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Janelle Monáe Wants Men to “Respect the Vagina”

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Janelle Monáe (who looks amazeballs on the latest cover of Marie Claire) is endorsing a sex strike until all men are feminists. “People have to start respecting the vagina. Until every man is fighting for our rights, we should consider stopping having sex. I love men. But evil men? I will not tolerate that.”

-Congrats to Bradley Cooper and Irina Shayk, who welcomed their first baby, a girl they named Lea de Seine Shayk Cooper.

Brad Pitt and Sienna Miller kinda makes sense, no?

Ashton Kutcher says wife Mila Kunis “kicked his ass on character” when he tried to act like a hero for being a dad. “I thought I was awesome because I got up early and helped with the kids before she woke up and I let her sleep a little bit and then she’s like, ‘Well, now you’re gonna act tired? I do it every day.’ But it was a character moment, right? Because she’s right!”

-Just a couple of months after giving birth, Janet Jackson has split from her husband. According to reports, her prenuptial agreement guaranteed her $500 million if she stayed 5 years. She left 5 years, two months in.

Ryan Phillippe took to Twitter to deny those rumours that he’s dating Katy Perry, saying “I barely know her” and added “please stop flying helicopters over my house. She is not there.”

Blake Lively says she gave birth to ‘Let’s Get It On’ because Ryan Reynolds was DJing.

Simon Cowell reportedly convinced Mel B to escape her allegedly abusive relationship.

-A woman on Twitter was crowdfunding her beauty school tuition — until Chrissy Teigen paid the whole thing.

Lauren Graham doesn’t see the need for more Gilmore Girls … but it’s probably gonna happen anyway.

-What sexist bullshit is Tyrese saying now?

-This interview with Andrew Rannells (who has become the MVP of the final season of Girls) is full of goodies, from the sly TSwift shade (“Lena never claimed to be a spokesperson for all young women. That’s Taylor Swift’s job”), to recalling the time he had to teach costar Corey Stoll the mechanics of anal sex (“I felt like I was doing some sort of gay-sex tutorial”) to talk of doing nude scenes (“I’m not on a CW show where I have to be taking water pills and fasting for a week…This isn’t Arrow”).

Goldie Hawn has a Vegas road-trip story to rival The Hangover.

Denzel Washington brings a jazz legend back to life in the trailer for the doc Chasing Trane.

Kylie Jenner is getting her own show? When with this national nightmare end?!

-I always forget that Rose Leslie and Kit Harrington are still together, and it’s lovely to be reminded.

Aisha Tyler‘s directorial debut just got its first trailer. Hey, I kickstarted this!

-The Thor: Ragnarok teaser trailer is good but I’m going to need 1000% more Tessa Thompson as Valkyrie and Idris Elba as Heimdall. (The fact that this is directed by Taika Waititi has me so intrigued though. Have you seen What We Do In the Shadows? Or Boy? Hilarious.)

Natalie Portman, Emma Stone, Ruth Negga, Matthew McConaughy and More Come Together for W

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-So many insanely good magazine covers dropped today. There’s W’s performances of the year issue, Prince Harry‘s Town & Country cover, Chris Pratt‘s Vanity Fair issue, and Glamour’s Girls cover, in which Lena Dunham and Jemima Kirke casually chat about the time Jemina threatened to punch Lena if she didn’t get out of her dressing room.

-Congrats to Janet Jackson, who welcomed son Eissa.

Julia Roberts and Bono want you to drink tea with them. Drink? No. Spill? Yes.

-Oh jeez. Now Mariah Carey’s manager is claiming the production sabotaged her NYE performance. That seems…unlikely. Still, I’m weirdly impressed that she wasn’t planning a full lip sync of that first song. I mean, there was an obvious guiding vocal and all of her high notes were recorded, but she was still planning to sing that thing! The second song, not so much. I’m also impressed that she didn’t immediately storm off the stage. I guess what I’m saying is that when it comes to Mariah, I don’t expect much and am easily impressed.

Chris Pratt‘s Vanity Fair interview also includes a video of him showing us how to gut a fish. He makes it seem charming.

-Billy on the Street tries to get to the bottom of the age-old question: do gay people care about John Oliver? Turns out he’s no Wendy Williams.

-I’m really glad to hear that critics are liking Big Little Lies (and surprised to hear they’re liking Riverdale).

-This is a great, great Twitter thread about the lack of articles about women staying away from Passengers in droves, as opposed to all the press about guys hating on Ghostbusters.

-That Will & Grace limited series revival is a go at NBC, according to on of its co-stars.

-The Sherlock showrunner has been forced to defend that unexpected death in the season premiere, which aired New Year’s Day. The year barely started and already there’s a female TV character who died to further a male character’s journey and fuel his manpain. Great.

-Speaking of unexpected TV twists, WTF Brooklyn Nine-Nine?

-I realized five years ago at my last Coachella that I’m too old for that shit (and I don’t want to spend $500 on a ticket), but this year’s lineup is solid. Beyonce, Radiohead and Kendrick are headlining.

Heather Locklear issued a vague statement about “tying up some loose ends” amid reports that she has checked into rehab for the fifth time.

-Congrats to Felicia Day, who announced her pregnancy. She somehow managed to keep it under wraps until three weeks before her due date, which takes Kerry Washington-level skills.

-I was weirdly charmed by Ashley Tisdale and Vanessa Hudgensduet of Ex’s and Oh’s.

Pharrell Williams, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe and Ellen are condemning a Hidden Figures soundtrack singer’s homophobic remarks.

Leonardo DiCaprio kicked off the year by hiding under a towel. Same.

Kim Kardashian has broken her social media silence with a weirdly filtered family pic. She also kept taking the “West” part of her name out of her bios but it’s back now.

Neil Patrick Harris hams it up in the latest trailer for A Series of Unfortunate Events.

 

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.