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August 2017

Jennifer Aniston Addresses #FreeTheNipple

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-In her new Vogue interview, Jennifer Aniston takes down shamers (“They’re either fat-shaming, or body-shaming, or childless-shaming”), and talks about how Rachel‘s nipples often showed through her shirts on Friends (“I wear a bra, I don’t know what to tell ya!”).

-E! News is riding this “Brangelina may be reconciling” angle HARD.  I wouldn’t expect it from them unless they had some very solid sourcing.

-Look, I believe this story about how Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet aren’t dating despite how much everyone wants them too, but I still enjoyed looking at their cozy beach pictures, ok? Let me live!

-Holy moly, Netflix poached Shonda Rhimes from ABC! It makes sense for her; all of her shows seem to be waning rating-wise on the network, and she’s probably craving the “auteur” label.

Donald Glover says Atlanta’s second season is “almost ready” and is “better than the first season.”  Thank gawd. The world NEEDS it.

-In celebration of their Helen Mirren cover, Allure has announced it will stop using the phrase “anti-aging.”

-I love that both Nicole Kidman and Naomi Watts will not let Jimmy Fallon forget about the time Kidman wanted to date him and he was oblivious.

-Damn, it’s been a terrible summer for stunt accidents. A stuntwoman on Deadpool 2 is dead following a motorcycle accident on the Vancouver set. Ryan Reynolds released a statement about it.

-Speaking of scary stunts, a leaked video from the Mission: Impossible 6 set shows Tom Cruise jumping from one building to another and falling short of his mark, then limping away. I worry for him.

-Wait, so Julianna Margulies‘ terrible, terrible wig on The Good Wife was part of her contract demands? She *wanted* that thing?!

-Gird up: we might have to deal with Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom loving on each other again.

-I don’t even watch Halt & Catch Fire but man, this interview with Mackenzie Davis is great. She doesn’t hesitate to talk about her white-washed role in The Martian, or the “bury your gays” trope in her episode of Black Mirror.

George Clooney pulled a Terrence Malick and cut all of Josh Brolin’s scenes out of his new movie. But he felt really bad about it!

Kate Hudson belted out a song while holding a glass of wine at a friend’s house this weekend. I like how normal she looks.

Taylor Swift cried during the emotional closing arguments of the groping trial, which she has since won. The jury ordered the DJ to pay Swift a symbolic $1 in damages, per her lawsuit request.

-Meanwhile, I really like this take on why Taylor’s unflinching testimony matters.

-Four people in India have been arrested for leaking the fourth episode of this season of Game Of Thrones  — and they have nothing to do with the HBO hack.

-The HBO hackers did, however, leak several episodes of the new Curb Your Enthusiasm.

-I’m glad I’m not the only one who thinks that the more Game of Thrones speeds everything up, the more they’re just ignoring basic plotting issues.

Bill Hader pines for Cecily Strong in Steve Martin’s new music video.

-I’m super excited that Amazon is adapting Good Omens (one of my favourite books!). I’m even more excited that they cast Michael Sheen and David Tennant.

Deadmau5 got married — and ditched the giant mask for the ceremony.

-After making waves with a debut shot entirely on an iPhone, Tangerine director Sean Baker is with The Florida Project, which stars Willem Dafoe as a motel manager who takes a kid who lives there under his wing.

Robert Pattinson Talks Paparazzi and Poop

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-In his new GQ cover story,  Robert Pattinson reveals he went to therapy and talked about his extreme efforts to “disappear” after Twilight. He also revealed his deep love for the movie Waterworld and explained something called a “fecal-matter transplant,” if you’re into that sort of thing.

-Meanwhile, Pattinson recently said that he and FKA twigs are “kind of” engaged, but she didn’t look engaged as she toured Ibiza with French male model Brieuc Breitenstein.

-There may be something to Us Weekly’s cover story about Brangelina not divorcing. Sources are now telling E! News that “they are taking a breather and seeing what happens.”

-Celebrities took to Twitter to cheer on Taylor Swift after her testimony in the groping trial.

Michael Moore’s Broadway show debuted last night, and critics did not approve.

-Gypsy just joined the few Netflix original series to get canceled. On the flip side, GLOW was renewed.

-HBO’s hackers leaked an email from the network, who allegedly offered them $250k.

-I read this epic Friends tweet thread over the weekend about how Rachel/Joey was a much healthier relationship than Rachel/Ross and loved it. Glad to see it’s being widely circulated.

-This is nuts: YA books are being targeted in intense social-media pile-ons — sometimes before anybody’s even read them.

Ryan Murphy made a “creative pivot” and Sarah Paulson is now the star of American Crime Story’s Katrina, which can only be a good thing.

Donald Glover’s THR cover is making me not hate millennial pink so much…

-Speaking of great covers, I love this Nylon one with Kirsten Dunst.

Renée Zellweger and Greg Kinnear play a struggling couple in the new Same Kind of Different As Me trailer.

Taylor Swift Testifies Like a Boss

-On the fourth day of the trial in which a former radio DJ is suing Taylor Swift, claiming her allegations that he groped her butt during a meet-and-greet cost him his job, the singer took the stand to testify — and she was awesome. This asshole should have  just been grateful that all he lost was his job, but instead he decided to try to make some money off of it as if she wasn’t going to own him in court.

-I really, really hate the outfit Marie Claire stuck Emma Stone in on their cover (what’s with that hat?!), but the inside photos are lovely.

Nikki Reed and Ian Somerhalder are officially parents to a girl, who they (unsurprisingly) named Bodhi Soleil. Oh, and Ian says he’s totally ready for babies because he has kittens.

-This is very sweet: Tatiana Maslany, Jordan Gavaris,  Évelyne Brochu, Kristian Bruun and more of the Orphan Black cast and crew praise the importance of the show’s fans, known as the #CloneClub

-Oh my god, Ringer did an oral history of the time a dog ate a heart on One Tree Hill and this might be the best thing I’ve ever read! My favourite part: [Chad Michael Murray declined to comment for this article.]

Channing Tatum busted some Magic Mike-style moves in a gas station convenience store. Bless him.

Justin Theroux may not be very fun to live next to. His neighbor filed a complaint about endless barking from the actor’s rescue dogs left isolated for long periods, dropping heavy weights on the floor at 3 AM, and angry outbursts.

The Crown season 2 trailer is here, if you’re craving some very slow-paced royal drama.

Britney Spears was visibly shaken up after a man rushed on stage mid-concert. In the video, you can hear her ask, “Is something OK? What’s going on? He’s got a gun?”

Kylie Jenner‘s makeup brand made $420 million in just 18 months, and it’s only getting bigger.

Halle Berry says Storm and Wolverine were lovers in the X-Men films. This feels more like head canon/wishful thinking than fact.

Paris Hilton is gonna have a reality show again? Who wants that? (Speaking of Paris Hilton, I recently listened to a great podcast in which a publicist and a tabloid editor talk about her gossip heyday. The most fascinating thing is that they used to meet for lunch once a week to plan out coverage of starlets…)

-Yass Kween! You can now buy Broad City-branded sex toys.

-With news that Selena Gomez and Elle Fanning are joining Woody Allen’s new project comes this interesting piece on why young stars still want to work with him. They shouldn’t.

Drew Barrymore‘s interview about wine wasn’t THAT bad. This feels very nit-picky to me. (Or maybe I just have really, really low expectations of celebrities who have their own wine labels.)

-Hollywood is calling this box office season The Summer Of Hell. Really? Cause it seems to me like a lot of small-budget indies are doing just fine.

Better Things’ Season 2 trailer has arrived. This show kind of fell under the radar but I adored the first season.

-I fully agree with this article. When it comes to TV shows, plot is bullshit.

Jimmy Kimmel asked Americans to find North Korea…and they pointed at Canada.

James Corden and Jeffrey Tambor recreated the Brandy/Monica video “That Boy Is Mine” with “The Boyega Is Mine” with John Boyega and it literally made my entire day.