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On Monday morning, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski informed their audience that, for the first time in seven years, they met with Donald Trump—the very man they’d spent the last several years vociferously pillorying. Though they cast the Trump meeting as an attempt to foster a constructive dialogue, in reality, the couple made the trek to Mar-a-Lago because they feared retribution. Puck’s Dylan Byers has the real backstory to Joe and Mika’s surprise pilgrimage to Mar-a-Lago—and what it had to do with a 2001 intern. Read the full dispatch here: https://lnkd.in/eFcCWViN Photo: Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Daily Front Row #Media ?

Acclaimed food writer and entrepreneur Alison Roman joins Puck’s Dylan Byers on The Grill Room podcast to discuss her journey from legacy media to entrepreneurship, why her defenestration from The New York Times turned out to be a blessing in disguise, and her thoughts on this year’s Thanksgiving menu. Listen to the full podcast here: https://lnkd.in/eff_ECgz Photo: Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Threads by Instagram, Craig Barritt/Getty Images for NYLON #Podcast

Puck’s art market expert, Marion Maneker, shares his notes from the November sales romp: Buyers have cash and determination, but are still picky; Picasso had a rough night; and Matisse was mixed. But Kandinsky cleared $21 million and an unsigned Monet waterlilies sold for $65.5 million. (And yes, those Les Lalannes tables everyone is going wild for did just fine.) Read Marion’s full dispatch here: https://lnkd.in/dB-ChY7Z Photo: Michael Bowles/Getty Images for Sotheby's #Art?

Here’s an unscripted plot twist: Netflix has become a villain in its own documentary film, “Our Father”—about a fertility specialist who secretly inseminated his patients—after disclosing the names of the doctor’s children without their consent. A lawsuit raises the provocative question: Did they have a constitutional right to remain private? Puck’s Eriq Gardner assesses whether this could be the first high-profile Netflix case to go all the way to a jury verdict: https://lnkd.in/dx5iBcJc Photo Courtesy of Netflix #Legal #Entertainment?

As Republicans increasingly dominate the creator universe and alternative media, Democrats have been reckoning with an uncomfortable reality about their own media ecosystem: Legacy media is losing its place in the attention economy. Democrats have been circulating data showing that voters who closely follow the news were more likely to vote for Harris. While this divide has long been a defining characteristic of our politics, the declining relevance of mainstream news in the Trump era is working against Democrats. “If Democrats keep depending on affluent people who follow the news closely to win elections, they’re whistling past the graveyard,” Puck’s Peter Hamby writes. Read Peter’s full dispatch—chock full of exclusive, post-election polling data from Echelon Insights—here: https://lnkd.in/dX9DTRVk Photo: Allison Robbert-Pool/Getty Images #Polling #Data #Podasts #Media?

With six weeks to go before taking the reins of The Estée Lauder Companies Inc., incoming C.E.O. Stephane de La Faverie flew to Canada the other day with another high-ranking executive, Nicola Kilner, to deliver some deflating news. Kilner, the co-founder and C.E.O. of The Ordinary parentco DECIEM | THE ABNORMAL BEAUTY COMPANY, would be stepping back from the Toronto-helmed beauty brand that she founded 11 years ago—five months after ELC finally completed its gradual, years-long acquisition of her company for $1.7 billion. What will Kilner do at Deciem now, and who is being elevated to global brand president? Puck’s Rachel Strugatz has details: https://lnkd.in/dytCnT2C Photo courtesy of Deciem #Beauty #Skincare #Leadership?

House Republicans are currently sitting on the conclusions of an Ethics Committee probe into the alleged misconduct of Matt Gaetz’s, Trump’s pick for attorney general, which could potentially derail his nominations even before it comes to a vote. In the meantime, Senate Republicans are internally discussing three other scenarios: Trump leaning on Congress to abdicate its constitutional duty to “advise and consent,” allowing Gaetz to circumvent the confirmation process; the nomination dying a slow death amid discovery; or the Senate moving ahead with a hearing that would make the Brett Kavanaugh and Clarence Thomas confirmations look tame. Puck’s congressional correspondent, Abby Livingston, digs in: https://lnkd.in/dX-UGVSJ Photo: Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

The pre-Thanksgiving trifecta of?Gladiator II, Wicked: Part One,?and?Moana 2?provides a veritable pre-Covid-esque theatrical cornucopia that should produce pre-pandemic box office returns… Puck’s box office contributor, Scott Mendelson, assesses the forecasts:https://lnkd.in/ehdrQtGc Photo: Courtesy of Universal Pictures #Hollywood #Entertainment?

TNT Sports chairman and C.E.O. Luis Silberwasser discusses losing the National Basketball Association (NBA), winning back some concessions in the afterbidding market, and the mediaco’s realistic expectations for their accumulating grab bag of new rights—Roland Garros, Mountain West football, NASCAR, and more. Read his full conversation with Puck’s sports business correspondent, John Ourand, here: https://lnkd.in/eKWgPYDv Photo: Elizabeth Kreutz/Getty Images #Sports #Media?

We’ve got our eyes on a futuristic table lamp, pellet ice galore, and a souped-up mattress… Read Puck’s fourth annual Guide to Mirth & Merriment, presented by Polestar, here: https://lnkd.in/ew2XvUu7