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PEOPLE & ARTS Thursday 19 april 2018
From catchphrases to fashion: ‘Scandal’s’ pop culture impact

By ALICIA RANCILIO a job too tough for Pope Sure, it’s commonplace
Associated Press to tackle. Another popu- now for actors on TV to live
NEW YORK (AP) — As lar one was “Gladiators tweet when their show is
“Scandal” wraps up its sev- in suits.” Ex-cast member airing, but the “Scandal”
enth and final season on Columbus Short made the cast were early adopt-
ABC, the political drama declaration in the series ers of the trend. It was so
starring Kerry Washing- premiere that the staffers popular, ABC made sure
ton as professional prob- at Olivia Pope & Associates to book Washington on a
lem solver in the nation’s weren’t just average em- flight with Wi-Fi so she could
capital will leave behind ployees, they were gladi- tweet at 20,000 feet during
a number of contributions ators in suits, willing to take its season three premiere.
to pop culture including on any assignment and ADULT BEVERAGES
catchphrases and a killer look great doing it. The As fans know, Olivia Pope
wardrobe. The finale airs characters of “Scandal,” winds down with a glass
on Thursday night. gave some pretty pas- of red wine, and she kicks
THE WARDROBE sionate speeches too. Jeff back with the expensive
From her monochromatic Perry’s Cyrus Beene and stuff. (She liked to pair it
white ensembles to state- Joe Morton’s Eli Pope had with the fictional fast-food
ment pieces like a great some especially memo- chain Gettysburger.) The
bag, leather gloves and rable monologues over the other big drinker on the
a white hat, Washington’s course of the series. Morton show is former First Lady
Olivia Pope brought some was awarded a guest ac- turned first female Presi-
fierce style to Capitol Hill. tor Emmy for his work on dent, Mellie Grant. She
Her wardrobe was so cov- the series. prefers to swig moonshine This image released by ABC shows Kerry Washington in a scene
eted, The Limited offered THE FITZ OF IT ALL or “hooch” out of a mason from the series finale of “Scandal,” airing Thursday, April 19, on
a “Scandal” collection The on again-off again jar.q ABC.
by Washington and the romance between Ol- Associated Press
show’s costume designer, ivia Pope and President
Lyn Paolo. Saks Fifth Ave- Fitzgerald Grant was often
nue even curated window dramatic, but not because
displays with mannequins of their race. Pope, a
dressed like characters black woman and Grant,
from the show. a white man, began their
‘SCANDAL’-TALK affair when he was a mar-
The dialogue on “Scan- ried man running for office.
dal,” wasn’t just fast (al- That continued when he
though the cast referred moved to the White House.
to the speed as “Scandal- What made their relation-
pace”), it spawned some ship even more interest-
catchphrases that will long ing was Pope was often
be remembered by fans. sucked into Fitz’s orbit to fix
“It’s handled” is probably a problem. She wore the
the most famous, because pants and called the shots.
there never seemed to be TWEETING ALONG

Koolhaas: Prada Tower

explores effect of space on art

By COLLEEN BARRY through large plate glass
Associated Press windows, with the Duomo
MILAN (AP) — Dutch ar- cathedral, the mushroom-
chitect Rem Koolhaas says shaped Valasca Tower and
his nine-story tower for the the new clusters of modern
Prada Foundation in Milan skyscrapers rising up in the
is meant to reveal the in- distance.
teraction between art and The ceiling of each suc-
architecture. The white cessive floor is higher than
concrete Prada Tower, the last, going from “com-
which is being inaugurat- pressed and intimate spac-
ed during Milan’s Design es,” to more expansive
Week, completes the foun- areas, Koolhaas said, with
dation’s contemporary the intention of creating a
art space. It combines re- place to examine “the ef-
stored structures with new fect of space on art.”
buildings, helping to give The industrial-sized eleva-
new life to a former indus- tor with pink marble floor
trial neighborhood on the reveals the rest of the
southern edge of the city. foundation’s structures ar-
The 60-meter (197-foot) ranged inside the wedge-
building overlooks the Mi- shaped space from a glass
lan skyline in the distance panel.q