Hung Up

5 days 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.

1 week 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.

1 week 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?

2 weeks 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.

2 weeks 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.