-I’m not saying I ate a burger for lunch solely because I spent so much time this morning staring at this photo of Mahershala Ali from his new GQ spread, but I’m not NOT saying that either…
–Beyonce has reportedly delivered her twins and her dad was the one to break the news, which deprived us all of an epically posed Instagram announcement from B herself.
-The Bachelor couple who’s wedding was supposed to air on Bachelor in Paradise went through with the ceremony this weekend. I’m so curious about what the show’s likely cancellation means for contracts. If you were promised a televised wedding and then said television show gets shut down, what do you get instead?
-Meanwhile, Bachelor in Paradise contestant DeMario Jackson’s lawyer says video evidencewill vindicate his client.
–Ryan Reynolds teased the Deadpool sequel by posing outside the X-Men mansion in Vancouver(or, as I like to call it, Oliver Queen’s house).
-Bless Buzzfeed for asking Sofia Coppola why her remake of The Beguiled (which is set during confederacy) erased the female slave character.
–Justin Bieber swears he’s never going to jail again. He posted it on the internet so it must be true.
-Things I never thought I’d type: Pamela Anderson is attempting to negotiate Julian Assange’s asylum.
-I love that the internet is flipping out over Gal Gadot‘s husband’s “wonderful” shirt.
-The Mummy’s director Alex Kurtzman says “we made a film for audiences, not critics.” But audiences scored it really low too, so?
–Miley Cyruscalled out Dolce & Gabbanafor their “politics” and Stefano Gabbana responded with an Instagram rant.
-Rough Night wasn’t projected to do well this weekend, but no one expected Mandy Moore’s shark thriller 47 Meters Down to beat it.
-This is a good piece on how the Bill Cosby mistrial is a harsh reminder of the power of celebrity and the limits of our institutions.
-After many delays and production troubles, Star Trek: Discovery will premiere Sept 24 – which is 8 months after it was originally set to debut. It airs on CBS’s subscriber-only portal All Access in the States, but it will air on the Space Network here in Canada.
-Speaking of rebooted shows, Will & Grace will premiere Sept 28.
-Here’s our first look at Pitch Perfect 3. This franchise is my BFF’s movie comfort food, so I’ve already resigned myself to rewatching it 37 times.
–Chrissy Teigen looks great on Marie Claire! (Gucci did right by her.) And despite all the attention her “butthole” quote is getting, she actually talks about other things, including postpartum depression, a desire to adopt, and her tendency to be too honest.
–Jada Pinkett Smith went on Twitter to list all the ways All Eyez on Me misrepresents her relationshipwith Tupac Shakur.
-This is a really interesting read from Buzzfeed on how Kim Kardashian‘s first pregnancy ushered in an age of pregnancy performance in public.
-I have a really complicated relationship with my feelings about Joss Whedon. He created two feminist-leaning shows that were chocked full of the amazing female characters I needed to see in my formative years. He also created Dollhouse, in which the lead character was basically a mindless sex doll every other week. He still bangs the drum for female stories. But he also created this super pervy script for the Wonder Woman, which leaked last night. It’s bad. Like, really, really bad, especially when compared to what we ended up getting. It’s so bad that women who were hilariously live-tweeting it had to give up. I agree with this threadabout how even the most well-meaning Hollywood players have to actively work to be better.
–Barack Obama paid tribute to Jay-Z during the Songwriters Hall of Fame induction, and he might have revealed the sex of Beyoncé and Jay Z’s twins.
–Jay Z made a rare return to Twitterto thank all the rappers who’ve inspired him (including Beyoncé).
-The fact that Lorde ran a secret Instagram account dedicated to rating onion rings is delightful.
–Katy Perry just became the first Twitter user to hit 100 million followers. I’m just waiting for Taylor Swift to say “hold my beer.”
–Ashton Kutcher says his and Mila Kunis‘ 2-year-old daughter “occasionally tries to murder the young one” with over-enthusiastic squeezing.
–Leonardo DiCaprio has voluntarily surrendered to the government an Oscar awarded to Marlon Brando.
–Colin Trevorrow (who got handed the keys to the Jurassic Park and Star Wars: Episode IX after only doing Safety Not Guaranteed because he’s a white dude), is getting SAVAGED by critics for his new movie, The Book Of Henry. So much so that people are starting to wonder if he’ll lose the Star Wars gigbecause of it.
–Arcade Fire dropped a new song today called “Creature Comfort.”
-This is an excellent read on what we’re losing with the end of Orphan Black. It’s the show I always point to when making a case for character over plot. I haven’t been able to follow what’s going on for years, but I keep watching because they make you care so much about the “seestas.”
–Drew Barrymore is dating an exec at the company that makes her cosmetic line.
–Rihanna is the best thing about DJ Khaled’s new video. (The worst thing is the Santana sample.)
–Zendaya looks stunning on the cover of Vogue’s July issue, in which she talks about making demands to Disney execs when she was only 16, and learning trapeze for her new movie.
-THR’s TV Comedy Actress roundtable features Emmy Rossum, Issa Rae, America Ferrera, Pamela Adlon, Minnie Driver, and Katherine Hahn. Among the best bits: Rossum says William H. Macy supported her most during her equal pay fight, Adlon remembered having a similar battle on Californication, Driver talked about directors building ditches for her to stand in when kissing shorter costars instead of just making the actor stand on an apple box, and Hahn talked about always getting typecast as the BFF and pitched a Rosencrantz and Guildenstern-type movie where she and Judy Greer are the leads, and every so often you see Kate Hudson running around in the background. (I would watch that.)
–Beyonce might be having her twins right now and the internet is melting down.
–Jessica Chastain would like everyone to stop looking at her wedding photos, which were taken by paps in a helicopter. Fair enough (though I’ll be interested to see if she shares them herself eventually, or sells them to a pub).
-I posted a few days ago about Jake Johnson‘s awesome story about Tom Cruise being the nicest guy ever. Here are 18 more.
-On the flip side, did he have too much say in The Mummy script?
–Elizabeth Banks really stepped in it yesterday when she used an acceptance speech to call out legendary director Steven Spielberg for failing to make female-lead films. Shari Belafonte pointed out The Color Purple, but Banks simply “moved on.” This white feminism bullshit is getting worse.
-Update: Elizabeth tweeted an apology. She’s a producer and a director now; lets hope she learns from this and hires all types of women for her next projects.
-Speaking of famous white women being woke-light, the NYT profile on Katy Perry did her no favours. The writer calls her out repeatedly, saying “in our interview, she proclaimed herself devoted to dialogue but spoke in a near uninterrupted monologue.” It’s like when DeRay Mckesson asked her about cultural appropriation during her live-stream and she talked for two minutes straightbut never actually apologized.
-This is depressing: the Cosby jury is deadlocked. They deliberated for 30 hours over 4 days before telling the judge they couldn’t reach a verdict. He’s ordered them back for more deliberations.
-I can’t believe I somehow missed this last week: Tobey Maguire and ex-wife Jennifer Meyer attended their daughter’s school production of Beauty & the Beast, and all their A-list friends came, including Leonardo DiCaprio (with his wolf pack), Courteney Cox and Gwyneth Paltrow. I bet the other kids felt like crap when only their grandparents showed up for them.
–Gwyneth Paltrow says she’s moving away from acting to focus on Goop. So I guess I’m moving towards ridiculing her full time.
–DeMario Jacksonbroke his silence over those Bachelor In Paradise allegations, saying “my character has been assassinated.”
-Also, this article on drunken hook-ups on reality TV is unnerving. “There are implied incentives available to cast members who are down to fool around.”
–Ryan Seacrest is on the cover of THRwith the crazy story of the secret, heated negotiations to bring him back to the rebooted American Idol. After blowing the record-breaking $25 million to hire Katy Perry, producers went back to Seacrest with half of their original offer and things got tense.
-I watched The Leftovers series finale a week ago and avoided articles/podcasts up until now because I wanted to have time to digest it. (I’ve changed my mind three times since then about whether or not I believe Nora’s story, but I’m holding firm in my first impression that it was a near-perfect finale.) Now that I’m looking up what was written about it, I’m astounded by Vulture’s deep dive. Their writer was basically embedded with the show for months to create this feature. It verges a little into ‘how the sausage is made’ territory, but even if you’ve never seen the show, this is a great read for anyone interested in how TV works.
-Rough Night is only at 55% on Rotten Tomatoes, but it got good reviews from two critics I usually agree with, so that’s promising.
-This is an interesting look at how much Netflix is paying for new TV shows (word is that they’re investing $4 per subscriber on original content.) Basically, they “must spend like a drunken sailor to compete with TV networks.”
–Aisha Tyler emotionally announced on today’s show that she’s leaving The Talk: “I just realized I had to let something go”. Can’t say I’m surprised. She’s at Seacrest-levels of work, with Criminal Minds, Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Archer, her podcast, her cocktail company and hitting the festival circuitwith her directorial debut. I don’t even know if I’ve ever watched an episode of The Talk but when she started sob-heaving in that clip I got teary.
