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Why We Almost Got a MAGA-Branded Instant Pot

Instant Brands announced a new line of pots emblazoned with the slogan “Make America Great Again.” Our reporter David Fahrenthold explains what’s behind this decision and explores the link between this brand and others that have created Trump-related products. #Trump

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Watch Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal Fight to Katy Perry in ‘Eddington’ | Anatomy of a Scene

Things come to a boil between a sheriff and a mayor in a small town [...]

Things come to a boil between a sheriff and a mayor in a small town during this scene in Ari Aster’s pandemic satire “Eddington.”

The sheriff is Joe Cross, played by Joaquin Phoenix, who has long had a rivalry with Mayor Ted Garcia (Pedro Pascal). Cross is now running for mayor and has said some damaging things about Garcia. At this moment, Cross arrives to address a noise complaint at a fund-raising party Garcia is throwing.

The party — an outdoor, masked event complete with bottles of Purell and infrared thermometer guns (since the movie takes place in mid-2020) — includes music playing on a loudspeaker: the Katy Perry song “Firework,” which Cross turns down. The scene primarily consists of an extended Steadicam shot.

“One thing I like about long unbroken takes is that you can follow the actors around and really just allow them to like live in a space,” Aster said during an interview in New York. “I find Joaquin’s body language here really great, especially when you’re just on his back for so long. Joaquin’s one of those physical actors where, sometimes his back tells you even more than his front.”

Although the song “Firework” blares through the scene and becomes a telling soundtrack to the narrative, it wasn’t the director’s first choice of music for this moment.

“The original song that we tried to get was ‘Empire State of Mind’ by Jay-Z and Alicia Keys,” Aster said. “I found that to be a very funny song to be playing here, given that it’s a fund-raiser in a small town in New Mexico, and that is a New York anthem. It felt like exactly the kind of song that this character, Ted Garcia, who’s kind of a dweeby politician, would be playing. But ‘Firework’ also works in that regard. I just needed the song to really sound like the culture.”

A standoff between the two characters ultimately leads to a moment in which Garcia slaps Cross.

“Pedro was nervous about the slap, he didn’t want to hurt Joaquin. And [Pascal] also had a bad shoulder at the time of shooting this,” Aster said. “And so the first couple of takes, he kind of went easy on Joaquin. Then Joaquin confronted him saying, ‘[expletive] hit me!’ And so this is one of the takes where Pedro is giving it.”

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The Path To a New Middle East (And A Nobel for Trump) | NYT Opinion

I didn’t want Donald Trump to be president. But once he was elected, I [...]

I didn’t want Donald Trump to be president. But once he was elected, I wondered if his impulse to smash convention could actually do some good in the Middle East. In the Times Opinion video above, I lay out my proposal.

The status quo was a nightmare. President Joe Biden’s feckless response to Israel’s blood bath in Gaza epitomized decades of failed, immoral, self-defeating U.S. policy in the region. While tens of thousands of Palestinians died, the United States was lavishing cash and weapons on Israel even as Mr. Biden pretended there was no leverage or influence within his reach.

This has been America’s Mideast stance in a nutshell: Talk about peace, feed war. I’ve been watching it since I first reported from Israel and the occupied territories in 2002, in the bad old days of the second intifada. Cycles of unsustainable calm mask political disintegration, then erupt into unthinkable violence. And where have our policies gotten us? The International Court of Justice is deciding whether the killing in Gaza is, in fact, a genocide. We’ve been wading in the edges of war with Iran. The United States is running down its weapon stockpile for an Israeli war that has no discernible (or sensible) end game or a political solution for the Palestinians anywhere on the horizon.

This has got to stop — and it can.

With some deft diplomacy, Mr. Trump has a generational opportunity to change the dynamics in the Middle East. What might that look like? I gamed out the three major, interlocking deals the president can make if he’s serious about peace and willing to run a tough negotiation. Will he do any of it? Who knows? This is Donald Trump, after all. But he could, and he should.

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