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February 2018

Britney Spears Shows Off Her Hot Boyfriend

-I don’t know if Britney Spears intentionally timed this photo drop on the same day that Justin Timberlake was facing all the bad press over his Super Bowl performance, but I’m gonna go ahead and assume she did.

–Chris Carter says he won’t return to another season of The X Files without Gillian Anderson. You’re goddamn right you won’t. If you even attempt to, we’ll riot.

–Tom Hardy’s dog deserves an Oscar for this reaction face.

-The Good Place exists in the same world as Parks and Rec and I couldn’t be happier.

-It’s been a bad week for Quentin Tarantino. He responded to Uma Thurman’s claims in Deadline (which was a crazily fawning interview by Mike Fleming Jr.  and included shit like, “I offered Tarantino the opportunity to clarify because at this moment, stories get written and then picked up across the globe, often getting twisted to suit convenient narratives in this #MeToo moment”). Tarantino said “It’s the biggest regret of my life, getting her to do that stunt. I start hearing from the production manager, Bennett Walsh, that Uma is trepidatious about doing the driving shot. None of us ever considered it a stunt. It was just driving. None of us looked at it as a stunt. Maybe we should have, but we didn’t.” I don’t know how you watch that video, even without knowing that she was warned that the car wasn’t operating well and her seat wasn’t bolted in correctly, and not think “stunt.”

-Also, an older Tarantino interview on Howard Stern‘s show has surfaced, which features the director defending Roman Polanski. “He didn’t rape a 13-year-old. It was statutory rape…He had sex with a minor. That’s not rape…Look, she was down with this.” When Stern and his cohost Robin Quivers pointed out that she was given booze and drugs, he went on to call the child a “party girl.” You know you’ve crossed a line when even Howard freakin’ Stern is disgusted by your answers!

–Busy Philipps angrily recalled auditioning for Quentin Tarantino in ‘short shorts’.

-I like Roxanne Gay‘s take on artistic legacies and shitty geniuses.

–Reese Witherspoon opened up to Oprah Winfrey about a past abusive relationship. “It changed who I was on a cellular level, the fact that I stood up for myself.”

-First Cloverfield, now Annihilation. It seems that dumping big movies that will probably be flops onto Netflix is the new trend.

-Game of Thrones’ David Benioff and D.B. Weiss are going from Westeros to a galaxy far, far away. They’ll write and produce a new series of Star Wars films.

-I like this article on how Black Panther is a showcase for natural hair.

–David Tennant is very scary in the Bad Samaritan trailer. It stars Nathan from Misfits so I’m so in!

-I’m glad that Netflix’s Everything Sucks! is getting good early reviews. The trailer could have gone either way.

Justin Timberlake Does Post-Super Bowl Damage Control

–Justin Timberlake‘s Super Bowl performance was not good. The sound mixing was way off, his outfit was widely ridiculed, and his use of Prince (with whom he had a complicated history) did NOT go over well.  In his post-game appearance on The Tonight Show, he leaned on Questlove for validation.

–Kylie Jenner didn’t talk at all about her pregnancy (not even to confirm it) and then this weekend she announced she’d given birth on Feb 1 with this insanely well-edited, oddly moving 11-minute video chronicling her pregnancy.

-In a harrowing new interview (which I wish was written by someone other than Maureen Dowd but alas) Uma Thurman broke her silence about the time Harvey Weinstein attacked her. Equally horrific was her details about a car crash on the set of Kill Bill (complete with video footage) and the subsequent attempt to cover it up. Quentin Tarantino does NOT come off well in the story, but Thurman later took to Instagram to praise him, saying he was “deeply regretful and remains remorseful about this sorry event, and gave me the footage years later so I could expose it and let it see the light of day…He also did so with full knowledge it could cause him personal harm, and I am proud of him for doing the right thing and for his courage.”

-Meanwhile, a new statement from Weinstein’s attorney says Thurman’s sexual-assault accusations “are being carefully examined and investigated before deciding whether any legal action against her would be appropriate.” Jesus.

-The Thurman story got all the coverage this weekend, but equally disturbing and important was the story from the Washington Post about nine women accusing veteran talent manager Vincent Cirrincione, who guided the careers of many women of colour, of sexual misconduct. Halle Berry, his most famous client, says she cut ties with him three years ago when she first heard of the allegations, telling the Post “I immediately confronted Vince about it, and he denied it completely. But even with his denial, something didn’t feel right in my spirit, and with the possibility that it could be true, I immediately ended our over-25-year relationship…While Vince never made an inappropriate gesture toward me, nor did I hear about this type of behavior from any woman or man while we worked together, I have always had a no-tolerance policy when it came to such matters.”

-Meanwhile, Cirrincione’s company, whose current clients include Empire’s Jussie Smollett and The Flash’s Candice Patton, was immediately shuttered.

–Sarah Silverman announced on Twitter than she and Michael Sheen “consciously uncoupled over Christmas” because “we live in different countries & it got hard.” Too bad; I liked them a lot together.

–Taylor Kitsch told Seth Meyers that FNL fans approach him a lot because “they want to get drunk with Tim Riggins.” Fair.

–Cardi B denounced pregnancy rumours with my favourite statement ever: “I’m just getting fat. Let me fat in peace.”

-R.I.P. John Mahoney. The actor best known from Frasier and Say Anything has died at 77. (“I’m incarcerated, Lloyd!!” remains one of my favourite line readings ever.)

-Awkward: Xavier Dolans cut his BFF Jessica Chastain out of his new movie.

-My least favourite part of This Is Us is how obsessed they have always been about Jack’s death and last night’s episode didn’t change that, but my god, give Mandy Moore an Emmy for this scene.

–Ben Platt, Barbra Streisand, and Gwyneth Paltrow are set to star in Ryan Murphy‘s upcoming Netflix series The Politician.

–Kevin Hart says his wife tried to stop him from posting this drunk Super Bowl video on Instagram, but he went ahead and did it anyway.

-Netflix had a Super Bowl shock up its sleeve: a surprise trailer for the next film in the Cloverfield series, followed by the unannounced premiere of the movie on the streaming service right after the game. In retrospect, the surprise drop strategy makes a lot of sense when you see how bad the reviews for it are. It’s at a dismal 16% on Rotten Tomatoes.

-I don’t care about football, but it’s clear that Stranger Things star David Harbour was the real Super Bowl winner.

-The Super Bowl dropped a lot of new movie trailers, including Avengers: Infinity War, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Jennifer Lawrence‘s Red Sparrow, John Krasinski and Emily Blunt‘s A Quiet Place, The Rock’s Skyscraper, and Mission Impossible: Fallout (which was weirdly my favourite).

-The biggest trailer was of course the teaser for Solo: A Star Wars Story (which had people freaking out at our first glimpse of Donald Glover‘s Lando). The full trailer came today, which is more about Alden Ehrenreich’s Han Solo and Emilia Clarke‘s Qi’Ra. Needs more Lando.

 

 

Spice Girls Reunite to “Explore Some Incredible Opportunities”

-I’m definitely feeling reboot fatigue — but a Spice Girls reunion? Yeah, I’ll take that.

–Rose McGowan got into a shouting match with a trans woman at a book event. The actress then claimed that she was “verbally assaulted for two full minutes by an actor” and has since cancelled all future book events, including her appearance at a Toronto Indigo. She’s certainly been through a lot and has come out the other side which is commendable, but it’s also become pretty clear that she might not be the best person to lead this movement.

–Justin Timberlake dances with Jessica Biel in a log cabin in his new music video. Is the clip’s lack any sort of chemistry weirding anyone else out?

-Also, the reviews are not good. From the New York Times: “We are now approaching the 12th year of the national delusion that Justin Timberlake remains an essential pop star.”

-Annihilation, starring Natalie Portman and Gina Rodriguez, is being released in theaters on Feb 23. Have you heard much about it? Probably not. That’s because the rollout has been crazy messy.

–The Good Place finale changed everything. Again. With lots of nods to Lost. (There’s a debate raging about what the finale really meant.)

-Also, someone captured Eleanor‘s Google search auto-fills, and they are amazing.

-High-ranking women in the music industry are calling for Neil Portnow, the Recording Academy’s president, to resign. “We do not have to sing louder, jump higher or be nicer to prove ourselves.”

-Meanwhile, the Grammys announced a new task force to address its own biases against women.

–Jenna Dewan Tatum shared a flirtatious audition video from when she met Channing Tatum on the Step Up set.

–Seth Meyers went day drinking with Kelly Clarkson and it was absolutely delightful. (“No, I’m just kidding. She’s dead.” killed me. And then he serenaded her and I actually died….)

-Black Panther is getting rave reviews — and so is the soundtrack Kendrick Lamar curated, too.

-A California woman was reported missing by her family — but she was actually just competing on The Bachelor. Yeah, I wouldn’t want to admit that to my family either.

–Meryl Streep, Will Smith, Bono, Taylor Swift, Tom Hanks and pretty much every celebrity wished Ellen a happy 60th birthday,  and Jennifer Aniston made a surprise appearance.

-Also Aniston is back to teasing a possible Friends reunion. Who wants this?!

-As Lainey mentioned yesterday, Jamie Dornan actually seems to be having a bit of fun on this Fifty Shades press tour.  He showed off his unfortunate “bouncy walk” to James Corden.

-This video on “if The Flash were honest” made me laugh a lot.