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Tiffany Haddish Answers 3 Ridiculous Questions

–Tiffany Haddish reveals the best thing about white people: translucent nipples and inheritances.

-In an interview with Vulture on Friday, Ruth Wilson said she had no say about how her character left The Affair, and if she had, it would have turned out differently. “No, I had no say over how the character’s arc was going to end, or how she would die and leave. I always hoped that she would… I always had the image that she would walk into the sunset with her son with no man. That’s what I hoped for her. But no.”

-Has Ben Affleck moved on from Lindsay Shookus?

-I don’t necessarily believe this story about Chris Pratt and Katherine Schwartzenegger staying abstinent until marriage, but it tickles me nonetheless.

–Ashanti shared an Aretha Franklin memory of the time she called her and told her not to get SARS in Canada.

-Renée Zellweger is the latest movie star to make the move to the small screen. She just signed on to topline Netflix’s thriller anthology series What/If.

–K-os just released his first single in three years.

-An oral history of the “Scotty Doesn’t Know” song from EuroTrip? Sure, why not?

–Tara Reid dropped out of the Sharknado press tour appearance following a bizarre TV interview. (Is it weird that I don’t find her appearance that bizarre? My bar is pretty low, though.)

-HBO’s Watchmen series from Damon Lindelof just got a full season order – and it’s coming in 2019.

-The director of Crazy Rich Asians just credited Lainey for basically casting the movie on her blog and I love it. (Her explanation of the movie’s music choices is worth your time.)

-It’s projected box office this weekend is $29M or more. (Fingers crossed for “or more”.) I saw it last night and I LOVED it. (Also, I liked this the explanation of the mahjong scene.)

-Speaking of movies I love (ok, I haven’t actually seen it yet but I’m watching it tonight and I just know it’ll be my new fave), To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before continues to rake in stellar reviews. Buzzfeed calls it “catnip for the rom-com lover’s soul”, TV Guide calls it “Netflix’s first teen movie worth watching,” and NPR says it’s “fizzy and endlessly charming.”

-This love-in between Lena Waithe and Jon Chu made my day.

-I liked this article on how Netflix accounts for huge deals with TV creators like Shonda Rhimes, Kenya Barris and Ryan Murphy.

-Uh oh. The Hills cast is set to reunited at the MTV VMAs next week for “a big announcement.” Reboot fever strikes again?

–Tiffany Haddish and Ike Barinholtz host a politically charged Thanksgiving in The Oath trailer.

Constance Wu Steps Into the Spotlight

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–Constance Wu’s cover of Time is fabulous (and it makes me even more sad that fashion magazines didn’t snatch her up for their Sept issues). The accompanying article by Karen K Ho is also great. Ho also tweeted some tidbits that didn’t make it into the article, including the fact that Wu specifically asked her publicist for Asian-American women to interview her as much as possible, because she wanted to create more opportunities.

-I really liked this article about Crazy Rich Asians from the perspective of an Asian American. (Speaking of which, Vox’s Today Explained podcast made me tear up this morning.)

-Also, if you’re seeing Crazy Rich Asians this weekend, stay for the end credits.

-This is a great interview with Lana Condor, the lead of To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before. (I can’t believe this movie is bringing back scrunchies, though.)

-Whoa, what happened with Ruth Wilson and The Affair? I stopped watching a couple of seasons ago (even the lure of Joshua Jackson couldn’t tempt me), but I heard about the big twist from two weeks ago. On CBS This Morning this morning, she says “I did want to leave, but I’m not allowed to talk about why.” Things get REAL awkward, and after some hemming and hawing Gayle King asked her if it was about “a disagreement about money – male and female salaries?” and she responded “I’ve never complained to Showtime about pay parity.” (FF to around 4:30 in this video).

-Showtime has since released a statement (which is basically a non-statement): “We can’t speak for Ruth, but heading into season four everyone agreed the character’s story had run its course.”

–Diane Kruger even makes maternity jeans work.

-People is wading in on the Brangelina battle, with a source saying “they’ve always had different parenting styles.”

–Madonna turns 60(!) today. (Remember when she was 35 the press was calling her “grandma“?) She’s in the Moroccan city of Marrakesh, and asking her followers to celebrate her bday by donating to Raise Malawi. Back when she was 35 the press was calling her “grandma”.

-In honour of her bday, Madonna also released her full performance from this year’s MET gala.

-Also turning 60 and looking ah-maz-ing is Angela Bassett, who celebrated by posting a bikini pic.

–Rihanna is reportedly filming a Lemonade-style longform music video featuring Donald Glover. Yes, please!

-As expected, Blackish’s Kenya Barris has inked what sources say is a three-year, high-eight-figure overall TV deal with Netflix. I don’t blame him because a) ABC did him dirty and b) money!

-These photos of Tiffany Haddish by Annie Leibovitz for Vogue’s latest issue are amazing.

–Ivanka Trump really, really didn’t like SNL’s “Complicit” sketch with Scarlett Johansson playing her.

-After taking a meeting with James Gunn, Disney still isn’t bringing him back for Guardians Vol. 3.

–Kim Cattrall has the best rejection story: “Got replaced in a TV pilot by a major TV network boss because he said I had no Sex Appeal.”

-Speaking of SATC stars, this thread makes me want to move to NY so I can vote for Cynthia Nixon.

–TJ Miller is defending himself against his former Silicon Valley co-star Alice Wetterlund who accused him of being a “bully and petulant brat.” Weeks later, he says he’s not a bully, just a “benevolent benign maniac.” Uh huh.

-I can’t believe  This Is Us’ Justin Hartley has a kid in high school.

-In case you’re wondering, this is why everyone is freaking out about dick soap. (I’m more freaked out by someone making money off fan fiction who isn’t the author.)

–Justin Timberlake leaving his publicist of 20 years, Sonia Muckle.

-In his new GQ interview, Pete Davidson says his relationship with Ariana Grande progressed even faster than we thought: “The day I met her, I was like, ‘Hey, I’ll marry you tomorrow,’ ” he says, grinning. “She was calling my bluff. I sent her a picture [of engagement rings]. I was like, ‘Do you like any of these?’ She was like, ‘Those are my favorite ones,’ and I was like, ‘Sick.’ ”

–Ariana Grande did a Little Shop of Horrors duet with James Corden and got a piggyback through Starbucks in the latest Carpool Karaoke, which aired Wednesday night. I love that she knows exactly what people say about her and mocks it: “Did you know I demand to be carried everywhere? That is the kind of pop star I am! If you see me anywhere, it’s cause I didn’t walk there myself; I promise.”

Ruth Wilson Talks Jake Gyllenhaal, Orgasm-Face

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–Ruth Wilson (who will always be Alice Morgan to me) looks fantastic on the cover of The Edit, in which she dismisses rumours that she’s romancing Jake Gyllenhaal by saying “we’ve become like brother and sister a little bit.” She also balks at the direction she got during some of The Affair’s sex scenes. “I kept insisting, ‘Why have I always got to do the orgasm face?’ There should be a male orgasm face.”

-There’s more today from Jennifer Aniston‘s THR interview, including a bit where she waves off the Brangelina drama with: “Nobody did anything wrong…If the world only could just stop with the stupid, soap-opera bullshit. There’s no story.”

–Aniston also flipped lips with Jimmy Fallon, to horrifying results.

-If Selena Gomez has taught us anything, it’s that our relationships aren’t real until they’re splashed all over Instagram.

-I’m still not going to watch it, but Empire is a (desperately needed) hit for Fox. It’s INSANELY rare for a TV show’s ratings to improve with each new episode.

–Anne Hathaway and Jon Stewart getting a case of the giggles over the plot of her movie is undoubtedly more entertaining than the movie itself.

-Here’s a peek at Mindy Kaling‘s new Super Bowl ad, in which she thinks she’s invisible. Rumour has it the guy at the end will turn out to be Matt Damon — though that dude looks really grey.

-I’m all for more female superheroes on TV, but the girl from Glee & Whiplash seems like a bit of a bland choice for Supergirl. (Case in point: I’ve watched both of those things and despite her photo being all over Twitter today, I still had to IMDB her to remember where I knew her from.)

-Speaking of TV, it’s interesting that all the big stories coming out of Sundance so far seem to be about the small screen.

-Also at Sundance, a new movie from the directors behind Half Nelson, which remains my favourite thing Ryan Gosling has ever done. Let’s see if they can do for Ryan Reynolds what they did for the Gos.

-One film that is making waves at Sundance is the Scientology doc based on Lawrence Wright‘s book Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood and the Prison of Belief (which I loved).

-More Reddit users have come forward with NSFWish tales of being approached by John Travolta at the gym at 3 a.m.

-Canadians may need to use some geo-blocking magic to watch it, but Amazon is streaming Transparent free this weekend if you want to see what all the fuss is about.

–Adam Brody is getting flirty with his stepsister in the first teaser for Billy & Billie. I miss that kid.

-Ohhhhh….a new Hannibal trailer!

–Archie Panjabi says she decided to leave The Good Wife after kissing Gillian Anderson. Seems about right.

-Congrats to Rachel Leigh Cook, who’s expecting a baby with the hot fake British guy from the Vampire Diaries.

-The first trailer for Tina Fey’s Netflix sitcom, The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, has arrived. The post-TCA consensus from TV critics I follow on Twitter seemed to be that the pilot is a mess, but a super funny mess.