Newsletter Wednesday, December 21, 2016

[LaineyGossip.com - Calling all smuthounds!] Wednesday, December 21, 2016 [Intro for December 21, 2016] [Mischa Barton at the Animal Equality 10th Anniversary Celebration Honoring Moby at At The P on November 19, 2016 in Los Angeles, California] Dear Gossips, Duana and I tape the Show Your Work podcast on Saturdays at 1030am to be posted two days later, on Mondays. [This week’s episode] was the last of the year because holidays, etc. All week we’ve been sending notes back and forth about what we would be podcasting if the scheduling worked out. I feel like Mischa Barton would have probably made the cut, especially since [Mischa Barton] is currently in the process of reintroducing herself – this time as the host of a show about luxury cars. The series is called Joyride, by [Esquire Network]. Mischa is one of four co-hosts, including also T Pain, who, every week: “…will go on a quest to find the best car in a range of styles and eras, from cutting edge current models to high-end classics. They will put their passionate opinions and personal driving skills to the test as they take the wheels of four beautiful, unique and aspirational cars, and ultimately choose a winner at the end of each episode. With years of knowledge and really strong viewpoints, these four hosts take car testing to new, comical heights. What better way to find the “Best British Car” than to get a “test ride” in the back-seat to see how luxurious the car really is. And you can only find the “Best 80s Car” while rocking out to a mixed tape from that hair-band era. Throughout the run of the series, viewers will not only get to know these celebrity drivers as they go through these funny and thrilling test drives, but they will also learn practical take home knowledge about all of the vehicles. Car categories will include: Best Classic Truck, Best British Car, Best 80s Car, Best Car for a First Time Driver, Best Muscle Car of the 1960s and Best Midlife Crisis Car.” So Mischa Barton is trying to pivot from Marissa Cooper to Jeremy Clarkson. OK. But that’s not why Mischa’s in the news today. She’s in the news today because she told The Ringer’s Allison P Davis that [being on Dancing With The Stars was like The Hunger Games]. Mischa did not do well on DWTS. Because, in her mind, she was misled, she had a vision for her participation that she claims they had promised to support but didn’t end up supporting. That vision was that she was “supposed to control the costumes, I was told that I could do the design aspect of it, that’s kind of the reason why I agreed to do it,” Barton says. The DWTS team had been making her an offer for years, Barton says, but she held out until she could have more creative control. “That didn’t happen. It wasn’t collaborative like a choreographer on a film set. … I was so confused by it. It was like The Hunger Games. It was all a popularity contest. It was awful. I was so glad to get kicked off.” So Mischa Barton thought she was joining Dancing With The Stars to be Tom Ford? Anything and anyone, I suppose, other than Marissa Cooper. Or Mischa Barton in the age of Marissa Cooper. She acknowledges that she made mistakes, a lot of mistakes. She knows that she’s remembered primarily for Marissa and those mistakes and that we can’t, or won’t, let her move on from Marissa and the mistakes. What Allison P Davis is gently asking in this piece is whether or not that’s fair. I’m not sure Mischa even knows the answer. Because while she describes herself as “old school”, as someone who “came from the days of real film” (seriously), at the same time, she talks about the benefits of modern fame – social media, in particular, and how it’s given her the opportunity to contribute in ways she wasn’t able to before: “I remember the days when you had no voice, and they could make up stories and say whatever they wanted, and now at least they have an insight into your life. People can see what you’re really like. Twitter less so, but Instagram has an artistic side to it, where you can see through that person’s eye, what they creatively choose, what they’re up to and who they are — you get a feeling for them. I enjoy it now.” Sure. But the social media moment Mischa is most well-known for is the time she posted a shot of herself floating on a boat with the wind in her hair [wearing a sad face and a bikini in tribute] to Alton Sterling. If the tabloid representation of Mischa and Mischa’s own Instagram representation of Mischa are indistinguishable, how effective is all this reinvention? [Click here] to read the full Mischa Barton profile at The Ringer. Yours in gossip, Lainey [Click here for the rest of the photos.] Posted at 2:23 PM [Smutty Tingles] This is [what Kiefer Sutherland looked like] when Julia Roberts almost married him (Dlisted) [Rihanna’s big red belt] (Just Jared) [Princess Kate’s dream job] (Cele|bitchy) [Shania Twain 2017] (TooFab) [Like it would have mattered] (The Superficial) Heidi Klum and Seal [are in Aspen with their kids] (TMZ) [Obsessed with this look] on Janelle Monae (Go Fug Yourself) OMG I totally want to be [the voice of a dog too] (Jezebel) [Chris Hemsworth loves Michael Shannon] so much (Pajiba) [Click here for the rest of the photos.] Posted at 8:54 PM [Drake & JLO: work or more?] [Jennifer Lopez shops in Barney's New York in Beverly Hills on December 19, 2016] [I posted on Monday] about how [Drake] was at [Jennifer Lopez]’s Vegas show this past weekend for the second weekend in a row. It was her final All I Have residency performance of 2016. She will resume in February. On Monday night, [according to TMZ], Drake and JLO were together again in LA at his private party at Delilah. She was his guest. And while TMZ’s sources say they two are “working on a music project”, they’re also saying “it’s only a matter of time”. That they’re not quite dating yet, but that it’s apparently super obvious that the two are “going in that direction”. Something to look forward to in 2017? What we were supposed to be looking from Drake this month was the new album, More Life, which has been pushed to early 2017. New music, new relationship, he’s always been really good at the blurring the two at exactly the right time. And JLO has experience there too. Next year, JLO will continue the Vegas residency, is planning on releasing a Spanish album, and will star in Bye Bye Birdie live on NBC. She also spent most of this fall shooting the second season of NBC’s Shades of Blue. That, actually, might be JLO’s most significant relationship with now: JLO and NBC go deep. So it makes sense then, given what her schedule has been, that just as TMZ was teasing us about whatever possibilities are happening between her and Drake her manager was confirming that she’s [cancelled her New Year’s Eve club commitment] in Miami “citing personal and family time”. She is, however, still scheduled to perform part of her All I Have show on [NBC’s New Year’s Eve With Carson Daly]. It’s unclear – at least to me – whether or not she’ll actually be in Times Square with the live broadcast or if they’ll be taking the performance on satellite from somewhere else. Again, I need to mention that Mimi is doing Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest, also from Times Square. Imagine if they scheduled it concurrently? So where does this leave Drake? Well he’s doing NYE in Vegas. So if JLO’s in New York for NYE, it still means they’re apart. If, however, they’re coming to her on satellite from LA or even Vegas…well… it’s looking a lot better. Here she is shopping at Barneys in Beverly Hills a couple of days ago. For real though, how cold is it in LA?!? [Click here for the rest of the photos.] Posted at 8:42 PM [Charlie Hunnam goes Leo-Leto] [Charlie Hunnam and Morgana McNelis] Earlier this year, Angelique Jade Bastien, writing in The Atlantic, [posited that Hollywood Has Ruined Method Acting]. [Jared Leto] was promoting Suicide Squad at the time, and he and his co-stars were telling stories about how he’d send dead rats or pigs to his co-stars, generally behaving like a lunatic because he was playing The Joker. And that behaviour was classified as “acting”. It was a few months after we had to endure an endless conversation about how much Leonardo DiCaprio suffered for his role in The Revenant. And Angelique Bastien noted that the marketing of that kind of “acting” has become how performances are legitimised and, eventually, awarded. That “method acting” is the “labour” of acting to prove that the Leos and the Letos of the world are hard-ass artists, proper dudes who grunt and sweat through their jobs as much as other men who brute through their jobs. The result, she argues, is that “the prestige of method acting has dimmed—thanks to the technique’s overuse by those seeking award-season glory or a reputation boost, as well as its history of being shaped by destructive ideas of masculinity”. Toxic male masculinity. We couldn’t get away from it this year, this f-cked up year. It’s even infected [Charlie Hunnam]. Thanks 2016. Why don’t you just keep on being an asshole, right to the very end? [Charlie talked to Entertainment Weekly] (via [Just Jared]) about his work in the upcoming The Lost City Of Z. They shot in a remote location Colombia for five months. And I guess there was no email and no texting so initially he promised that he would write Morgana, his longtime girlfriend, his life partner, a letter every day. Here’s the rest of the story: “We went to Colombia, and the mail system doesn’t really work very well,” Hunnam said. “It’s completely unreliable. I received a letter from her, and I realized that from the tone of it and things she was saying that she hadn’t received the two letters that I sent before.” With timely letters not really in the cards, Hunnam decided to go even more Method in portraying the explorer-cum-absentee father Fawcett. He stopped writing altogether. “Which obviously makes me sound like a total bastard, appropriately so,” Hunnam said. “But I was very apologetic.” The separation, however, helped Hunnam understand Percival Fawcett’s obsession. “One of the things that [director James Gray] and I felt strongly that we wanted to explore in the film,” Hunnam said, “was the conflict between family life and the exterior demands that are made on us and the social and economic demands that we all need to deal with in life, being balanced or in conflict with the internal drive, to be the people we want to be and achieve the things that we want to achieve.” But where does that leave things with Hunnam and the girlfriend he promised to write to? Well, while Colombian mail system failed him, the jewel market did not. “I had the benefit of shooting in Colombia, where they have rather lovely and somewhat cheap emeralds,” Hunnam says. “My girlfriend is a jewelry designer, so I was able to come back with an appropriately sized gift. It didn’t remedy all of the trouble I was in, but it got me halfway there.” Smart man. So Morgana lost contact with her partner for nearly half a year – by HIS choice and not hers. And, sure, he concedes that he was a “total bastard” for it but that, you know, he apologised with emeralds so that makes it halfway to OK. Bullsh-t. On so many levels, bullsh-t. Bullsh-t to the idea that in order to service the character and the story he had to neglect and hurt someone he loves. BULLSH-T. If you can’t find your motivation while living away from home, for that long, by simply missing your life and your friends and the people who love you, and you still need an extra shot of insensitivity to get there, maybe you’re not that great of an actor. Bullsh-t to the apology gift of jewels to help with her job as some kind of atonement for how his job compelled him to temporarily abandon her. If she can manage to meet her career without disrespecting him, doing her a professional favour isn’t atonement for his professional selfishness. And, mostly, bullsh-t to the way this is being shared, by him, so casually because he knows, HE KNOWS that this world is set up for him to get away with it, and received, by the reporter’s glib “smart man” comment at the end as implied condonation of said bullsh-t. Because if what we’re doing here is justifying how it was that he was able to depict his character’s “conflict between family life” by arbitrarily cutting off his partner in pursuit of a performance – a performance! – then would the same be acceptable if Charlie was a woman? If a woman were to go so method as to send dead animals to their colleagues or go AWOL on their partners, their families, for 5 months, and come back and shrug about it, like it’s a good anecdote, without having to cry and angst and express all the guilt with all the tears, would the reaction be the same? Sarah answered this in a tweet back in July: A few words on Jared Leto and Viola Davis. [pic.twitter.com/KVwtFAd4Xv] — Sarah (@Cinesnark) [July 25, 2016] [Click here for the rest of the photos.] Posted at 7:52 PM [Smutty Social Media, December 21, 2016] [Michelle Monaghan on Instagram] That’s gonna be a no from me, dawg. [When doves cry] A video posted by Jack Black (@jackblack) on Dec 20, 2016 at 11:20am PST Michelle Monaghan looks great in double denim. I look like a farmer, and not the hipster-chic kind. [🎨 #melbourne #streetart 🎨] A photo posted by Michelle Monaghan (@realmonaghan) on Dec 19, 2016 at 11:09pm PST Reese Witherspoon’s commitment to looking like an editorial spread from a 1953 edition of Good Housekeeping just won’t quit. [Last minute gifts complete! Have y'all finished your Christmas shopping yet? 🎁🎄🌟 There's still time @draperjames!] A photo posted by Reese Witherspoon (@reesewitherspoon) on Dec 20, 2016 at 10:48am PST Any alternative would be welcome. Pinterest for President. — Natalie Maines (@1NatalieMaines) [December 15, 2016] Kelly Osbourne cleans Kelly Cutrone’s overflowing toilet (NSFW language). That is a good friend. I’d have trouble doing this at my own house. Definitely couldn’t do it in an office with multiple users. [You can never say I'm not a good friend @kellycutrone during my break form promoting @projectrunwayjunior I'm mopping up a river from your leaking 🚽] A video posted by Kelly! (@kellyosbourne) on Dec 21, 2016 at 7:09am PST Chrissy Teigen has a “Bill Murray appears out of nowhere” story. Wait this happened to me too. A waiter dropped a plate of half eaten food and said it was from "the man at the bar" - it was bill murray [ — christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) [December 21, 2016] Is Vanilla Ice retro enough to be a kitsch celebrity side kick? [With @vanillaiceofficial and dumb shit @realnickswardson backstage Orlando show. Great crowds in florida.] A photo posted by David Spade (@davidspade) on Dec 16, 2016 at 10:10pm PST This week I’ve had cast reunion photos from October Road and The Mysteries of Laura. Thank you for indulging me. Here’s one you guys really want: Law & Order: SVU. [Friends at Xmas.] A photo posted by Chris Meloni (@chris_meloni) on Dec 20, 2016 at 10:18am PST [Click here for the rest of the photos.] Posted at 6:45 PM [Blake, Ryan, and their daughters, DRAMA and ATTENTION Reynolds] [Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively and with James and Ines at Ryan Reynolds' Star Ceremony On The Hollywood Walk Of Fame on December 15, 2016 in Hollywood, California] What? What’s wrong with those names? You think my headline’s over the top? I submit that’s what [Ryan Reynolds] and [Blake Lively] may as well have named their children. Read on: This week we found out the name of their second child. It’s a girl, and her name is Ines. I have some thoughts on that name, but more importantly, I have some thoughts on the way we found out about it. My friends at Nameberry have compiled a list of the [most influential celebrity baby names] of the year. I love some, [Luna Simone], more than others, like say, [Zeppelin Bram], but you know what allllll of those celebrity names have in common? They were released when the child WAS BORN. Whether or not you care about celebrity baby names or think other people should, they are a thing of interest, and people pay attention, and a few days or a couple of weeks after the birth, the star’s rep releases a name and a “The family is thrilled and doing fine” or whatever it is. Like clockwork, this happens. You could write it yourself! But not Blake and Ryan. Nooooo. They have to make a massive production out of NOT releasing the name, and not responding to comments or inquiries and there was all this ‘nurses are NOT to tell’ around the name of their first daughter James, and all of you who roll your eyes all “can you PLEASE try not to judge the name of a defenceless infant” but… are you really trying to tell me that they’re not trying to get attention for these announcements? So. Ines. Pronounced ‘Ee-nez’ or ‘Ih-nez’ depending on who’s saying it. It’s a version of Agnes, which you may know I’m in love with lately (but not as much as the Polish version, Agnieszka). It’s not used that often – partly, in my opinion, because of the pronunciation questions – but it’s gorgeous, and stands out without being celebrity-wacky. It fits perfectly into the old-people-names-are-new trend. Does it go with James? Not at all in my opinion, especially since they look like they end the same way but are pronounced so differently. I would not put it past someone to look at those names on paper and go, “So…James and Ines? Like Lines?” You may think I’m underestimating people’s intelligence, but have you been on the internet lately? Still, the issue is not with the name. The issue is with the deployment of the announcement. Forced, unusual silence followed by an announcement (by way of US Weekly “[exclusive]” scoop) when they can be assured that everyone is looking at them…it’s the family way, I guess? [Click here for the rest of the photos.] Posted at 5:57 PM [Mimi’s free Christmas] [Mariah Carey's Instagram] [Mimi] goes to Aspen every year for Christmas. This year she’s in Aspen for free, [courtesy Airbnb]. It’s not a secret either. Yesterday Airbnb sent out a press release with photos of and details about the $22 million property where Mimi is staying. It read like this: Queen of Christmas, Mariah Carey is spending her holidays in a $22 million luxury estate in Aspen, courtesy of Airbnb. On the heels of her new show, the launch of her Christmas special, and a sold out successful Beacon Theater concert with notable celebs in attendance, the superstar is finally relaxing for the Christmas break with her kids, boyfriend Bryan Tanaka, along with close friends and family. Her Airbnb for the Holidays includes 5 bedroom, 5 bathroom, a wood burning fireplace and two living rooms with huge flat screen TV’s on the main floor. After skiing, she can take the elevator down to the game room complete with a wet bar and pool table, a media lounge, wine room, gym and sauna. The outdoor patio features a luxe dining area and hot tub with breathtaking views of the snowy mountains. The “All I Want For Christmas” singer spent the first half of her holiday taking advantage of the ski in/ski out access on Aspen Highlands Mountains teaching her kids how to ski, relaxing in their private hot tub and creating her favorite holiday dishes. She’s been there for a day and she’s almost “spent the first half of her holiday” doing all those activities? According to her Instagram, she actually spent it in her underwear, looking for the best lighting around the tree: [Getting into the Christmas spirit with this exquisite tree in a beautiful home for our family! 🎄☃️ Courtesy of @airbnb] A photo posted by Mariah Carey (@mariahcarey) on Dec 20, 2016 at 9:15am PST The bigger the tree, the skinnier the Mimi. Note the “courtesy” there in her post though, which would have been part of the contract. Even Mimi has to give social media credits. Since the end of the engagement though, have you noticed? It’s been deal after deal after tour after deal. Mimi really hasn’t stopped in the last 3 months. Part of that is because Christmas belongs to her but I wonder if the other part of it is that she’s making up for lost marital expected income – and how much of that she pre-committed before negotiations went south. Especially since, if you watch the docuseries, it’s obvious how many people she keeps on payroll. Here's Mimi getting off her plane again: [Click here for the rest of the photos.] Posted at 4:31 PM [Michael Fassbender opens today] [Michael Fassbender during an interview with host Seth Meyers on December 20, 2016] [Michael Fassbender]’s Assassin’s Creed opens today. As you probably know, it’s based on the video game. Video game film adaptations are usually sh-t. We were supposed to think that maybe this one would be the exception because Michael Fassbender is a Serious Actor. And presumably has the Good Taste of a Serious Actor. And he produced it, the first movie he’s ever produced. Well, the reviews are coming in. And the reviews are not so good. Forbes actually called it a “[bloodbath]”. Many reviewers are saying it’s a mess. But critics don’t necessarily speak gamer. So maybe the gamers will be into it? Still, as I’ve been saying about this movie, [it needs more than just gamers to get it]. Otherwise, what’s the point in turning it into a movie? Do I want to see this movie or would I rather see Rogue One for the second time? Michael’s been trying to promote Assassin’s Creed for a few weeks now. Last night he was on with Seth Meyers. Last week he did [an air guitar-off with Jimmy Fallon]. It wasn’t bad. But in terms of good TV, there is no producer that will tell you that air guitar battle is better than lip sync battle even though, maybe, lip sync battle might not be as “cool” as air guitar battle. That’s almost the point though. You have to be willing to get real silly to lip sync battle. The more you commit to being silly, the more cool you become in exchange. So, no, I’m not all that impressed with Michael Fassbender’s air guitaring. To me it feels like a half-step. At this point though, I’m not sure what he’s trying to preserve. [Click here for the rest of the photos.] Posted at 3:54 PM [Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence Passengers, the best worst movie of the year] [Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt at the LA premiere of 'Passengers' on December 15, 2016] SPOILERS because everything wrong with this movie is the plot Passengers starts out like it’s going to be an existential sci-fi horror movie, something along the lines of Ex Machina, perhaps, where the science fiction premise is used to examine questions of morals and ethics, and the plot revolves around a small cast trapped together, forcing them to work through the moral math problems set before them. I want to give credit to the writer, Jon Spaihts, who is responsible for the interesting version of Prometheus, before Damon Lindelof ruined it, and also contributed to the really quite sharp script of Doctor Strange. Every once in a while you can catch a glimpse of that maybe-movie, where a couple of protagonists wrangle ethics in space. But most of the time, Passengers is the dumbest movie: It has all the consent issues of Sleeping Beauty and a dash of Beauty and the Beast’s Stockholm Syndrome. It’s the best worst movie of the year. Jim Preston ([Chris Pratt]) is taking a hundred and twenty year nap on his way to his destination, a colonized planet called Homestead II. It’s the future, and colonizing planets in other galaxies is big business (one of those interesting angles left largely unexplored). Jim is basically a future indentured servant—for the ticket across space, he’ll give a portion of his earnings on his new world to the company that sent him there. He’s a mechanic, you see, and just wants to live in a world where things can be repaired, not replaced. He wants to build a house with his own hands and be a Man in a way it’s implied it’s impossible to be on future Earth. Forget feminism—it turns out, technology killed masculinity. But Jim wakes up ninety years early, and the first thirty minutes of Passengers is pretty solid, as he learns to live alone on a huge fancy spaceship where everything is clean and bright and polished (Star Wars this is not). He grows a sadness beard and walks around naked—Chris Pratt does not skip leg day—makes friends with the robot bartender (Michael Sheen), and resigns himself to dying alone in space. It’s pretty much just Castaway in space, but Pratt carries it well. But wait! One day, on the verge of suicide, he sees a beautiful sleeping woman named Aurora ([Jennifer Lawrence]). She’s basic as f*ck—she’s a journalist whose work always sounds one second away from a declarative: “I love pumpkin spice!”—but she’s JLaw so he debates with himself for a few days whether or not to wake her up so he won’t be alone anymore, and again, here we trend into something interesting and again, it’s shut down immediately. Jim wakes Aurora, passes off her waking as a malfunction, and Passengers shifts gears and becomes Space Rom-Com: Dating Your Stalker. There’s a date montage and they fall in love despite having nothing in common except a general state of wakefulness, and bridge a pretty steep class divide that neither of them acknowledge, and then they christen the ship with PG-13 sex. Pratt and Lawrence have acceptable chemistry but their sex scenes are so edited down it completely undercuts any notion that maybe they bond through intense physical attraction. There’s really no convincing argument for why these two should be together, except that Jim decided they should be, which is EXTREMELY CREEPY. Of course Aurora eventually finds out and Passengers again shifts gears, and yet again flirts with being interesting as Aurora must come to grips with Jim essentially murdering her. But once again, the ethical/moral debate is dropped in favor of Titanic In Space! right down to the “there’s only room for one” thing and why Aurora doesn’t leap on her chance to get the f*ck away from creepy f*cking Jim shall become one of cinema’s greatest mysteries. Passengers is an incredibly creepy movie in which a woman succumbs to Stockholm Syndrome and falls for her stalker and stays with him even though the stupid ending wants to be ambiguous but it’s not, this movie never met the concept of subtlety. Laurence Fishburne shows up for about twenty minutes in the middle because the plot has to advance and these two bozos are incapable of doing it on their own, and there is a slew of laugh-out-loud conveniences making the whole thing work. Passengers is supremely gross and dumb as sh*t, but it’ll probably work for a lot of people because it’s a big Hollywood movie with big Hollywood stars and just enough remnants of an intelligent movie to trick people into thinking it’s about something. But all Passengers is about is a man literally Nice Guying a woman to death. In space. [Click here for the rest of the photos.] Posted at 3:32 PM [Jennifer Lawrence’s blind riddles] [Jennifer Lawrence and best friend Laura Simpson backstage during the Oscars held at Dolby Theatre on March 2, 2014 in Hollywood, California] [Jennifer Lawrence] was on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen this week. And her best friend Laura Simpson was the bartender. You’ll recall, Jennifer took Laura with her to the Oscars in 2014 and Laura ended up [writing an essay] about the experience afterwards. So they play this game where Laura either has to answer questions about Jennifer or, if she can’t answer, or won’t answer, she has to drink. One of the questions was about the celebrities that Jennifer hates. And Laura reveals that she and Jennifer use code names. Blind riddles! Here’s the video: So we have: The Raging Lady, The Lady In Red, The Lady In Waiting, and Pickle. Ready to start guessing? Let’s start by eliminating some people. Like Emma Stone, obviously. And as much as you want one of these two be Taylor Swift, there’s been enough evidence that [they actually are quite friendly] to rule her out. Mila Kunis probably not because Jennifer has said that she [drops by Mila’s unannounced] all the time to hang out. Obviously not Amy Schumer. The Raging Lady: Miley Cyrus There’s the Liam Hemsworth connection and all those rumours about Hunger Games hookups. Also Jennifer said she [puked at an Oscar party one time in front of Miley] and Miley told her to “get it together” which Miley [denied on Twitter but then deleted]. Other possibility: Julia Roberts. Julia’s always being asked about Jennifer being the successor to her America’s Sweetheart title. And Julia being Julia is always kind of condescending about it. The Lady In Red: Scarlett Johansson Seems a bit obviously, with the name and all, but I could see Jennifer and Laura being not exactly subtle about this. Also Jennifer and Scarjo are both producing their own Zelda Fitzgerald projects. And they’re the top two female box office draws. Other possibility: Jessica Chastain. Jennifer won her Oscar for Silver Linings Playbook the same year Jessica was nominated for Zero Dark Thirty so the storyline was that they are rivals. Jessica has [repeatedly denied the rumours] and has also publicly complimented Jennifer for her wage gap essay. Still, some people aren’t convinced. The Lady In Waiting: Anna Kendrick This isn’t a strong guess. I’m just trying to read into “in waiting” and while Anna Kendrick is definitely a deal, I feel like we’ve been waiting for her to be THE biggest deal for a while. How many articles have you read about “Anna Kendrick’s moment!” only to realise that she’s probably still building towards that moment? Duana and I talked about Anna on the [Show Your Work podcast] a few weeks ago and that story Kathy Griffin told about Anna being dismissive of her at a party and how real personality might not be as perky and warm as presented. Like a Paris Geller kind of thing. How would a Jennifer Lawrence react to a Paris Geller? Other possibility: Annabelle Wallis who hooked up with Chris Martin like five minutes after he and Jennifer were done. One more possibility: Blake Lively. Think about what separates them. Pickle: Gwyneth Paltrow No explanation required? Send me your guesses! [Click here for the rest of the photos.] Posted at 2:48 PM [Privacy Policy] - [Unsubscribe]