The Triple Threat of Three Women

Lisa Taddeo’s Three Women emerged as a kind of literary earthquake after its launch, a carefully written work of narrative nonfiction that found celebrity fans in Gwyneth Paltrow and Drew Barrymore, won esteemed prizes around the world, and topped the New York Times best-seller list upon its 2019 publication. Now her nonfiction account has been adapted into a series, starring DeWanda Wise, Betty Gilpin, Gabrielle Creevy—and Shailene Woodley as a fictionalized version of Taddeo. “I, for one, like her a lot better than me,” Taddeo tells David Canfield in a first look at the project, coming soon to Showtime. 

Elsewhere in HWD, Jordan Hoffman charts Top Gun: Maverick’s ascent into the box office stratosphere; Nancy Jo Sales recalls a celebrity trial with several eerie parallels to Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard; Yohana Desta dives into the ending of Stranger Things season four; and Simona Sirishares a conversation with canonical paparazzo Ron Galella, who died last April at the age of 91.

Perfect Thirds

Lisa Taddeo on Shailene Woodley playing a version of her, bringing a complex set of stories to the screen, and saying the quiet part out loud.

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Flying High

Top Gun: Maverick leveled the competition as if it were a bunker nestled amidst mountainous terrain in an unnamed but nefarious rogue nation.

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History Repeating

The similarities between Depp v. Heard and Locke v. Eastwood are striking—a younger, blond actor, viewed as a lesser talent, pitted against a powerful male Hollywood icon.

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So, What Now?

Let’s take a spoiler-filled deep dive into the ending of Stranger Things season four.

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Bygone Era

Ron Galella, the original “paparazzo,” turned chasing stars into an art form, capturing indelible images of everyone from Jackie Kennedy to Mick Jagger, Marlon Brando to Michael Jackson. In an interview shortly before his death, he reflected on his legacy—and shared his tricks of the trade.

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