Plus, Drew Barrymore and Ashton Kutcher vie for title of this news cycle’s most awful, and Angela Rippon soothes the spirit
It can be hard to remember sometimes that Donald Trump and Joe Biden are approximately the same age – Biden is 80 to Trump’s 77 – so that if one is too old to lead the free world, categorically the other is, too. Even among sensible observers, however, this is not how the age conversation shakes out.
There is something else going on, too, which has to do with the relative physicality of the two men. Trump’s hair, girth and permatan don’t exactly telegraph good health, but his aspect is so unclassifiably strange as to elude conventional categories such as “young” and “old”. When he stumbles or uses two hands to, for example – things that would land Biden in trouble for his age – Trump’s overall oddness encourages observers to put the incident in the weird, not the old, column.
Picture caption of the week 1: ‘Honestly, if I’d known this is what it was, I’d have never applied to St Andrews.’With so much grim satisfaction coming out of Hollywood this week, September might henceforth be ringfenced and promoted as Schadenfreude Month.
Kutcher and Kunis, who at the best of times exude a self-satisfaction so dense you could dribble it into a mould and fashion a scented candle out of it,in dowdy clothes and no makeup – sincerity isn’t hot, people – to remind those tempted to despise them that when they’re not speaking up for friends accused of violent sex crimes, they strive to “support victims” in their work. And anyway, they didn’t intend to “undermine the testimony of the victims.
How that sits alongside a character reference in which they described Masterson as “an outstanding role model and friend”, an “extraordinarily honest and intentional human being” and a man of “innate goodness”, while emphasising his opposition to drugs, in apparent reference to testimony from the two victims that Masterson drugged them, remains, along with so many other questions about the pair – are they the most tedious couple in Hollywood? Will Bad Moms get another sequel? Is Kutcher talking...
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