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→ He’s played second fiddle to an icon since 1983, but Luigi, the green-capped
brother of Nintendo superstar Mario, gets top billing in his own stand-alone
series. The third installment of the Mansion games—in which Luigi solves para-
normal puzzles in a spooky manor—arrives just in time for Halloween. Armed
with a ghost-sucking vacuum and an oozy doppelgänger named Gooigi, Luigi’s
otherworldly adventure delivers when it comes to gameplay and humor. And if
he be forever in Mario’s shadow, at least Luigi got a mansion out of it.
BRO-MANSE!
THE SECRET HISTORY OF LUIGI
1.
Luigi is a living hand-me-down.
Because of tech limitations on
the original game, Nintendo
had to model its second char-
acter after Mario. The green?
Recycled from turtles.
2.
Mario stole Luigi’s career.
Mario was a carpenter until his
plumbing bro arrived in 1983—
and then Mario switched jobs.
3.
Luigi has a vice. Super Mario
64 DS and New Super Mario
Bros. are recommended for
kids older than 12 because
Luigi introduces impression-
able tots to gambling.
4.
Luigi is musical. Gaming’s ulti-
mate second fiddle master-
fully plays an actual violin in
WarioWare: Smooth Moves.
5.
Luigi may be illiterate? A set of
’90s flash cards features him
holding a magazine upside
down, suggesting that for all
his skills, Luigi can’t read.BEFORE NEPOTISM MADE HER THE UNLIKELIEST PRESIDENTIAL ADVISER,
IVANKA TRUMP WAS BEST KNOWN AS AN ASPIRING SOCIALITE WHO PLAYED
A BUSINESS LADY ON THE APPRENTICE. VANESSA GRIGORIADIS, A SHARP
MANHATTAN WRITER WHO’S OBSERVED THE RICH WITH A JAUNDICED EYE
FOR YEARS, DELIVERS THE IVANKA ORIGIN STORY IN A LUMINARY PODCAST.
WE GO DEEP WITH THE HEIRESS, ONCE A CHIPMUNK-CHEEKED DADDY’S
GIRL, NOW RECONSTRUCTED AS A FEMBOTIZED DELIVERER OF LEAN-IN
CLICHÉS. NO STRANGER TO THE GILDED PRECINCTS THAT SPAWNED OUR
HEROINE, GRIGORIADIS SHOWS US THAT MONEY CAN BUY YOU MANY
THINGS, BUT GRAVITAS ISN’T ONE OF THEM.
TABLOID: THE MAKING OF IVANKA TRUMP
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