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Vanity Fair’s Hollywood Issue Made Some Choices

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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 profile, Jake 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.

Awkwafina’s (Non)Apology

–Awkwafina took to Twitter to address accusations of cultural appropriation — and a lot of people found her comments lacking. I can’t believe after years and years of being accused of using a “blaccent,” this is the best she could come up with. There’s nary a “sorry” in sight. And after getting a not-quite-glowing response to her post, she quit Twitter!

–Thandiwe Newton is also feeling heat for giving a tearful interview in which she said “my light-skinness has been more problematic than being Black.”

–Kanye West and Kim Kardashian‘s divorce has truly reached a new level of nastiness, with him saying she accused him of putting a hit out on her.

–Azealia Banks took to IG to defend Kim Kardashian and call out Kanye West’s behavior.

–Kylie Jenner shared the news on Instagram that she and Travis Scott had welcomed their second child, a boy, on Feb 2.

-In other baby news, Shay Mitchell is expecting her second child.

–Joe Rogan has issued an apology after a video indicated he’s used the n-word more than 70 times on his podcast. Also, Spotify’s CEO doubled down on keeping Rogan, but the platform has pulled more than 110 past episodes.

-Meanwhile, The Rock has backed away from his support of Rogan.

-Also, it’s weird that Rogan was praising vaccines at the start of the pandemic, saying “there’s so many wackos out there that think that vaccines are a scam or they’re dangerous.” It’s almost like he realized saying outrageous, batshit things no matter what he personally believes makes him more money.

–Leslie Jones says NBC, which owns the broadcast rights, has asked her to stop live-tweeting the Olympic Games, something she’s done for the past several Olympics. How are they not paying her big bucks to do this, let alone turning their noses up at the free publicity? She gets people excited about the games at a time where ratings continue to freefall.

–Prince Andrew will give evidence under oath on March 10 as part of the civil rape case against him.

-As soon as that news came out, The Queen announced she wants Camilla to be dubbed Queen Consort ‘when the time comes.’ I’m sure the timing was a complete coincidence though.

-Meanwhile, have Prince Charles and Camilla been priming the British tabloids for this move?

-Is there a West Wing reboot in the works?

-Ohhhh, now I get it. The stars who keep gushing about NFTs are connected to CAA – which just so happens to be an investor in OpenSea, an NFT seller.

-Also, the backlash against Buzzfeed for revealing who’s behind the bored apes is bizarre.

–Billie Eilish stopped her concert so a fan could get an inhaler. “Guys, give it some time. Don’t crowd…We’re taking care of our people, hold on. I wait for people to be ok until I keep going.”

-Did Zendaya and Tom Holland buy a house together?

–Steven Soderbergh‘s Daily Beast interview is excellent. He talks about his biggest complaint with superhero movies (“Nobody’s fucking!”) and what he got wrong with his film Contagion (“What we thought would be a niche voice, or a single note within a chord — the Jude Law character — we had no idea that that would become the dominant chord. That that sort of attitude, and skepticism, would really turn into the primary issue. We stupidly didn’t imagine that people, when given the opportunity to not get sick, wouldn’t take it. It just didn’t occur to us, on a mass scale”).

–Dakota Johnson is stepping into the Marvel verse: she has been tapped to play Madame Web.

-Spider-Man: No Way Home brought back Charlie Cox as Daredevil — and there might be more appearances in the future.

–Catherine Zeta-Jones is heading to the small screen. She will have a prominent role on the National Treasure TV series as ‘a badass billionaire, black-market antiquities expert, and treasure hunter.’

–Peter Strickland’s new film Flux Gourmet stars Asa Butterfield, Gwendoline Christie and Ariane Labed.

–Gabrielle Union and Zach Braff try to wrangle their huge brood in Disney+’s remake of Cheaper By The Dozen.

Caitríona Balfe Talks Fame, Fandom

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–Caitríona Balfe is on the cover of Vanity Fair’s Awards Insider issue for Belfast (a film I found super boring but what do I know?), and she talks about how scary Outlander fans can be. “When you have a kid, you become really protective. I don’t want those [crazy fans]—because that’s what they are—I just don’t want them talking about him. It’s sad, because you meet the loveliest people who are fans of the show and they’re super supportive and they do the nicest things—and then you have that little thing, which just taints it.”

-I tried to watch The Tender Bar this weekend but even my love for George Clooney (who directed it) couldn’t sustain me past the first hour. Still, Ben Affleck was the best thing about it. He talks to the LA Times about turning 50 this year (“The common thread I’ve found from the people I know who’ve turned 50 who are the happiest is that they’ve stopped worrying so much about what other people think”) why he dropped out of directing The Batman (“I looked at it and thought, “I’m not going to be happy doing this. The person who does this should love it”) and how his priorities changed around the time of Justice League (“It was really Justice League that was the nadir for me. That was a bad experience because of a confluence of things: my own life, my divorce, being away too much, the competing agendas and then [director] Zack [Snyder]’s personal tragedy [Snyder’s daughter Autumn died by suicide in 2017] and the reshooting. It just was the worst experience. It was awful. It was everything that I didn’t like about this. That became the moment where I said, “I’m not doing this anymore.” It’s not even about, like, Justice League was so bad. Because it could have been anything”).

-Meanwhile, Kevin Smith explained how he tried (and failed) to make a Superman movie with Ben Affleck.

-Here’s a better look at The Batman’s villains Riddler, Penguin and Catwoman.

–Robert Durst, the subject of HBO’s The Jinx, has died in custody at 78. He was recently convicted of murdering Susan Berman in 2000.

–Bob Saget‘s Full House costars are expressing their shock and sadness over his sudden passing. (There was no sign of foul play or drug use.)

-Instead of having a Golden Globes broadcast, they just announced the awards via a live tweet and the rollout was a mess (with tweets full of dumb jokes but often missing what role the winner won for) and was quickly overshadowed by the outpouring of grief over Bob Sagat’s death.

-Despite the mess, there were some good wins (especially because the Globes broadcast died because of their lack of diversity). MJ Rodriguez became the first transgender woman to win best actress, while Squid Game’s O Yeong-su became the first Korean actor to win. That being said, judging by its reception today, I’m doubtful the broadcast will ever comes back.

-The Eternals is hitting Disney+ tomorrow.

–Zendaya posted a trigger warning for this season of Euphoria, which started last night. (This behind-the-scene clip cleansed some of the trauma from the premiere.)

-In honour of her 40th birthday, the palace released three new portraits of Kate Middleton by photographer Paolo Roversi.

-The CW is now for sale and Supernatural fans seem to want to take credit for its demise, but the network has never been profitable — even when that show was airing. (I saw a tweet where a stan claimed that SPN licensed conventions is what made the CW money, which is adorable. The stars? For sure. The network? No.) It has more do to with streaming — I remember when I was an Arrowverse fan there was a lot of industry talk about how the Netflix deal basically was the biggest way those shows made their studios money, but now all the streaming rights are going to the studio’s own apps. This tiktok explains it well.

–Aubrey Plaza will star in season two of Mike White’s HBO comedy The White Lotus, which sounds like perfect casting.

-Grey’s Anatomy has scored a surprise early renewal for its 19th season on ABC after Ellen Pompeo inked a rich new deal to return. She’s also been upped from co-executive producer to executive producer.

-Critics may hate Emily In Paris but the latest season must be doing great for Netflix— they just handed it a big two-season renewal.

-The Morning Show has scored a predictable third season renewal at Apple — and will now be on its third showrunner.

-I liked The Lost Daughter, but I’m starting to like all the think pieces surrounding it even more than I liked the movie. This one is excellent.

-Every year, this movie critic compiles clips from his favourite films of the year, and his latest edition doesn’t disappoint.

-Omicron is surging but studios are still expecting film critics to attend in-person screenings.

-Netflix’s The Kanye West Trilogy, decades in the making, just got a teaser ahead of its Sundance premiere.

-Here’s a look at Peacock’s BelAir, which premieres on Super Bowl Sunday with its first three episodes, followed by new episodes weekly. It’s a more dramatic take on the beloved sitcom.