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The latest in pop-culture news, recaps, and reviews, plus close reads, profiles, interviews, and more from Vulture.com. [Brand Logo]( What to Read Today [Andrea Long Chu Wants More The 26-year-old critic argues for a new understanding of gender and desire in her debut book, Females.]( By Lila Shapiro [Ted Bundy: Falling for a Killer Will Feature His Girlfriend and Daughter As well as other women who survived Bundy’s attacks.]( By Jordan Crucchiola [Watchmen’s Extremist Superhero Dystopia Succeeds on Sheer Nerve Damon Lindelof’s sequel series extends the landmark comic’s complex politics into an alternate present riven by racism and class anxiety.]( By Matt Zoller Seitz [Preemptively Spend Your Tax Return on Shiv’s Backless Succession Turtleneck Iconique.]( By Devon Ivie [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Stop Trying to Make Zombieland: Double Tap Happen This sequel to Jesse Eisenberg and Emma Stone’s 2009 Zombieland has been in the works forever — but, watching it, it’s hard to understand why.]( By Alison Willmore [Felicity Huffman Is Leaving Jail One (1) Day Early Meanwhile, she’s enjoying 5 a.m. wake-up calls and crafts.]( By Devon Ivie [YouTube’s Most Famous Family Is Experiencing Kardashian-Level Drama The ACE Family patriarch, Austin McBroom, has been accused of rape.]( By Zoe Haylock [The Secret to a Good Mystery Movie? It Isn’t the Surprise Michael Green, the writer behind Blade Runner 2049 and two Agatha Christie adaptations, reveals the key to resurrecting a whodunit for the screen.]( By Chris Lee [Holiday in the Wild Trailer: Safari Daddy Rob Lowe, Meet Jilted Kristin Davis Save the elephants!]( By Devon Ivie [Tana French Is Our Best Living Mystery Writer With her Dublin Murder Squad series, she has built a world that’s more George R.R. Martin than Agatha Christie — minus the beheadings.]( By Hillary Kelly [Katy Perry Lives Her Biker-Girl Fantasy in ‘Harleys in Hawaii’ Video Vroom, vroom.]( By Justin Curto [Weinstein Lawyers Discredit Accuser, Say She Underwent Hypnosis They claim her testimony is “unreliable.”]( By Victoria Bekiempis [Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington Predict the Oscar Winners The On Cinema stars run us through some of 2019’s contenders for Oscar gold.]( [We Regret to Inform You That Elton John Did Not Like Beyoncé’s Lion King Music He called the new movie a “disappointment.”]( By Justin Curto [Ellen Made a Surprise Appearance at the Debate Last Night An unexpected end to the three-hour-long affair.]( By Zoe Haylock [Elton John’s Rivalry With Rod Stewart Is the Most Iconic Friendship We can all only hope to have a friendship as … invested … as Elton John and Rod Stewart’s.]( By Justin Curto [In Maleficent 2, Angelina Jolie and Michelle Pfeiffer Lose Out to CGI Flowers The main allure of this movie is the chance to watch its two powerhouses vamp across the screen. Why won’t Disney let us live?]( By Angelica Jade Bastién [One Neat Trick to Writing Great Mystery Plots The critic and author of the Charles Lenox series advises doing what Michelangelo did, but backward.]( By Charles Finch [Deadpool and Jim Halpert Will Be Your Imaginary Friends In a new comedy.]( By Devon Ivie [Parasite’s Choi Woo-shik Is Optimistic About the Movie’s Devastating Ending One of the stars of Bong Joon-ho’s new movie talks Hollywood, reading diaries, and the song that plays after Parasite’s end credits.]( By Hunter Harris [Emergence’s Showrunners on How to Build a Puzzle-Box Show Step 1: Don’t be afraid to answer your mysteries.]( By Kathryn VanArendonk [13 of the Best Celebrity Stories From Elton John’s Name-dropping Memoir, Me From trash-talking with Freddie Mercury, to reuniting John and Yoko, and plenty more.]( By Justin Curto [Gina Rodriguez Is Sorry If Saying the N-Word Offended You “I am sorry.”]( By Zoe Haylock [Taylor Swift’s Tiny Desk Is Just a Girl and Her Guitar, No Teardrops Needed “You guys ever have costume changes at Tiny Desk?”]( By Zoe Haylock [Hello! The Mrs. Doubtfire Musical Is Coming to Broadway in 2020 Starring Rob McClure.]( By Jackson McHenry [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Read more from Vulture](     [Subscribe to New York]( [Subscribe to New York](   Subscribe for $5 and get [unlimited digital access]( to Grub Street, New York, Intelligencer, the Cut, and Vulture.     [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe](param=daily)   |   [privacy notice](   |   [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on e-mail newsletters please contact AdOps@nymag.com New York Media LLC 75 Varick St., New York, NY 10013 Copyright © 2019, All rights reserved