Welcome back to The Daily Courant, your afternoon digest of Puck’s latest reporting.
First up today, Eriq Gardner illuminates a fascinating political subplot in Hollywood, following the Netflix-inspired push to resentence the Menendez brothers: Is L.A. District Attorney George Gascón riding to their rescue to save his own fizzling reelection campaign?
Plus, below the fold: Marion Maneker evaluates whether a Tom Wesselmann retrospective at the Fondation Louis Vuitton can actually reinvigorate the artist’s dormant market. Tara Palmeri dissects the early-voting surge with Nevada election guru Jon Ralston. Baratunde Thurston reveals the first quarterly results of Puck’s in-depth subscriber survey. And Abby Livingston chats with the Dems’ congressional rainmaker, Suzan DelBene.
Meanwhile, on Fashion People, Lauren Sherman and Harper’s Bazaar executive editor Leah Chernikoff evaluate the winners and losers of the CFDA Fashion Awards. On The Varsity, John Ourand rings up Dylan Byers to unpack Amazon’s live-news gamble and MLB’s good “health.” And on The Powers That Be, Eriq joins Peter Hamby to reopen the bloodcurdling case of the Menendez murders.