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June 2016

Beyonce and Jesse Williams Light Up BET Awards

-I was switching between the BET Awards and the Game of Thrones finale last night, but luckily I happened to catch the two moments from the ceremony that everyone is talking about: Beyonce’s insane opening number with Kendrick Lamar (which was not announced in advance — probably because BET was burned the last time they hyped her appearance and she ended up only showing up via Skype), and Jesse Williams’ amazing speech. (The fact that one of the first thing he acknowledges is the contributions of black women — when has that ever happened before?!) His Tumblr is also great, as is this Twitter story of him previously stepping up without wanting any acknowledgement or publicity.

-Meanwhile, Justin Timberlake hit up Twitter after Jesse‘s speech with some weird tweets that veered dangerously close to #AllLivesMatter territory, so Twitter hits back.

-In Game of Thrones news, here are all the times before last night’s finale when the show tried to tell us who Jon Snow’s parents are.

–Taylor Swift and Tom Hiddleston are working overtime to land him Bond show off their love. They were photographed getting cozy at dinner, and then hanging out with his mom — twice!

-So Kanye West dropped an new video on Friday that features a bunch of “naked” celebrities — including Rihanna, Taylor Swift, Bill Cosby, Amber Rose, and Chris Brown. Legally, how is this a thing he can do?!

-In less controversial debuts, Rihanna premiered “Sledgehammer” this weekend.

–Blake Lively‘s terrible chopping skills are giving me life.

-Meanwhile, Blake says “there’s a strong chance” there will be a third Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants movie. Huh.

-When Rory Gilmore met Michelle Obama…

–Diane Kruger gushes about Joshua Jackson in a new interview and now I’m even more confused about the status of their relationship!

–Mindy Kaling has a list of very reasonable requirements for her spin instructors.

–Matthew McConaughey says he had “a big crush” on Sarah Jessica Parker when he was younger. Sure, but do y’all remember when he called her “peculiar” on Oprah? #NeverForget

–50 Cent was arrested in the Caribbean for swearing. Remind me to never go to the Caribbean.

–Jenny Slate and Chris Evans attended the The Secret Life Of Pets premiere in NYC together and they look adorable! I mean, I wish he’d dressed up a little but the adorableness is still overshadowing it.

-Last night, John Oliver warned that Brexit vote is a warning call to US voters that “there are no f*cking do-overs” before tackling Olympic doping scandals.

–Jesse Eisenberg scolded anti-gay protesters in London.

-Last week’s two new episodes of Comedy Bang Bang were filled with awesome guest stars, from Tegan and Sara doing a Hitchcock homage to Emily Bett Rickards starring in a She’s All That spoof.

–Winona Ryder talked  about her relationship with Johnny Depp, saying he was “never abusive at all towards me” when they dated — 23 years ago.

-Meanwhile, Johnny continues to live life to the fullest ’cause why not.

–Rami Malek feels a little weird about being your internet boyfriend — but he’s cool with it.

-Mad Men’s Matthew Weiner talks about directing the final episode of Orange Is the New Black’s latest season (don’t read if you’re not caught up!).

-Keanu director Peter Atencio was really unhappy how the film was marketed to kitten lovers. (But the kitten was seriously the best part!)

-Speaking of movies, Independence Day Resurgence is so bad that I walked out of it this weekend. Like, I bolted before the midway mark.

–Kate Mara and Paul Giamatti get all Orphan Black-y in the Morgan trailer.

Gillian Anderson Talks Aging Gracefully

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-In her New Beauty cover story, Gillian Anderson says “I think in Europe, in general, there’s a sense that women who age naturally can be beautiful, whereas I’m not so sure that’s the perception in America.” Let’s all move to Europe!

–Calvin Harris said a lot of stuff (A LOT) on Instagram about his split from Taylor Swift.

–Nicolas Cage and wife Alice Kim have separated after 11 years of marriage.

-A Step Up TV show is coming to YouTube and it will feature Channing Tatum. This news has been brought to you from inside my brain.

-Meanwhile, Channing got candid about his sex life with wife Jenna Dewan: “For lack of a better term, we don’t hate-f**k each other. That’s just not what we do…We get down!”

–Anton Yelchin’s tragic death has prompted a $5 million class-action lawsuit against Jeep.

-In honour of The Devil Wears Prada’s 10th anniversary (yikes!), Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt are spilling secrets from the set (including how fragile Anne was because then-boyfriend Raffaello Follieri didn’t want her working). I still love that movie (although Andy’s friends are garbage people.)

-Speaking of female-fronted comedies that made a huge impact at the box office, the new Ghostbusters movie is tracking for a low debut. Come on ladies, let’s all band together and make this movie huge!  Even if it’s not very good, we need to combat this kind of crap.

–Chris Brown is being sued again for assault. Must be a day that ends in ‘y’.

–Amber Rose apparently has a new talk show, judging by this promo. Burn it all down.

–Aziz Ansari wrote this great piece for the NYT and then tweeted: “Trump wants to ban Muslim immigrants like my parents. I wrote a piece for @NYTimes telling him to go fuck himself.”

-Another good read: Lena Dunham‘s Lenny interview with Sheryl Sandberg.

-British celebrities are not happy about the Brexit. Neither, surprisingly, is Lindsay Lohan.

-Mr Robot Season 2 is now 12 episodes instead of 10, which might be the perfect TV season length.

–Ewan McGregor, Jennifer Connelly and Dakota Fanning star in the new American Pastoral trailer.

Ben Affleck Doesn’t Regret Bill Simmons Interview

–Ben Affleck‘s appearance on Bill Simmons‘ new show was, um, interesting. And by interesting, I mean slurry. I haven’t watched the full episode yet but apparently he appeared lucid until the Tom Brady segment. As The Hollywood Reporter so delicately put it,  his rant “detoured to such extremes that one could only speculate on additional conditions encouraging it.”  Whatever was the cause, his appearance certainly raised eyebrows (which, according to this clip, his face no longer seems able to do).

–Affleck later posted on his Facebook page that it’s one of his favourite interviews — but he said “f*ck” 18 times “when 12 probably would have been sufficient.”

-That interview in which Tom Hiddleston reportedly called Taylor Swift “an absolute delight” is a total fake, says his rep.

-Meanwhile, Taylor and Tom danced and cuddled at the Selena Gomez concert last night and seemed perfectly comfortable with all the cellphone cameras pointed their way. (As Lainey so eloquently put it, they’re “the first couple of dancing like everyone’s watching.”) They also didn’t shy away from the paparazzi as they were leaving.

-Congrats to Katherine Heigl, who announced she’s pregnant. (She says she’s due in January but seeing as she already knows it’s a boy, I’m guessing she’s actually further along than just two months.)

-Just in case you didn’t already love Viola Davis, she says she wanted to pepper spray Jared Leto for the scary crap he pulled on the Suicide Squad set.

–Lindsay Lohan and her fiance made their red carpet debut this week. I went to a Pride screening last night of Mean Girls and she Skyped in, and I was pleasantly surprised by how coherent and witty she was. She confirmed that she’s recording a new album, but when someone congratulated her on her engagement, she laughed it off. Hmmm…

-Oh, Ghostbusters movie. I want to love you, but this theme song is…damn.

-The “church” of Scientology says it wants to open a massive Hollywood media complex, but it may just be a fundraising scam. Which is *exactly* the plot of Hilary Liftin‘s Movie Star.

–Blake Lively‘s The Shallows is 85% fresh right now because critics are loving it — and I don’t understand life.

–Anna Kendrick and James Corden sang their way through the stages of a relationship in an epic, one-shot skit. This is basically a condensed version of her musical The Last Five Years.

–Angelina Jolie reportedly wants to sell Chateau Miraval, but Brad Pitt want to keep it. (Sidenote: the best thing about my trip to France was hearing a snobby wine expert begrudingly admit that their Miraval  rosé is quite lovely.)

–Adele‘s 25 is finally coming to Spotify tomorrow, seven months after its release.

-Even Mr Robot is getting its own an aftershow.

-I love this essay by Casey Wilson on how women aren’t permitted to be angry in public like men are.

-Honestly, I’m surprised it took this long for Taylor Lautner to realize he’s more of a TV guy than a movie guy.

-This is a long but interesting read about Seth Meyer’s evolution as a late night host.

-Alert your mom: Tom Hanks is back as Robert Langdon in a new trailer for Inferno.