The comedian of the season

Robby Hoffman has one of those faces you never forget, and a presence designed to steal scenes from anyone unfortunate enough to be in the frame with her. The comedian has a small but memorable role in Dying for Sex , as a lesbian dominatrix who guides Michelle Williams through the art of BDSM, and a more substantial one in the fourth season of Hacks , in which she plays the new assistant at the LuSaque & Schaeffer (or Schaeffer & LuSaque) agency who, like Hoffman in real life, grew up Hasidic Jewish in a family of ten children. A running gag on the show is that, because of this, she's clueless about anything that's happened in the entertainment industry in the last 20 years. The actress addresses this in her Netflix stand-up special, in which she emerges as a next-generation Larry David, ready to complain about anything, from pizza culture to people who don't have personality disorders. In the United States, Hoffman has gained notoriety because a few months ago he secretly married reality star Gabby Windey, with whom he forms a curious couple from two very different sides of the show business spectrum.

THE TERRIBLE TENDER PHOTOS OF WIKIPEDIA

In times of broligarchy, when everything that was once good or semi-good on the internet seems mired in the mud, it's good to remember from time to time that Wikipedia still exists, an imperfect but almost miraculous repository of cooperative wisdom that doesn't give money to anyone and is written by volunteers striving to increase its diversity (including linguistic diversity) and has more than 1.5 billion unique users per month. But this operating model also has its problems. One of them is that Wikipedia can't afford to pay royalties for photographs taken by professional agencies, and as a result, many biographical entries are illustrated with such infamous photos—flashes, portraits of celebrities with their eyes closed at some event, pixelated cutouts of amateur photos—that they've already generated their own cult following. There's even an Instagram account, also cooperative, dedicated to collecting the worst, @badwikiphoto. Although they have a charming quality, there's also a group of volunteer photographers already operating, Wiki Portraits, who attend events to take portraits of people relevant only to Wikipedia.

THE ETERNAL EMBRACE OF AIMÉE AND TRINTIGNANT

This year's official Cannes Film Festival poster comes in two versions, depicting the two sides of the embrace between Anouk Aimée and Jean-Louis Trintignant on the beach at Deauville in A Man and a Woman , the Claude Lelouch film that won the Palme d'Or in 1966 and later took home two Oscars. "Entreinte" (embrace in French) is an acronym for "Eternity," the festival explained in its official press release. That famous scene, which has inspired numerous fashion campaigns, most recently a Chanel campaign starring Brad Pitt and Penélope Cruz last year, was filmed in such an iconic way, from a distance, for artistic but also economic reasons. The film's budget was very low. The crew traveled between real-life locations (including another famous scene at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris) in two cars that could fit the entire crew and cameras, and everyone involved, including the lead actors, helped with lighting and whatever else was needed. The film was a European hit in the United States—it ran for two years in a Los Angeles theater, cementing itself as the movie you'd go see on a romantic date—and helped educate a generation of English speakers about watching films in other languages.

TRUMP DAMAGES HIS 'AMERICA'S BIRTHDAY'

We already know that Donald Trump isn't exactly a patron of the arts. Since the start of his second term, he has gutted entire departments, abolished the institution that coordinates the nation's libraries, seized control of the Kennedy Center in Washington, and seriously jeopardized institutions like the Smithsonian museums, whose leaders have written a public letter to Vice President JD Vance urging him to make his boss rectify his position—not a very winning strategy. There is one thing, however, that Trump was excited about: celebrating "America's Birthday" (the 250th anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence) next year in style with a series of festivities for which he will presumably need artists. For the time being, he has also cut the budget for these committees, which has gone down the drain of DOGE, Elon Musk's chainsaw initiative.