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| | Blake Lively wore Tamara Ralph to the NYC 'Another Simple Favor' premiere | | Added 9 hours ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds were out again on Sunday, following their somewhat odd appearance at the Time100 gala last week. On Sunday, they came out for a New York premiere/screening of Another Simple Favor. Blake and Anna Kendrick reprise their roles for the sequel, which is exclusively on Amazon Prime. Anna and Blake were shilling for this movie in Europe a few weeks ago, to the point where I thought it had already been released? But no it comes out on March 7th, so we probably have another week of Blake in promotional mode.
Blake?s friend and fashion designer Michael Kors came out to the premiere, and I honestly thought ?oh, I guess she?s wearing Kors?? But no Kors just came out to support her, and Blake is wearing Tamara Ralph. I?ve already seen some criticism of the dress, but I honestly sort of like it? Blake?s styling isn?t terrible here either. Now, it?s sort of a retro look it feels very early ?90s-glamazon-coded.
Anna Kendrick?s ensemble is Zuhair Murad, and I really like this too? It suits her, it?s sexy and light. Anna doesn?t get enough praise for her great hair! Now, the vibes are definitely off off between Blake and Anna, and off between Blake and Ryan Reynolds.
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red.
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| | Salma Hayek: 'I don't buy online?The artificial intelligence doesn't know me' | | Added 11 hours ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Salma Hayek covers the latest issue of Marie Claire. It?s a general interview, she?s not promoting one specific project, she?s just hyping a variety of charitable and entertainment interests she?s got going. Much of the interview is Salma talking about her production company, Ventanarosa, and its many successes, and how she wants even more success for Latin-Americans in Hollywood. You can read the full piece here. Some highlights:
Being a groundbreaking Latina in Hollywood: ?I won?t complain about anything that I haven?t tried to change. Somebody has to do it. And nobody has as much experience inside of so many places, for this amount of time, so I have a sense of duty to [fight for] change.?
The shifting mindset in Hollywood for over-40 actresses: ?There was a time when I was the sexy girl, but thank God age came and gave me the ability to expand to other territories. Although I?m still sexy and I embrace it. Another calling that I have is to remind everyone that women are not disposable after a certain age in any department. We should battle that with all we?ve got.?
She learned how to curse from Samuel L. Jackson: ?I have the best teacher: Samuel L. Jackson. He?s [played] my husband?twice. After those movies my vocabulary changed. I [couldn?t] get rid of Sonia. My husband was like, ?How long is she going to stay?? I said, ?I don?t fking know. Who the fk cares. What?s your fking hurry???
She meditates for hours & listens to her body: ?Because what do we do with our bodies? We don?t listen. Our only connection to our body is to complain. Why are you tired? Why don?t you go to sleep? Why are you sleepy? Why are you hungry? Why are you fat? Why are you horny? Why are you not horny? Why are you hurting? Bitch, do you notice what you?re doing to me??
Being present during sex: ?A lot of women are making love already with a transaction in their head. I hope he loves me more after this. Is he really into me? Has he noticed my cellulite? It?s like, Don?t think, girl! Be in the moment! Explore another human being. Learn yourself through another human being exploring you. Get out of the way! Get out of the way of love!?
She?s tech-adverse: She?s tech-averse and leery of AI??it takes away your intelligence because the brain grows lazy??uses social media sparingly and doesn?t even own a computer. ?I write everything by hand. I have papers everywhere. I barely touch the phone. They cannot profile me. I don?t buy online. I don?t order food online. The artificial intelligence doesn?t know me.?
How often she exercises: ?Four times a year, I put music on and walk on my own treadmill. Don?t ask me to run; my boobs are not made for that.? She?s content with the current state of her curves?not thrilled, but content, she states. ?I don?t look at somebody else and say, ?I want that body,? or ?I want a new body.? But I do confess, I want the old body; the one I had at 25 and criticized and hated nonstop. Oh, please, Lord Jesus, give it back to me. I apologize.?
[From Marie Claire]
Towards the end of the interview, Salma gets into American politics a little bit, lamenting the misinformation in the Latino community in America. What struck me was her general hands-off attitude this is a woman who has despised Trump for years and talked sh-t about him repeatedly in interviews, and in this piece, she was like ?eh, what can you do, there?s so much misinformation now.? It feels like she?s done, like so many Black women are done it?s a sort of ?let these people get what they voted for? attitude. As for the rest of it? I also refuse to run for the exact same reason, but I do try to walk every day. And this is absolutely hysterical: ?I barely touch the phone. They cannot profile me. I don?t buy online. I don?t order food online. The artificial intelligence doesn?t know me.? I do buy online, but I order food over the phone. AI only knows me a little bit.
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red.
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| | Mail: Why did Prince William invite four of his exes to his 2011 wedding? | | Added 11 hours ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Today is Prince William and Kate?s 14th wedding anniversary. Over the weekend, many British outlets (especially the Mail) published ?remember when? pieces about W&K?s 2011 wedding, and most of them were positive, if not sugary. But there was this one, which was pretty amusing: ?Revealed: The peculiar reason why Prince William invited FOUR former flames to watch him get married to Kate Middleton 14 years ago.? You might think that the Mail is yanking William?s chain, and maybe they are, but I actually think that this is yet another ?Bachelor Bill is so desirable, he can get any woman he wants? piece. The Mail also glosses over the very real history of William dumping Kate repeatedly to date some of these women.
The guestlist is always one of the most important aspects of planning a wedding. And despite the fact there is room for 2,000 at Westminster Abbey, royal ceremonies are no different. So when Prince William invited four old flames to watch Kate Middleton walk down the aisle towards him 14 years ago, a few eyebrows were raised.
It might seem obvious that William, as the friendly and handsome heir to the throne, would have his fair share of female admirers before Kate stole his heart. But the fact that the Prince of Wales invited so many of his former partners to the grand occasion seemed to puzzle a large chunk of the public. However, it was not just William who invited his exes to the wedding. With her natural poise, it is no surprise that Kate turned heads before she landed her prince charming. Indeed, on the day William and Kate got married, at least half a dozen people in the hall had one thing in common: a past fling with one of them.
Kate invited both of her ex-boyfriends. Rupert Finch, whom she dated at St Andrews before she started seeing William, and her Marlborough friend Willem Marx, with whom she was rumoured to have had a relationship while at sixth form there. As for William, he invited his four serious former partners. This included Isabella Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe, whom the prince is said to have pursued during the summer of 2004, and Arabella Musgrave, who dated him the summer before he went to St Andrews. His first girlfriend Rose Farquhar was also invited, alongside Jecca Craig, who was said to be Williams first true love and one of his closest friends.
The slew of exes were not invited so that the royal couple could awkwardly make eye contact with them as they walked down the aisle.
In fact, the reason they were all there was fundamentally due to a more peculiar upper class British tradition. Although it may seem alien to regular Britons, the Royal Family follows rules of etiquette established hundreds of years ago, which state that inviting exes is okay. The social circles of the Royal Family are small and for better or worse, exes in their society are expected to get along. Or act as if they do, anyway.
William Norwich, a special correspondent at Town and Country magazine, told The New York Times at the time: I think it is one of the determining details of the upper-class species that they keep friendly with their exes, once the pain of the breakup heals. It is custom of the class. Sustaining hostilities is too down-market.
Due to the fact that all of the exes run in the same general social circle as the royal family, theres definitely more incentive to get along. The world of the British royals is tiny, so falling out with them can mean social suicide.
Mr Norwich added: You may split up, but if you want to stay in the club, you better get along. You still want to get invited to Ascot.
[From The Daily Mail]
You may think that Kate probably wanted William?s exes there, since she wanted to lord it over people that she got the ring. But I doubt Kate actually wanted Jecca and Isabella there please, if Jecca or Isabella had been more interested in William, Kate would have been jettisoned permanently circa 2005-07. Years later, I also think the wedding and the presence of William?s exes sort of shows that most aristocratic women, women with titles or money who actually moved in that social class, did not want anything to do with William. To be fair, I don?t think many of them wanted anything to do with Harry either it was a reticence to sign up for the Windsor circus, and to put up with everything Kate had to put up with.
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red.
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| | Ryan Coogler's 'sinners' tops the box office again, much to Hollywood's chagrin | | Added 11 hours ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Ryan Coogler?s Sinners was released two Fridays ago to fantastic reviews and trade paper disgust. It?s not that the trade papers had particular feelings about Sinners as a film, they were loudly angry that Coogler successfully negotiated the kind of deal that white auteurs would receive, notably that Coogler gets a percentage of the gross (a front-end deal rather than a backend deal) and that ownership of Sinners reverts to Coogler after 25 years. Hollywood?s white gatekeepers were furious! The trade papers were desperate to make it sound like Sinners would never recover Warner Bros? investment and that WB was foolish for giving Coogler that deal. Well, it?s taken less than two weeks for the American audience to show Hollywood that we love original horror stories and we want Coogler to keep making these kinds of movies.
The weekend box office is on fire, with ticket sales up more than 120 percent over the same frame last year. The blaze is led by Warner Bros.? Sinners, directed by Ryan Coogler and starring Michael B. Jordan. Heading into its sophomore outing, the film was expected to compete with Ben Affleck-starrer The Accountant 2 for the top spot with anywhere from $20 million to $25 million.
But the supernatural period vampire pic continues to defy all the odds and easily stayed No. 1 domestically with a phenomenal $45 million to boast one of the smallest drops in history for a movie playing outside of the year-end holidays, or 6 percent off from its $48 million opening weekend. Put another way, Sinners boasts the smallest second-weekend decline for any film opening north of $40 million since 2009?s Avatar and the smallest ever for an R-rated horror title. That puts the film?s domestic tally through Sunday at $122.5 million and an astounding $161.6 million globally. At this pace, there?s no telling how far in the black the $90 million movie will end up after some naysayers labeled it a money-loser even before it had a chance to bare its teeth.
Graced with virtually perfect audience scores and the best reviews of filmmaker Coogler?s already acclaimed career, Sinners has transformed into the rare title that has become a runaway water-cooler sensation in a major victory for Warners? movie chiefs Pamela Abdy and Michael De Luca. The pic is broadening out in term of ethnicity and gender, according to the studio. One example: females now make up half the audience, whereas males made up 56 percent of all opening weekend ticket buyers.
Revenge of the Sith edged past The Accountant with an estimated $25.2 million to come in second and score one of the top openings ever for a rerelease. The crownholder continues to belong to 1977?s Star Wars, which grossed $35.9 million when it hit theaters again in 1997, not adjusted for inflation, according to Comscore.
[From THR]
Notice how THR completely ignores any discussion of The Accountant 2 and the budget for that sequel it cost $80 million to make a sequel to a Ben Affleck film which no one was really asking for. That?s only $10 million less than Sinners? budget, and it?s unlikely that The Accountant 2 will break even long-term. Yet Sinners was declared a money-loser as it premiered, and the trade papers are still trying to find a negative angle on its success.
Also, I said this on social media yesterday, but it definitely feels like the white audience really wanted to see Sinners, but they waited a week out of respect Tom Cruise and Kevin Bacon both posted on social media this weekend about how much they loved the film.
Congratulations Ryan, Michael, and to the entire cast and crew. Must see in a cinema and stay through the end credits! pic.twitter.com/rQ54y74j2e
Tom Cruise (@TomCruise) April 27, 2025
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| | Mail: There's no hope for Prince Andrew's comeback now that Virginia Giuffre is dead | | Added 11 hours ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Virginia Giuffre passed away last Thursday. She died by suicide, leaving behind three children. Her family confirmed her passing, and as I said in my coverage over the weekend, I genuinely feel like Virginia was really struggling with her mental health this year. Once I had processed my sadness over Virginia?s passing, I thought about Prince Andrew. Andrew was recently allowed to celebrate the Easter holiday with his family, including King Charles, Queen Camilla and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson. The Easter service in Windsor was just a short distance from his mansion on the Royal Windsor estate, a mansion in which he?s lived comfortably for decades. While Andrew is no longer a ?working royal,? he?s always trying to launch a comeback. And I think now, after Virginia?s passing, he will try again. But royal commentators are falling all over themselves to say that of course Andrew will never be allowed to do royal work:
Royal experts believe the Prince Andrew will only face further turmoil in the wake of Virginia Giuffre?s death and claimed that he will need to show he has genuine regrets if he ever wants to play a public role again.
Author and journalist Tom Bower told MailOnline: Virginia Giuffre?s death won?t relieve the pressure on Prince Andrew but have an opposite effect. People will feel even more sympathy for the woman whose abominable treatment by Epstein and Maxwell tormented her to this sad end.
Royal expert Richard Fitzwilliams added: The tragic death of Virginia Giuffre marks the end of a life which was scarred by the abuse she suffered. Recent events, when she was supposedly involved in a car crash, raised questions over her state of mind. Her suicide is especially sad as she was a survivor of abuse. There are several problems for Andrew if he has any hope of rehabilitation or of appearing at any royal event other than one held in a church. Firstly the way he has handled the accusations against him has been so unbelievably cataclysmic that, in opinion polls, his support hardly exists. No one has forgotten the interview on Newsnight that was so catastrophic, that the English language lacks words to describe its ghastliness adequately.?
Mr Fitzwilliams continued: The idea of him having a job helping to manage the royal estates made sense but not, it seems, to him. In fact things have got, if anything, worse. Andrew appears bereft of dignity and is undoubtedly a walking disaster. The York brand remains toxic which is extremely sad for his family. He obviously feels this deeply, but if he wants to know the reason for his travails, all he needs to do is to look in the mirror. If he ever is to hope for rehabilitation of some sort, and he is only 65, he needs a radical rethink and for it to be believed that he has genuine regrets. This most emphatically does not appear to be the case at the moment.
[From The Daily Mail]
I actually think the moment for Andrew to express regrets has long passed the time to do it was when Virginia was alive and when she was suing him in American court. Instead, Andrew has spent years dodging FBI questioning and he paid eight figures to make Virginia go away. Money which he ?borrowed? from QEII, money which he still hasn?t paid back. But as I said, despite all of the performative ?of course he can?t come back? commentary, I believe that Andrew will absolutely try to launch yet another comeback.
Interestingly, Tom Sykes at the Daily Beast basically did his own editorial about how ?the damage that sordid episode caused is set in concrete?Public sympathy will henceforth and forever lie with Giuffre.? Sykes wrote that ?Any notion that Andrew might one day clear his name or return to public life had long been viewed as remote. It is now impossible?.Prince Andrew?s name is irrevocably tarnished with a stigma that will follow him for life. He is finished.? I?m starting to get the idea that these royalists/commentators are not really speaking TO Andrew, but rather King Charles. As in, they?re telling Buckingham Palace: don?t even try it, don?t even attempt to soft-launch Andrew?s comeback.
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, Cover Images.
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