Hello for the third time in 8 days. This week we’re covering the full gamut of topics: Why the monarchy will miss Meghan and Harry; a perfect essay on fame and sexism by Lena Dunham; the catch-22 ’likability trap’ that stunts all women’s success and a final deliberation on Back With The Ex. Plus, Harvey Weinstein is going to prison but Roman Polanski is winning French Oscars and Woody Allen would be writing a multi-million dollar memoir (if not stopped by the efforts of his estranged son, Ronan Farrow). Why, oh why, are we still having to deal with these two - given everything we know about their treatment of children? And is Woody Allen’s cancelled book deal a victory for #MeToo or censorship, as Hadley Freeman suggested in a column in The Guardian? Then we inevitably lose our minds about how depressing everything is and need to google pictures of Zendaya and her cute boyfriend to calm us. Enjoy <3

Recommendations:

Back With The Ex on Netflix

Lena Dunham in The Guardian: Caroline Flack’s Death Hit Me With A Sickening Power

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/feb/29/lena-dunham-on-caroline-flack

Hadley Freeman in The Guardian: Why Hatchette Was Wrong To Drop Woody Allen’s Memoir

theguardian.com/film/2020/mar/09/woody-allen-publisher-wrong-drop-memoir-let-him-speak

To Catch And Kill Podcast With Ronan Farrow: The Verdict, A Conversation With Rose McGowan

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-catch-and-kill-podcast-with-ronan-farrow/id1487730212

Richard Morgan in The Washington Post: I Read Decades Worth of Woody Allen’s Private Notes, He’s Obsessed With Teenage Girls

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/i-read-decades-of-woody-allens-private-notes-hes-obsessed-with-teenage-girls/2018/01/04/f2701482-f03b-11e7-b3bf-ab90a706e175_story.html

Maureen Orth in Vanity Fair: 10 Undeniable Facts AboutThe Woody Allen Sexual Abuse Allegation

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2014/02/woody-allen-sex-abuse-10-facts

A.O Scott in The New York Times: My Woody Allen Problem

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/31/movies/woody-allen.html#commentsContainer

Jess McHugh in The Guardian: The Polanski Protests Have Brought France’s #MeToo Reckoning A Step Closer

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/08/roman-polanski-metoo-france

Elian Peltier in The New York TimesAdele Haenel: France ‘Missed The Boat’ On #MeToo

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/24/movies/adele-haenel-france-metoo.html

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