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April 2014

Lupita Nyong’o Is More Beautiful Than You

Lupita People cover

-People magazine redeemed itself by choosing Lupita Nyong’o as this year’s Most Beautiful Person. Flawless!

–Gwyneth Paltrow is having a rough week. Not only was she just dethroned by Lupita, but she also had to get a restraining order against a guy who conned his way into her London house.

–Justin Bieber wants to delay his DUI trial (he’s on vacation with his mom in Japan, after all…).

-Speaking of that Japanese vacation, Bieber had to apologize for posting a photo from his visit to a Japanese shrine honouring convicted war criminals.

–Jon Hamm just called Bieber a “shithead.” Just when I thought I couldn’t love him more…

-Congrats to Jodie Foster, who wed photographer girlfriend Alexandra Hedison. The pair have been dating since last summer.

–James Franco says that Kanye West wants him and Seth Rogen to perform “Bound 3” at the wedding (and by doing so, he might have accidentally revealed the wedding’s location).

-EW’s series finale coverage continues to impress. This week, the Friends creators look back at its ending.

-Speaking of Friends, Courteney Cox talks about her directorial debut Just Before I Go.

–Madonna voiced her opinion on some really random things for Buzzfeed.

-Belated congrats to Matt Bomer, who got secret-married three years ago.

–B.J. Novak thinks social media is making us all better writers. LOLZ YOLO SMH

-Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz is developing a new series for Netflix.

-The ladies of Orange Is the New Black get the cover treatment in next week’s EW. Meanwhile, the show has released the first scene from the season premiere. Piper be crazy!

-Speaking of new scenes, here’s the opener of Parks and Rec’s season finale.

-I guess all that Fockers money has dried up; Teri Polo just filed for bankruptcy.

–Julia Louis-Dreyfus got naked and pretended to have sex with a clown for GQ. Yay?

-Allow Mischa Barton to introduce you to the concept of a rectangle of cleavage.

–John Malkovich is getting his pirate on in this new promo for NBC’s Crossbones. The series is from the guy who created Luther, so I’m in.

–Billy Bob Thornton says he and ex-wife Angelina Jolie “check in on each other all the time.”

-Sad: a Bachelorette contestant has died in a paragliding accident.

-I assumed this was a joke but it appears to be legit: the How I Met Your Mother spin-off cast Meg Ryan as Future Greta Gerwig. Expect lots of When Your Mother Met Harry headlines.

-News of a new Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants movie makes me happier than it should.

-“I’d like to do a job where I don’t have to tie women to beds.” Dream big, Jamie Dornan!

–Alicia Silverstone‘s new parenting book is anti-vax, anti-diaper, anti-logic.

-I like to believe that every time Scott Speedman gets cast in a movie, an angel gets its wings.

-Here’s the first trailer for The Immigrant, starring Marion Cotillard, Joaquin Phoenix and Jeremy Renner.

Olivia Wilde Calls Her Baby Bump a ‘Badge of Pride’


Olivia Wilde Lucky

–Olivia Wilde talks about the advantages of being pregnant (“I’m like ‘double D, hello!'”) and why she’d rather play a murderer than a femme fatale in the new issue of Lucky.

-In other magazine news, Kristen Bell, Nia Long, Minnie Driver and Jenna Dewan Tatum are among the stars who stripped down for Allure’s annual naked issue.

-Congrats to Drew Barrymore, who gave birth to her second daughter today. (I LOVE the name Frankie for a girl.)

-This People article on Jessica Biel’s new restaurant is under a section called “Great Ideas,” which is clearly mislabelled.

–Chris Messina wants people to stop asking him questions that imply his character is too hot to be dating Mindy Kaling‘s character, which makes me love him.

-Speaking of Mindy, I really like this article on why she — not Lena Dunham — is the body positive icon of the moment.

–Oprah and Gayle‘s relationship is “bizarre” and “unhealthy,” says O’s ex-stepmom.

–Courteney Cox nixed any talk of a Friends reunion during her visit to Letterman.

–Leonardo DiCaprio is reportedly next in line to play Steve Jobs in a film directed by Danny Boyle and written by Aaron Sorkin.

-There’s lots of headlines today about Sorkin “apologizing” for The Newsroom, but if you actually read his (very Sorkinesque) speech, you’ll realize he mostly just said he was sorry that we didn’t get it.

–Josh Charles can’t keep it together in the blooper reel from his Sorkin spoof with Amy Schumer.

–Laura Prepon is denying those rumors she’s dating Tom Cruise, saying that people “make up stuff” because they’re Scientologists.

–Ariana Grande went to the White House and forgot her pants. She must be so embarrassed!

-We have to wait until Christmas 2015 before we see Amy Poehler and Tina Fey‘s big screen reunion.

-Meanwhile, Amy Poehler pretended to be Pitbull on Billy on the Street, and it was amazing.

-If you show teens Mean Girls today, they’ll freakin’ love it.

–Selena Gomez deleted all traces of Kendall and Kylie Jenner from her Instagram and unfollowed them. She also unfollowed Taylor Swift. What does it all mean, guys?!?

-I’m really not feeling Katie Holmes’ hair here.

-Also, here’s Vanity Fair’s piece on how Katie is trying to reinvent her career.

-American Idol contestant Molly Swenson is denying rumours that she’s dating Ian Somerhalder, for some reason. If anyone ever wrote a false report about me dating Ian Somerhalder, I’d tattoo that report on my forehead.

–Lindsay Lohan‘s rep says the sketchy interview in which she supposedly drank vodka and talked about dating a married man is totally fabricated.

-Also, there’s lots of talk that she lied about the miscarriage.

-This is my journey of feels for Jaime Lannister, captured in GIFs.

-Speaking of Game of Thrones, I really liked this summary of the controversy and why THAT scene matters.

–George R.R. Martin wasn’t too impressed with that scene either.

-Here’s a behind-the-scenes video from James McAvoy‘s Details cover shoot. His look at 1:32 nearly killed me. Oh, and Fassbender‘s in there too if you’re into that sort of thing.

-The David Foster Wallace estate has come out against the biopic starring Jason Segel.

-“I’m not childless…I can have a kid any second, if I want,” says Cameron Diaz, who clearly doesn’t know what childless means.

-A lot of predictably terrible singles came out today, including Miranda Kerr’s and Corey Feldman’s. The worst might actually be Avril Lavigne’s Hello Kitty song though, which I was convinced was fake until well after the 1-minute mark.

-Speaking of terrible songs, Steve Coogan has really strong feelings about “The Lady In Red.”

-In other regrettable music news, the preview for Katy Perry’s “Birthday” video is kind of weird.

–R. Kelly‘s housekeeper sued him for sexual harassment. They reportedly settled out of court.

-Anyone else noticing that Amber Heard is starting to morph into Johnny Depp?

–Jennifer Lawrence is in that awkward stage when you’re trying to grow out your short hair and it isn’t really working.

-I can’t believe it took this long for footage of a teenaged Emma Stone singing “We Belong” and “Bitch” to see the light of day.

–Emma Thompson and Pierce Brosnan play a divorced couple who head to Paris after being screwed out of their pension by their company’s new owners in this trailer for The Love Punch.

Emma Stone Calls Andrew Garfield “Incredibly Important” In Vogue

Emma Stone Vogue cover

-I’m not quite sold on the styling for the cover photo, but Emma Stone looks amazing in the pages of Vogue, in which she talks about Googling herself and dating Andrew Garfield.

-Meanwhile, we’ve gotten to the giddy point of the Amazing Spider-Man 2 junket, where Emma is amusing herself by repeatedly calling out Andrew Garfield on his answers. Her ribbing of him and Jamie Foxx during the Unscripted interview was hilarious.

–Emma wants to star in the next season of True Detective with Kristin Wiig, which sounds kind of amazing.

–Lindsay Lohan‘s reality series (which won’t be renewed, not surprisingly) ended last night on a sad note. The former actress said she revealed her celebrity sex list because it was part of her AA steps,  and claimed that she missed two weeks of the show’s shoot because she’d suffered a miscarriage.

–Johnny Depp‘s new movie didn’t just belly flop at the box office; it cracked its head on the bottom of the pool and had to be dragged out unconscious by the lifeguard.

–Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard have a painting of Brad Pitt over their bed, as you do.

–Kristen also demonstrated her daughter’s awesome dance moves on Ellen.

-Congrats to Idris Elba, who’s son Winston was born last week.

–Kirsten Dunst seems to think the casting couch is a myth, saying directors only hit on actresses who “court that stuff” — which seems like a nicer way of saying they’re asking for it.

–Kylie Minogue looks gorg on the cover of Vogue Australia.

-Are Richard Gere and Padma Lakshmi dating on the DL until his divorced is finalized?

–Chris Brown‘s trial on that assault charge has been delayed until later in the week.

-The Scandal bloopers made more sense than the actual finale.

-Speaking of Scandal, my Tumblr feed was filled with “bye Felicia” comments after Thursday night’s messy episodes of both Scandal and The Vampire Diaries, but that was nothing compared to the reaction to Game of Thrones’ controversial scene last night. Not only was the scene in question terrible and undid a lot of great character development, what’s worse is that the director and actors interpreted it in a way that’s totally different from how it came across onscreen.

-Not all shows sucked last week. Orphan Black’s season premiere was great! Too bad the ratings didn’t reflect the hype.

–Laura Prepon is returning to Orange is the New Black full-time because Tom Cruise can make anything happen.

–Bradley Cooper and Suki Waterhouse are still together, which means I’m going to keep confusing her for his daughter whenever I see photos of them.

–Uma Thurman was engaged to Elle Macpherson’s ex but they’ve broken it off — again.

–Tina Fey is the new face of Garnier beauty, which is lovely.

–Stella McCartney Instagrammed a photo from a recent “girls’ night out” and it pretty much featured every famous woman ever. Do you think Gwyneth Paltrow deigns to talk to Nicole Richie? Or does she just pretend she’s not there?

-Meanwhile, Gwyneth‘s GOOP is bleeding money and $1.5 million in debt.

-There are lot and lots of whispers and reports about Lea Michele and Naya Rivera being at each other’s throats on the Glee set.

-Rolling Stone’s article on the paparazzi is fantastic. I love love love that they call out Halle Berry for going to that celebrity pumpkin patch every year and Ryan Reynolds’ sponsored shots.

–More lawsuits are expected to be announced on the heels of the Bryan Singer allegations. This thing is getting messy.

-The White House won’t respond to the Justin Bieber deportation petition because of priorities ‘n stuff.

-Here are the first images of Marion Cotillard and Michael Fassbender in their new adaptation of Macbeth. I watch Fish Tank this weekend — in which Fassy plays a creepy pedo — and now I can’t really look at him.

-Speaking of Marion, here’s her trailer for The Immigrant, co-starring Joaquin Phoenix.

-Vampire Diaries Paul Wesley won’t do shirtless scenes. I wonder if his female costars get the same sort of freedom?

–Joss Whedon dropped a big gift on fans today: he released his new film In Your Eyes for only $5 on Vimeo.

-The trailer for Clint Eastwood’s Jersey Boys has arrived.

-I’m actually pretty intrigued by the new season of True Blood thanks to the latest promo, which is saying something.

–Angelina Jolie talks about respecting Sleep Beauty’s source material in the new Maleficent featurette.

-Vogue is cutting off human tire fire Terry Richardson after a model tweeted a screenshot of a text he sent her promising a Vogue photo shoot if she slept with him.

-A fake Daft Punk appeared during Arcade Fire’s final Coachella set because why not?

–Julia Roberts opened up about her half-sister’s death from an apparent overdose.

–Neil Patrick Harris had the perfect response to a fan who interrupted his Hedwig and the Angry Inch performance.

–Mark Ruffalo is heavily featured in the new trailer for The Normal Heart. No complaints here!