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Pete Davidson Tries to Break the Internet

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–Pete Davidson is on the cover of Paper’s break the internet issue, in a photo that pokes fun at his BDE and rumoured…uh…endowments.

–RuPaul is on the cover of Vanity Fair, where he says “true drag really will never be mainstream. Because true drag has to do with seeing that this world is an illusion and that everything that you say you are and everything it says that you are on your driver’s licence, it’s all an illusion. Most people will never in their lives understand what that is. Because they don’t have the operating system to understand that duality.” Fair.

-In a surprising display of self-awareness, Scooter Braun calls himself the “bad guy” in his saga with Taylor Swift.

–Jennifer Garner spent 25 minutes looking for her car in a one-level parking garage. “I stopped to tie my shoe [here]…I should be on CSI: Miami” made me LOL.

–Brenda Song (who is in Dollface which just came to Crave and is soooo good) says she was ‘not Asian enough‘ to audition for Crazy Rich Asians. Director Jon M. Chu disagrees.

–Amy Schumer posted a photo of her hanging out with Jennifer Lawrence and Phoebe Waller-Bridge and I’m incandescently jealous.

–Emma Thompson fielded questions from children, who asked her who was her best onscreen kiss (“Meryl Streep’s a very good snogger. I had to snog her in Angels in America and she was method about it”) and what they should spend their pocket money on (“peppermint creams”).

-Buckingham Palace is bracing for an “imminent” summons from US investigators for Prince Andrew to give testimony about Jeffrey Epstein.

-The Independent Spirit Awards nominations are out and The Lighthouse and Uncut Gems are leading the way. Jennifer Lopez also got a best supporting actress nod for Hustlers.

–Amanda Palmer hired a freelancer to travel with her and cover her tour and wrote a whole Twitter thread about it as if she’s the first person to invent PR.

–Riley Keough landing the lead role in the Daisy Jones & The Six adaptation is great casting.

-The Paramount Laws, which prevent movie studios from block-booking features in the theaters they own, may be going away. This is very not good.

-Surprising but good news: Disney actually worked with indigenous Sámi people to make sure that Frozen 2 was culturally sensitive.

-DC has announced its next live-action series, Stargirl. The character will debut during the network’s upcoming superhero crossover event in Dec, and the show will air on The CW the day after episodes debut on DC’s streaming service.

-This is incredibly sad: Spirit of the West frontman John Mann passed away at 57. He was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s Disease when he was 50.

-The paparazzi aren’t always bad. Courteney Cox‘s two dogs were rescued from traffic by a quick-on-his-feet paparazzo who was driving by.

-Love seeing the raves for Adam Driver‘s new movie The Report. Saw it at TIFF and it’s stuck with me.

-I will take any new Jane Austen adaptation you can give me thank you very much.

Gwyneth Paltrow Made Divorce Easier For You All

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–Gwyneth Paltrow delivered a late Christmas gift with her new InStyle cover story, in which she congratulates herself for being a lifestyle guru trailblazer, boosts about how Chris Martin would still take a bullet for her, and pats herself on the back for introducing the world to “conscious uncoupling” because “I honestly think Chris and I have contributed something positive to the culture of divorce.” Amazing levels of goopy goodness to close out the year!

–Justin Bieber is doing yoga on a yacht. Sure.

-Teen Vogue continues to slay, this time with their takedown of the plot of Passengers.

-Congrats to Pink, who had new son Jameson Moon Hart on Boxing Day.

-In other baby news, Grey’s Anatomy star Ellen Pompeo welcomed her third child with husband Chris Ivery.

–Amanda Palmer gushing about how Donald Trump is “going to make punk rock great again” is so gross.  I hate this take that the world being awful is somehow going to be a boon for pop culture. Art is not more important than the people who make it. Not to mention that the people who romanticize the struggle are rarely the ones stuck with the most struggling.

-Sometimes Ariana Grande says something that makes me like her so much… and I feel so confused by it.

-In her new Shape cover story, Kate Beckinsale says she’s never actually finished an alcoholic drink in her life. Sigh. Fine, Kate. I guess I’ll just continue drinking enough for the both of us.

-Netflix needs to pump the brakes on those rumours of a new season of Gilmore Girls. We’re still recovering from the last one.

-I’m so glad Felicity Jones‘ Rogue One Beijing premiere dress is ending up on so many worst dresses of the year lists. Terrible design is one thing, but bad fit is unforgivable.

-Serial’s Adnan Syed will not be released before his murder retrial.

-Here’s the first trailer for I Am Michael, which stars James Franco as a gay rights activist who became a fundamentalist pastor.

Justin Bieber Makes Bodyguards’ Life Hell

–Justin Bieber is getting mocked for having his bodyguards carry him up the Great Wall of China — and then posing for a photo with said bodyguards while pretending to be exhausted from the climb. His bodyguards also had to sprint behind him while he skateboarded, so they’re clearly loving life right now.

-God bless HuffPo for pulling together “A Definitive Guide To All The Times Jennifer Aniston Has Supposedly Been Pregnant.”

-Move over, VMAs. YouTube is hosting its first music awards show, and they snagged Lady Gaga, Arcade Fire, and Eminem.

-Meanwhile, you can now watch Arcade Fire‘s weird concert special on YouTube. Celeb cameos galore!

–David Bowie is way better at reading than you.

-In terms of how to handle the paparazzi, I think that Rihanna is at the top of the celebrity heap (mostly because she’s become her own paparazzi, sharing so much, so publicly and so often that it drives down agency demand). But because of that, it’s hard to hear her bitch about wanting privacy.

–Amy Poehler looks amazing on the cover of Variety, where she talks about her charity work with Worldwide Orphans Foundation.

-Speaking of Amy Poehler, here’s the first look at her taking on Kristen Bell on Parks and Rec.

-This is a long (but still fascinating) firsthand account of being in Justin Timberlake‘s orbit for a few hours.

-EW imagines every Breaking Bad character’s life 10 years from now.

-Breaking Bad’s Bob Odenkirk has a new sketch show on IFC, and you can watch a full episode here.

–Stephen Colbert kidnapped Vince Gilligan and tried to force him to write more Breaking Bad.

-Speaking of BB, this dance track featuring Aaron Paul is just so “ugh.” But it’s way better if you listen to it while staring at this GIF.

–Amanda Palmer (who is awesome) responded awesomely when the Daily Mail decided to review her lady parts instead of her festival performance.

-I love and adore Mazzy Star‘s “Fade Into You,” but it might actually be the most overused song in all of TV and film.

–Jack Davenport looks pretty hot in the trailer for Breathless, making me forget all about Smash.

-Somehow, voluptuous Kate Upton got the Karl Lagerfeld seal of approval.

–Michelle Rodriguez is pretty great in this EW interview, saying, “I don’t talk about what I do with my vagina.”

-I love me some Rob Riggles action, but a spinoff of Modern Family sounds terrible. Have we all forgotten about Baywatch Nights?!

–Miley Cyrus, you now it’s bad when even Vanilla Ice feels justified in making fun of you.

-Speaking of Vanilla Ice, New Girl star Max Greenfield impersonated him, which made Arsenio Hall very happy.

–Jada Pinkett Smith is opening up about her struggle with “addictions.”

-Jay Z is in this month’s Vanity Fair. Did he have to cross Gwyneth to do it?

–Catherine Hardwicke says that even though she helmed the megahit Twilight, it’s still hard to find work as a female director in Hollywood.

-Everything about the gov’t shutdown reminds me of this.

-Meanwhile, Billy Zane is blaming the shutdown on Breaking Bad. Or something.

-The new trailer for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug has landed. What up, Legolas?

-Speaking of trailers, whenever I talked to people when in line during TIFF, the movie that kept coming up again and again as the best anyone had seen was Philomena. Here’s the trailer, featuring Steve Coogan and Judi Dench.