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-The Vanity Fair Hollywood Issue came out today and everyone’s dunking on Nicole Kidman’s cover, but I dunno. It’s overly photoshopped but if I look like anything even remotely that when I’m 54 I’ll weep with joy. Personally, I have more questions about Benedict Cumberbatch‘s milk bath with swans.

-There’s also a cute video in which the 8 cover subjects answer 8 questions about their careers.

-Also in the issue, Kristen Stewart talks about working on a TV show with her screenwriter fiancée Dylan Meyer: “We discovered a superbrain.”

-In the new issue of Interview, Alexander Skarsgård talks to Kirsten Dunst about his role in the new viking saga The Northman.

-Oh, this is rich. When asked about Taylor Swift‘s new version of “Red” in his Esquire profileJake Gyllenhaal said he hasn’t listened to it but added, “That begs for a deeper philosophical question. Not about any individual, per se, but a conversation that allows us to examine how we can—or should, even—take responsibility for what we put into the world, our contributions into the world. How do we provoke a conversation? We see that in politics. There’s anger and divisiveness, and it’s literally life-threatening in the extreme.” Sir, she wrote about her dad comforting her when you skipped her birthday party. If you want to talk about taking responsibility for what we put out in the world, let’s chat about the nightmares I had after watching Nightcrawler, mmm-ok?

Joe Rogan‘s deal with Spotify may be worth even more than the rumoured $200 million. Swell.

Ioan Gruffudd filed for a domestic violence restraining order against estranged wife Alice Evans.

-Even airing opposite the Super Bowl, Euphoria’s latest episode was able to attract a series-high 5.1 million viewers within a few hours of its premiere.

Zendaya and Tom Holland were spotted enjoying a date night in New York and they were as super cute as always.

-Oh god, here we go. Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine has forged a partnership with NFT collective World of Women (WoW) to make feature films, scripted and unscripted TV series based on NFTs.

Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas are rumoured to be expecting another kid, judging by various rounds of paparazzi pics.

Keri Russell will star in and exec produce Netflix’s The Diplomat, an 8-ep political thriller where she’ll play a career diplomat who lands a high-profile job she’s unsuited for in the midst of an international crisis. Yes, please!

-Stranger Things is gearing up for it’s fourth season (with will be broken into two parts — one dropping in May and the other in July) with “super-sized episodes“. They also just announced that the fifth season will be their last.

-The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel has been renewed for its fifth and final season, which is already underway in New York.

-FX has renewed Dave for a third season. I love that little weirdo of a show.

This interview with HBO/Max’s Casey Bloys is good, mostly because he says he’s not just interested in doing reboots (despite there being talk of Six Feet Under and True Blood revivals). “I just want to point out that if you look at the last year, between Mare of Easttown, The White Lotus and Succession and Insecure and now Euphoria and Gilded Age and going into Winning Time, there’s no reboots. In most those cases, they weren’t based on existing IP. I do want to take a moment to make clear that we don’t spend our days thinking about what to reboot because it’s a tricky business bringing a show back.”

-Here’s the trailer for Lizzo’s dance competition series, which looks delightful!

Austin Butler plays Elvis in the trailer for Baz Luhrmann’s biopic about the King of Rock and Roll.

-Watch Viola Davis, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Gillian Anderson transform into Michelle Obama, Betty Ford, and Eleanor Roosevelt in Showtime’s The First Lady trailer.

See Gillian Anderson as Eleanor Roosevelt

-Here’s our first look at Gillian Anderson as Eleanor Roosevelt, Michelle Pfeiffer as Betty Ford, and Viola Davis as Michelle Obama in Showtime’s The First Lady.

-The Houston police has declared Travis Scott‘s Astroworld festival a “mass casualty event” after 8 people died and hundreds were injured (including a 9-year-old) after the crowd surged forward during his headlining set and security did not stop the show for 40 minutes. Videos of the audience trying to alert the crew and being ignored are heartbreaking.

Scott has cancelled his upcoming festival appearances as the lawsuits begin to pour in. Drake, who made a guest appearance at the festival, has also been named in one suit.

Emily Ratajkowski talked about her new book with the Sunday Times, saying that the exploitation of young women is still common in modeling (“I was not at all shocked by [the Jeffrey Epstein] story. I witnessed so much of that in different forms”), revealed that her teenage boyfriend ‘forced himself’ on her when she was 14 (“So many young women I know, their first early sexual experiences border on nonconsensual”), and said modeling gave her a complex relationship with her body (“There is this sense of your body is not yours, it’s ours. In this contract you’ve given it up to be used how we see fit… If you’re not willing to do what the client wants you to do with your body, then there’s somebody else who will be”).

Bennifer packed on the pre-flight PDA this weekend.

-According to Page Six, Chris Evans will be this year’s Sexiest Man Alive. I like him a lot but the only interesting thing about this whole thing is that People got scooped.

Lee Pace shared some thirsty pics and that’s just what I needed to save this Monday.

Vin Diesel held an olive branch out to Dwayne Johnson via an Instagram post, inviting him back to the Fast and Furious franchise.

Kanye West (no, I’m not calling him Ye) was spotted at a basketball game with model Vinetria.

Scott Speedman revealed on Instagram that he’s a new dad.

-After Aaron Rodgers hit nearly every anti-v*xxer talking point in an interview, his fiancée Shailene Woodley is insisting her cryptic posts are not referencing it.

Emilio Estevez is pushing back on a report that he’s not doing season two of Mighty Ducks because he refuses to follow the show’s vaccine mandate. He blames his departure on “contract disputes” and “creative differences” and says he contracted covid in March 2020 and suffers from long haul symptoms. Interestingly, his statement doesn’t say anything about him being vaccinated.

-Production on Black Panther 2 has halted due to Letitia Wright‘s experiencing an “onset injury.”

-In an open letter, George Clooney asked the media to stop publishing photos of his kids. I can’t recall ever seeing any, but I rarely follow the British press.

-A Kelly Clarkson holiday special is coming to NBC next month.

Isaiah Washington tweeted about how he’d be happy to return to Grey’s and play the lead, as long as Ellen Pompeo was “finally gone”. This is unhinged.

-This is such a great profile on Simon Rex and the highs and lows of celebrity. He partied his way through the early aughts, lost his career for a decade, and is now being lauded by critics for his role in festival darling Red Rocket.

Will Smith reportedly gave the best wrap gift ever to his King Richard costars: cold, hard cash.

-I saw Eternals this weekend and while it wasn’t my fave Marvel movie, it certainly wasn’t as bad as Iron Man 2 or some of the Thor or Hulk movies, despite getting worse reviews. This is a good piece on how Chloé Zhao may be being punished for playing the Marvel good soldier.

-After Eternals got banned in Saudi Arabia and more due to its openly gay superhero, Angelina Jolie responded: “I’m proud of Marvel for refusing to cut [gay] scenes out…How anybody is angry about it, threatened by it, doesn’t approve or appreciate it is ignorant.”

-Speaking of Eternals, I really liked Chloé Zhao’s answer about Kumail Nanjiani‘s character’s decision, which I don’t think I’ve ever seen in a superhero film before. (I did not, however, agree with her answer about referencing a real-life tragedy in the film.)

Paul Rudd and Will Ferrell‘s new Apple show Shrink Next Door is getting good reviews.

Ben Gibbard talked about the legacy of Death Cab for Cutie’s The Photo Album, which is 20 years old. He says his favorite use of a Death Cab song on TV was The OC, which of course it is.

Benedict Cumberbatch goes west in the trailer for Netflix’s The Power of the Dog, Jane Campion‘s latest which is getting serious Oscar buzz.

Succession’s Sarah Snook Secret Wedding

Succession star Sarah Snook wears a red strapless dress on the cover of Vogue Australia

-Succession star Sarah Snook revealed she got married to comedian Dave Lawson during COVID lockdown — and it sounds the premise of an excellent romcom. She told Vogue Australia, “At the beginning of the pandemic last year, I got locked down in Melbourne with one of my best mates and we fell in love…We’ve been friends since 2014, lived together, traveled together, always excited to see each other, but totally platonic. We’ve just never been single at the same time. I proposed and we got married in February in my backyard.”

-Meanwhile, last night’s Succession season premiere was worth the two-year wait.

Sean Penn’s wife has already filed for divorce after a year of marriage.

Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker are engaged, and that’s how I found out her family calls them “Kravis.”  Is there a way I can un-know this?

Adele is doing a two-hour special on CBS airing on Nov 14, where she’ll perform her hits and never-before-heard songs along with an exclusive interview with Oprah. It’ll air on Global here.

-Meanwhile, Adele says that she played her new album for Drake and asked his opinion. “I’m like, ‘Do you think this is like, what people want or not want?’ And he was like, ‘Absolutely.'”

-Queer Eyes’ Jonathan Van Ness, Jameela Jamil, Sara Ramirez, Angelica Ross, TS Madison, Eureka O’Hara and Colton Haynes are among the stars reportedly working on a PSA to support Netflix’s trans workers who are planning a walkout on Thursday.

Billy Porter was not impressed by all the attention Harry Styles got for wearing a dress on the cover of Vogue — because he led the way. “I changed the whole game. I. Personally. Changed. The. Whole. Game. And that is not ego, that is just fact. I was the first one doing it and now everybody is doing it.

Emma Watson broke her red carpet hiatus — with pants.

Zendaya continues to crush it on the Dune press tour.

-A guy made a song based on the texts his mother sent him while she watched You, and it’s hilarious. (I’m halfway through the new season and it’s really, really good.)

-Disney just pushed back a bunch of its release dates. Sequels for Marvel’s Doctor Strange, Black Panther, Ant-Man and Thor — plus the next Indiana Jones movie — are all being delayed.

-The Y: The Last Man team is looking for a new network home after FX on Hulu canceled the series. It’s really strange that FX would announce this before the season’s last three episodes even aired.

-The news that Mel Gibson will lead the John Wick prequel at Starz is not going over well. The Continental will explore the origin behind the hotel-for-assassins in the John Wick universe, but any enthusiasm people had for this prequel seems to have evaporated with this casting news. Hard pass.

-I don’t watch The Great but these images of Gillian Anderson in season 2 are tempting me.

-The Ridley Scott–directed, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck–cowritten film The Last Duel flopped at the box office.

-Every new trailer Jeremy Renner’s new series Mayor of Kingstown is more incoherent than the last.

-The first full trailer for The Batman, starring Robert Pattinson, debuted Saturday at the DC FanDome virtual event, giving fans a glimpse at director Matt Reeves’ DARK take on the Caped Crusader.

-Other trailers that debuted at DC FanDome include Dwayne Johnson’s Black Adam, John Cena’s Peacemaker, and Ezra Miller’s The Flash.

-Here’s the first trailer for Maggie Gyllenhaal‘s haunting directorial debut, The Lost Daughter, starring Olivia Colman, Dakota Johnson, Peter Sarsgaard and Paul Mescal. It’s adapted from Elena Ferrante‘s book and was well-received on the festival circuit.