“The Celebrity Factory Has Shut Down”: Inside the Actors Strike Press Apocalypse

DeSantis’s Successor? • Evolution of MGT • Fox’s Tucker Problem [View in your browser]( | [Update your preferences](newsletter=vf) [Vanity Fair Hive logo image]( “The Celebrity Factory Has Shut Down”: Inside the Actors Strike Press Apocalypse Good morning from the Hive newsroom! “You will feel it across the whole internet,” media executive Janice Min [tells]( Vanity Fair’s Joe Pompeo and Natalie Jarvey, as actors join the writers in strike for the first time since 1960, upending the media apparatus in Hollywood. With actors now barred from promoting their work, publicists are experiencing “existential grief,” one communications executive says. Meanwhile, Hollywood reporters are going to have to get more creative. In Washington, Pablo Manríquez [spots]( a rising conservative voice in Florida representative Byron Donalds, the only Black Freedom Caucus member, who allies backed in a Speakership fight against Kevin McCarthy at the start of the year. With his newfound notoriety, Donalds tells Vanity Fair he’s even considering a run for governor. Plus, Brian Stelter [chats]( with journalist Robert Draper about the evolution of Marjorie Taylor Greene. Thanks for reading. [Inside the Actors Strike Press Apocalypse: “The Celebrity Factory Has Shut Down”]( By [Joe Pompeo and Natalie Jarvey]( [With an indefinite moratorium on interviews, red carpets, cover shoots, and more, the Hollywood media is in for a rough ride. ”You will feel it across the whole internet,” says Janice Min.]( [Read more button](   [Ron DeSantis May Have a Successor in the Wings: Byron Donalds]( By [Pablo Manríquez]( [Donalds, the only Black member of the ultraconservative Freedom Caucus, who was nominated to challenge Kevin McCarthy’s Speakership, is considering a run for governor in Florida.]( [Read more button](   [The Dangerous Evolution of Marjorie Taylor Greene]( By [Brian Stelter]( [Robert Draper chronicles the Georgia congresswoman’s path from MAGA insurgent to establishment player—and what it says about the state of the Republican Party.]( [Read more button](   [Fox News’ Legal Shitstorm Is Only Getting Worse—Thanks to Tucker Carlson]( By [Caleb Ecarma]( [Ray Epps, a Trump supporter who became the subject of a conspiracy theory on Carlson’s show, filed a lawsuit against Fox News for painting him as a “villain.”]( [Read more button](   [Ron DeSantis’s Lack of Personality Is Now Costing Him GOP Sugar Daddies: Report]( By [Bess Levin]( [Rupert Murdoch apparently isn’t the only one who can “smell a loser.”]( [Read more button](   Get on the list Subscribe to our Hollywood newsletter for your essential industry and awards-season news, every day. [Sign Up Now](   [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [LinkedIn](   This e-mail was sent to you by The Hive. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, vanityfair@newsletter.vf.com, to your address book. View our [Privacy Policy]( [Unsubscribe](newsletter=vf) Sent from Condé Nast, 1 World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007 Copyright © 2023 Condé Nast