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Linkin Park Singer Chester Bennington Dies at 41 in Suspected Suicide

-Another tragedy strikes the rock world: Linkin Park lead singer Chester Bennington, 41, has been found dead in an apparent suicide. It would have been his close friend Chris Cornell’s birthday today. Celebrities quickly took to Twitter with condolences.

-In terrible timing, a new Linkin Park video was released today and now everyone’s looking at it for deeper meaning.

Lena Dunham will be on American Horror Story’s seventh season, joining the already announced eclectic cast that includes Billy Eichner, Colton Haynes and Billie Lourd.

-I’m fascinated by Charlize Theron‘s Atomic Blonde press tour. She keeps positioning it like it’s the first action film starring a kickass female. It’s not even *her* first.

-Comic-Con kicked off today and saw Channing Tatum and Halle Berry pounding back bourbon during the Kingsmen panel. But in terms of scoop, in the last few years I’ve become way more interested in the stuff that comes out of the TV panels than the movie ones. I will be on Twitter all weekend, swimming in the glorious spoilers.

-HBO’s new Confederate series by Game of Thrones show-runners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss is getting a less-than-stellar reaction, with the Daily Beast saying it “sounds stupid as hell” and pretty much everyone wondering why HBO thought it would be a good idea.

Ryan Reynolds‘ granted a dying boy’s wish to FaceTime.

-According to Jason Bateman, the new Arrested Development season will revolve around a Lucille 2 murder mystery.

-Ooh boy, am I not a fan of Jenny Slate’s latest profile in Vanity Fair. First, I think one of the street style shots is, um, problematic. And to rail against the interest in her dating life and compare it to The Handmaid’s Tale (“I’m also just really not open to being known as the woman dating so-and-so. I think that’s four tiny steps away from being Offred”) seems a bit extreme, especially since she was the one who opened that can of worms by being so disarmingly candid about her breakup with Chris Evans.

-Don’t sleep on how cute Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen are together.

-Is Naomi Watts quietly cultivating this summer’s best celebrity Instagram feed?

-Speaking of great Instagram feeds, Celine Dion‘s just keeps delivering.

-Also, Celine may be dating a dancer and I’m already so happy for her.

-I can’t wait to see Girl’s Trip tomorrow. All of the reviews seem to single out Tiffany Haddish as the breakout. Her story on Kimmel about taking Will and Jada Smith on a swamp tour she found on Groupon was killer.

-The survivor of the plane crash that killed two men during the production of Tom Cruise‘s American Made broke his silence amid the lawsuit.

-Insecure is returns on HBO this week, and the reviews for the new season are glowing. I need to catch up on the end of the first season, especially know that I know that Sterling K. Brown will be in the new episodes. Apparently, star Issa Rae met the This Is Us star during this past awards season, and he casually mentioned that he wanted to be on the show.

Taraji P. Henson is playing a kickass assassin in the Proud Mary trailer.

Was Gal Gadot Underpaid for Wonder Woman?

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-Look, I’m all for pointing out the Hollywood pay gap, but that Elle article that went viral this morning about how Gal Gadot earned $300k for Wonder Woman while Henry Cavill made $14 million for Man of Steel was complete BS. Cavill’s deal included other movies and back-end. Gadot’s initial pay is industry standard (Chris Hemsworth and Chris Evans made roughly the same for the first Thor and Captain America movies, respectively, and RDJ made $500k for the first Iron Man). The real money will come with the sequel, and she hasn’t even signed that deal yet so she basically has Warner Bros by the balls.

-I love Sarah Michelle Gellar, but this is a bad tweet.

-Holy shit, Warner Bros. has confirmed Bachelor in Paradise has been cleared in the misconduct investigation, and they are RESUMING PRODUCTION. No one thought ABC would even attempt to salvage this show, let alone this season.

Miles Teller denied being arrested for public intoxication in San Diego this weekend. And then the San Diego brought out the receipts.

-Sadness: Prodigy, half of the incredibly influential Queensbridge rap duo Mobb Deep, has died at 42 of to Sickle Cell complications. Nas, QTip, Nicki Minaj, Chuck D and more have posted their condolences.

Jenny Slate was spotted at the movies with Jon Hamm. She’s really living her best life right now…

Lorde apologized for a Guardian interview in which she said that maintaining friendships with famous people is “like having a friend with an autoimmune disease.”

Angelina Jolie met with young survivors of sexual violence today on her humanitarian trip to Kenya.

Gwyneth Paltrow says she gets GOOP advice from Walmart’s e-commerce guy. Seems about right.

Kim Kardashian responded to those blackface allegations associated with her makeup line’s new marketing, making a lot of excuses before saying she’s “learned from it.”

Elle Fanning was on Kimmel last night and told the story of how she ended up having Robert De Niro and his entire family over for Easter dinner, and they just ordered a bunch of pizza.

-Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis says he’s done with acting.

Stephen Amell had a little fit on Twitter today because people were making fun of his belly at the Jays game (try being a woman on the internet, you delicate flower, you), but then Robbie Amell shut him down the way only family can. Twice.

Johnny Depp emails have been made public, and they reveal he knew he was in financial trouble (but still refused to fly commercial because that would be “a f**king nightmare of monumental proportions.”)

Michael Keaton, Dylan O’Brien and Taylor Kitsch star in the American Assassin trailer. Um, what the hell happened to Taylor Kitsch’s career?

Lily Collins battles anorexia in the trailer for Netflix’s To the Bone. It’s the directorial debut of Marti Noxon from Buffy and UNreal, and the supporting cast is stacked (Keanu Reeves,  Lili Taylor, Carrie Preston).

Jenny Slate Opens Up About Chris Evans Split

-Part of me is surprised that Jenny Slate spoke so openly about her breakup with Chris Evans in her New Yorker interview (especially since he deflected those questions in his recent Esquire cover story), but the bigger part of me loves her answers so much that I’m not going to question it. It’s all gold, but my favourite part is this: “To be quite honest, I didn’t think I was his type. Eventually, when it was like, ‘Oh, you have these feelings for me?’, I was looking around like, ‘Is this a prank?’ I mean, I understand why I think I’m beautiful, but if you’ve had a certain lifestyle and I’m a very, very different type of person—I don’t want to be an experiment.”

-I’ve never seen Bates Motel, but Rihanna’s live stream of her watching her debut was pretty adorable.

Kristen Bell says therapy is the secret behind her happy marriage to Dax Shepard.

-Well well well: newly divorced Supergirl stars Melissa Benoist is dating costar Christoper Wood. That explains a lot of blind items from the past few months.

-I don’t even get the point of why Brad Pitt‘s camp would plant this article. How does this make him sympathetic?!

-The Missing Richard Simmons podcast ended early and abruptly — and it left a lot of people debating the value of good intentions vs. the invasion of a celebrity’s privacy.

Jake Gyllenhaal is on Broadway now and he has no time for your questions about Taylor Swift, ok?

-Is Hollywood headed for another writers strike? It has barely recovered from the last one, especially on the TV side. (I would still love to see what Heroes would have turned out like after season 1 if the strike hadn’t totally torpedoed it.)

-I thought I was pretty much done with The Flash after the last episode, but damn it if I’m not excited about it’s musical crossover with Supergirl tonight. The non-spoilery reviews are glowing.

-Following last week’s revelation that Armie Hammer is into rope play based on his likes, the actor still hasn’t figured out how to use social media.

Selena Gomez reveals that Hacksaw Ridge made her cry during her “73 Questions” for Vogue.

-I forgot that iZombie is coming back. Yay!

-In other great TV news, Phoebe Waller-Bridge‘s Fleabag is getting a second season.

-So Tim Allen is not a great guy, huh?

Meghan Markle talks about her annoyance at having her freckles airbrushed out of photoshoots in Allure’s issue on racism.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Piper Perabo, and Antonio Banderas star in the new Black Butterfly trailer.