Morning. Busy one today: a new crop of Mouseketeers, Kelly Clarkson roasting NBC from a Vegas stage, FIFA’s halftime show turning into a full blown football scandal, Harry facing a $67 million question in two weeks, and Christopher Nolan quietly benefiting from outrage doing his own marketing.
Before we dive in, congratulations to Michele Filon, our competition winner, who takes home a copy of Jo Piazza's new novel, The Parisian Heist, for answering the question: Which real woman, celebrity or otherwise, do you think deserves more credit than she gets? Piazza's novel weaves a modern-day art heist together with the true story of Jo van Gogh-Bonger, Vincent van Gogh's sister-in-law, who inherited his then-worthless paintings and spent decades building his fame, a role history rarely credited to her. Readers also suggested Yoko Ono, Courtney Love, Angelina Jolie, Meg Ryan, and Annette Bening. Jo chose Michele's answer, Artemisia Gentileschi, whose paintings were long attributed to male contemporaries before being rediscovered and correctly credited, an erasure that closely mirrors Jo van Gogh-Bonger's own story.
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