Trump’s accommodating butler

Anthony Senecal knows exactly the way Donald Trump likes things, says Jason Horowitz in The New York Times. For 30 years, Senecal has worked on the Republican presidential candidate’s palatial Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida; first as his butler, and now as the 118-room property’s unofficial historian. He knows how Trump has his steak cooked—“It would rock on the plate, it was so well done,” he says—and that his employer’s mood can generally be gauged by the color of his baseball cap: white is good; red is bad. Crucially, perhaps, Senecal has also learned how to massage Trump’s ego. He calls him “the king,” and once hired a bugler to play “Hail to the Chief” as the billionaire arrived at Mar-a-Lago, and calls out “All rise!” to club members and staff when his boss walks through a room. The longtime butler says Trump sometimes strolls around the grounds handing out $100 bills to groundskeepers and is popular among the staffers, who are mostly Romanians, South Africans, and other foreigners brought in on visas. “They’re so good. They are so professional,” he says of the foreign workers. “These local people...” he trails off. Now 74, Senecal tried to retire in 2009, but Trump persuaded him not to. “Tony, to retire is to expire,” the billionaire told him. “I’ll see you next season.”

Henry Cavill didn’t always have the figure of a superhero, said Richard Benson in The Sunday Times (U.K.). The latest actor to play Superman, 32, was overweight as a teen, and his British boarding-school classmates bullied him and taunted him with the nickname “Fat Cavill.” He found solace in acting in school plays. “I thought: ‘I guess this is something I’m good at,’” he says. “‘And if I can’t be judged because I’m being someone else onstage, then great.’” Cavill was talent-spotted for 2002’s The Count of Monte Cristo while still at school. Job offers started rolling in, and the weight started to come off. In 2011, when he won the role of Theseus in Immortals, Cavill started a grueling new workout regimen. “They can give you muscles with CGI. But I take pride in doing it myself.” Now, instead of being bullied, Cavill gets catcalled by women in the street. “I’ve heard some things in my time. I’d best not say what,” he says. “I do think there’s a bit of a double standard, you know. I mean, if a girl shouts something like: ‘Oi, love, fancy a shag?’ to me as I walk past, I do sometimes wonder how she would feel if a builder said that to her. Although, of course, I wouldn’t feel as physically threatened as she might.”