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The Star
9 hours ago
- Business
- The Star
Turmoil or not, luxury fashion can't afford to ignore the Middle East region
Elie Saab held its 45th anniversary show in Riyadh last November, featuring a performance from Celine Dion. Photo: Instagram/Elie Saab With Middle East airspace reopening and the US-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Iran appearing to hold, the luxury fashion sector is still counting on the region's wealthy shoppers to help offset weakness in its main US and Chinese markets – for now. The Middle East, helped by strong tourist flows and local wealth, has bucked a recent global slowdown in luxury sales that is expected to deepen this year, with some brands growing sales there at double-digit rates. Luxury sales in Gulf countries were up 6% to US$12.8bil (approximately RM54.1bil) of the nearly US$400bil (RM1.7tril) market last year, outpacing a global drop of 2%, with strong appetite for high-end fashion, jewellery and beauty products, retail consultant Chalhoub Group said. However, that trade is heavily dependent on the region's burgeoning tourist trade, with consulting firm Bain estimating that some 50-60% of the Middle East's luxury sales come from tourists. Read more: Though absent, Giorgio Armani's vision still comes to life at Milan Fashion Week This month's outbreak of an air war between Israel and Iran emphasised the ongoing risks in a region in which unrest was already simmering, with airlines cancelling flights and rerouting planes following Israel's strikes against Iran on June 13 – measures that are now being unwound. "At this point, we have not adjusted our long-term growth forecast, as we continue to see considerable potential in the region," said Federica Lovato, senior partner at Bain. "However, short-term volatility has increased in the last few weeks and may continue, depending on how the situation develops." The region is an important hub for travel spending, favoured by Russian oligarchs but also wealthy Asians, and has increased in importance since Russia's invasion of Ukraine triggered sanctions and the rerouting of flights between Europe and Asia from more northerly routes to the Middle East. It also serves as a gateway for high-end brands to reach wealthy shoppers from India, where high tariffs have kept companies like LVMH from expanding store networks. Max Heinemann, co-CEO of travel retail group Gebr Heinemann, which recently expanded into Saudi Arabia and operates airport fashion retail stores carrying luxury brands in Jeddah, said the region's travel market has shown long-term resilience despite unrest. He remains optimistic: "Dips may be witnessed, but growth will remain." At Prada, first-quarter sales in the region rose 26% year-on-year, while Hermes' sales there were up 14%. High-end fashion and jewellery brands have been opening new stores and hosting splashy events. Milan-based menswear label Zegna this month took its spring collection to the opera house in Dubai, the region's leading luxury hub, for a catwalk show in an elaborate set evoking an Italian villa. Read more: Uncovering Valentino's fashion legacy: Celebrities, luxury and the power of red Elie Saab held its 45th anniversary show in Riyadh last November, featuring a performance from Celine Dion. Dior, Saint Laurent and Valentino last year opened stores in Bahrain, while this year Louis Vuitton brought guests to the Dubai desert for a dawn meal and Chanel hosted a dinner in Abu Dhabi linked to a high jewellery launch. But maintaining visitor numbers to Middle Eastern destinations will be vital to bringing shoppers through the doors. Luxury travel agency Global Travel Moments says that for now, its long-term travel volumes to the Middle East have been unaffected by the latest unrest. However, given recent events, there is currently "certainly more caution" before finalising trips to the broader Middle East, it said. – Reuters
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Ombudsman calls for amended Portland towing contract after complaints of overcharging
PORTLAND, Ore. () — An investigation has determined that Portland's inconsistent towing practices disproportionately impact some drivers after vehicle collisions. The Office of the Ombudsman launched the investigation after receiving a complaint in February that claimed Elite Towing & Recovery tried to charge a resident $1,657 to recover their vehicle from a tow yard. While the individual negotiated a fee of $920, the revealed the lower cost still represented about 40% of their monthly earnings — and they would have been charged an estimated $535 under the city's current contract with tow companies. Parents out thousands as Beehive NW closes abruptly The Portland Bureau of Transportation manages the city's tow contract, and generally advises officers to call for hazard tows in the event that a vehicle is blocking traffic. However, the ombudsman noted that Portland police sometimes opt for private request tows to help drivers following a collision. 'The police said they want to avoid a punitive citation when the motorist did nothing wrong,' the investigation reads. 'The paperwork requirements to retrieve a car after a hazard tow can also be a barrier for economically vulnerable vehicle owners who cannot readily provide a copy of the title with their name on it and proof of insurance. Many people living on the street cannot meet the paperwork requirements and lose their vehicles.' Although PBOT told the ombudsman that law enforcement is 'using a work-around that was never intended,' the watchdog maintains that the police directive doesn't prohibit officers from utilizing private requests. The ombudsman also maintained that Elite Towing is entitled to charge higher fees, as private requests are not covered by the city's contract. But investigators also noted that most other companies voluntarily keep their prices around the same cost that the city charges. Elite's median towing fee of $1,893 was almost five times higher than that of their counterparts throughout the first quarter of 2025, the report claimed. According to the ombudsman, Elite's owner defended the prices by saying the city's towing rates don't cover the actual cost of services. The owner added that other agencies, like Oregon State Police and the Clackamas County Sheriff's, charged up to three times as much as Portland officials. Portland filmmaker receives Emmy nod for Celine Dion documentary Investigators later asked Elite to comply with local contract rates and offer partial refunds to complainants, but claimed the company neglected to respond. KOIN 6 has reached out to Elite for comment as well. The ombudsman has advised PBOT to amend the towing contract to also cover private requests. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Solve the daily Crossword
Telegraph
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
How a cuddle at a Coldplay concert brought chaos to a marriage – and a £1bn company
In the words of Chris Martin himself, nobody said it was easy. But no one ever said it would be this hard. Of course, there is no 'easy' way to reveal to your partner that you've been having an affair. But, as the chief executive of a billion-dollar tech firm, being spotted on a 'kiss-cam' canoodling your recently appointed head of HR at a Coldplay concert has to be pretty far down the list. Allow me to explain. This week, Coldplay played Boston's Gillette Stadium on their Music of the Spheres World Tour. The show includes a cutesy segment where a camera pans round the stadium and shows various fans on Jumbotron screens while Chris Martin improvises a couple of lines about them, in the style of a sports game 'kiss-cam'. At Coldplay's Las Vegas concert last month, it landed on Celine Dion, who smiled while Martin crooned: 'You make my heart go on and on… near, far, you're a total superstar.' Dion received riotous applause. On Wednesday, however, it settled on a man in a blue shirt with his arms around a woman's midsection, gently swaying in the universal position of all loved-up people at concerts. 'Ohhhh, look at these two,' Martin said. This kiss-cam, however, did not go down so well. In the now-infamous footage, which has been viewed millions of times, you see the split second they realise they are being beamed to thousands in the stadium and panic passes over their faces. The woman winces, covers her face with her hands and cowers away from the camera. The man, with a look of what can only be described as sheer horror in his eyes, ducks to the floor. 'Oh, what?' Martin says. The crowd can be heard laughing. 'Either they're having an affair, or they're just very shy,' he quips. It seems it could be the former. The cruel irony, of course, is that if they hadn't reacted it would have passed without incident. They might still have got away with it, too, if it weren't for 28-year-old Grace Springer, from New Jersey, who happened to capture the Jumbotron and posted it to TikTok. Almost instantly, the clip went viral, racking up over 30 million views. The internet was transfixed and delighted in the schadenfreude: the wealthy, married chief executive of a tech firm being caught out canoodling with a colleague, the head of HR no less, in the most criminally uncool of contexts: a Coldplay concert. Martin is known to be a fan of 'conscious uncoupling', and he certainly seemed conscious of this uncoupling, although he dealt with it like a pro. 'I'm not quite sure what to do,' he said. 'Did we rumble you?' Mercifully, the cameraman put the couple out of their misery and switched to two friends dressed as giant bananas. Martin then jokingly asked the next fans the Jumbotron identified whether they were 'a legitimate couple'. Springer maintains her ignorance when it comes to posting the clip. 'I had no idea who the couple was,' she told the US Sunnewspaper. 'Just thought I caught an interesting reaction to the kiss cam and decided to post it. A part of me feels bad for turning these people's lives upside down, but, play stupid games… win stupid prizes.' Keyboard sleuths had no such qualms. They quickly identified the man in question as Andy Byron, chief executive of the New-York based software development company Astronomer, which achieved unicorn status with a valuation of over $1bn in 2022. The woman? Kristin Cabot, who was appointed 'chief people officer' of the same company last year. Byron still appears to be married to Megan Kerrigan Byron, with whom he reportedly has two children. Cabot is divorced, according to reports in the New York Post. And the equally horrified-looking, red-faced bystander? Quickly identified as another colleague: Alyssa Stoddard, the firm's recently promoted senior director of people, who seems to have joined this apparently extra-marital trip to see Coldplay. One commentator pointed out that she appears to be doing an 'uncannily accurate human representation of the gritted-teeth emoji'. Online, it spiralled from there. Eagle-eyed social media users noted that Andy Byron's wife appeared to have removed her married name from her Facebook profile before deleting it entirely, after keyboard vigilantes took to posting the video on her page. A gushy press release announcing Cabot's hiring from last November was also unearthed. It revealed that Byron is a big fan professionally, if not also personally, as he praised her as a 'perfect fit' for the company, with 'exceptional leadership and deep expertise'. In the same press release, Cabot said she was 'energised in my conversations with Andy and the Astronomer leadership team about the opportunities that exist here'. Having woken up to discover they were now the most googled people on the planet, Byron and Cabot clocked on and then tried to wipe their digital footprints. Thousands of users flooded Byron's now-deleted LinkedIn with criticism and Coldplay puns. The company's former chief executive was also forced to comment, saying he has no information on what he dubbed 'Coldplaygate'. And then, of course, came the jokes – admittedly, they write themselves. 'Coldplay tickets $1,000, Dinner $300, Divorce $1,300,000,' posted one user on X. Another said: 'I'd divorce my husband just for attending a Coldplay concert.' The Telegraph's TV critic Michael Hogan wrote: 'A CEO copping off with the head of HR at a Coldplay gig is so hilariously basic. It might as well be a regional sales conference at a Novotel or in All Bar One after a day out paintballing.' Naturally, the work rumour mill is in overdrive with a company source telling the New York Post the couple are a laughing stock internally. 'The text groups and chains of former employees are like… everybody's laughing… and enjoying […] what happened and him getting exposed,' they said. Jokes aside, the incident could have serious ramifications for Byron, both personally and professionally. Some are calling for him to be removed as chief executive. Lulu Cheng Meservey, a fellow founder, said on X: 'The CEO is a professional manager who's only been there two years, the HR person has been there less than a year, neither is tied to the identity of the company… Andy Byron is on the board, but he's not a founder and doesn't have control. The other five board members should replace him. You can then use the new CEO announcement as a reset, and get people to focus again on Astronomer's actual business instead of its drama.' Peter Byrne, head of employment law at Slater and Gordon, suggested it could even constitute a legal risk. 'When a CEO becomes involved in an office romance, the impact ripples far beyond a single department,' he says. 'When two senior leaders embark on a relationship, the resulting power imbalance and conflict of interest can expose a company to legal risk. Employees may perceive, or allege, favouritism. Harassment or constructive dismissal claims can arise if team members feel sidelined. In such cases, HR and the board must act decisively, or risk damaging morale and inviting trouble.' Yet while relationships between chief executives and their subordinates naturally draw a lot of media attention, to be explicitly fired for it is rare, according to a company that conducts chief executive exit analysis. Since it began tracking the data in 2017, less than 2 per cent of chief executives have been fired because of misconduct issues. A 'statement' from Byron – soon debunked as a fake – was widely circulated online. In it, he purportedly apologised to his wife, family and employees, and signed off by quoting the lyrics from Coldplay's Fix You (until that point, it is semi-believable). The real Byron is yet to say anything at all. Chris Martin has, though, offering something of a statement on Byron's behalf. 'Holy sh--,' he said to the crowd. 'I hope we didn't do something bad.'
Condé Nast Traveler
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Condé Nast Traveler
Where You Should Eat in Montreal According to a Pro Chef
Transcript This is the perfect sandwich. Mm. You know what it tastes like? It tastes like Montreal. [mid-tempo instrumental music] I am Chef Laurent Dagenais, and today I'm taking you to the most iconic restaurants in Montreal, and this is Where the Chefs Eat. [mid-tempo music continues] [mid-tempo music continues] [wind whooshes] [mid-tempo music continues] We are here at stop number one, Schwartz. [screen whooshes] [mid-tempo music continues] Buon giorno. Mm-hmm. Laurent. Frank. [Laurent speaks in French] [Frank speaks in French] So, you know, New York City has pastrami, they have Katz's Deli, but we in Montreal have Schwartz's, and Schwartz's is all about smoked meat. What's different is the way the brisket is prepared. Here it's a dry cure for 10 days and then it goes for eight to 10 hours of smoking and then it goes for four hours in the steamer. You have a dry rub that's made of salt, black pepper, garlic, onions, mustard, coriander. But you know, what's the amounts? No one knows. [gentle instrumental music] Our queen, Celine Dion, she's a partner here, and her late husband also is a partner here, René. Now, let's see if my heart will go on for that smoked meat. [gentle instrumental music] What's up, Frank? Hey. How are you? Are you good? Good, good. Can I please get the usual? A smoked meat sandwich medium, side of fries, a pickle, and a dark cherry Cott? Excellent. Thank you. [hands smack] Very good. [mid-tempo instrumental music] [knife chops] [knife knocks] [mid-tempo music continues] [plate taps] [mid-tempo music continues] There we go. Oh, amazing [hands tap]. Thank you. So what you see here is nothing less than perfection. It's a piece of art. Smoked meat sandwich, beautiful rye bread, not toasted, and, as we like to call it here, baseball mustard or just yellow mustard. And then, you see this meat here? Before I get in there. This is a medium, you can also get the fatty one that's very juicy and fat or the even leaner one. All right, [hands tap and rub] let's dig in. [gentle instrumental music] Yeah, every bite. [staff member chatter] [gentle music continues] Mm. [hand knocks]. Hmm. Mm. I missed you so much. This is so good. You know, every time, a perfect bite. The nice rye bread is the perfect vessel for this fatty, smoky beef. Mm. [gentle music continues] You know what it tastes like? It tastes like Montreal. That's what it tastes like. The family vibe. It's old, it's smoky, it's greasy in a good way. You can come here at 10:00 AM, you can come here at 9:30 PM, it's always a good time. You know, I like my pickle sliced up. Also, there's rules to this. Never put your pickle in the sandwich. That's a side, you know, you take a bite of your smoke meat, extra musty. Mm. Mm. [clothing rustles] And of course, after that, you wash it down with a good little sip of, [slurps] mm, [glass thuds] dark cherry Cott. So, you know, it just feels like home. I was probably five years old, sitting at the same place with my dad and my bro. It's just one of those places, just feel special. [upbeat instrumental music] And here we are, the best fast food in Montreal, Greenspot. This is the ultimate chefs hangout. Speaking of chefs, I have the honor today of being joined by my good friend, Chef Jeremie Falissard. Ah, chef. [chuckles] [hands smack] You good or what? Good. How are you? Yeah, man. Good to see you. Good to see you. Ready for a good time? It smells so good, man. Can you smell that from here? I'm ready for- Whoo. A big poutine, baby. I'm down. For those who don't know, I thought why not ask my good friend Jeremie here, who's from France, what is a poutine? Well, I've been here for 20 years though. You're still French. [both laugh] Well, listen, it's the go-to. We're in Quebec. This is where it froms. Especially in Montreal, there's a lot of different places to have a nice poutine. Yeah. It's my go-to after clubbing usually, but now it became slowly and slowly, my go-to daytime. 'Cause you don't club anymore 'cause you have kids. Exactly. Yes. So basically, let's break it down. A poutine is what? It's french fries. Not the crispy, nice golden fries. Brown, overcooked fries to perfection, some gravy, which is usually a powder-based gravy, and cheese curds. Cheese curds are basically the youngest form of cheddar, and you can find those in every single corner store in the province, and it's always room temperature. The second your cheese curds hit the fridge, they're done. Why, because to get squeakiness, people always say eat squeaky cheese, right? Squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak. And if it hits the fridge, [Jeremie laughs] that squeakiness is gone. [Camera Person] What was that noise again? Like [imitates squeaking] [Jeremie imitates squeaking] [Jeremie laughs] [oil sizzles] [mid-tempo instrumental music] Yes! Saint-Henri poutine. Oh yeah. And the onion ring poutine. That's lovely. Thank you. That's it! Thank you. [Laurent's hands smack] There we go. We have the Classic here, obviously. The wild card, onion rings. Saint Henri with the peppers. Yes. Peppers. Yeah, and this is the Pate Chinois. Let's go. I'm kind of very high for this one for some reason. Yeah. Now, I feel like we should just start with a classic, 'cause, you know, we all know what it tastes like, but- Exactly. You have to judge. Same way when you're tasting a pizza, you go with the margarita because it's the one- Yeah. Then you go crazy. Perfect. Exactly. Let's see how it goes. It's quite good. I like that. Lemme just try the sauce by itself. [patrons chatter] At first I thought it was some cinnamon, but I don't think so. Sometimes you think that two chefs would figure out what's in the sauce, but guess what? [Jeremie chuckles] Not today. Onion? Ya. Mm. Gladly. Sound guy, get closer. I wanna make you hear to squeak, squeak. [cheese squeaks] [patrons chatter] Can you pick this up? Squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak. Can you hear it? [patrons chatter] Come on now. [hands tap] [patron chattering continues] Okay.[hands smack] The wild card. [utensils clang] [patron chattering continues] This is interesting. Yeah. First time for you? Yeah. First time for me. I think it's a good idea. I think it's a good idea. I feel like I go with my fingers too, for some reason. It's hard to... [patron chattering continues] You gotta do cheese. [patron chattering continues] Mm-hmm. Mm. Oh. [faint instrumental music] [patron chattering continues] Bro, that's pretty good. Bro. [patron chattering continues] Surprised it's, I mean, I wasn't sure- Nine. But to be honest, it's like a nine outta 10. I like it because there's the sweetness of the onions coming out. Obviously it's fried, so you have the- Yeah, it's- The french fry kind of feeling. Yeah, it's a batter, so it's probably- With the gravy and everything, it makes totally sense. And people have a bunch of weird things they do with poutine. People put ketchup. People put some vinegar on there. Some guy told me he was putting coleslaw on his poutine, which is crazy, but I think we should try ketchup since it's the number one topping for- For the pate chinois. Ah, it feels so wrong to do this. That's why it feels so right. I'm free. [chuckles] Mm. Is it good actually? Is it better? Makes sense, bro. It's not weird. It's good. Oh, now I can smell pate chinois, with the ketchup on there. Yeah, it feels like you're literally eating a pate chinois. [fork clangs] I guess anyone outside of Quebec probably don't know this, but pate chinois is pretty much the most popular household dish that you probably had at least once or a thousand times growing up. It's a classic. It's just ground beef, mashed potatoes, and canned corn, all stacked up. The order is beef, corn, potatoes, and then this is a poutine version of it, so it just fries, gravy, canned corn, ground beef, and now ketchup. It translates to Chinese pate, which is crazy 'cause there's nothing Chinese about this. And last but not least, this is the Saint-Henri, because we are in? Saint-Henri. Let's go. That's the hood. That's the hood. And that's ground beef, bell peppers, and mushrooms? I know it's mushrooms, but- Yeah, yeah. There's like thin sliced of- Mushrooms in there? Oh yeah. I see it. I see it. Cool. All right. Let's try this. Mm. Oh my God. Look at this. [Jeremie chuckles] [utensil clangs] Mm. When it comes down to poutine, I'm a bit of a purist, you know? So I always ordered a classic one for myself, so anything too crazy, this was fun, that was fun too, to try, the onion rings. This was also very fun with the ketchup and whatever, but this one not for me. Well, I like it. I'm gonna eat my pate chinois then. I'll take it for me. [mid-tempo instrumental music] [speaks in French] Mon Lapin. And here we are, sitting down at my favorite table in my favorite restaurant, Mon Lapin. They have all the accolades you can imagine. Best food, best service, best wine, and it's a nice neighborhood. We are now in Little Italy. A thing I really like about this place, it's a corner restaurant. That's always a thing I really enjoy. People watching on the side. You have the open kitchen. I like the decoration. You have a bit of Lapin everywhere. You have the Jura, 'cause they're a big fan of Jura Wine. Chef, [hands rub] what are we eating for lunch? Not telling you. [Marc-Olivier laughs] Perfect. You know what? I never choose anyway. We'll [hands tap] have some asparagus, some lobster. We just got the first small nettle, cooked nettle, rhubarb. Nice. You know? You know what? The usual, I'm not gonna order anything. You can just bring the, you know? Yeah. Of course. [mid-tempo instrumental music] Ah. Le Croque-Petoncle scallop sandwich. Your 10th one. [Laurent laughs] The 11th one's on us. Wow. I've never seen this before. [Marc-Olivier laughs] Crazy. Wow. Amazing. Thank you so much. It looks like a grilled cheese almost, but it's not. It's a scallop muslin. It's very light, very delicate. Nice crunchy bread from [speaks in French]. I probably had this 10 times, and guess what? I'm probably gonna have 10 more times 'cause it's just that good. And then you have, that's like the ultimate mayo. Aioli with garlic, and then you add saffron, which is originally served with the very classic French dish from Marsaille called [speaks in French]. So it's perfect. Wow, look at this. And that's for me. [crunches] Mm. Mm. The nicest muslin. Look how that jiggles. Basically in French cuisine, a muslin is always either, it could be like a salmon muslin. It's salmon that's blended with a bit of cream, so I don't know if there's cream in there 'cause the chef won't tell me, but yeah, it's just basically scallops and you just blend those into a paste, and voila. [crunches] If you close your eyes, you can imagine yourself sitting down somewhere in Marsaille close to the watery, like in the old port, a nice glass of white wine, and you just eating a [speaks in French]. You can hear the seagulls in the distance, and that's where I'm at right now. [gentle instrumental music] Hmm. [crunches] [Marc-Olivier speaks in French] [plate taps] So we have barbecue spinach with lobster cooked in beef fat and a tomato vinegarette. Wow. Merci, chef. [gentle music continues] [patrons chatter] Mm. [patrons chatter] I don't know how he does it. You know? It's so simple. Just spinach, lobster, and fat. It's the ultimate surf and turf. You have the lobster, the lard, best of both world combine. It's not like the usual filet mignon with a fat piece of lobster. It's just delicate, well balanced, and then you have a nice little touch of the onion flour at the end that just brings a bit of [speaks in French]. [gentle music continues] I hope you're still hungry, huh? Thank you, chef. First-of-the-season asparagus in a nettle sauce, and on top we have a sweetbread glaze with spruce honey. Wow. And what's this, chef? Nettle chips. [Laurent crunches] Thank you, chef. [gentle music continues] [Laurent munches] Mm. [utensils clang] Also, sweetbreads are always a tricky one for chefs to cook to perfection, and you have the perfect crispy outside of the sweetbreads and the soft inside, so texture wise, it's very interesting to eat for sure. And this spruce honey just brings you like in a forest almost. It's just very nice. [Marc-Olivier] You wanna film the soft serve machine? Yes. I'm like the biggest fan of Dairy Queen [metal taps] and I wanted my own soft serve machine. This very simple, just rhubarb soft serve, a nice palate cleanser in between courses, or at the end of your meal. We always do it 100% fruit. This one's rhubarb. We'll go into strawberries, haskap berries, cantaloupe later in this season. This one's rhubarb. [Camera Person] Does Dairy Queen have something like this? I'm the dairy king. [mid-tempo instrumental music] Monsieur. [Laurent gasps] Wow, eh. [chuckles] Chef. Double desserts. Rhubarb soft serve with sesame, and this one is brown butter meringue with brown butter fruits and brown butter cream. That's beautiful. Thank you, Chef. I could use a spoon, but to be honest, I've been looking at this thing for a minute now and I wanna just go right in there. [patrons chatter] [faint instrumental music] [Laurent gobbles] [patron chattering continues] Hmm. Hmm. [spoon taps] Mm. This is like the perfect balance. The acidity of the rhubarb doesn't make it too sweet, and the maple is just perfect. So this is a new one for me. So we have a creme diplomat, which is a mix of pastry cream and asantee cream combined together. Then we have a beautiful meringue. [metal clangs] Wow. [gobbles] Mm. [spoon clangs] [faint music continues] [hand thuds] [faint music continues] The lightest meringue I've ever tried in my whole life. Brown butter blueberries. That's crazy. I don't know why, but it's so good, and this hazelnut diplomat on top just brings everything together, and this is the perfect grand finale for a feast at Mon Lapin. [mid-tempo instrumental music] And guys, I think that's the end of our day together. I took you guys to my favorite spots in all of Montreal. We did Mon Lapin, we did Schwartz's and Greenspot. [Laurent speaks in French] [mid-tempo music fades]
Yahoo
7 days ago
- Entertainment
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Snubbed by Oscars, redeemed by Emmys: How eligibility rules revived ‘Super/Man,' ‘I Am: Celine Dion,' and ‘Will & Harper'
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story, I Am: Celine Dion, The Remarkable Life of Ibelin, and Will & Harper share something in common: all four documentaries were snubbed at the 2025 Oscars but have now earned nominations at the 77th Emmys. It's an unusual rule that makes this possible. Even after launching a full Oscar campaign — as these documentaries did — they can still compete at the Emmys if they fail to secure an Oscar nomination. The rule is a bit murky, though, as simply earning an Oscar nomination (in any category) makes a film ineligible for the Emmys. While this has become a common practice, there's still confusion about how documentaries are submitted for the Emmys, which categories they qualify for, and why some films can compete at both the Oscars and Emmys while others cannot. More from Gold Derby 'Squid Game' and Diego Luna are the year's biggest Emmy snubs: Poll Instant Emmy prediction data shows 'The Studio' and 'Severance' out to early leads, with 'Hacks' and 'The Pitt' lurking Adding to the complexity is the fact that documentaries that campaign for an Emmy first — even if they win — are still eligible to campaign for an Oscar. Such was the case just two years ago when Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie won the Emmy for Best Documentary or Nonfiction Special and subsequently launched an Oscar campaign. While the film made the shortlist, it ultimately failed to secure an Academy Award nomination. "Eligibility is only affected if the documentary has been nominated for an Oscar prior to being submitted to the Emmys," a rep for the TV Academy explains to Gold Derby. "No rule exists in the Emmy competition that would disallow a program from submitting to the Oscars after it has been awarded the Emmy." In short, it's possible for a documentary to win both the Emmy and the Oscar — as long as the Emmy comes first. Adding to the confusion is the distinction between two Emmy categories to which these films are submitted: Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking and Best Documentary or Nonfiction Special. Once again, Gold Derby asked the Television Academy to clarify: "The producers or network/platform decide which category they wish to submit to, but all entries that are submitted to Exceptional Merit are reviewed to confirm the program meets the eligibility criteria. Additionally, if a documentary had an extended theatrical run (an aggregate of more than 70 days), it's not eligible to compete as a Documentary Special, but is eligible in Exceptional Merit if it was produced by a media company that produces programs primarily for television and there was always the intent for the program to have a national distribution on television." One key "eligibility criterion" states that a documentary's television broadcast or streaming debut must occur within one year of its initial public exhibition — excluding film festival screenings, which are not considered theatrical releases. The Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking category was designed to honor documentaries that enjoyed a robust theatrical run before airing on television. With the rules clarified, let's dive into the nominees. Prime Video's I Am: Celine Dion and Netflix's The Remarkable Life of Ibelin are both contenders in the Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking category, alongside Disney's Patrice: The Movie. However, Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story, despite earning four other Emmy nominations for directing, editing, writing, and musical score, was excluded from this top category. Gold Derby's early Emmy predictions now show The Remarkable Life of Ibelin as the early front-runner over I Am: Celine Dion. Documentary Filmmaking Contender Odds 1. The Remarkable Life of Ibelin 60.2% 2. I Am: Celine Dion 37.5% 3. Patrice: The Movie 2.3% Meanwhile, Netflix's Will & Harper is competing in the Documentary or Nonfiction Special category against Deaf Presidents Now! (Apple TV+), Martha (Netflix), Pee-wee as Himself (HBO Max), and Sly Lives! (aka the Burden of Black Genius) (Hulu). Our data has Pee-wee as Himself is the current favorite, with Will & Harper coming in a close second. Documentary Special Contender Odds 1. Pee-wee as Himself 62.5% 2. Will and Harper 31.8% 3. Sly Lives! -- 4. Deaf President Now! 3.4% 5. Martha 2.3% Winners will be announced at the 2025 Creative Arts Emmys taking place Sept. 6 and Sept. 7 in Los Angeles. Best of Gold Derby Everything to know about 'The Pitt' Season 2, including the departure of Tracy Ifeachor's Dr. Collins Everything to know about 'Too Much,' Lena Dunham's Netflix TV show starring Megan Stalter that's kinda, sorta 'based on a true story' Cristin Milioti, Amanda Seyfried, Michelle Williams, and the best of our Emmy Limited Series/Movie Actress interviews Click here to read the full article. Solve the daily Crossword
