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Blake Lively Has Baby, Possibly Gives Her Best Name Ever

Blake Lively announced her first pregnancy
Blake Lively first announced her pregnancy on her website Preserve. (Photo: Preserve/Eric Lively)

-It’s probably too much to hope that this rumour that Blake Lively named her new baby girl Violet is true. Violet is the name of Ben Affleck‘s eldest daughter, and we all remember those rumours about Blake and Ben during The Town shoot, don’t we?

-The details about Cameron Diaz and Benji Madden’s wedding are pouring in. Nicole Richie and Drew Barrymore were bridesmaids, and Ryan Adams performed.

-The usually private Jeremy Renner is all about showing off his kid now that his divorce is getting messy.

-The new Parks and Rec final season preview hits me right in my feels.

–Lena Dunham and Jack Antonoff are not engaged after all.

-Speaking of Girls stars, Allison Williams tells Glamour that the character of Marnie is modelled off of Election’s Tracy Flick. That makes so much sense.

–Stephen Fry is engaged to a man 30 years his junior and the internet is clutching their collective pearls.

-I must say, I’m finding Jamie Dornan’s 50 Shades press tour to be completely charming.

-Oy vey. John Mayer and Katy Perry may have reconciled.

-Agent Carter premieres tonight on ABC and the reviews are overwhelmingly positive. (A critic on Twitter called it “Alias set in the ’40s” so I’m in.) Here’s a primer on her comic book roots.

-Speaking of superhero shows, it sounds like I made the right call by dropping Gotham. EW just tore it apart. (“The defining artistic energy driving Gotham is brand management.”)

–Anna Kendrick is crediting “weirdos” for giving her a career. You’re welcome!

-I don’t watch Downton Abbey but this video of its actresses playing Cards Against Humanity is great.

-Weird. The Oscars just put Whiplash in the Best Adapted Screenplay race, even though they submitted for Best Original Screenplay.

–Rosamund Pike looks lovely on the cover of Vanity Fair.

–Marilyn Manson has a “great fear of bathtubs” and never fully takes his underwear off during sex, which he has at least five times a day.

-Here’s the first trailer for Accidental Love, the film starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Jessica Biel that director David O. Russell doesn’t want his name on.

Cameron Diaz and Benji Madden Wed

Cameron Diaz in the January issue of Cosmo
Cameron Diaz in the January issue of Cosmo. (Matthias Vriens-McGrath/Cosmopolitan)

-Well, that was quick. Cameron Diaz and Benji Madden got married at her Beverly Hills home. Reese Witherspoon and Gwyneth Paltrow were among the guests.

–This article reads like someone desperately trying to convince themselves that Kristen Stewart is not dating a girl. I guess the writer just completely avoided looking at the accompanying photos…

-The photo styling in W’s new “Best Performances” issue is so weird. Bradley Cooper gets the worst treatment, but Reese Witherspoon, Amy Adams, Emily Blunt, and Julianne Moore also look like overstretched aliens.

-After Into the Woods and The Last Five Years, I kind of feel a bit musical’d out, but here’s the first clip of Anne Hathaway in Song One.

–Julianne Moore is pretty much a lock for an Oscar nom, but that doesn’t mean she should just give up like this.

-Ooh boy. Gwyneth Paltrow says a lot of female reporters “try to pit me against other women.” There goes my New Year’s resolution about giving Gwyneth the benefit of the doubt…

-Speaking of saying things one shouldn’t in interviews, Russell Crowe spewed some stupid shit about female actresses needing to act their age, citing Meryl Streep and Helen Mirren as inspiration. It reminds me of like that brilliant Tina Fey joke at last year’s Golden Globes:  “(She’s) so brilliant in August: Osage County, proving that there are still great roles in Hollywood for Meryl Streeps over 60.”

-The Newsroom’s Alison Pill is engaged. I guess that means I have to give up the dream that she’s going to reconcile with Jay Baruchel, huh?

-Meanwhile, did Lena Dunham get engaged over the holidays?

-On The Graham Norton Show, Eddie Redmayne re-enacted his terrible Hobbit audition, much to Anna Kendrick‘s delight.

–Leighton Meester continues to impress the crap out of me.

–Scarlett Johansson is set to follow up Lucy with Dreamworks’ long-awaited Ghost in the Shell. Marvel must be kicking themselves for not immediately green-lighting a Black Widow movie before she turned into this kick-ass action star.

-This is kind of music geeky, but I really liked this article on how 2014 was the year songwriters burned the chorus and built the bridge.

-Speaking of geeky articles I liked, here’s a great one on the category of appreciated TV shows that fall somewhere between prestige drama and trash. I call those the “workhorse” shows — superior than procedurals but will never get award recognition like cable series. Those kind of shows made up the majority of my Best TV of 2014 picks.

–Keshia Knight Pulliam (Rudy Huxtable) was fired on The Apprentice for not hitting up Bill Cosby. I get that the episode was taped long before his current debacle, but it’s weird they ran that whole segment as is last night.

–Chris Carter has not had an easy road back to TV success after The X Files. Amazon just scrapped plans for his new series.

-Ant Man finally got a human-sized teaser trailer.