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March 2013

Alison Brie Gets Wired

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Alison Brie looks fantastic on the cover of Wired, doing her best Don Draper impression. (Also, if you’re a TV geek like me you’ll want to check out their feature story on how Twitter and sex have ushered in a golden age of TV.)

Mad Men‘s Vincent Kartheiser just got engaged to Gilmore Girls‘ Alexis Bledel. Let’s hope, for her sake, he’s done living off the grid without a toilet.

-Speaking of Mad Men, AMC wants Jon Hamm to get his penis situation under control. Don’t we all!

Jessica Alba just verbally bitch-slapped Gwyneth Paltrow. Seriously?! I can tolerate snobby life advice from Goop (barely), but the star of Honey needs to cool it.

Stephen Colbert’s sister just won the South Carolina Democratic primary — and he says he’ll do whatever he can to support her, even if that means breaking character (or, as he calls it, “the jewel of my own creation”).

John Mayer and Katy Perry broke up. Again.

-If you can get passed the first eye-roll-inducing paragraph, Eddie Redmayne‘s interview in W is pretty great. I still can’t really view him as a heartthrob, but that’s mostly because I was traumatized by his creepy role in Hick.

Lindsay Lohan is clutching her pearls in shock and indignation that anyone would even dare to suggest she was out clubbing hours before her rehab sentence!

-Meanwhile, her latest mug shot (her sixth!) isn’t so bad. Relatively speaking.

Melissa McCarthy went on Sesame Street to teach kids the word “choreographer” — and a new dance move that will hopefully overtake the Harlem Shake.

Joshua Jackson was looking adorably scruffy at The Host premiere, where he came out to support Diane Kruger.

-At this point, Jay Leno is basically daring NBC to fire him. So…he should keep it up.

-Maybe he read this NYT article, which says a plan is in place to bring The Tonight Show back to New York — with Jimmy Fallon as its host.

Drew Barrymore is hosting a weekly how-to makeup series and I’m kind of embarrassed for her.

-Speaking of TV, is anyone else pleasantly surprised by how awesomely New Girl is handling the Nick/Jess relationship?

-Oh no! My secret boyfriend Idris Elba just said he’s going to take a break from acting to focus on music. Let’s hope that doesn’t mean less Luther, more this.

-This clip from Tina Fey‘s episode of Inside the Actor’s Studio shows off her killer Lorne Michaels impression.

-In Snoop‘s new song, Drake dedicates his verse to the victims of July’s Danzig St. shooting.

-Actresses who pose for Esquire might want to rethink that. The UK editor just said that the women they feature are “ornamental,” adding “I could lie to you if you want and say we are interested in their brains as well. We are not. They are objectified.” (And ladies, I think he’s single!)

-Watching Harrison Ford squirm his way through this interview made me glad I don’t cover red carpets any more. Shouldn’t he have figured out how to handle these by now?

-Why is Lea Michele wearing her boyfriend’s name around her neck and thinking that’s ok?

Selena Gomez and Jimmy Fallon performed “Mario Kart Love Song” last night.

-It looks like Justin Timberlake might abandon his fashion label.

-Meanwhile, JT‘s new video for ‘Mirrors’ (which I actually really like) is a tribute to his grandparents’ 63-year marriage.

Katie Holmes Covers Allure, Hopes 2013 is ‘Peaceful’

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Katie Holmes covers the new issue of Allure, in which she says she’s “open” to having more children and she’d consider becoming a lawyer. Can you imagine being charged for a serious crime and having Joey Potter stride into the courtroom to defend you? *shudder*

-Good news for Charlize Theron: Seth MacFarlane split up with Game Of Thrones star Emilia Clarke.

Shailene Woodley has been offered lead role for The Fault in Our Stars. I really, really wanted it to go to Mae Whitman, but this could be worse (especially since Woodley is getting crazy raves for the SXSW film The Spectacular Now).

-Meanwhile, there are a whole lotta YA novel adaptations hitting the big screen soon.

-I would hate to be the keeper of Selena Gomez‘s Twitter feed after she mildly mocked Justin Bieber on last night’s Letterman.

-I also wouldn’t want to be dealing with Keyshia Cole‘s Twitter after she slammed Beyonce’s new song.

-This story about Beth Ditto getting arrested at a bar makes me sad (especially her dick-waving “Google me, bitches!” antics). Kinda assumed she was cooler than that.

-Well, this James Franco monologue just convinced me to go to Spring Breakers opening night. Well done, screenwriter.

-Wanna know way too much about Sofia Vergara‘s egg-freezing/surrogate plan? She’s happy to oblige!

-Good news: Lil Wayne has been released from an L.A. hospital.

-I always pooh-poohed those rumours of Bradley Cooper dating Jennifer Lawrence because she’s just way too young for him — and now I find out that he’s dating a model 18 years his junior! I never understand how relationships like that work. Like, how does a 38-year-old man introduce a 20-year-old girl to his friends?

-The Joss Stone murder plot trial has begun, and it’s already grizzly. The suspects allegedly planned to decapitate her and dump her body in a river. She took the stand and revealed that she had no idea about the plot until the arrests.

-In news that is sure to warm even the coldest heart, Ian McKellen is going to officiate Patrick Stewart‘s upcoming nuptials.

-I was really down on the internet yesterday after reading all the terrible, women-hating reactions to the Steubenville rape trial. Thank god a new batch of photos of Tom Hardy playing with puppies landed!

-Sad news: Henry Bromell, the executive producer of Homeland (and Homicide: Life on the Street, Carnivale and a bunch of other shows), died suddenly after suffering a heart attack.

-Is Josh Duhamel auditioning for a There’s Something About Mary sequel? What’s up with that hair?

Miley Cyrus has been having a rough month, so it’s probably a good time to reflect on how remarkable it is that she’s not even more screwed up by now.

-I never thought I’d say this, but the more I read about Gwyneth Paltrow’s new cookbook, the more I kind of agree her. It probably is a good idea to take short vacations from processed crap every once in a while. Sounds a heck of a lot healthier than that 2-day fasting diet that’s sweeping Britain right now…

Robert Pattinson shaved his head, in case you care.

-I really liked this article on how Girls changed the game not just for TV, but also for indie film. No other show makes me vacillate so wildly between love and hate (which kind of makes me love it…even when I hate it).

Justin Timberlake needs to go away for a while. That means not playing Daddy Warbucks in the Annie remake.

Eyes up here, Gerard Butler!!

-It pains me to say it, but I agree with this article on Parks and Recreation‘s “Leslie Knope problem.”

Rainn Wilson posted a photo of the sign-in sheet from the first day of The Office‘s casting session which revealed that Adam Scott auditioned for Jim, Matt Besser tried out for Dwight, and Mary Lynn Rajskub read for Pam. I’d watch all of that!

-The first promo for HBO’s Family Tree has landed. A Christopher Guest show starring Chris O’Dowd? Well, ok then!

Lindsay Lohan Strikes Plea Deal to Avoid Jail Time

Lindsay Lohan in a scene from Glee. (Fox)
Lindsay Lohan in a scene from Glee. (Fox)

Lindsay Lohan is up to her ol’ courtroom shenanigans. After missing her flight back to LA this morning, she ended up bumming a ride in a private jet and showing up to her trial 48 minutes late (and in a terrifically horrible outfit). Oh, and she got glitter-bombed on her way into the courtroom ’cause why not?

-In the end, Lohan ended up taking a plea deal which involves fines, 30 days of community labour in NYC, 18 months of therapy, and 90 days in a locked rehab with absolutely no leaving. Good luck with that!

George Clooney and Stacy Keibler shot down those breakup rumours by going to dinner together in Berlin Saturday night. Dammit! I mean, um, I’m so happy for them.

Questlove‘s week-long master class on the gospel of Prince is a great read.

Ryan Seacrest and Julianne Hough (aka: the couple you never really believed anyway) have broken up.

Lil Wayne says he’s doing “good” (though still in the ICU) after reportedly suffering a seizure from ingesting “high amounts of codeine.” Sizzurp!

Prince Harry and the awesomely named Cressida Bonas enjoyed a date night in London this weekend.

Jessie J shaved her head for charity — and totally makes it work!

-I adore this Twitter photo of the cast of The East, including Alexander Skarsgård and Ellen Page, living it up at SXSW.

-Also, a lot of people are assuming Alexander and Ellen are dating. I am not one of them.

Bradley Cooper was photographed on the set of his new movie with perm rollers in his head. Let’s hope the “Sexiest Man Alive” title can’t be revoked.

-A documentary chronicling Rihanna‘s miserable 777 tour is set to air on Fox.

New Beyonce! That is all.

-Meanwhile, Connie Britton says her son once confused her with Beyonce. The kid knows his awesome southern belles!

Lindsey Vonn and Tiger Woods confirmed they’re dating. Just how hard did she hit her head in that crash?

Miley Cyrus continues to live in denial. She got a (possibly Liam Hemsworth-related) tattoo of two anatomically correct hearts, and insists the only reason she’s not wearing her engagement ring is because it’s getting fixed.

-Even though Barbara Walters has denied it, there’s still talk that Elizabeth Hasselbeck is not long for The View.

Justin Timberlake and Jimmy Fallon pulled off another history of rap. Maybe that’s why he kept Jessica Biel waiting outside a Broadway show for 20 minutes?

Kristen Stewart makes a “vocal cameo” in her mom’s new movie, which is just a fancy way of saying it’s her voice on the other end of a phone call in one scene.

Gwyneth Paltrow must really want to sell her new cookbook; she just opened up about a miscarriage that almost killed her. I wonder if it was around the same time as when Chris Martin attacked a paparazzi who was taking video of them leaving a hospital in 2008?

Rob Thomas may be busy with the Veronica Mars movie, but he insists that doesn’t mean the Party Down movie is dead.

-Also, Rob says that Max Greenfield (aka New Girl‘s Schmidt) is so onboard with reprising his VM role, he offered to do it for free and fly himself to the shoot. God, I love that guy!

Anna Kendrick is building a nerd army, one tweet at a time.

Eva Mendes twists the knife even more by gushing that Ryan Gosling is “adorable” around kids.

-Meanwhile, here’s a new clip of Eva and Ryan in their upcoming movie The Place Beyond the Pines.

Justin Bieber continues to spiral. He was reportedly kicked out of a fancy hotel in Paris for “bad behaviour” (though his rep says he left because he wanted to).

-I’ve been saying for a while that YouTube’s original programming is starting to pull my focus from TV, and now Hollywood is catching on. Simon Cowell and Reddit are teaming up for a new web series.

-Speaking of TV, Parks and Recreation continues to knock it out of the park (get it?) with their fake websites. Here’s Rent-a-Swag’s site, which is almost as good — but not quite — as TomHaverfoods.com.

-The What Maisie Knew trailer is out. Not only did it get great buzz at TIFF and stars Alexander Skarsgård as a swoon-worthy father-figure, it features a Stars song!