a mackenzie scott profile with major "the last great american dynasty" energy
I am so obsessed with this profile of MacKenzie Scott (you may know of her ex-husband, Jeff Bezos) from Stephanie Clifford at Marker, which reads like some modern-day Fitzgeraldean tale of privilege and stymied ambition: a young woman grows up in the privileged class and wants nothing more than to become a writer; when the family fortune vanishes, she is forced to support herself and takes a corporate job in order to support her novel-writing….and ends up falling for a co-worker who happens to have some zany ideas for selling what she values most — books! So while she’s supporting his dreams, she’s also trying to get taken seriously for her writing on her own terms and largely fails; he becomes the richest man in the world, she finally divorces him and then immediately gives away her share of the fortune she helped him make??
Folks, you could not make up a better plot. My only request: please cast Mary Steenburgen when they sell the movie rights!!