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August 2015

Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Martin Split

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Jennifer Lawrence photographed by Patrick Demarchelier for Vanity Fair.

–Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Martin have called it quits — again.

-This story about Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes possibly being engaged surprised me, only because I assumed they were already married. Apparently once they had a baby, I totally stopped caring.

-For those of you on wedding ring watch, both Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner are bare fingering it these days.

-Praise Blue Ivy! Ed Sheeran‘s terrible chest tattoo of a lion was a prank. Joke’s on us…I guess?

-Did Woody Allen fire Bruce Willis? Not that I’m a WA fan, but this makes me happy. The guy who’s responsible for the word “chuffa” doesn’t seem like the kind of actor who’ll take direction.

–Amy Schumer called into the Bachelorette’s after show for a little “phone sex” and then took a photo of what she was wearing, winning the internet in the process.

-Also, Amy and Jennifer Lawrence are writing a movie together in which they play sisters.
–Taylor Swift keeps collecting awesomes for her squad. The latest additions include St. Vincent and Beck.

-Buffy and UnREAL writer Marti Noxon is developing a new show set in NYC’s restaurant scene? Gimmie!

–Cindy Crawford has a a cottage on Ontario’s Lake Muskoka, and it looks amazing. (It would look even more amazing if George Clooney was vacationing in it.)

-Mr Robot’s season finale has been pulled from tonight’s schedule due to “a graphic scene similar in nature to today’s tragic events in Virginia.” It will air next week instead. The critics who’ve seen the finale said the delay is absolutely the right call.

-Meanwhile, we can fill time during the delay by reading how Mr. Robot became an obsession thanks to this one weird visual trick.

-Also, this Mr. Robot Supercut proves that last week’s big twist holds up. (Spoilers, obvs.)

–Jeremy Renner doesn’t think Avengers/Guardians crossover will happen, but this is the same guy who admitted that he basically only reads his parts in the Avengers scripts, so what does he know?

-A new rumour suggests Man Of Steel 2 is on “permanent hold,” which sounds like a fancy way to say DC is waiting to see how much everyone hates Superman vs. Batman before figuring out their future moves.

-Every new clip from Denis Villeneuve’s Sicario makes me want to try to get into it at TIFF. Seeing what Emily Blunt wears on the red carpet also wouldn’t suck.

Selena Gomez Sick of Justin Bieber Questions

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–Selena Gomez is firing back at the Sunday Times for focusing their interview on her quotes about Justin Bieber and not her new album. Ok… but she had to know that if she talked about it, that’s what’s they’d lead with, right? She’s been around long enough to get the game by now.

–Justin Bieber is getting ready to promote his new single, and his reps have reportedly banned him from doing live interviews because they’re terrified of what he’ll say.

-I have to admit, Bieber‘s “Where Are U Now” with Diplo and Skrillex is kind of my song of the summer (what? they play it at the gym!), and this NYT video interview about how it came together is pretty damn great. If you’re into music stories that delve a bit deeper into how the sausage is made, you’ll love this.

-Remember last month when I wondered when we should start worrying about Jimmy Fallon? I think the time might be now. The police are reportedly refusing to release the 911 call made about his hand injury, citing “personal privacy.” His accidents are piling up. Even Variety is writing about it in a way that makes you go “hmmm…”

-Sources from Serena Williams‘ camp insists she’s not dating Drake.

-Why is the Internet so angry with Max Landis for questioning why his American Ultra flopped? I’m questioning it too. I didn’t love the movie, but it was better summer fare than a lot of other stuff I’ve seen recently.

-I see that Mel Gibson is still a shining beacon of civility and good manners.

–Alison Brie and Dave Franco, who’ve been dating since 2012, are engaged. Thank goodness. We needed something like this to restore our faith in Hollywood love this summer.

–Alanis Morissette joined Taylor Swift last night for “You Oughta Know” and it was kind of fantastic. (It helps if you repress the fact that Taylor was only 5 when Jagged Little Pill came out…)

-I didn’t really expect the 13-year-old star of Girl Meets World to school us all on feminism, but what do I know?

-Twist! The lawyer for Serial’s Adnan Syed filed a court motion this morning asserting that the cell phone evidence placing him in Leakin Park was inadmissible.

-I’m in the middle of making my TIFF picks, and I’m pretty damn tempted to use one of my tickets to watch Matthew Weiner do a live commentary on a Mad Men episode…

–Katherine Heigl is reuniting with Grey’s Anatomy producers for an Ally McBeal rip-off. This bodes well.

–Jimmy Kimmel and Bob Odenkirk mocked silly late night talk show games, and it was kinda perfect.

-Female directors Catherine Hardwicke, Shira Piven, Nicole Holofcener and more star in FunnyorDie’s “Why Women Don’t Direct More Action Movies?” I only wish Lexi Alexander was in it…

-Speaking of movie girl power, all the women who work on the new Ghostbusters movie posed for a photo and it was great. This is especially welcome following that story about an aspiring screenwriter was told by an Academy fellowship competition that her script would make a “decent porn.”

-It tanked here, but Terminator Genisys is killing it so hard in China that a sequel is suddenly a very real possibility. As Forbes points out, for “a film to outright flop in America and yet potentially become one of the biggest American exports of all time in China, well, that’s a game changer.”

-I haven’t gotten around to watching any fall TV screeners yet but a recent Twitter convo with some TV critic friends seemed to suggest the only ones worth tuning into are Quantico and The Grinder. Now that The Grinder just lost its showrunner, we may be down to one.

-I wasn’t sure about Benedict Cumberbatch playing Doctor Strange, but this trailer is killing my doubts.

Is Serena Williams Dating Drake?

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–This photo is supposed to prove that Drake and Serena Williams were making out at dinner over the weekend. I dunno; it looks like they might have just been talking? I need receipts, people!

–George Clooney is selling his tequila HARD these days. I don’t like this. It has a whiff of desperation I’m not used to associating with him. Make it stop.

–Cute photobomb, though. Dammit, Clooney! I can never stay mad at you! All is forgiven.

-Everyone’s wearing the same terrible Prada dress in the September issues of magazines, and fashion peeps are freaking out!

–Taylor Swift offered up a sneak peek at her latest video. Hope y’all like zebras and Scott Eastwood.

-Meanwhile, Miley Cyrus (who’s hosting next week’s VMAs) is apparently feuding with Taylor, so this should be fun.

–This interview with Celine Dion about her ailing husband is beyond heartbreaking.

-The girl who played Rayanne on My So-Called Life is now a countess in England? And she didn’t even realize her future husband was a member of British nobility until he took her home for the first time and at the end of his family’s driveway was a castle?! Her life is a Julia Stiles rom-com!

-I have so many questions about this photo of Jennifer Lawrence in bed with Kris Jenner. So many.

-I don’t know what’s more surprising from this Quentin Tarantino interview: that he loved The Newsroom or that he watched every episode of How I Met Your Mother. (Also, irony alert: he complains that TV critics only review pilots, but in the previous question he trashes True Detective based on the first episode and a trailer. Le sigh.)

-It’s very cute how the One Tree Hill cast still has reunions.

-Congrats to Tracy Morgan, who got married. There’s not a lot of details on the ceremony, so let’s all just go ahead and assume that Grizz and DotCom were in his wedding party.

–Paul Haggis is calling out journalists for avoiding Scientology questions with Tom Cruise during his Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation promo tour.

-Did the newly single Gavin Rossdale just join Leonardo DiCaprio’s p**** posse? Ugh.

-A judged called Terrence Howard a ‘bully’ but still ruled in his favour in his spousal support case.

-Mwah ha ha! John Oliver‘s made up”church” has already gotten thousands of tax-exempt dollars.

-Speaking of late night hosts, Colbert‘s first Late Show guests will include ScarJo and Amy Schumer.

-My coworker was texting me play-by-plays of Stephen Amell’s WWE SummerSlam performance last night (which apparently cost $50 to watch — what?). According to him, Amell did really well, spent way more time in the ring than expected, pulled off a realistic “senton slam” and “enziguri” (is one of those things this part where he flied off the ropes and landed on two guys outside of the ring? ‘Cause that looked intense), and took a surprising amount of rough-looking hits. When I made the mistake of texting back “But isn’t it all fake?” I got a rant about how dangerous the stunts are — which I guess explains all the bruises on his back. I still can’t believe the WB/CW signed off on it; these are the same guys who are so skittish about their actors, they once instituted a haircut ban after the Keri Russell debacle. You can watch his match here (until it gets pulled down).

–Jon Stewart also got in on the SummerSlam action, hitting John Cena with a folding chair. I still don’t get wrestling, but at least his son look liked he was having fun.

–Kristen Stewart as Coco Chanel? Colour me intrigued.

–Nicholas Hoult plays a record label A&R guy (and possible murderer?) in the Kill Your Friends trailer.