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October 2015

Channing Tatum Dresses Up as Winnie the Pooh

Channing Tatum makes a terrifying Winnie the Pooh. Still hot, though.

-I need someone to explain everything about these photos of Chris Martin and his new GF dancing in the street. Are these candid? ‘Cause in one shot it looks like he’s even looking at the camera. Who IS he right now?!

-Does Fox have a leak on its hands? A new X Files promo appeared on YouTube this afternoon. And then another. And another. And another. They still have stock image watermarks and production notes on them, so this clearly wasn’t supposed to happen.

Anthony Mackie says he was just joking when he said he endorsed Trump, so I guess he can go back to being our fake boyfriend again. Whew! That fake breakup was going to be messy AF.

-This is pretty great: Bradley Cooper says he’s going to team up with his female costars for negotiations before the film goes into production.

-The Royal We (my favourite beach read this summer) is being turned into a movie by Parenthood costars Lauren Graham and Mae Whitman. They haven’t even started yet and already this is the best adaptation in the history of cinema!

John Oliver knowingly broke a Canadian law last night by telling us all not to vote for Harper, but he won’t be going to jail for it.

-Tabloids are reporting that Sean Penn and Madonna are hooking up again but I’m considering the source (and crossing my fingers and toes that it isn’t true).

-I usually find the video content that accompanies magazine interviews pretty eyeroll-inducing, but Anna Kendrick’s shower thoughts are great. There are some real gems here, including “They should announce a sequel to Groundhog Day, and then just re-release the original” and “I wonder what my dog named me?”

-We now have photographic evidence that the Absolutely Fabulous movie is finally happening.

Gwen Stefani is shutting down those Blake Shelton romance rumors. (Can she also shut down those rumours about how she’s reluctant to jump into a relationship and have more kids? I don’t know why her being 46 doesn’t seem to be enough to do that…)

-Meanwhile, let’s all listen to Gwen Stefani’s sad new single and infer connections that probably aren’t there.

-Goddamit, Adam Levine is being so cute with this little girl and it’s giving me a lot of conflicting feelings…

-For those people who felt a little icky about that recent Tina Fey clip from Billy on the Street, watch America Ferrera try to name white actors in her new parody of it.

-Lainey dubbing Ben Affleck‘s new look “Karma Face” just slayed me. I’m dead.

-Hmmm…speaking of Lainey, here’s her new blind item.

-Hmmm…Amanda Seyfried‘s Broadway costar just split from his wife.

-It’s weird that I don’t immediately love a CW show (I KNOW!!) but I’m not sold on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend yet. But I am going to give it another episode based solely on this song about getting ready to go out, if only because they snuck the words “ass blood” past the network censors, and because I’ve never seen a stomach like that on broadcast TV. She looks like an actual human woman!

Adele just previewed a snippet of a new song and I need more!

-I hope Project Greenlight turns Effie Brown into a household name.

-Everyone is raving about The Revenant. Like, raving about it. I’ve watched the new trailer a couple of times now. I…don’t get it.

Brangelina Just Blew Your #SquadGoals Out of the Water

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Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt just started their By the Sea Oscar campaign by posing with their kids in the new issue of Vogue. I love how this dropped without anyone knowing it was coming. She talks about working with Brad on the new movie (“the worst idea”), planning trips with her kids, and her decision to have pre-cancer surgeries. I love how focused and centred she sounds. I still remember that Esquire interview with her from 2007 that made me convinced she wasn’t going to live past 35. Thrilled I was wrong.

Jessica Chastain did what we all would do if we were in her shoes; she once pretended to be Bryce Dallas Howard to reap praise.

Drake covers the new issue of W, in which he talks about his love for Toronto and art. (At one point during his ACL set last weekend he said “This next bit is going prove who’s been fans of mine since the very beginning” and my friend and I both shouted “WHEELCHAIR JIMMY!!” Turns out that wasn’t what he was talking about…)

-Meanwhile, the co-creator of Degrassi is refuting Drake’s claims that the show made him choose between being an actor and being a singer.

-Karma! Bill Cosby has lost three more honorary degrees.

Kate Hudson and Nick Jonas are still icking us out. Neither of them are going to talk about it though, which is more than fine by me.

-Sometimes I think Ellen is just trolling us. Like that time she just got Justin Theroux a life-sized blow up doll who looks like Jennifer Aniston. Like, what? I can feel my mother’s scandalized vibes from across the country.

-Also, Justin played the kid in that viral UCONN mac and cheese video on Kimmel last night.

-Meanwhile, Tom Hanks continues to prove why he’s the best late night guest.

-His son, Colin Hanks, is currently promoting his new doc on Tower Records. I’m so glad he got it off the ground; I remember him talking about this on a Nerdist podcast five years ago.

-I kind of loved Vanity Fair’s untold story of the Ermahgerd Girl.

Cate Blanchett thinks wage inequality talk is “boring” and just wants to get on with it and pay women the same as men.

Emily Blunt is also tired of all the Hollywood sexism talk, but that’s because she says talking about it makes it worse. Um, no.

-Meanwhile, this is the best thing I’ve read about Jennifer Lawrence‘s pay gap essay.

-I knew I was going to like this article based on the headline alone: “What Is The Point of Katy Perry, Even?” Also, I’m going to refer to her as a nothingburger from now on…

Ann Coulter took down Raven-Symoné and it kind of made me like her for half a second. What?

-This is such a great profile on Brie Larson. She’s about to explode.

-Here’s the first trailer for Experimenter, starring Peter Sarsgaard and Winona Ryder.

Taylor Swift Gets Real in GQ

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-I went to a music festival last weekend and re-read Killing Yourself to Live on the plane because A) reading about the places where famous musicians died seemed like good prep, and B) Chuck Klosterman is my all-time fave pop culture writer. So I was super excited to see that he wrote the new GQ profile on Taylor Swift — and used it as an excuse to pen an essay on her stardom and strategy. There’s so much goodness in it, but my favourite bit is when she tells Justin Timberlake: “You’re never going to get old. That’s scientific fact. That’s medical.” The way she bristles at being called “calculating” is also fascinating. And when he talks about how she uses two different voices to get her points across? Read the whole thing. It’s worth it.

-In other magazine news, the cover of Ebony’s November issue is powerful and perfect.

-Chris Hemsworth only joined Instagram this week and already he’s killing it.

-Whomp, there it is! A civil suit will be filed against Robert Durst by his long-missing wife’s family.

Selena Gomez says she has “absolutely” questioned her sexuality. Cue the Bieber jokes.

Selena also proved she’s the queen of Dubsmash last night with Jimmy Fallon.

-I forgot to link to this last week, but the Felicity cast video embedded in the middle of the page giving me life. When Foley calls Speedman “Scotty?” AHH! WHAT IS AIR??

-I want Blake Lively’s shoes and I hate myself for it.

-Back to the Future stars Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd reunited for Toyota commercial and it was all kinds of cute.

Jessica Chastain is the latest actress to speak out against the Hollywood wage gap: “It’s completely unfair. It’s not right”

Amy Schumer hung out with Sean Penn at Madonna’s Vancouver show, which really hurts my heart guts.

Eddie Redmayne clings to hope in new The Danish Girl trailer.