Thailand’s real ‘White Lotus’ hotel, ‘SNL’ portait gallery, and Hollywood’s top stylists: What to read this weekend
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_**Gold Derby****rounds up some of the best stories of the week from our friends across the web. Maybe you missed these, maybe you were too busy to read them at the time, maybe you bookmarked them and forgot, but hopefully you'll have some over the March 7 weekend to check them out. Happy reading!**_
At Thailand's real _White Lotus_ hotel, where the ultrarich get coddled
**Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz** visits Thailand's Four Seasons Koh Samui, the setting of the third season of _The White Lotus_ , for _New York_. The luxury resort, where the average villa runs for $2,200 a night, welcomes the most privileged and tries to fulfill their outrageous demands. So not much different from _The White Lotus_.
Bruce Vilanch has written 'some of the biggest disasters' on TV. He's embracing his legacy
**Bruce Vilanch** , whose new book, _It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time_ , is out now, talks to the _Los Angeles Times_ about working on some of the biggest bombs in TV history, including the **Rob Lowe** -Snow White debacle at the 1989 Oscars and the ill-fated _Star Wars Holiday Special_ in 1978.
Bruno Mars is pop's most reliable male star. Who is he, really?
In the _New York Times_ , **Shaad D'Souza** takes a look at **Bruno Mars** ' versatility and how the crooner, who currently has three very different hits on _Billboard_ 's Hot 100, has managed to attain across-the-board appeal without a defining sound. "Being a cipher is a feature, not a bug," D'Souza writes.
Stay tuned for these "S.N.L." bumpers
**Mary Ellen Matthews** , _Saturday Night Live_ 's photographer since 2000, shares some of the iconic celebrity bumper photos — and the stories behind them — with _The New Yorker_. The images, curated from nearly 4,000, are part of her new book, _The Art of the S.N.L. Portrait_ , out now.
Hollywood's top 25 power wtylists 2025: The red-carpet visionaries behind Zoe Saldaña, Glen Powell, Charli XCX, Cynthia Erivo and Troye Sivan
Mourning the end of awards season? Revisit some of the best red carpet looks and find out the people who put them together with _The Hollywood Reporter_ 's annual Power Stylists list. The always fashionable **Colman Domingo** and his stylists, **Wayman Bannerman** and **Micah McDonald** , are already drumming up ideas for next season. The two-time Oscar nominee stars as **Joe Jackson** in the upcoming **Michael Jackson** biopic _Michael_. "We have ideas and inspiration brewing. We are absolutely going to be nodding to the King of Pop and his era of music in general," says McDonald.
