Newsletter Thursday, November 10, 2016

[LaineyGossip.com - Calling all smuthounds!] Thursday, November 10, 2016 [Intro for November 10, 2016] [Aaron Sorkin with his daughter Roxy] Dear Gossips, I am currently making my way through Gilmore Girls. (Currently on the second to last episode of Season 2.) Although she would dispute this characterisation, Duana has taken it upon herself to be my viewing coach. Like, the other night she wouldn’t let me read [this Vox article] comparing Hillary Clinton to Paris Geller because spoilers. I LOVE Paris Geller so much. A perfect episode for me includes both Paris and Emily Gilmore and Richard can come along too but please hold the Dean. So I really, really, really want to read the article. But I can’t. And I won’t. You should though – [click here]. Just don’t tell me about it until it’s safe to tell me about it which is I don’t know when, Duana is infuriatingly cryptic with timelines, God. But that’s not even my point. My point is that Gilmore Girls is called Gilmore Girls because it’s actually ABOUT the Gilmore Girls. There is no disputing that that show puts two women front and centre and revolves everything else around them. Which… is not what Aaron Sorkin does. “F-cking Sorkin!” is a thing that Duana and I outburst at each other often. Aaron Sorkin gave us The West Wing, which is, as you know if you’ve been visiting this site for a while, one of our favourite shows of all time. But Aaron Sorkin [is also problematic] in how he’s [written about and for women] in the past. Which is why we [often yell at him] here at LaineyGossip, most recently after the Golden Globes, when he had to get up on stage and [patronise his daughter]. Which brings us to today and Aaron once again speaking to his daughter, Roxy, in an open letter published in [Vanity Fair] after the election. Some have described the letter as “poignant” and “moving”. Most of the reaction I’ve read has been complimentary, praising Sorkin for his outrage. My reaction? “F-cking Sorkin!” Maybe it’s just me. Maybe I’m not being fair or objective. But from the moment he opens the letter with “Sorkin Girls” I’m annoyed. “Sorkin Girls” is not Gilmore Girls. Because what follows in “Sorkin Girls” is a letter about Aaron Sorkin and not a letter about Roxy. I mean, on a day like yesterday, ESPECIALLY on a day like yesterday, following a night that showed, as Anne Helen Petersen called it, America’s “[abject disrespect for women]”, can’t you at least address them by name? If the letter was really for them, couldn’t they be addressed, at the beginning, by their own names? Thing is though, the letter, it doesn’t read to me like it’s about them. The letter read, to me, like it’s about Aaron Sorkin. And how mad Aaron Sorkin is about Donald Trump being elected president. To me it’s about Aaron Sorkin taking the opportunity to share HIS thoughts about the election, grandstanding HIS opinions about the election, and using the letter form as a writing device to attract readers to HIS piece. You know, he could have just written an essay. He’s Aaron Sorkin. It’s not like no one would have published it. Then I wouldn’t be “f-cking Sorkin!”-ing him. I’m “f-cking Sorkin!”-ing him now because in using the “Sorkin Girls” as a writing device, it feels disingenuous, it undermines his claim that the letter was intended for them as, clearly, it was actually intended for publication. If this was a letter for Roxy, we wouldn’t need all those paragraphs in the middle about the stock market falling and the NATO allies being afraid of what a Trump presidency means for global security. Instead, we’d be hearing about how, as a parent, he intends to encourage and empower Roxy to use her own voice, develop her own agency so that she, herself, can fight against the forces that resulted in her crying herself to sleep on Tuesday. Tell me about that. Tell me about this 15 year old girl and her tears. Tell me what she’s afraid of, tell me what Tuesday night meant TO HER… if it’s really about her. Is it though? Because the letter kinda begins and ends on Aaron Sorkin, with his name, “Sorkin Girls”, and right there in the opening sentence when he says, “the world changed late last night in a way I couldn’t protect us from” and concludes with “I’ll never go to sleep on you again”. I mean I get it. I understand that what people are responding to is that it’s heartwarming to know that Roxy’s father wants to protect her. But the reason that idea is particularly tone-deaf right now, RIGHT NOW, in the aftermath of what’s just happened and how what just happened attacks an equality-based value system, is that a defender is not what’s needed right now. What’s needed is a compatriot, someone who stands BESIDE you, not IN FRONT of you. The person writing this letter is writing it from out front. He’s the hero. He’s the captain. He’s not the teammate. He’s f-cking Sorkin! [Click here] to read his letter. Yours in gossip, Lainey [Click here for the rest of the photos.] Posted at 2:12 PM [Scott Eastwood: SMA 2016 Odds] [Scott Eastwood at Sydney’s Bondi Beach, November 10, 2016 ] Over the last few days, [I've been handicapping] the Sexiest Man Alive contenders. My prediction #1 is [Dwayne The Rock Johnson]. My prediction #2 is Idris Elba. Some of you have been sending me your PEOPLE Sexiest Man Alive predictions. And several of you have put up Scott Eastwood, kinda jokingly but kinda serious. You assholes. I've been hoping that PEOPLE will show us some diversity in their selection. Maybe that's naive. Because NY Mag [just pointed this out today]. Just two weeks ago PEOPLE stood by a former reporter who alleged that Donald Trump sexually harassed her. Donald Trump has been elected President of the United States. Since then, PEOPLE Magazine has taken up residence inside the Trump family asshole, realising that the magazine's demo, the MiniVan Majority is quite obviously pro-Trump. So. With that in mind, will they actually go with a person of colour for only the second time in the history of the SMA feature? Or will they play it MiniVan safe and go with Justin Timberlake or Chris Pratt? As for [Scott Eastwood]. Fine. Let's do this, if we have to. Arguments for: -Some people are into that dickhead frat boy thing. Some people, instead of wanting to slap themselves, are actually turned on by this face: [Day one of this great commercial I am shooting. I can't tell you what it is for. But it's gonna be awesome!!! This is our director Alex. He is great and we are off to a great start. He is probably thinking right now, "Scott will you stop fucking around and get back to work." #greatday #greatdaytobealive #blessed🙏] A photo posted by Scott Eastwood (@scotteastwood) on Oct 14, 2016 at 7:35pm PDT -His name. His dad. Whose values most certainly appeal to the MiniVan Majority -Ummmm...as IF he wouldn't accept. If there's anyone who wants it more than Justin Timberlake it's Scott Eastwood. Scott Eastwood has probably offered anything and everything he can think of in exchange for the SMA title. Fireman style photo shoots, an invitation to accompany him on a safe, a live demo of how he kisses - he would probably jerk off on camera for them if it meant he could be the SMA. Arguments against: -Scott Eastwood is not a lead. Any actor holding the title of SMA, at minimum, has to be a lead. A consistent. Scott Eastwood can't even get his own father to cast him as the lead in any of his movies. Scott Eastwood very desperately wants to be a lead. But he is definitely not a lead. He needs the SMA more than it needs him. And I have to believe that, as asskissingly pathetic as PEOPLE Magazine can be, even they know this. -Scott Eastwood just did a movie with The Rock. Are you seriously telling me that he'd be chosen over The Rock, the world's top-grossing movie star???? Odds: 25 to 1 Here's Scott today at the beach in Australia. [Click here for the rest of the photos.] Posted at 8:51 PM [Well this looks crazy] [Cara Delevingne poses as she and Rimmel celebrate their new partnership and launch the new Scandaleyes Reloaded Mascara with a party at Kachette on November 9, 2016 in London, England] The teaser trailer for Valerian: City of a Thousand Planets was just released and it looks insane, in both the “cool” sense and the “divorced from reality” sense. This movie comes from Fifth Element director Luc Besson, and it looks of a piece with The Fifth Element—totally bonkers but cool in a fun weird way. And I’m glad, after Cara Delevingne’s character, Laureline, got [demoted out of the title], to see her featured prominently in this teaser. It makes me hope that the title change—the French comics are called Valerian and Laureline—is some dumb marketing decision intended to preserve the appeal to men and not a real indication of the story sharing those priorities. But, who knows. We live in a cold world. This is a teaser so there’s no real plot information, but we get introduced to the world of Valerian and Laureline, played by [Dane DeHaan] and [Cara Delevingne] respectively. DeHaan has generally made a good impression playing bad guys, like Andrew in Chronicle and Harry Osborn in The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Here, though, he’s in hero mode and I’m kinda digging it. He’s got a good vibe going, with that little smirk and a general air of excitement. And sort of a young Leonardo DiCaprio thing, right? Maybe it’s the eyes and the cheekbones, but he’s really tapping into Leo circa Romeo + Juliet. And I love his rapport with Cara D. They just look sexy and cool together, and I love that moment when she stops him kissing her. And good god are these visuals WILD. The city, the aliens, that weird gold robot thing—all of this looks bananas and fun. It looks like technology has finally caught up to Besson’s vision and allowed him to paint on the biggest, loudest, most neon canvas he could imagine. Also, this is the first time a Beatles song—not a cover, but the actual Beatles recording—has been licensed for a trailer. Is this a mark of quality, or a money grab by the license holder? Either way, it’s effective. This is the coolest sci-fi trailer since Guardians of the Galaxy started the “classic rock song in a comic book movie trailer” trend a couple years ago. It remains to be seen, though, if Valerian will be more like Guardians or Jupiter Ascending. Besson has already whiffed once with this kind of movie. Will Valerian redeem him? Attached - Cara at a promotional event for Rimmel last night, [Click here for the rest of the photos.] Posted at 8:18 PM [Love, Death, Time] [Will Smith on the set of Bright in Los Angeles, November 8, 2016] I like to say that I don't appreciate being emotionally manipulated by movies but I'm pretty sure I often get emotionally manipulated by movies and make that a point in posts about being emotionally manipulated by movies so...maybe I do actually enjoy being emotionally manipulated by movies? The emotions have been all over the place the last few days. And this is where the trailer for Collateral Beauty finds me. There is nothing subtle about this story. It's all the feels coming to sit on your face. For some, having the feels sitting on your face is suffocating. That would be Sarah, whose reaction to the trailer was straight up F-CK OFF, stop forcing me to swell my own heart. Me, I didn't mind watching Sad [Will Smith] hanging out with the personifications of Love, Death, and Time, a new Scrooge, I guess?, who's just trying to find the Meaning Of Life. Will Smith movies are never going to be oblique. And Christmas is kinda the most obvious time to be obvious, which is when Collateral Beauty comes out. Also, I am totally charmed by [Helen Mirren] as wry Death and I'll never be able to resist an earnest [Keira Knightley]. Here's Will on the set of Bright in LA earlier this week. [Click here for the rest of the photos.] Posted at 7:49 PM [Smutty Tingles] It's like they do a mini Love Actually every year ([Dlisted]) Kristen Wiig goes back to SNL ([Just Jared]) Why Princess Kate wants to meet Meghan Markle ([Cele|bitchy]) Julie Bowen and Sofia Vergara don't hate each other ([TooFab]) I Can't Ariana Grande in costume but basically her always style ([Hollywood Tuna]) Natalie Portman in a striped dress ([Pop Sugar]) But this isn't even a good tagline?!? ([The Superficial]) Jennifer Garner really loves plaid ([Popoholic]) Jared Leto is selling his house ([Evil Beet]) [Click here for the rest of the photos.] Posted at 7:05 PM [Gilmore Girls just got way more important] [Gilmore Girls promo shot] I’ve always loved the factoid that economy influences fashion: When times are tough, formal stuff, like military influences or higher heels, are in– if you don’t have a lot of money to spend, you want each thing to look like a million bucks. During flush times, though, looking like you don’t make an effort is key—that’s why parents were horrified by ripped jeans in the 80s. (Extrapolation, celebrity style/year-round ‘California Casual’ =the uniform of privilege.) Similarly in entertainment, when times are good, gritty murders and dark stuff is popular. Not so good? Cue up escapism and fairy-tale endings. Someplace better than where you are. Now, when this week’s world headlines read “What HAPPENED?” and “How did we get here?”, Gilmore Girls: A Year In The Life drops on U.S. Thanksgiving Weekend. Look, nobody wants a terrifying political situation just because it’s good for ratings, even cable news. But I wonder if Gilmore will pick up even more unexpected fans. There’s a huge promotional push even though the show has many fans—maybe Netflix hopes you’ll be so envious of our Copperboom inside jokes that you’ll get on board. For returning fans, though, some of the press is old news. The [most recent interview] in Collider is pleasant, but doesn’t actually tell us much: Rory’s not as far ahead in her career as she hoped to be (welcome to Gen MillenieX, Rory) and Lauren Graham enjoyed the group scenes much more knowing there was an end in sight. (Do you notice how they are keeping a tiiiiiiiight rein on what Lorelai’s stories might be?) Still, Gilmore Girls may be exponentially more relevant and popular now than it was, say, a week ago. Because it’s about the intense, infuriating, exhilarating bonds of family – how they can frustrate you and love you in the same breath. You can want to be near them and regret it as soon as you get there. You can flail wildly between understanding them perfectly and wondering how they made the choices they did…still understanding that they think it’s the right thing to do. It’s no secret that my family is my joy AND my nightmare, but sometimes when you try to put that (real! Often immigrant-based!) dynamic on TV, people think it’s ‘unrealistic’. Gilmore knows it’s not at all. So if the upcoming holiday weekend in the US may prove tense – if there are people in your own family who suddenly feel like strangers, and you know better than to talk about the forbidden topics at the dinner table but what the HELL ELSE are we supposed to talk about these days, you might love a show that pretends to be fantasy, but is utterly real life about living in a world where the people you love are a joy and a necessary evil. [Click here for the rest of the photos.] Posted at 6:36 PM [Jennifer & Chris's 5 Seconds] [Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence on Ellen] [Jennifer Lawrence] and [Chris Pratt]'s Passengers comes out at Christmas. They're starting publicity for it already. Today they'll be on Ellen. This is a Movie staring Movie Stars, specifically two of the most popular Movie Stars right now. Everything hinges on that specific piece of marketing. See Jennifer Lawrence + Chris Pratt! In space! Falling in love! So their chemistry is essential. And already there were rumours from lower tier tabloids when they were shooting about whether or not that chemistry was shady in real life. As some of you have written to suggest, maybe that's why Jennifer doesn't seem to mind that we know that she's dating [Darren Aronofsky]. And that we only just found out about it a couple of weeks or so before she began promoting Passengers. They've been photographed together [sharing a lollipop] and [kissing in public]. More than we ever saw when she was with Chris Martin. As if to say, don't even think about talking sh-t about me and Chris Pratt. I have a boyfriend. But also? I don't want to talk sh-t about her and her boyfriend. I don't really give a sh-t about Darren Aronofsky as her boyfriend. This is not a high-gossip relationship. She herself is a high-gossip celebrity, but she's chosen a low-gossip love interest. And she has to know that the gossip public is a lot less interested in her with Darren than it would be if she was, for example, hooking up with John Mayer (please God, no) or Zac Efron (hard pass) or Tom Hiddleston. By the way, Tom played F Scott Fitzgerald for Woody Allen in Midnight In Paris. And Jennifer's trying to get a Zelda Fitzgerald biopic going. Did you ever see Tom in a film called The Deep Blue Sea with Rachel Weisz? He was quite good in it. Charismatic but also devastatingly callous. It's how I hope they present F Scott Fitzgerald when Zelda's story is told. But back to Jennifer and Chris and their visit to Ellen - the chemistry is there, for sure. Only I keep thinking it's the chemistry of siblings. In real life, that is. In screen life they'll have to spark romantically. Really curious to see if they can pull it off. [Click here for the rest of the photos.] Posted at 5:50 PM [Andrew Garfield in Hacksaw Ridge] [Vince Vaughn, director Mel Gibson and actor Andrew Garfield pose in the green room during the Hollywood Film Awards on November 6, 2016 in West Hollywood, California] Desmond Doss, played by [Andrew Garfield] with earnest sincerity and a ludicrous Southern accent, was the first conscientious objector—or “collaborator”, in his words—to win the Medal of Honor. He did so by saving dozens of lives at the Battle of Okinawa, despite carrying no weapons or even touching a gun. Hacksaw Ridge divides Doss’s life into two parts: Before and After. The “Before” is Doss’s childhood in rural Virginia, a Seven Day Adventist who takes “Thou shall not kill” very seriously. His father, a traumatized World War I veteran and violent alcoholic, beats Doss and his brother and mother, and Doss fears the same violence within himself. So he swears off guns and violence and clings tightly to his Bible. If that sounds obvious to the point of childishness, it is. Hacksaw is directed by [Mel Gibson], a filmmaker not known for his restraint or subtlety. He’s so invested in Doss as an ideal that he never bothers to establish Doss as a character, and as a result Garfield’s performance—which is solid barring that patently ridiculous accent—is reduced to one beatific note. Garfield must have been aware of this happening because he’s trying to make Doss into something resembling an actual person, but Gibson undercuts him at every turn, preferring to show Doss as a saint-like figure, indulging in Christ imagery so blatant and crass even Zack Snyder is going, “Dude, too much.” But there is still a nobility to Doss’s choices and actions, a consistency of character and conviction of spirit that is admirable. After enlisting following Pearl Harbor, Doss is basically just tortured at boot camp, his squad spurred on by their drill sergeant ([Vince Vaughn], obviously enjoying the role but miscast nonetheless—he is incapable of blending into a period environment). Doss’s fellow soldiers are laughable cartoons—the handsome guy is self-absorbed and called “Hollywood”, the Texan does rope tricks, and the New Yorker is Italian and loud—and they are, as represented by Gibson, too stupid and cruel to recognize the saint in their midst. But Doss’s pacifist bravery only works because his fellow soldiers are brave in a different way. This is the central problem with Hacksaw—it presents Doss’s brand of courage as the only one worth honoring. Following a court martial Doss is allowed to go into battle without carrying a weapon, but that’s only made possible because he’ll be covered by a platoon of soldiers who are carrying weapons. What Doss did is tremendous, but there must be a way to honor it without diminishing his fellow soldiers. The “After” of Hacksaw is the actual battle, which is the bloodiest and most graphic World War II depiction yet—yes, even more than Saving Private Ryan. Gibson is unquestionably talented and he’s very good at filming large scale action, but he revels in the gore and viscera in a way that is borderline pornographic, and totally at odds with the pacifist message embodied by Doss. Images of astounding brutality—limbs flung from torsos like sticks from a branch, heads removed by shrapnel, and thousands of gallons of blood spraying in artful slow-mo—are so lusciously lit and beautifully composed it’s impossible to know if the point is to horrify or to arouse. (The eternal tension of all Mel Gibson movies: Is torture and violence a horror to be endured or foreplay?) At the heart of Hacksaw Ridge lies a knot of conflicting ideas and emotions. It’s a movie about a pacifist in wartime that wants to celebrate the subject’s moral code while also reveling in the blood and guts of battle. It’s a story of faith and humanity told by a man with, let’s call them [extremely suspect views]. It’s a technically marvelous film with some surpassingly dumb moments. It’s a movie that seeks to honor an honorable man, but does so at the expense of other honorable men. Hacksaw Ridgeis a flawed film from a deeply flawed filmmaker. And it’s really, really graphic. Attached - Andrew Garfield with Vince Vaughn and Mel Gibson at the Hollywood Film Awards on Sunday. [Click here for the rest of the photos.] Posted at 5:27 PM [Hot Harry after the Love Shield] [Prince Harry and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh attend the Fields of Remembrance at Westminster Abbey on November 10, 2016 in London, England] Remember Tuesday morning? And waking up to [Prince Harry’s Love Shield]? It seemed like such a promising day. Yeah, well, so check out [Harry] today in London at the Field Of Remembrance at Westminster Abbey with Prince Philip, back to work on official duty for the first time since it was revealed that he’s dating [Meghan Markle] and he brandished his Love Shield to protect her. That might be the first time I’ve ever used the word “brandish” on this site. But I feel like it needs that theatrical description, non? As always, Harry was great on the job. Look at these shots of him being adorable with a young boy in line to meet him: What’s he doing here? Dancing? Jousting? Whatever. It’s Harry at his best, and he’s been his family’s best representative the last few years, continuing to [accumulate those bonus points] so that he can cash them in with the Queen when the right moment comes along. Now? With Meghan Markle? According to [Page Six], in the aftermath of the brandishing of the Love Shield, Meghan’s taking a break from work: Insiders say the beauty has told her bosses that she needs to skip filming for her USA Network show “Suits” in Toronto this week because she has “something important to do.” The reason for the absence is being kept a closely guarded secret, but insiders speculate that Markle is meeting with lawyers to help manage her turbulent and sudden rise to international fame. Meeting with lawyers? Come on. What you’re really thinking is that they’re spending time together. It’s the bubble thing. Their relationship has been generating so much heat, and so much controversy, it’s added to the intensity of their connection. Like, clearly, he was already super into her (what with the Love Shield and introducing her to family members and all) and something like this just adds to the drama of it, deepens the passion – let’s hang on tighter, it’s us against the world. Harry, in particular, has been described to me as someone who becomes even more entrenched and resolved when he’s challenged. The kind of person who if you criticise he’ll only do it more. The more the British press are attacking – and they’ve dialed it up even more ever since the Love Shield, calling his letter “[preposterous]” and barely stopping short of characterising Meghan as a famewhore – the more Harry digs in. Interestingly enough though, a source told me just today that while Harry’s Love Shield didn’t bother his grandmother, there is a high-ranking royal who didn’t much care for it: his father, Prince Charles. I’m told that while Charles has met Meghan and is happy that Harry is so happy with her, he wasn’t into how Harry handled the situation, with the public statement and all those feels put into words. Charles is old school that way. It isn’t his style. Which is another reason why Harry’s move was so unprecedented. People in his position just don’t emote so publicly like that. There’s also the timing of it all. Charles and Camilla have been on tour in the Middle East. And I hear that he wasn’t exactly thrilled that Harry’s Love Shield kinda cockblocked his press coverage. Given what we’ve known of Charles over the decades, and his ego, it’s not hard to believe that he’d be irritated about someone else usurping his spotlight, even if it’s one of his sons. Who regularly usurp his spotlight. Will and Kate have been doing it for years. Big G started doing it from birth. And now Harry’s got a celebrity girlfriend and this story is our new fascination. Charles isn’t getting much column space. Sharp turn… You know how [for years] I’ve been telling you about my magic skin lady, Lorinda Zimmerman, who gives me a [double blast] of microderm abrasion and cold gel laser and it’s been the best thing ever for my face? I’ve been seeing Lorinda for several years, starting when I lived in Vancouver and now at her clinic, W Skin Care, in Toronto. Well Meghan was just asked by VOGUE Germany about her go-to beauty tips in different cities. And she listed W Skin Care as one of them. I mean, if you don’t want to listen to me, maybe you’ll listen to her? [ [pic.twitter.com/wAM5yFUqPt] — W SkinCare (@WSkinCare) [November 8, 2016] [Click here for the rest of the photos.] Posted at 4:55 PM [Zendaya and the next gen] [Zendaya and Tom Holland cover THR's Next Gen issue] Yesterday morning, while most of us were just trying to get through the day without sobbing into our keyboards, The Hollywood Reporter released its Next Gen issue [featuring Zendaya on the cover]. The issue celebrates the next generation of talent in Hollywood. [Zendaya] is joined by her Spider-Man: Homecoming co-star [Tom Holland]. They are both 20. Zendaya is a young black woman who woke up to a country that told her, through their ballots, that her rights and values don’t matter so it’s understandable why she referred to this cover as the, “one good thing” to happen to her yesterday. Most outlets are jumping on the quotes that hint that Zendaya may not be playing Peter Parker’s seminal love interest Mary Jane Watson after all. Back in August, Sarah wrote about the rumours Zendaya [was indeed playing MJ] but noted that Marvel and Sony had yet to confirm the news. Zendaya told THR that her character is NOT romantically linked to Holland’s Peter and shot down the speculation. "… Nothing [about who she is playing] is fact. It’s like, you guys are just making sh-t up at this point and then reacting to it. Whenever we were on set, one of us gets some random character name [on the call sheet]. [Bloggers were] like, “Oh they must be so and so.” And we just crack up about it, because it’s like, “Whatever you want to think. You’ll find out.” It’s funny to watch the guessing game." OK. To me, that is vague enough to give me hope that Zendaya could still be playing MJ because aside from the pleasure I take from loser, racist fanboys losing their sh-t over the fact that a fictional character could possibly be a different race than what they imagined in their wet dreams, I also think it would be special, especially now, to see an interracial relationship play out in a big Marvel blockbuster like Spider-Man. Plus, here’s how Zendaya describes her character: “My character is not romantic… My character is like very dry, awkward, intellectual, and because she’s so smart, she just feels like she doesn’t need to talk to people, like, ‘My brain is so far ahead of you that you’re just not really on my level.’ So, she’s an [Awkward Black Girl]. I am SO down with this. I would love to see Peter Parker’s signature insecure charm paired with this. Maybe they aren’t romantic in Homecoming but they will be in one of the 6 films Holland is signed up for? Hey, a girl can dream. Back to the loser, racist fanboys. Zendaya opened up to THR [about the whitelash] that came after the MJ casting rumours. "But of course there's going to be outrage over that because for some reason some people just aren't ready. I'm like, 'I don't know what America you live in, but from what I see when I walk outside my streets of New York right now, I see lots of diversity and I see the real world and it's beautiful, and that's what should be reflected and that's what is reflected so you're just going to have to get over it.'" It’s easy to hate on millennials. They’re supposedly lazy, entitled, brunch too much [and hate grocery stores]. But millennials like Zendaya are the ones who still believe that the world they live in is full of beautiful diversity that should be reflected and respected. Yesterday, a chart was being shared on Twitter that showed what the U.S. electoral map would have looked like if millennials were the only ones who voted. This is how the future voted. This is what people 18-25 said in casting their votes. We must keep this flame alight and nurture this vision. [pic.twitter.com/ivuXrar869] — Eliza Byard (@EByard) [November 9, 2016] The accuracy of this specific map has since been debated (apparently the data was collected before the election) but CNN reported that the majority of voters age 18 to 29 did in fact vote for HRC. The sentiment is still clear. The “next gen,” as THR calls them, is the one we’re looking to for optimism. They are the ones who, during the darkest times, we cling to for even a shred of hope. When Zendaya uses her Instagram to vent that she is “petrified” and “[heartbroken]”, when Tessa Thompson shares that she and her friends are ready to “[gather and organize]” or when [Miley Cyrus cries] over the loss of the dream of a female president, my HOPE is that these young people turn their anger into action and their platforms into protest. Yes, I just turned a post about Spider-Man political but ISN’T THIS ALL WE ARE THINKING ABOUT? [Click here for the rest of the photos.] Posted at 3:51 PM [World War Brange: Brad’s impeccable timing] [Brad Pitt arrives at the Fan Event For Paramount Pictures' 'Allied' at Regency Village Theatre on November 9, 2016 in Westwood, California] [Brad Pitt] at the Allied premiere in Hollywood last night, his first red carpet since Brange got broken. Sometimes I still can’t believe it, you know? Like I’ll wake up in the morning and take a shower and grab my sh-t and remind myself to pack my daily orange and I’ll get into the car and start driving to work and suddenly it’ll hit me: Brange is no more. Add now to that list: Donald Trump will be the President of the United States. Anyway, a couple of hours before the premiere, it was widely reported that the LA Department of Children and Family Services had concluded its investigation and that Brad’s been cleared. The DCFS does not publicly comment on these matters so [TMZ]and [PEOPLE] and etc found out through sources, all of whom were dispatched to make sure the news had landed in time for Brad’s arrival on the carpet. An excellent and strategic media move. Like [Angelina] herself could not have done it better. And if you’re the studio behind Allied, you are loving this play. Just as the film begins picking up press ahead of its release, your big star, your big name, your big money man is walking with his swagger back. Then again, [as I wrote yesterday], Brad Pitt will be fine. He will always be fine. This latest development follows Angelina’s public statement on Monday night that she and Brad had signed a legal agreement that gives her sole custody of the children. Brad, through sources, countered that that was simply an extension of the agreement that the DCFS had put in place during their investigation and that he had previously already formally filed for joint custody. In response to the reports yesterday that the DCFS had closed the case, Angelina once again released a statement, seemingly doubling down on her previous one: “The job of the DCFS is to make sure the children are in a safe and secure situation. As we said earlier this week, childcare professionals encouraged a legal agreement accepted and signed by both sides that was in the best interest of the children. Angelina said from the beginning that she felt she had to take action for the health of the family and is relieved that after their 8-week involvement, the DCFS is now satisfied the safeguards are put in place that will allow the children to heal.” Safeguards. Healing. For what and from what? Angelina continues to have full custody of the children. Brad will challenge for joint custody in the divorce proceedings. And, given that Angelina’s language is still this loaded, it sounds like she’ll present to the court, using whatever these “safeguards” are, as her reasoning for her claim. So, both sides have recruited their legal and PR teams to ready for battle. And both are using the media to fortify their positions. This is a heavyweight bout. But Brad probably has more support within the Hollywood community. How many phone calls and emails, if any, do you think Julia Roberts, Mother Hollywood, has been making and sending on his behalf? And what would that initial conversation have sounded like? God I wish we could know and hear. “Brad. It’s Julia. Julia’s here. Tell Julia everything and Julia will take care of it.” [Click here for the rest of the photos.] Posted at 3:01 PM [Privacy Policy] - [Unsubscribe]