Early Addition: Trump Blames Fake News For Fake Melania Body Double Conspiracy

March 13, 2019, 11:22 a.m.

Because Vampire Weekend love the UWS, check out today's midday links: David Mamet defends Huffman & Macy, Giants trade OBJ, more sexist Tucker Carlson audio, Yelp for plus-size people, and dog with squishy face.

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  • Jerry Seinfeld, Zabar's, Barney Greengrass, and motion sickness star in the Jonah Hill-directed music video for Vampire Weekend's new song "Sunflower."
  • The Giants traded star Odell Beckham Jr. to the Cleveland Browns out of the blue for nothing, go NY sports!
  • In more unearthed audio, Tucker Carlson "jokes" about having sex with a teenage beauty pageant contestant, and also makes a series of sexist, misogynist and cruel remarks about the woman.
  • Playwright David Mamet came to the defense of his friends Felicity Huffman and William H. Macy over their college admissions cheating scandal: "The unqualified may be accepted for many reasons, among them, as Legacies, and on account of large donations made by their parents. I do not see the difference between getting a kid into school by bribing the Building Committee, and by bribing someone else. But, apparently, the second is against the Law. So be it."
  • Vulture has launched an investigation into why there are so many movies about horny dancers going insane and killing each other.
  • New York’s Archive of Contemporary Music houses over 3 million recordings, but its future in a city of sky-high rent is in jeopardy.
  • For people who identify as large, plus-size or fat, dining out can be a social and physical minefield—which is why there's a new crowdsourced mobile app that's "like Yelp for plus-size people."
  • Trump used his Executive Time this morning to complain about photoshops of Melania, which only makes the Fake Melania conspiracy theory seem more credible.
  • Are social media pile-ons ever worth it?
  • Hugh Jackman will return to Broadway in 2020 in a new production of The Music Man.
  • Gov. Gavin Newsom is suspending the death penalty in California, calling it discriminatory and immoral and granting reprieves to the 737 condemned inmates on the nation’s largest Death Row.
  • Police recovered human remains inside a Queens yard that are believed to be related to a 40-year-old case.
  • And finally, it seems like it would be nice to have a squishy face: