Zaz’s Max Ambitions, Celebrity Stylist Chronicles, Writers’ Strike Fears

Happy Friday and welcome back to The Daily Courant, your afternoon roundup of the latest reporting from Puck.

Today, Teddy Schleifer hobnobs with Ron DeSantis’s bundlers at the Miami Four Seasons, presenting an inside look at the early days of the candidate’s fundraising machine.

Then, below the fold: Matthew Belloni wonders whether the writers’ strike will usher in a new era of Hollywood austerity. Lauren Sherman reveals why celebrity stylists are tracking the strike with bated breath. And on The Powers That Be, Ben Landy and Julia Alexander consider Zaslav’s grand plans for WBD’s Max app, which combines the iconic HBO library with Discovery’s decidedly less august cinematic universe.

TEDDY SCHLEIFER

Scenes from the DeSantis Day One mega-donor event at the Miami Four Seasons, as the candidate’s “investors” prepare to flood the zone with money.

MATTHEW BELLONI

The longer the work stoppage goes on, the more fears spread about studios cutting unproductive writer-producer deals, wiping the fiscal slate clean, and ushering in a new era of austerity. But how much of that will actually happen?

LAUREN SHERMAN

Yes, yes, styling can be a highly lucrative business, with a handful of top players on retainer for $200,000 per brand, and generating $5 million to $10 million annually. The reality for most stylists, though, is far less glamorous. Is now the time to mobilize?

LAUREN SHERMAN

Supreme isn’t that big of a company, but its influence is gargantuan. So why was creative director Tremaine Emory’s life-threatening health scare largely overlooked by the press?