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1972 “Perhaps the most tragic aspect of Monroe’s life is that her sexiness was in large part a put-on required of her by the times,” Newsweek said a decade after the American sensation’s death. Despite her public image as a “dumb blonde,” Monroe paved the way for female entertainment industry stars. She was one of the first women to start her own production company, Marilyn Monroe Productions, which produced its first independent film, The Prince and the Showgirl, in 1957. Many actresses today head their own companies, such as Reese Witherspoon who recently sold Hello Sunshine for over $900 million. 1994 “Defeat in the gulf war didn’t break Saddam’s bad habits. Indeed, the latest showdown is his third major provocation since his army was broken and driven bleeding from Kuwait,”…

“It was mostly hell on earth.”—JOHN LYDON ON BEING A SEX PISTOL “EVEN WHEN I WAS A BONDAGE MODEL IN THE 90s, I HAD BIG-TIME BOUNDARIES.”—BURLESQUE PERFORMER DITA VON TEESE “We are still, after all these years, not doing a very good job of keeping track of people killed by police.”—JUSTIN FELDMAN, A HARVARD RESEARCHER WHO WAS A PEER-REVIEWER ON A STUDY OF POLICE KILLINGS “I know that I was very sceptical about it all but after doing my own research I felt like it was best suited for me and my family and my friends.”—LEBRON JAMES ON COVID VACCINATION “WE FAILED TO FULLY GRASP THAT THERE WAS ONLY SO MUCH FOR WHICH — AND FOR WHOM — MANY OF THE AFGHAN FORCES WOULD FIGHT”—Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin “Usually, he…

01 Instant Salads of the Midwest MINNESOTA In the American heartland, the term salad adheres to regional vernacular and often has nothing to do with vegetables. One example, Jell-O Salad rose to prominence as an easy, affordable way for housewives to prepare something new and stylish. Using a packet of instant gelatin, these molded salads could contain almost anything, sweet or savory. 02 Beefy Handwarmers NEBRASKA Members of the Russian-German community opened small shops dedicated to these handheld, spiced meat pockets, which grew so popular that they spawned a chain. The first runza store opened in 1949. Today, there are about 85. Locals eat runzas regularly, but they are especially abundant at football games, where they’re used as edible hand warmers. Excerpt adapted from GASTRO OBSCURA: A FOOD ADVENTURER’S GUIDE by…

ON SEPTEMBER 8, PARENTING AND LIFESTYLE influencer Jordan Cheyenne posted a tearful YouTube video updating her 538,000 subscribers on the family puppy, Rosie. The dog had just been diagnosed with canine parvovirus, a frequently fatal disease. Sitting beside her in the front seat of their car, Cheyenne’s 8-year-old son cries. Then Cheyenne, fighting back tears herself, says, “I know she’s going to make it through. She’s a beautiful, amazing little girl and I can’t wait to bring her home and be part of our family. So if you could pray for us, we appreciate it. I love you guys. Bye.” That’s probably where she meant to end the video. But the post that went up also included several additional seconds of Cheyenne coaching her son to look more convincingly upset…

A RECENT GATHERING IN A QUALITY Inn ballroom in rural Bradley, Illinois, offered a glimpse—terrifying to most epidemiologists, thrilling to longtime vaccine “safety” activists—of America’s growing political divide over vaccinations and its implications for the nation’s health. Ostensibly, the meeting was a community forum about employer mandates for COVID vaccines that the organizer expected to draw 80 people in this overwhelmingly Republican exurb of Chicago. Instead, more than 300 people piled in, mostly to complain about the notion that anyone—a boss, a school, a government—could force them to take any vaccines at all. As one Libertarian county commissioner told the crowd: “I will fight for your right to believe in whatever god, medicine or way of life you choose.” The event is being replicated in some form or another in…

MORE THAN 40 YEARS AFTER FIRST FORMING, the famed and influential British rock band are still tight-knit. When the four members—singer Simon Le Bon, keyboardist Nick Rhodes, bassist John Taylor and drummer Roger Taylor—get together in a room, as they did during a recent visit to New York to promote their forthcoming album, Future Past, the camaraderie and joking among them is more what you’d expect more from best friends than workmates. Rhodes says, “The reason we weathered the storms is because we all really like working together, and what we can create as a unit is far more powerful than things we would do individually.” Future Past, the band’s 15th studio album (due out on October 22), is fittingly titled since Duran Duran have always been a reflection of…

NOSTALGIA FOR THE ’90S IS MORE POPULAR THAN EVER. YOU CAN SEE IT in fashion, music and, of course, television. Now Brandy Norwood, one of the women who dominated the decade’s pop culture, is back with ABC’s new series Queens (October 19). “If you’re not from the ’90s, you want to either be from the ’90s, or you wish you could have witnessed a lot of the things,” she says. The show follows a fictional hip-hop girl group getting back together in modern day to rekindle the magic. Eve, Naturi Naughton and Nadine Velazquez fill out the rest of the cast: “Our bond and our energy together, we lift each other up. It’s like a real group.” But fundamentally the show serves as a statement for something that is desperately…

SKILL OBSOLESCENCE IS SOMETHING we all experience. When was the last time you had to read a paper map? Or balance a checkbook? Or dial a rotary phone? But just as the experience of the pandemic has spurred sweeping changes in other aspects of our lives, it has affected this too, expediting the pace at which some professional skills become out of date by more than 70 percent. That is one of the central findings of a new survey of over 3,000 executives that we conducted in partnership with The Official Board, a global directory of medium and large companies. While the respondents were largely C-suite types, the insights and takeaways are applicable to any employee trying to maintain relevance at work during these challenging times. The goal of…