We’re still wait(y)ing for Duchess Kate to go into labor. And that’s on us, not Kate. I think Kate is feeling pretty peaceful right now. Her second pregnancy was a lot smoother than the first, she was happier and able to move around more, and from what we’re hearing, she’s been pretty active over the past week too. She spent last weekend in Bucklebury with her parents. She’s spent the last several days in London, running a few errands. William is with her now, having taken his paternity leave early (he left work on Tuesday). I assume that she’ll go into labor today, tomorrow or over the weekend. That’s just the vibe I’m getting, but hey, I’ve been wrong before. So while we wait(y), let’s go through some stories making the rounds (a lot of sites are doing these kinds of busy-work royal stories as we wait).

Her hair. There’s a rumor going around that Kate stopped by the Rossano Ferretti Hair Salon this week for a pre-baby blow-out and hair pampering. I’m assuming that just like with George’s birth, she has hair people on standby to do her hair at the hospital ahead of the big baby debut.

More than an heir & a spare? Kate’s dodgy uncle Gary Goldsmith tells Hello magazine that Will and Kate will probably go for three kids. He said: “I don’t think they’ll stop at two, so if it isn’t a girl this time round, people shouldn’t be too disappointed. I’m sure there’ll be a girl in the mix at some point….As long as the baby is healthy that is the important thing. Kate was a beautiful girl and if she were to have a girl, she’ll be equally as beautiful.”

The betting. The betting has gotten out of control. Most gamblers believe that Kate is totally having a girl and that “Diana” will be in the name somewhere. Other favorites these days? Alice, Elizabeth, Charlotte, Victoria and Alexandra. If it’s a boy, the top names are Arthur and James.

The bullish baby. The baby will be a Taurus. My dad was a Taurus and he was one of the most stubborn people in the world. They have good qualities too – they’re good in business, they’re loyal, they’re family-oriented.

John Oliver has no f—ks to give. John Oliver – who is an Englishman and an American citizen – was asked about the royal baby and he told Page Six: “I don’t care. I think people around the world care more about royal babies than British people do. It’s one of the only things we produce of international value anymore. It shows how far our empire has collapsed that people tend to look at us whenever members of the royal family are born, die or get married.”

Sigh… I’m kind of hoping Kate goes into labor today, has the baby quickly and we can manage to do all of this without some wild media extravaganza.

Photos courtesy of WENN, cover courtesy of Hello.

Yesterday, I talked about the drunkening of Chris Evans, who has been partying his chunk butt (thanks, Kaiser) off during the Age of Ultron tour. Evans is still beloved by fans and still a fragile creature. But he’s drinking on the job, and perhaps the alcohol is revealing his true personality. I don’t doubt that all of the Avengers are enjoying the occasional shot, but Evans has been acting wasted. Some people are content to watch Evans turn into Happy Fun Guy instead of Neurotic Downer Guy. He’s acting unprofessional at best.

Things got worse during an interview with Digital Spy where Evans and Jeremy Renner act like a couple of sexist tools. (These two hit bars together sometimes, so it was a bad idea for Marvel to pair them.) The journo asked what they thought of Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow coupling up with Bruce Banner/The Hulk in this movie. Their responses were awful.

Kids watch these interviews, and here’s Captain America and Hawkeye tossing sexiest slurs around. Renner calls Black Widow a “slut,” and Evans doesn’t only laugh like it’s the funniest joke in the world. Evans happily admits that he would have given the same answer. But he would have used the word “wh0re” instead! Evans knows kids look up to him. Drunkface don’t care. Here’s the transcript and video:

Journo: “Fans were pretty invested in the idea that Natasha was with either of you guys. And now she’s with Bruce.”

Renner: “She’s a slut.”

Evans: “AHHAHAHAHHA. [left boob grab] I was gonna say something along those lines. A complete wh0re.”

Renner: “A trick, man.”

Evans: “HAHAHAAHA.”

Journo: “Whatever movie it is, she’ll just be the sidekick?”

Evans: “Right, just flirting with everybody.”

Renner: “She has a prosthetic leg anyway.”

Evans: “HEHHHAAH. Leading everybody on.”

[From Digital Spy on YouTube]

So … all a joke? Jokes can still be sexist. This is pretty gross. I’m struck with how comfortably Evans and Renner toss “wh0re” around like it ain’t no thing. Neither of them displays any awareness of how inappropriately they’re behaving, but I’m more disappointed with Evans. Renner’s always seemed a little shady (even before his divorce mess) to me. Both of them know better, especially in front of kids and BETTY WHITE. Ugh, fake Evans faked it until drunk Evans came out to play.

P.S. Did you know that the Evans beard has a Twitter account? The beard just tweeted, “I spend most of my time very close to @ChrisEvans mouth and can confirm that dumb sh*t comes out of it sometimes. I’ve had a word with him.”

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Robert Downey Jr. walked out on an interview yesterday with a British reporter. I recognize this reporter too – Krishnan Guru-Murthy is sort of a famous UK presenter/interviewer and he’s the same guy who hammered Quentin Tarantino (QT gave as good as he got) several years ago about QT’s love of film violence and love of the n-word. In this interview, RDJ is pretty game for the first half, like it’s completely normal to have a sober, intellectual conversation about Iron Man and comic-book movies in general. Skip ahead to about the 3:45-minute mark to see the lead-up to RDJ walking out, which you can see RDJ start to get prickly about politics.

I was sort of on RDJ’s side at first. I mean… yes, he’s promoting a Marvel movie and who cares about a quote he gave about politics five years ago? Then again, people bring up that quote (where he said going to jail made him more conservative politically) a lot about RDJ, and I think he explained it in the most non-committal, uncontroversial way possible, after all, he has to sell this movie to political liberals and conservatives. After that, the interview turns very, very awkward and you can see RDJ looking off-camera to his publicist (or the film’s publicist).

At the end of the day, I want to believe that it was the sort of slimy, awkward, ultra-personal way Guru-Murthy asked about RDJ’s drugged-out past that sent RDJ packing. After all, we know RDJ will talk about his past, sometimes without even being prompted by an interviewer. He’s talked about his past in many, many interviews before. If Guru-Murthy had simply fed some of RDJ’s past quotes back to him and asked, “Do you still believe this?” or “Do you still feel this struggle?” it might have been gone over a lot better. While I support Guru-Murthy’s right – and any journalist’s right – to ask any celebrity any question, I also think it’s fair game for a celebrity to walk out on an interview this creepily awkward.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

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On Tuesday night, Ben Affleck finally commented on the days-old controversy that he asked the PBS show Finding Your Roots to remove a segment referencing his ancestor who had owned slaves. Affleck framed it as a collaborative decision, similar to the way he would influence a director to edit scenes for a film. He failed to acknowledge showrunner Henry Louis Gates’s concerns over compromising journalistic integrity, and he dismissed the show as not “a news program.” He also made it clear that he did influence Gates to edit his ancestor, stating in part that he felt vulnerable and embarrassed. “The assumption is that they will never be dishonest but they will respect your willingness to participate and not look to include things you think would embarrass your family.”

There were some decent parts in Affleck’s statement in which he acknowledged that he shouldn’t have done that, but overall he went on a little too long and made it about him. He also worked to get people to understand his position instead of trying to convey an understanding of why this was a problem.

In a new comment to Facebook, Affleck changes his tune somewhat. He says that some sites framed it as “censorship” (we did that, as did Gates in his original emails to Sony head Michael Lynton) and that it wasn’t like that, it was just no big deal.

Thanks for the comments here. To clarify, because I see this story being framed as “censorship” on some sites, when I told Skip I was uneasy about the slave owner, he told me he had not included it in his preliminary cut because there wasn’t much detail – a name and no details, so he wasn’t going with it to begin with. He also told me they would do a book later with a more complete story, and I said I would be happy to participate and talk about the issues more broadly.

[From Facebook]

So in his original statement, Ben said this: “I lobbied [Gates, he calls him Skip] the same way I lobby directors about what takes of mine I think they should use.” Then in his follow up, he claims all he did was tell Gates he “was uneasy” and then Gates told him it didn’t matter because he had already removed that part. This is despite the fact that Affleck’s segment on Finding Your Roots was largely about race (see NPR’s coverage for more) and despite the fact that Gates’ emails to Lynton contradict this. Gates was incredibly concerned about being asked to censor the show, and not once did Affleck acknowledge this. PBS is conducting an internal investigation to ensure their editorial standards haven’t been compromised, and their statement says that “We have been moving forward deliberately yet swiftly to conduct this review.” Affleck must know this.

Affleck’s statements don’t add up. Either he lobbied for this change and it was a big deal to him because he felt embarrassed and vulnerable (his first statement) or he just told Gates he was “uneasy” and Gates told him he didn’t plan to include that information anyway. It’s possible that Gates got an email from Affleck, emailed Lynton, and then played it off like it was no biggie to remove that part and he meant to do it anyway. If that’s what happened why didn’t Affleck explain it that way in the first place? He could be telling the truth in both statements, they’re not necessarily contradictory, but he’s handled this all very poorly.

Oh and Affleck also posted another comment revealing his ancestor’s name. He said “Lots of people here have been asking who the guy was. His name was Benjamin Cole – lived in Georgia on my Mom’s side about six generations back.”

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A few days ago, I wrote about how Kim Kardashian was named as one of the recipients of Variety’s Inspiration Impact Awards, which highlight various celebrity women and their work in New York, especially with charity. Kim isn’t even a New Yorker, nor is she really well-known for working hard for charities. It just seemed like Variety was giving her the award as some sort of tacky “please come to our event” thing. In any case, Variety celebrated this year’s honorees with multiple magazine covers this week. It really feels like “one of things is not like the other” when Kim is lumped in with Glenn Close, Whoopi Goldberg, Rachel Weisz and Lena Dunham. You can see Variety’s package here. Here are some highlights from Kim’s piece:

Why Kim is so charitable: She started working with Children’s Hospital Los Angeles seven years ago – she not only donates proceeds from her eBay auction store to the nonprofit, but she also carves out time to regularly visit patients and their parents, especially during the holidays.

Losing her father to cancer: “My father passed away from cancer. I remember what it was like when my dad was going through it. You see the kids that are so strong. They feel so helpless. You want to do anything to help them.”

What happens when she visits the kids: On some of these visits, Kardashian West will sit at the patient’s bedside alone. Other times, she’ll bring along her husband, Kanye West, or her sisters. She’ll arrive at the hospital armed with presents such as iTunes gift cards or beauty products. “We’ll sit and paint our nails together,” Kardashian West says. The kids, who are excited to see the E! reality star, will ask that she post their selfies on Instagram, where Kardashian West has 30.1 million followers. “They love to see their pictures on social media,” she says.

[From Variety]

Yeah… okay. I honestly don’t have any shade for her work with Children’s Hospital LA. I just wasn’t aware that she really was spending so much time there (I’d sort of like to see the receipts on that, but whatever). It’s nice that she visits the kids and brings presents and hangs out with them. Does she deserve the cover of Variety for it? Eh.

Photos courtesy of Variety, Fame/Flynet.

These are photos of Francis Bean Cobain at the LA screening of Montage of Heck, the Kurt Cobain documentary. Frances has been a trooper during this film’s promotion, and this screening is no exception. Yeah, she looks bummed to be standing next to Courtney Love. I think most of us would feel the same way if our mom’s hoarding habit killed their childhood pet. Plus Courtney seemed so blase about doing heroin during pregnancy. Add those frustrations to the legions of fans (and former Nirvana bandmates) who constantly gush about Kurt, and this whole experience can’t be easy for Frances.

Oh, and Courtney spoke out at the Tribeca screening this weekend. Crazy C told the world that she and Kurt made their own adult film: “Me and Kurt only had this one tape … and so we recorded over and over.” I’m sure Frances enjoyed hearing about that parental grossness. She recovered enough to make a speech at the LA screening:

“Hi my name is Frances Bean Cobain and this is Montage of Heck,” she said. “The reason I wanted to come up here and speak to all of you is because I have seen this movie now six times. Initially upon seeing it, I felt like I could only watch it once. The reason I’ve been able to watch it six times is because of the film Brett [Morgen] made … I didn’t know Kurt, but I feel very strongly that he would be exceptionally proud of this film.

“It touches on some dark subjects but at the end of the day, I think that this film provides fans of Nirvana, or not fans of Nirvana, a basic understanding of who Kurt was as a human being. I think that’s been lost within romanticism and the myth of him and his story. What this movie will provide hopefully is a real understanding of who he was. And I feel like he’d be really proud to have this movie made about him. So I’d like to thank Brett a lot.”

[From People]

Director Brett Morgan says Frances has no true memory of her father, and this movie has helped her get to know him a little. Frances was barely a toddler when Kurt took his life. That experience and knowledge would be painful enough without constant reminder of how cool your dad was. I often wonder what Kurt would be like if he was alive today. I’m sure he wouldn’t have been a legend after he inevitably put out a few sub-par albums. Maybe he’d simply be a producer now, or a recluse, more likely.

Frances is a trust-fund kid, but she’s as grounded and wise as possible under the circumstances. Remember when she schooled Lana Del Rey about romanticizing the death of musicians? Frances knows the drill. The passage of time has turned Kurt into a legend far beyond what he was in real life.

Montage of Heck hits HBO on May 4. Here’s a trailer.

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The first week in April, Star Magazine claimed that Emma Stone and Andew Garfield had “hit a rough patch” and had decided to go on a break. Sources emphasized that the split was mostly about timing, schedules and the fact that Andrew was thousands of miles away, filming a movie. A week later, all of the legit gossip outlets confirmed the news – Us Weekly, People, E! News all said pretty much the same thing, that the break probably wasn’t permanent, but that they were on a break. Now Us Weekly says that Emma and Andrew actually had real problems beyond competing schedules, and that Emma dumped Andrew because she’s totally done with him. Whoa.

They’ll always have The Amazing Spider-Man. As reported earlier this month, Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone went their separate ways recently after dating for more than three years. And while sources initially told Us Weekly they were just taking a breather, an insider now says their blockbuster romance is over for good.

Stone, 26, “ended things and moved back to L.A.,” the source reveals in the April 27 issue of Us. “It’s finished. It’s not just a break.”

One factor in their apparent split was Garfield’s intense commitment to his role as a 17th-century Jesuit in director Martin Scorsese’s upcoming movie Silence, which costars Adam Driver and Liam Neeson.

“He’d been in a dark place for months, getting into his role,” a second insider tells Us of the Never Let Me Go actor, 31, who lost nearly 40 pounds in preparation for the film and has been shooting in Taiwan since January. “He wasn’t being the best partner.”

[From Us Weekly]

My gut reaction, weeks ago, was that Andrew was a fool for letting Emma go, but I also believe that HE is the high-maintenance one. He’s the one with drama and issues, he’s the one letting his ego get in the way of his relationships. So, yes, I can totally see why Emma would reach a point where she was all, “You know what? I’m tired of the drama. I’m done.” Poor Emma. Well, pretty much every dude out there wants Emma to be his girlfriend, so I’m interested in seeing what her next dating-move will be.

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Carey Mulligan covers the new issue of WSJ. Magazine. I just read through the whole piece and to say that Carey receives some of the most glowing press of any young actress in the world would be an understatement. WSJ. Magazine absolutely fawns over her, as did Vogue Magazine. It’s a reminder (to me) that Carey largely flies undercover by choice, but when she wants to turn it on and remind people that she’s got a new project, she can really turn it on. In this interview, Carey talks about how dorky she is (she wrote letters to Eminem!!!), how her parents didn’t want her to become an actress, and how she decides on what projects to take. You can read the full piece here. Some highlights:

She wrote letters to celebrities as a teenager: “I was such a weird, geeky kid. I wrote to Eminem and told him I thought his songs were amazing.”

Her husband, Marcus Mumford, keeping her down-to-earth: “It’s always nice to come home to someone who will tell you when it’s all bollocks. Because the minute you get to be like, ‘Oh, God, I’m nailing it, look how famous I am,’ you should give it up.’”

Making it a rule to never accept a part in the first meeting with a director: “I used to be so eager and overenthusiastic that I would take jobs in the room. But that got me into a world of trouble. It got messy.”

The confidence she’s gained over the years: “I used to walk into every rehearsal room and think, I hope I don’t get fired. Now I feel like I’m allowed to have an opinion.”

Regretting the decision to pass on the role that Rooney Mara played in Spike Jonze’s Her: “I’d just done four jobs in a row; I was about to collapse. But I watched it and thought, Dammit, that was brilliant. I won’t let that happen again.”

How she chooses roles: “The role has to be a female that has been written really well, or is strongly representing some aspect of femininity—otherwise, I’m not really interested in it.”

She regrets taking a role in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps: “It was a lesson to me that if I don’t have enough to get ahold of, it doesn’t work for me.”

[From WSJ. Magazine]

I have mixed feelings about her bold (?) statement about the only parts she’ll play, that “the The role has to be a female that has been written really well, or is strongly representing some aspect of femininity.” On one side, I think it’s great that she holds herself to such high standards and she’s willing to say no to stuff that she doesn’t feel is worth her time. On that, good for her. That takes balls. On the other side, not every actress can do this. In fact, very few actresses can do this. Most actresses – even the good ones – have to take roles for various other reasons, like they need a paycheck or they want to mix up their resumes with commercial hits and indie films. While Carey’s position works for her, it feels like she’s one of the only actresses out there who can manage to pull this off.

And writing to Eminem? Epic.

Photos courtesy of WSJ. Magazine.

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Kendra on Top star Kendra Wilkinson shared some family photos via Instagram.

“Second stop on our road trip… Happy #earthday,” she captioned the image with her 5-year-old son little Hank, who made a funny face for the camera.

The reality star, 29, went on to share a shot of her husband, former NFL star Hank Baskett, during their family getaway.

“Making sure the dogs were safe…they took the pain by wearing these life vests better than Alijah. Lmaooo. #LakeMead #roadtrippin,” she wrote.

The Wilkinson-Baskett family – including 11-month-old Alijah – are currently enjoying a road trip together.

“Martini is desperate for her sun just like me. Lol. #Baskettroadtrip2015 #ontheroadagain,” Kendra captioned a shot of their family pooch enjoying the group getaway.

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