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August 2015

Anne Hathaway’s Big Career Move

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–Anne Hathaway just signed on to a limited TV series, which might be the smartest move ever. She’s clearly not going to crack everyone’s hearts as a movie actress, but being in people’s living rooms on the regular? That could work for her.

-The Good Wife creators finally broke their silence on GreenScreenGate, and seriously, if that was the best they could do they should have just kept quiet. Good on Michael Ausiello for repeatedly reminding them the issue isn’t about gossip, but about treating your audience poorly. They didn’t get it though, and stuck to evasive non-answers. Comparing a green screened driving scene or a shootout is not the same kind of “trick” as needing to fake two characters having a simple conversation because you can’t do your job well enough to get your actors to behave professionally. Whatever happened behind the scenes, the showrunners are clearly working for Julianna Margulies now instead of the other way around.

-Sad news: police are searching for Rosie O’Donnell’s teen daughter after she went missing.

-The female movie exec who Emile Hirsch choked is disappointed that he only got a 15-day jail sentence. “I thought I was going to die.”

–Jon Stewart‘s retirement didn’t last long. He’ll host WWE’s SummerSlam this weekend. Between him and Stephen Amell competing in it, am I actually going to have to watch wrestling? Ugh.

-Speaking of Stewart, here’s Trevor Noah‘s first Daily Show promo.

–Stephen Colbert‘s new GQ cover story will reconfirm your undying love for him.

–Bill Hader‘s story on Seth Meyers‘ show about being stoned with Amy Schumer and the rest of the Trainwreck crew in Amsterdam might be the best late night bit I’ve seen in a while. He talks about how he lost an equally stoned SNL Vanessa Bayer, who shows up to interrupt the story.

-I might order tix to TIFF’s closing night film, based on this image alone.

–Zac Efron was in a much better mood on Jimmy Fallon last night than when I saw him at the TO afterparty of We Are Your Friends on Friday.

–Patrick Stewart surprise-kissed Conan O’Brien. #jealous

–Channing Tatum has adopted a rescue horse , just in case your crush on him was beginning to wan.

–James McAvoy and Daniel Radcliffe team up in the Victor Frankenstein trailer, and it’s everything I never knew I wanted.

Ben Affleck’s Nanny Angling To Be The Bachelorette?

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–Ben Affleck‘s nanny is the gift that keeps on giving! Now there’s talk that she wants to be the next Bachelorette. It’s going to take a lot more than money to shut this girl up. Karma wins again!

-NBA player Matt Barnes implied he was dating Rihanna and she noped him so hard.

-Calvin Harris and Zayn Malik got into a Twitter fight over Taylor Swift like the mature adults that they are.

-So now Julia Roberts and Joan Baez are on Taylor’s squad? When will the madness end?!?

-Get ready for some serious feels: The Fast and Furious cast got emotional talking about Paul Walker at the Teen Choice Awards.

-Speaking of emotional Teen Choice Awards moments, Nina Dobrev got teary saying goodbye to The Vampire Diaries last night.

-Here’s our first look at Felicity Jones in the Star Wars universe.

-I don’t really understand David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson’s in-jokes, but I’m still gonna like/fav/RT the crap outta them.

-Sorry, but that’s not actually Jennifer Aniston’s wedding gown.

–Tatiana Maslany says she “can’t even count” the number of times she’s encountered sexism in Hollywood. Stay in Canada, Tat! We’re 13.3% less pervy.

-The story about Morgan Freeman‘s god-daughter continues to get more and more tragic. A 30-year-old man (reportedly her boyfriend) has been arrested in her stabbing, which an eyewitness claims was an “attempted exorcism.”

-Newsflash: people really, really don’t like Ariana Grande.

-More dirt is coming out from the Fantastic Four set, including news that director Josh Trank and Miles Teller almost came to blows.

-I kind of hope Felicia Day’s press tour never ends because it’s so adorably awesome.

-This is a good sign: everyone who caught a glimpse of Captain America: Civil War footage at D23 is raving about it.

-This is a great (if long) piece about the move from weekly television airings to all-at-once drops.

-Speaking of TV, I caught up on the last episode of Mr Robot and now that’s all I want to talk about. Holy $*&%! This show is everything True Detective tried — and failed — to be.

-Watch Cate Blanchett win her next Oscar by flirting with Rooney Mara in this trailer for Carol.

Sharon Stone Bares All, Gives Amazing Interview

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–Sharon Stone‘s Harper’s Bazaar interview is spun gold flecked with perfection and doused in awesome. She holds nothing back, whether she’s talking about guest-starring on SVU (“I’m like, ‘This is so bad. What did I do to deserve this?'”) to her inability to find a date to the fact that she thinks her “ass looks like a bag of flapjacks.” The accompanying photo shoot proves otherwise…

-Is Britney back, (bitch)? There’s a lot of talk this week about Britney Spears‘ resurrection. This certainly is the best dancing we’ve seen in years.

–Cara Delevingne‘s greatest goal in life is to mend Taylor Swift and Miley Cyrus’ friendship. Bless her.

-Meanwhile, in her Marie Claire cover story, Miley spoke about the many, many ways growing up as a Disney star messed her up. “I was made to look like someone that I wasn’t, which probably caused some body dysmorphia because I had been made pretty every day for so long, and then when I wasn’t on that show, it was like, ‘Who the fuck am I?'”

-She also talked about her budding friendship with Caitlyn Jenner.

-This Rose McGowan profile makes me want to join her official fan club and/or carve a sculpture in her honour.

-This is an interesting article on True Detective’s possible future. Despite season 2 being hated by critics and audiences, HBO isn’t exactly known for admitting defeat and they need a lot more programming then they used to feed the beast, so I wouldn’t be surprised to see a renewal. I’m guessing they’ll somehow put a leash on Nic Pizzolatto, though.

-I would like to live inside Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux’s honeymoon.

–Joshua Jackson amused himself on a flight last night by tweeting about the Mighty Ducks. Marry me.

–Nicolle Wallace says ABC gave her zero feedback before firing her from The View.

-I kind of love that all the Modern Family kids turn to Julie Bowen whenever they need life advice.

–Amy Schumer crashed a wedding reception in Dublin and participated in a singalong because she’s a perfect human being.

-Hollywood Reporter’s post-TCA advice for TV networks is so on point. My favourite bit: “If the show doesn’t start strong and then bloom in the next two or three [episodes], that’s pretty much it. Asking me to come back later because “the ninth episode is our best yet” is completely misunderstanding how normal people watch television.” Preach!

–Felicia Day played the nerdiest game of “F*ck, Marry, Kill” for Buzzfeed.

-Speaking of Buzzfeed quizzes, Armie Hammer and Henry Cavill’s response to “never have I ever been in handcuffs” is priceless.

-In other Buzzfeed news, they do an amazing job breaking down what it means that Beyonce wore a weave on her Vogue cover. (Spoiler alert: nothing.)

–Khloe Kardashian took a private jet to Chipotle, which is exactly what I would do in her position. #LifeGoals

-Everyone is reworking their box office predictions for the weekend after Straight Outta Compton had a HUGE Friday.

-Wait. How did this (accidentally NSFW) Mockingjay poster ever get through the approval process? Like, ever.

-ABC recruited a bunch of their stars to appear in their new Muppets promo, including Kerry Washington and Nathan Fillion.