The Cut

US · thecut.com

Supercalifragilisticyclosporiasis!

Has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it?

This email was sent

July 14, 2026 4:45pm EDT

Is this your brand on Milled? Claim it.

Matte tone:

July 14, 2026

What’s everyone talking about right now besides cyclosporiasis? Plus a young real-estate agent and some bad news about live-action remakes since, uh, more are coming.

Emily Gould

THE DISCOURSE

D iarrhea Is Having a Moment Here’s what we’re chatting about around the hopefully untainted watercooler.

Photo: Bing Guan / Bloomberg via Getty Images/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Every so often, I like to check in with my colleagues and my various feeds to see what’s top of mind at this exact moment in time. This week, we’re thinking about cyclosporiasis outbreaks, Andrew Lloyd Webber, representation, James Franco, and, as always, Mercury. It’s in retrograde again.

“I feel like there's a lot of talk of diarrhea lately, what with Legionnaires’ on the UES and cyclosporiasis everywhere in the country.”
“I'm sorry, but the actor playing the Philip Roth character in Asymmetry should be Jewish. Full stop. The end. That is my opinion.” - Me
Carey Mulligan will play Mrs. Greenwood in Sarah Polley’s The Bell Jar, speaking of book-to-film adaptations.
Andrew Lloyd Webber threading about the broken Broadway business model: “I feel like his personal solution would be to pay less for labor (or ‘labour’) when we really should be looking into those landlords keeping the rents high and double-dipping into producing …”
“I feel sad and creeped out once again by James Franco.”
“The camp-bankruptcy story is also in the discourse in a very select group of people who send their kids to camp, because the camps, in the midst of camp and tour season, are being sold off one by one.”
Chris Pine is suing a townhouse developer over a Cobble Hill rental that fell through, and he also continues — somewhat maddeningly — not to be the same person as James Marsden.
Oh, that explains it. That explains everything.
“Surely Erling Haaland has seen the Heated Rivalry edits of him and Jude Bellingham.”
“Need to know what Miranda July thinks of the Qualley-Antonoff split.”

THE YOUTH

Rent Your Next Apartment From a 19-Year-Old Realtor Meet the youngest licensed real-estate agent in New York.

Video: itsericaparks, mayellre via Instagram

Let’s say you’re looking for a $4,800-a-month no-bedroom in Fidi. It just makes sense that the person showing you the listing is a teenager, right? Why not! Still, Erica Parks is more than a former pageant girl with a passion for location, location, location. She’s also a voice of her generation.

Parks says she was discouraged from using her personal social-media accounts for work, but she found most of her clients — the majority of them Gen Z — by posting listings on her TikTok and Instagram. Were there other culture clashes involved in being a young agent? “Mamdani just added the pied-à-terre tax, and everybody in my industry hates it,” she tells me. “I’m like, ‘You know what? We should be charging the billionaires.’” She prides herself on working with voucher clients and housing at different income levels. “I feel like Gen Z is really going to change the industry, and I think the boomers might not like that too much.”

Whether or not the boomers or, for that matter, the elder millennials, like it, Parks represents the future.

THE MOVIES

Will the Studios Continue to Pump Out Live-Action Remakes? Well, yes. Even though they’re not the sure bets they once seemed to be.

Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Disney, Everett Collection

I would rather drink a tall glass of my own saliva than sit through the live-action Moana currently in theaters. This seems to be the prevailing sentiment, given the film’s disappointing box-office showing, but that won’t stop the crop of remakes slated for release in the next few years.

As seemingly scattershot as the box-office yields for these films can be, don’t expect live-action remakes of classic animation to turn into a pumpkin anytime soon. A photo-real remake of 2010’s Tangled is scheduled to make theatrical landfall in 2028 and already has fans of the original animated Rapunzel tale’s knickers in a twist. (At issue: Leaked set photos indicate the color of certain banners within the film’s island kingdom of Corona that were purple and gold in the original have been — gasp! — updated to blue and yellow.) Perhaps inevitably, Lilo & Stitch 2 is also in the offing for 2028. And while live-action adaptations of Bambi and The Aristocats (reportedly to be directed by Questlove) and a computer-animated, photorealistic take on Robin Hood were quietly canceled, Disney is moving ahead with filmed reboots of The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Aladdin 2.

This article gets into the nitty-gritty of why these movies continue to be made, but my takeaway is that my brain short-circuited somewhere around “The Aristocats (reported to be directed by Questlove).”

ADVERTISER CONTENT

Click Your Way Out

Photo-Illustration: New York Magazine

Chef Patty Lee is selling a luck-imbued Rick Owens dress and a pair of sexy jorts.
Put your tinfoil hat back on, Gaylors: Karlie Kloss is back in the squad.
Alexis Lewis is more than Mrs. Cory Booker.
Go behind the scenes of The Odyssey.
Lots of juicy tidbits in this issue of Book Gossip, including the latest writer to lose their entire mind on Threads.
Crossword.
Cinematrix.
Horoscopes.

I hope that today is the day I finally get to watch The Five Star Weekend.

ADVERTISER CONTENT

Sign up for The Critics

A weekly dispatch on the cultural discourse.

follow us on instagram • twitter • facebook • tiktok • threads

unsubscribe | privacy notice | preferences

This email was sent to -. Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up now to get this newsletter in your inbox.

View this email in your browser.

Vox Media, LLC
1701 Rhode Island Ave NW, Washington, DC 20036
Copyright © 2026, All rights reserved