Kristen Stewart covers the March issue of Interview Magazine. The interview was conducted by icon of not giving any f—ks, Patti Smith. It’s interesting to me that Patti Smith would agree to interview Kristen “It’s like a poem, it’s about water” Stewart. But stranger things have happened, of course. Anyway, I only skimmed the Interview piece – I find Interview Mag’s cover stories pretty tedious these days, too much mutual appreciate and ass-kissing for my taste, but you can read the full piece here.

On Twilight: “Anybody who wants to talk sh-t about Twilight, I completely get it, but there’s something there that I’m endlessly, and to this day, f-cking proud of. My memory of it felt—still feels—really good. People are always comparing Twilight to things and trying to figure out why I’ve made certain decisions that I’ve made, and I always say every single moment that has led me to this moment has made me who I am. Every movie that I’ve done, they don’t stand independently from one another because a little bit of me is in every single one of those, and it’s part of my own personal growth.”

Becoming a child actor: “Well, I’m sitting back and enjoying the benefits of a decision that I made when I was a person who I can still relate to but am not anymore.”

On Jodie Foster: “I was really lucky to work with her at such a young age because I’ve had some serious self-persecuting … People sometimes actually get me to think I take things too seriously and maybe I’m too earnest and it’s coming across like I’m better than them. But working with people like Jodie—we are quite kindred. There’s just something when people look at you and go, “Listen, I know it’s awkward, but just keep being honest.” I could have gotten really unlucky and compared myself to another kind of actress and felt inadequate. I can’t, like, put on the show. I’m not a performer. And it’s hard for people to accept a serious tone from a kid without thinking they’re sort of stuck up.

On wearing heels: “I can do it for about three minutes.”

Her next project: “I’m writing a poem for the wedding of one of my best friends.”

[From Interview Magazine]

Here’s something interesting: Patti Smith is a Twihard!!! For real. She compliments K-Stew on the Twilight franchise, saying, “I loved your work in those films. I thought the commitment of everyone in those films was true. Like The Hunger Games—if you accept the world that you’re entering, and if the people deliver that world, that’s what we’re looking for.” Ha, that’s a dangerous thing to compare the Twilight franchise to The Hunger Games, but whatever. Patti Smith is a Twihard. Patti Smith likes sparkly vampires and lip-biting heroines.

As for Kristen still feeling proud of her work in the franchise… so be it. I like her more for owning that part of her filmography. It’s not like it’s something she can walk away from, you know?

Photos courtesy of Steven Klein/Interview Magazine.

Blake Lively was at the Marchesa presentation last night in New York. She wore Marchesa at her wedding. And there’s the Harvey Weinstein connection. OK but…

If you’ve been visiting this site for some time, you know how I feel about Marchesa. They send some janky ass sh-t down th…      

Blake Lively was at the Marchesa presentation last night in New York. She wore Marchesa at her wedding. And there’s the Harvey Weinstein connection. OK but…

If you’ve been visiting this site for some time, you know how I feel about Marchesa. They send some janky ass sh-t down th…      

Fast Five star Elsa Pataky shared a sweet shot of 11-month-old twin sons Tristan and Sasha via Instagram Thursday.

Providing a link to her blog, the mom-of-three, 38, is seen feeding her boys from their bumbo seats.

“Good day dear moms,” the actress starts her blog.

“Long ago some of you have asked me questions about how to feed my children, so I will tell you some of my personal experiences, if they can serve some moms in the important task of feeding the kids,” she adds.

The Furious 7 actress – who is also mom to daughter India, 2, with husband Chris Hemsworth – goes on to talk about feeding her babies.

“With my twins, at six months, I started giving first organic rice porridge mixed with formula,” she writes. “They liked both the mush like the feeling of taking it with spoon.”

In a series of photos, Elsa posts some pics while on vacation in Australia, her Valentine’s Day flowers, and holding one of her babies. Continue looking through our gallery to see all the shots!

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I’m not completely sure why Benedict Cumberbatch is STILL hustling, considering the Oscar votes have been cast and the campaign is officially over, but here we are. We’re still being inundated with Bendy news. Maybe he just can’t help himself. Maybe it’s too late to pull back a bit. Maybe The Hustle Never Dies. So, let’s do some highlights from Today In Cumberbatch.

*I think these quotes might be from his TimesTalk and I just didn’t see this part, but Bendy was talking about how he almost used the stage name Benedict Carlton: “I started off as Benedict Carlton, which is my middle name, my grandfather’s name. Cumberbatch sounds like a fart in a bath…It is even funnier in an English accent. But an agent who was wiser than me told me it was a good name. People have had fun with it and they continue to!”

*He’s sort of a Buddhist: “I did teach in Tibet when I was younger. I was teaching English to Tibetan Buddhist monks at a monastery. I was in quarters with spiders. I was interested in Buddhism and I am still…very much so. It is very helpful.”

*Benedict’s best man was NOT Tom Hiddleston. The best man was a dude who goes by Judge Rinder. They were mates at Manchester University. Judge Rinder is like the Judge Judy of the UK, apparently. The Mirror also claims Benedict had two other non-famous groomsmen or best men or whatever.

*You can see the program for Bendy’s wedding here. You can see that Bendy’s father gave a reading and so did Sophie’s parents.

*Benedict’s slave-owning relatives practiced droit de seigneur and Benedict might be genetically part-black, and he might have black relatives all around the world. One of Benedict’s distance cousins told her story to The Daily Mail about her research into their mixed-race family.

And finally, I leave you with Bendy and Sophie in motion, arriving at LAX a few days ago. I don’t understand why Sophie doesn’t just wear a coat that fastens?

Photos courtesy of WENN.

I’m not completely sure why Benedict Cumberbatch is STILL hustling, considering the Oscar votes have been cast and the campaign is officially over, but here we are. We’re still being inundated with Bendy news. Maybe he just can’t help himself. Maybe it’s too late to pull back a bit. Maybe The Hustle Never Dies. So, let’s do some highlights from Today In Cumberbatch.

*I think these quotes might be from his TimesTalk and I just didn’t see this part, but Bendy was talking about how he almost used the stage name Benedict Carlton: “I started off as Benedict Carlton, which is my middle name, my grandfather’s name. Cumberbatch sounds like a fart in a bath…It is even funnier in an English accent. But an agent who was wiser than me told me it was a good name. People have had fun with it and they continue to!”

*He’s sort of a Buddhist: “I did teach in Tibet when I was younger. I was teaching English to Tibetan Buddhist monks at a monastery. I was in quarters with spiders. I was interested in Buddhism and I am still…very much so. It is very helpful.”

*Benedict’s best man was NOT Tom Hiddleston. The best man was a dude who goes by Judge Rinder. They were mates at Manchester University. Judge Rinder is like the Judge Judy of the UK, apparently. The Mirror also claims Benedict had two other non-famous groomsmen or best men or whatever.

*You can see the program for Bendy’s wedding here. You can see that Bendy’s father gave a reading and so did Sophie’s parents.

*Benedict’s slave-owning relatives practiced droit de seigneur and Benedict might be genetically part-black, and he might have black relatives all around the world. One of Benedict’s distance cousins told her story to The Daily Mail about her research into their mixed-race family.

And finally, I leave you with Bendy and Sophie in motion, arriving at LAX a few days ago. I don’t understand why Sophie doesn’t just wear a coat that fastens?

Photos courtesy of WENN.

she said YES on Valentine’s Day ????

A photo posted by Taylor Kinney (@taylorkinney11) on Feb 16, 2015 at 3:23pm PST

If you’re wondering why Lady Gaga seems a little bit extra this week, it’s because she’s going to be performing at the Oscars on Sunday. She’s doing some advanced promotion, I guess. And just my opinion: I think Gaga is in the midst of a rebranding. She’s done the crazy Mother Monster. She’s done the coked-out diva mess. She’s worn the faux cheekbones and she got all the mileage she could get out of her weight fluctuations. Her current incarnation is more old-school diva. It’s all about gowns, cleavage, Tony Bennett and diamonds.

Speaking of diamonds, we’re still talking about Gaga’s heart-shaped diamond engagement ring, given to her by her boyfriend of four years, Taylor Kinney. Some of you had questions about how Kinney could afford such a big diamond on his network-ensemble salary. Well, Us Weekly says that Gaga and Taylor went to Lorraine Schwartz together and Gaga had some input for what she wanted.

The creator of Gaga’s mega-sized heart-shaped diamond has been revealed. Lorraine Schwartz, the mastermind behind Kim Kardashian’s whopping 15-carat sparkler and Blake Lively’s massive oval diamond engagement ring, designed the Cheek to Cheek singer’s enormous heart-shaped rock.

Gaga and Kinney initially met with the celeb-loved jeweler in mid-January to shop around for rings. “Taylor has bought the engagement ring, he paid for it, and Lorraine Schwartz designed it,” a source told Us Weekly. “[Gaga] has been a major part of this whole process.”

The show-stopping quality doesn’t just stop with the sparkler. “The band is shaped with a T and S for their initials,” the source revealed.

[From Us Weekly]

Do you think the source is telling the truth about Kinney paying for it all by himself? I was also reading this article at Yahoo, which included an interview with a Sacramento jeweler who claimed that heart-shaped diamonds that size – it’s 15 carats!! – are very rare in the diamond market. The jeweler says “there are under 20 heart shaped diamonds between nine and 12 carats. That makes hers even more valuable.” The jeweler suggests that just the heart-shaped stone is probably worth $500,000. Whoa. Yeah, I don’t think Kinney paid for this all by himself. Maybe that was his intention, but when Gaga started telling Schwartz what she wanted, it got complicated.

As for the whole issue about a woman helping pick out her engagement ring – as I’ve always said, it’s an issue of practicality and I don’t hold it against men or women if the dude wants help in picking out the ring. In a perfect world, he would have excellent taste and he would know what would suit you perfectly. In the real world, the engagement ring is an important piece of jewelry and I don’t blame some women for wanting a say in what their ring looks like.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and Instagram.

Congratulations are in order for Shayne Lamas and Nik Richie.

The Bachelor alum, 29, and her husband are expecting their second child via surrogacy. In a new interview with Closer Weekly, Shayne reveals the very special woman carrying her baby is her stepmother, 28-year-old Shawna Craig!

“Shawna’s not just my stepmother, she’s like a soul sister,” Shayne gushes in the mag.

Shawna, who is the fifth wife of Shayne’s father, Lorenzo Lamas, is “an angel that blessed my whole family, including my father.”

Last year, Shayne lost a baby boy at 20 weeks after a rare uterine rupture. After finding out she could no longer have children, Shayne looked into surrogacy.

“I’m ecstatic to be pregnant. It’s the best thing in the world,” Shawna, due to give birth to a baby boy on July 10, shares.

While she admits it’s a bit “weird,” Shayne is nothing but grateful to her stepmother.

“It is weird. Somebody else carrying your baby is weird,” Shayne shares. “But I lost my son, and now Shawna is carrying my son. I have just been given the biggest blessing in the whole world and I will always be grateful.”

The baby boy will join big sister Press Dahl, 3.

The internet was even more obsessed with Beyonce yesterday when several unretouched images of her were leaked online. By civilian standards, they’re fine. Pictures of a lovely looking person.

But Beyonce is not a civilian. And being called a “lovely looking person” is not th…      

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I know Ansel Elgort, 20, as the lead in The Fault in Our Stars, with Shailene Woodley. It wasn’t until I read his new interview with Elle that I remembered that he was also in Divergent with Shailene, the second installment of which comes out in March. For some reason his character wasn’t that memorable. Elgort comes across as nerdy to me, and he sort-of confirms that in this interview. He’s also surprisingly candid. Elle asks him about his first time having sex, and he admits he was 14 and he had “no clue” what he was doing. He also talks about dating and about the “amazing sex” with his girlfriend, whom he doesn’t mention by name:

You’re 21 years old. Don’t you want to sow your oats?
I like romanticizing romance. I don’t know how open I’m supposed to be here.

As open as you’d like to be.
I think I could say this: If you like someone and the sex is really good and you enjoy spending time together, why wouldn’t you make that person your girlfriend? Why go around dating random girls and having terrible sex when you can be with someone you really like?

You once tweeted, “My paradise is sitting on the couch, producing and playing Grand Theft Auto.” Is it hard to find a girl who enjoys that?
It is. But I have that. So I’m happy.

You’re dating someone?
Uh, when does this story come out?

Why? Do you have a date you’re going public with?
People are going to find out eventually. It’s no one famous. To be honest, I don’t mind talking about my experiences in life, but details aren’t for everyone. But if you can find a girl who you can go to an EDM concert with, have a conversation with, who will sit on the couch and watch you play GTA for three hours—and then you go to bed and have amazing sex? That should be your girlfriend.

What can you tell me about your first time?
I was 14. I had no clue what I was doing, and neither did the girl.

What would you have done differently?
I didn’t even make the lighting good. That’d be one thing I’d do differently. It was, like, fluorescent, bright bedroom light, like, over the covers.

Did you wait a long time to do it again?
No, no, no. Definitely not. The only thing that made me feel better was doing it again.

Okay. Thank you for your time.
Don’t make me sound like a playboy, because I’m not.

You’re into monogamy! We’ve established that.
Yeah. Cause if someone I’m monogamous with reads this, I don’t want them to be upset if it sounds like I’m a playboy.

[From Elle]

14 sounds so young to me, but I have a 10 year-old son and I don’t want to think about it at all. In terms of Elgort’s girlfriend, he’s said to be dating his high school sweetheart, Violetta Komyshan, whom he split with and reunited with recently. The two met at LaGuardia High, the Manhattan arts school on which Fame was based. He shouldn’t be worried that he sounds like a playboy in this interview, he should be worried that he sounds like a self absorbed teenager. He makes the relationship sound like one of convenience, but maybe this is how he gushes. Elle is wrong, Elgort doesn’t turn 21 until March 14.

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