MEDIUM RARE

Our Favorite Stories About Gloriously Over-the-Top Pageantry

This week’s digest of stories from the Medium Universe celebrates the unfettered joy of being extra AF

Amanda Sakuma
GEN
Published in
3 min readJul 3, 2020

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Each week on Medium Rare, I’ll be sharing stories you might have missed that are definitely worth a second look. Got a suggestion for a piece we should feature? Pop it in the responses below!

  • Leave it to the late Hollywood icon Debbie Reynolds to have amassed one of the most absurd collections of Tinseltown trinkets in history. Costume designer Alison Freer cataloged the 10 most insane pieces from the collection, which includes a truly terrifying wax figurine of Sammy Davis Jr.’s head.
  • Tyler Schnoebelen carried out an extensive data analysis decoding the many emojis embedded in Cher’s tweets. The queen is an icon. Or as Cher herself would put it, 🔥 ‼️ THE 💃👑 💃 IS AN👩‍🎤 ‼️ 🔥

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Amanda Sakuma
GEN
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Editor/writer. Words in GEN, The Atlantic, Glamour, The Intercept, MSNBC, NBC News, NYT, Vice, Vox, and more.