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Football people love measurables. Height, weight, forty times, bench reps. And yet the most talked-about Chiefs performance this week was something no scout can time with a stopwatch. NFL Rookie cornerback Mansoor Delane, mic’d up for Sunday’s 22-6 win over the Chargers, watched Travis Kelce rumble for 24 yards and announced to nobody in particular … Read more
Every red carpet has one unscripted moment that outlives the official photographs, and the Klara and the Sun premiere at the 70th BFI London Film Festival produced a classic of the genre on Thursday, October 15. Florence Pugh, arriving to support friends rather than to promote a film of her own, swept toward Jenna Ortega … Read more
Some clips explain a team’s chemistry better than any speech. This week, the Kansas City Chiefs got one of those clips for free, courtesy of a rookie, a hidden microphone and a tight end with what his teammates simply call aura. During Sunday’s 22-6 win over the Chargers at Arrowhead, first-year cornerback Mansoor Delane was … Read more
Every rookie has a welcome-to-the-league moment, and for Mansoor Delane, it did not come from a hit, a huddle or a coach’s lecture. It came from watching a teammate do something he has done hundreds of times before. The Kansas City Chiefs cornerback was wearing a microphone during Sunday’s game at Arrowhead, and his live, … Read more
There are morning-show traditions, and then there is the Today show’s Halloween reveal, a production so elaborate that it has become a small national holiday for people who love costumes, choreography and watching serious journalists commit completely to a bit. Sheinelle Jones joined that Halloween Tradition in 2017, and in the years since, she has … Read more
Television creators rarely explain their cruelest decisions in full, which is why Debora Cahn’s account of The Diplomat’s season 4 shake-up is so revealing. The death of Austin Dennison and the resignation of Prime Minister Nicol Trowbridge were not accidents of casting or contracts. They were, in Cahn’s telling, corrections — the moment the series … Read more
To understand why Sheinelle Jones risked the wrath of a wardrobe department for one black suit, you have to understand the diva résumé she has built since 2017. The Today co-host’s Halloween history is not a string of costumes. It is a concert series performed in daylight, one icon at a time. She has been … Read more
Spoilers ahead for The Diplomat season 4. Every long-running television drama eventually faces the same dangerous question: how do you surprise an audience that has learned all your tricks? Season 4 of The Diplomat answered it in its third episode by killing Austin Dennison, the British foreign secretary played by David Gyasi, during an assignment … Read more
This article contains spoilers for season three. Every long-running romance eventually faces the question of what it is actually about. Strip away the meet-cute and the near breakups, and what remains? For this series, season three offers the clearest answer yet: it is about two people dismantling, piece by piece, every defense they arrived with. … Read more
Warning: this article contains major spoilers for season 4 of The Diplomat. There are television twists that audiences sense coming, and then there are the ones that land like a phone call in the middle of the night. Season 4 of The Diplomat, which premiered on October 15 on Netflix, delivers the second kind. In … Read more