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Rachel Lindsay Named ABC’s First Black Bachelorette

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–Rachel Lindsay has just been cast as the first black Bachelorette and people have lots of opinions, ranging from it’s beyond overdue to it’s too little, too late. Meanwhile, she’s already downplaying it, saying “Even though I’m an African-American woman, it’s no different than any other Bachelorette.”

-Harrison Ford has been involved in another airport incident after he flew too close to a passenger plane while piloting his private plane.

-Here’s the trailer for Apple’s reality series with Gwyneth Paltrow, which is like Shark Tank but with more apps and Jessica Alba.

–Ryan Murphy called Glee’s feud between Lea Michele and Naya Rivera “a shitstorm of difficulty.” He added, “There were many boys on our show that didn’t get along and you never hear about that. You never hear about that in our culture.” I’m listening…

-Speaking of Ryan Murphy and feuds, here’s the latest trailer for his new show.

-Wow. When the final ratings come out, there’s a chance SNL will be the No. 1 broadcast series of last week in the A18-49 demo.

–Mandy Moore is having a moment. She stars in the Dawes’ new music video, and Vulture just called her presence on This Is Us “a stroke of ingenious casting.”

–Hugh Jackman shared a personal sunscreen PSA after another skin cancer treatment.

-Is Angelina Jolie finally getting a publicist?

-If you’re not already OD’ing on all the Girls press this week, I really liked this writers roundtable.

–Kerry Washington might be in the next Deadpool movie.

–Robert Pattinson should probably go ahead and burn this sweater.

-I don’t watch TVD anymore, but this BTS clip is very cute.

-They just released the trailer for Everything Everything and it’s giving me all the squees! I adored that book. (The author tweet replied to me yesterday, which also squeed me up.)

Leslie Jones Is Going to the Olympics!

–Leslie Jones‘ Olympics commentary on social media was so good this weekend, she just got invited to cover Rio for NBC. And she’s doing it! This is what happens when you don’t let the haters scare you off Twitter for good.

-Also, she has the cutest fan ever.

-Oh, FFS. Now Kim Kardashian is jumping on the “I’m not a feminist” train, saying she’s “not a ‘free the nipple’-type girl.” A) Feminist or not, she still benefits from feminism, and B) would someone please buy Hollywood a dictionary that’s been published post-1967?!

–Lindsay Lohan and fiancé Egor Tarabasov got into a nasty-looking fight on a public beach, so of course there’s photos. After they surfaced, she spoke out, saying “No woman can be hit and stay with that person if that person isn’t prepared to say sorry.” (I would have ended that sentence before the word ‘if’, but at least she seems to have left him.)

-Between the movie poster Robert Downey Jr. posted on his Facebook page and Supergirl’s “new” poster, it was a bad weekend for stars/official outlets sharing things that ended up being fan art.

–New Girl and Brooklyn 99 are getting in on the crossover madness this fall. I stopped watching both of those shows ages ago, but good on them.

–Mariah Carey really is going to guest-star on Empire, apparently. She’s not playing herself though, which seems like a miss.

-Suicide Squad may have opened big this weekend, but it’s not necessarily a total success yet. After pulling in an impressive $65.1M on Friday, it dropped a massive 41% day-over-day. (A 30% drop is considered bad, so this is really not good.) We’ll see.

-CBS’s six new shows feature six white dudes as leads. I mean, do we expect anything more of them at this point, though?

–Lea Michele just Snapchatted her lip waxing. Civilization is doomed.

–John Oliver‘s segment last night on the decline of print news was pretty much a regurgitation of the conversation my friends and I have been having since I was a young ‘un in journalism school. Much wittier, though. (“Digital First sounds like a high school euphemism for seductively sucking on a finger.”)

–Martha Stewart and Snoop Dogg will throw weekly joint dinner parties on a new VH1 series, which already sounds like my new favourite TV show.

-I’m probably really late to the party, but I just discovered the My Dad Wrote a Porno podcast and Oh. My. God. If you have any interest in listening to a British guy and his two hyper-articulate friends break down his father’s terrible, terrible attempt at erotica, I highly recommend it. It makes me cry-laugh on the subway.

–Seth Rogen competed against Jimmy Fallon in Lip Sync Battle, and his “Hotline Bling” dance moves were pretty great. (Also, Rogen looks great!)

-Meanwhile, Rogen says he’s no longer mad at Katherine Heigl. That makes one of us!

-A new Moana trailer dropped during the Olympics coverage this weekend.

Natalie Portman Wants You To Read Her Emails

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–Natalie Portman and Jonathan Safran have emailed each other for more than a decade, and shared some of their correspondence in New York Times’ T magazine. Though they’re beyond pretentious, she’s definitely the one doing the heavy lifting in these chats — but it’s all weirdly undercut by the accompanying photos of her without pants. Sigh. So close, guys!

-Meanwhile, Portman is less interested about sharing emails with Ryan Seacrest.

–Kristen Stewart and Nicholas Hoult bonded for Equals by skateboarding at 4 a.m., late-night drinking in a bar and go-kart racing. The rest of us are in the wrong line of work, y’all.

–Julie Klausner said Page Six lied about her comments about Gwyneth Paltrow — so they came back to her with a handful of receipts.

-Mr. Robot superfan Robert Downey Jr. interviews Rami Malek in the new issue of Interview.

-I’m pleasantly surprised by my lack Emmy rage blackouts today! Overall, this was a really good batch of nominations. I’m especially happy for all the love thrown at The Americans (usually shows this deep into their run of Emmy snubs can’t dig themselves out of it ), as well as the nods for Tatiana Maslany, Constance Zimmer, Better Call Saul, Maura Tierney and Catastrophe (for writing).  It wasn’t all perfect — I would have preferred  Christine Baranski over Emilia Clarke, Rachel Bloom over Laurie Metcalfe, Orange Is the New Black over House of Cards, Oscar Isaac over Cuba Gooding Jr, The Leftovers over Downton Abby,Justin Theroux over Kevin Spacey, and Jessica Jones over almost everything — but still, I’m happy with most of the major categories. I’m also thrilled that The Good Wife’s craptastic final season was totally shut out.

-Also good: for the first time in Emmy history, all six lead acting categories include nods for people of colour. (It’s not perfect, though: not a single supporting actor/actress of colour in a drama was nominated.)

-Bloodline’s Kyle Chandler found out about his nom while taking out the trash. (Which is what that show is. Amirite?)

–Bryan Cranston’s talks about the iconic Breaking Bad “I am the one who knocks” scene.

–Lea Michele and the Glee cast paid tribute to Cory Monteith yesterday on the third anniversary of his death.

–Ariana Grande and Jimmy Fallon made a Snapchat music video, which is supposed to be a joke but seems too much like something that will eventually happen.

–Reese Witherspoon won the internet yesterday with her Legally Blonde anniversary snaps.

–Alicia Keys rounded up Beyoncé, Kevin Hart, Lenny Kravitz, Rihanna and more celebs for a powerful PSA.

–Britney Spears just debuted a new song, “Private Show,” and she looks fantastic in the video.

-Happy Ghostbusters Eve! Enjoy this delightful new Seth Meyers interview with Kate McKinnon. (“My fondest wish is to live as Nick Offerman”), and this Kristen Wiig interview with Jimmy Fallon, in which she plays Bachelorette JoJo, despite knowing nothing about The Bachelorette .

–Tom Hiddleston, Anna Kendrick, David Duchovny and more shared their celebrity pet peeves with Stephen Colbert.

-You can watch the terrifying first 8 minutes of Netflix’s new series Stranger Things.

–The Hollars trailer, directed by John Krasinski and costarring Anna Kendrick and Margo Martindale, is designed to make you cry.