TELEVISION, AT ITS BEST, distracts from real life and doesn’t judge us if we slump in front of it wearing what might charitably be called “comfortable clothes.” But increasingly, as streaming outfits pour millions into ever more ambitious, Emmy-worthy productions, TV is also a great source of inspiration when it comes to our more ambitious […]

As the director and star of “Cry Macho,” in theaters and on HBO Max, Clint Eastwood sends himself on a picaresque journey through rural Mexico in 1979. He plays Mike Milo, a washed-up rodeo star who accepts a job from his former boss: Go to Mexico City, rescue the man’s supposedly wild-spirited young son from […]

AN INTRIGUING TREND has emerged in TV production design while we’ve been sprawled on our couches. Patterned wall coverings are playing a starring role in some of the hottest streaming series, breathing life into scenes in a way that a coat of eggshell-white paint and artwork just can’t. Color and print reinforce characters’ milieu and […]

DESIGNER HANDBAGS are rarely the focal point of hit TV shows, but costume designers know that a character’s purse can telegraph her lifestyle more subtly and authentically than other details. “I’m very cognizant of a purse because it’s like an appendage to women,” said “The White Lotus” costume designer Alex Bovaird, who accessorized corporate executive […]

IN THE 1990s, NBC’s Thursday night “Must See TV” lineup included sitcoms like “Friends,” “Frasier” and “Seinfeld” that earned stratospheric ratings and Emmys galore. What they didn’t receive was praise for their clothes. Few people considered the blue button-ups and flouncy khakis of Ross Geller, Dr. Frasier Crane and Jerry Seinfeld’s eponymous TV alter-ego the […]

SCOTT FRIEDMANN had no intention of starting a vinegar company. The plastic vats filled with liquid in various stages of fermentation that were stinking up his basement were intended as a hobby project for Mr. Friedmann and his then-15-year-old son. They started with red and white wines but soon moved on to aged hard cider, […]

In the old days, meaning before the first installment of the “Fast and Furious” franchise in 2001, one of the measures of a good car was its ability to hold the road. Now the ninth installment is upon us—“F9: The Fast Saga”—and cars in it not only leave the road and fly, which they did […]

Britney Spears broke her long silence about the legal arrangement that has left her largely without control over her finances for more than a decade. “I’m not happy. I can’t sleep,” Ms. Spears said Wednesday in a court hearing. “I’m so angry, it’s insane.” Speaking before a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge, Ms. Spears, […]

IF SHADOW, Kyle Crawford’s cat, could talk, the 12-year-old domestic short hair might say: “I may ignore you when you’re here, but when you leave, I panic: I stress eat.” The new, high-tech feeder Mr. Crawford, 36, recently bought—designed to dole out Shadow’s food on a timed schedule—makes his occasional three-day business trips away from […]

FOR THE FIRST time in its 35-year history, Manhattan’s Le Bernardin is letting male patrons order its tasting menu or a bottle of Burgundy without wearing a sportcoat. When it reopened its polished dining room on March 17 after a several month hiatus, the three-Michelin-starred restaurant discarded its longstanding “jacket required” dress code. The decision, […]