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Jennifer Lopez Heads to the Super Bowl

Jennifer Lopez is set to headline the Super Bowl, with Shakira making an appearance. This surprises me. Everything JLo is doing these days (including revisiting the green dress) seems designed to create buzz for her Oscar campaign and the game is two days before voting ends, but Hollywood feels very anti-Super Bowl right now. Of course, her trending when everyone is looking at her name on the ballot might end up being a genius move.

Liam Gallagher just did the Vogue 73 Questionsand — plot twist — he’s surprisingly mellow and accommodating. (Also, I need to incorporate the phrase “mad for it” into my lexicon.)

Gwyneth Paltrow says she’s not “passionate”about acting anymore which is a shame because she’s at her most tolerable when she’s acting and not being all GOOPy.

Kendall Jenner threw Hailey Baldwin the most basic bitch bachelorette party and I kinda like that?

-Meanwhile, Justin Bieber is getting ready for his wedding this weekend by getting a lavender diamond grill.

Princess Beatrice is showing off her new engagement ring and looks so very happy. (I love that she’s so clearly the focus of that photo and he’s just kind of incidental.)

-Man, I don’t know if I’ve ever seen the people behind a movie botch the press so badly before the film has even been released. Joker director Todd Phillips blamed the “far left” for concerns about the film’s violence, and then wondered why no one complains about movies like John Wick? (Um, maybe it’s because John Wick is clearly an over-the-top, cartoonish flick about an assassin that plays like a fantasy instead of real life, versus a movie you’ve been promoting as a super serious Taxi Driver homage about a man who lashes out against a society he feels has wronged him which feels very much like real life?)

Sade’s son has praised his mom for supporting him during his transition and it’s all incredibly sweet.

-Remember when Matt Damon and Ben Affleck announced their new movie and we were all “eww, they’re doing a film about a woman’s rape and it sounds like it’ll be focused on their characters’ reactions to it, not the woman’s”? Yeah, it turns out that Killing Eve actress (and new Emmy owner) Jodie Comer may be set to play the woman. She deserves so so much better than this.

-The Flash just released its new trailerand like Arrow, it seems like the first 8 episodes of the season are all building up to the crossover, Crisis On Infinite Earths.

-Speaking of The Flash, I’ve never found Iris West to be a particularly well-written character but the actress who portrays her seems great and doesn’t deserve all the social media hate she gets.

Kirsten Dunst appeared on Kelly Clarkson‘s talk show and said she’d be up for a Bring It On reboot. “Why not? It was so fun!” Bring it on, girl.

Lana Condorposted a goodbye noteto her To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before character and I’m not crying you are!

-All of the blind items about the Emmys this year were incredibly depressing, but I liked this one that sounds like it’s about Jason Bateman.

-This old Roger Ebertreview of The Mummy is making the rounds today and it’s delightful.

-Watch Robert DeNiro through the years in Scorsese’s Netflix film The Irishman.

Brad Pitt Shoots For the Stars in Ad Astra

Brad Pitt GQ Interview

Brad Pitt is on the cover of the latest issue of GQ. I have no idea why they used the obscured hoodie/sunglasses photo when the pics of him playing ping pong are SO MUCH BETTER. In the interview, he says New York is off limits to him (“It’s always been tough for me. Just the paparazzi. I can’t have freedom there. So without that — it takes the fun out of it”) and talks about how his views on religion have changed (“Oh, man, I’ve gone through everything. Like, I cling to religion. I grew up with Christianity. Always questioned it, but it worked at times. And then when I got on my own, I completely left it and I called myself agnostic. Tried a few spiritual things but didn’t feel right. Then I called myself an atheist for a while, just kind of being rebellious. I wasn’t really. But I kinda labeled myself that for a while. It felt punk rock enough. And then I found myself coming back around to just belief in—I hate to use the word spirituality, but just a belief in that we’re all connected”).

-In another interview (this one with EW), Pitt says he’s going to “abstain” from Oscar campaigning. “I find chasing it actually a disservice to the purity of your telling a story, and a shackling thing to focus on.” It sounds like he’s pretty much a lock for a supporting nod for Once Upon a Time, and a strong possibility for a lead nomination for Ad Astra, so it probably won’t matter. Also, aren’t all these magazine covers a form of campaigning?!

-Backstage at the Creative Arts Emmys this weekend, Rachel Bloomannounced she’s three months pregnant.

-There are some odd hair choices being made by Young Hollywood right now. Stranger Things’ Joe Keery proved that 98% of his hotness stemmed from his hair after he debuted this horrendous new ‘do, while Noah Centineo’s blonde beardisn’t winning any fans.

-Hustlers opened even better than expected with $33M at the weekend box office (which is huge for an R-rated non-franchise release). More than two-thirds of the audience was women.

-If you were anywhere on the internet this weekend, you saw Hustlers star Keke Palmer‘s “sorry to this man” meme. She’s since commented on it: “After finding out who he is, I’m glad I didn’t know.”

-A week after announcing her split from her husband, Zooey Deschanel is dating Property Brothers’ Jonathan Scott.

Charlize Theron says she’s having a threesome with Nicole Kidman and Margot Robbie. I’m into it.

-This article on the “toolification” of Jeremy Renneris worth your time.

-It took a while, but SNL has fired Shane Gillis for his racist remarks just days after announcing he was joining the show. “We were not aware of his prior remarks that have surfaced over the past few days… We are sorry that we did not see these clips earlier, and that our vetting process was not up to our standard.” Ignore the manbabies whining about this on Twitter. It’s not cancel culture — it’s the consequences of people speaking up against a racist.

-I started Netflix’s Unbelievable this weekend and the first couple of episodes are slow but it starts cooking once Merritt Wever and Toni Collette team up. Here’s a great interview with Wever, who remains a ball of insecurity. She even revisits her hilarious “Thank you. I gotta go. Bye” Emmy speech.

-The Downton Abbey cast discuss their TV series’ stateside success and the possibility of another movie in a new interview with Town & Country.

Taylor Swift will be a mentor on The Voicethis season. Blink twice if you’re being blackmailed into this, Taylor!!

-I’m really liking this series on film festival background players. The latest: a bartender reveals what it’s like to work a star-studded party at TIFF.

-The director of Suicide Squad is sensitive, y’all.

Charlie Hunnam just landed a new Apple+ drama. I saw in IRL last week and I get it now.

-This is super fun: ABC just announced a “Cast From the Past Week,” in which former costars will reunite on various ABC shows during the second week of October. Charmed stars Alyssa Milano and Holly Marie Combs will play sisters on Grey’s Anatomy, Cheers vets Kirstie Alley, Rhea Perlman, John Ratzenberger and George Wendt will reunite on The Goldbergs, The Drew Carey Show’s Drew Carey, Ryan Stiles and Kathy Kinney will appear on American Housewife, and more.

-Huh. I thought for sure it would go to Hulu because of the NBC-ness of it all, but Netflix just nabbed Seinfeld.

-Netflix’s new YA series, Daybreak, has dropped its first trailer. I’m very into a post-apocalyptic high school drama — and intrigued that @ira is on the writing staff.

Paul Rudd fights with a superior version of himself in the new trailer for Netflix’s Living With Yourself.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Welcome Baby Sussex

-Congrats to Meghan Markle and Prince Harry! Their baby boy finally arrived today (no name has been revealed yet). Harry was adorably gushy in his quick appearance outside the hospital: “I haven’t been at many births, this is my first. It was amazing, absolutely incredible. I’m so proud of my wife. As every father and parent would say, your baby is absolutely amazing, but this little thing is absolutely to die for, so I’m absolutely over the moon.”

-In other baby news, Amy Schumer just welcomed her first son.

-Jane the Virgin star Gina Rodriguez got married, and costar/human cinnamon roll Justin Baldoni officiated the ceremony! She posted a wedding video on IG, and it’s all very adorable.

Mindy Kaling just revealed that BJ Novak is her kid’s godfather, so I guess that rules him out as the daddy. Let’s all bow our heads in a moment of peace for that now dearly departed conspiracy theory…

-I know Justin Bieber is going through it right now, but defending Chris Brown and categorizing his attack on Rihanna as “a mistake he made” is not a good look.

-Lots of people were not super thrilled with last night’s Game of Thrones episode, mostly because it did most of its female characters dirty.  Sansa credited her rapes for making her who she is. The only black woman coming to a grizzly end. And I love Brienne and Jamie but man that felt rushed. I was not down with Tyrion being so uncharacteristically cruel about her virginity, Jamie telling her to drink more before they got to it, the total cutaway from the sex scene, and then her sobbing when he left (I’m very ok with Brienne embracing her vulnerability and emotions but this was character whiplash).

-Oof, the GoT crew continue to react badly whenever someone points out their mistakes. Last week it was the cinematographer telling us all of our TV settings are wrong, and this week the exec producer seemed to imply that the Starbucks cup that was widely spotted in last night’s episode was a fake (“Nowadays you just can’t believe what you see, because people can put things into a photo that really doesn’t exist, but I guess, maybe it was there”), while the art director called the mistake “blown out of proportion.”

-This video of GoT’s Lady Mormontkilling it on the dance floor is all kinds of cute tho.

-Aw, this sucks. Looks like Busy Philipps‘ show has been cancelled.

-Yikes. Chris Kattan says he once broke his neck during an SNL sketch.

Miley Cyrus is the latest to jump on the #FreeBritney bandwagon. What does she know?!?

-Following her ab-tastic appearance at the Billboard Music Awards, Cardi B confirms she got liposuction: “I shouldn’t really be performing.”

-Huh. I thought that “censored” scene in last week’s The Good Fight was a joke, but CBS actually censored the segment.

-I kind of love this: Arrow fans banded together to get a billboard in Times Square to celebrate the show’s final season, and they raised so much money that they’re giving the extra ($25k) to a variety of charities. Shippers get it done!

-Avengers: Endgame’s final shot is sparking debate. Here’s what the directors had to say. (I’m really glad they said this because as much as I loved it, no way Cap would opt for his own happy ending over fighting hydra.)

-I guess we know why the Russo Brothers saidthat today the gloves would be coming off for the Endgame spoilers: the new Spider-Man: Far From Home trailer is full of ’em.