Kent does in the show. Pressler said she decided to go in order to figure out the truth after hearing so many different stories about Anna's past. "There were a lot of conspiracy theories going on, and I started to have so much material, I thought I would do a book of some kind," she told Vulture. "So I went, but it was not quite like that. There was a lot more laughing."

Pressler's book, Bad Influence: Money, Lies, Power, and the World that Created Anna Delvey, is set to release in June.

10. Fiction: Pressler's editors weren't that stubborn about allowing her to write the story.

Pressler admits that while writing a long feature about Anna, who at the time, was only known to members of New York's elite social scene wasn't a given, the reaction from her editors' wasn't quite as extreme as it was portrayed on the show.

"I think the show bosses are a stand-in for patriarchal offices in general. But this is a thing where fact is braided with fiction," she told Vulture. "It was not a no-brainer to do an 8,000-word story about a non-famous person. It might be now. They did want me to write a Wall Street Me Too story, and I did react in pretty much exactly that way — though not as articulately. I did have to sell the story, but it was definitely not exactly the way it was on the show."

Like Vivian in the show, Pressler was trying to rebound from a previous workplace misstep. In a "Reasons to Love New York" list, Pressler interviewed a high school senior who claimed he made $72 million on the stock marker. This turned out to b

12. Fiction: Jessica Pressler didn't help Anna's lawyer, Todd Spodek, during the case, but they do know each other.

While the show portrays Vivian Kent helping Todd Spodek out with parts of the case by assisting with the boxes of discovery materials from the District Attorney's office, Spodek is adamant that no journalist helped him in any way while prepping for the trial.

However, Pressler and Spodek do actually know each other, and even went out on the couples' dinner that was seen on the show.

"I had a conversation with Todd Spodek’s real wife recently," Pressler told Vulture. "I told her there are things that are true, but there’s a scene where we all go to dinner and talk about Anna the whole time, you and Vivian’s husband are rolling your eyes, and obviously that never happened. And she’s like, 'Oh, but that did happen.' But the restaurant was different!"

13. Fact: Julia Garner nailed Anna's accent, and even Anna herself had to give Garner some credit.

A lot of Julia Garner's preparation for playing Anna involved getting the Russian/German combo accent down. Garner first had to learn how to layer a Russian accent with a German accent. She told BuzzFeed that she also modeled Anna's English off of the way Europeans speak English.

After moving to New York, Anna definitely picked up quite a few American speech patterns, which Garner also worked into her dialect.

"I almost wanted it to be like, if she went to Europe, then to her European friends she sounds American. Then in America, she sounds European. It's a hybrid of different accents."

So what did Anna think of Garner's interpretation?

"I don't think it's off," Sorokin told Insider in a recent interview. "I think she kind of falls in and out of it. Some of it she gets right – but not everything. ... I don't feel like I sound like that. It's like when you hear yourself on TV and it's not really the voice you hear in your head when you speak."

16 Real-Life Facts About Anna Delvey, In Case The Netflix Series Wasn't Wild Enough

Julia Garner Explains How She Came Up With Anna's Accent, Plus 26 More Facts From The Making Of "Inventing Anna"

Here's 29 Things The Real People Featured In "Inventing Anna" Have Said About The Series

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it’s closer to the end of the article than the top dated June 24, 2014 Jessica pressler tony Kelly

“There’s the carnal shit you can’t deny. [...] There was a time in my life when I lived probably a bit more on the primal level. And it was amazing.”

auto saved 1:52 am pdt I think Bcz I’ve been touched by other men I don’t think he would have wanted me once I lost my virginity when I was 19 years old. 1:53 am pdt

2:23 am pdt I wish Q never came in to my life. I only kept seeing her Bcz she was acceptable to my mom and I thought she liked me and was nice. I even said at a Denny’s? Or ihop? That she’s the nicest person in the world. 2:25 am pdt she said we’re best friends or that I’m her best friend but she never told me who she who she had s*x with. That’s basically a standard in movies like romantic comedies that you tell your best friend what you did with who. If she couldn’t tell me then she was lying. 2:27 am pdt I figured that out this moment. 2:28 am pdt

2:30 am pdt I never forced her to tell me anything and there were questions online that she left unanswered. It’s like she’s a shark in my eyes smirking that I’m blind to what was happening infront of me. That she was actually mocking me infront of my face and online with enlarging my head in pictures she took. 2:32 am pdt If she was so bold to fake liking me and do stuff to hurt me while I was trying to like her and be happy with her... I wish I could have felt more with the friends I had before I met her. I wish I didn’t feel like a fraud Bcz I was too shy to say a lot. The friends I had b4 her weren’t perfect but I think they were maybe more open to me than she was? 2:35 am pdt which is ironic Bcz I felt too imperfect so I withheld a lot of thoughts and feelings . I was in a shell.. makes me think of turtles. I don’t know. That music is my boyfriend line bothers me and a lot of other stuff. It looks like I’m not going to see the day when people from this earth start going to the new planet I heard about that is like this earth but bigger. 2:39 am pdt if there are already people there with housing already there waiting for people to arrive wouldn’t that be a surprise? 2:40 am pdt

2:59 am pdt I don’t feel much like trying to recover anymore. I am tired. 3 am pdt I wish I was somebody’s somebody. 🎶🎼🎵🎤🎸

3:03 am pdt matchmaker matchmaker find me find catch me a catch 🎸🎵🎼🎤 3:04 am pdt

3:06 am pdt I don’t appreciate you lying (pain 3:07 am pdt forehead) to me. Chop off my head now, incubus. 3:07 am pdt 3:08 am pdt

3:18 am pdt I guess he forgives Nick carter. (Tummy upset gurgle diarrhea 3:18 am pdt) I guess he thinks he did not do anything wrong and deserves to be forgiven. And women need to just suck it up. 3:20 am pdt I don’t think it is ever going to change. 3:20 am pdt I don’t feel like trying anymore. 3:21 am pdt

3:24 am pdt my clock skipped a minute. Q probably set me up to be a sacrifice. I don’t think Q helped me at all. I suffered a lot. I don’t think Q knows pain at all. 3:26 am pdt I think Q is lying and faking everything is music is her husband. 3:26 am pdt who did I have phone s*x with? I think after I moved out end of 2018, Brendan lean’s MySpace profile picture was removed. 3:29 am pdt there was one day that his MySpace was public and I saw he had an older sister named Catherine? 3:30 am pdt

3:53 am pdt incubus protects rapists Bcz he relates to them and cuts down his victims. I guess you have to be a woman to understand how violated someone can feel that you have possibly been forcibly impregnated at a time you’re not ready to be. To have someone trespass without caring about your feelings. And then they don’t want to make amends and worse. Incubus enables them to hide it. If you like that sort of man I guess the whole world is stuck with incubus. 3:58 am pdt am I the only one trying to do something? And I’m suffering to take down incubus? If incubus is incubus then that whole thing I seemed to have picked up, that idea that only bad things happen to bad people, can you really say that when incubus is your god? How about I don’t say anything anymore. Nick carter gets away with rape and murder and so does incubus (left shoulder pain 4 am pdt) me and Shannon Ruth die. And guess whose left with Nick carter and incubus? That’s right, you are. And if he’s still got libido and muscle and power do you think you won’t be next? Maybe he likes guys, too, or little boys. 4:02 am pdt

4:06 am pdt Q wrote on her Flickr she doesn’t fight crime. If her focus was only me the entire time, I believe it. 4:07 am pdt don’t count on Q to REALLY sacrifice anything? If she really stole art ideas from me like I suspect that’s pretty low considering she had enough money to go to many concerts including Coachella. 4:09 am pdt don’t count on Q to be a hero. 4:09 am pdt yeah I think I will stop doing stuff Bcz I’m dying anyway. So why help other people get arid of a problem they don’t deserve to be helped with? You treasure Nick carter more. So have fun! Okay? Okay! 4:10 am pdt pain left shin. I will go do whatever I want that’s on my bucket list which is probably edited now to watching as many movies as I can while at this hotel. 4:11 am pdt don’t cry to me when incubus + friends devirginize your relatives. 4:12 am pdt

5:41 left shin pain difficulty breathing pain tongue. Fox News last night? Was saying a lot of people are committing suicide Bcz of stuff on social media. If they’re purely victims and incubus is god, do you think incubus is going to save them? He is the devil? A hungry lion ? He’s looking for sacrifices, but he keeps guys like Nick carter Bcz they share a lot in common? 5:44 am pdt incubus would make me depressed too if I think about him for several minutes at a time. 5:44 am pdt

5:45 am pdt in 2017 ? There was stuff online saying maroon 5 fans are ... I forgot but I remember it was a little disturbing? Unflattering? Like they lack a sense of what sounds good probably Bcz incubus for a long time gave a lot of (left nostril pain 5:46 am pdt) below standard performances. And I can say this unbiased. Bcz it was during a time I gave him benefit of the doubt and tried to like him. And I’m trying to smile and like it but I start to feel crazy trying to like what I hear. When I watch and listen, I’m like, this is really bad. 5:48 am pdt

6:03 am pdt I am in misery there ain’t no body who can comfort me. 🎵🎸🎼🎤 i formerly liked the sounds of that song. I guess I’m a da*ned vine. Bcz my name means rose and lily. Some flowers 🌹🌸💐🌺🌷🌻 grow from vines. I’m d*mned. Dams are like big bath tubs. 6:06 am pdt he’s killing my heart again. 6:07 am pdt it’s hot in the center and my right side. 6:07 am pdt

7:43 am pdt incubus is still hurting my ribs Bcz he likes it when people are crying in pain especially women. I think he’s trying to reduce my rib cage size to crush my internal organs. 7:45 am pdt

2:16 pmpdt if the earth is expiring it’s ok if he leaves me here to die. 2:17 pmpdt

2:44 pmpdt I don’t want his unethical ass near me and I don’t want Q’s unethical lazy ass near me. 2:45 pmpdt

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Everything We Know About Channing Tatum’s "Ghost" Remake So Far

A favorite movie of the 1990s may be getting a remake by none other than “The Lost City” actor Channing Tatum. The 1990 film “Ghost,” which originally starred Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, and Whoopi Goldberg, is apparently on the actor’s radar, according to a January interview with Vanity Fair. The revelation came during the interview as Tatum was making pottery with journalist Jessica Pressler,…

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Hey Quick Question: Why Is Fashion So Obsessed With Anna Delvey?

Welcome to our column, “Hey, Quick Question,” where we investigate seemingly random happenings in the fashion and beauty industries. It seems like almost yesterday that Anna Delvey first came onto our radar — and not for good reasons. As we’re now well aware, the story of Delvey-slash-Sorokin first went viral in a 2018 The Cut article by Jessica Pressler. The riveting exposé detailed how the…

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Shonda rhimes anna delvey

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The surfaces shine, the dialogue is snappy, and the cast has pep. The villains have layers the heroes have weaknesses. The characters are rendered broadly but not cartoonishly. Inventing Anna features a lot of what Rhimes fans enjoy about her work.

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Though Rhimes made her reputation with the hit medical melodrama Grey’s Anatomy, the most influential shows from her Shondaland production company have been the likes of Scandal, How to Get Away with Murder and Bridgerton: stories about the ways the powerful flex their privilege, and the ways they can be brought low by small-timers bearing grudges and guile. This is all prime material for a Shonda Rhimes project, too. It encompasses so many quintessentially New York themes: An immigrant reinventing herself in a land of opportunity the preoccupation with the projection of success over true substance and the sometimes destructive results of FOMO envy in a city where someone is always out-thriving someone else. The Anna Delvey story could be Vivian’s last big shot. She’s also heavily pregnant, but ignores the advice of her friends and husband to take early maternity leave, because she’s determined to regain her lost prestige. She’s now hanging on by her fingernails at her old Manhattan job, stuck in a corner cubicle among the magazine’s unfashionable old-timers, where she half-heartedly chases whatever trendy story her editor assigns. A former rising star, she made a glaring error in a buzzy article and subsequently saw a prestigious new gig evaporate.

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Inventing Anna begins with Vivian at a low professional ebb. That said, it is worth noting how the character has been fictionalized, because that speaks to what the storyteller thinks makes for a compelling protagonist - and why a journalist’s life might need tweaking to be more “dramatic.” (Pressler’s not really a public figure, so it’s possible she insisted on the change.) It’d be unfair to criticize Inventing Anna based on how closely or not Vivian resembles her real-life inspiration, because that clearly isn’t what Rhimes and her team set out to do.

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Movie and TV movie producers fiddle with the particulars of true stories all the time: for legal reasons, for poetic license, or because using the real person’s name and details might be intrusive. There’s nothing inherently wrong with this switch. While Vivian shares some biographical traits with Pressler - most notably the lingering sting of a big professional embarrassment - the name-change indicates that Vivian shouldn’t be seen as exactly the same person who wrote the New York story. But her character (played by Anna Chlumsky) has been renamed Vivian Kent, and the magazine she writes for is now Manhattan. The show is officially adapted from Pressler’s article and she’s one of its producers. The second major character in Inventing Anna is Pressler … but not entirely. She then became a minor celebrity after her story was told by the reporter Jessica Pressler in a lengthy 2018 New York Magazine profile. Born in Russia as Anna Sorokin, she spent time in Germany, London, and Paris before visiting New York and finding it strangely easy to slip into the social circles of the obscenely wealthy. The first is Anna Delvey (played by Julia Garner): a cunning and stubbornly mysterious con artist who a few years back duped several well-connected rich folks and multiple high-end New York City institutions into believing she was an aristocratic European heiress and fundraiser. There are two main characters in producer Shonda Rhimes’ new Netflix miniseries Inventing Anna, both based on real people.

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The con woman antihero in the age of social media- Cinema express

Incredulous and engaging, Inventing Anna is one of those “inspired by true events” stories that is a mixed bag. The titular character’s problematic history of conning the powerful and wealthy became very public when Jessica Pressler’s New York Magazine article hit the stands. It made ripples through the high and mighty circles Anna Delvey hustled her way into. Creator: Shonda RhimesCast: Anna…

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I TOTALLY HATE WEEKENDS 🙈

By the way, let tell you about this new Netflix miniseries called INVENTING ANNA.

Inventing Anna is an American drama miniseries created and produced by Shonda Rhimes, inspired by the story of Anna Sorokin and the article in New York titled "How Anna Delvey Tricked New York's Party People" by Jessica Pressler. The series was released on Netflix on February 11, 2022. Julia Garner starred as Anna Sorokin, the title character. The series received mixed reviews from critics, who praised the performances (particularly Garner) but criticized the inconsistent tone.

Well... I suggest this to you and I also suggest you to watch the tinder's swindler also on Netflix

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“Inventing Anna” and the Importance of Bias in Perspective

So I watched “Inventing Anna” about the Anna “Delvey” Sorokin and I also read the article from Vanity Fair article “ Inventing Anna Is a “Dangerous” Distortion, Says Rachel Williams”https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/02/inventing-anna-delvey-netflix-real-rachel-williams. Rachel Williams was portrayed as disloyal and a “user” on the show while Anna’s other friends are shown as simply being drawn in by charisma. I wondered why she would be portrayed as the only person in Anna’s circle who “took advantage” of a rich friend (ignoring the irony that Anna literally is the one actually taking advantage of people - poor and rich alike). Why is Rachel being portrayed as a user in a bad way but Anna is portrayed as a user in a sexy way?

I also read the interview with her old friend Neff Davis who is the only one of her old friends still on her side. This is what shed to light on Rachel’s portrayal to me. Neff consulted on the show. The original reporter also helped make the show. Which REALLY explains the glamorizing of Anna and making her look like such a genius when there is no real proof she was one to the degree she wants to be seen as one. Why they glamorized how she looked, acted, dressed, and made her seem like a twisted genius. Also blamed her parents who are just working class people who there is no evidence did anything wrong.

I don’t mind conning rich people. Fuck the rich. Eat the rich. They are garbage. I love me a good guillotine. But how Anna treated service workers and non-wealthy friends like Rachel is pretty gross tbh. The show has been called out by everyone (Even Anna - despite her still using the money to pay her court fees). There are dumb perspectives here. The reporter and Anna are just...two shallow characters tbh who the show tries and fails to make us sympathize with. Idk. I liked the show. But I find the way characters are portrayed to be largely fictional. I’m taking it all with a grain of salt. It is a show that glamorizes Anna to give her the fame that she wants and that also give reporter, Jessica Pressler, a chance to further save her own reputation after the Mohammed Islam debacle...

It just feels...so biased. It is for Anna to get fame and money and Jessica to take a center stage. And for our entertainment. I’m refusing to take any of it as real events. But the show was a fun watch.

#inventing anna #neff davis #rachel williams #anna delvey #anna sorokin #jessica pressler #con artist #queencolondarkwing #rachel deloache williams

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annadelveyfoundation · 2 years

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VV: Is there anything that you admire in her? And if you do, does that then become problematic? JP: That’s part of the fascination with her and with all con-artist stories. We all admire their confidence. They can just breeze into any situation and say or do things that we never would. Most people have fraud syndrome, and she basically has the opposite of fraud syndrome. I don’t know if it’s problematic to admire that. I think you can admire a good quality. People have good qualities and bad qualities, and you can admire the good while being aware that someone is taking it too far.

Jessica Pressler interviewed by Valentina Valentini for Shondaland in “Jessica Pressler Introduced the World to Anna Delvey — But She Still Can’t Decide How She Feels About Her,” published on 11 Feb 2022.

#anna delvey #jessica pressler #con artists #con artist culture #imposter syndrome #confidence

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She knew from the start that the story was going to be somewhat fictionalized. "I think it was always going to be not me," Pressler says of the journalist character on the show. "The show is fictionalized, and the character is a guide to this universe. When I met Anna Chlumsky, she was like, 'I’m not doing you,' and I was like, 'Great!' Vivian is like an all-caps angry email of me, but there are things that are very real mixed into it.

https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/a39094223/jessica-pressler-real-life-vivian-inventing-anna-factcheck/

#inventing anna #vivian kent #jessica pressler

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‘Inventing Anna’ Is Completely True and Riveting, Except for the Parts That Are Totally Made Up By: Grace Tu

Based on journalist Jessica Pressler’s article “How Anna Delvey Tricked New York’s Party People,” Netflix’s newest drama “Inventing Anna” has viewers obsessed with the life of the German heiress whose life is filled with private parties, limitless credit cards, the best champagne and endless luxuries; she couldn’t possibly be a con artist, could she? Released on Feb. 11, the series has gained an immense amount of success, telling the story of the woman who tricked everyone around her, including New York’s elite.

The titular character of “Inventing Anna” is playful, determined, sociable and rich — or so she claims to be. Anna Delvey (Julia Garner), whose real name is Anna Sorokin, is arrested for multiple counts of attempted grand larceny — larceny in the second degree and theft of services. Journalist Vivian Kent (Anna Chlumsky) is determined to uncover the truth of whether Delvey is truly a socialite with an incredible trust fund, or if she manipulated everyone into thinking she is one. As she chases after the truth, so do many of Delvey’s friends and associates: her lawyer Todd Spodek (Arian Moayed), her friend Neff Davis (Alexis Floyd), her business partner Alan Reed (Anthony Edwards), her victim Rachel Williams (Katie Lowes) and more. But the more she learns about Delvey, the less Kent seems to understand her subject.

As a so-called socialite, Delvey’s wardrobe was bound to be filled with the most chic pieces straight from the runway. Balenciaga, Celine, Chanel and Gucci — you name it, she’s got it. The fashion in “Inventing Anna” was partly what made Garner’s Delvey so convincing as a rich heiress; the girl looked like an exquisite Barbie doll with the amount of beautiful outfits she wore. With Burberry trench coats, Alaïa statement dresses, Birkins and Lady Diors, Delvey mingled with Manhattan’s richest and turned New York into a runway. Even during her trial, she arranged to have her courtroom outfits prepared by a stylist, which drew a great amount of attention both in the show and in real life. The show’s costume design team recreated many of Delvey’s outfits — from her designer looks to her courtroom fashion — and made the character much more believable with her style.

As a show based on real events, “Inventing Anna” follows reality extremely closely. The series includes Delvey’s climb up the social ladder to blend with New York’s richest, and her eventual fall from grace. The journey is exciting, especially when you consider that all of these events happened in real life. Some aspects, however, were dramatized for the sake of the narrative. For example, Kent is an original character, although she is based on Jessica Pressler — the journalist who wrote the story on Delvey in real life. She is assisted by a team of three older writers, who serve mainly as comedic relief. The media visits to the prison were also portrayed to be much better than reality; there would never be coffee served in porcelain cups in real life. These changes are minor and therefore do not detract from the show’s realism.

What does detract, however, is the way that some characters act and how others are portrayed. Kent’s actions violate journalistic ethics at times when she convinces Delvey to go to trial instead of taking the plea deal, and again when she works with Delvey’s lawyer in an attempt to write a better story. Admittedly, this is a flaw of the show that should not be ignored, as it paints journalism in a negative light. In the series, Williams is portrayed as someone who was only attracted to Delvey’s wealth, getting tricked in the process, but still benefiting from what happened by using her friend. However, the real Williams never acted this way. She was a victim of Delvey’s manipulation, yet the show seems to set her up as someone who was equally as bad in an attempt to establish Delvey as the one viewers should root for.

Opinions on “Inventing Anna” seem to be split. On the one hand, it’s widely liked by viewers, holding the number one rank on Netflix’s top ten at the time of its release. On the other hand, it faces some serious problems with critics who are more concerned with its closeness to reality. So what’s the verdict? If you want to delve into the specifics of the ethics surrounding journalism and the portrayal of the case, then you might run into some problems with the show that you won’t quite like. But if you want some casual entertainment about a riveting tale of lies and manipulation, then “Inventing Anna” is the one for you.

Grace Tu is an Entertainment Staff Writer. She can be reached at [email protected].

https://www.newuniversity.org/2022/03/08/inventing-anna-is-completely-true-and-riveting-except-for-the-parts-that-are-totally-made-up/

#Inventing Anna

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