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Donald Glover Gets Awkward at the BET Awards

–Jamie Foxx brought Donald Glover onstage at the BET Awards for an impromptu performance — and it was super awkward. Good for him for rolling with it, though.

–Janelle Monae reminded everyone about Pride with her BET Awards outfit.

-In a lengthy interview with the NYT, Kanye West defended his support of Trump and his comments about how slavery is a choice. It might have actually made things worse.

-Surprise! Cardi B says her fiance Offset is actually her husband Offset — and they’ve been married since September.

–Kit Harington and Rose Leslie got married in Scotland on Saturday. The Game of Thrones costars who attended included Peter Dinklage, Emilia Clarke, Richard Madden, John Bradley, Conleth Hill, Joe Dempsie, Maisie Williams and Sophie Turner. Other celebs there included Marcus Mumford and Malin Akerman (but weirdly, seemingly no one from Leslie’s current show The Good Fight).

–Evangeline Lilly putting her male Marvel costars in their place is a MOOD.

–Seth Rogen says he refused to take a photo with Paul Ryan. “My whole body puckered, I tensed up, and I didn’t know what to do..I look over and his kids are standing right there expectantly, clearly fans of mine, and I said, ‘No way, man!’ And I couldn’t stop. I said ‘Furthermore, I hate what you’re doing to the country at this moment, and I’m counting the days until you no longer have one iota of the power that you currently have.'”

-In a podcast recorded the day after her show was cancelled, Roseanne Barr cried about the situation, saying “I horribly regret it. Are you kidding? I lost everything, and I regretted it before I lost everything. And I said to God, ‘I am willing to accept whatever consequences this brings because I know I’ve done wrong. I’m going to accept what the consequences are,’ and I do, and I have. But they don’t ever stop. They don’t accept my apology, or explanation. And I’ve made myself a hate magnet. And as a Jew, it’s just horrible. It’s horrible.”

–Lena Dunham, Joshua Jackson, Sia, Amber Heard, Bella Thorne, Mira Sorvino, Connie Britton and more celebs got together to protest the migrant crisis in Texas.

-Oh dear. An “extremely intoxicated”  Heather Locklear was arrested for battery on a police officer just days after her psychiatric evaluation.

-The appeal of Making a Murderer’s Brendan Dassey has been denied by the Supreme Court.

-Marvel’s Kevin Feige addressed the difficulty of making the trailers for Avengers 4 and Spider-Man 2 following the events of Infinity War.

-Netflix assembled 47 of its black actors, creators, and directors across their shows and films to recreate the ‘Great Day in Harlem’ photo for a clip that aired during the BET Awards. It’s very cool — and interesting that it happened on the week that they’re under increased scrutiny about the lack of racial diversity on Netflix’s board.

-I haven’t f***ed with Westworld since season one when it became clear that the show cared less about crafting actual characters worth caring about and more about crafting puzzles that you’d have to try to figure out in a subreddit. But every TV critic I follow seems to be outraged by the most recent season, especially the season finale that aired this weekend, calling it “cold and largely impenetrable puzzle-box nonsense,” “narrative wheel-spinning,” and decrying its confusing plotting (“”Protracted mysteries, delayed reveals, and fractured narratives aren’t temporary interest-drivers; they’re permanent parts of Westword, and they handicap its potential as a drama rather than a scavenger hunt;” “We’ve played along for two seasons, but we’ve had enough. A complicated narrative is one thing, confusion is another.”) It’s also not a good sign that the co-creator is giving interviews defending its complex plotting.

-I wonder how Tom Cruise feels about Suri being at the NYC Pride parade. (Not that he should have a say if he’s not part of her life, but I don’t know if Scientologists are down with Pride.)

-Speaking of Scientology, I really liked the Erika Christensen episode of the Armchair Expert podcast, where she talks pretty openly about what she believes and why she follows it. I didn’t agree with a lot of it, but her perspective was one we don’t hear a lot of.

–Mindy Kaling, Tiffany Haddish, Timothée Chalamet, Kumail Nanjiani and Emilia Clarke are among the 928 new members invited to join The Academy.

–This David Lynch interview is getting a lot of attention because of his quotes on politics (he voted for Sanders, but praises Trump — “He could go down as one of the greatest presidents in history because he has disrupted the thing so much. No one is able to counter this guy in an intelligent way.”), but it’s his attitude that fatherhood is just this thing that somehow happened to him beyond his control that is what got under my skin (“I never really wanted to get married, never really wanted to have children. One thing leads to another and there it is”). Imagine being his kid and reading that.

-The goose-bumps-inducing first trailer for The Hate U Give is finally here. It’s based on Angie Thomas’s best-seller — which was my favourite book last year.

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner Announce Split

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Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner in Daredevil. (Photo: Twentieth Century Fox)

-Well, there goes the only reason I ever kind of liked Ben Affleck: he and Jennifer Garner officially announced their split. The exclusive came from People (of course it did; they worked really hard for it, after all) and it comes ONE DAY after their 10th anniversary.  The timing of this matters: under California divorce law, once you hit the 10-year mark, alimony becomes a much bigger deal. So the question is: did they officially split today (which means he let her reach the magic number 10, which might be the most honourable thing he’s done for her in a while), or did they split earlier and just announced it today to make him look better (which is going to be a PR nightmare if it comes out)?  And why didn’t they wait until the end of the week to announce? A US long weekend is a media dead zone. So. Many. Questions.

-Meanwhile, I’m so here for Jen‘s post-divorce career comeback. I’m thinking a prestige TV series? Maybe HBO or Netflix? I’m flexible.

-Think dating is hard? Try adding time travel like Amy Schumer does in her latest sketch.

–Taylor Kitsch talked about being naked on True Detective. Sigh. Please stop making it so hard to quit that show, Taylor.

-Speaking of FNL alums, Minka Kelly was spotted on a “first date” with Sean Penn at French Laundry. Dammit, French Laundry was on my bucket list and now it’s ruined. RUINED!

-I need to calm down. Luckily, I can stare at these adorable outtakes from Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny’s EW shoot until I’m out of v-fib.

–Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt were spotted at a London recording studio with Chris Martin.  Either he’s helping them score their next movie, or my dreams about the ultimate Spice Girls cover band are inching closer to reality.

-Everyone’s assuming Britney Spears is throwing shade at Iggy Azalea with this tweet. We can only hope.

–Stephen Colbert just did 20 “no hands” push ups after John Oliver tagged him in a #GiveThem20 post.

-I don’t watch Castle, but lots of people are thinking this blind item has something to do with whispers of discord between Nathan Fillion and Stana Katic. I really hope that’s not true; I love him and I have zero sympathy for well-paid actors who mess up their shows because they can’t keep it professional. We’ve all had coworkers we don’t like. (I’m looking at you, guy who keeps stealing my Coke Zeroes from the office fridge…)

-Just in case you need a good cry, here’s comedians getting emotional in the trailer for the I Am Chris Farley doc.

-Sigh. Game of Thrones won’t have any female directors next season. On the plus side, Transparent’s will have only one cis male director.

-I was kind of holding my breath while waiting for the Magic Mike XXL reviews to land. I loved it but could easily see critics turning on it, so it’s great to see that the heavy hitters liked it.  I especially like how Vox’s review points out how slyly feminist and sex-positive it is. (There’s an early scene in a gay club and I spent the whole time clenched and waiting for one of the queens to become the butt of a joke, and it thankfully never happened.)

-Meanwhile, you can now listen to Matt Bomer’s D’Angelo cover from the soundtrack.

-Congrats to Evangeline Lilly, who is expecting baby #2.

-Here’s a list of all the ridiculous celebrities who don’t believe in vaccines because they’re ridiculous.

-Here’s the trailer for Secret In Their Eyes starring Julia Roberts, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Nicole Kidman. Looks like we’ve got another annoying Julia Oscar appearance in our near future…

Amy Adams Gets Stretchy for Vogue

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–Amy Adams’ Vogue cover is gorgeous, and she shows off her ballet stretches in her 73 questions video. The print interview is great too, in which she talks about how she thought she’d be more put together by the time she turned 40. (“I still don’t do laundry so I’m always out of things; I’m just not a grown-up at all.”)

-I’m not really sold on Variety’s cover image of Angelina Jolie. It looks like she’s been blown out by an overly aggressive Instagram filter. Her Oscar game remains strong, though.

-Are George and Amal Clooney trying to adopt a baby? Probably not, but just typing that sentence made the floor tilt a bit…

-I learned so much from Vulture’s One Direction glossary of terms. So very much.

-Meanwhile, 1D’s Zayn Malik was not super impressed by Matt Lauer’s substance abuse comments.

-There is already a Jaden and Willow Smith poetry generator and it’s a thing of beauty.

-There are many reasons why I’m creeped out by the Fifty Shades of Grey movie, but Anna Kendrick’s reason might be the best.

–Rachel McAdams celebrated her 36th birthday this week in Toronto, but apparently not with her rumoured boyfriend — who might not be her boyfriend anymore.

-In their lengthy feature, Vulture got Benedict Cumberbatch to say “all the feels.” Hilarious.

-Also, Benedict tried to get Jimmy Fallon to say ‘booty’ on The Tonight Show.

-Jesus Christ, Evangeline Lilly. I want to support you in everything you do but this outfit is making it SO HARD.

–Amber Tamblyn says her BFF Blake Lively “is going to be more like the dad, and Ryan’s going to be more like the mom.” Huh.

–David Letterman and Jason Sudeikis really, really love Taco Bell.

-In terrible idea news, Idris Elba is adapting Luther for Fox. As much as I love and adore the original (it’s on Netflix; watch it now!), there’s no way Fox will keep it as gritty and real. Plus, Elba’s insane charisma elevated the show and disguised a lot of its flaws, which will be way more obvious in a Luther without him or Ruth Wilson.

-In TV news that actually sounds great, Tom Hardy will star in a new period drama for FX that’s based on a story written by him and his dad (the awesomely named Chips Hardy). Have you seen Locke? It’s basically just two hours of Tom Hardy driving and it’s absolutely mesmerizing.

-Hulu also ordered a bunch of new shows, including an Amy Poehler-produced comedy starring Billy Eichner and a new series from Jason Reitman.

-This new Hunger Games clip reminded me what happens in the book — including the parts I didn’t like. Hopefully the movie glosses over those.

-I very rarely praise Justin Timberlake, but his Twitter response to a guy who said he jumped on the Grizzlies bandwagon was pretty swell.

-Everyone can go home now. Selma has basically already won Best Picture.

-I am so on board with this trailer for The Duff! I’m even willing to overlook the offensiveness of someone as petite and cute as Mae Whitman being called a “designated ugly fat friend.” It hits all my teen movie requirements (not to mention Allison Janney crying while drinking wine and riding a lawn mower). Plus, I’ve been waiting for Whitman to be a movie star ever since she wailed outside her dad’s car in Hope Floats.