Mar-a-Lago Mayhem, Kate Young at Heart, Harris’s Dream Team

Happy Friday and welcome back to The Daily Courant, your afternoon download of Puck’s best new reporting.

First up today, John Ourand takes a close look at Edgar Bronfman Jr.’s leaked pitch deck for investors in his long-shot bid for Paramount. With the company’s special committee extending its “go-shop” deadline to evaluate the offer, will this never-ending, nerve-racking, periodically entertaining saga ever end?

Plus, below the fold: Lauren Sherman chats with celebrity stylist Kate Young about online shopping entropy and the death of the red carpet. Tara Palmeri chronicles the jitters surrounding Corey Lewandowski’s arrival on the Mar-a-Lago scene. Lesley Goldberg offers the second installment of her semi-conclusive rundown of Hollywood’s most egregious showrunner deals. On Impolitic, John Heilemann wrangles Jonathan Martin and Patrick Gaspard to dissect the final days of the D.N.C. And on The Powers That Be, Julia Ioffe rings up Peter Hamby to break down the known-unknowns surrounding Kamala Harris’s foreign policy and reveal her shortlist of potential NatSec candidates.

JOHN OURAND

A close reading of Edgar Bronfman Jr.’s leaked pitch deck for investors in his long-shot bid for Paramount Global.

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LAUREN SHERMAN

A candid conversation with celebrity stylist Kate Young, about the death of the evening gown, why red carpet boldness has gone out of fashion, and why shopping is so unsatisfying these days.

TARA PALMERI

Campaign staffers are on edge as Corey Lewandowski, bearing a menacing new title, begins popping up on calls, taking meetings with staffers, and searching for loyalists to rival Chris and Susie in the evolving Trump orbit.

LESLEY GOLDBERG

The latest installment of our semi-conclusive and detail-rich list of the most costly showrunner deals, nine-figure pacts that led to zero new shows, and biggest underperformers of Hollywood’s hyper-inflated Peak TV era.