Innholdsfortegnelse for 04/20/2018 i Newsweek International

THEY GET LONELY. THEY MISS THEIR FRIENDS and family. So, despite the danger of exposing themselves to retribution, Russian defectors hiding abroad make phone calls or send emails to relatives in the motherland. And when they do, the Kremlin is listening. “It’s easy to find us,” one defector in the U.S. tells Newsweek, “if they are really determined.” While phone calls and emails open channels for Russian eavesdroppers to locate defectors, relatives visiting from back home make it even easier. Agents can track them to a defector’s doorstep. Some American security sources say there has been an uptick in Russian activity in the U.S. in recent years; suspected agents have been spotted cruising the neighborhoods of defectors protected by CIA security teams. The FBI and CIA have been “bringing people…

WHEN EVE BABITZ WAS A YOUNG LOS ANGELES socialite, dropping LSD with Yoko Ono at a party thrown by Andy Warhol, writing for Rolling Stone, sleeping with Jim Morrison and, once, playing chess in the nude across from Marcel Duchamp, she was sure she would die before 30. For Babitz, the point of life was to fill it with as much pleasure as possible. “Death, to me, has always been the last word in people having fun without you,” she wrote in her first book, Eve’s Hollywood, a collection of short stories published in 1974. Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh and L.A. (1977) and Sex and Rage (1979) followed. After the intoxication of the ’60s and ’70s came the sobriety of the ’80s and ’90s, and Babitz,…

IN THE WAKE OF DONALD Trump’s election, a troubling word re-emerged in the American political lexicon: fascism. The left says the president mimics strongmen by attacking the media and targeting immigrants. The right claims liberals suppress dissenting views on everything from climate change to gender politics. But is this really fascism? Few are in a better position to judge than former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. Born in Czechoslovakia, she fled fascist regimes twice, first during the Nazi occupation of her home country in 1939 and then after a Communist coup a decade later. In her new book, Fascism: A Warning, Albright says she sees a revival of creeping nationalism and authoritarianism at home and abroad. Albright does not consider Trump a fascist, but she says his behavior is…

Since 1978, sunscreen in America has been regulated as an over-the-counter nonprescription drug, unlike in the European Union, where it’s considered a cosmetic. WEAR SUNSCREEN, ALWAYS. NOT JUST AT THE beach but at all times, even in winter. When it comes to skin care, that Michael Pollan–esque adage is one that we can all agree on: Regular use slows signs of aging and prevents exposure to the harmful ultraviolet A and ultraviolet B rays that cause skin cancer. But for many Americans, sunscreen remains a fraught subject. Products that use zinc oxide, the most effective barrier between the skin and cancer-triggering UV light, usually leave the skin with that chalky white cast sometimes called “lifeguard face.” And products that avoid zinc oxide by using alcohol-based chemicals that the skin more…

KAY CANNON WAS ON VACATION in Maine when she was offered a new job: directing Blockers, an R-rated comedy about parents trying to “cock-block” their daughters. It would be her directing debut after a decade of writing scripts nonstop, including three Pitch Perfect movies and back-to-back gigs on 30 Rock, New Girl and the short-lived Netflix series Girl-boss. Cannon had sworn to her husband and his parents that she wouldn’t work on her first family break in six years, so she read the entire script on her phone in the middle of the night. It was as funny as some of her favorite boundary-pushing comedies. “I will never forget my first experience watching American Pie in a sold-out theater in Kansas,” says Cannon, who doesn’t like the phrase “raunchy comedy”…

“As Olaf’s desperation grows, I get to be even more operatic and pathetic.” “HE CAN DO IT ALL” GETS THROWN AROUND A LOT, BUT NEIL PATRICK Harris kind of can: comedy, drama, song and dance, game-show hosting. He probably makes a perfect omelet. Among the 94 film and TV roles we’ve counted, Harris highlights include four seasons of starring in Doogie Howser, M.D., beginning in 1989, Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog in 2008, hosting the Tony Awards four times and playing the dearly lamented Barney on How I Met Your Mother (2005–2014). Currently, Harris is hosting the NBC game show Genius Junior—which pits two teams of smart 8- to 12-year-olds against each other—and starring on Season 2 of Netflix’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, which adapts five through nine of the…