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Jeffrey Tambor

Inside Kim Kardashian’s Weirdly Stark House

–Kim Kardashian West is the latest celebrity to get Vogue’s 73 Questions treatment — and it’s the most extensive glimpse we’ve gotten of their weird, blank canvas-y house. How do they actually live there? There’s no furniture!

-After weeks of speculation, Wendy Williams filed for divorce from her husband of 20 years amid rumours he had a baby with his mistress.

-This is a big deal. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are breaking from tradition and avoiding the dog and pony show outside the hospital after welcoming their kid. Instead the palace says they have “taken a personal decision to keep the plans around the arrival of their baby private” and that “look forward to sharing the exciting news with everyone once they have had an opportunity to celebrate privately as a new family.”

–Lori Loughlin is reportedly coming to terms with how much trouble she’s in. A source tells E!, “Lori is finally realizing just how serious this is. She is seeing the light that she will do jail time and is freaking out.”

-I wrote a Game of Thrones refresher before this weekend’s premiere and when doing some season 7 rewatching, I realized I had forgotten A LOT.

-Meanwhile, James Corden made one of his writers binge GoT in one, 67-hour sitting.

–Brie Larson teaching Oprah about the French tuck is adorable. (Also adorable, Gayle saving Oprah from admitting she doesn’t know Tan from Queer Eye.)

–Donald Glover and Rihanna‘s Guava Island, a music-driven, hour-long film shot largely in secret in Havana, is dropping this weekend. It’s a tropical thriller written by Glover’s brother and costaring Letitia Wright featuring Glover playing local musician character is determined to throw a festival for his island community. It’ll premiere on Coachella’s YouTube channel this weekend ahead of Glover’s headlining set, and stream for free on Amazon.

–Drake‘s Euphoria starring Zendaya just got a premiere date and trailer.

-I guess people still aren’t over Theranos? Kate McKinnon will play Elizabeth Holmes in a new Hulu miniseries.

-Disney’s upcoming streaming service keeps adding new shows. The latest is a Love, Simon spinoff.

-Reading this interview with Bret Easton Ellis and seeing how Isaac Chotiner destroys him really made my day.

–Jeffrey Tambor, who was caught up in MeToo, will be killed off of Transparent in its final season

-Netflix released the trailer for Tales of the City, starring Laura Linney and Ellen Page. Oh, I am very in on this!

-Speaking of Netflix originals I’m in on, here’s the first trailer for Wine Country, starring Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph, Rachel Dratch, Ana Gasteyer, Paula Pell, Emily Spivey, and Tina Fey.

Arrested Development’s Press Tour Turns Into Apology Tour

-Man, that Arrested Development cast interview with the New York Times left me *fuming* last night. Not because hearing Jessica Walter cry while her male costars go to great lengths to comfort Jeffrey Tambor is as bad as what Tambor was accused of doing on the Transparent set. It’s just that this interview — and especially the 1-minute audio clip from it –perfectly distills the entire issue with male “allies.” It’s how Jason Bateman starts the conversation by threatening to quit if Tambor is fired, clearly declaring sides. It’s how Walter (the victim) is the one who is required to do all the emotional labour during the convo and her forgiveness is an expectation (Tambor’s “absolutely” response tells me he’s learned nothing). It’s how Bateman manexplains to Walter, who won a Golden Globe when he was just two years old, how on-set dynamics work. It’s how he speaks over Alia Shawkat. It’s how a sobbing Walter keeps insisting that Tambor’s behaviour is not normal in Hollywood, and Bateman, David Cross and Tony Hale keep dismissing her with talk of an actor’s “process” and how “families” fight and some tired BS about how creatives should be given a free pass to be assholes. Even Bateman’s apology with all the “it sounds like…” annoys me. No. It didn’t sound like. It was.

–Tony Hale has also apologized for his comments in the interview.  And I’m guessing David Cross had some apologizing to do when he got home.

-I thought NPR had a very good take on it. (“The disrespect felt so benign in the delivery and so destructive in the effect.”) Also, I loved Thomas Sadoski’s Instagram post sticking up for Walter, who he once costarred with: “I worked in shitty greasy-spoon kitchens growing up: it wasn’t acceptable behavior THERE and most of us were on HEAVY DRUGS. It certainly isn’t acceptable for some man-baby millionaire to do on a cozy ass tv show set. And it is even less acceptable for his male cast-mates to excuse it away IN FRONT OF THE PERSON THAT IT HAPPENED TO….(wait for it)….WHILE SHE IS TRYING TO EXPLAIN HOW TRAUMATIZING THE EXPERIENCE WAS. What in the halfpenny fuck is happening?!”

-Not surprisingly, all Arrested Development cast interviews that were scheduled for the remainder of the week have been canceled.

-In more “never meet your heroes” news, eight women have accused Morgan Freeman of inappropriate touching and behaviour, according to a new investigation from CNN. He’s given one of those “I’m sorry if you were offended” non-apologies.

-Meanwhile, SAG-AFTRA is already reconsidering the lifetime achievement award they bestowed on the actor at the annual SAG Awards this past January.

–Harvey Weinstein is reportedly going to turn himself in on sex crime charges in New York tomorrow.

-We all needed something to brighten our day. Luckily, Chris Hemsworth delivered with a Miley Cyrus dance routine!

-You’d think the movie Show Dogs couldn’t get any worse, but it is undergoing edits amid concerns of “disturbing” touching scenes.

-Cops threatened to pull over Adam Levine and James Corden while they were filming Carpool Karaoke.

–Michelle Williams  sent her BFF Busy Philipps a lifesize cutout of herself so she wouldn’t get lonely.

-Ha! Gwyneth Paltrow called her relationship with Ben Affleck “a lesson.”

–Amy Poehler and Nick Offerman talked about a possible Parks and Rec reboot. Don’t tease me!

-Whoa: Netflix is now worth more than Disney.

–Will Smith wants everyone to “stop the divorce rumors and mind your damn business.”

-The Sisters Brothers trailer, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Joaquin Phoenix, Riz Ahmed and John C. Reilly, has me intrigued.

 

Meghan Markle’s Suits Costars Are Living the Dream

-Royal wedding fever is in full swing. I love this interview with Meghan Markle’s Suits costars, who look like they can’t actually believe they’re in London for the wedding.

–Jeffrey Tambor happily walked the red carpet with his happy costars at the Arrested Development premiere. Ok.

-Dave Matthews Band’s longtime violinist Boyd Tinsley has denied sexual misconduct allegations by his former Crystal Garden bandmate James Frost-Winn. Winn says he made unwanted sexual advances and comments toward him, and spent years “grooming” him.

-I haven’t seen Deadpool 2 yet but it’s probably not a great sign that the writers are having to defend their treatment of the female characters.

-Hmmm. Roseanne’s co-showrunner Whitney Cummings has left the show.

-I’m intrigued by Jennifer Aniston‘s new Netflix series, in which she’ll play the first female president, with Tig Notaro playing her wife.

-Huh. Netflix left Cannes almost empty-handed as their deals got turned down by multiple filmmakers, despite trying to throw wads of money at them.

–Jimmy Fallon played “What’s Behind Me?” with Tina Fey, which somehow involved recreating the Ghost pottery scene.

–SZA canoodles with Donald Glover in her new music video for “Garden (Say It Like Dat).”

–Jack Osbourne‘s wife has filed for divorce after six years of marriage.

–Halle Berry looks great but she likes kettle bells way more than I do.

–Timothée Chalamet is coming for that Oscar in the Beautiful Boy trailer, costarring Steve Carrell.

–Shock and Awe is the latest Oscar-baiting newspaper drama. This one stars Woody Harrelson and James Marsden as reporters chasing down a scoop that the Bush administration prematurely decided to go to war.

–Melissa McCarthy stars in The Happytime Murders, an upcoming hard R-rated murder mystery set in a world where humans and puppets co-exist. Here’s the profane trailer: