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September 2017

Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny Take a Knee

–Gillian Anderson posted a pic of her and David Duchovny taking a knee on TXF set. I adore her.

–Jennifer Lopez has donated $1 million to hurricane relief in Puerto Rico, and Lin Manuel-Miranda penned a very personal plea for Puerto Rico hurricane relief.

-Congrats to Game of Thrones stars Kit Harington and Rose Leslie, who are engaged.  I guess Jon Snow knows some stuff after all…

-I was pretty happy to hear that Supergirl just added a Bollywood actress to the cast — but she’s white? So close, show!

-Everyone’s making fun of Sarah Jessica Parker hosting shoe-shopping tours of NYC, but I would do it in a heartbeat.

–Emma Stone gained 15 pounds of muscle for her role in Battle of the Sexes with shakes, sled pulls and deadlifts. Pass.

-Her costar Natalie Morales called out photographers for taking creepy upskirt shots of her at the Battle of the Sexes premiere.  How gross. These aren’t even paps — they’re professional red carpet photogs.

-Whoa. Jimmy Kimmel won the first night of the fall TV season, beating Fallon and Colbert in the key demo.

-According to Variety’s cover story on the rising costs of television, the final six #GameOfThrones episodes will cost HBO $15 million APIECE!  Woody Allen‘s Amazon series reportedly cost a half a million per minute. It’s all absurd.

-My favourite thing to come out of that Variety issue is this column on why TV execs are taking the wrong lessons from Game of Thrones.

–Gal Gadot, Jennifer Aniston, Gwyneth Paltrow, Emma Watson, Kristen Bell and a bunch more celebs read mean tweets on Kimmel last night, but Kumail Nanjiani stole the show.

-Kevin Can Wait had its season premiere last night, where the show only spent about 20 seconds acknowledging the death of the lead character’s wife. Classy.

-Here’s Taylor Kitsch as David Koresh in the trailer for the mini-series Waco, also starring Michael Shannon, John Leguizamo, Rory Culkin, and Melissa Benoist.

Prince Harry and Megan Markle’s Toronto Debut

–Prince Harry and Megan Markle were strolling through a park holding hands near my office, and I’m not gonna lie — for a sec I considered going for a lil creepin’ coffee break. But there are so many new pictures of the two of them coming out today, I really didn’t need to.  Her ripped jeans was a bit of a surprise; I wonder how her style is going to change after she marries into the pantyhose family?

–George Clooney did an interview with the Daily Beast and let loose about politics. Some choice quotes: “Steve Bannon is a pussy,” “Hollywood elite? I don’t have a star on Hollywood Boulevard, Donald Trump has a star on Hollywood Boulevard! Fuck you!,” and “It was frustrating because I never saw [Hilary Clinton] elevate her game. I never saw it.” The more he talks about politics and the more he begins answers with “if I was President of the United States,” the more I wonder what his future plans are.

-I kind of love that Idina Menzel just keeps marrying her Rent costars...

-Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino has a show about to drop on Amazon called The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and the early buzz is great. No wonder they just locked her and her husband down for a multi-year deal. I’m guessing that means more GG episodes aren’t happening though?

-What is Paramount Network and how can I watch Taylor Kitsch as David Koresh in their six-part Waco mini-series?

-Some Ain’t It Cool News contributors have stepped down in wake of Harry Knowles allegations (which he denies).

-Disney developing a Cyrano the Moor musical from Moonlight writer Tarell Alvin McCraney, starring David Oyelowo. Man, I like ALL of those words!

-Goddammit, why do they keep giving Greg Berlanti new shows? He’s currently juggling 10(!) projects.  I like his joints well enough (though I think the quality has gone way down on most — probably because he’s spread too thin), but is there not any fresh blood in Hollywood?

–Chris Pratt did a “which famous Chris are you” quiz — and did not get Chris Pratt.

–Mandy Moore had an engagement party and Minka Kelly documented the whole thing on Instagram.

-Pretty Little Liars is getting a Mona-based spinoff. Makes sense.

-It’ll be interesting to see what happens to the new Star Trek. It debuted strong last night on CBS with 9.6 million viewers, but now it moves to a subscription-only model in the US.  I thought it was ok but I’m not sure if I’m going to keep up with it — which is way easier to do here because it airs on regular TV. I can’t imagine many people outside of a niche audience are going to pay for CBS All Access for just one show.

-Here’s the new trailer for Angelina Jolie’s First They Killed My Father, which is getting good reviews.

-The Barden Bellas are back aca-at it again in this trailer for Pitch Perfect 3. “Pick up your tits” might be my new catchphrase.

Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott Expecting

-Oh geez. 20-year-old Kylie Jenner is reportedly pregnant with Travis Scott’s baby. Doesn’t the new season of their show premiere this weekend? Damn, Kris came to play…

–Ian Somerhalder said on a podcast he wanted a baby so badly that he threw out Nikki Reed‘s birth control pills and the internet is not happy. (I assumed that it was just a story taken out of context and it wouldn’t sound like he actually took away her consent once I heard the audio — but NOPE!).

–Nikki has taken to Twitter to defend Ian, and wrote a long response to a Cosmo article about it.

–Prince Harry is here! Since Meghan Markle lives in Toronto, she’s expected to accompany him to a bunch of official Invictus events, so expect a slew of new photos of them together next week.

-Meanwhile, Meghan‘s  ex-husband just sold a TV show about a woman who moves on from a relationship by dating a British prince, which sounds petty AF.

-Vogue did their 73 Questions series with Tracee Ellis-Ross and she was predictably a delight. Her house is a beaut.

-Hills star Audrina Patridge filed for divorce and also requested a restraining order from him.

-This interview with Marilyn Manson is totally bonkers. He greets the Guardian reporter by jumping out from behind a door with a fake gun, and responds to questions by “flicking” the reporter’s testicles. What. The. Hell.

-For the third night in a row, Jimmy Kimmel dedicated a portion of his show to his highly publicized battle against the Graham-Cassidy health-care bill — to much praise.

–David Foster is dating Katherine McPhee — and I’m not sure if Foster’s daughter is completely on board.

-The furor over Riverdale star KJ Apa’s car accident continues and Cole Sprouse has asked that the  series provide transportation to castmembers working late hours. On one hand I’m not sure about it because they’re adults who shoot in Langley and choose to live downtown, and they reportedly can call a taxi or stay in a hotel near the set on the studio’s dime if they feel it is unsafe to drive. On the other hand, I get that these guys put in crazy long hours and probably don’t want to always crash at hotels. On Smallville, Tom Wellington‘s co-stars once had to sign a petition to get him a driver on the series so that he wouldn’t end up killing himself while going home in a sleep-deprived state.

-Is anyone having more fun in life than Nicole Richie? I’m doubtful.

-The first trailer for Wes Anderson’s next stop-motion film Isle of Dogs is here.