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Sandra Bullock Adopts a Little Girl

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–Sandra Bullock continues to be a secret adoption ninja. After shutting down rumours that she was expanding her family a couple of months ago, she’s now on the new cover of People revealing her three-and-a-half-year-old adopted daughter, Laila.

-Amazon just picked up David E. Kelley’s new show.

-I’ve never read a bad Connie Britton interview (because she’s perfection wrapped in awesomesauce), but this one is especially great.

-This is pretty boss: Elizabeth Taylor used to run an underground AIDS pharmaceutical ring to provide drugs to patients wh0 didn’t have access to them.

-Despite its minuscule restaurant, FXX has renewed You’re the Worst for Season 3 because it’s the best!

-Here are the young Hollywood actors who are vying for the role of Hans Solo in the Star Wars spinoff. I’m not super impressed with this lineup but would be interested to see what Rami Malek or Hunter Parrish would do.

-Good on EW for featuring Black Panther on their new Civil War cover, but the “meow” and Real Housewives caption is a big WTF.

–Marnie gets married, Shosanna moves to Hong Kong and Hannah finds a stable relationship in the new Girls trailer.

-Hollywood bigwigs had a secret meeting about the wage gap. Huh.

–Justin Bieber really, really wants you to think Selena Gomez took him back.

-I’m really enjoying Vulture’s series on rating anxiety this week. Today, Kurt Sutter, Adam Pally, Jeff Probst and more weigh in.

-Here’s the first trailer for Ryan Murphy’s new TV movie about OJ, starring David Schwimmer. God, I hate so many of those words.

–Alessandria Ambrosio was reportedly creeped out by the owner of Maxim who lurked around her nude photo shoot for the mag.

-Here’s the first trailer for Mojave, starring Oscar Isaac and Garrett Hedlund. It’s creepy af.

Nicki Minaj Gives Her Friends “Orgasm Interventions”

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-In the new Cosmo, Nicki Minaj says “I demand that I climax. I think women should demand that” before going on to talk about how she helped teach her friend how to be more demanding in bed. And this hereby marks the first time I’ve ever wanted to be friends with Nicki Minaj.

–Ed Sheeran once dragged Jay Z and Beyonce to his favourite spot in Midtown to cover “Empire State of Mind” for them.  Well shit, now I want to be friends with Ed Sheeran too!

–Connie Britton proves yet again that there’s nothing she can’t do — and that includes Hula-Hooping.

-As terrible as the casting of Emma Stone in Aloha was, Cameron Crowe’s statement about it is actually pretty gracious.

-On a recent podcast, comedian Jen Kirkman talked about a famous male comic who has a notoriously bad rep for his treatment of women. Everyone’s assuming she’s talking about Louis CK, but the podcast episode has since been taken down without explanation.

-Here’s the trailer for Caitlyn Jenner‘s new show, I Am Cait.

-Meanwhile, Jon Stewart called out the media for their looks-obsessed coverage of Jenner. “When you were a man, we could talk about your athleticism, your business acumen. But now you’re a woman, and your looks are really the only thing we care about.”

-If you want to maintain your Channing Tatum lady boner, avoid this video of him dressed up in a frumpy disguise and fooling audience members at an advanced Magic Mike XXL screening.

–Gabourey Sidibe is writing a memoir? I’ll take 20 copies, please.

–Milo Ventimiglia thought it would be funny to take a swipe at the Gilmore Girls in a new web series. He was wrong.

-It looks like we’re getting more Arrested Development, whether we want it or not. The next season will debut in 2016 on Netflix. Here’s hoping the actors’ scheduling works out better this time around so there’s not as much green screened wonkiness.

-Wait, so the Will Ferrell/Kristen Wiig Lifetime movie isn’t dead after all? So was Ferrell’s whole hissy about the media coverage of it fake?

-Jane the Virgin star Jaime Camil‘s Emmy campaign is a thing of beauty!

–Chris Evans and his brother Scott tried to cover James Taylor but got distracted by each other’s cuteness.

–Dave Matthews spotted one of his band’s bumper stickers on a random car, so he knocked on their window and asked for a nearby bar recommendation. Way to stay on brand, Dave!

–Gillian Anderson is imploring fans not to hoard tix to her Broadway show, because she’s the best.

-Meanwhile, The X Files reboot just added Joel McHale to the cast as Mulder’s ally. I like all of those words!

-Here’s the first promo for Stephen Colbert‘s version of the Late Show. Luckily, new Colbert seems a lot like old Colbert.

–Jude Law and Jimmy Fallon played a larger-than-life game of pool and things got real awkward.

–Jennifer Lawrence shared the first photo from The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 on her Facebook page.

–Mila Kunis can breath easier knowing her escaped stalker has been captured and is back in custody.

–Carey Mulligan rocks the vote in the new trailer for Suffragette.

–Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig have teamed up again with for Mistress America. When this comes out, will someone please remind me how much I despised Frances Ha? kthxbi

-Here’s the final red band trailer for Ted 2.

 

Rihanna Covers Elle, Walks Runway

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-Is it just me or does Rihanna look really tired on the cover of Elle?

-Meanwhile, Rihanna walked the runway at a vogue ball and totally owned it.

-Here’s a clip from Wild, the movie that might just nab Reese Witherspoon another Oscar. Is that Herc from FNL? Yes!!

-Speaking of FNL alums, this article on the cult of Connie Britton is a must read. “Britton is by no means the biggest star in Hollywood. But if you look closely, she might be one of the most important.”  Hells to the yes!

-The new promo for Girls is here, which is sure to make lots of people irrationally angry.

-Modern Family’s Julie Bowen explains why she intervened to help TV daughter Sarah Hyland end an abusive relationship. “Oh, well the reality is I’m just nosy. I stick my nose in anything and everything.”

-The Suicide Squad movie is starting to take shape. (I still don’t get why they don’t just cast from Arrow. Diggle on the big screen? Come on!). Margo Robbie is reportedly in talks to play Harley Quinn, while Jared Leto may try to fill Heath Ledger’s very large shoes as The Joker.

-The Macaulay Culkin death rumours were a hoax, which he wasted no time making fun of.

–Gabrielle Union penned a great essay for Cosmo about how she’s fighting back after her nude photos leaked. “Friends are assuring you that this will pass and people will move on to the next thing. But in this case, the next thing means the next victim — the next woman to have her naked body exposed to strangers against her will. And the crowd in the arena is going wild. People are critiquing and judging, cheering for more. They’re shouting, ‘Next! Next!’ ”

-Sorry Shonda Rhimes, I really want to see Brandon Routh’s Christmas cat movie even more now.

-I kind of love that Taylor Swift is totally owning her crazy girlfriend persona in her new video.

-Of course Eli Roth married a 22-year-old. Of course he did.

-The new Broad City promo reminds me that I really, really need to catch up with that show. Abbie and Seth Rogen yelling at a kitten is comedy gold.

–Aaron Sorkin says he’s going to quit TV because he’s had “much more failure” than in movies. Wait, are we seriously supposed to feel bad for a guy who managed to get four TV shows on the air, two of which are considered classics?

-I love the news that Paget Brewster and Keith David have joined the cast of Community for Season 6, because they’re both made of awesome.

-I’m not usually an Elie Saab fan, but I want to be buried in the dress Elizabeth Banks’ wore to today’s Hunger Games premiere. It’s much better than Jennifer Lawrence‘s quilted number.

-Meanwhile, Liam Hemsworth says that hanging out with Jennifer Lawrence helped him get over his breakup with Miley Cyrus because she’s “so honest and laughs all day long.”

-Game of Thrones’ Natalie Dormer is a badass in the latest Mockingjay clip — which also features Jesse from She’s All That! (It’s the little things that make me happy…)