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November 2017

Jennifer Lawrence and Darren Aronofsky Split

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–Jennifer Lawrence and Darren Aronofsky have split after a year of everyone going “really? him?!?”

–Katy Perry and The Weeknd were spotted having dinner together? I can’t keep up with his love life.

-The girl who played Rayanne on My So-Called Life is now an English countess and I can’t tell you how happy this makes me!

-The Mindy Project’s Ike Barinholtz talking about how Mindy Kaling has changed his life is very sweet.

–Sia‘s new holiday music video features Dax Shepard, Kristen Bell, Henry Winkler, and Susan Lucci.

-I had no idea Daniel Dae Kim developed The Good Doctor, which is this season’s biggest TV hit. Ha! CBS must regret letting him go.

-Chicago PD star Jason Beghe’s anger issues reportedly led to Sophia Bush’s exit from the show earlier this year. I wonder if she was talking about him in this interview when she described a costar interrupting her when she was talking to the director about a scene by sticking his hand in her face and saying “No. Stop.”

–Krista Vernoff, the showrunner of ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy, offered a point by point rebuttal to Brett Ratner’s  assault denial.

-Gossip Girl’s Jessica Szohr wonders if Ed Westwick’s accusers are “stretching the truth.” Insert the ‘oh no baby what is you doing’ gif.

-Now a makeup artist is accusing Jeffrey Tambor of misconduct on the set of the 2001 movie Never Again.

–Russell Simmons, in a statement received by THR, denied those sexual assault allegations, saying “I have made choices that have offended some of the women in my life. It’s not cool to be a playboy and a new consciousness understands this.” Ugh. Offending women and being a playboy is not the same as forcing yourself on them. Stop trying to conflate the two.

–Nick Carter says he’s “shocked and saddened” by allegations of sexual assault by Dream’s Melissa Schuman.

–Rashida Jones is denying reports she left Toy Story 4 over misconduct by John Lasseter. She says she left because of issues pertaining to gender and race inequality at Pixar.

-Meanwhile, multiple outlets have now published reports of Lasseter’s alleged misconduct.

-Justice League is now projected to lose up to $100 million for Warner Bros.

–Chris Hemsworth fights terrorists on horseback in the new 12 Strong trailer.

Pink and Channing Tatum Explore Their “Beautiful Trauma”

–Pink is really saving this week for us. First she scaled a building during the AMAs, and now she’s dropped a hilarious music video starring Channing Tatum.

-Congrats to Gwyneth Paltrow, who is engaged to Brad Falchuk after more than three years of dating. Cue a million “conscious coupling” headlines…

-Fork ya! The Good Place has been renewed for season 3. This season has been on fire.

–Meghan Markle has moved out of her Toronto home and is rumoured to be relocating to London.

–Chrissy Teigen and John Legend announced they are expecting their second child in a very cute way.

-A few weeks ago, Melissa Schuman from pop group Dream wrote that Nick Carter sexually assaulted her when she was 18 years old.

-This is very sweet: Spin posted Greta Gerwin’s letters to Justin Timberlake, Alanis Morissette, and Dave Matthews asking for music rights for Lady Bird.

-Also, I liked this article on Lady Bird. It’s definitely one of my fave movies of the year, and that piece does a good job of capturing why.

-And the walls keep tumbling down: Pixar/Disney exec John Lasseter announced he is taking a leave of absence just as The Hollywood Reporter was preparing a story detailing his alleged misconduct. Among the tidbits, Rashida Jones is credited as a writer on the next Toy Story, but she actually left the project early on after he made an unwanted advance.

-CBS has fired Charlie Rose. Here’s the memo that just went out to staffers.

-No. Mel Gibson DOES NOT get to make statements about holding men accountable. Just…no.

-36 women who worked with Al Franken on SNL have signed a letter of support. Jesus Christ. How hard is it to grasp that just because he acted one way with you doesn’t preclude him from acting differently with others?

-Congrats to True Blood star Rutina Wesley, who announced her engagement to her girlfriend on Instagram.

–Kim Kardashian has fired her friend and longtime assistant Stephanie Shepherd. According to Us Weekly, their relationhip soured after Shepherd overshared in a Refinery 29 profile earlier this year.

–Martin Freeman‘s Everett K. Ross has words of advice for Chadwick Boseman‘s T’Challa in the new Black Panther trailer.

Charlie Rose Suspended Following Sexual Harassment Report

-For the past couple of weeks, there’s been rumblings that multiple newspapers were working on a sexual harassment story about a famous guy with a “nice” reputation that would shock everyone. Is that person Charlie Rose? The Washington Post just revealed that eight women are accusing him of harassing them with nudity, groping and lewd calls — and another publication is reportedly working on a similar story. CBS immediately suspended him following the report, and PBS halted production and distribution of his talk show.

-This story got a bit buried on the weekend but here’s Hilarie Burton and other stars of One Tree Hill detailing showrunner Mark Schwahn‘s harassment of them on set. It’s terrifying.

-E! is investigating Ryan Seacrest over a sexual misconduct claim made by a former wardrobe stylist, which he denies.

-The LA Times has an incredibly detailed report, in which Brett Ratner and Russell Simmons are accused of working together to carry out sexual misconduct. Meanwhile, Terry Crews is offering receipts.

–Jeffrey Tambor is officially exiting Transparent after those sexual harassment allegations. This is a good take: Transparent made the world too woke for Transparent.

–Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner really stepped in it by defending a Girls writer amid his sexual assault claim. Dunham has since apologized for her original statement.  Meanwhile, a writer for Lenny Letter is leaving, citing a what she calls Dunham’s “well-known racism.”

–Meryl Streep recently revealed an incident where she fought off a violent attacker with Cher.

–Natalie Portman on sexual harassment in Hollywood: “I went from thinking I don’t have a story to thinking, Oh wait, I have 100 stories.”

–Marti Noxon is not backing down from her Matthew Weiner comments.

-The news has been rough lately. Let’s all take a break and check out photos from Serena Williams’ over-the-top wedding!

-Not one, but two excellent profiles of Armie Hammer landed today.  There’s Vulture’s, where he explains that he doesn’t get the genius of Call Me By Your Name’s dance scene. And then there’s The Hollywood Reporter’s profile, where he dares bring up Casey Affleck.  (I also really appreciate that THR’s photo shoot features a lot of barefoot shots. I spent the entirety of CMBYN staring at that man’s feet…)

-No one recognized Rita Ora on The Voice in Germany. LOL.

-This Tonight Show skit about auditions starring Jessica Chastain is priceless. “Also, be Wonder Woman!”

-This is a good explainer about why Justice League’s $96M debut is considered a disaster.

–Pink is shooting down those theories that she was cringing during Christina Aguilera‘s Whitney Houston tribute at last night’s AMAs.

-Meanwhile, that was a truly underwhelming red carpet.

-Here’s the new trailer for Disney’s A Wrinkle In Time. I cannot wait!