Summer of the Apes, S.B.F.’s Prison Diaries, Pleading the 6th

Welcome back to The Daily Courant, your pocket guide to Puck’s latest reporting.

Today, we lead with Lauren Sherman’s inside chronicle of the simmering Tiffany-Cartier hard luxury war. Can Bernard heir Alexandre Arnault elevate LVMH’s newish $16 billion business into a legitimate contender to the Richemont crown jewel?

Plus, below the fold: John Ourand charts Roku’s foray into MLB streaming. Eriq Gardner reveals Judge Judy’s legal campaign against a tabloid magazine empire. Peter Hamby shares his bracing conversation with the filmmakers behind The Sixth. Scott Mendelson dissects the Apes summer blockbuster anomaly. And on The Powers That Be, Bill Cohan joins Peter to offer his impressions and predictions after visiting Sam Bankman-Fried in the clink.

LAUREN SHERMAN

Can Arnault and Arnault fils truly turn their newish $16 billion crown jewel into a legitimate Cartier competitor?

JOHN OURAND

The streaming device slash platform, now in more than 80 million homes, makes its maiden voyage into Major League Baseball.

ERIQ GARDNER

America’s favorite TV jurist is suing A360 Media, publisher of In Touch Weekly and The National Enquirer, over a Menendez murder trial mix-up. “It’s unconscionable,” she says, “and will be expensive.”

PETER HAMBY

A bracing conversation with the filmmakers behind ‘The Sixth,’ the gritty new A24 documentary about what media coverage of the Capitol riot got wrong, the radical act of remembering, and how close we came to the brink.