Awards
Daniel Craig is a lead actor contender for his performance in ‘Queer.’ But the film is unlikely to scale the box-office heights of his Bond movies.
Movies
Mounting a risqué novella by William Burroughs, filmmaker Luca Guadagnino finds an expressive way forward for the former James Bond, who finds a new register.
Also this week: Ann Magnuson and Susan Seidelman with “Making Mr. Right,” Robert Frank and Rudy Wurlitzer’s “Candy Mountain” and a Nicole Holofcener double feature.
Hollywood Inc.
Melvin will join Savannah Guthrie at the “Today” desk in January. Kotb announced in September that she is leaving the program to spend more time with her young children.
Entertainment & Arts
The composer assembled a dream team of musicians and traveled throughout Europe to record them.
California
Levi Strauss heir and nonprofit executive Daniel Lurie was sworn in Wednesday as the 46th mayor of San Francisco. He vowed a “new era of accountability, service and change.”
Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie ran as the “non-politician” who could hit reset at San Francisco City Hall. But even as a political newcomer, Lurie, scion of one of the city’s elite old-money families, is far from an outsider.
World & Nation
A Marine veteran who put an agitated subway rider in a chokehold on a New York subway has been acquitted in the man’s death.
Levi’s heir and nonprofit executive Daniel Lurie soundly beat incumbent Mayor London Breed to become San Francisco’s next mayor. His victory is part of a broader centrist shift for this famously liberal city.