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Dr. Anthony Fauci testifies before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee Select Subcommittee on June 3. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption

Rob McElhenney (left) and Ryan Reynolds (right) celebrate the team. FX hide caption

Merrily We Roll Along revival director Maria Friedman in New York City in 2024. Charles Sykes/Invision/AP Photo hide caption

Maggie Rogers says her new album, Don't Forget Me, is modeled on a Sunday afternoon driving record. Maddy Rotman/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

Michael McDonald, 72, describes his voice as a "malleable" instrument: "Especially with age, it's like you're constantly renegotiating with it." Timothy White/Sacks & Co. hide caption

"When I first started being in Bikini Kill, I thought of myself as a feminist performance artist who was in a punk band," Kathleen Hanna says. Rachel Bright/Ecco hide caption

Brittney Griner stands in a defendants' cage before a court hearing in Khimki, Russia, on Aug. 2, 2022. Evgenia Novozhenina/POOL/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

Jon Bon Jovi, shown here in 2011, says the band's 1986 hit "Livin' on a Prayer" has "touched more lives than I could have ever dreamt." David Bergman/Hulu hide caption

"Music has given me my whole life," St. Vincent says. "It was hard work, but it's worth it because every night you get to spend 90 minutes with people and go someplace completely out of this world." Alex Da Corte/Nasty Little Man hide caption

Salman Rushdie says writing Knife allowed him to change his relationship to the attack. "Instead of just being the person who got stabbed, I now see myself as the person who wrote a book about getting stabbed," he says. Rachel Eliza Griffiths/Penguin Random House hide caption

Andrew Scott as Tom Ripley. Philippe Antonello/Netflix hide caption

Women's college basketball is hot, says now-retired WBNA player Sue Bird (shown here in 2022). "If you liked us in college, why didn't you follow us to the WNBA? It is probably one of the more interesting and maybe more difficult questions to answer." Steph Chambers/Getty Images hide caption

Canadian actor Eugene Levy attends the premiere of Good Grief in Los Angeles on Dec. 19, 2023. Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

Catherine Coldstream spent 12 years in a Carmelite monastery. Her new memoir is Cloistered. Keiko Ikeuchi/MacMillan hide caption

Jenny Slate's latest stand-up special is Seasoned Professional. Amazon Prime Video hide caption

President Biden speaks during a meeting in the White House's state dining room on March 5, 2024. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

Timothée Chalamet and Denis Villeneuve confer on the set of Dune: Part Two. Niko Tavernise/Warner Bros. Pictures hide caption

Actor Mark Ruffalo poses during his Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony in Los Angeles on Feb. 8, 2024. Michael Tran/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

"I love being a mom, but I want to play somebody who pushes the story along," says actor Molly Ringwald. She plays Joanne Carson, ex-wife of Johnny Carson, in Feud: Capote vs. The Swans. Shervin Lainez hide caption

Michele Norris' new book is Our Hidden Conversations. Eli Turner/Simon & Schuster hide caption

Emma Stone has been nominated for an Oscar for her performance as Bella in Poor Things. Atsushi Nishijima/Searchlight Pictures hide caption