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Doja Cat Chats with Missy Elliott about Pop Superstardom

Doja Cat laying on a white bed with one leg raised on the cover of Interview Magazine

–Doja Cat is on the September cover of Interview Magazine. She chats with Missy Elliott about writer’s block, rapping vs singing, and pulling back from social media.

-In their Billboard cover interview, BTS responded to questions regarding allegations that their fans’ activity amounts to chart manipulation. “It’s a fair question,” BTS member RM said. “But if there is a conversation inside Billboard about what being No. 1 should represent, then it’s up to them to change the rules and make streaming weigh more on the ranking…Slamming us or our fans for getting to No. 1 with physical sales and downloads, I don’t know if that’s right…It just feels like we’re easy targets because we’re a boy band, a K-pop act, and we have this high fan loyalty.”

–Beanie Feldstein and Monica Lewinski teamed up for THR’s new cover story.

-Hacks costars Paul W. Downs and Meg Stalter recreated classic TV duos (including Mulder & Scully, Don & Peggy, Walt & Jesse, and Buffy & Giles) for their Esquire photoshoot. I love everything about this!

–Zoe Kravitz and Channing Tatum are buying toilet paper together, so this might be more serious than we thought.

-Also, the fact that he follows a bunch of her fan accounts on Instagram is hilarious.

-This is a good look at how Ryan Reynolds (and undoubtedly a team of social media strategists) marketed Free Guy to keep it fresh in audiences’ minds throughout its many delays.

–Letitia Wright was released from the hospital after suffering minor injuries while filming a stunt on the set of Black Panther 2.

-ABC’s reboot of The Wonder Years now has a trailer... with a little help from Don Cheadle.

-I liked this piece about how the Ted Lasso backlash “is the fault of the out-of-season, mega-sentimental, momentum-halting Christmas episode,” and the (undeserved) criticism would be much quieter if the series dropped all at once, because we’ve all forgotten how to watch serialized TV. “This is what serialization has always been about! That’s the whole deal! It’s what TV always was! But once we get used to the have-it-all model, the absence becomes distinctly uncomfortable, especially when the show itself is toying with occasionally uneasy mixes of TV structures.”

-I also liked this article on why romance readers are responding to the show. As I mentioned yesterday, it’s got all classic the tropes.

–R. Kelly allegedly said he was a ‘genius’ and therefore he should get to date young girls.

–Lil Nas X‘s debut album is dropping Sept 17.

-Meanwhile, he (rightly) questioned why Tony Hawk’s new skateboard with his blood on it is not getting the same reaction Lil Nas X’s shoes with blood in them did.

–Tom Cruise screened the first 13 minutes of his new Top Gun movie at CinemaCon, and the audience loved it. It included his motorcycle cliff jump that required a year of training.

-Time’s Up CEO Tina Tchen has resigned over her connection to Andrew Cuomo.

-This is a good article on how The Other Two (returning tonight!) was set for an encore after coming off its critically acclaimed first season. Then came the pandemic.

–Rosie O’Donnell answered every question Vulture had about Sleepless in Seattle.

–Kristen Stewart‘s Princess Diana film Spencer just released its first trailer. It’s like the studio knows the thing we want to hear most is her accent, so they held it back.

–Tilda Swinton plays a woman who begins experiencing a mysterious sensory syndrome while traversing the jungles of Colombia in the trailer for Memoria.

-Here’s the first trailer for Jane Campion‘s The Power of the Dog, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons and Kodi Smit-McPhee. It hits Netflix December 1 after making the festival rounds.

Lil Nas X Under Pressure

Lil Nas X in a white feathered sweater on the cover of Out

–Lil Nas X covers Out magazine and talks about the pressures of being a Black gay musician: “Mentally, it’s really draining and straining sometimes.”

–Pete Davidson and Bridgerton’s Phoebe Dynevor have reportedly split after five months of dating.

-Some people don’t like Lizzo‘s new song, but the body shaming she’s endured over it is insane and uncalled for. Cardi B came to her defense after she broke down on an IG Live.

–Johnny Depp says he feels he is being boycotted because his latest film, Minamata, has yet to be released in the United States, calling his fall from Hollywood graces as an “absurdity of media mathematics.” I mean, he’s about to be honoured by not one but two film festivals, but sure.

–Alicia Silverstone re-created a classic scene from Clueless wit a different Christian — Christian Siriano.

–Channing Tatum threw Sandra Bullock in a pool to celebrate production wrapping on The Lost City Of D (a movie I CANNOT WAIT to see).

–Madonna celebrated her 63rd birthday by announcing a new partnership with Warner Music Group that will see her entire catalog reissued over the next few years.

–Britney Spears isn’t the only celeb trapped in a conservatorship nightmare. Star Trek’s Nichelle Nichols, who played Lt. Uhura in the original series, has been under conservatorship since 2018, since her only child filed a petition for it. It’s a 3-way fight, with her former manager and a concerned friend legally battling for what they believe are her best interests.

–Chris Evans‘ new show on Middle Eastern politics seems really misguided and poorly timed.

-Stunt Coordinator Brett Chan talked about working on Netflix’s Iron Fist: “Everyone’s fighting and the main actor didn’t want to train, it’s like ‘Guys give me something to work with here.’ That’s why all the best sequences were with Jessica Henwick ’cause she trained 4 hours a day!’ ”

-I’m still in my feels from the first episode of Modern Love season 2. Minnie Driver made me bawl (and also wonder why she hasn’t been cast on a prestige drama yet).

-The xmas episode of Ted Lasso also made my heart grow three sizes.

-Also, the woman who plays Higgins’ wife in Ted Lasso is his wife IRL!

-Friends Michaela Coel and Cynthia Erivo were interviewed together for Vanity Fair, and Erivo tells a story about confronting a Broadway producer over the fact that they replaced her costar without warning her. “I go, ‘Why wouldn’t you tell me what’s going on?’ and he flies off the handle. Yells at me in the corridor, points at my face, says, ‘You don’t have the right to talk to me like this. You just do this show.’ And Michaela, this is after I’ve won the Tony.”

-Free Guy opened well ahead of expectations and grossed a healthy $28.4 million. (It wasn’t also available to stream immediately.)

-Meanwhile, Ryan Reynolds says Disney already confirmed they want a Free Guy sequel.

–The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” broke the record for the longest-charting song ever on the Billboard Hot 100, sitting at 88 straight weeks.

-The Good Place creator Michael Schur is working on adapting Field of Dreams into a TV series for Peacock, which seems like a match made in heaven.

-Despite rumors she would follow Scarlett Johansson’s lead and sue Disney, Emma Stone has signed onto Cruella 2. I wonder if the sequel was part of an unofficial settlement package?

-The cast of The Goldbergs paid tribute to George Segal.

–Michael Keaton and Stanley Tucci play lawyers fighting to compensate the families of 9/11 victims in the Worth trailer.

Jamie Spears Finally Relents

-Finally some good news on the Britney Spears front. TMZ is reporting that Jamie Spears is not waiting for the next hearing at the end of September and instead has filed court docs to step down as his daughter’s conservator. He’s a whiny little jerkface about it, but still! In the filing, he slams Lynne Spears and adds, “There are, in fact, no actual grounds for suspending or removing Mr. Spears as the Conservator of the Estate … and it is highly debatable whether a change in conservator at this time would be in Ms. Spears’ best interests.”

-Meanwhile, police are monitoring death threats being made to the judge who’s overseeing Spears’ conservatorship case.

–Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis broke down and bathed their children. Peer pressure works!

–Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck hit up celebrity hotspot Craig’s for dinner with her daughter after returning home from their European yacht trip. Every time I go to a fancy restaurants and see kids there I think “god, they must be so bored.” Though I guess getting papped would add some excitement/terror to the evening.

-This is in interesting look at how celebrities alerting the paparazzi to their whereabouts has changed during the pandemic, when the lack of red carpets is making some stars desperate for coverage.

-At this point, it takes a lot for shoe designers to really make a shoe stand out based on sheer ridiculousness, but Rebecca Hall’s just did it. “Toe condoms” sound about right.

–Kristin Chenoweth did this 18-page musical number in one take on Schmigadoon!, a show that has really grown on me, even though I know nothing about the era of musical theatre it’s spoofing.

-Scotland Yard said they will cooperate with American authorities regarding Prince Andrew — while Charles is worried how the optics are going to overshadow the Queen‘s Platinum Jubilee. The priorities of this family remain eyebrow raising….

–Sarah Jessica Parker will not attend this year’s Met Gala, reportedly because of her production schedule with the SATC reboot.

-The fact that Beyonce‘s fans are called the Beyhive and she just revealed that she has beehives on her roof is breaking my brain.

-Netflix has shared the first look at Ava DuVernay and Colin Kaepernick‘s 6-episode biopic series, Colin in Black & White.

-Oof, Jennifer Hudson‘s Respect is NOT getting good reviews.

–Ryan Reynolds is promoting his new movie with Stray Kids to appeal to k-pop fans, which is an unbelievably smart way to get your movie trending fast.

–Kanye West supposedly taught Kim Kardashian to be more confident. Yes, that’s clearly what she was missing.

-Disney+ is pulling together a Home Alone reboot starring Ellie Kemper, Rob Delaney, and Kenan Thompson. I like all those people!

-During Disney’s earnings call today, CEO Bob Chapek defended the distribution strategy behind Black Widow that led to a lawsuit from Scarlett Johansson.

–Willem Dafoe won’t confirm or deny that he’s going to be in Spider-Man: No Way Home. At this point, it’s almost a sure thing that the movie is going to have all the reunited actors who played Spidey recreate that pointing-at-each-other meme, right?!

–Michael B. Jordan keeps a journal for his newborn son while stationed overseas in the trailer for A Journal for Jordan.