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  • ‘S.N.L’: Live From New York, It’s More Military Secrets.

    ‘S.N.L’: Live From New York, It’s More Military Secrets.


    There was no uncertainty as to whether “Saturday Night Live” would offer its own satirical take on the news that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had disclosed attack plans for a U.S. strike on Houthi militia fighters in Yemen during a text chat that mistakenly included the editor in chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg. It was only a question of how “S.N.L.” would do it.

    This weekend’s opening sketch featured the cast members Ego Nwodim and Sarah Sherman, as well as the guest host, Mikey Madison, as teenage girls whose group chat was interrupted by an unexpected message, read aloud by Andrew Dismukes: “FYI: Green light on Yemen raid!” he exclaimed.

    Dismukes, as Hegseth, continued to recite the texts he was sending (“Tomahawks airborne 15 minutes ago”) along with the emojis he was using for punctuation (“Flag emoji, fire emoji, eggplant”).

    “Do we know you, bro?” Madison asked. “This is Jennabelle.”

    “Oh, nice,” Dismukes replied. “Jennabelle from Defense, right?”

    Warned by Nwodim that he was in the wrong group text, Dismukes answered, “LOLOLOL could you imagine if that actually happened? Homer disappear into bush GIF.” He added that he was “sending a PDF with updated locations of all our nuclear submarines.”

    But instead of dropping out of the chat, Dismukes added Bowen Yang, joining from Greenland, in his recurring role as Vice President JD Vance.

    “Nice job on the strike, fam,” Yang said. “Female skier emoji.”

    Dismukes asked him, “How’s Greenland, by the way? Bet you’re killing it.”

    Yang answered, “No, I’m not. Nobody knows why I’m here. Especially me. But praise Trump, our work here is mysterious and important.” He added that “Egypt owes us big time for this Yemen shiz” and that “POTUS was saying we should make them give us the pyramids.”

    When Madison wondered aloud how the pyramids would be brought to America, Yang replied, “Same way they built them. Either aliens or slaves.”

    Dismukes said he would celebrate the successful strike with a Jack and Coke (“just the one,” though) despite his promise to stop drinking if he was confirmed, and Yang chimed in. “Like they say in A.A., just the one is OK.”

    Marcello Hernández was a latecomer to the chat as Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who reported that he was sharing “the real J.F.K. files — not those fake ones we released.”

    Informed that he had circulated this material to high schoolers, Hernández said that it could have been worse: “We could have added the editor of The Atlantic again.”

    That prompted an appearance from Mikey Day, who was playing Goldberg. “You did,” he said. “I am also here.”

    Over at the Weekend Update desk, the anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che continued to riff on Signalgate, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s visit to a massive prison in El Salvador and the F.B.I. director Kash Patel’s efforts to investigate attacks targeting Tesla dealerships.

    A more fortunate beneficiary of the viral lottery that is social media this week was Ashton Hall, an entrepreneur and fitness coach who gained attention for a series of posts detailing his morning routine, which starts just before 4 a.m. and involves him occasionally dunking his face in Saratoga water and ice baths (and smearing it with the peel of a banana he’s just eaten).

    That was all the inspiration that Devon Walker needed to create his own parody-slash-tribute, in which he acted out his own version of Hall’s videos (including one ride in an ambulance after handling a broken Saratoga bottle) and taunted Che for his supposed lack of ambition. “I’ve never seen you do anything like that,” Che remarked at one point. Walker replied, “Che, you don’t be coming to work. For those of y’all at home, this is the first time I’ve seen this man all week.”

    The arrest in December of Luigi Mangione, who has been charged with killing the UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson, prompted comparisons from “S.N.L.” viewers who pointed out a broad resemblance between Mangione and Emil Wakim, a featured cast member.

    In the immediate aftermath of the arrest, Wakim went on to play a character in an opening sketch identified as “a guy who happens to look like Luigi Mangione.” But this weekend, Wakim appeared as Mangione himself, in a sketch about various people trying to talk their way out of jury duty. (After Heidi Gardner played a potential juror who asked a judge, “Has Luigi been receiving my nudes?,” Wakim appeared in an orange jumpsuit and handcuffs to answer, “I have been receiving that woman’s nudes, and ma’am, you’ve got to stop.”)

    On the lighter side, the same sketch also included Chloe Fineman as herself, offering just the briefest hint of her impersonation of Parker Posey on “The White Lotus.” And if you made it to the tail end of the episode, you got a filmed segment about an HBO live-action adaptation of “SpongeBob SquarePants,” featuring Madison as Squidward.



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  • BAFTA Awards Winners: ‘Conclave,’ ‘Anora’ and ‘The Brutalist’ Take Home Top Prizes

    BAFTA Awards Winners: ‘Conclave,’ ‘Anora’ and ‘The Brutalist’ Take Home Top Prizes


    “Conclave” won the best movie title at the EE British Academy Film Awards at the Royal Festival Hall in London on Sunday — adding the latest twist to a chaotic awards season in which no one movie has dominated the major ceremonies.

    The film, which stars Ralph Fiennes and was directed by Edward Berger, is a thriller about the selection of a new pope. It took home four awards on Sunday at Britain’s equivalent of the Oscars, commonly known as the BAFTAs. The other three prizes were in minor categories: best editing, best adapted screenplay and outstanding British film.

    In securing the best film award, “Conclave” beat Sean Baker’s “Anora,” a dramedy in which an exotic dancer marries the son of a Russian oligarch, and Brady Corbet’s “The Brutalist,” about a Jewish architect (Adrien Brody) rebuilding his life in the United States after the Holocaust.

    It also triumphed over the Bob Dylan biopic “A Complete Unknown” and “Emilia Pérez.”

    “Conclave” hadn’t previously featured among the major winners this awards season. It only secured one Golden Globe, for best screenplay, at a ceremony in which “Emilia Pérez” and “The Brutalist” were the big winners. More recently, the momentum for the best picture Oscar had swung to “Anora,” after that movie picked up major honors at this year’s Critic’s Choice ceremony and the Directors Guild of America and Producers Guild of America awards.

    Yet the prominence of “Conclave” at the BAFTAs will give the movie momentum going into this year’s Academy Awards, scheduled for March 2. There is significant overlap between the voting bodies for both awards, and the BAFTAs and Oscars regularly have the same winners.

    The cast and crew of “Conclave” looked stunned when the best film prize was announced. Isabella Rossellini, who plays a nun in the movie, stood onstage smiling gleefully throughout Berger’s acceptance speech, in which he said he was “deeply humbled” to see his film receive the honor.

    In the best director category, Corbet was the victor for “The Brutalist,” winning out over Berger, Baker (“Anora”), Jacques Audiard (“Emilia Pérez”), Denis Villeneuve (“Dune: Part Two”) and Coralie Fargeat (“The Substance,” a body-horror gross-out about a washed-up TV star, played by Demi Moore).

    “The Brutalist” had a strong night, taking home four awards — the same as “Conclave” — with Brody winning the prize for best leading actor. In that category, he beat Fiennes (“Conclave”), Colman Domingo (“Sing Sing”), Hugh Grant (“Heretic”), Timothée Chalamet (“A Complete Unknown”) and Sebastian Stan (“The Apprentice”).

    In the leading actress category, Mikey Madison won for her role in “Anora,” besting Moore, as well as Cynthia Erivo (“Wicked”), Marianne Jean-Baptiste (“Hard Truths”) and Saoirse Ronan (“The Outrun”).

    In her acceptance speech, Madison asked for a moment “to recognize the sex worker community,” adding: “I see you. You deserve respect and human decency.”

    Karla Sofía Gascón was also a nominee for best actress for “Emilia Pérez,” although she did not attend the ceremony, held just weeks after a journalist resurfaced some old social media posts in which Gascón made derogatory comments about Muslims and George Floyd, among others.

    When Audiard accepted the award for best film not in the English language, he thanked “my dear Karla Sofía” alongside the rest of the “Emilia Pérez” stars. Zoe Saldaña also name-checked Gascón, among others, when she accepted the best supporting actress award. The best supporting actor prize went to Kieran Culkin for “A Real Pain.”



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  • See Angelina Jolie, Nicole Kidman and More at W Magazine’s Golden Globes Party

    See Angelina Jolie, Nicole Kidman and More at W Magazine’s Golden Globes Party


    In the movie “The Substance,” Demi Moore plays an entertainer in her 50s so intent on hanging onto stardom that she signs up to take a potion that will restore her youth, but at a horrific price.

    “This is more joyous,” Ms. Moore said of the beautification process leading up to W Magazine’s Golden Globes party held on Saturday evening, the night before the ceremony, in a top floor suite of the Chateau Marmont hotel in West Hollywood.

    She was decked out in a black and white polka-dot dress from Nina Ricci as she stood in a tented area where the smell of cigarette smoke was surprisingly strong and household-name celebrities and fellow Globe nominees were everywhere.

    The party, co-hosted by W’s Magazine’s editor in chief Sara Moonves, and its editor at large, Lynn Hirschberg, was celebrating the magazine’s annual Best Performances issue, and the walls were covered with enlarged photographs of the featured celebrities.

    On one side of the room, the real-life Nicole Kidman stood underneath a giant image of the actor Daniel Craig, nominated for a Globe for his role in the movie “Queer.” On the other side, the real-life Mr. Craig, in a pair of tinted glasses, a black shirt and wide trousers, stood beneath a giant image of Ms. Kidman, who was nominated for her part in the film “Babygirl.”

    “Not a bad year,” someone said to Ms. Kidman as she made her way through the crowd with her daughter Sunday Rose Kidman-Urban.

    “Not a bad year, indeed,” Ms. Kidman said as a DJ played Blondie’s Rapture while Sabrina Carpenter and Cynthia Erivo shimmied by.

    Did Ms. Erivo, who is up for a Globe for the film “Wicked,” have an outfit picked out for the next evening?

    Of course she did.

    “LV,” she said, by which she meant Louis Vuitton. Nicolas Ghesquière, the artistic director women’s collections at the brand, happened to be out on the terrace, a few yards from Ms. Moore and within spitting distance of Angelina Jolie, a nominee for her performance in the film “Maria,” in which she plays the opera diva Maria Callas.

    She seemed to be the only attendee who had a handler stopping photographers from taking pictures of her. But a moratorium on her moratorium took place when Ms. Moonves ambled over to say hello and to politely make it clear that, for history’s sake, the moment would be captured.

    Kevin Mazur, a celebrity photographer for Getty Images, raced through the crowd with his camera. The pop stars Charli XCX and Ms. Carpenter huddled together with the model and actress Cara Delevingne.

    By 10 p.m., the place was so crowded that the designer Christian Louboutin realized he was going to have to leave the penthouse suite for his room elsewhere in the hotel.

    But only for a moment.

    “I have to pee!” he said.

    “You can get in but you can’t get out,” said Pamela Anderson, who was by the door, hoping to make an exit.

    And who could blame her?

    After all, Ms. Anderson is featured in the magazine’s issue and is nominated for a Globe for her role in the film “The Last Showgirl.”

    Clearly, she had a full weekend ahead of her, although so did the celebrity stylist Law Roach, who seemed to have no interest in leaving.

    What was his client Zendaya, nominated for the movie “Challengers,” wearing to the awards the next evening?

    “Vuitton,” he said, adding that the jewelry would be Bulgari and that the whole look would be inspired by Joyce Bryant, the glamorous Black singer of the 1940s and ’50s who broke racial barriers in nightclubs.

    A few feet away, Eddie Redmayne, nominated for his role in the television series, “The Day of the Jackal,” was hanging out with Andrew Garfield, who is scheduled to present at the Globes.

    Colman Domingo, nominated for his part in the movie “Sing Sing,” mingled with Tilda Swinton, nominated for her role in the film “The Room Next Door,” and then headed to the dance floor around the time that DJ Ross One began pumping Shannon’s “Let the Music Play.”

    Around 11:30 p.m., the party was still going strong. Waiters paraded around the room with chocolate truffles and French fries.

    Kevin Bacon, with his wife, Kyra Sedgwick, was by one of the sofas inside the suite wearing a blazer and a vintage Iron Maiden T-shirt. It was one of only a few outfits not selected by a stylist.

    “My son got it for me for Christmas,” he said.



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