Debunking Trump’s Pet Coronavirus Theory; Celebrity in the Time of Quarantine; and More

[The New York Film Festival Is Still Happening This Fall]( [View in your browser]( | [Update your preferences](newsletter=vf) [Vanity Fair’s Cocktail Hour Newsletter]( A daily digest of things to discuss over drinks May 09, 2020 [Why Scientists Believe the Wuhan-Lab Coronavirus Theory Is Highly Unlikely]( [Trump and Mike Pompeo’s favorite blame-China theory makes great propaganda—but dubious science.]( [READ MORE »]( [Thanks to Pandemic Paparazzi, Stars Really Are Just Like Us—At Last]( [Taking aimless neighborhood walks, wearing masks or not, they have fulfilled the prophecy set for them by Us so many years ago.]( [READ MORE »]( [If You Like The Eddy, You Should Revisit David Simon’s Treme]( [The underappreciated HBO series about post-Katrina New Orleans was a love letter to jazz, bursting with vibrant live performances in every single episode.]( [READ MORE »]( [New Study Finds COVID-19 Infections Would Plummet If 80% of Americans Wore Masks]( [There’s compelling evidence that Japan, Hong Kong, and other East Asian locales are doing it right and we should really, truly mask up—fast.]( [READ MORE »]( [Euphoria’s Makeup Artist Is Bringing Season Two’s Would-Be Looks to Instagram]( [With production temporarily on pause, behind-the-scenes pro Doniella Davy has become her own canvas in quarantine.]( [READ MORE »]( [From the Archive: The Kremlin’s Long Shadow]( [The sensational death of Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko, poisoned by polonium 210 in London in 2006, was still being investigated well into 2007 by Scotland Yard. Many suspected the Kremlin. But interviewing the victim’s widow, fellow émigrés, and toxicologists, among others, Bryan Burrough explored Litvinenko’s history with two powerful antagonists—one his bête noire, President Vladimir Putin, and the other his benefactor, exiled billionaire Boris Berezovsky—in a world where friends were as dangerous as enemies.]( [READ MORE »]( [][Vanity Fair]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [YouTube]( This e-mail was sent to you by VANITY FAIR. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, vanityfair@newsletter.vf.com, to your address book. View our [Privacy Policy]( [Unsubscribe]( Copyright © Condé Nast 2020. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.