-I adore Emma Stone’s Vogue cover. Even though it’s just a wig, she still makes me want to chop off all my hair.
-The accompanying interview is predictably adorable, which her sharing a story about how she played backup tambourine for Prince at an SNL afterparty, even though her foot was bleeding. I’m really looking forward to the La La Land promo tour.
–Billy Bush has lawyered up with one of LA’s fiercest litigators. How can he possibly think he can come back from this?!
-Meanwhile, the Days of Our Lives actress featured in the video has spoken out about being caught in this shitstorm.
–Nancy O’Dell’s terrible week continues. She just separated from her husband.
–Kate Hudson‘s girls night out is so much better than yours.
-Rocky Horror Picture Show reboot is not getting great reviews. Don’t care, I’m still going to time warp my butt off.
-Vulture asked 31 celebs to pick their fave TV ships. I wouldn’t even know how to answer that question. I’d be like “brew a pot of tea and get comfy; we’re gonna be here a while…”
–Matt Damon prepares for battle in the new trailer for The Great Wall. This looks…not good.
-I wasn’t totally on board when Emily Blunt was first cast as the lead for The Girl on the Train because she’s so different than how I imagined Rachel while reading that book, but the longer her press tour goes on, the more I’m into it. Her THR interview is lit: “Women are held to what a man considers a feminine ideal. You have to be pretty. You have to be ‘likable,’ which is my least favorite bloody word in the industry…Rachel isn’t ‘likable.’ What does that mean? To be witty and pretty and hold it together and be there for the guy? And he can just be a total drip?”
-Meanwhile, Emily and Lin-Manuel Miranda are both set to hostupcoming episodes of SNL. Here for it. Also, it looks like Alec Baldwinis playing Trumpin the premiere.
-Meanwhile, Brad Pitt took a voluntary drug test amid the child abuse investigation, according the Us Weekly (who seems decidedly pro-Pitt this week).
-This is exactly why I still follow Sophia Bush even though I don’t watch any of her TV shows. A Trump and Chad Michael Murray burn in one response? Slay!
–Stephen Colbert, America Ferrera, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, George Takei and other celebs urge you to vote in a new PSA.
-Even more powerful is Jesse Williams’ voting PSA: “This is not about the White House, this is about your house.”
-Well, looks like one good thing came out of The Mindy Project’s disappointing run on Hulu. They did enough episodes to score a syndication deal.
–Mandy Moore says “it’s not weird” for her ex Wilmer Valderramato date her pal Minka Kelly. Isn’t it, though?
-Speaking of Mandy, her new show This Is Us is the first fall pilot to score a full-season pickup. I really liked the second episode, but am already wary about how many twiststhey’re throwing at us. Like, is this going to be a thing every episode? ‘Cause nope.
-The new Billy on the Street trailer features Lupita Nyong’o, Aziz Ansari, Seth Rogen, Jon Hamm, and my fave: lil’ Jacob Tremblay!
–Kate Hudson belted out an impromptu rendidtion of En Vogue’s ‘Hold On’ on the Tonight Show.
-Critics like the new Netflix series Easy way more than I did (though I really dug the episode with Gugu Mbatha-Raw).
-I feel like James Corden is doing pretty much the same things I’d do if I were suddenly famous. The latest: singing with the Backstreet Boys.
-Speaking of superhero TV, this new movieis a Flash lovefest: co-directed by Jesse L. Martin and Rick Cosnett, with musical arrangements by Carlos Valdes.
–The Good Wife finale was…not good. I hate procedurals but somehow got sucked into this show because the weekly cases/trials were so weird and riveting, and yet they ended on the most confusing non-case ever. (Did Peter do it? Did the police “pit” the bullets? How did Kurt answer the affair question on the stand?) But even worse, a show that’s been historically very feminist saw the lead character needing her life mansplained by a ghost, her political future decided without her, and her final showdown a catfight about a man she doesn’t even want to be with anymore. Jesus. A few critics seemed to like the bitter, cynical ending (she winds up with no job, no friends, no boyfriend, no husband, no kids — who she recently admitted she didn’t like anyway), but it didn’t feel in any way earned.
-Also, when the showrunners feel the need to explain the ending? Not great, Bob.
–Idris Elba is no longer single. Sigh. I’m mean, I love him so logically I’m really happy for him to be reunited with his baby mama. But my heart guts say otherwise…
–Victoria Beckham says they’d cut her mic offduring the Spice Girls concerts and let the other girls handle the singing, but she was cool with it because she was the only one who got Gucci dresses. Not having to work AND getting free clothes? Teach me your ways!
-Can anyone confirm if the Living Proof company that helped produce that the miracle wrinkle-reducing lotionthat everyone’s talking about is the same Living Proof that Jennifer Aniston‘s associated with? Cause if so, she’s now controlling the entire world.
-Captain America: Civil War has a worldwide haul of $678 millionafter just 12 days in release, which means that even if it suffers a Batman v Superman-level crash, it’ll still hit the $1B milestone. [*whispers* I thought Civil War was kind of boring]
-“Without Jen, there’s no #Alias.” Here’s an oral history of the show, featuring Jennifer Garner, J.J. Abrams and more. I recently rewatched the pilot, and it still holds up as one of my fave first eps ever.
–Blac Chyna is pregnant. Does this mean I have to finally figure out who this person is? Sigh.
–Lauren Hill has apologized for being two hours latefor her Atlanta show, saying “I have nothing but Love and respect for my fans. The challenge is aligning my energy with the time.” Frankly though, if you’re buying a ticket to a LH show in 2016 and expecting her to show up on time, you’re an idiot. She’s been consistently pulling this crap for years.
–Brie Larson had a big weekend. She hosted SNL and got engagedto longtime boyfriend Alex Greenwald.
–Tom Brady and Gisele are releasing a $200 cookbook (even though all past references to their diet have been beyond depressing).
-I see Johnny Depp is taking his dog smuggling apology very seriously.
–Nardwuar has a new interview with Drake and it’s great. Also, the fact that Drake has seriously thought about what song he’s going to play at his wedding is … something.
-I’m very intrigued about which TV shows this writer is ranting on Twitterabout. (I’m guessing Sleepy Hollow and Castle?). I disagree with his assertion that its critics’ jobs to be calling out actors who use medical excuses to get out of a series, but still.
