Innholdsfortegnelse for 10/15-10/28/18 i New York Magazine

1 For New York, David Edelstein profiled Jamie Lee Curtis, whose performance in the latest Halloween installment exemplifies why horror has become the genre of our time (“Revenge of Jamie Lee Curtis,” October 1–14). Readers took the opportunity to voice their love for the actress, including @RobCurrieMusic, who tweeted, “Read the first two paragraphs … and try to tell me that [Curtis] is not the awesomest of the awesome women.” Mariannabare commented, “She seems egoless. I love that about her.” And Alexandra West, co-host of the Faculty of Horror podcast, wrote, “Curtis is not only a Hollywood icon but also the horror community’s perhaps most beloved Scream Queen. David Edelstein’s story is a testament to not only her iconic status but also the warmth she exudes, which fans (and Edelstein…

“People all of a sudden were like, ‘Okay. We’ll listen to you. We’ll trust you. We’ll follow your lead.’” CREATOR OF THE TV SERIES THE CHI / First African-American woman to win an Emmy for comedy-series writing / Wore iconic Carolina Herrera rainbow-flag cape to the 2018 Met Gala “After I won the Emmy, I asked for a new showrunner for my show, The Chi. I was like, “I don’t want the person currently running the show running it anymore.” And the people involved were like, “Okay, whatever you want,” because I just won this Emmy. It’s the thing that happens in this town, where all of a sudden everybody’s like, “This person is in an elite club now.” I remember, myself and Donald [Glover], we…

RETIRED AIR FORCE GENERAL / Was in charge of the U.S. Northern Command and the North American Aerospace Defense Command / Slept with phone on her chest because of Kim Jong-un “PROBABLY THE HARDEST JOB I’ve had was this last job. Obviously, defending the homeland is a stressful thing. One, you’re working directly for the secretary of Defense, and I also worked for the prime minister of Canada. Whether it’s Russian long-range aviation or Kim Jong-un or hurricanes or wildfires, everything you do, everything I write, it’s to the secretary of Defense. That’s one part. The next part is that whole bit of Kim Jong-un ratcheting it up. That added a level of stress. It was just the most challenging thing I’ve ever had to do. Challenging is a…

“Just because I’m blonde and I have my sexy dress on doesn’t make me a bimbo.” HOST OF NBC’S MEGYN KELLY TODAY / Was a lawyer at Jones Day for nine years before breaking into broadcast news / Her tough questioning of Trump resulted in his infamous “blood” comment “THE NIGHT OF the Republican National Convention in 2016, I wore a spaghetti-strap dress. That dress telegraphed a lot. Here’s Donald Trump, accepting the Republican nomination after how many months of trying to bully me, calling me a bimbo. On top of which, I had just been outed as a Roger Ailes accuser against my will. It’s like Trump, bimbo, “blood coming out of her wherever,” on the one hand. And then, because of Ailes, I’ve become…

PRESIDENT, ABC ENTERTAINMENT / First African-American president of a major TV network / Early model for a powerful woman: her professional, glamorous childhood doctor “WHEN I GOT PROMOTED to run drama at the studio, it was a small team. Now I am the boss of the people who, the day before, were my colleagues. We went to lunch in the private dining room over at the rotunda. That was one of the weirdest lunches, because you are suddenly in charge and it’s not the same thing as when your boss is on vacation and you’re pretending to be in charge. You can’t help in that moment but feel sort of like you’re pretending. I’ve worked very hard to attain every goal I have attained, so I don’t ever feel…

I actually said to him, ‘David [Carr], can you really remember enough of your life to write a memoir?’ And he said, ‘Okay, fair enough,’ and he left me and wrote a huge best seller, The Night of the Gun. I shouldn’t have doubted him.” —BINKY URBAN LITERARY AGENT / Represents four Nobel laureates: Toni Morrison, Kazuo Ishiguro, Malala Yousafzai, and Nadia Murad AMANDA “BINKY” URBAN started on the road to becoming a super-agent in book publishing thanks to a chance encounter with Mrs. Geffael, formerly of Short Hills, New Jersey, on June 5, 1968. Back then, Urban, 21 and freshly graduated from Wheaton College, wasn’t expected by anyone in her milieu to go to work at all. She’d been raised in affluent Summit, New Jersey, where…

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE NATIONAL DOMESTIC WORKERS ALLIANCE / Author of The Age of Dignity: Preparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing America / Meryl Streep’s date for the 2018 Golden Globes IN LARGE PART thanks to the National Domestic Workers Alliance—co-founded by Ai-jen Poo—eight states have extended basic labor protections, such as overtime and one day of rest in every seven, to the people who care for our children and our elderly and our homes. The NDWA also pressured the Obama administration in 2012 to issue similar Department of Labor rules covering more than 2 million domestic workers nationally. The stories of workers, Poo says, are a main tool to force political change; they rise to testify “every time we engage with legislators, every time we have…

“I know a lot of architects want to have bigger offices and expand their practices all over the world. I don’t really think that way.” —ELIZABETH DILLER FOUNDING PARTNER OF DILLER SCOFIDIO + RENFRO / Was named the world’s most influential architect by Time / Designed a building made of water vapor on a lake in Switzerland ARCHITECTURE IS ABOUT POWER—if power, at its most fundamental, is the ability to make people, time, and space move in accordance with your will. This particular form of power set the bedrock foundations of the patriarchy: Women make babies; men make cities. Thus, when someone other than a white-male guru enters this game, it’s high risk. Which is why it’s not surprising that Elizabeth Diller, at 64 the tacit king of the…

CEO OF THE CORCORAN GROUP / Was hired as a broker out of college / Dates her interest in real estate to a childhood fascination with skyscrapers “I remember one time, oh my God, this business guy was like, “Come on, you’re coming with me,” and the next thing I know, he takes me to a strip club. I was like, Okay, if this is where you really want to go. We were trying to do a deal together, and so I just went along with it. Did I enjoy it? No. Did I ever go back? No. I did get the deal. I think, honestly, he didn’t care so much about going there; I think he was testing me, to see how far he could push me. It…

“People were promised promotions if they testified against me.” RETIRED FACTORY MANAGER / Spoke twice at the Democratic National Convention / Favorite interview: Stephen Colbert “IT ALL STARTED with an anonymous note. I was on a night shift at Goodyear, where I’d worked for 19 years and ten months as a production manager. The office was quiet and empty. I was doing some admin tasks before my shift and reached into my cubbyhole to see if I had any mail. Out dropped this torn piece of paper. It had my name alongside three others and showed our base salaries. Mine was exact to the dollar: $3,727 a month (without overtime). The others were men, and their salaries were enormous. My body turned hot. Does everyone know? Is everybody in…

HOUSE MINORITY LEADER / Raised over a half-billion dollars for Democrats since 2006 / Guest on VH1’s RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars I JUST THINK THIS IS REALLY generational,” Nancy Pelosi says, gesturing fulsomely toward Minnesota state representative Ilhan Omar, who is poised to become the first Somali-American member of Congress. “I’m in this dress,” Pelosi continues, glancing down at her deep-green tailored shift, “and she’s in this adorable suit.” Omar is wearing zebra-print sneakers, a black pantsuit over a T-shirt reading BARRIERS WERE MEANT TO BE BROKEN, and a radiant-blue hijab. The two are about to sit down for their first lengthy one-on-one meeting, and Pelosi is correct: There’s a lot about the encounter that feels generational. One generation is represented by the Democratic leader of the House,…

HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT EMERITUS / Led a $9.3 billion fundraising campaign / Her book This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War was a National Book Award finalist CIVIL WAR SCHOLAR Drew Gilpin Faust retired in June after 11 years as the president of Harvard University, the first woman ever to hold the position. She had followed Lawrence H. Summers, who was forced out for saying that “intrinsic” gender differences accounted for the lack of women in science. Faust generated what might be considered the opposite kind of controversy: She was too PC, her critics griped—during her time, the number of tenured female faculty rose by 47 percent. On banning Harvard’s single-gender clubs, including the exclusive all-male “final clubs”: Starting with the class of 2021, any student…

“I became the first black woman to lead a Marvel comic—Black Panther: World of Wakanda—because Ta-Nehisi Coates invited me. That’s a real power move, to share the ladder that you climbed up.” —ROXANE GAY WRITER / Her first nonfiction book: Bad Feminist / Her favorite author is Edith Wharton “I THINK OF my mother when I’m asked to tolerate nonsense, and how she simply isn’t gonna have it. She’s extremely classy, but when people tried to take advantage of us in school, she would tell our teachers, “You don’t get to compromise my child’s education because this is a black child.” Now, when I respond to trolls on Twitter, mostly I’m doing it to be petty, and that feels good. But also it’s powerful to not tolerate bullshit and…

FORMER CEO OF XEROX / First African-American woman to head a Fortune 500 company / Interned for Xerox in 1980 I AM A WOMAN, I am black, I grew up in the projects. One of the challenges that “unique” leaders have is that what people declare is unique about you, you find ordinary. Your natural state is heralded as something unbelievably special. I remember when I was an undergraduate in engineering, there were very few women. I was the only black woman. What I realized was that people could not avoid noticing me. Even if I had a stupid comment to make, people would call on me if I raised my hand. If you were reasonably smart, this was not a bad position to be in. I was noticed…

LIGHTNING ROUND Age: 26. Neighborhood: West Village. Favorite sunglasses: “My big Guccis.” Favorite exercise: “I try to do mainly calisthenics now, because it keeps my energy stable.” Favorite sport: “I used to play basketball. Ball used to be life. I watch when I can, though I recently threw my television out.” Last work trip: “Vegas.” Where are you headed? MatchaBar. They sponsor me. I was going there all the time, ordering this $15 CBD latte, and then posting pictures of it to Instagram. Finally, the owner gave me a corporate card in exchange for a couple of posts a week. Their slogan is “Good things come to those who hustle”—when I first saw that, I was like, Wow, that is so me. You’re a…

IF SWEETS ARE THE ULTIMATE impulse purchase, it might seem counterintuitive to open a bakery where passersby can’t see it. But that’s undeniably part of the charm of Burrow (68 Jay St., Dumbo), a petite glass-fronted patisserie in the back of the lobby of a 20th-century tea factory turned co-working space, now home to digital-media companies and the Brooklyn Bridge Fencing Club. Chef Ayako Kurokawa initially intended the location to be merely a production kitchen but opened it to the public in 2014, and she has become known for her idiosyncratic, artistic takes on classic French desserts with Japanese and American twists. The main attractions are cookies and cakes, elegant, tiered constructions of cream and mousse and sponge in flavors like chestnut and green tea. Do not miss the miracle…

EVERYONE SAYS the Tibetan momo (dumpling) specialist Lhasa Fast Food (37-50 74th St., Jackson Heights) is located behind a mobile-phone store. Not so. In fact, it lies behind what seems like a whole gang of mobile-phone stores as well as the Tony Moe Unisex Beauty Salon, a Prahbu Money Transfer operation, SN Vajra Jewelers, a laptop-repair shop, and the Galilee Multi Services, should you be in need of a travel planner, immigration advice, or a quickie divorce. All these pint-size places reside in a claustrophobic cluster behind floor-to-ceiling glass-wall partitions separated by a twisty aisle. The overall effect is of entering a distortion-mirror fun house after a night of heavy drinking. To get to the momos, walk down the main aisle toward the small sign hanging from the ceiling that…

1 WHAT TO WEAR While the theater no longer enforces the black tie dress code of days gone by, it’s still a place that welcomes (and encourages) a “look.” Think of it as a way to thank the cast and crew for giving you their all. And why not add a touch of sparkle to reflect the nearly 220,156 Swarovski® crystals used in the sets and costumes? No one on Broadway has ever said no to a little glam. For inspiration, here’s what two fashion-forward fans wore on their visit to Broadway’s St. James Theatre (pictured above). 2 NORDIC-INSPIRED NOSH No evening at the theater is complete without a delicious pre-show dinner, so kick off your Arendelle experience before the curtain rises. New York is home to several celebrated Nordic…

In 2018, there is no earthly reason, biological or otherwise, why men should have more power than women. YOU HAVE POWER when so many women are powerless!” said a sexual-assault survivor as she confronted senator Jeff Flake. The woman who spoke these words was, at that moment, pinning him into the corner of an elevator. He looked stricken and ashamed, like a boy caught with one foot out the bedroom window. Maria Gallagher’s fury dominated the space as she commanded Senator Jeff Flake, “Look at me when I am talking to you!” And when the story gets told, she, and not Flake, will be remembered more as the hero who never wavered and who might have diverted the course of history. So, judging from the videotape alone, who in that…

WRITER AND ACTIVIST / Founded the National Women’s Political Caucus with Betty Friedan, Shirley Chisholm, and Bella Abzug / Once went undercover as a Playboy Bunny WHEN THE editors at New York were starting to put together this issue, they realized that almost exactly 50 years earlier, the magazine had published a story by Gloria Steinem titled simply “Women and Power.” The main point of the piece was that women want power, but since they can’t get it through work or in public life, they date and marry for it. “Sponge-like, women acquire the status (even, temporarily, some of the power) of the man they’re with,” Steinem wrote. “So much so that it’s part of every girl’s experience to be treated as two entirely different people just because she’s…

“It was funnier when he wasn’t the president.” ADULT-FILM ACTRESS WHO ONCE SLEPT WITH PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP / 2014 inductee into the Adult Video News Hall of Fame / Appeared in a 2005 Maroon 5 video, “Wake Up Call” / Briefly considered a 2010 run for U.S. Senate in Louisiana “TRUMP WAS NOT THE PRESIDENT; he was just an idiot at a golf tournament. I mean, I went ten years without even thinking about Trump. It was funnier when he wasn’t the president. Now it comes with this undeserved prestige. I actually have Trump supporters come out and get pictures and autographs and be like, “I just want to meet the lady that he picked to have sex with him.” I’m like, What’s wrong with you? I didn’t leak…

HOST OF FULL FRONTAL WITH SAMANTHA BEE ON TBS / Canadian / Emmy winner You’ve talked about the power of not giving a shit what people think about you— SAMANTHA BEE: Can we contextualize this conversation? Of course. We’re in the middle of one of the most personally disruptive news cycles [at the time, Christine Blasey Ford had just publicly accused Brett Kavanaugh of trying to rape her], and there have been a lot of them. But this one is really … it’s personal. It is just dredging up memories for everyone on my staff. It’s hard for me to speak about my power in this moment. I feel distraught and really angry. And I think every woman I know feels the exact same way.…

“I already know what I want to be. I want to be the executive president of the New York Times or a photographer. The Times has never had a black female president.” —NAOMI WADLER SIXTH-GRADER AT MARET SCHOOL IN WASHINGTON, D.C. / Spoke at March for Our Lives / Favorite book is Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix “AS YOU MAY KNOW, Courtlin Arrington was a black female who was killed in her school in Birmingham, Alabama. My mother showed me an article about it, and I noticed that her story wasn’t all over the front pages of newspapers like it would’ve been if she were a white girl. That made me angry. After Parkland, my friend and I organized an elementary-school walkout. I was interviewed about…

“My strength is probably my downfall … I kinda say what I think.” WRITER AND DIRECTOR OF AWARD-WINNING ‘MUDBOUND’ / Developed her first film from her NYU graduate thesis / Directing an adaptation of Joan Didion’s The Last Thing He Wanted “EARLY IN MY CAREER, things were conditional. It was: “You can have this if that” or “If you work with this person, or hire this person, you can do this.” After I made my first feature film, Pariah, all this young-adult fare got thrown at me. I was going up for everything. It was a moment where I felt like I had to interview for things, even those things I didn’t want. I remember I was going to interview for a horror movie, and I just didn’t want…

RUNNING FOR CONGRESS IN 2018 / Representative in the Minnesota State Legislature / First Somali-American lawmaker / Name means “Inspiration” “ONE OF THE THINGS that people used to ask me on the campaign trail when I first ran was “Did you have permission from your husband and father to run for office?” My dad and my husband would always say, “Oh, these people must not really know you.” It’s been interesting to see the ideas that Western societies have about women in the East. It sounds strange, but I don’t know if I’ve ever had a moment in my life where I didn’t feel like I had power. When I was younger, my grandfather used to say, “You’re an Arawelo. Make sure that you are present in school and…

“When I saw Wonder Woman, I knew I could stand up and have a voice like she did.” STAR OF THE FLORIDA PROJECT / How she defines power: “It means that people are strong, and they are brave, and they are kind.” “I want to be a director as well as an actress. People will be like, ‘Oh, this little girl wants to become a director and have a movie, how sweet!’ And once it comes out, they’re going to be like, ‘Oh, this girl’s legit.’ ”…

“I’m willing to accept an eighth as much power for eight times more freedom.” WRITER AND EXECUTIVE PRODUCER OF HBO’S CAMPING / Her Girls character famously said, “I think I may be the voice of my generation. Or, at least, a voice of a generation.” “In Destroyer, I get to be very physical in a way that I’ve never been. I learned to fire guns.” —NICOLE KIDMAN “WHEN I WAS little, I wasn’t thinking I was going to be on this global, global stage. I did not have any sense of wanting the world to be mine, but once you start—once you make an independent film, which gets a slightly bigger independent film, which then gets you a job making television, which then has people recognizing…

Duckworth’s soldiers called her “Mommy”: “It was meant to be an insult. I should’ve said, ‘Yeah, I’m taking good care of my soldiers and it makes them more deadly.” ILLINOIS SENATOR / On Donald Trump: “I swore an oath … not to mindlessly cater to the whims of ‘Cadet Bone Spurs’ and clap when he demands I clap.” “Until you or your family have lived life in a wheelchair, you don’t understand how vitally important the Americans With Disabilities Act is.” —tammy duckworth TAMMY DUCKWORTH, senator from Illinois and Purple Heart–decorated Army helicopter pilot, is in the middle of a detailed rant about identity politics and discrimination, when she comes to a screeching halt. She blinks. She’s blanked on a name. “God, he’s my friend,” she says, smacking her…

“One of the really important things, I think, is that women have found their voices.” —GLENDA JACKSON “Sometimes they can be highly annoying. But at least they’re speaking.” —ANNA WINTOUR ANNA WINTOUR: EDITOR OF VOGUE , ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF CONDÉ NAST Fund-raiser for Hillary Clinton in 2016 / Will never be seen wearing all-black / GLENDA JACKSON: TONY-WINNING ACTOR / Was once a British MP / Currently rehearsing for King Lear on Broadway (she plays Lear) “I go to dinner on Frederick Douglass Boulevard last night—I financed or worked on 30 of the buildings that I was walking around. It’s an amazing feeling.” —ALICIA GLEN Both of you have reputations as being formidable characters. Glenda Jackson: I don’t understand that. People always say, “She’s…

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, T MAGAZINE / Her novel A Little Life was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize / Claims not to have cried since 1995 “I ALWAYS TELL young women when they’re negotiating a salary just not to say anything. When your future employer makes the offer, you should state your counter, and they’ll say, “Well, we really can’t do that.” And depending on where the negotiation is at that point, you’ll say either, “My drop dead is blank,” or you just don’t say anything at all. It’s very hard to do—it took me years to learn. But people are very uncomfortable with silence, and whoever breaks the silence first loses. It’s good to go in knowing exactly what you’re willing to compromise on and then…

CHIEF FOREIGN-AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT, NBC NEWS; ANCHOR, ANDREA MITCHELL REPORTS / Was thrown out of a photo-op for trying to question media-avoiding secretary of State Rex Tillerson ANDREA MITCHELL WAS 35 when she began covering the Reagan White House for NBC News. Now, at 71, she’s still on the front lines. Women often say we’re wired or taught to be pleasing. But isn’t not being pleasing part of your job? I find that I have an instinctive urge to ask the tough question. And then immediately afterward, I want to apologize, to say, “I’m so sorry. I didn’t mean to be obnoxious.” The other piece of it is that, having been raised to please, we are vulnerable. We’re vulnerable to sexual predators, we’re vulnerable to not being…

OUTSIDE TRUMP’S CASTLE, the country becomes more tolerant of women in public roles. But Trump and his “Queens,” as Nina Burleigh calls them in her new book, Golden Handcuffs: The Secret History of Trump’s Women, are a link to a different era. His wives—and even to an extent the other women in his family—have made a deal to accept what Burleigh calls “long-term enslavement” in exchange for wealth and fame. We know tabloid tidbits about Trump’s women, but Newsweek reporter Burleigh puts the pieces together in surprising ways. Some of the women closest to the most nativist president in recent history are consumed by their immigrant roots, from his grandmother to his mother to his current wife. Trump in many ways treats women as inconsequential props, yet he deeply fears…

“When you stay silent, they feel like they have to say something. And you can pull so much from that.” U.S. AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED NATIONS / First woman governor of South Carolina / Once successfully pushed to remove the Confederate flag from statehouse grounds I SAT DOWN TO TALK with U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley in early October. She’d just come back from meeting with the president in Washington, D.C., where presumably she discussed her intention to resign from her position less than a week later. When she announced her decision publicly, on October 9, she did so with little explanation, saying only that she’s not running for president in 2020. Even as I spoke with Haley, all I could think of was how hard she was working to…

FOR 25 YEARS, Quito, Ecuador, native Tony Molina has been slinging rice and beans at El Sabroso (265 W. 37th St.), the Latin American lunch counter he runs in the Garment District. Five days a week, Molina wakes up at 5 a.m. to get to Manhattan from his home in Jackson Heights in time to prep for the lunch rush. That there’s a lunch trickle, let alone a rush, is impressive, considering that (a) El Sabroso is virtually invisible from the street, with signage as inconspicuous as those fading, old-timey ads that linger on brick buildings around town. And that (b) the six-stool, one-table restaurant is located behind a pair of formidable metal doors at the end of a windowless freight hallway. Also: The floors are concrete, the plates are…

ABOUT THE Istria Sport Club (28-09 Astoria Blvd., Astoria) there is that certain aspect specific to social clubs, nightclubs, haunted houses, and dark alleys—a foreboding that makes you hesitate and ask yourself the following questions: Is it worth it? Can any good come from entering this potential danger zone? Will I, like Spider in GoodFellas, be forced to dance, then shot in the foot? Not to worry. Go ahead and ring the buzzer. Nothing at all to fear about this subterranean soccer-trophy shrine and home away from home to the neighborhood’s Croatian, Italian, and Slovenian expats hailing from that Adriatic-coast peninsula. Zlatko Ramic, the friendly host-waiter-historian and former football forward, will escort you to one of two white-linened dining rooms or maybe, in warm weather, an outdoor table near the…

“THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH for being here!” Heidi Schreck beams, effervescent in a sunny yellow blazer, as she makes her entrance at the start of What the Constitution Means to Me. She keeps smiling, but something flickers behind her eyes as she adds, “Especially tonight.” It is a Thursday, the day of the Kavanaugh hearings. In the tiny pause that Schreck lets hang in the air before she takes a breath and moves forward, the world is in the room with us—his floundering spinelessness, her courage, the dead-eyed indifference of a wall of horrible men. Schreck starts to speak again. Her eyes flash back into brightness, and, still smiling, she begins to tell us about how, when she was 15, she gave speeches about the U.S. Constitution in rhetoric…

“Having spent so much time with President Obama, I feel I have a good sense of how he would react to any crazy thing that happens. I was at a loss, though, to guess what he might have been thinking when the current president essentially accused him of committing a crime; thus, the montage of possible reactions. I’ll probably continue making subtle comments on Instagram. It’s fun to keep people guessing.”…

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OVER THE YEARS, I was hoping to forget it,” says Ian Schrager in his Brooklyn rasp, between bites of chopped salad and across-the-table reaches to touch my arm. He’s talking about Studio 54, the mythic discotheque he opened with an irrepressible college buddy named Steve Rubell in 1977. The two of them ran the club for 30 manically publicized months, before being busted for failing to pay taxes on all the money they skimmed off all the money they made there and going to jail for 13 months. “I was always embarrassed by it.” But Rubell has been dead for almost 30 years now—like so many people who worked for and danced at Studio 54, of AIDS—while Schrager is a pashalike 72 and has done quite nicely for himself. (So…

“Did I have a flashback? No. But I cannot tell you how many people told me they were sick, literally sick, watching the Kavanaugh hearings.”—ANITA HILL PROFESSOR AT BRANDEIS / Testified in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee during Clarence Thomas’s 1991 Supreme Court confirmation hearings / Portrayed by Kerry Washington in HBO’s Confirmation “IN MANY WAYS, the Kavanaugh hearings did feel like a repeat of 1991. The process is his word against hers. You’d hope the two parties would come as equals, but in this case, you have a woman against members of the Judiciary Committee who’ve already expressed antagonism for her, who’ve made it known that they don’t think Dr. Blasey Ford is being truthful. And you have public statements by the president that suggest she’s lying.…

MILITARY VETERAN / Felt most in control when landing a Navy helicopter in the Indian Ocean in rough seas, in the dark “MALENESS isn’t a trump card. Being a very, very short, skinny, effeminate man doesn’t actually carry a ton of privilege with it. As a trans person trying to exist within a military environment, I went from being considered a very weak, ineffectual leader before transition to being considered a very good one as a woman. It didn’t happen as much until I got to a job where people didn’t know I was trans. But the thing is, since transitioning, the way I approach things is very different. Take meetings: As an effeminate guy, if you want to come out of there with your point of view intact,…

I wasn’t born a person who craves conflict. That’s really not me.” —MARJORIE DANNENFELSER PRESIDENT OF PRO-LIFE GROUP THE SUSAN B. ANTHONY LIST / Raised in Greenville, North Carolina / Calls Trump “the most pro-life president we’ve ever had” MARJORIE DANNENFELSER cries easily, and this, she believes, is her greatest strength. She cries when she hears “American Honey,” by Lady Antebellum. She even chokes up a little when recollecting the lyrics out loud in her office, because it reminds her of her upbringing in eastern North Carolina. “‘She grew up on the side of the road where the church bells ring / And … something,’ ” she says, laughing at her own sentimentality. But the subject that most easily brings her to tears, the thing that really cracks her…

“I had less screen time because I didn’t want to attract more criticism.” PEABODY-EMMY-GRAMMY-OSCAR-TONY-WINNING FILMMAKER, ACTRESS, AND SINGER / Starred on Broadway in Funny Girl at age 21 / Produced and starred alongside Kris Kristofferson in the 1976 remake of A Star Is Born “IN 1976, people in Hollywood weren’t used to a woman being in control. I was producing the film for First Artists, a company originally set up for Paul Newman, Sidney Poitier, and me. In exchange for no salary up front, we could make our own films with full creative control and a piece of the back end (which we only got if the film was a hit). My budget was $6 million, and any penny spent over that had to come out of my own…

CEO OF YOUTUBE / Google was started out of her garage in 1998—she rented it to Larry Page and Sergey Brin / Called “the most powerful woman on the internet” “I thought it was hard enough to have a baby and to go on leave with paid leave, and then I found out that people don’t even have a paid leave and 25 percent of American women are coming back to work after ten days.” —SUSAN WOJCICKI “THE PEOPLE WHO opened the door for me were men. The reality is that most positions of power right now are held by men, and so men need to be the ones who are opening the door. There was this time in my CEO role at YouTube I wanted to…

Maybe I’d run again. I spend a lot of time these days screaming at the TV.” —RESHMA SAUJANI FOUNDER OF GIRLS WHO CODE / First Indian-American woman to run for Congress / Gave a TED talk on being “brave not perfect” “LIKE A GOOD immigrant girl, I spent my whole life trying to do everything right—go to the right schools, have the right jobs, make the right decisions. I thought that if I credentialized myself, I’d be happy. And I woke up at age 33 just totally depressed. I hated my job, I hated my life. I always wanted to make a difference, and I just wasn’t. I was working in finance, and so I kinda said, “Eff it,” and I decided to run for Congress in a seat…

“Who decides what happens to these guys? Who’s gonna cut off his head and put it on a stake?” —GABRIELLE HAMILTON CHEFS AT PRUNE / Hamilton is a four-time James Beard Award winner / For a few weeks, she and Merriman cheffed at the “ground zero” of restaurant sexual harassment, the Spotted Pig AT 11:30 ON A WEEKDAY MORNING in late August, the chefs Gabrielle Hamilton and Ashley Merriman were both a little jumpy, though they expressed this at very different frequencies. Hamilton, who moves through the world with spring-loaded intensity, vigorously dissecting every exchange, was pinging around Prune, the 30-seat restaurant she planted here in the East Village 19 years ago this month. In between repositioning chairs and wiping up the odd overlooked spill, she fired questions at…

“Of course I’ve had #MeToo moments … they come out in my work.” ACTRESS / Received her first Academy Award nomination in 2002, for Moulin Rouge! “My power in the industry is being able to go, “Can we get this made?” And people saying, “We’ll give you some money.” And then I get to make the choices: “I want this person cast, I want this director.” It’s astounding when people listen. But I still don’t have a lot of power. Destroyer was hard to get made. You have a female director, Karyn Kusama. You have me in a lead role as an avenging undercover cop who looks the way I look in that movie—not glamorous. It’s about a very complicated, angry woman. People are not going, “We can’t wait…

“I think it’s really alienating to tell people that there’s a smaller person trapped inside their body.” —LINDY WEST AUTHOR / Her book Shrill: Notes From a Loud Woman, is being adapted into a show for Hulu / On leaving Twitter: “It’s unusable for anyone but trolls, robots, and dictators.” “WOMEN ARE CONDITIONED to subsume our own needs to the needs of others and to try to make everything okay for everyone, emotionally and practically. And that becomes really insidious when women aren’t conditioned to prioritize their own safety and even their own sense of self. So to me, at this point, power is throwing off those expectations. I do think I’ve cultivated a skill for saying what I believe, even when it’s unfashionable or unpopular. People, for example,…

NEW YORK’S DEPUTY MAYOR FOR HOUSING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT / Oversees more than 20 city agencies, including NYCHA and Parks & Recreation / Has had just one female boss her whole career “One of the biggest battles we had when we got here was whether we could build housing in Brooklyn Bridge Park and whether it was affordable housing, not just luxury housing. I’m chair of the board of Brooklyn Bridge Park, and within the first couple of months of getting this job, I go to my first board meeting and it’s all in the ether that we’re going to build housing in the park. It’s a U-shaped table and I’m on the end because I’m the chair, and I suddenly feel this crazy thing going on under the…

“I’m kind of a cross-dresser,” Holzer says. “I don’t want to be looked at or dismissed, or even attract anybody, as a female. It’s like, ‘Hey, look at the work,’ or, ‘Talk to me.’” ARTIST / The trucks with animated billboards she made after Parkland will make an appearance in L.A. in November. / “Truism”: “Dying should be as easy as falling off a log.” ABUSE OF POWER COMES AS NO SURPRISE. JENNY HOLZER, the 68-year-old Conceptual artist who, in the late 1970s, began papering lower Manhattan with posters bearing “Truisms” she’d written—aphoristic sayings like ABSOLUTE SUBMISSION CAN BE A FORM OF FREEDOM and AMBIVALENCE CAN RUIN YOUR LIFE—has become an idol for our online era. On Twitter, various Holzer bots tweet out her maxims, which read as if…

LAWYER AND FORMER ACTING ATTORNEY GENERAL / First hired at Justice Department by a Republican / Currently a lecturer at Georgetown University Law Center and partner at King & Spalding In January 2017, Yates was fired after she refused to enforce President Trump’s executive order barring travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries. “THE FIRST AMENDMENT promises we won’t discriminate on the basis of religion. President Trump asserted the ban had nothing to do with that, yet he’d stated his intent many times. How could I dispatch Justice Department lawyers to argue something that wasn’t grounded in truth? Of course I considered resigning! But I was the acting attorney general. That would’ve been like saying, “I’m outta here. You guys handle it.” Recently, exiting an airplane, I felt someone tap me…

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF DIOR / First woman to lead the label’s creative side / Put Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie quote “We Should All Be Feminists” on a T-shirt “I think in the past, I didn’t understand the power of the fashion system. For my generation, fashion was something playful. Now fashion is so popular—so pop—that we have to reflect more about the world with what we do. I feel a lot of responsibility. In my life, for example, I never thought about cultural appropriation or gender. My daughter has helped me understand all these arguments.”…

THE GOAL: Find the most durable pointy-topped witch hat. To assess the options, we talked to a panel of professionals: haunted-house witches, whose jobs demand that their defining accessory last more than a few seasons. THE VERDICT: While the most basic taffeta hat goes for $2.99 at some mega costume stores, serious witches prefer to invest in something more substantial—namely, the Wicked Witch Hat (from $62 at etsy.com) by hat-maker Fiona FixMitchell. It satisfies even the most discerning of witches, like Jamie Keller, who’s playing the Wicked Witch at this year’s “13th Gate” in Baton Rouge, and Katie Luscombe, an apprentice to Clinton Hill’s Halloween Lady. The hat’s aesthetic is a perk (the silhouette is crumpled; an imperfect triangle is more realistic, according to this crowd), but the real boon…

STUFFED CABBAGE, borscht, vareniki, and pampushki are not unusual things to chance upon in the East Village, even if the number of Ukrainian and Polish restaurants in that neighborhood has dwindled over the years. You don’t, however, expect to find them—especially in such fine form—behind a door hidden beneath a stairwell that leads to a homey basement dining room. (Just look for a blue-and-gold banner written in Cyrillic letters, then down.) This is Streecha (33 E. 7th St.), a crackerjack Ukrainian kitchen set up to raise money for the St. George Ukrainian Catholic Church across the street. Most of Streecha chef Dima Kovalenko’s customers are hungry expats freshly released from Sunday Mass, but everyone is welcome here. In fact, on Friday mornings, a little group of volunteer vareniki-makers, traditionally elderly…

AS LONG AS NEW YORK has had its version of the convenience store, it’s had shopkeepers savvy enough to sell prepared food along with the everyday necessities of urban life. Korean delis had their maximalist kitchen-sink salad bars; Latino and Yemeni bodegas, their flattop egg-on-a-roll ninjas. Less well known, perhaps, are the bodegas that hide makeshift kitchens and a table or two behind cramped shelves stacked with Goya beans and Tide detergent. One such is La Esquina del Camarón Mexicano (80-02 Roosevelt Ave., Jackson Heights), a tiny slice of Veracruz in the shadow of the elevated 7 train. Here, Pedro Rodriguez puts the lessons he learned as a child in Mexico City from a Veracruzana cook to excellent use. His claim to fame is the Mexican-style seafood cócteles he began…

AFTER SEVEN SEASONS of Scandal, Kerry Washington has shed the trappings of the D.C. power fixer she played on television in favor of a political drama of a different sort. Onstage in Christopher Demos-Brown’s intimate play American Son, Washington is an anxious mother trying to track down her teenage kid in a Florida police station. It’s her second time on Broadway, after appearing in David Mamet’s Race nearly nine years ago. “I wasn’t necessarily looking to do theater again,” she says. “It really was the play that brought me back.” This time out, she’s also a producer. In her final few rehearsals and first preview on October 6 at the Booth Theatre, Washington fine-tuned her performance with the rest of the cast and director Kenny Leon while preparing for the…

BAMcinématek October 26–November 1 Postwar Japanese horrors, including the stunning original Godzilla. Quad Cinema October 18–23, 26–31 Blood and eros with the arty sensuality of Jean Rollin (The Living Dead Girl) and more. MoMA Film October 17–18 Peter Cushing’s last and grimmest turn as Frankenstein, Frankenstein and the Monster From Hell.…