The Real Life Gangster's Wife From Casino |
"She was the most beautiful girl I ever saw," Frank Rosenthal remembers. "Statuesque. Great posture. And everyone who met her liked her in five minutes. The girl had fantastic charm. "When I met Geri, she was a dancer at the Tropicana. She was also a chip hustler. She was a working girl. She had a couple of guys who she went with, and she made about $300,000 a year. "I used to meet her after work, but the more I went out with her, the more I saw in her. I realized that I was changing my attitude toward her one night when I went over to see her dance at the Trop. When she came out, I saw that she was topless. Suddenly, it bothered me. I walked out. She didn't give it much thought. She just thought I was busy. I don't think it even dawned on Geri that I was beginning to feel differently about her." "She used to dance and finish up whatever hustles she had for the night, and then she'd meet me at Caesars. One night, she said she had an appointment at the Dunes and that she'd meet me later. I got curious. I wanted to see what she was up to. So I did what I had never done: I went over to the Dunes to see her in action." |
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You Can't Bring Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Down |
Most of today's televised science fiction suffers from what I call Marvelitis: the sky is always falling, the fate of the galaxy is always at stake, the space-time continuum is always in danger of splintering apart. It's into this grimdark landscape that Star Trek: Strange New Worlds arrives like rescue from an away mission gone wrong. Paramount's years-long campaign to breathe new life into the storied Star Trek franchise has brought sleeper hits like Lower Decks and divisive misses like Discovery, but Strange New Worlds is hands-down Star Trek's best outing in decades. So much about the series just works, from its stellar cast to its nostalgic but breathable grip on Trek lore, but what elevates Strange New Worlds from other streaming sci-fi is its insistence on sweetness and silliness. Keep your multiverses, your convoluted tragic backstories, your hyper-serialized storytelling about the end of the universe as we know it—I'll take my sci-fi with a heaping side of hijinks. |
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The Best Songs of 2022 (So Far) |
Unless you've had your head buried under a rock, you are very aware of the troubling news that's been flooding the 'Net. Fortunately, this barrage of distress has not hindered our favorite artists from hitting the studio to pump out good music. In fact, dope beats and clever lyrics are the only things that have been consistent since the pandemic. This year has been no different. Fans received ear-candy from up-and-coming acts like Wet Leg, who have been bullying every instrumental they hop on, to legends like J. Cole and Kendrick Lamar, who, well, continue to be Cole and K.Dot. We understand that life gets in the way, and it's hard to keep up with the seemingly endless release of singles and albums that drop every Friday. With that, we complied a list of the best of songs in 2022, so far. |
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Lisa Taddeo Is Saying the Quiet Parts Out Loud |
Lisa Taddeo's work is addictive. Once you start reading, you (legally) cannot stop. You'll find yourself flipping through the crisp pages of her books late into the night, devouring the inner psyches of her haunting, irresistible female leads—both fictitious, like in Animal, and adapted from journalistic pursuits, like the New York Times bestseller Three Women. If you're won over by gorgeous sentences and fiction so true to your experience it feels real, there's something for you in Taddeo's work—particularly Ghost Lover, her new collection examining a breadth of characters, all connected by Taddeo's talent for capturing the heterosexual female psyche at its best and its grueling, unspeakable worst. Speaking by Zoom after a morning on set (the rights of both Animal and Three Women were acquired by MGM for adaptation), Taddeo spoke with Esquire to discuss Ghost Lover in depth. |
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Adam Sandler on Becoming a Schlub Style Icon: "It Took Awhile" |
Adam Sandler is sitting down at a press junket in an oversized red polo shirt, layered on top of an even more oversized undershirt; the white tee sleeves are creeping out just past his elbows. He's on the promo tour for his latest Netflix film Hustle and his real-life look isn't that different from the character he plays: a down-on-his-luck NBA scout who predominantly wears a mix of loose-fitting athleticwear from scene to scene. The difference between Sandler and his character, Stanley Sugerman, is that Sandler is a bona fide Hollywood actor, comedian, and producer who's worth over $400 million, but refuses to dress like one. It's probably the reason why he's been embraced as a style pioneer in the pandemic era, even though he's been sporting his signature schlubby looks off camera for more than three decades. "It took a while. I was working that angle for years," Sandler deadpans. "For a while I was like, 'Please accept me and the way I dress.' And 30 years later, they finally came around." |
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The Best Books of 2022 (So Far) |
Congratulations, dear reader: we've made it to another great season in books. Whether you read like the wind this spring or fell short of your goals, summer is peak reading season, meaning that it's a new lease on life, a new you, and a whole new slate of releases to devour. Whether you're looking to understand our current moment through rigorous nonfiction or escape it through otherworldly plots, 2022's crop of new titles offer something for readers of every persuasion. Our favorite books of the year so far run the gamut of genres, from epic fantasy to literary fiction, and tackle a constellation of subjects. If you want to read about spaceships, talking pigs, or supervillains, you've come to the right place. |
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