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Hollywood Heavyweights Shonda Rhimes, Reese Witherspoon and More Say #TimesUp

-God, I’m relieved it’s so much more than black dresses at awards shows. Yesterday, in unity, 300 Hollywood women  announced the launch of Time’s Up, a new initiative which includes a legal fund aimed to protect sexual harassment victims in every workplace, from janitors to waitresses to factory workers, and specially immigrant women. Shonda Rhimes, Reese Witherspoon, Donna Langley, and Nina Shaw are among the key players. Contributors to the defense fund include Meryl Streep, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jennifer Aniston, Stacey Snider, Dana Walden, Regina King, Felicity Huffman, Megan Ellison, Kate Hudson, Viola Davis, Ava DuVernay, Alicia Vikander, Amy Poehler, Olivia Munn, Taylor Swift, Jessica Chastain and more. Learn more at their website.

–Hoda Kotb has been named a permanent Today Show co-host, taking over for Matt Lauer after his firing due to sexual harassment complaints. I wonder if she’s also taking over his reported $20 million salary?

-Here’s an interesting look at how men are losing their jobs over sexual harassment — and women are replacing them. 

-And here’s a look at the female-led plans to turn the Weinstein Co’s tainted assets into something positive.

-The Hollywood Reporter has created a sexual-misconduct beat and assigned seven reporters, who are “fielding ten to fifteen tips a day.”

-Lots of people on Twitter are speculating that the next man to be exposed will be Max Landis. But will he?

-Huh. Paris Hilton is engaged to the Chris Zylka, aka guy who played Justin Theroux’s son on The Leftovers.  Double huh: He somehow got her a 20-carat ring, $2 million ring.

-This article on how Tom Hanks‘ Big is secretly a horror movie actually makes a lot of sense.

-One of my favourite New Year’s Day traditions is hungoverly scrolling through CDAN’s blind item reveals. I always skip right over the Old Hollywood ones, but I really gravitated towards the kindness ones this year for some reason (maybe because 2017 was such a garbage fire). Some of the best involved Ed Sheeran, Hugh Jackman, Bruce Willis and Ryan Seacreast.  In non-kindness ones, I really hope this Candice Patton reveal is true because I really dig her and this is a boss move. (But if it is, it’s also why I find it so impossible to decipher his TV blinds because his clues make no sense. The Flash *is* the most popular CW show, ratings-wise).

-Here’s Justin Timberlake‘s new album preview. Oh god, he’s gone full Bon Iver, guys!

-I actually don’t think Chrissy Teigen was trying to defend Logan Paul in her tweets this morning; I think she was trying to have a conversation about the knee-jerk internet campaigns designed to ruin people when they screw up. He is not the example I would have used because I personally think this guy’s career is an escalating waterfall of f**kery and should be ended, but I get what she was trying to say. (She’s since made her account private.)

–Jessica Alba closed off the year by welcoming a new son.

–Will Smith made a very gushy Instagram post on his and Jada‘s anniversary.

–Will Ferrell and Molly Shannon did a fake Rose Bowl parade commentary and everyone was very confused.

–Meghan Markle and Prince Harry reportedly flew to France in coach. Celebs, they’re just like us! I mean, they took up three rows in the back, were surrounded by bodyguards, and got to board before everyone else, but otherwise: totally like us.

-I’m pretty sure if someone called me the c-word on Twitter I would just ignore them or fight with them. But Sarah Silverman is clearly a way better person than I am and got to the bottom of her troll’s problems.

-So this is Dave Chappelle‘s take on Louis CK? In the words of @ira: keep it.

-More reviews of The X Files’ new season have come out, and then general consensus seems to be that if you can get past its bad season premiere, the rest of the episodes are solid and overall it’s way better than last year. I still can’t figure out why anyone thought it would be a good idea to start this week (when no one is expecting new episodes of anything) and then immediately take a week off?

-Meanwhile, Gillian Anderson has confirmed that this is it for her and The X Files.

-All of these deleted scenes from the final season of Parks & Rec sound awesome and I want to watch them right now.

-Here’s the trailer for Netflix’s The End of the F***ing World, the super dark teen romance series based on the graphic novels. This has potential.

-The new Fifty Shades Freed trailer includes a car chase, a wedding, and a pregnancy reveal. I guess they can give everything away in the trailer because it’s not like the people who are going to see it are watching it for plot.

Armie Hammer Really Knows How To Wear Sweaters

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–Armie Hammer covers British GQ (as does his Call Me By Your Name costar Timothée Chalamet), and everyone is drooling over this pic of him in a sweater. After seeing him at TIFF I have a lot of conflicting feelings about him. He’s super dreamy IRL, but he also did a panel discussion with Chalamet and his behaviour was…not my favourite.

-Move over, GOOP. Shonda Rhimes just launched her own lifestyle site.

–Elsie Hewitt, a 21-year-old model, filed a civil lawsuit yesterday against actor Ryan Phillippe for allegedly kicking, punching and throwing her down the stairs after an argument on July 4. His camp is telling People that it was Hewitt who attacked him after he broke up with her.

-Meanwhile Philippe’s ex-girlfriend had an interesting tweet …

-Congrats to Breaking Bad’s Aaron Paul and wife Lauren, who are expecting their first child.  Brace yourself for even more gushy social media posts (which I find weirdly endearing, tbh).

-The guy who cast most of the CW shows says the network originally wanted Ashley Olsen and Rumer Willis to play Blair & Serena on Gossip Girl.

-I like that Prince William is comfortable enough about balding to crack jokes about it.

–Jada Pinkett Smith is shooting down Leah Remini‘s claims that she’s a Scientologist, tweeting “I have chanted and meditated in some of the most magnificent temples on earth… but I am not a Buddhist. I have studied Dianetics, and appreciate the merits of Study Tech… but I am not a Scientologist.”

–Elisabeth Moss wrote “f*ck off” on the bottom of her Emmy shoes. Cute — but still doesn’t make me like her outfit.

–Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman politely struggling over who gets to hold the Emmy is giving me life!

-I really like this piece about the conflicting emotions of being a Louis CK fan. It took me way too long to disconnect from him too.

-So Jennifer Lawrence is the type to shout “we’re going down” when her flight hits turbulence. Sounds like she’d be swell to sit next to…

–Ansel Elgort‘s new movie looks like it might have a white saviour problem.  Not cool, Hollywood.

Jennifer Aniston Addresses #FreeTheNipple

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-In her new Vogue interview, Jennifer Aniston takes down shamers (“They’re either fat-shaming, or body-shaming, or childless-shaming”), and talks about how Rachel‘s nipples often showed through her shirts on Friends (“I wear a bra, I don’t know what to tell ya!”).

-E! News is riding this “Brangelina may be reconciling” angle HARD.  I wouldn’t expect it from them unless they had some very solid sourcing.

-Look, I believe this story about how Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet aren’t dating despite how much everyone wants them too, but I still enjoyed looking at their cozy beach pictures, ok? Let me live!

-Holy moly, Netflix poached Shonda Rhimes from ABC! It makes sense for her; all of her shows seem to be waning rating-wise on the network, and she’s probably craving the “auteur” label.

–Donald Glover says Atlanta’s second season is “almost ready” and is “better than the first season.”  Thank gawd. The world NEEDS it.

-In celebration of their Helen Mirren cover, Allure has announced it will stop using the phrase “anti-aging.”

-I love that both Nicole Kidman and Naomi Watts will not let Jimmy Fallon forget about the time Kidman wanted to date him and he was oblivious.

-Damn, it’s been a terrible summer for stunt accidents. A stuntwoman on Deadpool 2 is dead following a motorcycle accident on the Vancouver set. Ryan Reynolds released a statement about it.

-Speaking of scary stunts, a leaked video from the Mission: Impossible 6 set shows Tom Cruise jumping from one building to another and falling short of his mark, then limping away. I worry for him.

-Wait, so Julianna Margulies‘ terrible, terrible wig on The Good Wife was part of her contract demands? She *wanted* that thing?!

-Gird up: we might have to deal with Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom loving on each other again.

-I don’t even watch Halt & Catch Fire but man, this interview with Mackenzie Davis is great. She doesn’t hesitate to talk about her white-washed role in The Martian, or the “bury your gays” trope in her episode of Black Mirror.

–George Clooney pulled a Terrence Malick and cut all of Josh Brolin’s scenes out of his new movie. But he felt really bad about it!

–Kate Hudson belted out a song while holding a glass of wine at a friend’s house this weekend. I like how normal she looks.

–Taylor Swift cried during the emotional closing arguments of the groping trial, which she has since won. The jury ordered the DJ to pay Swift a symbolic $1 in damages, per her lawsuit request.

-Meanwhile, I really like this take on why Taylor’s unflinching testimony matters.

-Four people in India have been arrested for leaking the fourth episode of this season of Game Of Thrones  — and they have nothing to do with the HBO hack.

-The HBO hackers did, however, leak several episodes of the new Curb Your Enthusiasm.

-I’m glad I’m not the only one who thinks that the more Game of Thrones speeds everything up, the more they’re just ignoring basic plotting issues.

–Bill Hader pines for Cecily Strong in Steve Martin’s new music video.

-I’m super excited that Amazon is adapting Good Omens (one of my favourite books!). I’m even more excited that they cast Michael Sheen and David Tennant.

–Deadmau5 got married — and ditched the giant mask for the ceremony.

-After making waves with a debut shot entirely on an iPhone, Tangerine director Sean Baker is with The Florida Project, which stars Willem Dafoe as a motel manager who takes a kid who lives there under his wing.