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The Dixie Chicks Stage a Comeback

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-The Dixie Chicks are on the cover of Allure, in which they talk about how speaking out against the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq during a 2003 concert basically killed their career for more than a decade. “I have no regrets, but the responsible part of me doesn’t want to put people through shit [again]. When I think back, it’s like that movie Sliding Doors, right? Where would we be today if I hadn’t said that? That’s interesting. I really don’t know if I would take it back,” says Natalie Maines.

-Wow wow wow. The SXSW festival in Austin has been canceled over coronavirus concerns.

-Following yesterday’s staff walkout, Hachette Book Group has announced that it will not publish Woody Allen’s memoir, originally scheduled for sale in April 2020, and will return all rights to the author.

-Knives Out star Ana de Armas was spotted hanging out with Ben Affleck in Havana yesterday. I don’t want this for her.

-At least five men say they were catfished by Drag Race contestant Joey Gugliemelli (aka Sherry Pie), who posed as a casting director and led them to submit embarrassing audition tapes of themselves saying and doing degrading things. One of the young men said he even agreed to masturbate on camera as part of the audition process. Gugliemelli posted on Facebook: “I want to start by saying how sorry I am that I caused such trauma and pain and how horribly embarrassed and disgusted I am with myself. I know that the pain and hurt that I have caused will never go away and I know that what I did was wrong and truly cruel.”

-Oh boy, fans of Grey’s Anatomy do NOT seem happy with the way the show wrote off Alex Karev last night. The actor didn’t appear in any scenes but did some voiceovers reading letters his character sent which explained that he ***SPOILER ALERT: left to reunite with Katherine Heigl’s character Izzie, who was raising his kids that he didn’t know about.****  Beyond a few outliers, the response on Twitter seems decidedly unhappy.

-Meanwhile, Ellen Pompeo just wrote a tribute to Alex Karev  on Instagram — without ever mentioning costar Justin Chambers. I’m gonna need the tell-all book when this show wraps!

-The Hype House kids not knowing who Perez Hilton is tickles me.

–Johnny Depp’s defamation trial against The Sun publisher is about to begin, and the judge has ordered him to turn over audio recordings and papers from his divorce proceeding with Amber Heard, so expect a lot of sad details of their stormy relationship to surface.

–Tom Hanks plays a US Navy skipper who must lead an Allied convoy being stalked by Nazi U-boats in the Greyhound trailer.

SZA Makes It To The Other Side

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-I know she seems to hate it for some reason, but SZA’s Rolling Stone cover story is really good! She tries to temper expectations about her next release (“Music is coming out this year for sure. An album? Strong words”), talks about coming to terms with fame (“I’ve been in the airport on the way to see my grandmother on life support and [fans] are like, ‘‘Aw, girl, what are you doing here? Can I get this picture now?'”) and addresses the devastating loss of her grandmother (“I didn’t want to make music. I didn’t. I was just trying to not kill myself, and not quit, period. Because it was really fucking hard, and lonely as fuck”).

-She also released the video for “The Other Side,” her collab with Justin Timberlake for the Trolls World Tour soundtrack.

-The Johnny Depp apologists who were all over Twitter a couple of weeks ago seem strangely silent today. According to text messages read out in court this week, Depp once texted actor pal Paul Bettany: “Let’s burn Amber [Heard]…Let’s drown her before we burn her!!! I will f–k her burnt corpse afterwards to make sure she is dead.” Depp is in London for a preliminary hearing in his libel suit against British newspaper The Sun over an article that alleged Depp had been abusive to Heard. The texts were revealed in court after previous lawyers for Depp had accidentally shared 70,000 messages from and to the actor with The Sun’s legal team — by mistake!

–Prince Harry spoke at a conference for his sustainable travel initiative Travalyst in Edinburgh today and asked to just be called Harry.

–BTS‘ appearance on Carpool Karaoke was super cute. Dammit, I’m going to have to learn all their names and pick one to stan, aren’t I?

-Not surprisingly, Jennifer Garner‘s boyfriend John Miller is reportedly “uncomfortable” with Ben Affleck‘s candid interviews in which he keeps talking about how his biggest regret was their divorce.

–Adrien Brody is reportedly dating Marchesa fashion designer Georgina Chapman, who is Harvey Weinstein’s ex-wife.

–George Clooney said he was “surprised and saddened” to learn of the investigation involving Nespresso farms and child labour. “Clearly this board and this company still have work to do.”

–Ryan Murphy‘s American Horror Story is not my jam, but that series has the best casting on TV today. Season’s 10 cast was just announced, with Macaulay Culkin joining Sarah Paulson, Kathy Bates and Evan Peters.

-The latest Quibi trailer gives us blink-and-you’ll-miss-it looks at their new shows starring Anna Kendrick, Liam Hemsworth, Idris Elba, Sophie Turner, Will Forte, Bill Murray, Rachel Brosnahan, Laurence Fishburne, Chrissy Teigen, Don Cheadle and Lena Waithe.  The AV Club has a list of all the major offerings (so far).

–Steven Spielberg won’t direct Indiana Jones 5, with James Mangold in talks to replace him.

-The This Is Us cast is out here doing TikTok challenges.

–Hilary Duff shaded Disney+, implying the Lizzie McGuire revival is on hold because it was considered too mature for the streaming service.

–Taylor Swift is releasing a new video tomorrow for “The Man” – which she directed. It’s my least favourite song on the album because it’s so very on the nose but I’m interested in what she does behind the camera.

-I have no interest in watching Amazon’s Hunters starring Al Pacino so I read this spoilery review. The big twist sounds hella dumb.

-The people behind Invisible Man created a bunch of scary stunts for the junket. I hate this. These things are stressful enough; journalists are just trying to do their jobs.

-This whole thread about nice celebrity encounters made me happy.

–Octavia Spencer plays a millionaire in a new trailer for the upcoming Netflix series Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker.

P.S. I Still Love You Gets an EW Digital Cover

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-I didn’t adore the follow up book to To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before, but damn if EW’s cover story isn’t getting me excited for the movie. The GIFs alone!

–Lana Condor also talked about why she’s more open about her dating life, because playing coy during the promo for the first movie led to too much real-life shipping between her and Noah Centineo.

–Zendaya and her Euphoria costar Jacob Elordi having been claiming to be just friends, but these photos seem to indicate otherwise.

-Terrible news: Shannen Doherty says she has stage 4 cancer. She credits Brian Austin Green with getting her through the 90201 reboot.

-Huh. Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg is engaged to the brother of Walking Dead/The Punisher star Jon Bernthal.

–Jessica Simpson said in a recent interview that she has a good relationship with Nick and Vanessa Lachey and they even sent her a gift when she had a child. They very awkwardly insisted they did not!

–Janeane Garofalo claimed Edward Norton cost her a role in Fight Club, and he responded “I’m sorry Janeane is under that impression, but if she was serious, she’s really mistaken.”

–Jennifer Lopez posted a bts video of her and her daughter getting ready to perform at the Super Bowl.

-I never get tired of Saoirse Ronan and Andrew Scott bonding over being Irish.

–Megan Thee Stallion would like everyone to know she is not dating G-Eazy; she just let him lick off her Fenty cosmetics.

-Meanwhile Halsey, who used to date G-Eazy, did NOT take kindly to an audience member screaming his name during her show.

–John Boyega continues to be a delight on Insta.

-This is a fascinating article one Parasite’s house set (which they built from scratch).

-Speaking of unbelievable homes, have you checked out Kim and Kanye‘s spread in Architectural Digest yet?

-The Good Place’s philosophy consultants shared their thoughts on (im)mortality, the finale, and whether they are, or are not, a Chidi.

-The Always Sunny team created a comedy called Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet about a video game’s development for Apple+ and critics are loving it, calling it “The Office for the younger set.”

–Paul F Tompkins‘s Twitter thread on being in Bojack Horseman made me tear up.

-Disney is reportedly reducing Fox’s slate to just 4 films a year as they increase their focus on streaming content.

–Andy Cohen says Kelly Ripa saved his life by telling him to go to a doctor in 2017 to have an odd spot on his lip checked out — which turned out to be cancer.

-If you’re wondering why a pro-Johnny Depp wave is sweeping Twitter, it’s because audio “leaked” from a therapy session of Amber Heard admitting to hitting him. As if that absolves him of everything?

–John Krasinski appears in a flashback in the latest spot for A Quiet Place II.