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Hayley Williams behind the scenes of her Los Angeles Magazine photoshoot (2023)

Hayley Williams by Elisabeth Carren for Los Angeles Magazine

The media is being pressured to #believewomen or risk being automatically canceled for misogyny even though the women exploiting this fact have no problem with their own pernicious misandry.

I have never before seen Pop Crave use “breathtakingly gorgeous” in a tweet before

Teresa Palmer | Los Angeles Magazine, Fall 2015. Boots and dress by Etro. Photography: Frederic Auerbach. Manicure by Tracey Sutter for Cloutier Remix

Ethan Hawke photographed for Los Angeles Magazine, 2000.

Sonequa Martin Green for Los Angeles Magazine

… But beneath all this hoopla and hyperbole and well-deserved celebration, there’s one essential bit of information that nobody at CBS or on The Late Late Show is daring to say out loud (at least, not on the record). And that is, Corden’s show was wildly unprofitable and may well have been heading to the chopping block whether he stayed or not.

Even if Corden had wanted to stay in his seat, there was bound to be a late-night reckoning. He would have faced a multimillion-dollar pay cut or painful staff reductions or both, according to two sources who worked with him closely. No wonder he wanted to move back home to England.

Television budgets are typically well-kept secrets inside major media companies like Paramount Global, which owns CBS, so reporters have to rely on a different set of data to judge a show’s success: Nielsen ratings. There, too, a reckoning was obvious. In the pre-cable, pre-internet era, Carson could draw 10 million viewers a night. As competition mounted, Letterman averaged 3 million to 5 million. Now, all three 11:30 p.m. stars—Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, and Jimmy Kimmel—reach 5 million, combined. That shrinkage has hurt the 12:30 a.m. shows, too. When Corden debuted, in 2015, he was averaging around 1.6 million viewers. Lately, he’s down to 700,000 to 800,000 a night and fewer than 200,000 viewers in the 25- to 54-year-old demographic that advertisers (and publicists) most covet.

Late-night shows used to be the engine that propelled pop culture. An appearance on Carson or Letterman could make or break a comic’s career. An apology on Jay Leno’s show could save a career (just ask Hugh Grant). But that influence has evaporated. Every publicist has a story about a client who guests on a late-night show and barely hears from anyone afterward. A question hovers in the air: “Was anyone watching?” Was it worth getting dressed and manicured and made up?

Corden loved the big American stage: It greatly expanded his fame and gave him a chance to rehab his brand, which was summarized by multiple British newspapers as “arrogant jerk.” He admitted, in a 2020 interview with The New Yorker, that he behaved “like a brat” at an earlier stage of his life. “It’s so intoxicating, that first flush of fame,” he said. “And I think it’s even more intoxicating if you’re not bred for it.”

FRUTAS is a Los Angeles Street Style Magazine Inspired by Harajuku's FRUiTS Magazine

FRUiTS Magazine/Harajuku inspired a group of creatives in Los Angeles to start a similar street style magazine called FRUTAS to document Los Angeles street style, with a focus on "uplifting the intricacies of Chicano and Latino culture".

LA Times Article on FRUTAS

Red has been really crucial for me my whole career. It felt like such a great visual identity. It’s bold, but it’s also a sensitive color. It seems to stand for a lot of things, whether it’s rage or romance. I like that it embodies all these different extremes because I very much feel like that’s where I am in my life.

From the start, though, keeping a group of teenage rockers together on a stage, particularly while touring, was challenging, and members began cycling in and out of Paramore. “It was just growing up,” Williams says, “and for us, it was in front of the world. That added pressure. People have their own ideas of what the scene must have been like, and none of them are exactly correct. That’s OK and probably to be expected, but I just try to remind people that a lot of bands — especially with a young teenage girl — weren’t taken seriously at the time. It’s like you couldn’t just be a band that happened to have female-bodied people in it. So we really had to work hard to make it out of the trenches." — Hayley Williams is Seeing Red by Lina Lecardo for Los Angeles Magazine (2023) Photos by Elisabeth Caron

Marilyn Monroe

Edward Clark, Life, August 8, 1950

obsessed with this video god pls 😭