Making Sense of the Jennifer Lopez Wedding Industrial-Complex Canon

The latest in pop-culture news, recaps, and reviews, plus close reads, profiles, interviews, and more from Vulture.com. [Brand Logo]( THE JLOWICC [The Jennifer Lopez Wedding Industrial-Complex Canon]( The JLOWICC is a complex universe filled with dead mothers, worried best friends, sad dinners, and machetes. Photo-Illustration: Vulture. Photos: Lionsgate; Columbia; Universal; New Line Few actors have pretended to get married as often as Jennifer Lopez. By my count, which has been duly confirmed by dozens of Us Weekly–core slideshows detailing her fictional wedding dresses, she has donned a white dress with the intention (but not always the follow-through) of betrothing herself to a man (always a man) no less than nine times: In Selena, The Wedding Planner, Enough, El Cantante, The Back-Up Plan, Marry Me, My Family, her new movie Shotgun Wedding, and [The Cell](, an extended metaphor for losing oneself in a marriage. More interesting, though, is that four of these movies center entirely on the planning and execution of a modern American wedding, grappling not with the concept of matrimony but explicitly with the wedding industrial complex and its profound psychological implications. [Read More]( Devour pop culture with us. [Subscribe now]( for unlimited access to Vulture and everything New York. The Latest TV Recaps • Poker Face: [You Can’t Un-murder Someone]( • The Real Housewives of Miami: [Wrong Answers Only]( • Shrinking: [Psychological Vigilante (Episode 1)](, [Everything Goes My Way (Episode 2)]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( Stories We Think You’ll Like [A Complete List of Films Sold at Sundance 2023 (and Their Price Tags) MTV Documentary Films picked up The Eternal Memory.]( By Zoe Guy [The Numbing Spectacle of Infinity Pool What I did on my summer vacation (watched myself get executed).]( [Just Who Did Rita Ora Get for Her New Music Video? And why did they say yes to this?]( By Wolfgang Ruth [The Long, Odd History Behind the Arcs’ Lost David Berman Collaboration “Song could be about severe self doubt, isolation, paranoia, loneliness, etc. All the good stuff!”]( By Justin Curto [Debra Jo Rupp Would’ve Liked to Do ‘a Little More’ on That ’70s Show “We had a lot of male writers. I understood that.”]( By Devon Ivie [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Today’s Crossword]( 4-Down, Five Letters: Movie starring a 13-year-old Kristen Stewart. Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Everette Collection, Getty Images [Into It With Sam Sanders]( Photo-Illustration: Vulture HBO Max isn’t just canceling shows. It’s getting rid of them entirely. Claudia Forestieri experienced this firsthand with her series Gordita Chronicles. [On this episode of Into It](, host Sam Sanders chats with her about what it was like to become one of the dozens of creators whose shows no longer have a home — at least below cruising altitude — and Forestieri explains how her show’s cancellation factors into a wider industry trend of disappearing Latinx programming. [Read more from Vulture]( [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe](link.nymag.com/manage/588/optout-vulture?email={EMAIL}&hash=39357a76f6d08b16239fd2ffa65e9c6f) | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on email newsletters, please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, 12th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2023, All rights reserved