WBD’s Zazaversary, Microsoft Game Theory, Trump ’24 Antagonists

Welcome back to The Daily Courant, your afternoon assemblage of the latest reporting from Puck.

Today, we lead with Lauren Sherman’s inaugural Line Sheet dispatch, featuring a Boschian sketch of the sordid financial architecture standing up the celebrity styling universe, via the turbulent reign of Zendaya-whisperer, Law Roach.

Then, below the fold: Tara Palmeri trades notes with Peter Hamby on Biden’s anti-campaign campaign, the DeSantis viability question, and other pressing D.C. quandaries. Eriq Gardner teases a Marvel-for-Hulu swap and Lina Khan’s Activision headache. On The Powers That Be, Tara and Peter reconnect to size up the ’24 hopefuls praying Trump slips on a banana peel. And on The Town, Matt Belloni and Lucas Shaw mercilessly evaluate the first full year of the Zaz show at WBD.

LAUREN SHERMAN

Roach’s behavior in front of the camera, and his alleged behavior behind the scenes, says a lot about the state of celebrity styling today, and what a messy, sordid, unfair business it can be.

TARA PALMERI & PETER HAMBY

D.C.’s inside conversation about the issues that truly matter: Biden’s semi-unofficial anti-campaign, the DeSantis viability question, and Trump’s strangely ambiguous post-arrest polling fog of war.

ERIQ GARDNER

An insider reading of the hottest M&A topics: Hulu, Activision, Illumina, and more.

PETER HAMBY & TARA PALMERI

Tara Palmeri joins Peter to discuss the non-Trump ’24 hopefuls—enumerating their fears, hopes, dreams, and sordid ego fantasies.