Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s two oldest daughters, Zahara and Shiloh, are doing Little League soccer this year. And it’s amazing. I get the feeling that Z and Shi are really great little soccer players, and I love the idea that Brad is a soccer dad and Angelina is a soccer mom. Plus, it’s nice that they’re sticking around one place (LA) long enough for their girls to finish a season.

In these photos, you can see Brad and Angelina getting affectionate with Zahara while Shiloh seems to be particularly chatty. I love Shiloh’s haircut these days – it reminds me of the classic “skater boy” haircuts in the 1990s. It’s adorable.

Even though Brad and Angelina are now “soccer parents,” they’re still slightly disorganized. Like, neither of them thought to bring snacks, I guess. Angelina went and bought ice cream from a food vendor at Griffith Park. Judgy soccer moms: do you judge Brad and Angelina for this? For not bringing healthy snacks to their kids’ soccer game? These are the same parents, after all, who don’t believe it’s a big deal to stop by McDonalds occasionally, or pick up donuts or let their kids gorge on pizza. I personally think junk food is part of being a kid and as long as growing kids get their veggies too, why not have some ice cream and pizza?

PS… I think it’s kind of funny that Brad and Angie are still wearing all-black to a soccer game. Jeez, you guys… it’s fine to wear a white t-shirt and some shorts to your kids’ soccer game! Goth Realness!

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Tom Hardy had a lovely profile in the New York Times on Friday. It’s not the most enlightening piece – all in, the NYT gives us maybe ten quotes from Tom, including the fact that Tom calls a barista “love”. But it’s not meant to be some super-deep exploration of Tom Hardy the Bloke, I guess it’s just supposed to be breezy, “this is the guy playing Mad Max.” And The Bloke was in a decent enough mood (he handled his smoker’s cravings by taking draws “on an e-cigarette”). The interview took place at CinemaCon, in Las Vegas a few weeks ago. Some highlights:

Working on Mad Max: “It took a huge weight off my shoulders when I realized how big the piece was. It was 50 miles to the horizon, overseas, 360 degrees of sand and sky, and then there was this just sort of S-and-M party, do you know what I mean? With Hells Angels types right in the middle of it, with parasails and explosions. And it was very weird. It was fantastic.”

Who he is as a celebrity: “I’m not very interesting, by the way. I’m monosyllabic and sometimes just allowed to play in the corner. And I might express myself physically instead, if that’s all right. Cool?”

He’s drawn to odd characters: “In my job, I think it would be wrong for me to not push an extra little bit to see what’s behind certain walls. When I’m putting together a character, I kind of blend them with lots of things, part advertising, you know, the branding that you’ve seen before, so people are, ‘Oh, I kind of recognize that person, but I don’t know what it is.’ ”

He won’t complain about his ‘designer problems’: “I’m lucky to be an actor. There’s no life or death here, just humiliation. All right, that’s the worst thing that could happen. It’s just the first day of school, isn’t it? If you get beaten up on the playground, you still have to go back to school.”

[From The NYT]

I like that Tom rather consistently shrugs off complaints about an actor’s life. He’s admitted that he’s “difficult” to work with and that he takes his job seriously, but I appreciate that he’s not sitting in interviews, complaining about how he’s misunderstood or he doesn’t even enjoy his life or the work.

And here’s the trailer for Legend, where Tom plays the real-life Kray twins. Double the pleasure, double the fun. This trailer came out a few days ago! I think it looks okay.

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Here are some photos of LeAnn Rimes, Eddie Cibrian, Eddie’s two sons and a third child at the Marvel Universe LIVE! Event on Saturday. I’m assuming the third child was one of Mason and Jake’s friends, along for the ride. The lighting is really bad and unflattering here, but that’s what you get when you have a red carpet in the middle of the day in LA.

LeAnn has actually been somewhat quiet lately, or maybe I just haven’t been paying close enough attention. LeAnn and Eddie celebrated their four wedding anniversary a few weeks ago, and she posted a ton of Instagrams to celebrate, which was annoying but… I mean, that’s pretty standard for her. She’s also still doing her stupid “chalk talk” Instagrams, also annoying, but standard for her. And then this happened last Friday:

Leave it up to me to set off the fire alarm in the airplane bathroom w/ @theDrybar dry shampoo #purecomedy #firsttimeforeverything

— LeAnn Rimes Cibrian (@leannrimes) May 1, 2015

Apparently, LeAnn was using one of those aerosol hairspray/whatever products and the aerosol was what set off the fire alarm in the plane. TMZ says the flight staff was not amused, but since everything revolves around LeAnn, she simply “laughed it off.” I would be so embarrassed.

She also spent Saturday night watching – and tweeting about – the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight. I think she was rooting for Pacquiao.

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I often wonder why celebrities bother to get married at all. Rosie O’Donnell can’t seem to get along with anyone, so it wasn’t a big surprise when she and Michelle Rounds announced their split in February (a few weeks after Rosie left The View).

Rosie and Michelle were married for three years and adopted a daughter, Dakota, who is now 2 years old. I remember their prenup had a no-cheating clause, but no one’s talking about cheating now. Rosie and Michelle simply hate each other. The drama kicked into medium gear last week with news that Rosie and Michelle are fighting over custody of Dakota. Michelle filed for full custody, insisting that the movie is “unequivocally in their child’s best interest and general welfare.” Rosie believes that Michelle is using Dakota as a pawn. Here’s a roundup of the news on this increasingly messy battle:

* Somebody went straight to TMZ to discuss Rosie’s alleged drinking and drugging. A source says Rosie drinks a bottle of wine per night and smokes pot (along with eating pot brownies) on the regular. Michelle, who claims to be a millionaire on her own (stock market), also promises that she’ll walk away from Rosie’s money if she gets full custody.

* Last week, Michelle was spotted hugging all over model Carmen Ortega outside a restaurant. Supposedly, these two are just friends, but Michelle made a point of getting affectionate for the cameras. They went out for a second dinner too. Carmen is a rumored reason for the Jason Derulo and Jordin Sparks breakup. She also may have gotten with Reggie Bush during his Kim Kardashian phase.

* Michelle has criticized Rosie’s parenting style. She wants Dakota to have “a normal life” instead of being raised by nannies and stuck indoors 24/7. Michelle says, “I’m at my daughter’s every beck and call. I give her mild discipline instead of like carte blanche, do whatever you want, which is more or less how Rosie likes to do things.” Michelle also plans to ask a judge to require drug testing for Rosie until their custody battle ends.

* Michelle told TMZ that she wasn’t the one to call TMZ about the pot stuff. She’s also angry that Rosie Instagrammed this photo of Dakota with a “do I get a vote?” caption. Yeah, this was pretty low of Rosie, but both she and Michelle are behaving badly.

excuse me – do i get a vote?

A photo posted by Rosie ODonnell (@rosie) on Apr 28, 2015 at 1:20pm PDT

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She’s gotten so big!

Larry Birkhead and his daughter Dannielynn, 8, attended the 141st Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on Saturday (May 2) in Louisville. The daughter of the late Anna Nicole Smith looked adorable in a pink Monsoon dress with a floral headband and sandals.

The mini fashionista accessorized with a silver bag with pink roses. Meanwhile, Larry matched his only child in a pale pink suit.

“Awesome Barnstable-Brown Kentucky Derby party. #southernhospitality,” the single dad, 42, Tweeted later that evening.

The southern event holds a special place in Larry’s heart — he first met Anna Nicole at a Kentucky Derby party in May of 2004. The model-actress would later give birth to Dannielynn in September 2006.

Larry has raised Dannielynn since the Playboy model’s drug overdose death in 2007. Their daughter was just 5-months-old at the time.

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Congratulations to Andy Roddick and Brooklyn Decker.

The retired tennis player, 32, and the model-actress, 28, are expecting their first child, she announced via Instagram Saturday.

“So this happened… #the3ofus,” the Sports Illustrated model captioned an image of her barely there baby bump.

The Friends With Better Lives star and the professional athlete have been married for six years.

“I love kids. I definitely want kids,” Decker told PEOPLE last April. “I just have to figure out the timing of that.”

Watch for Decker to star in the upcoming Netflix show Grace and Frankie.

So this happened… #the3ofus

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Meet the Royal Baby.

Prince William and Kate Middleton introduced their newborn daughter outside St. Mary’s Hospital in London, England on Saturday (May 2). Wrapped in a white shawl from GH Hurt and Son Ltd. paired with an ivory bonnet, her royal highness slept through the public introduction.

The little princess was wrapped in the same shawl that was used when introducing her older brother, 21-month-old Prince George.

“We’re very happy, very happy,” the Duke of Cambridge, 32, proudly stated.

Just ten hours after giving birth to her 8-lbs., 3-oz. daughter, the Duchess of Cambridge, 33, looked radiant after getting her hair done by Amanda Cook Tucker, and sporting a buttercup print dress by Jenny Packham.

The Duke and Duchess smiled and waved to the crowd before making their way home with William driving a black Range Rover.

The royal couple remain mum on their daughter’s name. The baby’s moniker will likely be announced after her great-grandmother, the Queen, meets her.

On Saturday, May 2, Kensington Palace announced the royal tot’s arrival.

Later that same day, Prince William was seen toting Prince George into the hospital to meet his baby sister.

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Avengers: Age of Ultron arrived as one of this weekend’s big events (other than the royal baby) with the most character-packed Marvel installment yet. Around 800 actors filled the movie, yet it still managed to overflow with CGI effects. The movie shall easily be Marvel’s biggest moneymaker yet. Before this weekend, the film earned $201 million overseas. In North America, the film pulled in around $84 million on Friday, and the comic nerds will probably make multiple visits throughout the weekend. I imagine it will hit well over $200,000 total for the weekend.

As a whole, I didn’t enjoy this film as much as The Avengers, but it was a strong entry and pushed several individual storylines into progression. I still dug this movie a lot, although the opening fight scene was so relentlessly action-packed that I feared Marvel would deliver a hollow cartoon. Luckily, Age of Ultron was peppered with moments of humor, humanity, and character development. Here are my thoughts on several of the storylines:

* Black Widow and Hulk’s romance didn’t feel shoehorned into the film at all. Their attraction, mutual respect, and respective vulnerabilities felt very organic. In the context of how the Marvel films portray the MCU, this relationship makes a lot of sense. And no, Black Widow wasn’t wh*ring around in any sense of the word.

* Tony Stark still drives me insane. He’s the douche Avenger. Ultron is an annoying, smug extension of Tony’s megalomaniacal personality. Stark couldn’t help himself from messing with artificial intelligence. Unlike the other characters, Stark’s insufferable persona overwhelms his Iron Man alter ego. I was glad to see him depart at the end, but we’ll see him again in Cap 3: Civil War.

* Captain America and his Boy Scout image mostly served as a punchline in this film, which is fine. Joss Whedon always writes worse dialogue for Cap than what he receives in his standalone movies. Cap will get his due again. Thor and his gregarious, Asgardian manner of speaking were also nice comic relief.

* Hawkeye got his backstory and the homelife that Cap has always wanted. The surprise of seeing Hawkeye’s civilian family lent a nice respite from the movie’s otherwise frenetic pace. The various characters’ interactions with the children and down-home country life were very reflective of their personalities.

* The Twins (“He’s fast, and she’s weird”) were a lovely addition, especially Scarlet Witch. They were orphans in search of a family, and in the end, only one made it out alive. Poor Quicksilver went out for a greater cause. Scarlet Witch held her own amongst the group, and Hawkeye’s recruitment speech was pretty awesome.

* Vision was … a vision to behold. Paul Bettany delivered a fantastic, enigmatic performance (worth of Thor’s hammer). I especially liked the part where he was mesmerized by his own reflection.

* The film contained a zillion cameos from various MCU characters. Jane and Pepper Potts received shoutouts, but we saw many other characters. Nick Fury, Agent Carter, Maria Hill, Falcon, Heimdall, Professor Selvig, and others enjoyed appearances. No Loki and no Bucky Barnes. I was okay with no Loki because his presence is so huge (sorry, Dragonflies!), and this movie was already jam-packed. Bucky (by nature) is supposed to be “in the wind,” so we’ll see him next in Cap 3.

* The New Avengers team assembled at the end. War Machine, Falcon, Scarlet Witch, and Vision joined up with Cap and Black Widow to keep on avenging. This changing of the guard will switch things up nicely, and some people see this new team as Marvel’s overdue nod to their ongoing diversity problem.

* The mid-credits scene carried vast implications in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Thanos (the mad titan) grabs an Infinity Gauntlet and vows to collect the stones. This is a different gauntlet than the one that Thor’s father, Odin, possesses … so now we know that more than one gauntlet exists in the MCU. *Cue soap opera stare face*

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Last November, Idris Elba got our hopes up. Idris dropped some major gossip during the course of an interview, revealing that he and Tom Hiddleston had shot some scenes for The Avengers: Age of Ultron. Until that point, most people believed that Hiddleston’s Loki would not be making any kind of appearance in Ultron, villainous or otherwise. But Idris led people to believe that he and Hiddles agreed to do some kind of cameo in Ultron, just for fun and to further the story. The Daily Mail even claimed that Hiddleston had to film some EXTRA scenes at the very last minute last November/December. But as more and more critics (and now regular people) saw the film, many wondered: where was Hiddleston again? Apparently, Loki was nowhere to be found. MTV’s Josh Horowitz asked Joss Whedon about Loki’s absence directly, and Whedon admits that they shot some scenes with Hiddleston but they had to cut them.

There was no trace of Tom Hiddleston anywhere in the anticipated sequel, as signaled last year by fellow heartthrob Idris Elba, who proves yet again how much of a heartbreaker he is.

“Tom is not in the movie. Idris [Elba] misspoke…twice,” director Joss Whedon told MTV News in a video interview posted on Friday. “We did shoot something and it didn’t play…the movie has so much, is so filled and we didn’t want to feel overstuffed. And I really wanted to have Loki in it but I understood the decision…that it was just like, ‘OK, now there are too many voices in the chorus.’”

Elba, who plays Heimdall in the Thor films, had told the U.K. newspaper The Telegraph in November that he had filmed a scene for The Avengers: Age of Ultron with Hiddleston, who reprised his Thor and Avengers role as Loki, and Chris Hemsworth, who plays Thor, a key cast member.

Heimdall did make it into The Avengers: Age of Ultron. You can, however, expect to see Loki in the 2017 movie Thor: Ragnarok, the third film in that franchise.

[From E! News]

My thought – and this probably makes no sense because at the end of the day, I couldn’t care less about Marvel, DC or any comic book adaptation – is that the Avengers pulled together to Mean Girl poor Tom Hiddleston because Tommy is easily the most popular actor in the franchise. Too far? Probably. After all, more people know RDJ’s name and Sam Jackson’s name and they know Chunk-Butt Evans as “that Captain America dude.” It’s silly to think that Hiddleston somehow would have more name-recognition or popularity than the rest of those guys. But still… I always get the feeling that Loki as a character is the most popular with the real Marvel nerds. And Tom has always been game to have fun with that. So, was this Mean Girling? Or was Whedon correct in saying that it was just too much of a good thing? The thing is… watch the video and it seems like it wasn’t Whedon’s call. If he had his way, he would have left Loki in.

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Here are some photos of Beyonce and Jay-Z at the 2014 Met Gala, almost exactly one year ago. I didn’t love or hate Beyonce’s Givenchy ensemble here. In fact, I thought the whole look was rather disappointing, and she would have easily been one of the least-discussed major celebrities of last year’s Met Gala if not for what happened just hours after these photos were taken.

You see, Beyonce’s sister Solange was also at the Met Gala, and Solange, Jay and Beyonce all went out party-hopping after the gala. And then Solange violently assaulted Jay in an elevator, slapping him, kicking him and looking like she was going to rip his face off. That incident set off a domino-effect of speculation about Beyonce and Jay’s marriage, about Bey’s relationship with her sister, about Jay’s alleged wandering eye and so much more. It honestly took Bey and Jay MONTHS to get back to a point where they weren’t constantly justifying themselves with happy family photo-ops and vague public statements.

So you would think that maybe, one year later, Beyonce and Jay-Z would sit this one out. That they wouldn’t want to even test fate by attending another Met Gala. But you would be wrong. E! News’ sources say that although Beyonce isn’t on any of the pre-released guest lists, she’s totally going to come to the gala. E! News says “it’s not immediately known if Jay Z will be with her.” I’m guessing that Solange will definitely be there though. Solange fancies herself a Fashion Girl (and she does have legitimately better style than Beyonce). Do you think Beyonce and Solange would go to the gala together, without their husbands? Hm.

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