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Pete Davidson Gives Ariana Grande a Birthday Piggyback

–Pete Davidson wished Ariana Grande a happy birthday on Instagram. It’s a very cute photo, but it reminded me of that old meme about how she is always being carried around.

-In her Instyle cover feature, Serena Williams says she’d “already be pregnant” with baby number two if she wasn’t working.

–Tiffany Haddish says Drake once stood her up for a date, so he didn’t make her ‘dick pic book’. She elaborated: “Anytime I would go on a date, I would ask a guy if I could see his penis. And then I would pull out my disposable camera and I would ask him, ‘Can I take a picture of your penis? Not your face or anything. I just want to remember your penis. It was a nice little coffee table conversation situation.” I have so many followup questions…

-Time’s Up and Rashida Jones have released a PSA about sexual harassment, which was narrated by Donald Glover.

-I’m so here for Evangeline Lilly‘s transformation into an action hero.

–Meghan Markle‘s dad just needs to stop. Like, immediately.

-Stellar human being Terry Crews testified to the Senate today about his own sexual assault experience and advocated for the Sexual Assault Survivors’ Bill of Rights, saying the producer of Expendables 4 threatened retaliation if Crews didn’t drop his sexual assault lawsuit. “I wanted these survivors to know that I believe them, I supported them and that this happened to me too.”

–Robert De Niro says the Weinstein Company still owes him almost $1 million for Silver Linings Playbook. Meryl Streep, George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino have also said they’re owed considerable amounts of money, with the latter reportedly claiming for around $4 million.

–David Lynch is walking back his Trump comments, saying they were “taken a bit out of context.” Though his clarification kind of makes things worse, IMO.

-How did I miss that David Beckham left his longtime manager, who also manages Victoria, last week. Although they just posed together. This is all very confusing.

-It’s the 20th anniversary of Out of Sight, which is in my top 5 movies of all time.

-This Henry Cavill gif messed me up.

–Keiynan Lonsdale is a human unicorn and I love him. He opened his home to MTV to talk about about being young, queer, and creative.

-I’m really digging the trailer for the new British series A Discovery of Witches, starring Theresa Palmer and Matthew Goode as a scholarly witch and a vampire who fall in love in Oxford.

–Denzel Washington plays a Lyft driver you really don’t want to piss of in The Equalizer 2 trailer.

Serena Williams and Baby Olympia Cover Vogue

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–Serena Williams debuted her baby on Vogue and she’s a cutie! In the accompanying interview, she talks about her scary post-birth complications and how she learned to “dream as big as men.”

-Good on Stephen Colbert for pressing James Franco about those sexual misconduct allegations. I don’t for a second believe his “I haven’t read them; I’ve heard about them” and saying the rumours are “not accurate” is weird wording, but at least after Colbert’s followup question he responded “if there’s restitution to be made, I will make it.”

-According to former LA Weekly film critic April Wolfe, who recently wrote a positive profile of Franco before The Disaster Artist, a story about him was already in the works.

-Meanwhile, the New York Times says their James Franco event was canceled due to the allegations.

-Well, this is some bullshit. Michelle Williams was reportedly paid $1,000 for those post-Kevin Spacey reshoots for All The Money In The World, while Mark Wahlberg’s agent secretly negotiated to get him $1.5 million. (The reason she got $80/day is because of SAG  scale; she probably would have done it for free.) Sony lists her as the lead actress, and he’s just supporting. Even worse, they’re both repped by the same agency. If Wahlberg’s publicist doesn’t immediately announce that he’s going to donate that money to the #TimesUp legal fund, we riot.

–Greta Gerwig finally talked about working with Woody Allen, which she now says she “regrets.” In a joint interview with Aaron Sorkin, she told the NYT: “If I had known then what I know now, I would not have acted in the film. I have not worked for him again, and I will not work for him again.” I’m so conflicted about this. I hate that she was the only one who seemed to be asked about her Woody connection at the Golden Globes (which was swimming with dudes who’ve worked with him more recently *cough* JT *cough*). That being said, I don’t understand how anyone in this day and age who’s worked with a known problematic man doesn’t have a soundbite ready and waiting. Being thrown offguard by these questions is incomprehensible to me at this point.

-The author of the rumoured upcoming Harper’s piece about the Shitty Media Men list has a history of sympathizing more with the accused than the accusers. On the plus side, the amount of verified women who came forward today to claim ownership of the list melted my heart.

-The Netflix exec fired for a comment at his daughter’s soccer game wrote about his regrets and the current climate in Hollywood.

-THR’s cover story on Ronan Farrow is worth your time.

-Of the top 250(!) films of 2017, 88% had no female directors, 83% had no female writers, 96% had no female cinematographers.

-This is an interesting look at the future of TV. YouTube in the living room is our fastest growing screen, at 70% growth year-over-year.

-How cool is Céline Dion? So cool that she rolls with it when a female fan humps her onstage.

-Woot! The Black Panther tickets presale just set a new Marvel movie record.

-Also, it looks like Marvel is moving ahead with a Black Widow movie. And a woman is writing it!

-I had assumed that Ricky Martin was already married but in any case, mazel!

–Jason Momoa forgot to bring a coat to Canada, and now he’s in Newfoundland where it’s cold af.

-I really liked Three Billboards Outside of Ebbings, Missouri when I saw it at TIFF, but the more distance I got from the film festival high, the more issues I had with it. Here’s a good recap of its growing backlash.

-Ohhh, @ira has a new podcast called Keep It? And the first ep is about how we all need to leave Oprah alone? Yes, please!

–Kyle Chandler uncovers The Vanishing of Sidney Hall in the new trailer.

 

Gal Gadot Charms in GQ

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-Have you read Gal Gadot’s GQ profile yet? I wanted to save it until I had time, because it’s a Caity Weaver article and those deserve to be savoured. This one did not disappoint.  From Gal bringing Caity an egg salad sandwich to reluctantly teaching her how to fight, I was thoroughly charmed by all of it.

-Holy moly, Justice League might not even break $100M this weekend. Just a few days ago it was tracking at $110M.

–Serena Williams and Alexis Ohanian were married in New Orleans yesterday and guests included Kim Kardashian, Beyoncé, Tina Knowles, Kelly Rowland, La La Anthony, Colton Haynes, and Anna Wintour. The ceremony sounded amazing. Beauty and the Beast theme! Reception tables named for her Grand Slam titles! Tennis trophies party favors! New Edition performances!

–Jay-Z wrote a NYT op-ed about Meek Mill and the flaws in the criminal justice system. I don’t know why his sentencing didn’t make more waves this week. It’s clearly over the top and there is something shady going on with that judge.

-SNL’s Bill Hader and his wife Maggie Carey have filed for divorce after 11 years of marriage.

-Speaking of splits, Jennifer Hudson ended her relationship of 10 years — and received a protective order against him.

–Another woman on the Transparent set has accused Jeffrey Tambor of sexual harassment. Besides his future on Transparent, I wonder if this is going to affect the new season of Arrested Development.

-Go hug you mom; Nashville has been cancelled (again).

-A second grader took on Lin-Manuel Miranda in Hamilton and founding fathers trivia.

-The only thing I thought about when reading this story of how fashion editors mocked the what Vanity Fair’s new editor-in-chief, Radhika Jones, wore on her first day was “where do *I* find tights with foxes on them?!?” Look at them — they’re spectacular!

–Stephen Colbert pressed Ben Affleck on Hollywood harassment. And yet, no one will ask him about his own brother…

-Mad Men producer Marti Noxon (who also worked on Buffy and UnREAL) cane forward to back writer Kater Gordon‘s sexual harassment claims against Matthew Weiner, calling him an “emotional terrorist“.

–Greg Berlanti reportedly met with CW casts and crews this week amid the Andrew Kreisberg harassment claims. How. Is. He. Not. Fired. Yet.

-This is a good review of Better Things and the struggle to acknowledge that it had its best season yet — with Louis C.K.’s involvement.

–Aubrey Plaza, Judy Greer and more make their Easy debut in the new season 2 trailer.