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Blake Lively Draws Louboutins Onto Her Feet

Blake Lively badly photoshopping a pair of shoes onto her feet is the content I needed today. She posted “@louboutinworld are you hiring? Barefoot iPhone doodler with vast experience avail.”

-Oh goodie. Now Josh Brolin has weighed in on Chris Pratt, complaining about the “global hate hand job” everyone’s giving his costar. Why won’t they stop?

-Just in case you thought 2020 couldn’t get weirder, Daniel Kaluuya confirmed his live-action Barney movie is really happening and it will be darker than the OG TV show. “Barney taught us, ‘I love you, you love me. Won’t you say you love me too?’ That’s one of the first songs I remember, and what happens when that isn’t true?”

Matthew McConaughey says he was sexually abused as a teenager in his new memoir Greenlights, writing “I was blackmailed into having sex for the first time when I was 15. I was certain I was going to hell for the premarital sex. Today, I am merely certain that I hope that’s not the case.” He also mentions an incident when he was “molested by a man when I was 18 while knocked unconscious in the back of a van.” Still, he remained an optimist. “I’ve never felt like a victim. I have a lot of proof that the world is conspiring to make me happy.”

Justin Bieber says he’s not slowing down his support of Black Lives Matter. “I am a white Canadian and I will never know what it feels like to be an African American. [W]hat I do know is I am willing to stand up and use my voice to shine [a] light on racism.”

Dominic West‘s wife has gone to Ireland on a “work trip.” Uh huh.

Miranda Lambert‘s new music video has a surprising costar: her husband’s abs.

-I have no interest in ever watching another movie based on a video game again, but Tom Holland is sure working that henley in the first photo from Uncharted.

Lake Bell and Scott Campbell have called it quits after 7 years of marriage.

-The 100 showrunner is now blaming his much-maligned final season on the network, saying the head of the CW told him to make the show darker. Did he also tell him to kill off beloved characters in throwaway scenes that made zero sense?

Kristen Bell will star in and exec produce in Netflix’s The Woman in the House, a thriller series about a woman nursing a broken heart who possibly witnesses her neighbor murder someone.

Noah Cyrus wore a sheer bodysuit (ala Britney in the “Toxic” video) to the CMTs. That went over about as well as you’d expect.

-The cover of Cicely Tyson’s memoir is stunning. It’s a portrait taken by Lord Snowden.

-CBS’ and Trump have been in a pissing contest all day that includes a lot of early clip releases from his 60 Minutes interview that’s airing Sunday.

-The more we hear about the Synder cut, the more it’s clear that this thing never actually existed.

-Wait, so Netflix has reportedly renewed Steve Carell’s Space Force but keeps cancelling shows people actually like? WTF?

-The trailer for the Netflix film The Prom has dropped, starring Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Kerry Washington, and James Corden. How many times am I going to get sucked into watching a Ryan Murphy joint and instantly regret it? At least one more, apparently.

Kerry Washington Covers Town & Country

-The September cover reveals are landing! I’m so curious to see how magazines will handle remote photo shoots, but we’re starting strong with Kerry Washington looking fab in Town & Country.

Ta-Nehisi Coates will guest-edit Vanity Fair’s Sept issue.

Cameron Diaz joined Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop livestream and talked about turning her back on the movie business, which she says gave her “a peace in my soul because I finally was taking care of myself…It’s so intense to work at that level and be that public and put yourself out there. There’s a lot of energy coming at you at all times when you’re really visible as an actor.”

-This is petty af: Megan Fox posted a photo of Machine Gun Kelly with the caption: “Achingly Beautiful Boy… My heart is yours.” A couple hours later, Brian Austin Green used the same caption and dedicated it to their sons.

Meghan Markle finally got a win: she’s prevented Associated Newspapers (the owner of the Daily Mail) from publishing the names of five of her friends who spoke about her to People.

-It’s wild to me how many celebrities are sticking up for Ellen Degeneres, including Katy Perry, Kevin Hart, Diane Keaton, Ashton Kutcher, and Jay Leno. Is it really so hard to understand that how someone treats a famous guest may be completely different from how they treat their employees?

-Meanwhile, former Ellen Show DJ Tony Okungbowa tweeted: “I did experience and feel the toxicity of the environment and I stand with my former colleagues in their quest to create a healthier and more inclusive workplace.”

-I think it’s hilarious that there’s chatter about replacing Ellen with James Corden — as if the gossip surrounding him isn’t just as bad. Remember when his Reddit AMA got derailed by all the people asking if the stories of him being a jerk IRL are true?

Matt Damon and wife Luciana were seen hanging on the beach with Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas in Malibu the other day.

-This is a great profile on Jurnee Smollett, who should have broken out bigger after Birds of Prey. She talks about the controversy surrounding her casting: “It brought a rage out inside of me, which was great for Canary.”

-The FBI raided Jake Paul’s California home and seized multiple firearms found on the property.

-Ha! Quibi is testing a free, ad-supported model.

-All of the Harry Potter movies will stream on NBCU’s Peacock, even though the franchise is produced by Warner Bros., which is owned by WarnerMedia — which has its own streaming service in HBO Max.

Seth Rogen‘s American Pickle, which debuts tomorrow on HBO Max/Crave, is getting good reviews.

-HBO Max just dropped the first trailer for Ridley Scott’s upcoming sci-fi series Raised by Wolves.

-The Mulan news is huge. I didn’t see a big budget movie like this (reportedly $200-300 million) end up going straight to VOD, but it’ll be available on September 4 via Disney+ for $29.99 (on top of the streaming service’s $6.99 monthly subscription fee).

Marty Jannetty, a former WWE/F wrestler, appears to have confessed to murder via a Facebook post.

-This almost never happens in Hollywood, but Dave and Odette Annable are back together after a 10-month split.

-The trailer for Selena Gomez’s quarantine-shot cooking show looks delightful!

Goldie Hawn and Kate Hudson are People’s Most Beautiful

kate hudson goldie hawn people beautiful issue

Goldie Hawn, her daughter Kate  Hudson and granddaughter Rani Rose are the first multigenerational group to appear on People’s annual “Most Beautiful” issue.

-SNL’s Cecily Strong, who lost her cousin, shared a powerful essay on what it’s like to grieve in quarantine.

Tom Holland helped Jimmy Kimmel’s three-year-old celebrate his birthday by surprising him with a message from Spider-Man.

Chris Evans getting in on the Stanley Tucci love is adorable.

-Eek. Ellen Pompeo is usually pretty woke but this video that’s been circulating today is a bad look.

Halle Berry says she nearly died on the set of 2002’s Die Another Day. “I am supposed to be trying to be all sexy with a fig — and then I end up choking on it. And [Pierce Brosnan] had to get up and do the Heimlich. So not sexy, so not sexy. He was there for me, and he will always be one of my favorite people in the whole world.”

-I’m pretty done with Star Wars IP for awhile, but good on Russian Doll’s Leslye Headland for developing a SW series at Disney Plus.

-I haven’t loved Hulu’s Little Fires Everywhere, mostly because the characters in the book were very understated which made their systemic white privilege so insidious whereas in the show Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington are chewing through scenery like every line will be part of their Emmy reel. But the finale (which veers widely from the book’s ending) was quite affecting.

-The end of Empire — which was forced to wrap up two episodes earlier than planned when the pandemic shut down production — did well in the ratings. Meanwhile, Taraji P. Henson told EW: “As an artist, to not be able to finish something that you started, that hurts me. I feel incomplete. I don’t ever start something and don’t complete it. And so, for me, it’s deep; I have to finish, or this will haunt me for the rest of my life and career.”

-I kind of love that Pink is crowd-sourcing all of her baking dilemmas.

-Film Twitter is full of bad takes, and the one that circulated yesterday about There Will Be Blood was a doozy. Don’t let film bros make you hate a movie you like. But also, don’t hate on it just because film bros love it.

Mandy Patinkin‘s son quizzing his parents on texting abbreviations is exactly what I needed to watch today.

-Hollywood is starting to make plans for what TV and movie productions will look like once they re-open.

-A little over five percent of the 135 features originally selected for SXSW 2020 have opted in to stream on Amazon Prime from April 27-May 6.

-The novel Normal People didn’t knock my socks off the way it did with others, but Hulu’s adaptation is getting gushing reviews so maybe I’ll like the TV version better?

-Whew, this trailer for a new Netflix documentary hit me right in the heart guts.