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January 2017

The 2017 Vanity Fair Hollywood Issue Has Landed

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–Vanity Fair’s annual Hollywood cover is here and it’s pretty damn glorious. Everyone looks amazing but Ruth Negga is especially owning it, I think. (Also, they were clearly assuming Amy Adams would be nominated and Birth of a Nation’s Aja Naomi King would be a bigger deal.)

-The solo portraits and videos are great, too.  I love Emma Stone‘s explanation on why she loves Nancy Meyers movies. “How did these women have these kitchens? We don’t know, because we don’t ask, because it looks breezy and like life is wonderful.”

–Scarlett Johansson and now-ex Romain Dauriac are presenting a united front post-split announcement, attending an art opening together last night.

–Shia LaBeouf was arrested after a self-identified Hitler apologist invaded his anti-Trump live stream. Say what you will about Shia, but he controlled himself pretty admirably. Saying “Hitler did nothing wrong” to a Jewish person could have gone wayyyy worse.

–Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie‘s divorce is the focus of a new investigative documentary, which I’m sure must just *thrill* them.

-This is a great read about Hollywood’s Black List, an annual survey of the “most liked” motion picture screenplays not yet produced.

-Community creator Dan Harmon has offered suspended SNL writer Katie Rich a job.

-Well, this doesn’t bode well: The Flash movie screenplay is reportedly getting a complete rewrite from a new writer.

–Zach Braff is returning to TV. If Donald Faison isn’t joining him I’m just going to pretend it’s not happening.

-Speaking of returns, welcome back Julia Stiles!

–Sofia Vergara asks “What’s wrong with being a stereotype?” Uh….

-The more I see from Zendaya, the more I like this kid.

– Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard were on Ellen today and told a cute story about how Dax helped Kristen talk to her celebrity crush Riz Ahmed at the Golden Globes. “I walked up and out of my mouth came ‘I find you very attractive!'”

-In news that should surprise no one,  Nina Dobrev will return in The Vampire Diaries series finale.

-In other news that should surprise no one, the director of Wayne’s World recalls clashing with Mike Myers.

–Roxane Gay continues to be my hero with her clapback game.

–Melissa Benoist and Eva Longoria try to support a struggling graffiti artist in the new Lowriders trailer.

Scarlett Johansson Splits From Hubby

–Scarlett Johansson and Romain Dauriac split after two years of marriage. She wasn’t wearing her wedding ring at least weekend’s women’s march, and there were some shady blinds about those two flying around recently (that maybe weren’t so shady after all?).

-Contrary to a new report from the AP, Madonna says she has not applied to adopt two more children from Malawi

–Selena Gomez had a “fun” and “flirty” weekend with The Weeknd, according to a source who seems way too invested in this relationship.

-Hurrah: The man who hacked and stole nude photos from Jennifer Lawrence will serve jail time.

–Constance Wu said she was warned that speaking out against Casey Affleck’s Oscar nomination would hurt her career, but people are are thanking her for it.

–Josh Gad tricked costar Daisy Ridley into a conversation under false pretenses and then grilled her about The Last Jedi.

-Awesome human being Roxane Gay pulled her forthcoming book from Simon & Schuster over Milo Yiannopoulous’s $250,000 book deal with the publisher.

-This is a good piece on why Legends of Tomorrow has suddenly become DC’s best TV show. I’m as shocked as you are.

-Speaking of TV, here’s a look back at all the clues we missed about The Good Place’s big twist. I love that it ended up doing the mystery box thing even better than Westworld.

–Selena Gomez debuted a new promo for Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why (which she is executive producing). I dug that book.

–Stephen Colbert and Billy Eichner asked New Yorkers what they’d want to say to Trump if they could.

-I’m not sure if this is a good look for Dennis Quaid.

-The cast of The Lizzie Bennet Diaries just did a table read for something that looks like it’s called The Lizzie Bennet Wedding and WHAT DOES THIS MEAN I NEED IT NOW!

-Bathroom selfies are gross but if I had abs like Kate Beckinsale’s I’d probably start snapping too.

-To celebrate A Walk To Remember’s 15th anniversary, Mandy Moore and Shane West reflect on what it was like to make the film.

-I really like this piece on how Sweet/Vicious has quietly mastered how to portray sexual violence on TV.

–Sam Claflin is seduced by Rachel Weisz in the trailer for My Cousin Rachel.

Paris Jackson: ‘It’s Obvious’ Dad Michael Was Murdered

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–Paris Jackson gave  her first-ever in-depth interview for the cover of Rolling Stone and she didn’t exactly hold back. She talked about her multiple suicide attempts, her childhood growing up on the Neverland ranch (“We couldn’t just go on the rides whenever we wanted to. We actually had a pretty normal life”) and her belief that her father Michael was murdered.

–Ewan McGregor (a longtime supporter of women’s rights) is refusing to be on Piers Morgan’s show because of his comments on the women’s march. Bless him.

–Todd Fisher teared up talking about his sister Carrie being the face of anti-Trump rebellion.

–Cate Blanchett expertly turned a silly Jimmy Fallon game into a giant Trump shading session.

-The Oscar noms were announced this morning and the biggest shock was Meryl Streep‘s nomination. She beat out the much-more deserving Amy Adams, Annette Benning and Taraji P. Henson. (The internet was particularly pressed about Adams’ snub.)  In other WTF? moments, Mel Gibson somehow scored a Best Director nod over Martin Scorsese (Silence), Garth Davis (Lion), Pablo Larraín (Jackie), Denzel Washington (Fences) and David Mackenzie (Hell or High Water). It wasn’t a complete wash, though. Michael Shannon‘s nod was a nice surprise for Nocturnal Animals (he was one of the few things I liked about that film), O.J.: Made in America was nominated in the doc category, and at least one person of colour was nominated in every major category.

-At least Meryl’s reaction to her Oscar nom was kind of cute.

-Not surprisingly, Deadpool didn’t make the cut. Ryan Reynolds responded with a tickle fight invite.

-Fresh Off The Boat’s Constance Wu wrote about how Casey Affleck’s Oscar win will be a nod to Trump’s and I think I love her.

–Tom Cruise, Joel McHale, Bradley Cooper, Ryan Reynolds and Armie Hammer are all rumoured to be on the shortlist to play Green Lantern and I’m so bored by all of those names.

–Aaron Paul is hinting that Jesse Pinkman might make an appearance in Better Call Saul, which I guess I now have to catch up on? Sigh.

-Oh yeah. I forgot that Laura Prepon is having Ben Foster’s baby.

-Never thought I’d say this, but Jon Cyrer FTW.

–Kirsten Dunst is showing off her engagement ring from Jesse Plemons. Landry did good!

-Proof the world isn’t totally shit: The xx scored the highest charting album ever on the Billboard charts. (I’ve been listening to “On Hold” on repeat for months.)

-I rolled my eyes so hard at this clip of Jeremy Renner advising Elizabeth Olsen to approach filmmaking with problem solving that I think I sprained something.

-Huh. The recent lack of TV cancellations this season is starting to create a logjam for broadcast networks as they head into pilot season.

–Joshua Jackson is good people.

-The Leftovers returns  April 16th. No show in recent memory completed such as successful turnaround from S1 to S2 in my mind so I’m looking forward to it. Here’s the new S3 promo.

-A new Trainspotting trailer has landed.