Kieran Culkin and Adrien Brody remind us that awards season is a pageant of heterosexual dysfunction. Plus: 'payback' kisses, 'cuntry,' Gavin Newsom being terrible, and more in the weekend roundup.

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	Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more These weekly link roundups are thoughtfully curated as an extra for paid subscribers, who make this newsletter possible. For just $5 you can knock down the paywall and help support the work I do here. Upgrade The Oscar for being *extremely weird* to your wife goes to... Kieran Culkin and Adrien Brody remind us that awards season is a pageant of heterosexual dysfunction. Plus: 'payback' kisses, 'cuntry,' Gavin Newsom being terrible, and more in the weekend roundup. Tracy Clark-Flory Mar 9 ∙ Preview   READ IN APP   Image: Martti Salmi Happy Sunday. In this week’s roundup, we’ve got wives catching their husbands’ chewed gum, men trading Oscars for babies, Chappell Roan’s “gay yodels,” Adam Scott fan edits, and more. To the links… The Oscars happened and it was an odd time. Halle Berry kissed Adrien Brody on the red carpet and called it “payback” for the time he kissed her in 2003 while accepting his first Oscar. A few years ago, Berry made it clear that the first kiss was unplanned and non-consensual... Subscribe to TCF Emails to unlock the rest. Become a paying subscriber of TCF Emails to get access to this post and other subscriber-only content. Upgrade to paid A subscription gets you: Paid + public posts The full archive The ability to comment   Like Comment Restack   © 2025 Tracy Clark-Flory 548 Market Street PMB 72296, San Francisco, CA 94104 Unsubscribe