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The Cast of Star Wars: The Last Jedi Cover Vanity Fair

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-All of the Vanity Fair Star Wars covers are great, but the one featuring John Boyega and Oscar Isaac is making the internet blow up. Finn is wearing Poe’s entire outfit from the Force Awakens — not just the jacket, but the belt and pants too. It’s like fanfiction come to life!

-I was grossed out that media outlets kept calling Beyoncé’s baby shower a “push party” until I realized that’s how she and Jay Z referred to it themselves. Be better, everyone.

-A Pirates 5 writer says Dead Men Tell No Tales had a female villain… until Johnny Depp made them change it. He just keeps getting dreamier and dreamier, huh?

-I didn’t see this one coming: Scarlett Johansson reportedly got cozy with Weekend Update’s Colin Jost at the SNL season finale after-party.

-During the terribleness that was last night, this story about Mr Rogers stood out as a little sliver of wonderfulness amongst the darkness.

-Meanwhile, Ariana Grande’s team is still assessing whether or not to continue her tour following the Manchester attack.

–Chrissy Teigen expressed a favourable opinion about Ed Sheeran on Twitter and got pulled into the squad wars.

–Katy Perry keeps flip-flopping about whether or not her new song is about Taylor Swift.

-Wait, Veronica Mars’ Jason Dohring is joining iZombie? Just when I thought I couldn’t love this show more…

-Oh shit, Baywatch is only at 15% on Rotten Tomatoes.

-Twin Peaks returned to not-great ratings, but Showtime is saying lots of people signed up to their streaming site.

-Meanwhile, this is a good read on how incredibly low live TV ratings are the norm.

-CBS says Stephen Colbert had the most total viewers in late night for the TV season, beating Fallon’s Tonight Show.

–Kristen Stewart‘s Chanel outfit at Cannes confuses me on multiple levels.

-Here’s our first look at Penelope Cruz as Donatella Versace in American Crime Story. Whoa.

-Critics are really hating ABC’s Dirty Dancing remake, which airs tomorrow. I was curious, but not after I found out it runs three(!) hours long.

–Cobie Smulders threatens a pharmacist for fertility drugs in the Friends From College trailer.

Shocking: Zooey Deschanel’s Baby Name Is Quirky

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–Zooey Deschanel and her husband Jacob Pechenik have named their daughter Elsie Otter. In real life.

–Jaden Smith is straight up trolling us now.

-Even Mulder is starting to have his doubts in The X Files’ new trailer (which, unlike yesterday’s promos, seems official).

–Bill Murray showed up on Jimmy Kimmel Live looking like this last night, for reasons unknown.

-And here I thought The Royal We news was going to be the biggest thing to happen to Lauren Graham this week, and then came the Gilmore Girls revival news. I’m not quite sure how I feel about this. I love love love that show (and not just because my review was blurbed on the DVD box set!), but I’m not sure they’ll be able to capture the magic of the original. I adore this line from the NYT article: “Netflix has become a digital ‘Peter Pan’: If you clap hard enough and believe, your beloveds never have to die.”

-Like the rest of us, Amy Adams wishes she was cool enough to hang out with Amy Schumer and Jennifer Lawrence.

–Missy Peregrym‘s farewell to the Rookie Blue cast is really quite sweet.

–Gerard Butler was at the Jays game last night? I’m guessing he wasn’t sitting in the nosebleeds like us.

–Kanye West surprised the internet with these two semi-new, really nostalgic tracks.

–Drake surprised the internet with a new video — and made us all appreciate his sweater game.

-Slate’s interviews with writers/showrunners about what it’s like to be a POC in Hollywood is a fascinating read.

–Lena Dunham launched a new podcast called Women of the Hour, where she’ll speak with Emma Stone, Janet Mock, June Squibb (!!!), Zadie Smith, and more.

–Ryan Sweeting is asking Kaley Cuoco for spousal support following their divorce news.

-There was a shakeup at SNL today when Weekend Update anchor Colin Jost stepped down as head writer. Is this because he someone made Amy Schumer unfunny?

-I still have no idea what The Force Awakens is going to be about, but the new trailer is pretty damn fun. Daisy Ridley and John Boyega’s reactions video to the trailer are also awesome.

-This Beyond the Sea featurette shows Brangelina getting ready for a night out. If the entire film is just two hours of this, I’d still watch.

Lea Michele Opens Up About Finding Love After Cory Monteith

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-In her new Flare cover story, Lea Michele talked about how she took time following Cory Monteith‘s death to regroup before dating again — when she wasn’t too busy scolding the interviewer for drinking soda.

-A new Star Wars teaser dropped today on Instagram and the interwebs lost its poo over the glimpse of John Boyega and Adam Driver having a lightsaber battle.

–Gal Gadot talked to Marie Claire about being in the army and playing Wonder Woman. She also talked about her husband, which surprised me ’cause…well, you know…reasons. Blind itemy reasons.

–Jennifer Garner is “rethinking her living situation” with Ben Affleck, a source tell People. Wait, you mean she *doesn’t* want to live in the same place as the nanny shtupper?
-MythBusters tested Breaking Bad’s finale machine gun booby trap to see if it was plausible. Science, bitch!

–Miley Cyrus was on Kimmel last night, and she spent a lot of time talking about boobs. A LOT. “Humans aren’t afraid of the human breast. It’s the nipple that’s the issue…Like, I’m showing my boobs and no one has a problem, but the nipples are covered, so somehow that’s OK. So America’s actually fine with tits. It’s nipples they don’t like.” I think I love her.

-She also dressed up in a disguise and asked people on the street what they think about Miley Cyrus. I’m impressed with that accent.

-Buffy’s Nicholas Brendon went on Dr. Phil to talk about his issues and ended up walking off the set. He later explained what got him so upset in a Facebook post. Here’s to a healthy and happy Xander!

-What do you get the girl who has everything? If you’re Jennifer Lawrence‘s friends, you get her Kris Jenner holding a cake that looks like poop.

-Forget the surprise JT performance; Taylor Swift bringing out Lisa Kudrow to sing “Smelly Cat” is her best get yet!

-Meanwhile, Jessica Biel made a rare appearance to cheer on Justin Timberlake at the show.

–Ben Affleck also showed up to Taylor Swift’s concert with his daughters.

-Speaking of TSwift, she brought Selena Gomez out to do “Good for You.” I really like that song, but these are two people I didn’t need to see do an awkward grind off.

–Jennifer Aniston wore an off-the-rack wedding dress? GASP! Oh wait, I just remembered I don’t care. Carry on.

-Well, this is terrible: the highest paid TV actor, Jim Parsons, made $29 million last year.

-By Grabthar’s hammer…Amazon is planning a Galaxy Quest series!

-Is Netflix really trying to kill binge watching? But isn’t that their thing?

–Kristen Wiig is helping her gay BFF have a kid in this new trailer for Nasty Baby. Wait, is that the guy from TV on the Radio?! That man has the juice.  Orange. Apple. Cran. All of it.