George, Julia and Idris Are Among The Stars Gracing Vanity Fair’s Hollywood Issue

-There is a lot to love about Vanity Fair’s annual Hollywood Issue cover (Michael B. Jordan! Brie Larson! Léa Seydoux!), not to mention the fact that it’s as racially progressive as it’s ever been. There’s still grumbling about Lupita being stuck on the second fold, but baby steps!

-Also, this issue reportedly features the Gwyneth Paltrow takedown-turned-puff-piece.

-Speaking of historic magazine covers, it looks like Kanye West finally wore Anna Wintour down: Kim Kardashian reportedly did a Vogue shoot today.

-In other magazine cover news, Christie Brinkley (who’s 60!) is posing on the cover of People in a bikini.

-There are lots of remembrances being written about Philip Seymour Hoffman today, including this look back at his best scenes, and most lasting roles (I’d add Happiness in there, which I hated but have never been able to shake). Meanwhile, stars have taken to Twitter to remember him and comment on addiction, while Gwyneth Paltrow posted a cute Instagram photo of them on the Talented Mr. Ripley shoot, and Cameron Crowe recounted a great story from the set of Almost Famous.

–Jared Padalecki, on the other hand, totally screwed up with his PSH tweet.

-Meanwhile, 70 bags of heroin were apparently found in PSH’s apartment, and there’s lots of talk about how “dishevelled” he seemed at Sundance.

-Also, his death won’t derail the Hunger Games sequels.

–This video of Joshua Jackson and Diane Kruger trying to survive two days in Death Valley with only the water that their fancy Mercedes-Benz F-cell car produces will make you love them as a couple even more (if that’s possible).

-I seriously cannot get over how much Miley Cyrus looks like Lady Gaga in some of the shots in her W profile.

-This was published last week but I was away eating cheese and eclairs so I missed it, but I really liked this article on American Horror Story: Coven and why Ryan Murphy has great ideas, but is a terrible showrunner. Word.

-Speaking of things I missed, George Clooney did an AMA on Reddit last week and it was amazing.

-Meanwhile, George raised $1.2 million for Satellite Sentinel by auctioning off a date.

–Leonardo DiCaprio watched the Super Bowl with a bunch of friends that included My Name Is Earl’s Ethan Suplee and Bradley Cooper, but didn’t include Jonah Hill. Gasp!

–JK Rowling thinks Harry Potter should have married Hermione in the end. Gasp squared!

–Kevin Jonas live tweeted the birth of his baby girl — and the whole thing was corporate sponsored. Sounds gross, but I’m just relieved that icky rumour about the whole pregnancy being faked for ratings turned out to be bunk.

-Here’s the first trailer for Jake Gyllenhaal’s Enemy, which doesn’t even begin to express how weird this movie is.

-This baby’s reaction to the Parks and Recreation theme song is eerily similar to my own.

-I love how this interview with the cast of They Came Together quickly morphed into an interview about Wet Hot American Summer.

-Here’s the full episode of Comedians in Cars with Jerry Seinfeld and Jason Alexander.

-If you’re a House of Cards fan, there’s an exclusive sneak-peek scene from the season premiere accompanying this profile.

-This is sad but understandable: Kristin Scott Thomas says she’s quitting film. If you’ve never seen I’ve Loved You So Long, seek it out. Soo good!

-One of the kids from Desperate Housewives is coming clean about his addiction issues.

-Ruh roh. Benedict Cumberbatch‘s ancestors were slave owners.

-I’ve always found it hard to watch Woody Allen movies without feeling icky. Now it’s downright impossible.

–Cameron Diaz launched a shoe collection, because why not?

-Here’s our first look at 24: Live Another Day. I’m loving the prominence of Chloe!

-A new Scientology commercial ran during the Superbowl and it’s, um, yeah.

-Speaking of the Super Bowl, Bruno Mars straight up killed it!

-Among all of the Super Bowl commercials (which you can watch here) there were a ton of new movie trailers. We got new peeks at Need for Speed, Muppets Most Wanted, Transformers: Age of Extinction, and The Amazing Spider-Man 2. My favourite, I think, was the latest trailer for Captain American: The Winter Soldier.

Miley Cyrus Posts Raunchy Photos, Just In Case You Haven’t Had Your Fill

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–Miley Cyrus has been posting butt photos on Twitter, so she’s clearly learned her lesson.

-Also, Billy Ray Cyrus is on the board of the Parents Television Council, which is hilarious.

–Joshua Jackson is set to play a cowboy on a new Showtime drama. As someone who named her DVR Pacey, this makes me stupidly happy.

-Is anyone weirded out by the fact that Bradley Cooper looks like he’s reading a bedtime story to a child in these photos of him with his new girlfriend? No? Just me? And the book he’s reading is Lolita. COME ON!

-Get ready for a fanfic flood: Demi Lovato will romance Naya Rivera on Glee this season.

-The new Mindy Project promo tries to convince us that James Franco is charming. I’m gonna need more than a 30-second clip to buy that one.

–Michael Buble and his wife welcomed new son Noah this morning.

–Diddy and J Cole reportedly got into a fight at a VMAs afterparty, and Beyonce and Jay Z tried to break it up because they’re awesome.

-There’s now a video version of “Hank and Marie watch the VMAs” and it is pure happiness.

-I stopped watching American Horror Story early on, but the new cast may change my mind: Angela Bassett, Kathy Bates, Frances Conroy, Gabourey Sidibe and Patti Lupone.

-The new NIN album is streaming right now on iTunes, if that’s your thing.

-The cast of Bunsheads shot a beautiful farewell dance after learning their show had been cancelled.

-I usually have no opinion on One Direction (because having an opinion about 19-year-old boybanders would creep me out), but you gotta love how they laughed off the shade Taylor Swift was throwing their way at the VMAs.

–Kate Middleton looked great when she stepped out for the first time since the big baby reveal. Love that she does her own grocery shopping!

-Another woman has come forward to say she auditioned to be Tom Cruise‘s girlfriend pre-Katie Holmes.

–Tina Fey and Amy Poehler are reportedly being considered to host the Golden Globes again. Lock it down, Hollywood Foreign Press Association! They should be the hosts every year until the end of time!

-I’m not exactly sure what Alexander Skarsgard is saying in this soccer video, but he can lead me in a chant any time.

-Seriously, how cute are Olivia Wilde and Jason Sudeikis? I’m hearing great, great things about her new film, Drinking Buddies.

–Donatella Versace thanked Lady Gaga for being name-dropped in her new song by calling out the singer’s “super bitchiness.”

-Whatever’s happening in their marriage, Khloe Kardashian and Lamar Odom are reportedly keeping in touch.

–George Clooney and Sandra Bullock have arrived in Venice for the film festival. It doesn’t even bug me that he’s wearing a t-shirt promoting his tequila brand, ’cause he looks soo good! I got to pick my TIFF films yesterday, and even though I had priority access, Gravity was already sold out. (I knew we were screwed when TIFF programmer Cameron Bailey said on the radio that it was the one movie he would recommend to everyone.)

-Speaking of movies coming to TIFF, I passed on the Dallas Buyers Club because it was in a weird time slot. Now the trailer is out and I’m regretting my decision. If you thought Matthew McConaughey was unrecognizable, wait ’till you see Jared Leto. That voice!

Pregnant Halle Berry to Wed Olivier Martinez This Weekend?

Halle Berry and Olivier Martinez in Dark Tide. (Lionsgate)

–Halle Berry is reportedly set to marry boyfriend/fetus-daddy Olivier Martinez this weekend.

-I had this really vivid dream the other day that I was interviewing Jesse Eisenberg and he was being a total jerk, which may be why I’m not “awww”-ing over the news that he’s dating Mia Wasikowska. (The fact that this might be the least sexy-looking kiss ever doesn’t help.)

–Robin Thicke isn’t happy with all the criticism his “Blurred Lines” video is getting and insists the song isn’t degrading to women (which is all well and good, except for that “what a pleasure it is to degrade a woman” quote he previously made in GQ).

-A video of Justin Bieber peeing in a restaurant mop bucket in New York has surfaced. This kid is the worst! (As is, clearly, his friend who leaked the video.) So far, Anthony Bourdain‘s tweets about it are winning the internet.

-Someone took the time to figure out how much money Stacy Keibler has made since she started dating George Clooney (as if he wasn’t reward enough).

-Meanwhile, George looks relaxed and happy (and ‘stache-free!) following the split.

–Rumer Willis just won’t give up the acting dream — no matter how much we’d like her to. Now she’s going to be on Pretty Little Liars.

-The guy who played Bubbles on The Wire once brought a limo full of strippers to a cast baseball game “to act as cheerleaders.” Aw, Bubs!

–Jay-Z lip-synched the same song for hours today and called it art.

-I really hope this story about compromising photos of Denzel Washington being shopped around turns out to be bupkis.

–Amanda Bynes was reportedly seen talking to herself in court yesterday. She’s either legit crazy or a much better actress than we’ve all given her credit for.

-I love that Joshua Jackson retweeted a Community fan’s idea that he should play Jeff’s brother next season. Make it happen, NBC!

-I also like that he’s retweeting the glowing reviews his girlfriend’s new show The Bridge is getting ahead of tonight’s premiere.

-Watch Elisabeth Hasselbeck‘s emotional goodbye on her last day of The View.

–Andrew Garfield continues to be made of awesome. He’s pushing for Mary-Jane, his love interest in the next movie, to be transformed into a gay guy called MJ. As if that wasn’t awesome enough, he wants to cast Friday Night Lights‘ Michael B. Jordan!

-I love the skirt Blake Lively wore to the Turbo premiere (even though she oddly looks like a Cheetos in some of these shots).

-I don’t usually read sports stories but this one actually made me tear up a little.

-Check out photos of the Toronto condo Drake just put on the market for $4.2 million.

-Here’s the first (NSFW) trailer for Spike Lee’s English-language remake of Park Chan-wook’s Oldboy. Shit just got real!

–Game of Thrones stars Sophie Turner (Sansa) and Maisie Williams (Arya) just posted a couple of adorable Vines together. This video of Joffrey kissing a puppy just can’t compete.

–Brandi Glanville responded to the hubbub surrounding those photos of her getting fall-down drunk by tweeting “I got drunk with my gays, it’s not murder.” She’s not wrong.

–Isabel Marant modeled a preview of her new line for H&M.

–James Franco is going to get roasted on Comedy Central on Sept 2. He posted an Instagram video about it, in which he seems totally thrilled.

-Jezebel is calling bullshit on Charles Saatchi‘s claims that Nigella Lawson strangled him, too.

–Nicole Kidman talks about her love of kitten heels in a new Jimmy Choo video.

–Stephen Amell posted a video from the first day back on the Arrow set. (Also, it was announced today that geek magnet Summer Glau is joining the show.)

-Man, I’m really liking Zach Braff this week. First he posts a photo of his “totally straight pool snuggle” with Donald Faison, and then he helps a guy propose to his girlfriend.

-Here’s a look at The Newsroom’s new characters. I’m probably going to watch Sunday’s season premiere, because I’m a sucker.

Angelina Jolie Planning More Surgeries

-In the new issue of People (which — it should be noted — features Angelina Jolie on the cover, but contains no actual interview with her), they reveal that her next step is to have her ovaries removed.

–Joshua Jackson‘s reaction when Diane Kruger reveals in this video that they like to skinny dip slays me. I’m pretty sure I’m going to revisit this GIF of it on a daily basis.

-Remember when Jon Hamm and Adam Scott recreated the Simon & Simon theme song shot-for-shot?  Well now Adam is teaming up with Amy Poehler to take on the Hart to Hart theme.

-It has taken The Mindy Project all season to work out its kinks, but last night’s finale was fab.

-Speaking of last night’s finales, Taylor Swift’s cameo on New Girl was super short and featured no singing(??), but at least Max Greenfield seemed to like it.

-TBS is giving Diablo Cody her own talk show. I love and adore her YouTube series where she interviews celebrities in an old trailer, so this could be good.

–Lindsay Lohan is not quite ready for people to mock her…to her face.

-The pilot for The Goodwin Games is now online. I really liked it, but Fox is burning it off this summer so don’t get too attached.

-Here’s the first Arrested Development viral campaign.

–Jennifer Love Hewitt just dropped $3.25 million on a Pacific Palisades mansion.

–Diddy just tweeted that he’s joining the cast of Downton Abbey, but PBS assures us that he most certainly is not. It was just for a Funny or Die skit.

-In other rumour news, Eminem was not almost stabbed to death in NYC.

–James Franco wrote a movie review for The Great Gatsby. He doesn’t actually talk at all about what works and doesn’t in the movie. He does, however, drop gems like “It reminds me of my high school relationships, where I tortured girlfriends for getting fingered by other boys when they were freshmen.”

–The Office‘s Ellie Kemper asks “Can men be funny?”

-Speaking of The Office, Grantland’s collection of the show’s best clips sent me down a very engrossing YouTube rabbit hole today. And then I hit this video of the cast saying goodbye and tearing up, and I was done for.

–Ricky Gervais is bringing back David Brent on YouTube and that should make us all happy, but reading this new GQ interview may make you hate him too much to care.

–Lupe Fiasco‘s management took control of his Twitter after the rapper started a (very intelligent) conversation about Marxism.

-A day after claiming she’s single, Selena Gomez was spotted at Justin Bieber’s house.

–Reese Witherspoon‘s publicist wants you to know that the actress and her husband showed “great chemistry” while shopping in NYC.

-For those of you keeping track, Miley Cyrus‘ ring is back on.

–Will Smith and Jaden Smith laughed off those emancipation rumours on today’s Ellen.

–Nicki Minaj is done with Idol, while Shakira is leaving The Voice.

-I love the dress Nicole Kidman wore to Cannes. Carey Mulligan looked amazing too. This bodes well for the rest of the week!

–Diplo live-tweeted his bitchy thoughts about the new Daft Punk album while listening to it.

-I don’t know how I missed the August: Osage County trailer when it debuted last week, but it stars everybody! And by everybody I mean Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Ewan McGregor, Benedict Cumberbatch and a whole bunch of other pretty people. Oh, and it’s produced by our fake boyfriend, George Clooney.