FEBRUARY 20, 2017

MOVING PICTURES The storytelling alchemy that creates unforgettable fi lms By Stephanie Zacharek

Oscar-nominated cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto and director Martin Scorsese

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A TEAM THAT MAKES MOVIE MAGIC In this week’s issue, TIME’s film critic BONUS Stephanie Zacharek explores the work TIME What you of Martin Scorsese (left) and HEALTH Rodrigo Prieto and the special said about ... storytelling alchemy that exists between directors Subscribe to STEVE BANNON Readers praised the and cinematographers. The TIME’s free report is presented by Rolex, a reporting that went into David Von Drehle’s health newsletter sponsor of the 89th Academy and get a weekly Feb. 13 cover story about the influence of AAwards, which will be held on email full of President Donald Trump’s adviser. They FeFeb. 26 in Los Angeles. Read news and advice were conflicted, however, about the cover, on for more about how directors to keep you well. featuring a dramatic and cinematographers work together, For more, visit and visit time.com/entertainment for TIME’s time.com/email portrait by Nadav complete Oscars coverage. Kander. The image ‘Very and wording were helpful “trying to get for under- RULE BRITANNIA TIME reporters dug up 65 revealing people to think” of standing numbers about Queen Elizabeth II to mark her 65 years Bannon in a certain what is on the throne. View the full list at time.com/Queen65 way, wrote L. Hoyt going on Miller of Cortez, in this Fla. Meanwhile, 17,420 12 27 237 Number of Number Number of several professional country.’ million pieces of mail of U.S. Rough roads in architects objected DUANE C. ANDERSON, the Queen Presidents the U.K. Sioux Falls, S.D. number of to a teaser for the received during the Queen people who named story in the table the week of her has met watched the after the of contents, which 90th birthday with over Queen’s Queen the years called Bannon “the architect.” One of coronation on them, Danielle Fontaine of Greenville, S.C., TV in 1952 said the characterization “saddened” her, even though the article was “otherwise enlightening.” Want to know more? A LIFE THE RESISTANCE Karl Vick’s Feb. 6 story special edition about the Women’s March and what’s next for the on the Queen, resistance movement struck a chord with readers. released for her On Twitter, reader @jmflatham praised TIME for most recent not focusing on “doom and gloom,” and Linda Law birthday, is of Clemson, S.C.—who IMAGES JACKSON—GETTY CHRIS QUEEN: IMAGES; ILYA SAVENOK—GETTY S. SCORSESE: available on wished the piece spent Amazon. more time focusing on ‘The new smaller demonstrations in towns where “it takes resistance more courage” to march— activists wrote that the movement SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT ▶ In the Brief (Jan. 30), we misstated has “only just begun.” the percentage of income that a self-employed worker can set aside in a will become SEP-IRA. The maximum contribution rate is effectively 20%. In For the Record our future Linda Mills Woolsey of (Feb. 13), we mischaracterized the record Serena Williams set by winning the Rushford, N.Y., lauded Australian Open. Her 23 Grand Slam singles titles are the most in the Open mayors, TIME’s attempt to show era; Margaret Court holds the all-time record, with 24. In the same issue, the governors, the complexity of the map accompanying “A Tale of Two Pipelines” mistakenly omitted Michigan’s opposition. But she was Upper Peninsula. Prime critical of how we framed Ministers, the protest as “brought to TALK TO US members of you” by Trump. The phrase, ▽ ▽ she wrote, signals “that SEND AN EMAIL: FOLLOW US: Congress.’ if anything is happening [email protected] facebook.com/time Please do not send attachments @time (Twitter and Instagram) PAUL FEINER, in a culture it must be, Greenburgh, N.Y. ultimately, somehow the result of male being and Letters should include the writer’s full name, address and home action.” telephone and may be edited for purposes of clarity and space For the Record

C7+(<&$1 200,000,000 Estimated number of years since the “lost” supercontinent Gondwana was formed; scientists recently discovered its remains 6+870(83 under the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius, according to a study %877+(< published in the journal Nature Communications &$1 7&+$1*( 7+(7587+ ‘You think ELIZABETH WARREN, U.S. Senator, criticizing her Republican colleagues for using a Senate rule to prevent her from speaking during a debate about our country’s Attorney General nominee Jeff Sessions so innocent?’ PRESIDENT TRUMP, pushing back against Fox News host Bill O’Reilly for calling Russian President Vladimir Putin “a killer” during a Feb. 4 interview Apple ‘If there The tech company was set to release its much anticipated were 30 Beats X wireless earbuds C,GRQ W slippers, WKLQN

GOOD WEEK then we BAD WEEK DQ\RQH 161,000 Number of Florida knew IHHOVEDG voters who wrote in names like Mickey Mouse on their ballots, Oranges IRUWKH according to a recent that 15 The U.S. report from state citrus industry is officials; Trump’s struggling after its 3DWULRWV margin of victory over trees were struck people TOM BRADY, quarterback, defending the Clinton was nearly by an incurable 113,000 votes disease New England franchise’s dominance after winning the Super Bowl on Feb. 5; it’s Brady’s fifth title as a starting had been quarterback, an NFL record executed.’ ILLUSTRATIONS BY BROWN BIRD DESIGN FOR TIME FOR DESIGN BIRD BROWN BY ILLUSTRATIONS FORMER SYRIAN PRISONER, ‘Immigrants, family describing the “execution room” at Saydnaya prison, members and businesses where up to 13,000 people were secretly hanged by President Bashar Assad’s deserve much better.’ $3 billion regime over the past five Valuation that years, according to a GOOGLE, TWITTER, UBER AND 94 OTHER MAJOR TECH COMPANIES, in an new report from Amnesty unprecedented joint amicus brief filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Snap Inc., the International Ninth Circuit in San Francisco, arguing against the Trump Administration’s company behind Executive Order temporarily prohibiting refugees and citizens of seven Snapchat, is seeking in predominantly Muslim nations from entering the U.S. an initial public offering

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In a speech to the military, Ayatullah Khamenei said President Trump had shown America’s “real face”

WORLD FOR NEARLY FOUR DECADES, IRAN who welcomed the new U.S. President has been a reliable villain in U.S. with a clawed swipe. “We thank The U.S. and foreign policy, black hat firmly in him, because he made it easier for us Iran’s new place even as President Obama made to reveal the real face of the United engaging the mullahs over their States,” Khamenei said on Feb. 7. relationship nuclear program the centerpiece of Trump came back tartly on Twitter his diplomatic legacy. So when Tehran (calling Iran “#1 in terror”), a medium status: test-fired a ballistic missile on Jan. 29 where the Supreme Leader has been in defiance of a U.N. resolution, the at home for years; his feed goes out in enemies, newly minted Trump Administration five languages. The English-language with benefits knew what to do. National Security version chirped, “#Trump says be chief Michael Flynn informed Iran scared of me!” Away from the Twitter- By Karl Vick it was “on notice.” The Treasury sphere, however, Iran removed a Department followed with a fresh missile from a launchpad the same day. round of sanctions. Iran ratcheted up And yet the most crucial impact the its military drills, and what do you Trump Administration has had on the know? It was just like old times. Islamic Republic so far may be that President Trump’s Manichaean, felt by ordinary Iranians like Zeinab, us-against-them view of the world a 60-year-old mother in Tehran. fits snug as a Lego with the opposing Trump’s Jan. 27 Executive Order perspective of Ayatullah Ali Khamenei, barred her from obtaining the visa SIPA/NEWSCOM 00 TheBrief

she needed to visit her son in Virginia, where he is BUSINESS pursing a Ph.D. “I was so, so happy, and now I am What CEOs so, so sad,” she told TIME. “Everyone always said TICKER America was the beacon of freedom, but after this think of Trump I’m not so sure.” Iranians were dismayed to find Although Silicon Valley has criticized many their country among the seven whose citizens were Tornadoes tear of the new President’s policies, especially barred from entering the States. Polls indicate that through Louisiana the travel ban, the rest of the business world seems cautiously optimistic. Here, a sampling most Iranians like Americans. As many as a million At least three of statements from recent earnings calls. Iranians call the U.S. home, having moved either to tornadoes struck —Ryan Teague Beckwith escape the regime or to earn a better living. More Louisiana amid severe than 12,000 are currently in the U.S. on student storms, injuring more visas and now find themselves in limbo. than 20 people and ‘I was impressed. The reality of Iran, in other words, is not black leaving about 10,000 homes without I was meeting with a CEO. and white. Its missile program—widely viewed by electricity. Much of It was obvious.’ outsiders as a possible delivery system for a nuclear the worst damage was RANDALL L. STEPHENSON, weapon—is popular with ordinary Iranians, who seen in eastern New CEO of AT&T, after meeting remember having no reply to Saddam Hussein’s Orleans, in areas that with the President missile barrages in the 1980s war with Iraq. Yet were heavily flooded by Hurricane Katrina. that same population is far more liberal than its rulers. This matters, because popular sentiments Judge sentences will inevitably affect the complexion of the rapist to celibacy ‘A lot of us have built government in place nine years hence, when, under An Idaho judge made our business on the freer the nuclear deal, Iran can begin edging back toward celibacy until marriage flow of cross-border trade, uranium enrichment. And the sense on the streets a condition of a data and people. If that of Tehran is that Trump’s visa ban drained the 19-year-old’s probation were to change over time, reservoir of goodwill accumulated by Obama. The after he pleaded guilty that would be a problem.’m. ban also impaired the May re-election prospects to raping a girl, 14. The fact that Cody Herrera AJAY BANGA, of President Hassan Rouhani, who championed had 34 previous sexual CEO of MasterCard engagement with the West. partners was said to be Nowhere are the complexities of the U.S.-Iran a factor in Judge Randy relationship more apparent than in Syria. Trump Stoker’s decision. speaks of coaxing Russia away from its alliance Jackson estate ‘I’ve been very pleased with with Iran in that country, where both back the fights tax bill the agenda that the Trump brutal regime of President Bashar Assad. Moscow Administration has.’ and Tehran are not normally pals, but their Michael Jackson’s interests overlap in Syria: Russia will literally kill estate began a legal JOHN WATSON, CEO of Chevron battle with the Internal to keep its only Mediterranean naval base there, Revenue Service that while for years Assad was Iran’s one and only could see it pay back ally, indispensable for supplying the Hizballah taxes and penalty militia Iran created to battle Israel in neighboring payments of more ‘We never realized Lebanon. So they work in tandem, if not as equals. than $700 million. The the full benefit from ACA estate says Jackson’s Russia controls the skies above Syria, while Iran name and likeness that we expected, so runs the troops on the ground, controlling huge were worth just $2,105 we wouldn’t expect any paramilitary and militia forces, and much of the at his death, but the significant near-term impact Syrian army, says Charles Lister, a senior fellow at IRS claims the true if it were to be repealed.’d. figure is $161 million. the Middle East Institute. “Iran is always going to STEPHEN RUSCKOWSKI, IMAGES AFP/GETTY WORLD: (5); IMAGES GETTY BUSINESS: be the party that’s in the better position,” he says. New Yorkers erase CEO of Quest Diagnostics Strange things happen when you venture Nazi symbols outside your comfort zone and the real world awaits. Trump says his chief concern in the region A group of subway is defeating ISIS—but Iran is in the thick of that riders in New York City came together mid-ride ‘We expect a bounce fight too. In Syria, Iran-backed militias are helping to use hand sanitizer back. The preoccupation pave the way for an assault on the ISIS capital of and tissues to scrub with the election was Raqqa. And in Iraq, Tehran arms and steers large away Nazi swastikas hurting sales.’ Shi‘ite militias engaging the Sunni extremists. and anti-Semitic slurs That puts Iran and the U.S. on the same side—a daubed on a train car’s LEN RIGGIO, CEO of Barnes & Noble windows and ads. disquieting place to find your most reliable enemy. —With reporting by KAY ARMIN SERJOIE/TEHRAN

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TAKING FLIGHT Children are evacuated on Feb. 3 from the town of Avdiivka, on the front line of renewed clashes Indonesia between government forces and pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine. Fighting killed at least a dozen people and 58% damaged infrastructure, leaving thousands with no electricity or water for days until they were restored on Feb. 5. The U.N. warned that further fighting could displace more than 800,000 people. Photograph by Brendan Hoffman—Getty Images

WORLD Al-Qaeda is SCALING UP AQAP also flourished as Greece the U.S. shifted resources to the fight 39% gathering strength against ISIS in 2014–15. Now it is again as Yemen burns powerful enough to control territory in a weakened Yemen. In the first such of- THE LEADER OF AL-QAEDA’S BRANCH fensive in months, the group recently in Yemen called for attacks on the U.S. attacked towns in the southern Abyan after a Jan. 29 Special Forces raid in province. The U.S. raid was reportedly Pakistan which several civilians were killed, as an attempt to dispatch al-Rimi but may 32% well as a U.S. Navy SEAL. In an audio instead make him more influential. message, Qassim al-Rimi, leader of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula THREAT LEVEL Among al-Qaeda’s (AQAP), scorned Donald Trump as the various franchises, AQAP is considered “new fool of the White House.” Here, the largest threat to the West, most how a powerful enemy has regrouped: recently claiming the 2015 attack on the Sweden offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris. Now it △ 28% THRIVING IN CHAOS AQAP has benefited seems intent on striking Americans in AQAP leader from the security vacuum created by Qassim al-Rimi, the U.S., with al-Rimi urging followers Yemen’s ongoing civil war. As military pictured in three to “burn the land beneath their feet.” forces backed by a Saudi Arabia–led separate images Worryingly for the U.S., the botched coalition battle the Houthi rebels who on a Yemeni raid prompted Yemen by Feb. 7 to halt seized much of the country in 2014 and police wanted American ground missions—removing U.S. 2015, state institutions have collapsed. poster from 2010 its most direct means of taking the fight 18% More than 10,000 people have died, and to the militants. the country is on the brink of famine. —JARED MALSIN/ISTANBUL 11 TheBrief

THE RISK REPORT Obama has given way to Donald Trump. Merkel may be Other European leaders have gone soft on her TICKER determination to call Russian President Vlad- struggling, but don’t imir Putin to account for bullying and lies. count her out But don’t bet against Angela Merkel. She Putin approves remains popular, with one recent poll giving “slapping law” By Ian Bremmer her a 74% approval rate—in part because Germans consider her a credible foil to the Russian President Vladimir Putin IS ANGELA MERKEL IN TROUBLE? SHE turmoil on all sides. She’s proved herself signed a law that hopes to win a fourth term as Germany’s time and time again to be smart, adaptable partly decriminalizes Chancellor this fall, but recent polls show and resilient. Her greatest advantage though domestic abuse. Under her trailing Martin Schulz, candidate for may be Germany’s the new rule, dubbed the center-left Social Democratic Party. The desire for stability. the “slapping law,” news made headlines across Europe because Merkel has Her key rival is no domestic violence proved resulting in “minor Merkel has been the one European leader insurgent firebrand harm” will no longer in recent years who projected coolheaded, herself time in the Trump– be punishable by two mainly popular leadership through the and time Le Pen mold. Schulz years in prison but by a Continent’s various crises. again to is a former president fine of up to $500 or up to 15 days in jail. Yet she’s on the back foot for now. That’s be smart, of the European hardly surprising given everything that’s adaptable Parliament who Israel makes gone wrong for her since TIME named her and resilient backs European settlements legal Person of the Year in 2015. Then, Merkel’s integration, defends Israel’s parliament politically courageous decision to admit refugees, criticizes passed a controversial more than 1 million migrants, many of them Trump and vilifies Putin. The main populist bill intended to from the Middle East, into Germany over alternative, the far-right Alternative für retroactively legalize the course of two years won her plaudits Deutschland party, is polling at just 12%. thousands of Jewish across the globe. In Germany, however, the Germans don’t share the hunger for settler homes built on land privately owned policy has been bitterly divisive—and as change we see in other countries. A Feb. 6 by Palestinians. The violent crimes have been blamed on refugees poll by Ipsos Global Advisor reports that law is expected to be and terrorist attacks have struck Berlin and while 80% of respondents in France and challenged in Israel’s elsewhere, the criticism has intensified. Many 50% in Britain want “a leader that will Supreme Court. Germans are now angry that their taxes will change the rules of the game,” just 21% Britain’s Speaker pay for the resettlement of refugees. of Germans said the same. In addition, nixes Trump speech On the world stage too, Merkel looks in- while 70% in France and 67% in Britain creasingly isolated. Britons have voted to say their country needs a strong leader to John Bercow, the abandon the E.U. ship she has stewarded restore order, just 34% of Germans said Speaker of the U.K.’s House of Commons, through turbulent waters, and French presi- the same. said he would oppose dential candidate Marine Le Pen wants the Perhaps that’s because Germany already President Trump’s same for her people. In the U.S., Barack has a strong leader. □ addressing Parliament during his state visit, because of Britain’s opposition “to racism and to sexism” and HEALTH support for “equality before the law.” How to Mob boss sues feds treat for prison injury phobias THERAPY MONEY PILLS Former Colombo crime Viewing subliminal A separate study In a 2016 study, Arachnophobes given boss Thomas “Tommy images of spiders can published on Feb. 6 neuroscientists used beta blockers—a Shots” Gioeli has sued help arachnophobes found that cognitive reward therapy to heart medication the federal government better control their behavioral therapy help the human brain also used to treat for $10 million over fears, according to a helped reduce overcome phobias, anxiety—after injuries sustained Feb. 6 paper. Here, symptoms of by giving subjects being exposed to during a game of prison other notable studies patients with social money every time spiders were able to ping-pong in August exploring how people phobia. The therapy brain activity linked overcome their fear 2013. The government can learn to overcome increased brain to a particular fear better than control has rejected any crippling phobias. activity in areas that was detected. groups, according to a charge of negligence. —Tara John regulate emotions. 2015 study. Milestones DIED RULED Actor Richard Queen Hatch, 71, Battlestar Elizabeth II, Galactica’s for 65 years Captain Apollo. Hatch also appeared in the IN EARLY 1952, THE TV series’ reboot United Kingdom was from 2004 to still reeling from World 2009. War II and the once ▷ Hans Rosling, mighty British Empire 68, Swedish physician and was inching toward ir- statistician relevance, having re- known for his cently lost India, the public teachings jewel in its crown. on global Elizabeth Windsor, development. ▷ Concert pianist then 25, was mourning Walter Hautzig, the death of her father 95. Hautzig’s George VI while pre- musical talent paring to rule a coun- paved his path try in flux and an em- out of Nazi- occupied Austria pire in decline. in 1938, when Now 90, Queen he was awarded Elizabeth II on Feb. 6 a fellowship from became the first British the Jerusalem Brady engineered a comeback for the ages to win his fifth Super Bowl monarch to reach her Conservatory. WON Sapphire Jubilee. Yet COMPLETED Tom Brady the Queen did noth- The world’s ing in public to mark longest regularly A record-shattering Super Bowl the occasion. Instead, scheduled airline flight, by Qatar she spent the anniver- Airways. The AFTER FINISHING OFF THE GREATEST SUPER BOWL COMEBACK IN sary of her transition airline introduced history, Tom Brady shared a friendly handshake with NFL commis- from Princess to Queen the 17-hour, sioner Roger Goodell. Goodell had suspended Brady for four games at Sandringham, the 9,032-mile flight over his role in the so-called Deflategate scandal. All week pundits had country estate where from Auckland to Doha, Quatar, on wondered how Brady might show up his nemesis in the afterglow of her beloved “Papa” Feb. 6. a Super Bowl win. But when you’ve risen to the top of your game, it died. It was a fitting isn’t hard to take the high road. way to mark a reign RECEIVED Brady is the best quarterback of all time. Any contrarian chirp- steeped in the quiet By U.S. colleges, ing ends now. On Feb. 5, his New England Patriots erased a 25-point act of duty. The world a record $41 billion in third-quarter deficit in Super Bowl LI to stun the Atlanta Falcons, has changed since donations, in 34-28. Brady became the first NFL starting quarterback to win five 1952, but some things fiscal year 2016. Super Bowls and four game MVPs. He also set Super Bowl records have not. for most passes completed (43) and passing yards (466) in a single —KATE SAMUELSON BOUGHT $17 billion in game. No team that trailed by more than 10 points had ever recov- foreign alcoholic ered to win a Super Bowl. Forget about 25. After his near flawless beverages in performance during this historic rally, Brady could leave the game the U.S. in the having scaled the pinnacle of it. first 11 months He won’t. At 39, Brady says his body feels great. His obsession of 2016, a 6% increase that with sleep and a freak diet—avocado ice cream is a treat—are work-k- will likely be the ing. And team boss Bill Belichick remains locked in. With his shrewdwd biggest total in signings of undervalued players, Belichick has hacked the NFL’s alcohol import salary-cap model, which is intended to prevent teams like the Pats sales in more from winning five Super Bowls across 15 years. Brady and Belichickk than 20 years. refuse to stop, and a dynasty marches on. —SEAN GREGORY BRADY: DARRON CUMMINGS—AP; QUEEN ELIZABETH II: MARK CUTHBERT—GETTY IMAGES

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16 TIME February 20, 2017 WORLD Multitudes rally against political corruption in Romania

OVER SIX STRAIGHT DAYS IN JAN- uary and February, hundreds of thou- sands filled the streets of cities across Romania in protest against attempts to weaken the nation’s anticorruption laws. The demonstrations began after the new government issued a series of executive orders on Jan. 31 decrimi- nalizing low-level abuses and par- doning scores of convicted officials— reversing a decade of official efforts to stamp out corruption. The protests were the largest since the 1989 revolution that top- pled the communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, and they succeeded in forcing one major concession from the coalition government led by the Social Democratic Party (PSD). On Feb. 5, it scrapped a bill that would have decriminalized abuse of office if the sums involved were less than about $48,000. Critics say the law was specifically fashioned to exon- erate PSD head Liviu Dragnea, who faces corruption charges that block him from becoming Prime Minister. Corruption is endemic in Roma- nia, but the situation has improved in recent years, thanks to the National Anticorruption Directorate. More than 1,000 officeholders and politi- cians have been convicted of abuse of office since 2014. The agency has been called overzealous by some offi- cials, but many Romanians argue that it hasn’t done enough to alter a politi- cal culture of malfeasance. So, over at least six chilly days and nights, they took to the streets to do it themselves. —TARA JOHN

Protesters at Victory Square in Bucharest hold up cell phones with lights on at a demonstration on Feb. 5

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Trump questions a rule their position. The ranking member of the House Financial Services Commit- obliging financial advisers to tee, Maxine Waters of California, warned put clients’ interests first that eliminating the rule could contrib- ute to another financial crisis. “Every day By Maya Rhodan you don’t have the fiduciary rule is a day tirement accounts increased reliance on that you can offer conflicted advice,” said WITH THE STROKE OF A PEN, PRESI- financial advisers and brokers. Minnesota Representative Keith Ellison. dent Trump has put the future of a Yet not all financial planners have And Senator Elizabeth Warren of Mas- controversial financial-planning rule in had to adhere to the same standard. Be- sachusetts said the memo made it “easier doubt. On Feb. 3, he signed an executive fore the rule, only registered advisers for investment advisers to cheat you out memo instructing the Department and those appointed under the law fol- of your retirement savings.” of Labor to review the fiduciary rule, lowed the fiduciary standard. Other fi- Even with the future of the rule un- which requires financial advisers to put nancial planners could comply with the certain, some of the changes it calls for their clients’ interests ahead of their suitability standard, a lower bar that al- may stick. In November, Capital One In- own when giving retirement investment lowed for potential conflicts of interest vesting joined a group of firms, including advice. If the department finds that like steering a client toward a specific JPMorgan Chase and Merrill Lynch, that the rule has hindered the public’s access savings plan without disclosing that the dropped commissions for retirement- to retirement-planning information, broker received a commission for selling account services in order to comply with officials would need to publish a that plan. Conflicts of interest, the White the rule. The Financial Planning Coali-

40 years $17 billion 3,000 1% Time since retirement- Estimated annual loss to Number of letters about the Percentage drop in advice regulations were retirement funds without fiduciary rule received by the annual returns on last updated before the the fiduciary rule Labor Department during a retirement savings 2015 fiduciary rule five-month comment period without the rule

new rule to either rescind or revise it. House Council of Economic Advisers tion, which represents nearly 80,000 The review is a victory for opponents estimates, have led Americans to lose professionals, says the rule has led to of the rule, enacted by the Obama $17 billion annually in lower returns. lower fees, increased options and more- Administration in 2015. “This has been To some financial planners, however, creative approaches to client services. a big moment for Americans,” said the Obama Administration’s solution “I do think a lot of the industry con- Missouri Republican Representative missed the mark. “There’s no disputing tinues to embrace a fiduciary standard as Ann Wagner. She says the rule limits that every financial adviser ought to it applies to advisers working with their low- and middle-income Americans’ be acting in the best interest of their investor clients,” says Brian Graff, CEO access to retirement advice and puts an clients,” says Dale Brown, CEO of the of the American Retirement Association, unnecessary burden on the advisory Financial Services Institute, which a trade group. “I don’t expect that trend industry. Supporters, meanwhile, advocates for the industry. “The main to go away.” contend that the fiduciary rule was problem is that the rule is so complex The President’s memo may not have designed specifically with the interests and so costly for advisers to comply killed the fiduciary rule outright, but it of working people in mind. Left in the with, and exposes advisers and firms to could lead to death by delay. If the Labor TIME FOR DESIGN BIRD BROWN BY ILLUSTRATIONS middle: the thousands of financial- such potential liability and lawsuits, that Department decides to rewrite the rule, planning firms affected by the rule and it ultimately prices access to financial it would kick off the same multiyear pro- the vast numbers of Americans who rely advice out of the reach of small investors cess that was invoked to develop current on their advice. who need that advice the most.” regulations. For high-income and large Before the rule was issued, it had been institutional investors, any changes will 40 years since retirement-advice regula- LIKE VIRTUALLY everything else in do little to alter their expectation that tions had been significantly revised. In Washington, the fight over the fiduciary advisers put their interests first. But for that time, a shift away from employer- rule is divided along party lines. Before everyone else, the uncertainty could provided pension plans toward personal the text of Trump’s memo had even been make for an even longer, winding road to plans like the 401(k) and individual re- released, Democrats were staking out retirement security. □

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The Enlightenment romanticized the pursuit of scientific knowledge (as depicted in this 1766 Joseph Wright painting of a philosopher giving a lecture), which was disruptive for those accustomed to tradition and religion

HISTORY BY NEARLY ALL OBJECTIVE SIGNS, THE that bore little relation to American re- 2016 election should have been a ality, but one that still resonated in the How the cakewalk for a mainstream candidate. angry minds of his core supporters and Enlightenment The economy had mostly recovered throughout the suddenly restive West. from the 2008–2009 recession. We all now live in this age of anger, predicted Unemployment was low, and despite and many—including much of the the occasional small bump, so was political and media class—have treated modern violent crime. The Middle East may it like a strange new phenomenon, have been in bloody chaos, but few U.S. driven by the mostly white, working- populism soldiers were dying there, as they so class voters (“the forgotten men,” By Bryan Walsh recently had by the hundreds in Iraq as Trump calls them) who put a and Afghanistan. fearmonger in the Oval Office. But in Yet it was the candidates of anger his erudite new book, Age of Anger: who captured the public imagination— A History of the Present, which was first Bernie Sanders with his rebellion conceived before Brexit and Trump, against globalization and free trade, the Indian nonfiction writer and and then, conclusively, Donald Trump, novelist Pankaj Mishra argues that our who added dark notes of fear and loath- current rage has deep historical roots. ing. By the time of his Inauguration And they date all the way back to the speech, Trump was painting a frighten- dawn of the Enlightenment. ing portrait of “American carnage,” one A quick high school history recap: in ALAMY PAINTING BY JOSEPH WRIGHT OF DERBY 00 The View

the 18th century, the thinkers of the Enlightenment, BOOK IN BRIEF men like Voltaire and Adam Smith, sought to free VERBATIM Will millennials start humankind from what they saw as the constraints ‘Despite all the running for office? of religion and tradition so human beings could challenges we pursue their individual interests. These same ideals, face, I remain FOR YEARS, MOST MILLENNIALS HAVE Mishra argues, underpin the modern embrace of convinced that, avoided running for public office. But free-market capitalism, which took sole position contrary to popular stereotypes, it was on the world stage after the collapse of state yes, the future not because the generation born be- socialism in 1989. This was the “end of history,” is female.’ tween 1982 and 2002 didn’t care about in political scientist Francis Fukuyama’s phrase, HILLARY CLINTON, changing the world; it was because they and despite the significant speed bump of 9/11, it urging women to “step cared too much—or so argues Shauna up and speak out” in seemed inevitable that it would transform—and a video message to L. Shames, a Rutgers political-science modernize—every corner of the world, leading to the MAKERS women’s- professor who sur- untrammeled economic growth for all. leadership conference veyed dozens of stu- on Feb. 6 But the progress of reason was always shad- dents at places like owed by irrationality. Humans aren’t purely rational the Kennedy School actors—at least most of us aren’t—and while the of Government for spread of the Enlightenment permitted many her new book, Out to pursue knowledge and wealth through self- of the Running. De- interest, it was profoundly disruptive for others, spite the election of as the sometimes oppressive security of religion President Obama, and tradition was swept away. The result was who drew heavy what Mishra—borrowing from Nietzsche—terms millennial support, “ressentiment,” or “the mismatch between personal most young people expectations, heightened by a traumatic break with saw politics as all partisan infighting, the past, and the cruelly unresponsive reality of no progress. As a result, they opted for slow change.” It was a toxic mix of envy, humiliation careers in NGOs, community organiz- and powerlessness. And it led to rebellion. ing or appointed office, where they felt For some—from the anarchists of the 19th cen- they could get more done. But there are tury to the soldiers of ISIS today—that rebellion signs the tides are turning. Shames cites takes the form of ever more horrifying acts of vio- the rise of Bernie Sanders as proof mil- lence. But the more pervasive shift is psychological. lennials will “work within the political Even though the economy has recovered from its system when properly inspired.” And if 2008 crisis, the promises of growth for all have still the recent anti-Trump protests are any not materialized for many, and the idea that “the fu- indication, that inspiration may be com- ture would be materially superior to the present,” ing in spades. —SARAH BEGLEY Mishra writes, “has gone missing today.” What’s left behind is a rage that is in many ways justified, as global capitalism—though it has raised living standards around the world—seems to do CHARTOON little but show people what they can’t have. And Amazed that rage is channeled by increasingly authoritarian leaders—like Russia’s Vladimir Putin, India’s Nar- endra Modi and Trump—who promise they alone can provide easy solutions at the expense of even easier enemies. What they offer has failed before in history, at incalculable human cost—yet at this moment, they seem to be the only ones speaking. That is the most sobering part of Mishra’s book. Nineteenth century rebels had real political alterna- tives, even if some, like communism, would prove catastrophic. But where do we turn now? Mishra nods toward the need to move beyond the “religion of technology and GDP and the crude 19th century calculus of self-interest,” although just how we do that, and where it might take us, he doesn’t say. The best we might be able to do, in this age of anger, is fight ressentiment with resistance. □ JOHN ATKINSON, WRONG HANDS

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BIG IDEA A suitcase that follows its owner Decades ago, the Vespa scooter changed the way people drive around cities. Now Piaggio Fast DATA Forward—a division of the Piaggio Group, which developed the Vespa—is trying change the way THIS they walk. Once users don a special belt, the Gita can follow them around, carrying as much as JUST IN 40 lb. of cargo and using stereoscopic and fish-eye cameras to avoid obstacles. In the future, once Gitas have mapped a route, they may even be able to navigate on their own to, say, deliver A roundup of new and goods. “We’re inventing a new form of mobility,” says PFF CEO Jeffrey Schnapp of the Gita, which noteworthy insights is slated for commercial release in 2018. —Julia Zorthian from the week’s most talked-about studies:

1 CAMPING MAY HELP YOU SLEEP BETTER A small study published in Current Biology found that people’s internal clocks shifted earlier to align with daylight after just a weekend of camping, which could be beneficial, since having delayed or inconsistent sleep cycles can lead to health problems.

2 FAST-FOOD WRAPPERS COULD BE TOXIC A report in Environmental Science & Technology Letters found that about half of roughly 400 wrappers from 27 fast-food chains tested contained VIEWPOINT fluorine, a marker for The myth of ‘going viral’ on the Internet the grease-resistant PFAS chemicals. By Derek Thompson Previous studies have linked PFAS exposure THE INTERNET IS SUPPOSEDLY A HIVE OF Popularity on the Internet is still driven to thyroid issues, virality. When we see a Facebook post with by the biggest broadcasts—not by a mil- fertility problems, 10,000 shares or a YouTube video with 5 mil- lion 1-to-1 shares, but rather by a handful of increased risk of cancer, developmental lion views, we assume this popularity is 1-to–1 million shares. Such broadcasts used delays and other driven by zillions of intimate shares, like in- to be exclusive to legacy companies, like TV health issues. fected individuals passing along the flu. channels and FM stations. Now there are new Do popular ideas and products really go blast points on the Internet, like a Kardashian 3 “viral”? For a long time, nobody could be post or a top spot on Reddit. SPACE TRAVEL MAY sure. It was hard to precisely track word-of- We want to believe the viral myth because CHANGE GENETIC mouth buzz. But online, scientists can actu- it’s uplifting. It promises small-time writers, MAKEUP ally follow the journey of a piece of informa- photographers and videographers that a mo- Preliminary results tion as it pings around the Internet. ment’s inspiration can transform into sudden from the NASA study on twins Mark and In 2012, researchers from Yahoo studied fame. It holds up the Internet as a perfect de- Scott Kelly show that the spread of messages on Twitter. Their con- mocracy, where anybody can become a star spending a year in clusion: nothing really ever goes viral. More if they make something good enough. In the space altered Scott’s than 90% of the messages didn’t diffuse at end, virality is a David myth obscuring the gene expression and all. The vast majority of the news that people fact that the Internet is still run by Goliaths. his levels of DNA methylation. Further see on Twitter—around 95%—comes directly analysis is needed to from its original source or from one degree of Thompson is the author of Hit Makers: The fully understand the

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Dealing with North Korea is forced to take dramatic action. Espe- cially alongside South Korea, we can a team sport, and the U.S. create robust Special Forces packages needs China on its side that are prepared to conduct precision By Admiral James Stavridis operations directed against leadership, infrastructure and, of course, nuclear forces. At the far end of the spectrum LET’S START WITH THE NUMBERS: FIVE. TEN. SIX HUNDRED. of violence, we should be ready for a That’s five nuclear tests in the past decade; enough plutonium conventional strike using long-range to make 10 nuclear warheads; and the ability to launch ballistic bombers, in which we’d want to be missiles at least 600 miles, and perhaps far longer. That’s able to operate from forward U.S. Pa- the arsenal at the disposal of North Korea’s Kim Jong Un. cific bases in Guam and in Japan. The Emphasis on un—untested, unlearned and unpredictable. head of U.S. Pacific Command should He is also, at 32, relatively young, morbidly obese, possibly prepare such plans and options for addicted to opioids and possessed of a really bad haircut. But Trump—and is probably doing so. he is not irrational, a mistake some observers make. He follows Missile defense is an element that will priorities learned from his father and grandfather—ruthlessly be crucial to defend both South Korea maintain internal power, cling to weapons of mass destruction and Japan. We need to get our top-notch and cast South Korea and the U.S. as villains. systems in place to defend against an at- To say that he is prone to hyperbole does a disservice to the tack, using either conventional or nu- word. In addition to announcing that he will turn South Korea clear weapons. This means deploying into “a sea of fire” (where roughly 30,000 U.S. troops, their Terminal High Altitude Area Defense families and thousands of U.S. citizens live), he frequently UNVEILED (THAAD), the maritime-based Aegis threatens the U.S. with direct nuclear attack. Last August he THREAT Ballistic Missile Defense and more tacti- applauded his nation’s submarine launch of a nuclear missile. cal defense systems like Patriot. Kim recently Perhaps most important, we will need U.S. RESPONSES to North Korea have been erratic over the announced an economic carrot-and-stick approach. past several decades, essentially ping-ponging between that North As we have in the past, we can trade car- public negotiations, backroom bargaining with China and Korea was rots such as trade, reduced sanctions in the “final operational saber rattling by military forces. Nothing has stages” of and food assistance for participation in altered the trajectory of Kim; his nuclear ambitions and test-launching meaningful talks. At the same time we actions have both expanded since he took power in 2011. a long-range will need to articulate and truly threaten The most demonstrative action by the Trump Administration ballistic to impose deeper economic sanctions. was, characteristically, a tweet from President Trump just missile after the New Year, when he said, “North Korea just stated ALL OF THIS THINKING must be done by that it is in the final stages of developing a nuclear weapon a unified and coherent principals com- capable of reaching parts of the U.S. It won’t happen!” I hope mittee of the National Security Council. he is right, but as the saying goes, “Hope is not a strategy.”egy.” HavinHavingg real experts at the table—like What is a good strategy for approaching the manifest the ChairmanCha of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, challenges of North Korea and Kim Jong Un? the heheada of U.S. Pacific Command and We have to recognize that all roads lead to Pyongyangg the DirectorDir of National Intelligence—is through Beijing. Despite the Trump Administration’s desireesire ccrucial.rucial Including political actors like to get tough with China, we will need political capital withith StevStevee Bannon makes little sense. President Xi Jinping to enlist his help. Without China, In the end there is no silver bul- further sanctions are meaningless. An open dialogue let.le But the sooner we start dealing and the outline of a plan are critical. We may have to withw Kim, the better. He will other- moderate our approach on Taiwan (falling back to the wise pop up at the worst times, “one China” policy, which Trump has questioned) influencing broader, more im- and ease our opposition to China in the South China portant relationships, notably Sea. Geopolitics, like life, is full of choices. ours with China. We have to get North Korea is a team sport. Our allies and ahead of the problem to move a friends—South Korea, Japan, Australia, Vietnam, strategic global agenda forward.

Malaysia and others—all agree on the challenges. We KIM: AFP/GETTY IMAGES should leverage their participation in diplomatic and Stavridis is dean of the Fletcher economic initiatives to deal with the North. And we’ll School of Law and Diplomacy need to conduct frequent allied exercises to leverage jointnt at Tufts University and a former operational capability in things like missile defense. Supreme Allied Commander Special operations and cyber will be of use if we aree at NATO

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In today’s America, today for rights lawyers, NGOs, femi- nists, crusading journalists and free- echoes of China thinking academics than they have been for a quarter-century—should be By Maura Cunningham great. Yet we sometimes wonder now and Jeffrey Wasserstrom if a report about such abuse has to do with Beijing—or Washington. We are AS AMERICANS WHO WRITE ABOUT AND SPEND TIME IN not alone. Many academics and journal- China, we are frequently asked what the People’s Republic is ists familiar with China are wondering like. People often say, “I hear things are really different over the same. there.” Yes, in many ways they are. But we are troubled by how often lately we feel a sort of China-related déjà vu when WE WERE NEVER among those following events in the U.S. convinced that, over time, China’s Visa holders being turned away at airports. The country’s political system was bound to democ- leader saying that a newspaper should be run “correctly” or ratize in a way that would make it re- shut down. A government spokesman dismissing large pro- semble ours. This seemed just the latest tests by a broad spectrum of people as the work of small version of the patronizing, unrealistic bands of malcontents manipulated by hidden hands. Officials conversion fantasy that has long be- defending “alternative facts” that blatantly contradict, well, deviled mutual understanding between actual facts. These phenomena seem famil- China and the West. We also iar yet strange—because they originate on the strove to avoid romanticiz- American side of the Pacific, while our past ing the way things were in experiences of them related to China. our own country, often telling The White House’s denigration of special- Chinese friends who seemed ized knowledge when it flies in the face of ide- overly enamored of the U.S. ology brings to mind Mao Zedong’s insistence how serious American prob- that the only “experts” to be trusted were ones lems of racial and other in- thoroughly “red” in political thought. The equalities remained and how notion that green cards held by people from long it had taken for some seven Muslim-majority countries do not have rights to be protected. the same status as those from other nations We did hope, though, that reminds us of Beijing arbitrarily revoking the there would be some conver- passports of Uighur residents of Xinjiang. gence between the two coun- We do not mean to suggest that differences tries when it came to civil lib- between the systems have disappeared. They erties and the public sphere. have not. We are keenly aware of this as observers of protest, △ That seemed to be happening between feminism, NGOs, journalism and the Internet. You cannot A Chinese the early 1990s and 2008, when China magazine be arrested in the U.S. for using social media to publicize an became less starkly authoritarian before recognizes upcoming protest. You can in China, under laws prohibiting Trump as a reversing course. Now, alas, it’s hap- the spread of “rumors.” An independent judiciary can at least major global pening, but in reverse, along the demo- partly counterbalance other forms of power in America—true, newsmaker cratic to illiberal spectrum closer to the for now, in only one part of China: Hong Kong. latter end point. Our familiarity with China’s authoritarianism convinces us THE LEADERS OF the Women’s March were not detained on that things have not gone as far in the spurious grounds, as happened to China’s “Feminist Five” in wrong direction as some suggest. This 2015. Donald Trump may hate the New York Times, in part same familiarity, though, makes us feel because it presses him to release his income-tax records, but that things have moved far enough to its website is not blocked. In China, the Times site is inacces- make it urgent to celebrate, appreciate sible, in part because of articles it published on the finances of and fight for the freedoms and checks relatives of top Chinese leaders. Some Chinese rights lawyers and balances that exist in one of the two continue their work in the face of government surveillance countries we care most about but not in and the threat of arrest, but China has no counterpart to the the other. American Civil Liberties Union. And so on. What’s troubling is that the distance between the systems Cunningham and Wasserstrom of the two countries, once widening, seems, since Trump’s collaborated on the second edition victory, to be narrowing. Trump’s Chinese counterpart, Xi of China in the 21st Century: What Jinping, has relentlessly ramped up repression. The contrast Everyone Needs to Know and are

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Put Chuck Schumer and Donald Trump in a room together and you can’t miss the connection. They are the leaders of rival parties, sharp opponents on Twitter and in the press, but they live by the same words, as big and bold as the city that made them. “Beautiful!” they will say, though at different times and about different things. “Wonderful!” “Horrible!” “So, so great!” It is the vernacular of outer-borough kids who, in different ways, scraped their way to the big time. They are two local grandees who boast, yarn, insult and rib each other like they are still on the streets of New York City. PHOTOGRAPH BY PLATON FOR TIME

It will take a while—like maybe Play ball with Trump, and Schumer risks never—for Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan a rebellion on his left. Making matters or other GOP pooh-bahs to build up worse is a procedural hair ball as arcane a store of Trump war stories to match as the Senate itself: getting almost any- Schumer’s. In fact the first time congres- thing significant through the Senate takes sional leaders visited the new President 60 votes. Republicans have only 52. If at the White House, most of his atten- Schumer tries to block Trump’s Supreme tion focused on their Democratic foil. At Court nominee, Mitch McConnell could one point that evening, Trump recalled a trigger the “nuclear option” and change 2008 fundraiser he held for New York’s the rules to allow the nominee to pass senior Senator at his Mar-a-Lago club in with only 51 votes. As could any future Florida. The two dozen or so top Dem- court nominees, however far outside the ocratic donors had cocktails and dinner, mainstream. serenaded by Peter Cetera, formerly of the In other words, resistance may be in- rock band Chicago. “I raised $2 million,” evitable. But it might also be futile. And Trump boasted. it may even prove counterproductive to If you ask Chuck Schumer what it Democrats’ hopes of winning back a ma- means to be from Brooklyn, he will an- jority anytime soon. swer with two words: “No bullsh-t.”Plus Which brings us back to Schumer him- he’s a numbers guy. “It was $263,000, to self. If he made his reputation as a partisan be precise,” he shot back at the President. fighter, his habit and history suggest he For all the chaos and plot twists of would like to negotiate with Trump when the coming weeks, the one sure thing to and where a deal can be made, which he watch is how these two men go at it, now believes is possible on trade, taxes and that Trump presides from the Oval Of- infrastructure spending. So with all the fice and Schumer, 66, is the closest thing pressures on Schumer—from liberals, the Democrats have to an official opposi- from centrists and his own instincts—the tion leader. Though they know each other real question is whether the Senator from and share both experience and instincts, Brooklyn is going to fight or compromise they cannot anticipate each other’s every and in what order. move. On Trump’s side, unpredictability is a point of pride. And on Schumer’s, ON THE NOVEMBER NIGHT that Trump Schumer and Trump even his long résumé and ferocious work won, Schumer flew down from New York at a ceremony ethic could not have prepared him for the City into Washington, where he had ex- shortly after the choices he faces now. In many respects, pected to arrive as the Senate’s majority Inauguration. The both the success of the Trump agenda and leader and a key partner for President two New Yorkers the power of the Democratic Party—most Hillary Clinton. But then the people have a long history immediately, its tenuous hold on 48 Sen- spoke, and Schumer’s instinct was to ate seats—depend on how well Schumer be humble and conciliatory. “Tonight plays his cards. the American people voted for change,” Schumer’s hand at the moment is not he said as the returns came in, shocking And harder. The Democratic Party strong. Certainly many of the featured many of the grieving Democrats at the that emerged from the 2016 election is items on the President’s agenda—to re- party’s senatorial campaign headquarters. no monolith: liberal firebrands like Eliza- make Obamacare, reform the tax code, In the days that followed, Schumer beth Warren of Massachusetts and Bernie fund new infrastructure projects and pass said, he suffered through a sort of depres- Sanders of Vermont were preparing for new trade deals—will require the help of sion. He comforted his distraught adult a more militant approach to Trump and at least some of the Senators in Schum- daughters by teaching them the lyrics to some of the Democrats’ donors on Wall er’s caucus. But as liberal activists fill the the old Shirelles song: “Mama said there’ll Street. Meanwhile, moderates like West streets with signs calling for RESISTANCE, be days like this.” Only then did he find Virginia’s Joe Manchin, a former coal ex- Schumer is under enormous pressure relief in a realization. “If Hillary won and ecutive, and North Dakota’s Heidi Heit- from his left flank to man the barricades I was majority leader, I’d have more fun, kamp traveled to Trump Tower in New and stop Trump, just as the Republicans and I’d get more good things done, which York City for meetings that signaled they tried to block anything that came out of is why I’m here,” Schumer explains in a might bolt the party. Barack Obama’s White House. Feb. 2 interview in his Senate office, be- Schumer worked the phones to keep There are risks in playing the obstruc- side a photo of himself with former Presi- both members inside the fold by assuring tion game. Stop popular parts of Trump’s dent Obama in a Brooklyn park. “But with them they could stake out their own posi- agenda for too long and too persistently, Trump as President and me as minority tions when it mattered. “We all think he’s and the party’s support can plummet. leader, that job is far more important.” our best friend,” says Manchin. Schumer

28 TIME February 20, 2017 has since set up regular dinners with five tethered to his phone,” says Senator who uses a flip phone, has memorized Democrats facing 2018 re-election cam- Ron Wyden of Oregon. When President the 47 cell-phone numbers of his caucus. paigns in states Trump won, including Obama went to Capitol Hill on Jan. 4 to “I like numbers,” he says.) West Virginia, North Dakota, Indiana, urge the Democratic caucus to fight to In December he held a closed meeting Montana and Missouri. He displays a de- keep the Affordable Care Act, Manchin with a group of top-ranking Democrats to cidedly unliberal gift from Manchin on called Schumer, telling him he would figure out how to delay Trump’s efforts to his office desk: a donkey and an elephant skip the meeting. Whatever you need to repeal the Affordable Care Act. The newly carved out of coal. do, Schumer told him. promoted Sanders spoke up. “If we are re- Coming after Harry Reid, who kept Then Schumer set about elevating ally going to make a difference, we have more distance from his colleagues, members on his liberal flank. One of to do this outside the Beltway,” Sanders Schumer has worked to strengthen links Schumer’s first official acts was to pro- told Schumer, according to a Sanders aide. to other Democrats. During a recent visit mote Sanders and Manchin to leadership, Schumer helped Sanders organize rallies to Lake Placid in upstate New York, he elevate Warren and add Michigan Sena- across the country protesting the repeal of stopped by to see fellow New York Sena- tor Debbie Stabenow. That helped mol- Obama’s signature law. Then Schumer or- tor Kirsten Gillibrand and played chess lify the troops. “I don’t know how much chestrated an unprecedented holdup of a and read bedtime stories with her young more thoroughly you can cover the water- President’s Cabinet nominations, sending sons. He ceaselessly calls his members front,” says Senator Claire McCaskill of his caucus members to grill them in com-

J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE—AP/POOL to solicit advice. “Chuck is pretty much Missouri. (Actually you can: Schumer, mittee hearings and stalling the votes to 29 confirm them on the Senate floor. In 1974 he ran for and won a seat in Trump and Schumer found themselves But even as that strategy took shape, the New York State assembly at the age on opposing sides: in 2000, Trump tried an organic rebellion burst into the of 23, representing his parents’ Brooklyn to build a casino in Manhattan; Schumer streets, first with the massive women’s district. He spent five years in Albany wrote a letter to the Bureau of Indian Af- march and then with protests against before running for Congress, winning in fairs to block him. “Casinos do not be- Trump’s refugee ban at the nation’s air- 1980. During his 18 years in the House, he long in Manhattan,” Schumer argued. ports. It was just a matter of time be- earned a reputation as a sharp-elbowed Years later, Schumer fought Trump again fore the liberal anger turned on Schumer partisan. He helped guide the 1993 Brady when the real estate mogul and a group himself, for not doing more to stop the gun-control bill and a controversial 1994 of investors wanted to sell an affordable- Trump agenda. At a candlelight vigil crime bill through Congress and became housing development in Brooklyn at a Schumer organized outside the Supreme known as a tough dealmaker. It would pay profit, a move that would have imperiled Court on Jan. 30 to protest the ban, the off: he overcame several other Democrats the rent rates of the low-income tenants. crowd turned on Schumer, chanting, for the right to challenge Al D’Amato for Schumer won the fight. “Do your job! Do your job!” “The Demo- his Senate seat in 1998, eventually beat- Despite their spats, Trump was a regu- cratic leadership is not listening to their ing the sharp-tongued Long Island in- lar donor—he saw it as the cost of doing base,” saidClaudia Gross-Shader, an em- cumbent by a double-digit margin. business in Manhattan. In total, the Trump ployee of the city of Seattle, at the vigil. Schumer’s early years in the Senate family has given more than $80,000 to The next day, protesters massed outside were not easy. No sooner had he arrived Schumer’s electoral efforts over the years, Schumer’s Brooklyn apartment. “Grow in the upper chamber than he found him- according to federal records, which is not a spine!” some chanted. Others chanted self overshadowed by New York’s junior a huge amount by political standards, but worse. Senator, Hillary Clinton, who was elected not token either. (The $263,000 Trump So Schumer is trying to juggle, say- in 2000. The popular former First Lady brought in at Mar-a-Lago was raised with ing he is willing to work with Trump stole the spotlight wherever the two went, other donors.) “He never had hard feel- on some issues—but will draw the line both in their state and elsewhere, even ings,” Schumer says of Trump. “It was like where the new President’s proposals at a favorite Chinese restaurant he took business for him.” In 2006, Schumer re- conflict with Democratic “values.” “If her to on Capitol Hill. But together they turned the favor and appeared on Trump’s he says, ‘I want to get rid of the carried- helped persuade President George W. The Apprentice, hosting contestants for interest loophole,’ which he campaigned Bush to deliver $20 billion to New York a breakfast at a posh Washington hotel. on, we’ll support it,” Schumer says. “If after the 9/11 attacks. (Schumer grew to “Even when he was much younger, you he has a real plan to deal with the high respect Clinton, who he privately would knew he was going to go places,” Schumer cost of prescription drugs,” he contin- say had learned to “climb the greasy pole” told the Apprentice contestants. ues, “we’ll work with him.” of politics—something Schumer believes Schumer can be aggressive in pub- he did himself—and which he thinks dis- lic but is looser in private. He has strong FOR CHARLES ELLIS SCHUMER, the mid- tinguishes him and his record from Barack relations with such Republicans as Sen- dle of the road is familiar ground. Born Obama, who was a superstar from the ators John McCain, Lindsey Graham to an exterminator and a homemaker in beginning.) and Lamar Alexander, who regard him a middle-class neighborhood in Brook- By then, of course, Schumer had re- as a partner they can work with. “He’s lyn, Schumer attended the same high peatedly crossed paths with the Trump a tough negotiator, but his word is school as Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Ber- clan. His maternal grandfather had been good,” says McCain. In his first one-on- nie Sanders. A side job working the mim- a builder in Brooklyn with Trump’s father one meeting with Representative Paul eograph machine for Stanley Kaplan’s new Fred Trump. As a young man, Schumer re- Ryan of Wisconsin over immigration re- test-prep company as a teenager helped members seeing Fred tooling around town form in 2013, they talked for 20 minutes him ace the SAT, setting him on a path to in his black Cadillac with the license plate about ice fishing and Asian carp, an inva- Harvard College and Harvard Law during “FT.” More often than not, the younger sive species that has threatened to over- the late 1960s. run lakes in both their states. He is re- His introduction to politics came garded as perhaps the hardest-working in 1968, when he worked for Eugene Senator by his peers and is more trusted McCarthy in New Hampshire. Even in by Republicans than Reid was. “Even if those years, Schumer was a cautious breed he’s out to kill you, you know he’s going of progressive, skeptical of more-extreme to keep trying to kill you,” says a top Re- activists on the left, including some from SCHUMER AND publican Senate aide. “It’s more predict- wealthier backgrounds, who sometimes TRUMP DON’T able, which makes the place run better.” advocated violence. He remembers watching them at protests try and pro- THINK SO IF THERE IS ANY REASON to be optimistic voke police officers by calling them pigs. DIFFERENTLY, about the level of partisanship in Wash- “I would say to these kids, ‘I grew up with AT LEAST ON ington, it might be that Schumer and these police officers,’” Schumer recalls. Trump don’t think so differently, at least “‘Don’t take their humanity away.’” SOME ISSUES. on some issues. “I’m closer to Trump’s

30 TIME February 20, 2017 On the other hand, Trump has not hesitated to blast Schumer for being a drama queen, mocking his tearful de- nunciation of Trump’s “mean-spirited and un-American” refugee policy. “I no- ticed Chuck Schumer yesterday with fake tears,” Trump said. “I’m going to ask him who is his acting coach.”Schumer, an easy crier whose middle name honors Ellis Is- land and whose daughter is named for Emma Lazarus, got a kick out of Trump’s jab. What follows now is a complex se- ries of calculations for Schumer. He will try to block Republicans from repealing the Affordable Care Act root and branch, but may blink when some of his members want to help Republicans on a replace- ment. It seems increasingly likely he will try to bring down Neil Gorsuch, Trump’s conservative Supreme Court pick, but it seems just as likely that he will be unable to then prevent McConnell from chang- ing the Senate rules to force Gorsuch through with 51 votes. Schumer’s antics have angered the White House. The coun- views on trade than I am to Obama’s or Demonstrators gather outside try is getting “frustrated,” said a White Bush’s,” says Schumer, who opposed both Schumer’s Brooklyn home on Jan. 31 House official, “with Senator Schumer’s NAFTA and the Trans-Pacific Partner- to demand that Democrats obstruct tactics to obstruct the will of the Ameri- ship. China, he adds, is a particularly bad Trump’s agenda at every turn can people.” actor on trade matters, and Schumer has Shortly after Barack Obama won the called on Trump to name China a “cur- White House, McConnell gave a speech rency manipulator” and work harder to New York. “He is somebody that tactically announcing that the top priority for Re- guard against theft of intellectual prop- understands what Trump has succeeded publicans would be to make Obama a one- erty. Schumer says he was “sort of glad” in doing so far,” says Brian Fallon, a for- term President. Schumer’s offer to Trump when Trump caused a mini-diplomatic mer Schumer aide. is more nuanced. Govern from the middle, crisis by accepting a phone call from Tai- Schumer arranged several telephone Schumer is suggesting, and I will share wan’s President, angering Beijing. “With calls with Trump late last year in the some votes. Govern from the right, and other nations, free trade may hurt us, but hopes of steering Trump toward a less you’ll give Democrats a chance to reclaim China is rapacious.” Adds Schumer: “I combative path. In those private conver- the populist mantle in coming elections. love America. I want America to be No. 1.” sations, Schumer says, he warned Trump “We’re not going to do what the Repub- It’s worth remembering, too, that about the rightward tilt of his Vice Presi- licans did and oppose it just because the Schumer and Trump were both shaped dent Mike Pence and the most conserva- name Trump is on it,” Schumer said. by the same unforgiving New York media tive flank of the Republican Party. “You Still, for all the phone conversa- climate. They are both obsessive consum- ran as a populist,” Schumer remembers tions, the warnings and the remonstra- ers of news and have a finely tuned in- saying on the phone, “but if you let the tions between the two New York poten- stinct for what pops with working-class hard right take you over, you will not suc- tates, Schumer sees the shock and awe New York City subway riders. If Trump ceed as President.” At one point, Schumer of Trump’s first weeks in office as a bad is obsessed with ratings, Schumer is ob- says, he told the President that the only sign. He is waiting for Trump to move sessed with headlines: he regularly reads infrastructure bill that would really work to the middle but is increasingly skepti- the New York papers, the national papers would need to cost at least $1 trillion, cal that the President will ever get there. and the smaller papers around the coun- funded by direct government spending “You never know if he’s really paying at- try. Like Trump, Schumer is a master at (as opposed to tax credits), with labor and tention,” says Schumer of Trump. It could celebrating himself in the press, whether environmental protections and no accom- have been “wonderful,” “beautiful” and it’s helping to keep the Buffalo Bills in panying cuts to entitlements. Schumer “great.” But the rules have changed, and New York State; fighting to lower the says Trump responded with two encour- a long fight seems unavoidable. They are price of flights from Rochester, N.Y., to aging words: “I know.” (The White House in Washington now. —With reporting by

KATHY WILLENS—APKATHY Disney World; or keeping jobs in upstate declined to comment on the calls.) ZEKE J. MILLER/WASHINGTON □ 31 Finding Home WHEN THE CALL COMES A Syrian family makes one more risky journey, this time to learn their fate By ARYN BAKER / ATHENS Photographs by LYNSEY ADDARIO for TIME Taimaa Abazli, her two children and her husband (not pictured) take an overnight bus to Athens, where they will learn which country will grant them asylum There is no call more important to the Syrian refugee △ Top, from left: stranded in Greece than the one from the Greek Asylum Service Taimaa packs while cuddling informing her that finally, after months of agonized waiting, there Heln; boarding a is a European nation willing to take her in. The polite man on the bus for Athens; with her husband other end of the line won’t name the country; instead, he Mohannad instructs the refugee to take a chartered bus to Athens for an outside the Athens asylum office. in-person interview—these usually take place within the next Bottom, from left: Taimaa and Heln 24 hours. “It is a destiny-defining moment,” says one refugee, who in an ambulance; put off buying diapers for his newborn daughter in order to save waiting at an Athens hospital; up for a battery charger for his phone. “You can’t afford to miss Heln rests after being treated for that call. You bring your phone with you everywhere you go. acute bronchitis You never let it die.”

34 TIME February 20, 2017 LYNSEY ADDARIO—VERBATIM FOR TIME Taimaa Abazli, a 24-year-old mother of THE JOURNEY SO FAR nad worried that if they missed the inter- two, missed that call. She had a good rea- When Taimaa fled Syria, she thought she would view, the family’s entire future would be son: her 4-month-old daughter Heln had reach Germany within a month. Instead, her at stake. The couple argued well into just been diagnosed with an acute bron- family has spent months in refugee camps, the evening, and Mohannad prevailed. chial infection, and in the frenzied rush waiting for a European nation to accept them. Against doctor’s orders, Taimaa checked to the hospital she left her phone at the her daughter out of the hospital, and she FEB. 22–NOV. 14, 2016 hotel where she and other refugees had Refugee and her family boarded the overnight bus been staying. By the time she and her hus- camps Black Sea to Athens, with Heln bundled up against band Mohannad realized their mistake, it Idomeni the cold, still struggling to breathe. was too late to call the asylum office back. Under any other circumstance, Taimaa Thessaloniki The appointment was scheduled without Lesbos TURKEY says, she would be excited to take a jour- GREECE their being able to explain that the hospi- Izmir ney that promised to reveal, after months tal wanted to keep Heln on an IV drip for Athens of waiting, the first solid glimpse of her three days, or that taking the infant on a JAN. 20, 2017 Idlib future as a legal resident of Europe. She 10-hour bus ride to Athens might put her Asylum Mediterranean Sea SYRIA fled Syria with her husband and a young at greater risk of developing pneumonia. interview son a year ago, when the borders be- FEB. 10, 2016 To Taimaa, nothing was more impor- Journey tween Greece and northern Europe were tant than her daughter’s health. Mohan- begins still open. But by the time they reached 35 Greece, after a harrowing journey by land TAIMAA HAS and sea, mainland Europe’s attitudes to- SPENT A YEAR ward the refugees streaming in from Mid- dle Eastern battlefields had hardened. IN CONSTANT Last March the borders slammed shut, UNCERTAINTY trapping some 60,000 asylum seekers in a country already on the verge of eco- nomic collapse. had been relocated there told her the THE EUROPEAN UNION, recognizing conditions for arrivals were little better Greece’s burden, pledged in 2015 to take than in Greece. The couple also fears up to 66,400 of its refugees within the that Germany’s historically pro-refugee next two years. But the rise of far-right and Chancellor, Angela Merkel, will not be re- nationalist parties throughout Europe has elected in September, further threatening substantially slowed those efforts, keep- a tenuous acceptance in the country. ing the asylum seekers in limbo. Some Ireland, says Taimaa, would be far better. countries, such as Austria, Denmark and At least she already speaks some English. Poland, are refusing to take in refugees al- The bus pulled up to the asylum of- together, while countries like Slovakia and fice at dawn, disgorging several dozen the Czech Republic have accepted fewer refugees into the frigid morning air. They than a dozen each. So far, little more than huddled around their suitcases, stamping 12% of Greece’s asylum seekers have been their feet and blowing on their hands to relocated elsewhere in Europe. U.S. Presi- keep warm until the office opened two dent Donald Trump’s recent refusal to ac- hours later. Taimaa and her family were cept Syrian refugees for resettlement in among the first in line. the U.S. may further embolden Europe’s They emerged several hours later. anti-migrant sentiment, prolonging the “What did you get? Is it good?” one of pain for families who want nothing more the other refugees shouted out. Mohan- than to get started on their new lives. nad didn’t say anything at first. He put his “When it comes to accepting refugees, thumb up, then rotated it sideways, then European countries are still far behind down, and back to sideways. “Estonia,” schedule,” says Roland Schönbauer, the he whispered, bewildered. “I don’t even U.N. refugee agency spokesman in Ath- know where it is on the map.” ens. “It’s not a big task to accommodate “Est-WAN-ya?” Taimaa rolled the 50,000 people in the richest region of the unfamiliar word around in her mouth. Her world. These people are not going back. husband corrected her pronunciation. Where will they go?” “Estonia?” she said again. “That’s the Like the tens of thousands of other first time I’ve even heard of it.” For the refugees in Greece, Taimaa—one of three little that Syrian refugees know about new mothers whom TIME is following for the small Baltic nation, Estonians likely its yearlong Finding Home project—has know even less about them. The country, spent the past 12 months in a constant which has the smallest Muslim population state of uncertainty. She doesn’t know in Europe, has taken in only 89 refugees where her family will go or what their under the European migrant-relocation future holds. In Syria she was a music program—significantly fewer than the teacher; now she dreams of opening a 550 it has pledged to take in by the end of ing, schooling and jobs. But the language beauty salon, but it’s hard to make plans 2017. It has no mosques, and prospective was difficult to pick up, the people could when she doesn’t even know what lan- asylum seekers are expected to adhere be cold, and it was hard to build a com- guage her customers will use. to Estonian values, no matter their munity, let alone find a Middle Eastern The Greek Asylum Service says it own religious and cultural traditions. grocery store. Estonians like to eat pork— tries to match applicants’ preferences, which Muslims like Taimaa are forbidden language abilities and family ties with WITHIN A FEW HOURS of getting the to eat. She worries that her family might recipient countries, but refugees say the news, Taimaa had already consulted her struggle to fit in and could face strong process is more like a lottery. Taimaa far-flung network of fellow refugees for anti-Muslim sentiment. “From the infor- and Mohannad spent much of their bus information about Estonia. The reviews mation they gave us about [Estonia], it’s journey to Athens debating the relative were mixed. The country was praised for very bad for us. You don’t have the free- merits of Germany and Holland. Taimaa helping the newcomers integrate by as- dom to practice your religion,” she says. had hoped for Germany, but friends who sisting them in finding affordable hous- But after the initial shock had worn off,

36 TIME February 20, 2017 Taimaa slumps against a bed, exhausted, while Heln sleeps

Taimaa was more sanguine. She checked there is no mosque, she adds, she can headscarves for photos. After that it could her daughter into the Athens children’s always pray at home. take several more weeks for the Estonians hospital and was relieved to find that the After a year in limbo, the only thing she to organize the transfer. In the meantime prognosis for Heln was good, despite the wants now, she says, is to get started on her Taimaa has to keep waiting. Everything delayed treatment. In the end, she admits, new life, whatever it holds. But even that is different now, she says with a sigh. But refugees don’t have a choice about where is up in the air: they still have one more nothing has changed. —With reporting by they will go. There is no process of appeal. interview at the Estonian embassy—a IRENE LIOUMI, AMINA KHALIL, LYNSEY For Taimaa, Estonia offers a chance for formality that some refugees warn can ADDARIO and FRANCESCA TRIANNI/ security and stability: “We have to be be grueling. Officials try to make sure the ATHENS and THESSALONIKI grateful to the country that is taking us, asylum seekers are a good cultural fit, and that it’s welcoming refugees and giving there are rumors that the refugees will be Continued reporting for this project is them a house and many other things that asked why they don’t eat pork and that supported by a grant from the Pulitzer we need and lost back in our country.” If the women will be told to take off their Center on Crisis Reporting 37 Movies The Light Touch

To film Silence, 27 years in the making, director Scorsese and cinematographer Prieto had to find a common language

PHOTOGRAPH BY MICHELE ASSELIN FOR TIME By Hollywood’s current rules, the Oscar-nominated film Silence shouldn’t have gotten made. How Martin Scorsese and Rodrigo Prieto did it anyway

BY STEPHANIE ZACHAREK / LOS ANGELES BBECAUSE WE TEND TO THINK OF FILM AS A DIREC- tor’s medium, cinematographers—the craftspeople who understand that visual textures and moods can affect moviegoers deeply and mysteriously—don’t get much love. The director-cinematographer union is one of the most essential partnerships on any movie, but it’s also something of a secret puzzle, a dialogue in a language that can slip between the cracks of words. The most astonishing feats of cinematography are also sometimes among the least flashy, essentially the result of putting technical skills to work in the service of synesthesia. Science and numbers are en- listed in the service of color, light, feeling. How do you convey, for example, the very texture of the air? In 17th century rural Japan, no less? That’s what cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto pulls off in Martin Scorsese’s Silence, a picture that, by all reasonable logic of how movies get made these days, shouldn’t even exist. Scorsese wanted to turn Shusaku Endo’s 1966 novel Silence into a film when he first read it, in 1989. Stories about the suffering picture he has made with Prieto at his side—along and spiritual crises of Portuguese missionaries with veterans like editor Thelma Schoonmaker and ministering to persecuted Catholics in Japan weren’t production designer Dante Ferretti, with actors an easy sell then, and they’re even less so now. But Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver in for Scorsese, who grew up Catholic and has always the leads—is a radiant exploration of in one way or another tackled spiritual themes in his The idea of what it means to believe in the grace work, the idea of turning Silence into a movie was of God, or of anything. Its multilayered like a talisman carried in a pocket, an idea he carted turning Silence visual splendor hasn’t been lost on the around with him through the years and more than Academy, which nominated Silence for two decades’ worth of films. into a movie was Best Cinematography. Every director wants a hit—it buys him or her, like a talisman Yet this picture that almost wasn’t among other things, a bit of leverage and freedom has not—yet—found its place with in terms of what gets made next—and in 2013, carried in a pocket audiences. Even movies that seem Scorsese had one. His semi-based-on-true-life tale to exist outside of time are subject to of scoundrelous traders, The Wolf of Wall Street, the injustice of the opening-weekend box office PARAMOUNT became massive, bringing in nearly $400 million tally. After a limited opening in December, Silence globally. The time was right, finally, for Silence. The grossed a little less than $2 million in its first week-

40 TIME February 20, 2017 quiet spectacle: the two were in Los Angeles for the American Film Institute Awards luncheon, in January, at which Silence was honored as one of the organization’s movies of the year. When they arrived at the room designated for our interview, Prieto had the framed AFI citation tucked under his arm, swathed in protective bubble wrap. In their discreetly tailored dark suits—one of them tall, the other less so—they could have been ambassadors for the concept of the telling detail. And later, in conversation, they would sometimes finish each other’s sentences or even start new ones for each other: “How’d you do the moonlight thing again?” Scorsese at one point asked Prieto. Because creating artificial lunar majesty was yet another of Prieto’s jobs on Silence, which was filmed in Taiwan, often in unpredictable weather, in a setting of rocky coastlines, mist-laden forests and magisterially jagged mountains. The landscape is integral to Silence’s story of two Portuguese Jesuit priests, Sebastião Rodrigues (Garfield) and Francisco Garupe (Driver), who volunteer, fervently, to travel to Japan,whereChristians are being persecuted. They’ve received news that their mentor, Cristóvão Ferreira (Liam Neeson), who had been doing missionary work in the country, has caved in to pressure from the Japanese authorities and apostatized—in other words, disavowed his faith. What they find when they reach Japan both defies their expectations and unnerves them: the devout Christian peasants who greet them—people who have been almost literally driven underground for their faith—can hardly believe this blessing, that they finally have genuine priests in their midst. Rodrigues and Garupe find themselves tested in radical and sometimes horrific ways as they’re forced to recognize that doubt is an essential component of faith. That resplendent, unforgiving landscape could also be a metaphor for the trial of getting a movie made. It helped that Prieto and Scorsese had worked together twice before, first on The Wolf of Wall Street end in wide release, in mid-January. But no one— Scorsese, and then on the pilot for HBO’s 1970s-era rock epic not even the people who made it—can know what a center, and Vinyl. “Even the first day I met Marty, he made me film might mean to audiences in the years to come. Prieto, right, feel comfortable,” Prieto says. “I had nothing to In an era when blockbuster-style digital effects have shot much of lose, we’re going to meet, maybe he doesn’t like me. pretty much bigfooted the world of movies, an in- their religious If nothing happens, I continue my life.” But he was tense, ruminative picture like Silence is a challenge epic outdoors understandably eager to work with Scorsese, one of to the currently accepted notion of what a movie and at night the ’70s filmmaking mavericks who’s still doing vital spectacle should be. on location work. “I’ve always really loved the way he designs his in Taiwan movies. So whenever he talks about a scene, the way WHAT, EXACTLY, does 17th century Japanese air he wants to shoot it, I just suck it up immediately.” look like? Prieto captures it—having shot Silence In advance of every movie he makes, Scorsese— mostly on film, using digital cameras only for certain like many directors before him, most notably Alfred scenes—as something both fleeting and definitive, Hitchcock—prepares a storyboard in which he maps like the whisper of a brushstroke on a silk scroll. As the look of the picture, drawing every shot as he en- he puts it, “That’s something that film allows you visions it. He’s been doing this since the age of 11, to do. It allows you to play with the air.” Getting when he drew an elaborate storyboard for an, alas, Scorsese and Prieto in a room together is itself a imaginary CinemaScope feature called The Eternal 41 City, an extravaganza set in ancient Rome and fea- The Aviator’s split-personality glow—half glistening turing detailed panels of helmeted centurions and Hollywood dream, half sepia-pearl paranoid assorted robed officials engaging in various acts of nightmare—or of Taxi Driver’s raw, feverish view of deceit, betrayal and rapprochement. New York as an insomniac, unblinking city. Yet we Scorsese’s insistence on thinking everything think of each as, indisputably, a Scorsese movie. through in advance makes a cinematographer’s job How, exactly, does that work? There’s no conclu- easier, though nothing is ever set in stone. It can’t sive way to parse Scorsese’s relationships with his be, because so much of filmmaking is problem solv- various cinematographers other than to suppose ing, particularly when vagaries of weather, or even Storyboards that each brings a set of special and specific gifts to just shifting light, enter the picture. Besides, all Scorsese likes him—and his openness to these gifts is key. At the working relationships between directors and their to work with his same time, his storyboards, which he prepares once cinematographers are different, and even when a cinematographer by he has a sense of how he wants to approach a movie, preplanning shots with director-cinematographer duo work together on an- detailed illustrations, shutting himself away in a hotel suite for about 10 other movie—or on many more movies—the nature like those he drew days until they’re done, provide a road map to his (above) dictating of that relationship shifts with the material. a scene with star way of thinking. Prieto loves the day Scorsese finally That has been as true of pairings like Bernardo Garfield (center) sits down with him to explain the shot list. “That day Bertolucci and Vittorio Storaro (The Conformist, for me is one of my favorite parts of production with The Last Emperor), Alfonso Cuarón and Emmanuel Marty,” he says, “because he’ll explain his process of Lubezki (Gravity, Children of Men) and Woody Allen why he wants to do that medium shot, or why does and Gordon Willis (Annie Hall, Manhattan) as it is of the camera move? Or is it completely static? Are we Scorsese and Prieto. Scorsese is something of a serial tight or are we wide, and why? No shot is random.” monogamist when it comes to cinematographers. He Those storyboards also give Prieto a sense of the has made distinctive-looking pictures with Michael movie-to-be as an organic whole. “Marty thinks a lot Ballhaus (Goodfellas, The Departed), Michael Chap- also in terms of editing. It’s not just covering a scene man (Taxi Driver, Raging Bull) and Robert Richardson in the regular sense of wide shots and close-ups. He (Bringing Out the Dead, The Aviator). Each of those really does think about the end result, once it’s all movies has its own specific, identifiable look: think of put together. Listening to that process helps me

42 TIME February 20, 2017 understand how he’s picturing it, and I can translate no bold camera moves, no extreme editing. There that into images. Not just shots, not just the framing is, of course, editing in Silence—there’s a reason or the camera movements, but the emotion behind Scorsese’s longtime editor Thelma Schoonmaker is it.” Knowing why Scorsese chose “a specific language considered one of the greatest in the business and is for the camera,” Prieto says, helps him to grasp the just generally adored—but the ultimate effect is one mood of a scene so he can figure out the appropriate of stillness and contemplation. The eye has plenty lighting for it. of time to drink everything in because Silence is, in visual terms, a much quieter picture the camera, too, appears to be taking than many Scorsese has made. Thematically it has a its time. great deal in common with The Last Temptation of ‘It became Yet that visual quietness demanded Christ, Scorsese’s superb (and controversial) 1988 apparent that this a specific kind of rigor. Scorsese has, adaptation of Nikos Kazantzakis’ novel about Jesus’ Prieto explains, “done so many movies spiritual trials. But, in terms of style, it’s possibly story required a with powerful camera moves, this sort most in line with 1997’s Kundun, his luminous, whole different way of explosive cinema language, which poetic film about the 14th Dalai Lama (shot by was not quite appropriate for this Roger Deakins, most frequently associated with the of shooting.’ movie. It became apparent that this Coen brothers and the lensman behind movies like story required a whole different way of No Country for Old Men and O Brother, Where Art RODRIGO PRIETO shooting. It was pretty organic.” It also Thou?). In one sequence, Rodrigues, driven half- meant that, because so much of Silence mad by an incipient crisis of faith, stares into a pool was shot outdoors, in natural and thus unpredictable of water and sees the face of Christ—as painted by settings, the light would change rapidly. “And each El Greco—staring back at him. In another, a trio location had certain characteristics,” Prieto says. of peasants, all faithful Catholics, are crucified “Some places we couldn’t access with any lighting on a beach at low tide. Their deaths occur slowly equipment at all. For those places we ended up as the waves lash at them, drowning them not in doing dusk for night, shooting in the last moments of one merciful plunge but in minute-by-minute ambient daylight, which means minutes, very short

STORYBOARDS: SIKELIA PRODUCTIONS STILL: (2); PARAMOUNT misery. The scene is sustained and intense, with minutes.” To shoot just one sequence could take 43 Great minds see alike Rodrigo Prieto’s work on Silence has been nominated for an Oscar. Here’s a sampling of Best Cinematography winners made by famous director-cinematographer duos

BLACK NARCISSUS (1947) CRIES AND WHISPERS (1972) BARRY LYNDON (1975) In Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s Sven Nykvist’s crimson-red color scheme is Stanley Kubrick and John Alcott used a special story of nuns on the edge of madness, Jack one of the distinguishing features of Ingmar Zeiss camera lens, originally developed for Cardiff’s fervid, dreamy lighting and emphatic Bergman’s intense family drama, but in places NASA, to shoot the film’s warm, luminous camera angles evoke creeping hysteria. it is contrasted with a dreamy naturalism. candlelight scenes.

THE LAST EMPEROR (1987) THERE WILL BE BLOOD (2007) GRAVITY (2013) Bernardo Bertolucci and Vittorio Storaro tell Robert Elswit’s stark, vital rendering of an Emmanuel Lubezki’s visuals in Alfonso Cuarón’s the story of Emperor Pu Yi through color: his unforgiving landscape is key to Paul Thomas lost-in-space symphony riff on the universe’s childhood, for example, is a study in reds, Anderson’s story of an oil prospector undone vastness—but also impart the idea that for the oranges and yellows, hues warmed by memory. by greed and misanthropy. movie’s astronauts, it’s a home away from home. days. Making sure the light would look continuous NO MATTER HOW CAREFULLY a shoot is planned and natural throughout a scene was a challenge. in advance, there is probably only one reliable truth In a movie that uses very little CGI, even in post- in filmmaking: depending on the choices and com- production—Prieto’s preference when possible— promises a filmmaker has to make on any given day, nature is its own special effect, working on its the movie will become its own creation. Improvisa- own schedule. There’s nothing to do but to bow to tion is essential to filmmaking, and to cinematog- her. Though parts of the story take place in small, raphy in particular. Some of the most astonishing enclosed spaces, like huts, caves and prison cells, cinematic effects result from Encyclopedia Brown– the overarching natural arena prevailed. There were style problem solving, or from simply seeing the times when Scorsese had planned a visual in a very accidental artistry in a mistake. specific way, only to arrive at the shooting location Old-school, early-Hollywood cameramen— and realize that nature had other ideas. “Very often, people like Gregg Toland, James Wong Howe I’d have another shot planned. And [Prieto] would and Lee Garmes, all revered, rightly, by modern- look at me and say, ‘Look what we have here,’” day cinematographers—developed effects, often

Scorsese says. “The landscape took over.” Though by trial and error, that now help define what we COLLECTIONEVERETT (6) fog was created for some scenes, generally, it just think of as classic Hollywood filmmaking. But showed up. “Often we simply had to stop and say, the younger cinematographers who came of age Let’s shoot in this fog and this mist,” Scorsese says. in the new Hollywood of the late 1960s and early Prieto jumps in to complete the thought: “It worked 1970s had even more freedom to experiment, and very well for the story—a lot of it is about hiding.” to mess up. The late Conrad Hall—one of the most

44 TIME February 20, 2017 respected cinematographers of the past century, So let’s just physically get through it.’” known especially for his trenchant but subtle It bears noting that Scorsese is 74; the Mexico camerawork on the 1967 In Cold Blood—once said City–born Prieto is 51. “Marty really was like a gen- he took particular credit for “helping make mistakes eral there, in the trenches. That was very inspiring for acceptable” to studio heads and to audiences. For of us, the troops. We saw the lengths that he would instance, the occurrence of a lens flare—in which go to, of discomfort. And we thought, If he’s doing light strikes the lens at an angle that results in streak that, we have to go 10 times further.” or blot of light on the image—used to mean that a shot was spoiled, until cinematographers like Hall EVEN WHEN THE TWO men are just sitting side by decreed it an effect. That’s the sort of thing, Hall said, side, there’s a protectiveness in Prieto’s posture to- “that nobody would dare do without getting fired in ward Scorsese. No sooner had the interview started the slick old days.” when a rackety banging resounded from the room Still, while it’s one thing to think on your feet next door: someone at the Four Seasons Beverly Hills as an individual, a cinematographer and a director had chosen that precise moment to begin tearing often have to think as one, particularly when there’s down a wall, or so it seemed. Prieto jumped up and a problem to be solved. Let’s say you need moonlight. left the room to investigate. A cine- Even if there is a moon in the sky on the night you matographer’s job, roughly outlined, need it, and even if it’s exactly the moon phase you involves lighting, coloring, framing want, shooting at night is extremely difficult. (Prieto ‘I’m not an the shots, adjusting the exposure and used digital cameras for many of the nocturnal scenes outdoorsman. moving the camera. A cinematogra- in Silence.) As it turns out, Scorsese’s plan called pher is generally a manager of peo- for a scene featuring a samurai ceremony held in I’m known for my ple and budgets as well. And for effi- the moonlight. Filmmakers sometimes have to hypochondria ciency’s sake if not just out of outright play God—and so Prieto created his own moon on courtesy, he or she must have the set the outdoor set by stringing hundreds of compact and asthma.’ ready just as the director likes it—and fluorescent bulbs around a metal base. In the theater Scorsese is notorious for demanding God himself wouldn’t be able to tell the difference. MARTIN SCORSESE silence on the set. Even if he could, he wouldn’t be likely to take You could say a cinematographer offense at anything he sees in Silence. The picture’s works all kinds of magic for a director, much of it somber beauty is humbling—its ruggedly carved achieved through mundane and routine tasks. And mountains and brushy trees, its cloud-dotted skies although cinematography involves so much more and quasi-mystical leafy forests, make you feel small than just producing pretty pictures, if achieving the in the scheme of creation. “Beautiful. Muddy!” correct and desired effect also results in a beautiful Scorsese says of the locale. “The mud itself becomes image—that’s part of what we go to the movies for, quite beautiful,” he says. “Everything! I’m not an isn’t it? Nature in Silence looks both real and hyp- outdoorsman. I’m known for my hypochondria notically surreal at once. At times its wild-colored and asthma. I’m known for being an urban person, skies and raggedy seacoasts look so mind-alteringly Manhattan. I lived here in California for 10 or 12 years, vibrant that they resemble the glorious matte paint- but that’s about as far as I got into the country. ings—backdrops painted on glass—of Michael Powell “So for me, being placed in caves and thunderous and Emeric Pressburger’s Black Narcissus, a Scors- waves hitting—I didn’t even understand quite about ese favorite. high tide. How come this is getting high? What’s Even when movies are shot on film, there is always going on here? Oh, I see, the moon! I get it, I get it! I some digital fiddling in postproduction, even if it’s mean, I’m a New Yorker. I began to really appreciate just something as basic as color correction. The the elements.” questions had to be asked: Was any of the visual glory One of the recurring motifs in Silence is that of Silence attributable to some painted or otherwise of the faithful Catholic peasants succumbing to artificial effect? Was any of nature’s magnificence the demands of the ruling shogunate, renouncing enhanced digitally after the fact, to make it look, their faith by stepping on the fumi-e, a small plaque well, more magnificent on film? embossed with a religious image. As you watch the Director and cinematographer begin speaking film, the sight of their muddy, sandaled feet, sullying at once, like excited school kids ready with the an- the sacred, induces a kind of trancelike despair. The swer. Scorsese can barely keep from leaping out of mud itself gets very real. “Normally I complain,” his chair: “It was real! The clouds were real! It was Scorsese says. “But here I said, ‘Nope!’ I got out of amazing!” And what he says next explains why, at age the car, and I couldn’t even move my foot because of 74, anyone would want to keep making pictures as the mud. I began to get slightly irritated. I said, ‘No, demanding and near heartbreaking as Silence was, a this is what you’re doing. 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REVIEW THERE’S SOMETHING PARTICULARLY and Transparent’s Pfefferman family dreamlike about the California of lie relentlessly to themselves—has Television HBO’s new limited series Big Little Lies become familiar to the point of cliché: manages to and the Netflix comedy Santa Clarita California as a place people go to Diet. The two shows have divergent remake their lives but ultimately get put a new tones but a unified vision of the state’s tranquilized by the sun. Both Big Little suburbs as the place comfort gives Lies and Santa Clarita Diet begin with twist on the way to confrontation. Lies stars Reese these old tropes—and manage to get Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman, somewhere vividly new. Diet does so California playing neighbors and friends in easy, by employing bold, splashy comedy, state of mind jumbo-wineglass comfort. Their Lies by using heightened drama. schedules are breezily blank between On Big Little Lies, based on Liane By Daniel D’Addario school drop-off and pickup. On Netflix, Moriarty’s novel of the same title, Drew Barrymore has slightly more we’re watching the last months of going on, but her character is still someone’s life. (The show flashes mostly sleepwalking through life. forward to depict the aftermath This vision of California—the one of a main character’s tragic fate, where Joan Didion smoked her way but we don’t know who.) Madeline through a nameless depression, Anne (Witherspoon), for all her outer Bancroft picked up Dustin Hoffman sunniness, is wrecking her marriage as a form of mild entertainment, through her envy of her ex’s new HILARY BRONWYN GAYLE—HBO HILARY 00 Time Off Television

QUICK TALK Sam Richardson The actor, 33, stars in the new Comedy Central series Detroiters, about a pair of bosom buddies and small-time advertising men in the Motor City. His co-star and co-creator is his best friend, Tim Robinson. Is the show trying to say something new about male friendship? We were just trying to show our friendship. In the show, if somebody tries to make a ON MY gay-panic joke, we’re like, “That’s real RADAR funny. Grow up!” Very purposefully, THE AMAZING that’s not where the humor lies. What’s WORLD OF GUMBALL funny is these guys will make friendship bracelets for each other. As adults. ‘Gumball and Darwin are two As a zombie in Santa Clarita Diet, Barrymore finds the cure little cartoon for suburban ennui in a body count How did you want to depict Detroit, guys, but they where you both grew up? It was very are best friends yogini wife (Zoë Kravitz). Playing Celeste, Kidman, important that we show a different side. and they love as coolly glam as she’s been since Eyes Wide Shut, has The one you’re used to seeing is a place each other. even darker secrets: we see her husband grab her a you go for a zombie apocalypse. I’m They’re one of little too hard and, later, much worse. But the pals are not saying Detroit isn’t a place where my favorite onscreen duos.’ unable or unwilling to get deep with each other, or negative things exist. That would be to admit too much to their new friend Jane (Shailene irresponsible. But why doesn’t Detroit Woodley), a young single mom who has recently deserve to have a fun comedy? Why arrived in town. Eventually that begins to change. does it always have to be a bleak crime Their halting movement toward honesty—marked drama where everybody’s murdered? with little self-deprecations—is touching precisely because it’s so uncomfortable to watch. How did you come up with the While Big Little Lies, directed by Wild’s Jean-Marc idea to be admen? We love the Vallée, proceeds with woozy stateliness, Santa Clarita old commercials we grew up Diet uses violence to make its points with startling watching. Everybody in America speed and intensity. Very early on, we learn that Sheila knows their local commercials. (Barrymore), a realtor who works with her husband That gave us a parallel to writing Joel (Timothy Olyphant), has become a zombie. Her comedy. The process for how we relentless drive for the taste of human flesh reveals just make our ads is similar to sketch how staid her life had been before. Having left behind writing, where you pitch, you do obsessive concern about her neighbors’ opinions in an all-nighter, then you film it. favor of late-night prowling, Sheila, undead, is finally alive. This is a show that’s emboldened by its oddity— Any specific ads that inspired you’ll either love its humor, merging body horror with you? “Mel Farr, Superstar” was Barrymore’s new agey persona, or be repulsed. Either one we grew up watching. He was way, Barrymore is incandescent as a person waking up an ex–Detroit Lions star who had a to the possibilities of life. Ford dealership. He had a brown suit IMAGES GETTY RICHARDSON: NETFLIX; DIET: CLARITA SANTA All these women are on a “journey,” whether a and red cape, and they would do visual picaresque goof or one imbued with vise-like tension. effects where he was flying. But both shows find something new amid cliché. Big Little Lies depicts even the school pickup line with Many of your characters are per- a lush splendor that grants the revelations of its story petually cheerful. Are you like that? substance and weight; Santa Clarita Diet rips the pace A lot of these characters use facets of and style of network sitcoms to tell a story far outside myself and then expand them. Sam [on the sitcom norm. These shows manage to innovate Detroiters] is essentially me but hyper- as quickly as their characters. California may be a bolized. With Richard [on Veep], I’m place where it’s easy to delude oneself. But it’s also not as ignorantly optimistic, but there’s the staging ground for the most American pursuit: something funny about a guy who can reinvention. At least on television. □ shake off anything. —ELIZA BERMAN

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MOVIES Lego Batman Vengeance, (extra ab not pictured) fends the slow way off villainy with his mighty claw IN JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 2, of plastic Keanu Reeves’ John Wick— whom we first met as the ruthless yet tender avenger in the surprise 2014 hit that bears his name—does more walking than driving. In the movie’s dazzling opening sequence, he does take a car for a spin (and a crash and a bang). But Wick, the quintessential hit man longing for retirement, mostly gets around the old- fashioned way, as if willing himself to slow down. Fat chance. Forced to take one last job, Wick treks to a MOVIES drowsy, decadent catacomb Lego Batman finds the funny nightclub in Rome, where he tangles with a sultry mob in existential angst princess (Claudia Gerini) and her butt-kicking bodyguard THE FIRST 20 MINUTES OF THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE, IN (played, wonderfully, by which a character made of small plastic snap-together pieces Common). The film has captures delicate gradations of hubris and loneliness, are style to burn, and oh! what genius. The opening blast of action uses every color in the violence—terrible, bone- jawbreaker palette: Lego Batman (voiced by Will Arnett) crunching, glorious violence, saves Lego Gotham from a cadre of villains led by Lego Joker beautifully orchestrated by (Zach Galifianakis), with his acid-green molded pompadour director and ex–stunt man and equally acidic ingratiating smile. There’s never any doubt ‘Why is he so Chad Stahelski. There’s also a who’ll win. Lego Batman makes a point of showing off his moody? What’s dog, a handsome, stocky devil “nine-pack” (he’s so awesome, he has an extra ab). But after going on? Why is with fur somewhere between the rumble is over, he retreats to cavernous Lego Wayne he so banged up?’ chocolate and smoke. He has Manor, shifting straight into moody Christian Bale mode. He little to do. Mostly he just WILL ARNETT, in pops dinner into the microwave—it hums morosely, its light Entertainment Weekly, on walks. But when he does, bathing his forlorn, masked face in a one-is-the-loneliest- exploring the dark side of he’s muscular, elegant and 2: LIONSGATE CHAPTER WICK: JOHN BROS.; WARNER MOVIE: BATMAN LEGO THE number glow. The seconds tick by. Lego Batman’s existential Lego Batman’s character thrilling, just like his human suffering gets funnier with each one. sidekick.—S.Z. And then the whole thing falls apart. The film, directed by Chris McKay, is a spin-off of 2014 hit The Lego Movie, an ▽ GUN FU, CAR FU, unapologetic product unapologetically selling a product. WALK FU Sometimes brash, sometimes wearying, that movie at least Reeves mastered many felt like it was made by the brightest kid in the class. Not so for action styles for John Wick: Lego Batman. After that kick-ass opening, the picture devolves Chapter 2 into an action-action-plot-action-plot-action monotone. Where have all the gags gone? By the end Lego Batman has learned a valuable lesson: family is important! (A lesson, by the way, that’s almost always designed to please adults more than children, who mostly long for chaos and freedom.) Lego Batman, with his comically blank eyes and observant pointed ears, deserves better. No other character with nine abs has ever made misery funnier.—STEPHANIE ZACHAREK

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R&B Adams recently wrote that “my Kehlani turns life depended candor into on making” Prisoner virtue KEHLANI PARRISH DOESN’T mince words. The Oakland, Calif.-based singer spends most of her debut LP, SweetSexySavage, laying down romantic ground rules in frank, flirty terms. Take the funky single “Distraction,” on which she eschews love and commitment in favor of a lower-stakes proposition: “I need you to not want to be mine/ Are you down to be ROCK a distraction?” This candor Ryan Adams offers his opus of despair makes SweetSexySavage a welcome addition to R&B, a THERE ARE NO PUBLISHED ACCOUNTS kind of explosive statement that might genre defined this decade by of exactly what shattered Ryan Adams’ have been a huge hit for Stevie Nicks or libidinous, manipulative bad six-year marriage to Mandy Moore. Tom Petty, back in 1982. boys like the Weeknd. Since announcing their separation in From there, the title track begins Kehlani is a scholar, the 2015, both have been oblique about the with a Smiths-like guitar figure and kind of songwriter who wor- details, although their opposites-attract Morrissey-worthy moping. Then Adams ships at the altar of Swedish romance pointed to obvious stress moves on to a Bruce Springsteen–style hitmaker Max Martin and points. A hero of the alt-country move- dirge, “Haunted House,” that might chases genre-bending hooks, ment, he’s a Star Wars–obsessed, intro- have been a track on Nebraska. These and SweetSexySavage owes verted night owl, renowned (even in rock are duly sad songs, but my throat didn’t plenty to the recent past— circles) for a long stretch of bad behav- begin to tighten until the middle of the even its title is a tribute to ior before sobering up. Moore, currently record, when Adams begins chronicling TLC’s 1994 smash Crazy- starring in NBC’s This Is Us, is a gregari- the details of his restless, excruciatingly SexyCool. But the album ous former teen-pop star who sold nearly lonely nights. “I’ve been waiting here strikes a balance between the 3 million albums, voiced a Disney prin- like a dog at the door/ You used to throw nostalgic and the new on the cess (Rapunzel) and likes to be in bed me scraps, you don’t do it anymore,” he strength of her nimble voice. before Jimmy Fallon tells his first joke. sings on “Shiver and Shake.” She’s comfortable singing Also, showbiz romance in general. Adams showed himself a master of and rapping and being The arrival of Adams’ 16th studio the breakup album with his first solo refreshingly honest. She album, Prisoner (out Feb. 17), offers a effort, 2000’s Heartbreaker, which doesn’t always know what searing depiction of what the breakup frequently lands on best-of-Splitsville she wants, but she knows did to him. It curdled his cream, ate lists. Prisoner mourns the end of exactly what she deserves. his guts from the inside and left him a something deeper. Adams hopes it will —JAMIESON COX quivering shell. And it inspired nearly help listeners find solace amid suffering. 80 songs, a dozen of which appear here But the record never gives us more than with 17 more to be released on a vinyl a portrait of a talented man locked in pressing of the album. solitary with his guitar and weeping Adams, 42, opens his opus of despair heart. It’s not self-indulgent, but self- with the brilliant power ballad “Do absorbed: Adams wrote the songs, You Still Love Me?,” which manages to played almost all of the instruments and reference both Prince’s “Purple Rain” painted the cover art. When struck by EARLY ACCLAIM soliloquy and the syncopated power grief, we need joy and humor to remind Kehlani’s 2015 mixtape chords of Survivor’s “Eye of the Tiger.” us that love can be relearned. Adams You Should Be Here, recorded when she was “Why can’t I feel your love/ My heart likely knows this, but Prisoner rarely 19, earned her a Grammy must be blind,” he sings. “What can I inspires us to see the long game in love nomination for Best Urban

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TIME MOVIES PICKS If there’s pain in Fifty Shades, there’s pleasure in its soundtrack BOOKS In The Airbnb Story HOW DO YOU GET AN ARTIST LIKE TAYLOR The strategy has worked for Shades. The (Feb. 13), Fortune Swift to write and record a song just for first film adaptation of E.L. James’ block- editor Leigh Gallagher profiles the company’s your movie? As the producers of Fifty buster erotic trilogy, Fifty Shades of Grey, leaders to tell the story Shades Darker learned, you start the released in 2015, raked in over $500 million of the triumphs—and conversation very early. “We bring worldwide. Equally massive: the controversies—the artists in at the ground level,” says soundtrack. That compilation gave peer-to-peer booking Tom Mackay, head of West Coast alt-R&B crooner the Weeknd his site has weathered as it evolved into A&R for Republic Records, which first Top 5 single with “Earned It,” a dominant travel will release the film’s soundtrack eventually scoring him an Oscar company. Feb. 10. “We show them scenes nod for Best Original Song and a and talk about a musical direction. Grammy for Best R&B Performance. Now they’re riding shotgun Additional contributions from with the filmmaker and studio Beyoncé and Ellie Goulding helped throughout the whole process.” The second make the soundtrack one of the For musical artists and film in the best-selling albums of 2015. filmmakers, it can be a mutually Fifty Shades For the sequel, Taylor Swift △ beneficial arrangement. In an series opens recorded a sultry collaboration TELEVISION era of declining album sales, Feb. 10 with Zayn, “I Don’t Wanna Live British-born comedian soundtracks for blockbusters Forever,” which is quickly climbing John Oliver returns to dig into the week’s like Twilight, The Hunger Games the Hot 100. Its falsetto harmonies most baffling news and now Shades have become a venue for and sultry vibe make it perfect for the film, on HBO’s Last Week established stars eager to stay relevant which is the point: to get the music to fit Tonight (Feb. 12). between album cycles, and for emerging the scene like a glove. “Otherwise, it’s just Expect impassioned artists to keep emerging. “Film and TV going to feel like a series of kinky music takedowns of President Donald Trump. are the new radio,” says Mike Knobloch, videos, ” Knobloch says. “If songs were president of film music and publishing at crowbarred in, people would smell it from PODCASTS Universal Pictures. a mile away.”—SAM LANSKY Feminist writers Jill Gutowitz and Carmen The musical Rios discuss topics like the Supreme Court stars of Fifty and climate change on (clockwise from their new podcast for top left): Sia, and by young women Halsey, John with an activist bent,

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FICTION Crimes, cover-ups and competition QUICKSAND BY MALIN PERSSON TWO MYSTERIES ARE AT THE HEART meanwhile, his daughter Ayumi has run GIOLITO of Hideo Yokoyama’s Six Four: the away. Mikami and his wife don’t know if The latest Swedish crime 14-year-old cold case of a young girl’s she is dead or alive. sensation involves a mass murder and the recent disappearance Six Four makes its U.S. debut four shooting at a prep school. of protagonist Yoshinobu Mikami’s years after it came out in Japan, where teenage daughter. Yet most of the it was a literary blockbuster. The book suspense in this thriller has to do sold more than a million copies and with bureaucratic was adapted both for maneuvering. ‘The bomb film and for TV. Part Mikami, 46, has spent concealed within of its appeal was the most of his career in Six Four ... had the way it illuminated the criminal investigations country’s deep tradition at a prefectural police potential to bring of hierarchy and control. ILL WILL down not only the BY DAN CHAON headquarters, where This is a story about A psychologist with he earned a reputation department but frustration at work— a murderous brother as a tough detective. also the entire wanting to do what’s becomes obsessed with a But when the novel Prefectural HQ.’ right vs. needing to do string of drowning deaths. opens, he’s become HIDEO YOKOYAMA, Six Four what’s expected. press director, an Though it deploys administrative job common tropes of crime he did not seek and one he finds fiction and its lightly noir style, Six Four’s exasperating. Between corralling unruly unusual focus on the PR side of police journalists and dealing with dissembling work sets it apart and gives it unexpected managers—“It’s surely easier to be heat. Yokoyama avoids simplistic assertive if you don’t know anything,” moralizing, and instead offers the reader his boss advises—he yearns for the days a compelling interrogation of duty. THE FREEDOM BROKER of actually solving crimes. When the Some of the twists along the way are BY K.J. HOWE cold case known as Six Four resurfaces, less shocking than American readers An expert kidnapping Mikami begins to suspect a conspiracy might expect. But the final one pays off. negotiator works to free a special client: her father. YOKOYAMA: BUNGEISHUNJU LTD. within the department. At home, —SARAH BEGLEY Time Off PopChart

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Red vs. pink: the politics of fashion and why a hat is no longer just a hat By Susanna Schrobsdorff

WHEN I NEED TO KNOW HOW TO #DRESSLIKEAWOMAN, I call my friend Brenda, who is a professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. She is more than stylish—she’s a wardrobe artist. Her advice is to skip the usual black when you want to feel confident. “Wear white,” she says. “It’s an ‘I dare you’ color. It’s the color of courage.” This might be particularly true for those of us who spend half the day carrying around a cup of coffee, but she does have a point in general. After decades in which women tried to blend into a room of dark suits, a woman dressed all in almost all-white, all-male Cabinet nominees who look white is making a statement. Consider Hillary Clinton. You like attendees at a Mad Men convention. Even the can trace her rise and fall in white pantsuits. She wore white two CEOs Trump tapped to advise on women in the to accept the Democratic nomination, at her last debate and workplace are men. And on weekends we see a recurring then, finally, at the Inauguration of Donald Trump, where it rainbow of protesters with women leading the charge. was anything but the white of surrender. In fact, you could tell the entire story of the past year in IVANKA TRUMP seems to be caught in the jaws of this politics just by looking at what people wore or refused to wear. divide. It’s hard to separate her clothing line from Nearly every controversial or inspirational moment has its own her father’s hard-line politics. Millennial women are signature piece in the identity-politics collection. It started less inclined to shop Ivanka’s look as an ugly election with the pantsuits and those red MAKE AMERICA GREAT turns into an even more divisive presidency. And the AGAIN caps, and went right to pink pussy hats and boycotts of campaigns to boycott all Trump-related businesses Ivanka’s #womenwhowork-themed fashion, some of which is aren’t helping sales either. Nordstrom says it’s not made by women who work in other countries. Fashion hasn’t stocking the brand this season, and Neiman Marcus been this politicized since the ’60s, when the length of a man’s has dropped her jewelry from its website. hair or a woman’s skirt was an ideological choice. Ivanka is billed as a modern, moderate voice in the Administration, but the vision she promotes on BUT THOSE DAYS were comparatively tame. On Feb. 2, when her lifestyle website is still very Trumpian. She and Axios quoted a source who worked on the campaign as saying the other women in the Trump family tableau are a President Trump prefers his female staffers to “dress like confection of constant perfection and femininity that women,” people flooded the Internet with images of female seems as retro as the days when wearing pants on the soldiers, surgeons and firefighters in their gear, along with Senate floor was a sign of protest. icons like Ruth Bader Ginsburg in her lace collar and Malala Those personal Instagram posts that were once great Yousafzai in a headscarf, all tagged #dresslikeawoman. brand promotion now seem out of touch. On the same It’s a little late, but those objectors are now more united and weekend that thousands of separated families were motivated than they were before the election. That sea of pink first hit with the devastating consequences of Trump’s pussy hats at the giant women’s marches in January was an out- Executive Order banning entry into the U.S. from seven ward sign of a new sense of purpose. Those hats continue to mostly Muslim countries, Ivanka shared a photo of pop up at the many other protests since the Inauguration, an herself dressed up for an event in a silver gown. The ongoing reminder of Trump’s odious boasts about grabbing dress was gorgeous. The reaction to her post was not. women by the genitals. Ivanka is discovering that everything she wears or Not coincidentally, the President’s supporters had the look sells is now political. There is no comfortable middle of a real team long before his opposition did. Thanks to those between red and pink. Everyone is taking sides, and ubiquitous campaign caps, Trump rallies were branded early she’ll be judged like any other woman in politics, on. And they made for an impressive show of muscular red at harshly and often unfairly. She likely knows that all those televised rallies. already. Hillary Clinton wasn’t the only woman on the

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Roger Stone The right-wing provocateur and longtime confidant to Donald Trump talks about his new book on the 2016 race and the President’s war on the press

What has struck you most about reports—have you been contacted by ‘I have no Russian Trump’s first days in office? He has anyone in the intelligence commu- clients. I have no already made historic moves to reverse nity? I have not been contacted by any- Russian contacts. the policies of his predecessor. He body in law enforcement. There is abso- I have no Russian may be the first person in history to be lutely no foundation to this whatsoever. overruled by a federal judge only days The intelligence community could money. I have after he took office. He has proven that not have found email transmissions no Russian he’s going to be an activist. He is not or financial transactions involving me influences. I do like going to stop using the bully pulpit of and the Russians and the Trump cam- Russian vodka.’ his Twitter feed. And he is not going to paign because there are none. I have no be isolated by his handlers. Russian clients. I have no Russian con- tacts. I have no Russian money. I havee Has he made any mistakes in your no Russian influences. I do like Russianian view? It’s his nature. His nature is not vodka. This thing is a canard. Were thehe going to change. It’s not surprising to Russians hacking us? Maybe. But didd me that he’s feisty and combative and they affect the election in any way?N o.No. he’s not taking any crap. That’s Trump. So I’m not going to characterize them as One of the things people are pointinging mistakes. They just are. to is that you said during a speech in Florida last August that you haveve What’s the motive of the war on communicated with Julian Assange.e. the press that the White House has And you predicted the document launched? Look, this is a page out of dump. What’s your connection withh the Nixon playbook. The people who WikiLeaks? As I explain in the book, voted for Trump resent the press. They I have a mutual friend who’s a journalistlist no longer trust the press. This election and was in London and communicateded was the tipping point. In a weird way with him. When he came back, he CNN becoming so hysterical in their told me that Assange has devastating attacks on Trump just further fuels political dynamite on Hillary Clintonn this narrative. and he’s going to begin releasing it. I asked when. He said as soon as It didn’t end well for Nixon. Why Wednesday. So I posted that. That will it end better for Trump? It could [Tuesday], Assange had a press thing have ended well. Nixon got re-elected where he announced they would havee carrying 49 states despite the fact that disclosures for the next 10 weeks. So most of the media despised him. It’s the everything I said was true. politics of polarization. He’s speaking to the people who elected him. You’ve claimed you may have beenn poisoned. Are you feeling better? You note in your book that Nixon was I am feeling better. For almost 17 dayss in among the first people to encourage a row I had a fever of over 100°F. Bloodod Trump to run for President. You’ve tests went to the CDC. They found ann worked for both of them. How are exogenous substance in my blood thatat they similar? They’re both pragmatists. had the characteristics of polonium. They’re really not ideologues. Trump is kind of a populist conservative; Nixon I’m sorry to hear that. You said took populist conservative positions. you thought you’d been poisoned in connection with the Russian IMAGES GABBE—GETTY BEN The New York Times reported hacking investigation. Do you havee that you’re among a couple of any evidence? No. I’ll never figure Trump associates under federal out who tried to poison me. Let’s investigation for alleged ties to face it: there would be too many Russia. Is there any truth to those suspects. —ALEX ALTMAN

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