SCOOP DREAMS

SHAMS CHARANIA arrived at a restaurant in downtown Chicago last month just as his colleagues and sources around the National Basketball Association told me he would: running a bit late, phone in hand, AirPods plugged into both ears. "It's very hard to have lunch with Shams," a former NBA executive had warned me. The issue is holding his attention. Charania works for The Athletic, the sports website that is now business-critical to the future of the New York Times and where his title is senior NBA insider. The job involves staying in near-constant contact with hundreds of agents, executives, players, and hangers-on throughout the NBA in order to be in position to break basketball news big and small to his 2.1 million followers on X (the former Twitter)-more than any other reporter at the Times. When we met, Charania had taken a Lyft from his home in the Chicago suburbs because driving would have prevented him from texting and the train wasn't an appropriate place to take a call from, say, the general manager of an NBA team whose name popped up on Charania's iPhone shortly after he sat down. At one point, Charania set down a piece of toast to type out a text with his right pinkie to avoid smearing the screen with the strawberry jam on his thumb. "I didn't even realize I was doing that," he said when I pointed it out. "I'll do anything to get the text off. I've used my nose before."
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The Trouble With Men
Hugh Jackman and Liev Schreiber lead a pair of plays about master manipulators.

A CHINESE-BACKED SOAP-OPERA APP IS KEEPING L.A. ACTORS EMPLOYED
SECRET BILLIONAIRES. AGE-GAP MARRIAGES. PLENTY OF REVENGE.

The Odd Man Out Who's Always In
Michael Cera was made for the Wes Anderson cinematic universe.

The Young Fellows Ball
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You Just Can't Top Vaseline
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Oops, I Muraled Again
A crafty couple in Jackson Heights cover their one-bedroom apartment in floor-to-ceiling color.

HOLLYWOOD HAS LEFT LOS ANGELES
FOR YEARS, STUDIOS FOUND IT CHEAPER TO SHOOT ELSEWHERE. AND NOW THAT THE INDUSTRY HAS COLLAPSED, ELSEWHERE IS THE ONLY PLACE THEY'LL SHOOT.

EVEN NETFLIX IS JEALOUS OF YOUTUBE
MANY LIKE TO PRETEND THEY DIDN'T SEE THE PLATFORM WINNING THE STREAMING WARS. INDUSTRY INSIDERS SAY OTHERWISE.

Food With Some Tooth
Bánh Anh Em's soups and sandwiches are chewy, crunchy, crispy, and crackly—usually all at once.

Abundant Populism
The GOP is closing in on a massive wealth transfer. Can Democrats unite their warring visions?