MOON SHOT: BRUCE GILLMER

In the wake of a huge, star-filled night for MTV’s VMAs—which saw the awards show score its biggest audience in four years and off-the-charts social-media activity—Paramount’s Bruce Gillmer (the contents-page VIP in this week's edition of our print magazine) is, well, over the moon. And understandably so, as the trophyfest attracted the likes of Taylor Swift, Post Malone, Eminem, Sabrina Carpenter, Chappell Roan and other needle-moving music luminaries and proved that, 40 years in, it continues to occupy a privileged spot in pop culture. Bruce is too much of a mensch to say it, but if anyone deserves a mooning, it’s us.