【June 12, 2026】— I saw two massive “money-printing” events happen on the same day: Legendary American director Steven Spielberg, now 79 years old, dropped his new alien sci-fi film Disclosure Day. And Elon Musk’s SpaceX, the rocket company of the world’s richest man, went public on the Nasdaq. Wall Street’s money-sucking power is on a completely different level from Hollywood. Even if a movie has a monster global box office, it’s still just pocket change compared to what these tech giants pull in. Spielberg was born in 1946. When he was 31, back in 1977, he released Close Encounters of the Third Kind. I was only 3 years old — no way my parents were taking me to the theater, so I completely missed the big-screen experience. That movie portrayed aliens as gentle and friendly, which was a huge departure from pretty much everything before it. Up until then, aliens were almost always evil invaders or monsters. When he was 36, in 1982, he gave us E.T. I was 8 ye...
This isn’t a fashion movie. It’s a straight-up elegy for news media and print journalism. It delivers a more raw, brutal, blood-on-the-floor portrait of a world where money is king (or queen). A few blunt truths it lays out: 1. In fashion, only the luxury brands are actually making real money in retails. Everything else is struggling. 2. A tech billionaire nearly buys the fashion magazine just to make his girlfriend happy. 3. The third-generation media heir has wanted to dump the whole empire for years and finally sells it to the highest bidder — a tech mogul’s Chinese ex-wife. When you’ve got money and budget, everything goes exactly according to the fantasy: glossy, gorgeous, irresistible. When you don’t… you walk past first and business class on the plane and squeeze into economy with the regular slobs. Brutal. On the music: The Dua Lipa opener “End of an Era” was a pleasant surprise. I’ll admit Lady Gaga’s two new songs (she’s 40 now) are bold, powerful, and ...