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The Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookstore's founder Craig Rodwell, 1969 (Image by Fred W. McDarrah/MUUS Collection)
NY HISTORICAL: Going on now through July 13, 2025, the New York Historical presents Fred W. McDarrah: Pride and Protest, a special exhibition of the legendary Village Voice photojournalist's work. McDarrah, who was not gay, was nonetheless a Village resident who tirelessly documented everything from the Sip-In at Julius' to Stonewall, the earliest Pride marches in NYC to ACT-UP actions.
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NYT VINTAGE: I watched The Apprentice, the Trump biopic, and think it's pretty meh. Almost any biopic can't help humanizing its subject, a reason I skipped Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher. Trump talking with Warhol, Trump fucking Ivana, Roger Stone flitting about, Trump under the spell of Roy Cohn. WHATEVER.
It's worth noting that all the villains are played by people who are, unlike they were, super good-looking — fuckable Sebastian Stan as turd-on-legs Trump, Maria Bakalova as hideous Ivana Trump, Jeremy Strong as human boil Roy Cohn.
But I must say that a scene in which Trump's adoring mommy reads from a New York Times profile that likens him to Robert Redford sent me straight to Google. And yep, The New York Times actually wrote, in 1976:
He is tall, lean and blond, with dazzling white teeth, and he looks ever so much like Robert Redford.
Judy Klemesrud, who wrote the profile — the first of many in The Times — died in 1985 of breast cancer, so never got to live to see what kind of a horror he became.
As for The Apprentice, it's well-made, has a convincing look and is well-acted. And at least it shows Trump forced to watch Roy Cohn get buttfucked for a couple of seconds.
Watching bad people succeed seems to make the audience root for 'em. (Image via Obscured)
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