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Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ New Role: Climate Warrior

 

Julia Louis-Dreyfus People cover

-In her new People cover storyJulia Louis-Dreyfus talks about how surviving breast cancer led her to ramp up her environmental activism. “Once you’ve faced a near-death experience like that, you do begin to realize that, at some point, you’re going to be out of here. We all are. So, how best to spend my remaining time on this planet?”

-Media-shy Cameron Diaz appeared on Who What Wear CEO Katherine Power‘s Instagram Live yesterday and talked about motherhood and being married to Benji Madden. “I love being a mother. It’s the best, best, best part of my life. I’m so grateful and so happy and it’s the best thing ever and I’m so lucky to do it with Benj and we’re having the best time. I’m thrilled. I can’t believe it.”

Drew Barrymore says she’s cried everyday while trying to home school her daughters.

-Twitter is going crazy for this WILD clip of a Quibi show where Emmy winner Rachel Brosnahan plays a woman obsessed with her golden arm. It’s apparently part of a horror anthology.

Armie Hammer is making some interesting style choices in quarantine.

Cardi B invited Bernie Sanders to join her on Instagram Live last night to talk politics, coronavirus and manicures.

Jennifer Lopez and Robert DeNiro surprised hospital staff with video messages of support.

Judi Dench‘s grandson continues to make hilarious TikTok videos with her and I love him.

Nicki Minaj dropped her husband’s name on her social media channels, but apparently it’s just because she’s getting ready to promote new music.

-A new trend on Tik Tok is people doing their makeup while lip-syncing to John Mulaney bits, which is exactly the kind of content I’m here for.

Sam Raimi has been confirmed as the director for the Doctor Strange sequel and the internet is very, very happy.

Rita Wilson described her covid symptoms. It sounded horrible.

Reese Witherspoon‘s fashion line Draper James tried to  give free dresses away to teachers, but it went very badly.

-I’m intrigued by Ryan Murphy’s new limited series, Hollywood, which revisions a world in which minorities, women, and queer people had been allowed to shine in the industry’s so-called Golden Age.

-Here’s our first look at Matthew Rhys in HBO’s Perry Mason reboot.

Keri Russell Talks Style, Sleep and Sex

Keri Russell Shape magazine

Keri Russell covers Shape, in which she says her husband Matthew Rhys calls her style “Sam Shepard from The Right Stuff” (“We laughed really hard about it, but I realized that’s my true fashion—like tough guys. Growing up, I didn’t play with Barbies or dolls. I wanted the adventures”), talks about doing the horror movie Antlers (“I’m a total scaredy-cat, but I think the reason why it’s OK for me to do scary movies is because I’m scared all the time. I’ll be in the bathroom getting ready, and Matthew will be coming down the hall and he’ll warn me, ‘I’m about to come in.’ And I’ll still scream!”), and reveals her feel-good essentials (“I need those little bits of time to myself. And time to see girlfriends. If you have that, if you have good sleep, if you have good sex—all those things just make you feel great”).

Harvey Weinstein‘s defense team has asked for a 5-year sentence, citing his charity work and the stress of the allegations: “Mr. Weinstein cannot walk outside without being heckled, he has lost his means to earn a living, simply put, his fall from grace has been historic, perhaps unmatched in the age of social media.”

-Also, according to unsealed court documents, he once said in an email Jennifer Aniston “should be killed.”

-First reactions to movies when the full reviews are still embargoed tend not to be super reliable, but people seem enthralled by the live-action Mulan.

Angelina Jolie shared a personal essay for Time and revealed that daughters Zahara, 15, and Shiloh, 13, have both undergone recent medical complications. “I have spent the last two months in and out of surgeries.”

Brad Pitt skipped the BAFTAs to be at one of his daughter’s sides during her surgery.

-Meanwhile, sources close to Brad Pitt insist his relationship with Arrested Development’s Alia Shawkat is “strictly platonic.” I’m more intrigued by who approaches them to talk during that video of them at a concert. Is that Beck?!

Corey Feldman accused Charlie Sheen of sexually abusing Corey Haim in his new documentary, which screened last night. This is an old allegation that Sheen publicly denied and sued the National Enquirer over in 2017. At the time, Haim’s mother sided with Sheen.

-The Outsider was one of those shows that didn’t get a lot of buzz, but it felt like everyone I know was watching it. The ratings were surprisingly good, too.

-This excerpt from the new book Her Stories is about the Days of Our Lives devil possession story of the mid-’90s and how it was kinda all about the religious right.

-In a video interlude shown during her current world tour Billie Eilish performs a poem about her unique style. “If what I wear is comfortable, I am not a woman. If I shed the layers, I am a slut. Though you’ve never seen my body, you still judge me for it. Why?”

-The Flip The Switch challenge has been sweeping TikTok the past couple of weeks, and now celebrities are starting to get in on the action.

Selena Gomez said her first onscreen kiss was with Dylan Sprouse and “It was one of the worst days of my life,” and he’s since poked fun at himself on Twitter.

-An Australian bushfire benefit concert has been cancelled after Miley Cyrus pulled out due to coronavirus concerns, BTS has cancelled shows, and now it looks like Coachella will be postponed (which is probably for the best, seeing as it’s basically in a town full of retirees).

-The trailer for Netflix’s Uncorked looks great.

Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt star in the new Jungle Cruise trailer.

Chris Pratt Is Engaged to Katherine Schwarzenegger

-Is anyone at all surprised by Chris Pratt’s engagement news? They’ve been subtly planting the seeds in the press for a while (pretty much shortly after they met at Justin Bieber‘s Zoe Church in L.A. ) Also, that photo he chose is so deeply unflattering.

-The Critics’ Choice Awards were last night, and I liked what some people wore there better than what they wore to the Golden Globes (Constance Wu, Charlize Theron, Sandra Oh), while I am very confused why some people (Julie Roberts, Amy Adams) basically did a repeat of what they wore last weekend.

-Also last night: Rami Malek finally got his moment with Nicole Kidman.

-The Critics’ Choice Awards handing Roma the big prize is upping its buzz. I’m still not a huge fan (it’s clearly a technical masterpiece but it also left me cold), but Guillermo del Toro’s Twitter thread on why he loves it is very persuasive.

Meghan Markle reportedly told some children at today’s event that her due date is in April, and they’re not going to find out the gender beforehand.

Kylie Jenner has been beaten by a picture of an egg for the most-liked Instagram post ever. 2019 is already wild, y’all.

-Winter is coming — in the middle of April. HBO released a longer teaser and announced that Game of Thrones’ final season will premiere April 14.

-Speaking of HBO, last night’s True Detective premiere did way better in the ratings than I assumed it would.

-I loved that Kayleigh Donaldson’s Twitter thread outed an Instagram “influencer’s” scam conference and got the remaining dates shut down. (Donaldson hosts a really good industry podcast called The Hollywood Read if you’re looking for something interesting to stick in your ear holes.)

-Speaking of industry rumbling, the Academy is now fighting with its largest branch — SAG-AFTRA, who is calling out the Oscars for trying to prevent talent from presenting at other award shows using “intimidation.” Remember last year when the Academy added all those young, diverse voters and we had such hope? Between this and the hosting debacle, what happened?

Brad Pitt is hitting the Oscar trail for If Beale Street Could Talk (which I finally saw and LOVED). His Plan B production company is on quite a streak.

Miley Cyrusbirthday post to Liam Hemsworth is incredibly sweet. It’s weird how much I’m rooting for these two.

-Huh, all those blind items might be onto something. Tidal is under investigation in Norway over “fake streams.”

Travis Scott say he agreed to perform at the Super Bowl with Maroon 5 on the condition the NFL would make a $500,000 donation to his charity of choice (but people don’t seem impressed).

-It turns out that if you want to interest me in a Perry Mason reboot, putting it on HBO and casting Matthew Rhys is the lead pretty much does it.

-I love that Mindy Kaling retweeted this amazing thread of Kelly Kapoor as Pride & Prejudice characters.

-Speaking of great Twitter threads, I’m late to the game but last week HBO gave out Sopranos-inspired nicknames to any celeb/verified who asked for one, and it was amazing.

Tom Hardy and his wife Charlotte Riley have had a baby boy –– but despite reports they didn’t name him after Forrest Gump. Whew!

Ryan Coogler sounds awesome. Women who worked with him on the set of Black Panther said he created an environment where they could “cut past any of the normal bureaucracy of male dominance.”

-There is a new movie coming out starring Mel Gibson and Sean Penn and I have never nope’d anything harder.

-In the Little Woods trailerTessa Thompson must return to the dangerous life she thought she’d left behind.