Alessandro Shockwaves, Zaz’s Theatrical Mojo, Biden’s Meme Army

Welcome back to The Daily Courant, your afternoon roundup of Puck’s latest reporting.

First up today, Matt Belloni scrutinizes the various self-inflicted blunders haunting Bob Iger’s second tenure atop Disney as the Peltz-Ike-Rasulo proxy war finally comes to a head this Wednesday. How will the vote affect the legacy of one of the all-time great media C.E.O.s?

Plus, below the fold: Eriq Gardner foreshadows S.B.F.’s odds of skirting a quarter century behind bars at FCI Herlong. Lauren Sherman cuts through the fashion industry chatter as star designer Alessandro Michele emerges at Valentino. Peter Hamby engages author Sasha Issenberg about the disinformation wars and whether Biden can win back the internet. John Ourand digs into John Malone’s multibillion-dollar bet that MotoGP can become the next F1. Scott Mendelson spotlights David Zaslav’s Q1 box office mojo. And on The Powers That Be, John and Peter discuss the clandestine NBA rights bake-off before analyzing the N.I.L. gravy train for college basketball stars.

MATTHEW BELLONI

The Peltz-Ike-Rasulo proxy battle may seem like the ultimate indignity for Bob Iger, but it’s also the direct result of the few (but glaring) mistakes amid his own tenures atop Disney: “If Peltz finds his way to the Disney board, that will be Iger’s biggest failure as C.E.O.”

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ERIQ GARDNER

News and notes on the quarter-century sentencing heard round the world, plus the legal and regulatory jiu-jitsu of a new breed of finance frontiersmen.

LAUREN SHERMAN

A post-Valentino-appointment consideration of fashion’s most famous sabbatical, the designer’s future in Rome, and various other burning counterfactuals and hypotheticals.

PETER HAMBY

A candid conversation with Sasha Issenberg, author of “The Lie Detectives,” about the new frontlines of the disinformation arms race, how Biden can win the meme wars, and why ivory tower panic obscures the distinction between internet bullshit and genuine threats.