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Statement of Ownership, DIVORCE: A LOVE STORY HOW TO BE A MOVIE STAR
Management, and Circulation
(continued from page 79)

1. Publication title: Esquire.
2. Publication number: 0561-9100.
3. Filing date: October 1, 2019.
4. Issue frequency: Monthly, except combined issues in
December/January and June/July/August.
5. Number of issues published annually: 8.
6. Annual subscription price: $7.97.
7. Complete mailing address of known office of publica-
tion: 300 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019.
8. Complete mailing address of headquarters or general
business office of publisher: 300 West 57th Street,
New York, NY 10019.
9. Full names and complete mailing addresses of
publisher, editor, and managing editor. Publisher:
Jack Essig, 300 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019.
Editor: Michael Sebastian, 300 West 57th Street,
New York, NY 10019. Managing editor: John Kenney,
300 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019.
10. Owner: Hearst Magazine Media, Inc., registered office:
300 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019.
Stockholders of Hearst Communications, Inc., are:
Hearst Communications, Inc., registered office: 300
West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019.
11. None. directors like Mike Nichols, Paul Mazursky, in front of the camera and directing and/or
12. Not applicable.
13. Publication title: Esquire. Peter Bogdanovich, Philip Kaufman, and Ing- producing a project or two. He said that fur-
14. Issue date for circulation data below: September 2019.
15. Extent and nature of circulation: mar Bergman in the span of time it takes to fin- ther down the road, he’d take a step back from
Average no. copies each issue during preceding 12 months ish off a bowl of lentils. His attachment to the acting and do a movie every year or two, one he
A. Total number of copies: 731,572
B. Paid circulation (by mail and outside the mail) pantheon of Hollywood renegades strikes you “really, really, really” cared about.
1. Mailed outside-county paid
subscriptions stated on PS Form 3541: 569,767 as simultaneously charming and antediluvian. Other parts of that plan have been in ef-
2. Mailed in-county paid subscriptions stated
on PS Form 3541: not applicable (Driver puts it this way: “He was raised with this fect. MBJ’s production company, Outlier
3. Paid distribution outside the mails
including sales through dealers and carriers, idea of art as religion, but it’s also in his nature.”) Society, made headlines last year when he
street vendors, counter sales, and other
paid distribution outside USPS: 20,643 Does anyone remember the stuff that these peo- announced a diversity-and-inclusion policy
4. Paid distribution by other classes
of mail through the USPS: not applicable ple did—films like Persona and The Last Pic- for all its projects. Later in the year, Warner-
C. Total paid distribution: 590,410 ture Show and An Unmarried Woman? Hasn’t Media announced it was partnering with him
D. Free or nominal rate distribution (by mail
and outside the mail) all of that been washed away in an inexorable to adopt an inclusion rider for all its properties
1. Free or nominal rate outside-county
copies included on PS Form 3541: 79,170 flood of superheroes? And where does a story- (Warner Bros. and HBO included). Just Mercy
2. Free or nominal rate in-county copies
included on PS Form 3541: not applicable teller like Noah Baumbach even belong at this is the first project under this new initiative.
3. Free or nominal rate copies mailed
at other classes through the USPS: not applicable point? Lately his friends have been telling him, The film is also groundbreaking in that it’s
4. Free or nominal rate distribution
outside the mail: 12,315 “You’re supposed to be on a downswing now.” the first to include direct action in its market-
E. Total free or nominal rate distribution: 91,485
F. Total distribution: 681,896 But here he is at fifty, the very model of a ing plan, working with NGOs to actually change
G. Copies not distributed: 49,676
H. Total: 731,572 Gen X creative at midlife, having made argu- criminal-justice policy. “It’s the largest cam-
I. Percent paid: 86.58%
ably his best film and stunned to be looking paign ever around the global release of a film,”
16. A. Requested and paid electronic copies: 60,554
B. Total requested and paid print copies back at a quarter century of work. “It’s real- says one of the producers, Scott Budnick, who
and requested/paid electronic copies: 650,964
C. Total requested copy distribution and ly gratifying to realize I’ve been doing this is also a criminal-justice-reform advocate.
requested/paid electronic copies: 742,450
D. Percent paid and/or requested circulation that long,” he says. “To make the movies that MBJ prepared his tea concoction. His hands
(both print and electronic copies): 87.68%
I want to make, that are meaningful to me...I were the hands of a well-kempt workingman:
No. copies of single issue published nearest to filing date
A. Total number of copies: 709,790 feel more at ease than I did when I start- thick fingers, ashen on a knuckle or two, the
B. Paid circulation (by mail and outside the mail)
1. Mailed outside-county paid ed.” His generational cohort in Hollywood nails trimmed but not primped fastidious.
subscriptions stated on PS Form 3541: 552,632 may’ve been a pack of hares: Quentin Taran- He sipped his medicine but didn’t so much as
2. Mailed in-county paid subscriptions stated
on PS Form 3541: not applicable tino, Wes Anderson, Paul Thomas Anderson, touch one leaf of his salad, and I forsook my
3. Paid distribution outside the mails
including sales through dealers and carriers, M. Night Shyamalan. But Baumbach’s ap- burger in solidarity.
street vendors, counter sales, and other
paid distribution outside USPS: 16,000 proach has been that of the tortoise, taking Word is MBJ will make his directorial de-
4. Paid distribution by other classes
of mail through the USPS: not applicable his own sweet time making movies about hu- but on Creed III. He seemed surprised when I
C. Total paid distribution: 568,632
D. Free or nominal rate distribution man beings, bereft of tricks or frills. mentioned it and didn’t confirm the news. He
1. Free or nominal rate outside-county
copies included on PS Form 3541: 76,718 You might even compare the American mov- made it clear, though, that he’d be ready: “I’ve
2. Free or nominal rate in-county copies
included on PS Form 3541: not applicable ie landscape in 2019 to, yes, Invasion of the Body been learning since I was like twelve years old,
3. Free or nominal rate copies mailed
at other classes through the USPS: not applicable Snatchers, with wave after wave of cool indie ac- being on set. Seeing what everybody does, all
4. Free or nominal rate distribution
outside the mail: 12,074 tors and directors forsaking their Sundance cred the departments. From the wardrobe stuff to
E. Total free or nominal rate distribution: 88,792
F. Total distribution: 657,424 overnight and morphing into pod people, un- the sound. I’ve always cared about what ev-
G. Copies not distributed: 52,365
H. Total: 709,789 recognizable versions of themselves, all too hap- erybody needed. It’s kinda like a perfect per-
I. Percent paid: 86.49%
py to cash in with one dumb blockbuster fran- spective to have to be able to help run a set. I
16. A. Requested and paid electronic copies: 61,800 chise after another. Could Gerwig and Baumbach just love to collaborate. And empower people
B. Total requested and paid print copies and
requested/paid electronic copies: 630,432 be among the last of the true believers, typing to do what they do best.”
C. Total requested copy distribution and
requested/paid electronic copies: 719,224 away together in their Greenwich Village apart- I asked him if Oscars and box-office num-
D. Percent paid and/or requested circulation
(both print and electronic copies): 87.65% ment, presumably trading quips like Nick and bers would be the metric of his success as a
17. Publication of statement of ownership: If the publica- Nora in the Thin Man flicks? Or will Baumbach’s director, if they’d be how he measured great-
tion is a general publication, publication of this state-
ment is required. Will be printed in the December 2019 bittersweet wellspring of interpersonal drama ness as an actor.
issue of this publication.
18. Signature and title of editor, publisher, business run dry, forcing him to succumb to directing Baby Jordan fiddled with the lemon on his sau-
manager, or owner: Jack Essig, Publisher
Spider-Man 3: From the Cradle to the Grave? cer. “I’m an athlete, and I compete,” he said,
I certify that all information furnished on this form is true
and complete. I understand that anyone who furnishes He winces and smiles. then looked up at me. “So I have to force my-
false or misleading information on this form or who omits
material or information requested on the form may be sub- “Wellll,” Baumbach says. “I have a lot of ma- self almost not to look at what I do in a natu-
ject to criminal sanctions (including fines and imprison-
ment) and/or civil sanctions (including civil penalties). terial. I haven’t run out.” rally competitive way. Because it’s not that the
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