ESSENTIAL INDUSTRY AND AWARD NEWS  The New Hollywood The year 2019 may become known as the turning point when everyone in Hollywood joined the streaming wars, but for now, Netflix sits on top. As does Ted Sarandos,who is first on Vanity Fair’s rundown of the New Hollywood for this year’s New Establishment list. As the list puts it, “In the streaming wars, Sarandos is a general under siege, but with 151 million paid subscribers, his position appears to be strong and defensible—for now.” The list also includes several of the name-brand talents to sign massive deals with Netflix—Ryan Murphy, Shonda Rhimes, and Janet Mock—who may help Sarandos fend off big-name competition in the years to come. There’s one crown Netflix can’t have, though. In the list’s ranking of the most valuable IP in Hollywood, Disney—home of Marvel, Star Wars, Toy Story, The Simpsons, and Avatar—can’t be beat. Elsewhere in HWD, Yohana Desta looks at Richard Jewell, Clint Eastwood’s last-minute arrival in awards season, Richard Lawson reviews the Natalie Portmanastronaut drama Lucy in the Sky, and Laura Bradleyfinds the late-night hosts as baffled as the rest of America by Donald Trump’s proposed gator moat. And over in Vanities, Erin Vanderhoof talks to Radiolab co-host Jad Abumrad about his new podcast project, Dolly Parton’s America, which aims to answer the eternal question: How is Dolly Parton the one person every American can agree on?

The New Establishment From Barack and Michelle Obama as media moguls to Rihanna as tastemaker in chief, Vanity Fair’s annual New Establishment list finds the world’s power players beyond the expected barons—though, yes, Jeff Bezos and Rupert Murdoch are there too. READ MORE » The Wrong Man After making movies about hero pilot Sully Sullenberger and the Americans who stopped an attempted terrorist attack on a European train, Clint Eastwood has found his latest American hero: security guard Richard Jewell, who helped stop—and was briefly suspected of orchestrating—the 1996 bombing at Atlanta’s Centennial Olympic Park. READ MORE » From the Archive: American Nightmare: The Ballad of Richard Jewell Read the 1997 Vanity Fair story that inspired Clint Eastwood’s new movie. Jewell tells Marie Brenner about his brief moment as a national hero, his hounding by the feds and the press, and his eccentric friendship with the unknown southern lawyer who helped him through his public torment. READ MORE » Natalie in the Sky With a large, satisfying central performance from Natalie Portman, Lucy in the Sky is “an odd curio, a drama that’s forlornly funny, a comedy of social manners with a howling desperation fueling its engine,” writes Richard Lawson. READ MORE » The President’s “Pièce de Dumb” On Wednesday night, Stephen Colbert summed up a week’s worth of alarming and ridiculous headlines with one sentence: “Donald Trump is clearly losing it, and he did not have a surplus of ‘it’ to begin with.” READ MORE » Dolly Parton’s America When you start talking to Dolly Parton, Jad Abumrad quickly learned while making his new podcast, you start talking about a lot of other things. “It was just this experience of falling into a million rabbit holes,” he said. "It was like all of these little mini universes of America became visible to me that I hadn’t seen.” READ MORE »