Morning Meeting

This week, we have a riveting conversation with Katya V., a young poet and teacher living in Russia who is also pro-Ukraine anti-Putin. Rather than flee for the West, she has decided to stay and protest—and risk imprisonment. It’s a powerful, moving interview. In addition, Ashley and Mike are joined by Bridget Foley, who discusses her profile of Romeo Gigli, perhaps the most-influential fashion designer of the late-80s who lost his label and vanished. Foley tracks him down and tells us what he’s been up to. It’s an episode you won’t want to miss.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This week, we have the very funny example of what happens when Donald Trump tries to crash a party and it’s your job to stop him. Dana Brown, a former deputy editor for Vanity Fair, dishes the dirt from his new, tell-all memoir about his time at the magazine—where he started as an assistant in the 1990s—and how he had to work the door at events, including the night Trump tried to get him fired after he refused to let him crash. It’s a hilarious story. Plus, Alessandra Stanley, a co-editor of AIR MAIL, reveals how it was not Putin who created the corrupt oligarchs the West has now demonized but actually know-it-all American elites in the 1990s. It’s an episode you won’t want to miss.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This week, Ashley and Mike look at how the “cool mom” often turns out to be a twisted David Lynch–in–the–suburbs character, as seen in the recent case of the wealthy woman in upscale Greenwich, Connecticut, who was secretly filming teenage friends of her children having sexual encounters in her house. They’re joined by Rich Cohen, who lives in that neck of the woods and has insights into the case. In addition, there’s a look at Ukraine, and more. It’s an episode you won’t want to miss.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This week, Ashley and Mike are joined by AIR MAIL’s always entertaining critic James Wolcott, who lived to tell about his experience reading Donald Trump’s new “memoir,” Our Journey Together. There’s also a look at what might be the sketchiest airline around, and a shocking sex scandal in a very exclusive and wealthy Connecticut suburb. You’ll find all this and more in this week’s Morning Meeting.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This week, Ashley and Mike look at a strange new crime in Beverly Hills (stealing French bulldogs!) as well as at Lauren Sanchez—Jeff Bezos’s girlfriend—who just might be the most powerful woman in America. There’s also a look at the party-loving ways of Prime Minister Boris Johnson. AIR MAIL Writer at Large Stuart Heritage joins the show to explain the scandal swirling around BoJo the Clown and to discuss whether he will survive. You’ll find all this and more in this week’s Morning Meeting.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This week, the victim of one of New York’s most notorious grifters, Anna Sorokin—who is now getting the star treatment in a Netflix mini-series—talks to Ashley and Mike about what it’s like to fall for a con woman, and if it’s right that Netflix has funded a convicted criminal. Plus, Rachel Johnson swings by to discuss the 40th anniversary of The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook. It’s an episode you won’t want to miss. You’ll find all this and more in this week’s Morning Meeting.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This week, we look at Francis Ford Coppola’s other, other, other masterpiece, The Conversation—which was so good that he competed against himself (with his better-known film, The Godfather: Part II) for the Oscar for best picture in 1974. How The Conversation came to be completed (Coppola walked off the set), and how it predicted our modern surveillance culture, is a riveting story, as related by writer Michael Sragow. Plus, there’s a discussion of the drama surrounding one of London’s hottest restaurants, and much more.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This week, Diane von Fürstenberg and Jonathan Becker remember André Leon Talley, the grandson of a sharecropper who became a titan of fashion. Plus, former 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft joins Ashley and Mike to discuss his Patricia Highsmith–worthy story of a confidence man suspected in a string of high-end thefts among the blueblood set, from Newport to Manhattan to Georgetown. You’ll find all this and more in this week’s Morning Meeting.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This week, Sam Kashner joins Ashley and Mike to describe what it was like to spend the past year collaborating with the late Hollywood titan Peter Bogdanovich on his final script, for a movie about the lives of George and Ira Gershwin. It’s a lovely conversation filled with poignant, beautiful moments about friendship, creativity, and the magic of movies. You’ll find all this and more—including a look at L.A.’s hot new restaurant, as well as words we can’t stand—in this week’s Morning Meeting.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This week we ask: Was justice served in the Elizabeth Holmes trial? AIR MAIL Writer at Large Rich Cohen, who has covered the case, joins us. On another note, Ashley and Mike are also joined by Linda Wells, AIR MAIL's new beauty-and-wellness columnist, who shares her views on the latest eye-opening trend (and has a tip for men). You'll find all this and more in this week's edition. It's a show you won't want to miss. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.