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Michael Cieply: Will The Hollywood Glam Factor Hurt Kamala Harris?


Biden signs are down, and Harris signs are surely on the way in and around toney Brentwood: But will a glam factor hurt the Kamala Harris campaign?

Locals are more likely to lunch in the Brentwood Country Mart, where Michael Mann and his pals held court through the years, and meat from the butcher counter sells by the quarter-pound, making an eighty-dollar rib-eye at first glance look affordable. I’ve run into Jon Favreau walking, Ben Affleck dropping a kid off at school, and Gwyneth Paltrow scooting into the wine store, possibly on her way to visit with her mother, Blythe Danner. But it was unseemly—the sort of thing you can pull when you’re packaging a movie, but not when you’re asking for trust from a electorate that is sore about inflation, worried about global conflict, and tired of trying to figure out whether anyone in government or the media ever deals in simple truth.

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