Trump Is Trading Dr. Fauci For a Fellow Game Show Host

As his staffers smear the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in the press, the president is sharing public-health expertise from a fellow game-show host. If you have trouble reading this message, view it in a browser.       The President Is Trading Dr. Fauci for the Ex-Host of Love Connection   In regard to atoning the United States' continued failures surrounding its COVID-19 response, it's hard to see any source of hope outside the community of experts, as the virus once again spirals out of control across the country. The way out certainly will not be found in our political leadership. The president spent this morning sharing the public-health stylings of Chuck Woolery, the former host of Love Connection, who logged on to spout off some conspiratorial nonsense. Apparently, the president couldn't have said it better himself. So he retweeted it to his 83 million followers. Read More           The Best Places to Buy Face Masks Online Right Now   Contrary to what you may be seeing in the great outdoors, there's never been a more important time to wear a face mask. The United States is far from escaping the wrath of the coronavirus pandemic, and the easiest way to do your part in stopping the spread is to mask up the minute you close your front door. Whether you've been dragging your feet on equipping yourself or are ready for a refresh, we've rounded up the best places to snag one right now. Read More           'Things Are Not as Expected': Inside Rome's New Normal   It's been a full month now since Rome's bars reopened, and certainty that a second wave would soon cut the celebrations short has dissolved with surprising ease into long, hot summer nights, impromptu jazz troupes busking in the piazzas, crazed drunks everywhere, even on Mondays. Yet there remains everywhere a pervasive, wrenching sense of anxiety, and Rome is a city split into parallel worlds. Where alcohol isn't readily available, in the suburbs and along the tacky, Mussolini-era thoroughfares unloved by locals, shopkeepers still plead with their eyes for custom when you so much as peer through their windows, and street peddlers can no longer find a single tourist gullible enough to buy a gimcrack Animatronic Cat-On-A-Stick. Ben Munster reports from within Rome, where post-lockdown life feels a little more complicated than expected. Read More           How Intimacy Coordinators Make Hollywood Sex Scenes Safe   You may not know Ita O'Brien's name, but if you're at all in the loop about prestige television, you know her work. O'Brien is a pioneer in the emerging field of intimacy coordinators, a new category of Hollywood professionals who work on film and television sets to choreograph simulated sex between actors. Yet this challenging and necessary work is so much more than choreography—it's also a constant negotiation of consent and communication, with intimacy coordinators balancing the safety of performers alongside the vision of writers and directors. In the wake of the #MeToo movement and Hollywood's continuing reckoning with rampant sexual misconduct, intimacy coordinators have become a fixture on film and television sets, yet O'Brien argues that the role has yet to reach a necessary point of saturation in the industry, with a long road still ahead in the way of standardizing how we keep actors safe. Esquire's Adrienne Westenfeld spoke with O'Brien about her work on shows like HBO's I May Destroy You and Hulu's Normal People, and how her job is rapidly changing. Read More           Peter III's Over-the-Top Wardrobe in 'The Great' Is a Perfect Vacation From WFH Style   Bingeing Hulu's The Great recently was the balm Esquire's Avidan Grossman needed during lockdown. The 10-episode miniseries, which started streaming in mid-May, is a gleefully anachronistic romp through 18th century Russia, as told through the protracted rise to power of Catherine the Not-Yet-Great (played by a beguiling Elle Fanning). The show centers around Catherine's souring relationship with her husband Peter III (the somehow-sympathetic Nicholas Hoult), a petulant, debauched Emperor who oversees a court of backstabbing social-climbers and sycophantic hangers-on constantly vying for his favor. And good lord, the clothing's good. Much attention's been paid to Elle Fanning's Dior-inspired court attire, but it's Peter's decadent, devil-may-care style—what costume designer Emma Fryer calls his "18th century punk rock, bad boy" look—that really stands out, particularly in the context of how men are dressing today. Read More           A 'Redskin' Is the Scalped Head of a Native American, Sold, Like a Pelt, for Cash   Native Americans pass down stories to preserve their history and heritage, because we don't have much of it left. As tribes were systemically exterminated, so too were their respective cultures. But we have our stories, and when my mother was young, her parents shared one about the term "redskins." Spencer Phips, a British politician and then Lieutenant Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Province, issued the call, ordering on behalf of British King George II for, "His Majesty's subjects to Embrace all opportunities of pursuing, captivating, killing and Destroying all and every of the aforesaid Indians." They paid well – 50 pounds for adult male scalps; 25 for adult female scalps; and 20 for scalps of boys and girls under age 12. These bloody scalps were known as "redskins." And so the current mascot of the Washington Redskins, if the team desired accuracy, would be a gory, bloodied crown from the head of a butchered Native American. On Monday, the team announced, after years of pushback, that it intends to finally change its mascot. But the threat of advertising vacancies aren't the real reason this should have been considered. Baxter Holmes offers a reminder of the meaning behind the phrase the team chose to ignore for far too long. Read More         Read More on Esquire.com       Follow Us     Unsubscribe  Privacy Notice   esquire.com ©2020 Hearst Communications Inc. All Rights Reserved. Hearst Email Privacy, 300 W 57th St., Fl. 19 (sta 1-1), New York, NY 10019