The Sunday Digest 025
Brad Pitt and caviar, baby.
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New Episode › Retail Therapy 013: Tote Bags & Caviar Bumps
The rise of 'caviar bumps' at New York City dinner parties, Dior's $9,000 gardening collaboration, the beauty of a good tote bag, Will's Ladcore Quote of the Week, and some wishlist/imminent cop list additions.
Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and anywhere else podcasts are found.
The Sunday Haiku: Long Weekends
Sunburned, hungover, tired.
Lotion, Advil, Gatorade.
Yep, I’m not moving.
Sunday Read: Brad Pitt Opens Up His Dream World
by Ottessa Moshfegh for GQ
People Magazine would arrive to our house weekly. After my parents paged through it, it normally made its way to the bathroom where it would sit on a stack of even more People Magazines. For a middle schooler like myself, it was a window into a place that didn’t really seem real — Hollywood.
The King and Queen back then? Well, obviously, it was Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston. I’m not sure if it was his appearances in those magazines or if it was his actual, you know, acting but it was at an early age that Brad Pitt solidified himself as someone who should be on the Mount Rushmore of Hollywood Celebrities.
And in 2022, not much as changed as exhibited by this month’s cover story in GQ.
Brad Pitt—the golden boy from Missouri who moved to California on a lark at 22 and became the biggest movie star in the world, who reportedly makes up to $20 million a film, who was twice part of perhaps the most famous relationship on the planet—cannot go anywhere without being stalked by the paparazzi. It’s easy to see how this man might feel hunted and haunted. What’s perhaps surprising is how the bad dream eventually went away: Only by studying this nightmare—by taking careful note of it and trying to pin down its meaning—did it begin to have less of a hold on him.
Read it in full here.
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— Will
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