Innholdsfortegnelse for July 2016 i ELLE

THE GLORIOUS MS. RUDOLPH ON HER IMITATION GAME For seven seasons on Saturday Night Live, Maya Rudolph carried sketch after sketch with her over-the-top but somehow totally dead-on impressions—Donatella Versace, Beyoncé, and Oprah among them. Now, with Maya & Marty in Manhattan, the hour-long NBC variety show she cohosts with Martin Short, Rudolph is back in the live format she knows best, delighting audiences with guest star–laden skits, song and dance, and, of course, her homage-style mimicry that never makes any one celebrity the butt of a joke. Her first impression: “Roseanne Roseannadanna! As a kid I could wear my hair naturally and make the scrunched-up face and complain like her. I was 100 percent about getting the laugh.” The character we’ve yet to see: “I’ve always wanted to do…

You’re one of the few women to ever have a successful late-night show. Why move to Netflix for Chelsea, your new talk show? I wanted Netflix to pay for the college training I never had—to learn about politics, science, the galaxy. The show is about learning, with me as an idiot. We traveled all over the world. In Tokyo, I went to geisha training school. I took my shirt off to change into a kimono, and the woman I was with almost had a heart attack because the cameras were all around. But you know what? The whole idea is to desensitize the nudity thing. That’s the point with all the naked pictures I post of myself online—to have them not be news. The fact that they still are annoys…

The time in my life when I felt my absolute most attractive was not the time Mark Wahlberg told me I was sexy. That was 2000: My friend and I spotted his hulking figure in the lobby of an awards show, and after a quick Cheshire Cat do-I-have-anything-in-my-teeth grin at each other, we intrepidly made our way over. I was wearing a fringy skirt from Patricia Field and artfully smeared black liner. “Excuse me, Mark? Hi,” I said. “We just wanted to tell you that Boogie Nights is our favorite movie. And we think you’re really hot.” “Well, thank you,” he said, scanning us from head to toe, not leering exactly, but close. He was even brawnier than he looked in the movies, with powerful, oddly hairless forearms. At the…

When it was alleged this past March that Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller, also a rodeo rider who suffers from chronic pain, used public funds to travel to Oklahoma and get something called the “Jesus Shot,” the story was so fascinatingly strange it made national news—which is saying a lot in this election cycle. Among the more outlandish details: The man who administered the $300 injection, a convicted felon who goes by Dr. Mike, claims the formula (the contents of which he won’t disclose) relieves pain not just temporarily but forever— and contends the idea for it came to him courtesy of, well, Jesus. All that smacks of quackery, but the report coincides with the increasingly broad use of various shots and IV treatments to eradicate everything from jet lag…

“Now that I’m a lady…men have to help me. I don’t lift a finger.” My father gave me a pointed look. “It’s one of the great advantages of being a woman,” she said. “You write about the disadvantages of being a woman, but I’ve only found advantages!” As you mull that passage, double-taking on the pronouns and your gender assumptions, get ready for more like it in Susan Faludi’s latest book, In the Darkroom, which is about, among many other things, her effort to reconnect with her long-estranged father, who at age 76 announced to his daughter that he’d decided to become a woman. Faludi is a touchstone among those of us who were college-age or professional women in the 1990s and aughts, not for the impact of her personal…

KRISTEN WIIG “I wanted to be an actress as much as any other 10-year-old girl thinks it in front of a mirror. But it wasn’t anything I thought I could ever do. Hollywood seemed like another world.” MELISSA McCARTHY “You can only make what you’re doing as good as possible—if you ever want to do it again.” KATE McKINNON “When I do an impression, I’m celebrating the part of myself that overlaps with whomever I’m doing. If there’s no overlap, I can’t do it.” LESLIE JONES “Remember the George Jefferson days? Let’s start offending each other again. Our world really needs comedy back!”…

“I’m finally at a time where I don’t sound like a punk giving advice,” says Whitney Cummings, the model–turned–actress–turned– bona fide comedy magnate, who graduated magna cum laude with a degree in communication from Penn, to boot. “In your twenties, you make mistakes and it’s like, ‘That’s what life’s about.’ And you’re still making the same ones in your thirties and you’re like, ‘This isn’t a choice anymore; this isn’t cute.’ ” Following a whirlwind rise from unknown to ubiquitous (after years of stand-up, two Cummings-created sitcoms—the now-defunct Whitney and CBS’s ongoing 2 Broke Girls— were picked up by broadcast networks in 2010), Cummings has spent the last six years focusing on making good choices. This year, with a hilarious and cerebral stand-up special, I’m Your Girlfriend (HBO), in her…

GRAPHIC CONTENT Heritage monograms get punk’d with optical stripes and micro studs CHARM SCHOOL Pearls, grosgrain, and the sweetest of hearts—let the season’s delightfully girly accessories put a spell on you…

The misconception that appalls me the most is when people think that my social media persona or my persona on The Mindy Project is a reflection of my job as a showrunner. They think I just show up and vamp around and wear lipstick and make a couple of pop-culture references, then get in my convertible and drive back to my Barbie mansion. A lot of women are suspicious of girls who embrace traditional expressions of femininity—and I definitely identify as someone like that. It doesn’t match what they consider to be a leader or a serious person. Mindy Lahiri gets away with a lot. She says some incredibly reprehensible things. But coming from someone who dresses in bright pastels and has the voice of Minnie Mouse, it’s more palatable…

OUT OF EDEN Viggo Mortensen and the actors playing his six children turn in brave, committed performances in director Matt Ross’s autobiographically rooted feature, Captain Fantastic. When this family of back-to-the-land hippies is pulled out of its Pacific Northwest forest idyll to deal with a family tragedy, the clan’s tightly knit, free-thinking ways clash with the lifestyles of the more conventional members of their extended family, and further thinking is required—with unpredictable consequences. COLLATERAL DAMAGE Boy actors Michael Barbieri and Theo Taplitz lift the perfectly balanced drama Little Men into sublime territory as they struggle with the fallout of their parents’ falling-out. It’s all about gentrification—nothing personal!—as a family (Theo’s) moves into an inherited Brooklyn town house and finds that, to make ends meet, they must radically raise the rent…

THE MORE THINGS CHANGE… Journalist Clara Bingham’s Witness to the Revolution: Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year America Lost Its Mind and Found Its Soul (Random House) is a copiously reported and illustrated oral history covering the 12 months in 1969 and 1970 when—weary of the Vietnam War, assassinations, and brutal police actions—“hundreds of thousands of young Americans took to the streets…fueled by marijuana, LSD, and rock and roll; inspired by the third-world freedom revolutions.” Bingham conducted 100 interviews over three years with major figures of the 1960s peace movement: SDS founder Tom Hayden, Weather Underground cofounder Bernadine Dohrn, and Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg, among others. Drawing on these voices, as well as memoirs, protest songs, and other secondary sources, Bingham builds an indelible portrait of a traumatized,…

In-the-know patients seeking the very best in everything from skin resurfacing to derriere de-dimpling keep one name at the top of their must-see list: Robert Anolik, MD. The New York dermatologist takes a diversified approach to antiaging, nimbly combining state-of-the-art laser technology with prudent needlework—he was the protégé of the late Fredric Brandt, MD, renowned as one of the world’s most skilled injectors of Botox and fillers—to achieve subtle but transformative results. “Sun damage and age reveal themselves in so many different ways,” Anolik says. “When a new patient comes in, they’re often focusing on one issue, like a brown spot, but much of our conversation goes toward thinking about the overall picture of beauty and how to keep skin looking fresh, healthy, and natural. I think doing a little…

“I’m sorry I couldn’t have the pool filled,” says Chloe Gosselin as she perches on stilettos from her eponymous shoe line. She’s in the sun-filled solarium of her New York City penthouse, where, a year prior, said 30-foot lap pool sprang a leak that seeped through to neighboring apartments. A mess, to be sure, but it’s difficult to be bothered by much of anything, even soggy neighbors, in the sprawling 20,000-square-foot home (10,000 feet of apartment plus 10,000 of deck) that occupies the fifty-fourth through fifty-seventh floors of a midtown building on a stretch of Manhattan real estate so prime that brokers have taken to calling it “billionaires’ row.” What was purchased in 1997 as a bachelor pad by Gosselin’s then fiancé, David Copperfield— yes, the übermagician— is now a…

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CANCER JUNE 22–JULY 22 July 4th dovetails with the annual new moon in Cancer, liberating you from restrictive relationships and self-imposed restraints. Calculated risks bring huge dividends, especially on the 16th, when the Sun and sanguine Mars conspire on your behalf. Bet high! On the 6th, a Mars-Venus meet-cute sets an affaire de coeur ablaze, while the 19th’s full moon helps cement the official status of a partnership. Attached? Stock your shared calendar with extracurriculars, as playtime seals your bond. On the 22nd, you’ll knuckle down at work— mercifully so, as you were about to blow the bank! LEO (JULY 23–AUG 22) Pass the sun tea and praise the hammock! Until the 22nd, life looks too pixelated to plan anything major; in fact, you may be nursing the wounds of…

“Hey, Robbie, I need advice on breaking the glass ceiling and becoming a real Ghostbuster…for a friend!” Amy Schumer recently deadpanned to Jimmy Fallon, “It’s an exciting time for women in comedy!,” as if imparting the oldest bit of news in the universe, no doubt because she’s been asked to comment on the “state” of women in comedy ad nauseam. We’ve indeed come a long way since Christopher Hitchens argued nine years ago in Vanity Fair that women would never be as funny as men—because evolution demanded that men had to learn to be funny for the species to survive, as it was the only surefire way to guarantee attention from the opposite sex. A year later, he gave himself credit for the deluge of brilliant— and pulchritudinous—female comedians who’d…

My introduction to improv was as clichéd as a Borscht Belt punch line. One night, during my sophomore year at the University of Notre Dame, my roommate, who was majoring in Russian language and theater, was going to audition for a production of Wendy Wasserstein’s Uncommon Women and Others. She asked if I wanted to tag along. I’d never acted before, other than the time I portrayed a duck in the second grade play, but as it was an unseasonably warm Indian summer evening, I decided to join her. Our class was the ninth since the university had gone coed. Title IX had passed into law about a decade earlier, but women were still outnumbered close to four to one, hence the need to share a theater department with Saint…

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Candid, irreverent, and outrageous, this queen of low-key hilarity is a stand-up comic who’s been open about her struggle with depression, a onetime Saturday Night Live cast member (at 22!), and one of the most multidimensional entertainers in Hollywood. Is there anything that you won’t joke about? Nothing is taboo if you have an angle on it. That said, critiquing women’s human shells isn’t my thang. Though there’s probably something funny or interesting to be said about those who do it, and what that comes from. Not to be all PC. But I’m guessing that would be the area of the fresh angle on that shit. Do you perceive yourself as a guy’s girl? I play poker and basketball, and I do stand-up, and those things tend to involve lots…

We, as a country, are in steep debt— more than one trillion dollars in Treasury bonds—to a well-armed communist dictatorship, China. If this elephant in the national living room, lurking ominously behind election-year climate-change talks and free-trade limits, unsettles you, you’ll find cathartic release in Lionel Shriver’s hilarious, brilliant new novel, The Mandibles: A Family, 2029– 2047 (Harper), because in it, the consequences have hit for real. Instead of 1929, it’s 2029; China jump-starts a depression by dumping all its T-bills at once, devaluing the U.S. dollar while orchestrating an international accord to replace it with a new currency called the bancor. The United States can’t buy into the bancor with dollars; it has to swap oil, corn, gold—actual commodities. The president refuses, and with America excluded from the global…

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Eyes, we know, are the windows of the soul—but in Japan, it’s said that “the eyes are as eloquent as the tongue,” which may be truer still. Those ineffably lovely, mindbogglingly complex orbs transmit as much information as they receive, about everything from the state of our health to whom we love (our pupils dilate when our eyes are on the prize). A sustained gaze, which is a sign of trustworthiness in the West, can signal disrespect in the East—yet despite such cultural variations, we all tend to rate a person who meets our eyes with theirs as more likable, intelligent, and dominant than someone who avoids eye contact altogether. Seeing eye-to-eye— literally—is a wildly powerful thing: When two people lock looks for a prolonged period of time, their brains…

WHO YA GONNA CALL? If you’re putting together ELLE’s first Women in Comedy Issue, the answer is clear: You’ll call Melissa McCarthy, who arrived like a comedic comet in 2011’s box office–busting Bridesmaids and has been banking huge hits, such as The Heat and Spy, ever since. You’ll pull the inimitable Kristen Wiig back from her recent (and glorious) dramatic orbit. You’ll add a pair of Saturday Night Live standouts: sly, slinky Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones, the inyour-face dynamo Chris Rock has proclaimed “the funniest woman I know.” Now that you have your veritable dream team—one that’s uniting forces in Ghostbusters, the most anticipated comedy of the year—you’ll photograph them looking more chic than ever. But that’s not all: You’ll also round up 14 of the most audacious stand-ups…

While other talk-show hosts sing karaoke in cars or play charades with celebrities, Late Night’s Seth Meyers has smartly carved a niche by delivering savvy political commentary with a sly smile, finding the funny in Republicans who are trying to defund Planned Parenthood or in the Clinton-Sanders debate over fossil fuels. Meyers has been busy offscreen, too, since leaving Saturday Night Live in 2014: The 42-year-old comedian and his wife, prosecuting attorney Alexi Ashe, welcomed their first child in March. Here, Meyers opens up about being a new dad, Donald Trump, and why no one will be going through his e-mails anytime soon.—Mickey Rapkin ELLE: Congratulations on the birth of your son. Did you cry in the delivery room? SETH MEYERS: I couldn’t stop laughing and I couldn’t stop crying.…