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Even before he was a polarizing politician and incendiary social media user, Donald Trump was much talked about — often for his hair. His thinning comb-over was an infamous look for decades before hair stylist Orla Carroll needed to replicate it on actor Brendan Gleeson for Showtime’s “The Comey Rule.” In doing so, both Carroll and Gleeson felt it was imperative not to overdo it so that the character became a caricature.

“There was a certain amount of artifice involved: You’re dealing with makeup that looks like makeup in real life, and you’re dealing with hair that looks like it has been processed to a massive degree in real life,” Gleeson says. “We have to get there by craft [and] you’re not trying to hide your craft because what you’re trying to achieve shows it.”

Carroll and Gleeson first collaborated on the 1998 film “The General” and have...

Roger Taylor’s original plans for 2020 called for him to spend the evening of June 29th drumming with Queen and Adam Lambert at the 15,000-seat Olympiahalle in Munich, Germany, as part of their ongoing Rhapsody world tour. Instead, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, he spent that night watching the Netflix documentaries Trump: An American Dream and Magnetic. During much of the lockdown, he’s divided his time between his two homes in England, but right now he’s in Croatia with other members of his family.

“I have a boat...