Zoe Saldaña: Hollywood’s Favorite Alien, Globalism’s Accidental Poster Girl PARIS—Somewhere between the popcorn-scented multiplexes of suburban Ohio and the neon-drenched midnight shows of Seoul, Zoe Saldaña has quietly become the most profitable non-terrestrial in cinematic history. Her cumulative box-office take—north of $14 billion—doesn’t just dwarf the GDP of several island nations; it also proves, in…
LOS ANGELES—Seen from 35,000 feet, the city unfurls like a radioactive circuit board that someone spilled glitter on: a vast, humming grid of lights, smog, and the occasional brushfire giving the whole thing a festive orange halo. To the rest of the planet, Los Angeles is less a municipality than a planetary mood ring—when it…
Jamie Lee Curtis and the Global Supply Chain of Screams By Our Bureau Chief, Still Jet-Lagged in an Airport Lounge Near You Somewhere at 39,000 feet between Singapore and Reykjavík, a cargo manifest quietly lists “Curtis, J. L.—1 unit, cultural icon.” That bureaucratic understatement is how the world now ships its nightmares: neatly shrink-wrapped, Dolby-certified,…
