Good morning. It’s Friday. Today we’ll look at former Representative George Santos’s sentencing. We’ll also find out how the Broadway star Nicole Scherzinger coped when the sound system failed before curtain time for “Sunset Boulevard.”

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Is this it for George Santos? Has his moment finally passed?

I asked my colleague Grace Ashford, who has covered Santos and his fabulism since before his swearing-in as a congressman, his resignation, his indictment and his sometimes cheesy attempts at reinvention, like recording video greetings on the website Cameo. (That doesn’t seem to be going well right now. His personalized videos were on sale for 67 percent off earlier this week.)

“I feel like I’ve been a real student of him and his many moods,” Grace said, and when she called him on Wednesday for an article about the sentencing hearing that is scheduled for today, his mood was different. “He always has a plan and a story that he’s telling,” she said, “and the story that he was telling — this week, at least — was that he was done fighting.”

That did not sound like the Santos of just two years ago, when, as she wrote, “even when he was lying, there was a certain charm to his unshakable confidence, his self-effacing humor, his transgressive glee.” The Santos of two years ago understood that there was entertainment value in the way his congressional career had flamed out. Our critic Amanda Hess wrote that “his misdeeds came to feel both absurd and relatable” to his audience. Santos’s saga was fun while it lasted. It was also cringe-worthy.

On Wednesday, Santos said he was taking responsibility for what he called “all of my self-inflicted wounds.” He had said something similar last year when he pleaded guilty to charges that included wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. “I accept full responsibility for my actions,” he told the judge as he admitted to swindling donors out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, lying to Congress and fraudulently collecting unemployment.