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June 2015

Taylor Swift Took on Apple — And Won!

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-Is there anything Taylor Swift can’t do? ‘Cause she just made Apple bend to her will (and rightly so).

–Kim Kardashian will be giving a lecture on the objectification of women. Ironic doesn’t even begin to cover this. We need a whole new word. Stupidiculousonic?

-Also, Kim confirmed that she’s having a boy on (where else?) Instagram.

-Speaking of ironic, Amber Heard is complaining about other people trying to hold onto their 15 minutes of fame.

-There were moving trucks photographed outside Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner‘s house, but don’t worry guys, they’re just renovating. Nothing to see here. Nope.

–Anthony Mackie has a surprising amount of opinions about who Chris Evans should date next. Spoiler alert: it’s probably not you.

-It’s odd but awesome that Rose McGowan is calling out Adam Sandler for sexiest casting calls on Twitter.

-Sweet! Bryan Cranston made a surprise appearance at Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas on Saturday to help introduce the Above & Beyond song named after his Breaking Bad character — and he went full Walter White on it.

-Meanwhile, Cranston‘s new TV show may get picked up by Amazon.

–Oliver Hudson slammed his and Kate‘s dad Bill Hudson yesterday with one perfect Instagram caption yesterday: “Happy abandonment day”

-Even though I’m shocked (shocked!) that Hannibal managed to run for three seasons on broadcast TV (I mean, the last episode featured an extended black and white sequence of a snail crawling on a leaf, for crissakes), I’m still a bit surprised that NBC let it go.  Sure, it got minuscule ratings but the international co-production deal meant NBC was getting it on the cheap, and it’s the only show on that net that has any sort of critical acclaim. Like, at all.

-Also, I think the Food Network should pick Hannibal up. I’m not even joking.

-Meanwhile, this article about how Guy Fieri single-handedly destroyed the Food Network is worth a read.

-In other NBC news, Smash may be dead and buried, but the show-within-a-show lives on. After a crazy successful Kickstarter campaign led to a one-off performance, it’s now poised for a full stage adaptation.

-Royal gossip alert: Did Prince Andrew pull rank for Beatrice?

–Emilia Clarke says that even though her Game of Thrones scenes with Jason Momoa were intense, but he kept it light with his modesty sock.

-This is an excellent (if longish) article about the decline of the American actor.

-Speaking of excellent articles about the state of movies, I love this one about the infuriating stupidity of telling people to “turn their brain off and just enjoy” popcorn movies.

–Mariah Carey has landed herself a billionaire. I would expect nothing less.

-Thank gawd this rumour about the CW planning a Hawkgirl spinoff looks like it’s bunk.  This superhero TV explosion is already stretching a bit too thin…

-If you have 15 mins, John Oliver‘s bit last night about online harassment is one of the best things you’ll see all day/week/month/life:

Is Miley Cyrus Dating a Victoria’s Secret Model?

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-Just when everyone stopped clutching their pearls over Kristen Stewart‘s girlfriend comes news that Miley Cyrus is dating model Stella Maxwell.

-Meanwhile, in Vogue model Cara Delevingne gushed about her relationship with St. Vincent. If I were in a relationship with someone with that hair, I’d be gushing too.

-According to Us Weekly (or possibly Sean Penn‘s publicist), Charlize Theron broke up with Penn in the middle of Cannes and let him know by abruptly not returning his calls.

–Jon Stewart‘s somber, scathing monologue on Charleston reminds us how we’re all going to miss the crap out of him.

-The more reviews I read, the more I don’t want to watch True Detective Season 2. But I would have no problems watching Colin Farrell and Vince Vaughn playing True Confessions with Jimmy Fallon for eight weeks.

-According to Chris Pratt, I’m doing everything right in my life.

–Taylor Swift is still writing handwritten notes to radio hosts she meets on her tour because she’s very nice and very, very smart.

-Marvel says Peter Parker must always be a straight white guy onscreen. Wut?

-Sony execs reportedly made actors fill out a “Cold Sore Questionnaire” to ensure they didn’t spread around the herpe. Is it weird that I think that sounds reasonable?

–Lauren Graham admits she was on Team Jess because she’s not a crazy person.

–Taylor Schilling says she filmed a sex scene so intense for this season of OITNB that she injured her face.

–Emily Blunt plays a badass FBI agent who goes up against Benicio Del Toro in the new Sicario trailer. It feels like the trailer gives too much away but Denis Villeneuve directed it so I’m still in.

More Rumours of Trouble for Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner

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Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner in Daredevil (Twentieth Century Fox)

-Looks like someone needs to step up their farmers market game!

-Here are the best answers from Channing Tatum’s AMA (though really, you should probably just read the whole thing ’cause it’s all gold).

-Who in the world would spend $2k to partake in a 3-day “rustic nature experience” with Jared Leto? (Well, besides the guy who sat next to me at his TIFF doc premiere and yelled at me for not knowing Leto’s assistant’s name. That guy’s totally going.)

–Taylor Schilling and Adam Scott get really NSFW in the first 7 minutes of their new movie, which you can watch on EW.

-Meanwhile, Adam told a story about how he and Paul Rudd once got kicked out of a wedding after showing their dicks in a video.

–Jon Hamm stopped by a restaurant in Tennessee and very gave his waitress his Bonnaroo VIP wristband like the gent that he is.

-The first teaser for Season 2 of Fargo just features a bird and still manages to be fantastic.

–Lexi Alexander is probably one of the most interesting (and definitely the most vocal) directors I follow on Twitter (@Lexialex). In this new interview in which she talks about the struggle for women to break into TV, she drops some gossip about a DP on Grey’s Anatomy who set out to make the female directors’ jobs hell.

-There are gets and then there are GETS. Marc Maron just landed President Obama for his WTF podcast.

-This is glorious. Someone wrote to my local newspaper’s advice column with the plot to The Room. And they answered it.

-Here’s our first look at Kristen Wiig on the Ghostbusters set. Is it too early to squee about this movie? ‘Cause I feel a squee coming on…

–Kate Winslet wants us to stare at her face to prove that she hasn’t had Botox. Like we needed an excuse…

-Everything’s coming up Aaron Paul this week. Now he’s going to star in a film written and directed by Zack Whedon.

-Shocking report: Christian Grey comes off as even more of an abusive psychopath in E.L. James‘ new book.

-This is an excellent read on how In Touch’s fantastic Duggars coverage has changed tabloid journalism. (I never thought I’d use the words ‘fantastic coverage’ and ‘In Touch’ in the same sentence, but there it is.)

-Don’t ask Mindy Kaling to be your bridesmaid. Just don’t.

-Toast’s “If XX Were Your Girlfriend” series takes on Gillian Anderson, and it’s lovely.

-Meanwhile, Gillian talked about playing an “older Scully” in a new interview with TV Line.

-It always unnerves me when I agree with a GOOP article…

-I adore Haley Atwell but her second outfit in this gallery is tragic.

-I’m really digging the Reelside series that’s airing on The Movie Network right now. This week’s goes behind the scenes with Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen.

-I’m not sure I really “get” the trailer for Turbo Kid, but Sundance loved it.