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TV/Streaming: Remember that you need to switch this weekend from HBO.com or HBOgo.com to HBOmax.com if you want to keep watching the network. I’m doing my annual summer binge of “The Sopranos,” “The Wire,” and “Deadwood” so you can be darn sure I made the switch…Books: The Booker Prize has announced its long list and the only novel on it I’ve read is Hilary Mantel’s “The Mirror & The Light,” which I recommend…Taylor Swift’s “Folklore” is getting rave reviews. I took a listen and I understand why it’s generating such praise. But its tunes aren’t very catchy and I can’t dance to it…Sports: MLB’s season is collapsing amidst covid cases. The NFL is next, but there’s way to much money at stake to halt the reopening of American football…Finally: I’d rather have it hot than cold but I wouldn’t mind a sunny 80-degree day sometime soon.

All the lists of Emmy snubs this year focus on this person or that person but to me by far the biggest snub is that amongst the dozens of nominees in major categories not one was Latinx. Rosy Cordero provides context.

Until the final typescript of “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” Truman Capote had planned to call her Connie Gustafson. Details here.