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Miley Cyrus, Laverne Cox, Ava DuVernay, Scarlett Johansson & Helen Mirren Get Powerful for Variety

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–Miley Cyrus, Laverne Cox, Ava DuVernay, Scarlett Johansson, and Helen Mirren each got separate covers for Variety‘s Power of Women issue.

-Also, Miley Cyrus criticized Supergirl, saying she believes it’s “weird” for a show to have “a gender attached to it.” Of all the TV shows out there that aren’t meeting a feminist standard, this is NOT the one to go after, kiddo.

-Joe Jonas did a Reddit AMA and he really took the “anything” part literally. He talked about losing his virginity to Ashley Greene, his penis size and a whole bunch of other stuff that I’m sure is going to help sell his new single. That’s how this works, right?

–Cathriona White’s mother, Brigid Sweetman, is suing Jim Carrey for wrongful death. Meanwhile, Carrey’s lawyer says she was estranged from her daughter and is just trying to take advantage of a terrible situation.

–Drake and Rihanna reportedly couldn’t make their relationship work, work, work, work, work.

–Shailene Woodley says she’s fine after being arrested — which she filmed.

-I honestly have no idea what Angelina Jolie‘s PR team is thinking lately.

-Whoa. Donald Glover is a dad now.

-And Jesse Eisenberg is going to be a dad soon.

-In other domestic news, Shia LaBeouf and Mia Goth are not legally married. Does that mean she’s not entitled to 50% of his glorious rattail?

-So St. Vincent really is dating Kristen Stewart? Imma need her to write a dating memoir one of these days…

–Billy Bush may sue NBC over the leak of the bus tape? Seriously? (Meanwhile, here’s a good history of his grossness.)

–Janet Jackson officially announced her pregnancy at 50 with this photo.

-I really like this article about what we lose when we move away from the 22-episode TV season. Though I think most network shows would work better as 13-18 episodes seasons, I’m not totally sold on the supershort Netflix/HBO model. Some of my favourite episodes of TV only happened because they needed to fill space. Remember The Good Wife’s “Red Team, Blue Team”? Or Breaking Bad’s “Fly”?  Or Buffy’s “Superstar”?

-Man, Gabrielle Union is having a tough month. First she had to carry the load on the Birth of a Nation press tour, and now she’s suing BET over Being Mary Jane over her contract.

-Wait, so the live-action adaptation of Mulan features a white male lead?!

–Jeremy Renner likes his coat and sees no reason to take it off during an interview, no matter how much he’s pressured. I mean, it IS a good coat.

–Joss Whedon calls Donald Trump “actual evil” in a new video. “I write movies and TV of vampires and superheroes and Norse gods and stuff. I could never have come up with something as ridiculous and outlandish as Donald Trump.”

–Amy Schumer is breaking up the boys’ club as the first woman to ever land on Forbes’ highest-paid comedians list. Ever.

–George and Amal Clooney‘s new NYC apartment seems really modest and low-key.

–Emma Watson seems to really like our First Lady.

-A new movie trailer featuring Idris Elba came out a few days ago, and I missed it?! I’m so ashamed.

 

Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield Reunite?

–Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield are playing with our hearts again by being photographed together.

-Speaking of confusing relationship statuses, here’s a photo of Joshua Jackson and Diane Kruger hugging.

-Meanwhile, Jackson (and his sexy beard) are back to filming The Affair.

–Vin Diesel praised Dwayne Johnson‘s Fast8 performance; The Rock responded by thanking everyone in the cast but Vin. God, I’m living for this!

–Idris Elba posted a photo of him working out in just a pair of boxers. Happy Monday!

–Eddie Murphy lives quite the life. “I haven’t read a newspaper in 20 years, or read a corporate magazine, I don’t read corporate magazines or stuff, I don’t read stuff about me…I don’t have a computer, I don’t have email, I don’t have any of that shit.”

-He also says he turned down drugs from Robin Williams and John Belushi.

–Justin Bieber’s new girlfriend is named Bronte Blampied. God, that’s almost as good as Belinda Blinked.

–Rosario Dawson has the weirdest contract I’ve ever heard of. Marvel is so scared that she’ll reveal spoilers that all she knows every year is that she’ll be in four episodes of a Netflix show at some point — but she doesn’t know when or which shows.

-Here’s Angela Bassett delivering an impromptu Shakespearean monologue like a GD boss.

–Amy Adams is pretty much the only celebrity who can pull the “aw schucks, I’m so naive” card and get away with it in my books. I blame Enchanted.

-Sweet! Feist is reuniting with Broken Social Scene on the upcoming new album.

-Speaking of good Cdn music news, there’s a new Tegan & Sara song!

-Out of all the Hip tributes I read this weekend, this one and this one got me right in the feels.

-Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’s Vincent Rodriguez III is posting photos from his Disneyland trip with his husband and it’s all kinds of cute.

–Courteney Cox ate rotting sheep on while filming Running Wild With Bear Grylls; did not enjoy it.

-Is Tom Cruise holding up the new Mission Impossible movie with his money demands?

-One of my favourite people I’ve ever interviewed is Nick Offerman, because you could throw the silliest question at that guy and he’d respond with the most thoughtful, lovely answer. I was reminded of that by this AV Club interview, whether he’s talking about fans over-simplifying Ron Swanson as a breakfast-loving, Scotch-drinking libertarian (“He was much more complex than that. He was a very outspoken feminist. He was a man of few words and people mistook that for a man of few colors”), or his sex life with Megan Mullaly (“Look, I’m 46, Megan’s 57, and we have a happy marriage. We get it on with each other and we feel very celebratory about that.”)

-This Stranger Things theory just broke my brain.

-Meanwhile, the little girl who plays Eleven shaved her head for the show to the tune of Beyonce’s “Pretty Hurts.”

-Speaking of shaving, watch Hugh Jackman shave off his Wolverine beard.

-THR published an article about how TV production is exploding in Vancouver: “If you’re a paparazzo, you should go to Vancouver because it’s where every television star is going to be running around and misbehaving.” Oh, THR. They already are. The CW casts seem to be single-handedly powering blind item sites these days.

– Netflix has a new comedy series called Friends from College and the cast is stellar: Cobie Smulders, Keegan Michael-Key, Nat Faxon and Fred Savage.

–Aaron Paul is getting into the producer gam;. he’s sold a one-hour drama script called Blackmail to NBC.

-Sorry, nerds. Ian McKellan will not officiate your LOTR-themed nuptials.

-Um, why is Jason Momoa hanging with his Game of Thrones fam in Ireland?

-Speaking of GOT, that awesome shot of Jon Snow being crowded in battle last season was actually Kit Harington’s idea.

–Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks are shooting a new movie together? TAKE MY MONEY NOW!

-Hmmm. Days after THR’s scathing article about Leonardo DiCaprio‘s charitable foundation, he abruptly dropped out of hosting a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton at his Hollywood Hills home. It’ll now be held at the nearby residence of Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel.

–Kevin Spacey has never been happier than this moment.

-Such a good read: “Mary Jane’s Hair Color: The Code for Racist Rhetoric”

-Speaking of great reads, this is a good one on the struggle for small shows to be seen in the times of peak TV.

-In case you ever doubt how powerful Barbra Streisand is, she got Apple to change the way Siri pronounces her name. “She pronounces my name wrong. With a soft S, like sand on the beach. And so what did I do? I called the head of Apple, Tim Cook.”

-The Ben-Hur remake belly-flopped at the box office this weekend. Let’s all see if that gets as much press as the Ghostbusters receipts did, shall we?

-Whoa. Sleigh Bell (love them!) are suing Demi Lovato (love her!) for unlawfully sampling their music.

–Helen Mirren was shutting down sexist interview questions as far back as the ’70s.

-Lindsay Lohan will do a Russian TV interview — but only if she gets to  meet Putin. Bless her heart.

-Congrats to Chris Hardwick, who married Lydia Hearst this weekend. Everyone shits on him now because he’s so ubiquitous, but I still kind of love him.

-This is boss: Katie Couric took a $1 million pay cut to save other people’s jobs.

–Halle Berry proves she’s the wrong mom to mess with in this Kidnap trailer.

Drew Barrymore Lights Up Harper’s Bazaar

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–Drew Barrymore is on fire (literally) for Harper’s Bazaar.

–Jimmy Kimmel grabbed a woman off the street and had Channing Tatum whisper sweet Valentine’s Day messages to her. I couldn’t even get through this; the secondhand embarassment factor was way too high. I would die. DIE.

-Here’s the first footage of the Friends cast on the James Burrows tribute. “Did you all sign contracts saying you wouldn’t sleep with each other?” Bless you, Andy Cohen.

-Meanwhile, Friends star Matt LeBlanc is co-hosting Top Gear and Britain is having none of it.

–Madonna‘s custody fight with Guy Ritchie is heating up. He’s ‘determined as ever’ for Rocco to remain in London.

–Rosie O’Donnell and James Corden rapped Hamilton’s opening number and it was wonderful.

–Kevin Smith‘s daughter was almost kidnapped by sketchy dudes posing as Uber drivers, and her dad tried to make her feel better by baking her a “sorry men suck” cake.

–George Clooney says his proposal was so “horrible” that it took Amal 20 minutes to figure out what he was trying to do.

-Meanwhile, I want George to only do joint interviews with Rihanna from now on. Please somebody make that a thing.

–Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom: still boning.

-Oh hai, John Boyega. How you doin’?

-Are you kidding me with this, Hollywood Reporter?!?

–Helen Mirren is defending the Oscars, saying “it’s unfair to attack the Academy” because “the issue we need to be looking at is what happens before the film gets to the Oscars…what kind of films are made, and the way in which they’re cast, and the scripts.” Well, she’s not wrong.

-Meanwhile, Helen‘s anti-drunk driving Super Bowl PSA is perfection.

-Also, she just showed everyone how good she is at cracking whips because clearly she’s trying to kill us.

–Matt Czuchry is returning to the Gilmore Girls reboot? I love him in The Good Wife, but I’m Rory/Jess trash forever.
-My friend Kat wrote a thing on the 19 times Jacob Tremblay was Canada’s most adorable export, and it’s a delight.

-Interesting: the Serial podcast is doing short updates on Adnan’s current trial.

–Lauren Cohan says she almost quit The Walking Dead over a gruesome death scene, but her TV husband talked her out of it. Glenn saves the day yet again!

-A Cruel Intentions TV show is happening. This…is not a good idea. I would maybe have a sliver of hope if it was on the CW, but NBC? Oh dear. Stay far, far away, Sarah Michelle Gellar.

–Anna Kendrick and Miles Teller deal with chronic underemployment and student-loan debt in the new trailer for Get a Job.

-Speaking of trailers, here’s the latest for Jean-Marc Vallee’s Demolition, starring Jake Gyllenhaal. This got lots of good buzz at TIFF.