Hung Up

Hung Up is a fresh weekly newsletter created by Hunter Harris. With four years of experience at Vulture covering movies, music, and pop culture, I've had some memorable moments, like visiting a cat cafe with Jason Derulo. I've also written profiles on stars such as Haim, Charlie Puth, Keke Palmer, and Sharon Stone. From ranking the male characters in Insecure to getting excited about the drama surrounding the upcoming Avatar sequels, my journey has been diverse. Hung Up features a mix of essays, interviews, recommendations, reviews, gossip, memorable quotes, heartfelt notes, and all sorts of interesting content.

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Surely You Remember Anthony Hopkins’s Thotty Headshot

1 week ago | hunterharris.substack.com | Hunter Harris

More from Hung Up this week: A Love Island USA chat in the Substack app … A father present in the movie theater but not the home … What’s the best story you tell about yourself? You’re never going to believe this, but I was at a weddinglast week. (I know, I know: Likely place for me to be.) I’m still finishing up something about Materialists, so I pulled up something fun and weird from the archives: Do you remember Anthony Hopkins’s thotty headshot? That make it do what it do squint?
Happy Father’s Day to Tom Cruise and His Child, The Movies

2 weeks ago | hunterharris.substack.com | Hunter Harris

More from Hung Up this week: A little London event innit … a chat about the US Traitors season 4 cast in the Substack app … and What’s the story you tell about yourself? At church one Sunday in my youth, the pastor shared an anecdote that I think about all the time. You know what day the telephone company says the phone lines are the busiest, all over the country? he asked the congregation of about 500-plus black folks.
Whatโs The Best Story You Tell About Yourself?

2 weeks ago | hunterharris.substack.com | Hunter Harris

Really did not expect my London event on Thursday to hit capacity in 5 minutes โฆ! I will try to open up some more spots!A shake-the-table moment of my early twenties was reading Carrie Fisherโs Star Wars diary. Fisher was young, hard-headed, and having a clandestine affair with an irresistibly aloof Harrison Ford. Someone told her that who you choose to be in a relationship with is what you think of yourself.
INVITE: Hung Up in London

2 weeks ago | hunterharris.substack.com | Hunter Harris

Londoners! Can I pull you for a chat? I’m in town this week and want to hang out with you. Thursday night I’m hosting a little get-together in Dalston at 7pm. The vibe: Informal! Free drinks! Good gossip! Bring your best friend, or your work friend, or someone willing to get into a passionate debate about whether The Bear is a comedy or if Hacks is good. Hope to see you Thursday night! I’ll be there at 7pm and I’ll close my tab around 930.
Every Man Is Falling Out This Week

3 weeks ago | hunterharris.substack.com | Hunter Harris

More from Hung Up this week: Patti LuPone apologizes to everyone but Glenn Close and a Mountainhead chat in the Substack app. If a man has not embarrassed you, devoted Hung Up readers will recall, he just hasn’t embarrassed you yet. Generally, that applies to “wives,” “daughters,” “girlfriends,” and “mothers.” This week a novel development: men are embarrassing one another. Several male friendships have fallen out in spectacular fashion this week.
Patti LuPone: And Nothing For Glenn Close. Bye!

3 weeks ago | hunterharris.substack.com | Hunter Harris

SEEKING: London readers! I will be back in London on June 10 for a few days. Should we do a meet-up? Where?? … and some good vintage George-Leo gossip at the end of this. You want to talk about a recession indicator? Darling, Patti LuPone has apologized. “I am deeply sorry for the words I used during The New Yorker interview, particularly about Kecia Lewis, which were demeaning and disrespectful,” she wrote in a statement posted over the weekend on Instagram and Facebook.
A Secondary Feud to The Patti LuPone Feud

4 weeks ago | hunterharris.substack.com | Hunter Harris

More from Hung Up this week: Patti LuPone Tells All … chats about the season finales of The Rehearsal, The Last of Us, and a chat tonight about what won’t be the season finale of the Knicks1 … A great regret of my winter is that I never wrote at length about how greedy and self-involved season one of Alec and Hilaria Baldwin’s TLC reality show was. I can’t believe they thought to film a reality show before a manslaughter trial, let alone that it was allowed.
Patti LuPone Tells All

1 month ago | hunterharris.substack.com | Hunter Harris

I’d never been as invested in the friendship between Patti LuPone and Audra McDonald until I learned that it was no more. LuPone was profiled by Michael Schulman in The New Yorker; Schulman trails her to the set of …And Just Like That, a Rangers game, lunch, a car ride, her apartment. LuPone is as candid in the interview as she is in that one Variety interview when she was asked why Donald Trump should see her on Broadway: “I won’t perform if he does,” she says. Why not?
Five Years of Lana Del Rey’s “Question for the Culture”

1 month ago | hunterharris.substack.com | Hunter Harris

Five years ago this week, Lana Del Rey logged on. “Question for the culture,” she began ominously in a message posted to her Instagram on May 21, 2020. The font was some type of weary, weathered Courier New. It wasn’t a Notes app apology it was a typewritten ransom note holding our attention captive.
The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives Cast, Ranked

1 month ago | hunterharris.substack.com | Hunter Harris

My pitch for The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives is always the same: in the first one or two episodes alone, a woman withstands the fallout of exposing the swinging scandal that ended her marriage and a few of her friendships, she finds a boyfriend no one in her life approves of, takes a pregnancy test, has a miscarriage, gets arrested, and still manages to pull focus from her friend confessing that her husband was on Tinder throughout their marriage.