Good morning. There's so much to watch over the next few weeks that you might need to make a schedule. |
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"It's hard to hold someone's hand over Zoom," Steven Spielberg told A.O. Scott recently. He was speaking of the pandemic experience of writing his autobiographical new film, "The Fabelmans," with the playwright Tony Kushner. But, despite their being on opposite coasts, Kushner was able to provide Spielberg with the supportive environment he needed to unpack intimate details of his boyhood. "We got into those tender trenches," Spielberg said. |
Thanksgiving approaches. It's the season for reuniting, in person or virtually, for reflecting on the year that's been and the people we've spent it with. For some, the holiday involves peering into "those tender trenches." Others prefer to give them a wide berth, pass the green bean casserole. |
"The Fabelmans" opened yesterday. Will you see it this weekend or save it for a group outing over the holiday? There's so much good stuff coming in the next few weeks, both in theaters and in your home cinema (a.k.a. your living room), that you might want to sketch out a viewing plan, or at least make a list. |
Here, let's do it together. Season 5 of "The Crown" dropped this week on Netflix. I'm one of the few people I know who are not caught up, so I'm going to be bingeing old seasons while the rest of the world tunes in to 1991, when, as Sarah Lyall wrote, "The royal family found itself in the awkward position of having to make the case for its own relevance." |
For a different kind of royal family, there's the fifth season of "Yellowstone," which starts tomorrow on the Paramount Network. James Poniewozik says the show's creators, Taylor Sheridan and John Linson, "have crossbred a throwback Western with a modern antihero drama." Sheridan also has a new series starting tomorrow on Paramount+: "Tulsa King," which stars Sylvester Stallone as a New York mobster who relocates to Tulsa, Okla., after 25 years in prison. |
In addition to "The Fabelmans," this weekend's big-screen offerings include "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever," Ryan Coogler's "Black Panther" sequel, in which Wakandans grieve the death of King T'Challa and figure out how to move on. (Chadwick Boseman, who played T'Challa, died in 2020.) |
The first two episodes of "Fleishman Is in Trouble," based on the 2019 novel by The Times's Taffy Brodesser-Akner, will be released on Hulu on Thursday. The series stars Jesse Eisenberg and Claire Danes. The final season of "Dead to Me" premieres then, too, on Netflix. |
In theaters Friday, so many candidates for the list: "Bones and All," Luca Guadagnino's new film, starring Timothée Chalamet as a cannibal; "The Menu," a class satire starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Fiennes and Nicholas Hoult, from Mark Mylod, who's a regular director on "Succession"; and "She Said," the film adaptation of the book by the Times journalists Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey about their reporting on Harvey Weinstein, starring Zoe Kazan and Carey Mulligan. |
On Nov. 23, the day before Thanksgiving, "Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery," Rian Johnson's sequel to "Knives Out," hits theaters. And on Friday, Nov. 25, so does the movie I'm most excited about this fall: "White Noise," Noah Baumbach's adaptation of Don DeLillo's 1985 novel about a professor (Adam Driver) and his wife (Greta Gerwig) and an "airborne toxic event." If you haven't read the book, it's a good time to check it out. |
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- Parody accounts created havoc on Twitter. Elon Musk "appears as naïve about comedy as he does about the economics of social media," the Times critic Jason Zinoman writes.
- Broken Wi-Fi and firings by email: Inside Musk's Twitter takeover.
- Alec Baldwin sued crew members from the film "Rust," accusing them of negligence for giving him a loaded gun on set that fired, killing its cinematographer.
- Gallagher became one of the most recognizable comedians of the 1980s for his outrageous, watermelon-smashing act. He died at 76.
- A diverse slate of designers won at the CFDA Awards, known as "the fashion Oscars."
- Warren Beatty was accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl in 1973.
- HarperCollins employees are striking for better pay and benefits.
- Giorgia Meloni, Italy's hard-right prime minister, is using fashion to send a message, Vanessa Friedman writes. But designers are keeping their distance.
- An exhibition in New York highlights history's first named author, a woman who wrote about sexual harassment more than 4,000 years ago.
- Jimmy Kimmel will host the Oscars.
- The "dude-leaning" fashion newsletter Blackbird Spyplane launched an edition focused on women's apparel.
- A jury found that the filmmaker Paul Haggis raped a woman in 2013, and it ordered him to pay her at least $7.5 million.
- Jennifer Aniston told Allure that she had gone through fertility treatments.
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- Ukrainian troops entered the crucial port city of Kherson after Russia retreated. Jubilant residents waved Ukrainian flags.
- Senator Mark Kelly won re-election in Arizona, moving Democrats one away from keeping control of the Senate.
- Republicans traded blame over their midterm elections performance, faulting candidates, the party's message and Donald Trump.
- Americans had expressed discontent about the state of the country but largely opted against voting out lawmakers.
- Addressing a U.N. climate convention, President Biden cast the U.S. as a leader and apologized for Trump's decision to withdraw the country from the Paris climate agreement.
- The cryptocurrency exchange FTX said it was filing for bankruptcy, capping a week that upended crypto markets.
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Braised Chicken Thighs With Greens and Olives |
Thanksgiving is getting closer, but just because it's the biggest feast in November doesn't mean it has to be the only one. If a small gathering is on your docket, you might want to cook up a pan of Colu Henry's festive-but-easy, sweet-and-savory braised chicken thighs with greens and olives. With the greens wilted at the bottom of the pan, this qualifies as a one-pot meal. For company, I'd spoon the whole thing over a bed of buttery polenta or egg noodles to catch the briny, chicken-y sauce. But for a midweek dinner a loaf of crusty bread works equally well. |
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Christmastime preparation |
It may seem early, but now is the time to buy an artificial Christmas tree if you're in the market for one. You'll have it on hand if you like to decorate for the holidays over Thanksgiving weekend, and buying before December means one fewer errand at a busy time. Artificial trees cut costs over the long term and are more durable and less labor-intensive than their live counterparts. A fake tree won't scratch your car's roof, drop needles or guzzle water. (Environmental costs are a consideration. Fake trees aren't necessarily more sustainable than real ones — in fact, they may be worse.) Regardless of your reasons, if you're purchasing a fake tree, invest in a quality one. — Tim Heffernan |
Tampa Bay Buccaneers vs. Seattle Seahawks, N.F.L.: For more than a decade, the N.F.L. has regularly been playing games in London, in an effort to expand the fan base and perhaps one day move a team to the city. But it turns out Europe's most eager fans might be in Germany. The country was the de facto home of N.F.L. Europe, a developmental league that ran through the '90s and '00s, and now there are late-night TV broadcasts, podcasts and fan clubs. When tickets went on sale for this weekend's game, at Munich's Allianz Arena, nearly 800,000 people joined the online queue. "They love American football," David Bada, a German-born defensive tackle for the Washington Commanders, told The Athletic. "People get married wearing their jerseys." 9:30 a.m. Eastern tomorrow, NFL Network. |
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Lauren Hard, Lauren Jackson, Claire Moses, Ian Prasad Philbrick, Tom Wright-Piersanti and Ashley Wu contributed to The Morning. You can reach the team at themorning@nytimes.com. |
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