Rachel McAdams, Colin Farrell, and Taylor Kitsch were photographed in LA shooting True Detective season 2 yesterday. It seems like they were shooting some kind of armed standoff. As you know, all three of them play police officers. I like Rachel in cop mode.
Ewan Gregor, Chiwetel Ejiofor & Chris Pine are Serial-obsessed. [Pajiba]
Taylor Swift partied with Jaime King after the Grammys. [Moe Jackson]
Robert Pattinson at Berlinale. [LaineyGossip]
This Bobbi Kristina Brown story just gets sadder and sadder. [CDAN]
Amanda Bynes owes her lawyers thousands of dollars. [Wonderwall]
Jessica Alba should bend with the knees. [Celebslam]
Sam Taylor-Johnson will be directing the Fifty Shades sequels. [I’m Not Obsessed]
Miley Cyrus & Katy Perry got handsy with each other. [The Blemish]
Finally, all the gym newbies are getting off my favorite treadmill. [The Frisky]
Iggy Azalea didn’t win any Grammys. [IDLY]
Elizabeth Banks in over-the-top Elie Saab. [RCFA]
PopBytes is doing a Madonna remix giveaway. [PopBytes]
Conan O’Brien slams the anti-Vaxxers. [Seriously OMG WTF]
Congratulations to Bethany Hamilton and Adam Dirks.
The championship surfer, 25, and her youth minister husband are expecting their first child – a son – in early June, she reveals via YouTube.
“We have a little surprise for you … baby on board!” Hamilton says in the clip.
“She’s pregnant, yes!” adds Dirks.
At 22 weeks along, the mom-to-be is “prowling” for boy names while preparing for impending motherhood.
“It’s been a pretty crazy last four months, finding out that we’re going to be parents and life’s going to be changing,” the Soul Surfer author says. “[We’re] starting to prep for bringing a new little being into the world.”
And she admits that the pregnancy hasn’t stopped her from surfing.
“Once the belly’s pretty big, maybe [I’ll] just mellow it out and spend more time swimming, just enjoying the ocean and doing other activities,” she shares.
Hamilton — who lost her left arm in a shark attack in 2003 — will learn to adapt to care for her baby boy.
“I’ve been thinking about it, but I often forget that I have one arm,” she shares. “When I think about it, a squirming baby and changing the diaper … I think how I live life, just adjust and adapt to different things, especially things that are a lot easier with two arms.”
She adds: “There’s going to be things that will be very challenging with one arm, but I’ll just have to find my own way to take care of this baby. Of course, I’ll have Adam to help, but if he’s out and about busy, I’ll have to … figure it out and be creative.”
As for Dirks — who wed Hamilton in August 2013 — he sounds ready to take on the challenges of fatherhood.
“The early days of life we’re going to have to find the balance. Bethany is going to be feeding the baby and taking care of it, and it’s really essential for her to be able to do that,” he says. “As we start traveling more, getting into surfing, I know I’m going to be there to support my wife and support our family and do what I can … changing diapers on the beach while Bethany is out there surfing some gnarly wave. I’m all for that and I’m just going to be really stoked to be a dad!”
There was a distraction from the Grammys on Sunday. It distracted me for almost half an hour. Twitter too, it seems, because it was trending for a while…
A red band trailer for Straight Outta Compton was released.
Have you seen it yet?
I’ve been missing Lupita Nyong’o something fierce this awards season. She’s been around, of course, because she presented at the SAGs and the Globes, and she’ll be a presenter at the Oscars too. But I think I’m missing Lupita so much because all of the younger starlets and would-be Fashion Girls are not bringing it this awards season. Keira Knightley’s pregnancy stole her style mojo. Felicity Jones is kind of boring. Marion Cotillard wears too much bad Dior. So, we need more Lupita in our lives. And here she is! She covers the March issue of Lucky Magazine and I love the cover and the inside shot (at the end of the post). She just looks so pretty and fresh and joyful. Lupita is like a breath of fresh air, isn’t she? Some highlights from the interview:
The negative part of fame: “The not-so-fun part of all this is that when I don’t feel like being famous, I still am. When you’re in the middle of Manhattan and you have to pop into Starbucks to use the restroom and everyone recognizes you when you’re waiting in line, it’s awkward.”
She wasn’t allowed to wear makeup as a teenager: “My mother has never ever worn a drop of makeup in her life, not even at a wedding. Honestly, my mother’s outlook was hard for me to take when I was a teenager and wanted to experiment. But in the end I appreciated it, because today I can look in a mirror with no makeup on and love myself.”
Her social media presence: “I’m governed by things that made me smile, laugh and think. And if they do that to me, then I ask myself, would anybody else care to see this? If I can think of one person, I post it.”
[From E! News]
Regarding the makeup situation… the thing about it is, Lupita doesn’t need makeup. I doubt her mom needs it either. No one really NEEDS it, but you know what I’m saying? Lupita doesn’t look any different when she spends an hour getting made up versus zero minutes getting made up. She has beautiful skin and a gorgeous face. The only thing that makeup gives her is an opportunity to match her eye shadow to her dress, and I’m actually sort of tired of that look!
Photos courtesy of Lucky Magazine.
After Gwen Stefani’s great appearance at the Grammys on Sunday, her cover of Canada’s Fashion Magazine just seems… blah. She’s a pale woman but they really washed her out. Still, I am happy to see Gwen looking much better overall. She really had me worried last year, when it looked like she was tweaking her face too much. I guess she heard the criticism and let the ‘Tox work its way out. Good. As for this magazine interview, Gwen seems to be saying that she’s never really relied on her sexuality in her career. True or false?
On sexuality: “We have this sexual side to us that is alluring and powerful. It’s a gift. When you discover it when you are around 14, it feels amazing. But you learn it’s fleeting. Sexuality is something I’ve never felt comfortable with. I won’t be doing any topless photo shoots anytime soon. It’s not my thing. I don’t judge people for it, but I didn’t even wear high heels until I was 30. It’s important to evolve outside of your sexuality to entertain people. It was never a card that I played or will play – ever.”
On never regretting her fashion wardrobe choices: “Everything seems to have a reason for looking a certain way. If you [hand] me an old photo of myself, I can tell you why I’m wearing what I’m wearing. Somebody just showed me a picture of me at a MTV awards, where I was wearing this blue fur bathing suit top. Right away, I was like, ‘Yup, I know why I wore that.’ I had just gotten off a two-and-a-half year tour with No Doubt and I felt like I needed to break free a bit. How can anyone regret wearing something? I never do. It reflects who you are at that moment.”
[From Fashion Magazine, via E! News]
I remember when No Doubt really became major in the mid to late 1990s and all of the guys thought Gwen was the hottest thing. They liked her – I believe – because she was an interesting balance of tomboy/athlete and just good old fashioned Hot Girl. She was girly with her makeup and her platinum blonde hair but she was also all about showing off her toned abs and sweating her ass off during concerts. Now, do I think Gwen ever put herself out there like she was the sexiest chica in the world? Not really. But it seems too “cute” to say “It was never a card that I played or will play – ever.”
Photos courtesy of Fashion Magazine.
Samuel L. Jackson gives good interview and never takes crap from anyone. Nor should he. Sam’s played so many awesome characters. From his Tarantino movies to Shaft to A Time to Kill, and so many others, Sam Jackson always entertains. He’s promoting his latest film, Kingsman: The Secret Service by doing the rounds in NYC. He stopped by Today and fielded questions about his work ethic. He does several movies every year and just likes to work. He addressed the possibility of being a James Bond villain. Sam said, “I’m sort of backing away from doing supremely physical movies that I used to do. I’m more into cerebral things now.” That’s funny because he’s still deep in the Marvel Comic Universe. We’ll see him in Age of Ultron, and Nick Fury may get his own movie.
I found Sam’s interview at Live with Kelly & Michael interesting. There aren’t any convenient pullquotes, but he got surprisingly personal. Sam grew up in the 1950s when segregation was alive and well. He talked about his childhood in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
His aunt Etna, a schoolteacher: “She forced me to do a lot of things that I didn’t want to do when I was a kid. But of the things she made me do was read. So I was reading by the time I was two. She used to take me to school, which was an interesting kind of thing because it was the country. My grandmother worked, she was a domestic, she was like The Help. And my grandfather worked at a hotel during the day. So she [Aunt Etna] took me to school with her.”
He grew up tough: “So when I was two, I sat back in her room … so when a kid couldn’t answer a question in her class she would go, ‘Sam…’ and I would answer the question, and then I would have to fight all lunch time, because all the fourth graders would go, ‘oh, you think you’re smart. … and I’d have to fight because she made me answer questions, made them look dumb. So I was a good fighter and a smart kid.”
Growing up with segregation: “I learned a lot of lessons that most people don’t have to learn today, or shouldn’t have to learn. But I learned how to conduct myself around the superior race in an interesting sort of way. You don’t look people in the eye, but I did because I didn’t know any better.”
[From Live with Kelly & Michael]
Kelly admitted to feeling goosebumpy when listening to Sam talk about his childhood. I agree. Sam emphasized that he grew up with a very loving family, but he still fought his way through a very rough environment.
Here’s the video of Sam talking to Kelly and Michael.
Photos courtesy of WENN