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☆ Red Lobster may soon have a new owner
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-24 | by ( Nathaniel Meyersohn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

New York CNN —Two months after filing for bankruptcy, Red Lobster is close to emerging with a new owner. Fortress is one of Red Lobster’s largest lenders and has financed the restaurant chain’s operations, including a new $100 million loan that allowed Red Lobster to stay afloat during its bankruptcy proceedings. Red Lobster has closed around 100 restaurants in recent months and has said it wants to close several dozen more locations. Mismanagement, competition, inflation and other factors brought down Red Lobster, which has been a pioneer in the restaurant industry. Red Lobster cut costs, removed longtime suppliers and implemented strategies that backfired, such as making $20 endless shrimp a permanent menu item.

Persons: Krystal, Logan’s Organizations: New, New York CNN, Fortress Credit Corp, Thai Union’s, CNN, Thai Union, Union Locations: New York, Thai Union, Thai

☆ Opinion: It’s time more horror films push back against queer stereotypes
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-13 | by ( Opinion Noah Berlatsky | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

But the portrayal of trans women as predators was a new innovation that had a huge impact on the horror genre. Andit had a big impact on Jonathan Demme’s “The Silence of the Lambs” in which the terrifying serial killer, Buffalo Bill, is a predatory trans woman (or more precisely, as Jos Truitt has explained, Bill is a transphobic caricature of a trans woman). The danger isn’t from trans women — it’s from heterosexual cis patriarchs — a reality much truer to life than Hitchcock’s fever dream. Perhaps in part for that reason, the director is careful not to make Longlegs trans or gay. It’s not just “Longlegs” which displaces violence onto queer people: Movies like “Psycho” and “Silence of the Lambs” are often acts of aggression aimed by male directors at queer people (and especially at queer women).

Persons: Noah Berlatsky, —, Noah Berlatsky Noah Berlatsky, Oz Perkins, Julia Ducournau’s “, ”, John Logan’s “, Longlegs ”, “, Lee Harker, Maika Monroe, Perkins, Anthony Perkins, Norman Bates, Alfred Hitchcock’s, ” Hitchcock, Bates, he’s, Norman, fatales, Hitchcock, Brian DePalma’s, Jason, James Wan’s, Andit, Jonathan Demme’s “, Bill, Jos Truitt, Alfred Hitchcock, Harker, it’s, Harker’s, Hunter ”, Perkins doesn’t, Longlegs, Nicholas Cage, Berry Berenson, Ted Levine, Ken Regan, Orion, queerness, Marc Bolan, Buffalo Bill, It’s Organizations: CNN, FBI, Lambs, Paramount, “, DOJ, Buffalo, Twitter Locations: Chicago, Hollywood, UCLA

NEW YORK (AP) — Someday soon, someone will be walking down the street proudly carrying a ludicrously capacious bag, bought for a ludicrously capacious price. Beginning, “My father Logan Roy was a great man,” the four cards represent the tragic failure of Roman (Kieran Culkin) to meet the moment. Tom, in his worst “human-grease-stain” way, imagined aloud what could be in the “ludicrously capacious” tote: “Flat shoes for the subway? (A group of prop sausages went for $5,250.) “The plastic ones are are actually much more durable as props," says Jacobs.

Persons: ”, Roy, “, Logan Roy, Roman, Kieran Culkin, Robert Wilonsky, there’s, Monica Jacobs, Jacobs, Tom, Shiv Roy, Sarah Snook, Logan, Shiv, Jeremy Strong, Kendall, Bridget, Cousin Greg, Nicholas Braun, ” Jacobs, Michelle Matland “, Sandro, — Organizations: Burberry tote, HBO, Heritage Auctions, New York, Express Locations: Dallas, American, New York

☆ ‘Wish’ review: Disney tries to thaw out its ‘Frozen’ magic with Ariana DeBose
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-22 | by ( Brian Lowry | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —More than 70 years after Disney had a cricket sing about wishing upon a star, “Wish” picks up that theme, in an animated movie that desperately wants to thaw out some of the studio’s “Frozen” magic. Hailing from members of that movie’s creative team, “Wish” doesn’t quite reach the stars, but it does shine intermittently while introducing another plucky teenage female heroine, gamely voiced by Ariana DeBose. The movie does however celebrate the power of wishes, and in the process, decades of Disney history. By that measure, “Wish” mostly delivers – a credible addition to Disney’s long filmography, even if it’s not exactly a dream come true. “Wish” will offer early-access screenings on November 18 and open wide in US theaters on November 22.

Persons: ”, gamely, Ariana DeBose, Julia Michaels, Benjamin Rice, Bruno, Asha, –, King Magnifico, Chris Pine, Chris Buck, Fawn Veerasunthorn, “ Raya, Jennifer Lee, Allison Moore, “, Alan Tudyk’s, Valentino, it’s, Indiana Jones Organizations: CNN, Disney, “ Locations: Rosas, “, Magnifico

☆ How to watch KSI vs. Tommy Fury, Logan Paul vs. Dillon Danis
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-14 | by ( Ben Morse | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

The build up to Saturday’s fight card – headlined by KSI vs. Tommy Fury and Logan Paul vs. Dillon Danis – has been anything but low-key. Like KSI, Paul also became well-known because of his presence on the internet, but has more recently blossomed into a rising star in the world of wrestling entertainment on WWE. Boxing for legitimacyWhile Danis and Paul don’t have a long history of boxing matches, the same cannot be said about Fury and KSI. Fury celebrates after defeating Jake Paul in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The man that defeated the once undefeated Jake Paul is now my opponent and I can’t wait to silence all the doubters that believe I have no chance.

Persons: Tommy Fury, Logan Paul, Dillon Danis –, Paul, Jonathan Brady, KSI, Joe Weller, Floyd Mayweather Jr, Anderson Silva, Olajide, YouTubers, Fury, Tyson Fury, ”, YouTuber Jake Paul –, –, Conor McGregor, Nurmagomedov, Danis, Jake, Logan, Paul “, DAZN, X, Paul’s fiancée, Nina Agdal, Agdal, ” Logan Paul, Jake Paul, Nate Diaz, Sam Hodde, – Paul, hasn’t, Paul don’t, Joe Fournier, Paul Harding, ” KSI, “ Organizations: CNN, KSI, AO, YouTube, Misfits, WWE, UFC, Danis, American Airlines Center, Wembley Arena, Getty Locations: Manchester, England, British, Saudi Arabia, Danis, Riyadh

The heat outside mirrored the fervor inside, as Vuitton proved, once again, that in the world of fashion, it's an unstoppable force. ACTIVISTS TARGET LOUIS VUITTON DURING PARIS FASHION WEEKJust before Louis Vuitton’s anticipated show, environmental activists from “Dernière Rénovation” sprayed the brand’s Champs-Elysées storefront with orange paint. According to social media, to challenge the luxury brands of Paris Fashion Week and the wealthy attending the specific event. Another proudly showcased the real seaweed – yes, seaweed – that went into crafting a striking 70s macrame dress. Stella’s Sustainable Market showcased her dedication to innovative materials, complemented by English sculptor Andrew Logan’s artistry.

Persons: Louis Vuitton’s, Zendaya, Cate Blanchett, Jennifer Connelly, Paul Bettany, Jaden Smith, Vuitton, Stella McCartney, Nicolas Ghesquière, Ghesquière’s, Armani, LOUIS VUITTON, “, ”, influencer Jeremstar, Robert Downey Jr, “ Emily, Ashley Park, Anna Wintour, Breteuil, Stella, Linda McCartney, ’, basked, McCartney, Andrew Logan’s, STELLA MCCARTNEY, ” McCartney Organizations: PARIS, harlequins, Paris Fashion Locations: City of Light, Paris, yore, PARIS, Camden

☆ Sarah Snook: 'Succession' star to play 26 characters in 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' stage show
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( Issy Ronald | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —After playing Shiv Roy in “Succession,” the critically acclaimed TV series that satirically portrayed the uber-rich but morally bankrupt Roy family grappling for control of a media empire, Sarah Snook will star in another production that skewers society. She will play all 26 roles in the “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” which will run for 12 weeks at London’s Theatre Royal Haymarket from January 2024. Directed by Kip Williams, the artistic director of the Sydney Theatre Company, the play will combine live performance and video “in an astonishing collision of form,” Theatre Royal Haymarket said. “I am elated to return to the London stage in such an astonishing piece of theatre,” Snook said, according to theater site WhatsOnStage. Snook’s “Succession” on screen parents are also returning to the London stage.

Persons: Shiv Roy, satirically, Roy, Sarah Snook, Dorian Gray, Kip Williams, Oscar Wilde’s, “, ” Snook, Kip Williams ’, Williams, Eryn Jean Norvill, ” Sarah Snook, Matthew Macfadyen, Tom Wambsgans, Claudette Barius, Henrik Ibsen’s “, Ralph Fiennes, Snook’s, Brian Cox, Logan Roy, Eugene O’Neill’s Pulitzer, Harriet Walter, Caroline Collingwood, Alba ” Organizations: CNN, London’s Theatre Royal Haymarket, Sydney Theatre Company, ”, Royal, London, Guardian, Old Vic Theatre Locations: “, Sydney, London

☆ Opinion | Put ‘Succession’ in the TV Pantheon
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-02 | by ( Ross Douthat | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +5 min

Then, too, the show’s judgment on elites can be read in two distinct ways, one more left-wing and one more right-wing. This consciousness came with varying levels of self-delusion, and none of these shows fully forgave their protagonists in the end. But the possibility of redemption existed for them at least notionally, and I think that’s why “Succession” seems like such an outlier among its peers. I think this critique is partially fair, and that, along with the strengths I described above, there is a savage superficiality to some of the characterizations in “Succession” that’s beneath the psychological level achieved on other famous TV dramas. When it comes to the desire for redemption and honesty and love, though, I’m not sure “Succession” is as barren as Phillips seems to suggest.

Persons: Kendall Roy’s, Logan, Tom Wambsgans, Roy, Naipaul, ”, Damon Linker’s, Brian Phillips’s, Tony Soprano, Walter White, Don Draper, There’s, Hank, Peggy Olson, I’m, Phillips, Shiv Roy, Shiv, Tom Organizations: “ Locations: Swedish

☆ Patriarchy, Shiv and That Last-Minute ‘Succession’ Decision
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-02 | by ( Amanda Taub | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

But the benefits of those bargains were always contingent on women’s relationships to men, Kandiyoti wrote. (Now for the required warning: “Succession” spoilers appear below.) One way to view the events of “Succession” is as the story of Kendall’s tragic misapprehension of his position in the family under his father’s patriarchy. He thought that as a son — the “eldest boy,” as he yowled angrily (and incorrectly) in the final episode — he was set to inherit everything. But actually, in patriarchal terms of power and position though not actual gender, he was effectively as vulnerable as a wife or daughter trapped in Logan’s orbit.

Persons: Kandiyoti, yowled

☆ ‘Succession’ Series Finale Recap: The Dotted Line
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-28 | by ( Noel Murray | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

At the end of the series premiere, Logan suffered a debilitating stroke, setting in motion the plot that would go on to drive four “Succession” seasons. Heading into the series finale, most of the big questions raised by that first episode remained unsettled. We will have a full review of the final “Succession” episode soon. In the meantime, here is a quick summary of how some of those questions were answered by the finale. Instead, Matsson becomes convinced that the sycophantic Tom will do whatever dirty deed the new bosses need done after the takeover.

☆ Opinion: The ultimate ‘Succession’ lesson
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-28 | by ( Richard Galant | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

We’re looking back at the strongest, smartest opinion takes of the week from CNN and other outlets. Walt Handlesman/Tribune Content AgencyIn a much more ominous vein, the theme of survival dominates the HBO show “Succession,” which is coming to an end Sunday. She’s so caught up in beating her brothers at the succession game that she can’t see this baby as anything but an obstacle.”“Ultimately, this storyline is a perfect encapsulation of the larger tragedy that is ‘Succession,’” Bodenheimer added. The contest for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination heated up last week with the official entry of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former President Donald Trump’s strongest challenger in the polls.

☆ ‘Succession’ Is Over. Why Did We Care?
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-28 | by ( Alexis Soloski | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

On Sunday night, with the second son, Kendall, poised to take it all, his younger sister, Shiv, betrayed him. The company would be sold to Lukas Matsson, a Swedish tech anarchocapitalist, with Shiv’s husband, Tom Wambsgans, as C.E.O. In its final season, “Succession” drew fewer than half the viewers, across all platforms, of “The Sopranos” or “Game of Thrones.” So if this was a water cooler show, that water was filtered. Yet its queasy, stinging satire of the ultrawealthy exerted an outsize influence on its audience. If you hardened your heart, or if your heart came pre-hardened, it made for a mutinous kind of comfort viewing, in which pleasure, envy and outrage could twine.

☆ The mourning dress codes of ‘Succession’
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-22 | by ( Jacquelyn Palumbo | Jacqui Palumbo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

“Succession” has treated us to both a wedding and a funeral as fate of the Roy siblings spin out towards its finale (which is produced by Warner Bros. Discovery, parent company of CNN), and its penultimate episode gave us mourning dress codes in a grand Catholic setting. “I can do anything — my dad just died,” Shiv responds when asked for a favor at the mass. By episode nine, with the company in a shaky post-Logan transition, the optics of how the Roy siblings perform at the funeral hold a lot of weight. Emotions must be stamped down, they maintain a fragile façade, and getting too close to the truth of Logan Roy is met with a wall of cognitive dissonance.

☆ ‘Succession’ Season 4, Episode 9 Recap: Dearly Departed
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-21 | by ( Noel Murray | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

(Caroline introduces Sally Ann as “my Kerry.”) These ladies share the bond of having loved a very difficult man; and when Marcia reaches out for Kerry’s hand, Kerry sobs. Logan’s fiery liberal brother, Ewan (James Cromwell), ignores his grandson Greg’s attempt to stop him from taking the pulpit. Roman has never had this kind of spotlight; and now his siblings expect him to “say the other side” of the Logan Roy story. Roman starts to give his generic “great, great man” speech, but then freezes and asks his family to bail him out. He acknowledges the pain his father could cause but he also celebrates how Logan made “bloody, complicated life” happen.

☆ ‘Succession’ Style, Episode 9: The Funeral
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-21 | by ( The Styles Desk | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

This article contains spoilers for Episode 9 of the final season of “Succession.”We knew it was coming: the funeral service for Logan Roy. After several episodes of planning and maneuvering, the Roy children finally have the chance to ceremonially mourn their father. The funeral guests wore black, and the Roy children stuck to the dress code. Because his immediate observation upon seeing Marcia at Logan’s funeral — “Marcia’s looking chic” — is something one of us would definitely say, if we didn’t already say it during her one (one!) Although we wouldn’t be so, uh, crude about it.

☆ On ‘Succession,’ if You’re Eating, You’re Losing
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( Tejal Rao | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Autumn light filters through the treetops of Central Park West, streaming into Jean-Georges, giving the gray banquettes a matte, silver gleam. Each table, though in clear view of the others, is luxuriously cocooned by space, almost private. It’s the ideal place, really, for the Roy children — the scions of the Waystar Royco media empire on HBO’s “Succession” — to discuss their father’s funeral arrangements. The conversation is brisk, and though they chose Jean-Georges as their meeting spot, they don’t eat the food. They leave the pastries — the dark, oversize canelés and fruit-studded buns — along with the platter of fanned, cut fruit, completely untouched.

☆ ‘Succession’ Season 4, Episode 8 Recap: The Will of Some People
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-14 | by ( Noel Murray | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Here, he listens to Shiv’s argument that ATN could slow the Mencken momentum. The first is that Kendall really wants the next president to kill the GoJo deal, which Roman insists Mencken will do. So Kendall asks Shiv to take one more shot at persuading her ex-lover Nate to get Jimenez to make that same promise. This sets up the second impediment: when Kendall call Nate to iterate more clearly what Shiv claims to have said. ATN really is about to help elevate an authoritarian to America’s most powerful public office because one spoiled brother is in a snit.

☆ ‘Succession’ Style, Episode 7: Snakes and Scorpions
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-07 | by ( The Styles Desk | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

This article contains spoilers for Episode 7 of the final season of “Succession.”It’s election eve in the world of “Succession,” and the Roys are jockeying for position. Kendall and Roman ramp up their efforts to stop the Matsson deal, and Shiv and Tom host the tailgate party with Logan’s preordained guest list. This “AOL era, legacy media, putrid stuffed-mushroom” fest, as Matsson calls it, even has an electoral party game with a kettle corn prize. Matsson stuns in a golden bomber jacket, but Tom may be the quiet style star of the night. GT: Fur confidence or velvet confidence?

☆ Trump operatives considered using breached voting data to decertify Georgia's Senate runoff in 2021, text messages show
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( Zachary Cohen | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

It’s unclear what if any evidence he has in his possession related to the Coffee County breach. Penrose and Logan were also named in a state-level criminal investigation in Michigan alleging they participated in a conspiracy to seize voting machines there. A local election official helped them gain access to sensitive voting data which they downloaded onto a portable hard drive. Bundren was part of the team enlisted by Trump’s lawyers to find evidence of widespread voter fraud after the 2020 election. Bundren helped oversee the multi-state push to access voting machines on behalf of the Trump legal team, according to several documents obtained by CNN.

☆ Opinion: I’m betting on Cousin Greg. But I’m not a serious person
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-12 | by ( Gene Seymour | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

By now, we should be used to HBO’s series pulling the rug out from beneath our expectations. Still, as more than one pundit observed of Logan’s death, this one shocked more than merely surprised. Not me, though I do miss Brian Cox already because few actors anywhere are as adroit at playing dyspeptic sociopaths. It would be at the very least ironic if “Greg the Egg,” the minion’s minion, stumbled into power as if he tripped on a sidewalk. I’ll say no more on this except to suggest that you all try to remember who in the end won that “Game of Thrones.” It’s not inevitable.

“The Learjet pilot read back the instructions clearly but began a takeoff roll instead,” the FAA said in a statement. The NTSB says neither airplane was damaged and nobody on board was hurt. The FedEx plane, meanwhile, climbed as its crew aborted their landing to help avoid a collision, the FAA said. Air traffic controllers had “noticed another aircraft crossing the runway in front of the departing jetliner,” the FAA said in a statement. Audio recordings detail swift action by an air traffic controller kept the airplanes from colliding as they drew closer.

☆ Nurses strike: Mount Sinai NICU mom stays by her son's side in hospital after his primary nurses leave to strike
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-10 | by ( Celina Tebor | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Her one-year-old baby, Logan, has been in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) since he was born. For the past three and a half months, he’s been under the care of Mount Sinai Hospital where thousands of nurses are currently striking. But since Mount Sinai’s nurses began picketing Monday, new travel nurses have replaced Logan’s primary care nurses – nurses who don’t fully understand her son’s needs, she said. Lora Ribas' son Logan, seen at Mount Sinai with Shernette, a primary care nurse caring for the one-year-old neonatal intensive care unit patient. Transporting infantsIn preparation for the strike, Mount Sinai announced Friday it would transport newborns in its intensive care unit to other area hospitals.

☆ 'Succession' Season 4 teaser trailer promises more Roy drama
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-24 | by ( Marianne Garvey | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —A new teaser trailer for the fourth season of “Succession” is short but delivers the drama. It also confirms when viewers can expect to see the new season of the HBO show. The teaser aired during the “House of the Dragon” Season 1 finale and had spring 2023 on the closing title card. New episodes of “Succession” will follow the Season 3 finale, which saw Logan Roy selling Waystar Royco with his kids unable to stop him. Elsewhere, we see battle lines drawn as other members of the Roy family and their allies deal with the fallout of Logan’s decisions.

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