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Aside from Mulholland Drive, are there other films that use the narrative device of the characters infiltrating another piece of art? I kept coming back to this idea of the movie wearing another movie like a cheap Halloween mask. It seems like such a durable structure for subverting another narrative that I’m surprised it’s not more common. May December does this a bit — the movie inhabits the Laterno narrative in order to turn it inside out.

Yes reader, I too am giving my two cents on the recent Kate Middleton debacle, after all, it involves all three of my special interests: conspiracy theories, social media and a touch of True Crime. Unless you have quite literally been missing yourself, I cannot fathom how you could have escaped the recent news about Kate Middleton being missing since Christmas. As someone who pays almost no attention to the Royal Family (apart from binging every season of The Crown… what can I say, I like good TV!

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Over the past month, I’ve read four books: The Impostor, by Javier Cercas, about a Spanish man named Enric Marco who claimed to be a veteran of the Spanish Civil War, a crusader for justice, and a Holocaust survivor. He was exposed as a fraud in 2005. Scam Me if You Can: Simple Strategies to Outsmart Today’s Rip-off Artists, by Frank W. Abagnale. (He also wrote Catch Me if You Can, which was made into the 2002 movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio.

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. John F. Kennedy Dole, a well-known brand in the fruit industry, has recently settled a class action lawsuit worth $4.3 million. The lawsuit was centered around allegations that Dole's fruit bowl products were misleadingly advertised as being contained "in 100% juice" or "in 100% fruit juice," when they contained trace amounts of other ingredients.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Lionel Messi had largely been out of this world for Inter Miami with his stellar play this summer, but he came crashing back down to earth on Wednesday. Inter Miami suffered the first setback of the Messi era earlier this week after settling for a goal-less home draw against Nashville SC. The overall collective display from the South Florida side was about as flat as the scoreline suggested, with few clear chances created as too many players turned in predictable, unimaginative, and underwhelming performances.

Hello! What you’re about to read is an article I published through an old Young STAR column called Retro Access Memories, which was meant to excavate and analyze old memes and other internet artefacts. It was roughly inspired by Meghan O’Gieblyn’s Objects of Despair column for The Paris Review. This article was up on the old YS site before it taken down. Aside from some small edits, this version has two new things about it: the last sentence, and the last image.

Ghost towns are always making a comeback—no matter how many times they’ve been sold. Each buyer has a new vision for it that ultimately fails for one reason or another; ghosts are stubborn and don’t release their haunting grounds easily. Last month, after decades of one-off filming projects and a short-lived plan to DRAIN THE DESERT FLOOR (thank dog that’s out), a new ~mysterious~ buyer snatched up the eastern desert town of Eagle Mountain in California for a cool $22.