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December 2021

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s Holiday Card

–Prince Harry and Meghan Markle released their very first picture (taken earlier this year at their Santa Barbara home by photographer Alexi Lubomirski) of daughter Lilibet Diana in their family holiday card. Look at Archie’s red hair!

–Another woman has come forward with allegations against Chris Noth, becoming the fifth woman this month to accuse the actor of sexual assault. Meanwhile, news reports regarding Noth’s relationship in the 90s with supermodel Beverly Johnson have resurfaced, including a restraining order she filed against him in 1995, after claiming he made repeated calls threatening to “kill” her and her dog.

-Both Pete Davidson and Kanye West have reportedly been invited to the Kardashian‘s Christmas Eve bash. This should end well.

–Beyonce‘s mother announced that she’s launching her own Facebook talk show, Talks with Mama Tina.

–Dua Lipa and Anwar Hadid have reportedly split after two years of dating.

-Season three of Atlanta is set to drop in March.

–Michael Keaton will reprise his role as Batman in the upcoming HBO Max Batgirl film starring Leslie Grace.

-The next John Wick movie is being pushed back by an entire year.

-I’m really hoping Hawkeye has ushered in a new era where the Disney+ shows introduce characters from the Netflix Marvel shows. I’d love to see Jessica Jones or the Punisher pop up.

-I ended up enjoying Hawkeye a lot more than Falcon & the Winter Solider — and maybe even Loki? — but once again they tried to squeeze in 5 episodes worth of plot into the finale. I don’t know why Disney+ shows can’t figure out pacing.

–Britney Spears says she has “a new song in the works.”

–Tiffany Haddish talked about her split from Common, saying “He might be the type of person that never really settles with somebody. Maybe he’s like, you know, like a bee going from flower to flower to flower. I don’t know. I wish him nothing but joy and happiness, you know. He will always be cool.”

-Sundance is requiring attendees to have boosters.

–Paul Feig wants to know why his 2016 Ghostbusters film was not included in a new box set celebrating the Sony franchise.

-Marvel dropped the first teaser for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, which teases a darker version of the Doctor.

Cardi B’s $2M Surprise

-What do you get the guy who has everything? Cardi B figured it out when she gave Offset his birthday present in public — a giant cheque for $2 million.

-In a new podcast, James Franco broke his four years of silence surrounding his sexual misconduct allegations. While he insisted his encounters were consensual, he did admit to sleeping with students in his film class, and said he had a sex addiction. “Over the course of my teaching, I did sleep with students, and that was wrong. But like I said, it’s not why I started the school and I wasn’t the person that selected the people to be in the class. So it wasn’t a ‘master plan’ on my part. But yes, there were certain instances where, you know what, I was in a consensual thing with a student and I shouldn’t have been.”

-Not surprisingly in light of recent allegations against him, Chris Noth‘s marriage is reportedly “hanging by a thread.”

-Actor Jay Johnston has reportedly been fired from Bob’s Burgers for attending the Jan. 6 insurrection.

-How was Denise Richards even allowed to board a plane without a mask?

–Jacob Elordi has reportedly moved on from Kaia Gerber with Olivia Jade (who I just realized are two different people).

-Selling Sunset couple Chrishell Stause and Jason Oppenheim have called it quits after just five months because they have different priorities when it comes to having children.

-This is an excellent oral history on the making of Scream.

-How cute was Keanu Reeves on Drew Barrymore‘s show? She also shared a lovely memory of him. “I was at this club, and it was my 16th birthday, and you came in — this is the memory I have of it, if you have anything to add or change, please let me know — you walked in, and you grabbed my hand, and you took me outside, and you put me on your motorcycle, and we drove at the warp speed of my life. We went and you took me on the ride of my life. And I was so free, I was such a free human being. And it was [this] moment where I just remember loving life and being so happy. I hold it so dear because the older we get, the harder it is to get to that feeling.”

-While Spider-Man’s insanely good box office returns is indisputably a big win for theatrical recovery, it also underscores that the massive divide between big, splashy tentpole films and everything else, a gap that was exacerbated by the pandemic.

–Tom Holland made good on his promise to bring a little boy who saved his sister in a dog attack to the Spider-Man set.

-Speaking of Spider-Man, I love all the praise Andrew Garfield is getting for his take on Peter Parker. They were my least fave SM movies, but I adored him and Emma Stone in them.

-Covid is messing everything up in Hollywood again, with a ton of productions and events getting cancelled.

-Wheel of Time is a hit (supposedly) for Amazon.

-Search Party’s final season drops on Jan 7. In the trailer, Dory starts a cult with Jeff Goldblum.

Sex and the City Stars Speak Out about Chris Noth

–Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon, and Kristin Davis joined forces to issue a joint statement about the accusations against Chris Noth, and it’s good.

-Meanwhile, Noth has been fired from CBS’ Queen Latifah show The Equalizer following rape allegations from three different women.

-The Return to Hogwarts trailer actually has me looking forward to this reunion special. But even if JKR isn’t in it, will she still profit from it?

-In this new deep dive by Variety, Blake Stuerman shared his first-person account about his four years with director Bryan Singer, saying it was abusive and traumatizing. Variety says they spoke with 20 people to corroborate it. Meanwhile, Singer’s lawyer says Stuerman “simply has an axe to grind.”

–Britney Spears’ dad is still being a jerk. Now he wants her to pay his legal bills.

–Lorne Michaels says he’ll retire from SNL in three years.

–Willem Dafoe (who was the best part of Spider-Man: No Way Home) once needed a body double in a nude scene because — according to director Lars von Trier — “Will’s own [penis] was too big…too big because everybody got very confused when they saw it.” So there’s that.

-Spider-Man: No Way Home made even more money than the most optimistic predictions.

-Speaking of Zendaya projects, a new Euphoria trailer has landed! The series returns in a couple of weeks.

-This is a great profile on Melanie Lynskey, who is currently killing it on both Yellowjackets and Don’t Look Up.

–Keanu Reeves continues to cement his reputation as the best human alive by not getting fussed about how people watch the new Matrix movie. “I mean, sure, stream it if you have to.”

-Meanwhile, his Walk of Fame speech just consisted of him shouting out Toronto places and yet it made me very happy.

–The reviews for the new season of Emily In Paris suggests the show has slightly improved.

–Armie Hammer is front and center in the new Death of the Nile trailer, despite allegations of emotional abuse, manipulation, coercion and rape against him.

-Kidman new wig watch! Here’s the first trailer for Robert Eggers’ The Northman starring Nicole Kidman, Alexander Skarsgård, Anya Taylor-Joy, Willem Dafoe, Ethan Hawke, and more.