37 HOURS IN HOLLYWOOD

From a dawn run for Erewhon smoothies to sunset on Hollywood Boulevard, with stops in London, Paris, Nashville, and New York, Vanity Fair invites you to ramble and roam the corridors of a global industry at a crossroads.

- JEREMY O. HARRIS narrates the journey

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The Future

The sun rises over Erewhon to find the Future of Hollywood in line at the tonic bar: assistants scrambling to make their presence known during the morning juice run. Navigating the demands of bosses exploring weekly fad diets, depending on the microdose or peptide their hottest clients are taking, the Future are the backbone of an industry many of us only know from episodes of Entourage (a show that premiered before some of them were born).

They're the first to touch every call, to open every email, and to cover every script. But with the steady march of AI into the halls of power, some fear their time in the industry might amount to nothing more than a Malibu Mango smoothie. In the meantime, they still have @AssistantsvsAgents, where they can air the wildest demands of their bosses—and only humans can understand those.

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3:15 PM GMT SHEPHERD'S BUSH, LONDON

Lewis Hamilton

More than 5,000 miles away, F1 driver, dandy, and film producer Lewis Hamilton multitasks in style, reading scripts and rolling calls while getting his hair braided at 3D Salon. Soaring to the heights of one industry is no longer enough, and Hamilton stands as the preeminent exemplar of Hollywood’s new generation of superstar. Up next: a documentary for Apple. To win, to survive, means to thrive in every genre, with brilliant tresses and as one of the flyest dressers.

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