Newsletter Friday, December 02, 2016

[LaineyGossip.com - Calling all smuthounds!] Friday, December 02, 2016 [Intro for December 2, 2016] Dear Gossips, I’ve been waiting for this weekend for 6 months. Back in June, right after the Tony Awards, a new block of Hamilton tickets was released. I don’t know how it happened but, somehow, I managed to get tickets for December 3. I’ve never been more obsessed with my iPhone. When it pulled up to the page to pay, I actually kissed the screen. I love Hamilton. Because Duana harassed it into me. To say that Duana is committed to Hamilton is an understatement. At this point she basically has a degree in Hamilton. Last week I sent her some video of a Beyoncé/Hamilton mashup and she was such a nerd about it her first reaction was like, “Hmmmm…weird. It’s not endorsed”. Earlier this year on a group text she lectured me and our friend Lorella about how particular Lin-Manuel Miranda is about the representation and reproduction of his work, how it’s part of a larger plan to roll it out, strategically, after Broadway, to other cities, and then gradually into schools and local communities. Anyway she went on about it for so long, with so much passion, she didn’t even notice when we stopped responding after 3 hours. So most of my excitement about seeing Hamilton was seeing it WITH Duana. And watching her see it for the first time. I know what she’s going to be like all day, I can practically see her face the moment she arrives at the theatre. I think she might start crying as soon as she gets into her seat. She was over at my place last night and was practically vibrating with excitement. This is a monumental weekend for her. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to witness it for myself. Found out a few weeks ago that I have to work tomorrow. But I am so, so, SO happy for Duana. Like I can’t wait for her to be so happy, does that make sense? I feel [like I felt] on the Friday right before she got married. Duana is going to Hamilton tomorrow! Said with the same enthusiasm as “Duana is getting married tomorrow!” In honour of Duana’s Hamilton weekend then, read about the Hamilton Mixtape, “[a love letter to a love story]”. And go back to [Rebecca Mead’s profile of Lin-Manuel Miranda] for The New Yorker when Hamilton first opened at the Public Theatre, several months before it moved to Broadway. And her follow-up on the “[Renewed Relevance of Hamilton]” just two weeks ago, again in The New Yorker. Duana is going to Hamilton tomorrow! Tweet her [@duanaelise] if you want to send her a note. Have a great weekend! Yours in gossip, Lainey [Click here for the rest of the photos.] Posted at 2:50 PM [Smutty Tingles] The anti-Christmas beaver …which is not a euphemism for abstinence ([Dlisted]) Shakira’s Sunshine and her two boys ([Just Jared]) Princess Kate wasn’t at an event last night ([Cele|bitchy]) Blake Shelton on life with Gwen Stefani ([TooFab]) The grown up Little Lady ([TMZ]) This turned me on. So I guess it worked? ([The Superficial]) I love this jumpsuit on Gigi Hadid ([Celebrity Dirty Laundry]) Halle Berry’s green shoes that I wanted, [stupid Jacek] ([Go Fug Yourself]) Leah Remini and 50 Cent discuss eating ass ([Jezebel]) [Click here for the rest of the photos.] Posted at 8:26 PM [Bianca’s back] [Mariah Carey] What are you doing on Sunday? Correct answer: watching Mariah’s World. Look. As [Mimi] would say, it’s been a bleak f-cking year. Since September, it’s just gotten bleaker and bleaker. For Mimi especially, OK? Mimi lost BILLIONS. And now she has to work. There is SO MUCH WORK. It’s Christmas, which is her dominion. And she’s doing the Dick Clark Rockin’ Eve thing too. Mimi is taking on jobs. A lot of jobs! No one is suffering right now more than she is. So help her and help yourself and watch her “docuseries” on Sunday night. I will. Because I’m pouting about not going to Hamilton and I need some goddamn joy. What is joy? Joy is watching four people put a pair of shoes on Mimi, on a yacht, obviously, because …well… why do you need a reason? You know what’s amazing? How we’ve become so used to the fact that she gives interviews on a chaise longue. In other Mimi news, she was on The Today Show with Kathie Lee and Hoda this morning which should have been an hour long special with champagne. The most hysterical part is when Kathie Lee and Hoda start asking about Mimi’s new lover, Bryan Tanaka, and they say to her, “He’s cute, you pick cute men!” It’s funny enough when you, you know, consider the man who came before Bryan. And then the look on Mimi’s face. She knows all the layers of involved in a statement like that, “you pick cute men”. Her expression is smug as sh-t. And then she does that thing she loves to do: changes the subject and compliments the décor. That’s a Mimi-ism. The only time you compliment anything other than yourself is when you don’t want to answer the question. In other Mimi news, Bianca’s back. The only thing more abusive than a difficult pair of shoes is bad lighting. [I can't believe she's back again..ugh! #Bianca #MariahsWorld] A video posted by Mariah Carey (@mariahcarey) on Dec 1, 2016 at 10:37am PST [Click here for the rest of the photos.] Posted at 8:19 PM [What Milo learned from Will] [Milo Ventimiglia at the Children's Defense Fund 26th Annual 'Beat the Odds' Awards, Los Angeles, December 1, 2016] [Milo Ventimiglia] is having a moment. Not only is he nailing his role as Jack, the hot dad of all hot dads, on This is Us, he’s also experiencing a renewed fandom after his Gilmore Girls character Jess Mariano showed up in the revival looking exactly how you don’t want an ex to look when you run into them: more muscular and more hot AF than you remember. In a new [feature for Interview], Milo discusses his two most famous roles but he also brings up a role you probably don’t remember. Milo Ventimiglia guest-starred on Fresh Prince of Bel-Air in 1995 and had one line. I remember this exact episode and the two-piece purple outfit Ashley Banks is wearing but I didn’t remember Milo and his hysterical pronunciation of “tour.” There’s a #FlashbackFriday if I’ve ever seen one. The overalls! His baby face! It’s all so amazing. Milo Ventimiglia was just at the beginning of his career when he shot his one Fresh Prince line in his denim overalls but [Will Smith] was already stupidly famous. He was owning the 90s on the small screen and the big screen. And he was inspiring a young actor who said nine words on his show. Here’s how Milo remembers working with Will. “But the most impactful thing for me being on that set was to see how Will Smith was with his crew. He was coming off of Men in Black, and was already signed up for Men in Black II. He was not just a TV star; he was a movie star already. He knew everyone’s name and was inclusive of everyone and the crew. For me, being that that was my first job, I just watched and soaked up as much as I could. It impacted me and how I am around my sets and my crews. Will Smith is a good man. So I just try to be a good man.” This is Us is an ensemble show but Milo has emerged as one of its biggest stars. He’s now the big deal actor on set and thanks to Will Smith, it sounds like he’s nice to everybody. Being nice is not a thing that should be applauded. It should be expected. But in Hollywood, the most famous actor on set is usually the principle asshole. Speaking of asses, Milo also talks about baring his in the first episode of This is Us. God, I love This is Us. Milo Ventimiglia is SO GOOD in This is Us. I wept during the last episode. My partner had to hold my hand through the last 10 minutes and if you watched it, you know why. The push-ups. I can’t even think about the push-ups without tearing up. Right after the episode, Duana sent me a link that I will now share with all of you. ...And I got you pop, [@MiloVentimiglia]! [#ThisIsUs]... [pic.twitter.com/b0v4txspHx] — Sterling K Brown (@sterlingkb1) [November 30, 2016] Yes, this whole post was just an excuse to share these videos of the hottest men on TV doing push-ups with each other on their backs. You’re welcome. Here's Milo at an event in LA last night and Will Smith out in New York. [Click here for the rest of the photos.] Posted at 8:03 PM [G. Spotting with an accent] [Gwyneth Paltrow on Instagram] [Gwyneth Paltrow] just relaunched her app, now called G. Spotting. It’s all her recommendations – beauty, food, shopping, etc. Also her goop Gift pop-up just opened at the Brentwood Country Mart. [It all starts tomorrow at 10am at the @BrentwoodCountryMart 🎉 Stop by to shop the #goopGIFT guides IRL 🙌 A special thank you to our pals @ellenweldondesign, @fromentaluk, @handeyesupply, @bloomandplume, and the amazing @amyanneblessing for bringing it all together. 📷: @laurejoliet] A photo posted by goop (@goop) on Nov 30, 2016 at 6:27pm PST [NEW PICS ✨ @gwynethpaltrow attending the @goop and La Perla dinner on November 30, 2016 celebrating the opening of Goop GIFT, Goop's new pop-up shop in Los Angeles. 🌹 Gwyneth is looking amazing in the La Perla SS17 Corset Jacket with matching pant. 💋 Thank you @sydneyreisingcreative for the awesome shots. . . . #GwynethPaltrow #Goop #LaPerlaLingerie #beautiful] A photo posted by Gwyneth Paltrow 🇮🇹👑 (@gwynethpaltrowit) on Dec 2, 2016 at 9:09am PST [NEW PICS ✨ @gwynethpaltrow attending the @goop and La Perla dinner on November 30, 2016 celebrating the opening of Goop GIFT, Goop's new pop-up shop in Los Angeles. 🌹 Gwyneth is looking amazing in the La Perla SS17 Corset Jacket! 💋 Thank you @sydneyreisingcreative for the awesome shots. . . . #GwynethPaltrow #Goop #LaPerlaLingerie] A photo posted by Gwyneth Paltrow 🇮🇹👑 (@gwynethpaltrowit) on Dec 2, 2016 at 9:05am PST Some of her famous and influential friends showed up to support her. [Celebrating our powerhouse lady last night @gwynethpaltrow and her new gorgeous @goop store in Brentwood 🌟 xoxo #goopgift Trust me!! Go shop!!! 💕] A photo posted by J E N N I F E R M E Y E R (@jenmeyerjewelry) on Dec 1, 2016 at 11:19am PST Another one of her friends, Derek Blasberg, is also supporting her in Vanity Fair. Maria’s mentioned Derek a few times, the current “celebrity BFF”, writer, and… [current wannabe Truman Capote]. Derek does this video feature for Vanity Fair called Derek Does Stuff With A Friend and GP is his latest subject. She goes undercover to give unsuspecting millennials facials, spray tans, and brunch. I’m not sure if you’ve allowed yourself to hear/know about this but G’s reputation is that she’s pretty fun, super playful. Someone you want at a dinner party. She shows you this side of her here, and I’m into it…but I don’t know about that accent. She says it’s a Romanian accent. I’m saying yeah, but why…? PS. Brad Falchuk hides in the corners. [Click here for the rest of the photos.] Posted at 7:35 PM [Smutty Social Media, December 2, 2016] This PR push for Katie Holmes’s new film feels as never-ending as the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show. Which would be fine if she weren’t such a snooze. [“I’m the youngest of 5, I have 3 older sisters, obviously I’m a mom, and I feel comfortable with telling female relationship stories because I’ve been surrounded by so many women my whole life,” Katie Holmes told @nytimes. So for the 37-year-old actress’s directorial debut, she naturally chose a female protagonist — this one drowning in life’s complications and fighting desperately to keep her daughter from going down with her. “You just go for it,” @katieholmes212 said. “You do fumble and make mistakes. But I came out of it inspired to do it again.” @allwehadmovie, which is set during the 2008 financial crisis, opens December 9. @emilyberl took this portrait of @katieholmes212 at @cbstvstudios in Studio City, California. Visit the link in our profile to read more about how #KatieHolmes is moving behind the camera and keeping her daughter, #SuriCruise, out of the Hollywood glare.] A photo posted by The New York Times (@nytimes) on Dec 2, 2016 at 9:44am PST Has Jude Law ever had a nickname? ok J Law is not Jude Law, confusing — Mindy Kaling (@mindykaling) [November 30, 2016] I imagine that Faith Hill and Tim McGraw’s night at home looks like a fragrance ad. Come on baby light my fire..... and you did. 😉😉😉 Photo Cred: My Hubby [pic.twitter.com/afUc4dn2dt] — Faith Hill (@FaithHill) [November 29, 2016] I feel like this will make up for [Lainey missing Hamilton]. We’re delighted to share the news that [#CursedChild] is in talks to open on Broadway in Spring 2018! [ [pic.twitter.com/ILPctUitDX] — Pottermore (@pottermore) [December 1, 2016] This is totally a one-in-a-million scenario, but what happens if you are a celebrity/rich person and invite your wife’s friends to surprise her in Hong Kong for a vacation in Thailand? It’s a big commitment for the friends -- it’s not a few hundred bucks on a nice dinner, it’s thousands of dollars plus time off work, coordinating schedules etc. So does Aaron pick up the tab? I say yes. Though I think the accommodations were discounted (or outright comped) in exchange for some [conveniently timed publicity]. [Nothing beats having the greatest friends on the planet surprising your wife on her birthday in Hong Kong to head off to Thailand together for her birthday. I love you so much my pretty little bird. So happy you were born. Also, Thailand, I love you so much already.] A video posted by Aaron Paul (@glassofwhiskey) on Dec 1, 2016 at 6:10am PST Elisha Cuthbert’s very Canadian birthday cake. Remember when she dated JT’s friend/assistant Trace Ayala and when they split everyone thought What Goes Around was about her? I think the moral of the story is Justin can only write good songs about interesting women. Otherwise the songs are [terrible and annoying]. [An "Abby's Truck" cake with a Canadian flag of course! Thanks to all my friends on the set of @theranchnetflix for making a Birthday girl feel special 😘 photo credit @dannymasterson] A photo posted by Elisha Cuthbert (@elishaphaneuf) on Nov 30, 2016 at 3:33pm PST A talk show host visits another talk show host to promote a talk show. Trevor Noah is pretty adorable, even when he’s making a low-key “help me” face. [I'm on @trevornoah tonight. @thedailyshow Thursday @comedycentral] A photo posted by Chelsea Handler (@chelseahandler) on Dec 1, 2016 at 4:34pm PST [Click here for the rest of the photos.] Posted at 7:16 PM [Mile High Jennifer Aniston] [Jennifer Aniston, Courtney B Vance, Olivia Munn, and TJ Miller cover Entertainment Weekly ] [Jennifer Aniston] is in Office Christmas Party. I think the junket is in New York this weekend. We’ll be seeing a lot more of her next week. This week, however, she was on Ellen helping Ellen give presents away to her audience – I love watching people go insane over free sh-t, it never gets old – and telling Ellen about how Justin Theroux came home to surprise her for Thanksgiving and, oh yeah, a game of I Never during which she sort of (?) admits to joining the Mile High Club. And doing it in the cockpit. And doing the pilot in the cockpit. The way it goes on there, I feel like maybe she was just playing. The truth becomes obscured in the ridiculous, non? While we’re on the subject of the Mile High though… and Mile High for Jennifer Aniston the last decade or so has been private jets… does it actually count if it’s on a private jet? Or should it really only count if it’s on a commercial flight? Some people might say, well, as long as you’re in the air, it counts. But the thing about private jets is that, like, if you’re f-cking in the bedroom in the back, that’s basically a luxury yacht in the sky – what’s the risk there? The point of Mile High is that you’re banging while there are 200 people sitting right next to you, or in a broom closet with a piece of cardboard separating you from the 200 people on board. And you have to get creative, with positioning, with space, with sounds, with entrances and exits. And you have to endure the walk down the aisle after it happens. Isn’t all of that part of the pure Mile High experience? So maybe Jen f-cked a pilot before Friends? Anyway, here she is on the cover of [Entertainment Weekly] with [Courtney B Vance], [Olivia Munn], and [TJ Miller]. Do I have to care about TJ Miller? Like will I have to care about him in 2017? [Click here for the rest of the photos.] Posted at 6:34 PM [Kristen Stewart joyrides for the Stones] [Kristen Stewart in Ride 'Em On Down music video by The Rolling Stones] The Rolling Stones released a music video for a song—a cover of an old Eddie Taylor song—off their new album, Blue and Lonesome, and it stars [Kristen Stewart], joyriding in a ’65 ’Stang and rocking out and generally looking very, very hot. The tomboy aesthetic really works for KStew, and I really f*cking want one of those Chanel padlock necklaces. She also looks like she’s having fun, which, if you only know her from her Twilight years, you probably have never seen her having fun. But we’re a few years past that, she’s grown up, and she seems more settled and relaxed than ever before, with a healthy dose of Who Gives A F*ck in her attitude. (Kristen Stewart Is The Female Millennial Michael Shannon: Discuss.) Lainey and I are fighting about the high-waisted jeans, though. Long butts flatter no one, and I think high-waisted jeans are a Nineties fashion that should have stayed dead, but I am being provided photographic evidence of various celebrities, like Rihanna, in high-waisted jeans as if this is some sort of proof that they’re not horrible. (If your argument is that “this uber-gorgeous alien from outer space who looks good in literally anything” looks good in high-waisted jeans, try again. SHE STILL HAS A LONG BUTT.) And this is about JEANS, so don’t come at me with not-jeans—high-waisted trousers, for example, are a timeless and elegant statement. (One of my favorite “Listen and obey and don’t f*ck with me” work ensembles is high-waisted trousers, a menswear blazer, and Oxford shoes.) But high-waisted JEANS just make me think of that fake ad for [MOM JEANS] from SNL. Lainey is sure to butt in to tell me I’m wrong because she’s [one of Canada’s best dressed] people but Canada is America’s attic so congratulations on being the best dressed person in the ATTIC, LAINEY. THOSE JEANS GIVE YOU A LONG BUTT. [Click here for the rest of the photos.] Posted at 5:52 PM [Jennifer & Chris’s week in Europe] [Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence attend the Berlin Photocall for the film 'Passengers,' at the Hotel Adlon in Berlin, Germany, December 2, 2016] [Jennifer Lawrence] and [Chris Pratt] have been in Europe this week promoting Passengers. Today they’re in Berlin. Tonight they’ll be on Graham Norton in the UK. And then it’s a final push to Christmas for the next two weeks before things start slowwwwwing down for the holiday break. Question about this: how much does your internet activity decrease when you’re not at work? Because even when I’m not working, I’m still online all the time, not only because it’s my job but because I can’t stay off of it. How do you not check your phone? Is it easy for you? Do I need to get a life? Obviously, yes. Anyway, Maria posted yesterday in [Smutty Social Media] about Chris cropping Jen out of his Instagram photos. Here’s the latest: [Me, #JenniferLawrence and @jamieoliver backstage at @thegrahamnortonshow promoting a film called #Passengers coming soon to a theatre near you. Can't believe I got to meet the naked chef!!! He was wearing clothes, but still!!!] A photo posted by chris pratt (@prattprattpratt) on Dec 1, 2016 at 12:10pm PST How long before stupid ass Woman’s Day in Australia still tries to turn their relationship into an affair? As for Passengers, still no reviews yet. God I’m curious about what this movie is, whether or not it’s good. I want it to be good because if it’s not good we can’t really apply the [Movie Star Test]. But Sarah keeps talking in riddles about how she’s not getting a good feeling. I always trust Sarah’s instincts on movies. I just don’t trust her instincts on fashion, ha. We’ve been fighting about fashion all morning. More on this in the next article. PS. Jen looks great in this two piece outfit but… can we talk about her extensions? Why are they so bad? [Click here for the rest of the photos.] Posted at 5:24 PM [Nashville keeps going] [Connie Britton attends the premiere of 'Past Forward', a movie by David O. Russell presented by Prada on November 15, 2016 at Hauser Wirth Schimmel Gallery in Los Angeles, California] Rayna James is no Tami Taylor but [Connie Britton] is still Connie Britton, which is why I hung in for four whole seasons of Nashville. And it’s why I’ll at least watch the first 10 episodes of Season 5 airing on CMT, the network that saved the show from cancellation. CMT has released the first full trailer for the new season and in true Nashville form, it looks insane. A quick recap on where we left off before you get to watch the absurdity for yourself: Rayna and Deacon got married (!!!), Maddie got emancipated from her parents but not really, Will and his boyfriend I can never remember got back together, Scarlett and Gunnar also got back together and Juliette is about to maybe die in a plane crash. There are still no people of colour in the entire city of Nashville. Oh, Nashville. When the series was cancelled by ABC, it was almost a relief. Sure, I was going to miss the over-the-top melodrama, big hair and sweet twangy love songs but I would no longer feel obligated to watch Avery cry through an entire episode while holding a crying baby while talking on the phone to a crying Juliette. This happened in every one of their scenes for a full season. I’m not kidding. The first two seasons of Nashville were really strong and aside from too many identical white dudes with brown hair, I loved it for its campy soap-opera dialogue, hilarious girl sh-t and Connie Tami Taylor Britton. But then it took a nosedive, just like Juliette’s plane. Season 5 looks like it’s going to be a lot more of the same but there a few things that I’m really into. Most importantly, we get a good look at a guy in a fedora described as “dreamy.” Dreamy Guy is not a white dude with brown hair! Dream Guy is black! DREAMY GUY AND MADDIE MAKE OUT! I paused that scene and replayed it 3 times. It’s creepy because he’s probably supposed to be 17 but it’s a black guy in Nashville so I have zero chill. In other good news, Luke Wheeler aka the Bro Country Character of Nashville and Layla Grant aka The Worst will not be back for Season 5. Good riddance. Scarlett’s hair is still horrendous but I really like her and Gunnar together so I hope they don’t f-ck this up. Rayna and Deacon are going back in the studio but it looks like they are going to fight about something dumb because this show doesn’t know how to write a happy storyline. Can they just let Rayna and Deacon live? The answer to that is probably no considering Connie Britton has only signed on for the season’s first 10 episodes. So, do we care about Nashville without Rayna James? Maybe. IF Juliette doesn’t die in the plane crash, I wouldn’t hate it if the writers focused their attention on letting [Hayden Panettiere] shine as Juliette Barnes, a role she was made for. But if Rayna goes, Deacon has to go with her. Their love story NEEDS to have a happy ending or I’ve officially wasted too much of my life watching this show. Finally, Nashville is a show about the country music world – a world which basically provides the soundtrack to Middle America – but it has always shown a more progressive glimpse into country music than an outsider might expect. Will Lexington’s coming out storyline was handled beautifully and they’ve dealt with issues like consent and post-partum depression in a tasteful way. If Season 5 continues to tackle tough issues and deliver catchy songs and dreamy non-white guys, I may even stick around after Rayna James hangs up her sequined microphone. The first hour of the two-hour premiere of Nashville’s new season will air on Thursday, Dec. 15 at 9 p.m. ET on CMT. [Source] Here's Connie Britton at an event with Scott Hamilton last week and at a screening of Past Forward earlier in the month. [Click here for the rest of the photos.] Posted at 4:51 PM [Weightlifting: The Actors Roundtable] [The Hollywood Reporter's Actors Roundtable ] Last week it was the [Actresses Roundtable]. This week [The Hollywood Reporter] is featuring the Actors. I briefly mentioned this yesterday in the post about what [Andrew Garfield said about Emma Stone]. Now that I’ve read through the whole piece and watched all the videos… well…I’m not sure that they were talking to each other as much as they were talking FOR each other. Apart from [Jeff Bridges] and, at times, [Mahershala Ali], this felt like a performance. Like the actor equivalent of dudes sitting around comparing how much they can bench-press. There’s a lot of discussion about how hard it is. And how stressful it is. And how anxious they are to get it right. How torturous that process can be. Which is probably true, no doubt. But what’s missing here? Is the joy. It’s almost as if they can’t allow themselves to feel it, or to admit to being able to find it, because if they did, I don’t know, somehow that would de-artify them, or something. I’m also not sure this is an actual conversation. Each of the actors answers the questions directed at them but it seldom becomes a proper discussion, a back and forth. The actresses last week, you’ll note, they had follow-up questions, they pressed for more from their peers, there was active engagement. And at times you forgot that the journalist was even there. I didn’t get the same feeling with the Actors Roundtable. It never, for me, approaches the sense of community that the actresses built over the hour in the way they tried to relate to each other and share their experiences. To be fair, I wonder if that’s frustrating for the actors themselves too. If it’s become exhausting even for them to have to live up to this struggle code that’s been imposed on so many of the perceived great actors of our time that the adherence to it in itself becomes another character. It’s a character because, of course, what’s happening in this space is that they’re actually there to play the part of contender, contender for Oscar, while pretending, of course, that that’s not the point. Last week on our podcast, I brought up [Michael Shannon]. A reader called VS sent me a video of Michael talking about Nocturnal Animals. He ends up also mentioning his Oscar campaigning the year before for a film called 99 Homes. And that for all his effort, he didn’t end up with a nomination and that Mark Rylance won the Supporting Actor Oscar even though he, literally, didn’t show up for any of the events on the circuit. This is Michael Shannon. Michael Shannon who has no f-cks all the f-cking time. And even he, pretty candidly, and almost happily, admitted to wanting an Oscar, to enjoying being at the Oscars, to actively participating in the circus that goes into getting close to an Oscar. It didn’t work for him, but he also didn’t seem bitter about it or embarrassed by it either. And, again, this is Michael Shannon! I wonder how Michael Shannon would have behaved at this table. I wonder if his expression would have resembled Jeff Bridges’, who seems wickedly amused at times listening to these young bucks verbally flexing. Of course the frontrunner here is [Casey Affleck] [who’s come off a big week with wins] at the Gothams, the NBR, and, just yesterday, the New York Film Critics Circle. Casey Affleck, who claims he isn’t into the game, has been playing the SH-T out of the game. Six years ago he made a mockumentary about fame with Joaquin Phoenix. He and his best friend, they were throwing down some kind of anti-fame statement. And now? Now Casey Affleck is shaking hands and kissing babies, hustling his ass off for an Oscar, taking advantage of the free pass the media has given him for [those sexual harassment allegations]. Is it because if we look too closely we might see that it also happens in our workplaces too? [Click here] for more from The Hollywood Reporter Actors Roundtable. [Click here for the rest of the photos.] Posted at 4:18 PM [December 2, 2016 – Smutty Shout-Outs] [Britney Spears and Aaron Rodgers for Karen] Karen, I’ve let Kathleen know about how much you love when she writes about both Britney Spears and Aaron Rodgers. And that it’s their birthday today. Here they are, side by side. I can’t believe it either that Britney Jean Spears is 35. And for Vicki…I’m so sorry about Tallulah Bankhead. What a great name. And, as you said, she lived up to it by being a first class judgy boss. Tallulah Bankhead was so loved. There’s no better way to leave. [Click here for the rest of the photos.] Posted at 3:17 PM [Privacy Policy] - [Unsubscribe]