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Katherine Heigl Welcomes Baby No. 3 With Josh Kelley. Congratulations are in order for Katherine Heigl and Josh Kelley! The actress and her singer-songwriter hubby welcomed their third child, a baby boy named Joshua Bishop Kelley Jr. on Tuesday, Dec. 20, People reports. The lovebirds of nine years already parent two daughters, 8-year-old Naleigh and Adalaide, 4. Katherine and Josh's eldest little one was adopted from South Korea in 2009, while the fam's newest big sis was adopted domestically three years later. News of the Doubt star's pregnancy broke in late June, and in an essay penned to her blog, Heigl shared, "It was totally unexpected but thrilling none the less... The whole pregnancy thing is new to me but the thrill of having a baby is not." She added, "Seeing as I have never been pregnant and as my OB/GYN reminded me last year, I'm of advanced maternal age, I wasn't sure pregnancy was even in the cards for us. Turns out it was very much in the cards!" Since then, Katherine, 38, has shared much of her pregnancy journey on Those Heavenly Days, and despite teasing about "knowing nothing" about life as a mama-to-be, Heigl has described a few of her favorite tips and tricks. Then during Halloween, Katherine revealed that she "realized slaving away on my sewing machine behind closed doors was not how I wanted to spend my down time this October," and instead dressed her daughters in "Creepy Creatures" costumes courtesy of Etsy. Stars are just like us, right?! Regardless, Katherine told E! News back in 2012 she's wanted to expand her brood for quite a while, explaining, "I definitely want more kids. I think we've agreed to three but I'm pushing for four." Enjoy a third round of parenthood, you two! (Eonline)

Kerry Washington Dishes on Motherhood and How Her Pregnancies Affected Scandal. Kerry Washington isn't hiding behind plants anymore. The Scandal star appears on The Ellen DeGeneres Show Tuesday and opens up about life since giving birth to her second child, a baby boy named Caleb Kelechi Asomugha, in early October. Before giving birth to him, however, she and husband Nnamdi Asomugha didn't have a clue about the sex of their baby. "I had no idea what I was having," Kerry explains. "I said I hoped it was human. That turned out to be right. It's a human boy." Host Ellen DeGeneres jokes that she predicted the sex of the couple's baby, saying it would be a boy long before they found out. The accurate prediction inspires a new idea. "Who needs DNA tests?" Kerry asks. "Just go to Ellen!" The mom of two also opens up about how her first pregnancy affected Scandal and why the cast and crew decided to delay production this time around. Last season, Kerry's character was always placed behind plants, pillows, desks and other large objects that would hide her belly, which eventually became a funny joke for the cast and viewers. This time around, however, Scandal decided to take a hiatus, but Kerry admits there will be more potted plants. "The first five episodes you'll see me standing behind some flowers," she says, "and then I might stand behind flowers just for fun so it doesn't stop immediately, but I don't need to anymore." Kerry also opens up about the Obamas' final party, admitting to the crowd that she and her husband partied the night away until 3:30 a.m. She reveals she and her hubby tried to leave earlier, but Usher stopped them. "You don't walk away from Usher when he tells you a party's about to get started," Kerry jokes. "He's a terrible influence that Usher. Terrible influence." (Eonline)

Amanda Seyfried Dishes on Upcoming Wedding to Thomas Sadoski and Becoming a Mom: I've Never Been More Excited. Sooner rather than later, Amanda Seyfried will become a wife and a mom! The actress opens up to Vogue Australia for their February 2017 issue about her personal life, and let's just say she can hardly wait for both memorable occasions. "I've never been excited by anything more in my life. And ready," Amanda told the mag. (If anyone's doubting how ready the 31-year-old really is, look no further than every interview in which she's discussed wanting little ones of her own!) On the wedding front, Seyfried is taking a low-key approach to tying the knot with fiance Thomas Sadoski. "I don't want to be the center of attention," she shared with the mag. "I get to go to premieres and get dressed up all the time. I went to the Met Gala last year in a wedding gown designed by Riccardo Tisci; I've played a bride a billion times." In a 2015 interview with E! News, Amanda echoed her aspirations for a simple ceremony. "I got married so many times in my life -- onscreen!" she confessed, adding, "I don't want a white dress! I've worn so many of them. You know what I mean? The fact is, that kind of stuff is less about the ceremony and more about the commitment. We confirmed back in September that Seyfried's The Last World co-star popped the question, and two months later, it was revealed that the lovebirds were expecting their first child together due sometime this year. Sounds like the countdown is officially on! The latest issue of Vogue Australia is on newsstands now. (Eonline)

Luke Perry Supports His Son "Jungle Boy" Nate Coy at a Wrestling Tournament. If Luke Perry weren't interested in wrestling before, he is now. The 90210 alum, 50, attended a wrestling match Saturday to support his 19-year-old son Jack Perry, who also goes by "Jungle Boy" Nate Coy while wrestling for Underground Empire Wrestling. Footage of the match shows Luke sitting eagerly in the stands as his curly haired son tackles a competitor. At one point, a seemingly nervous Luke stands up to get closer to the ring. Proud papa Luke also filmed the entire match on his phone, even when his son was participating in some painful-looking slams. With Jack's lion mane hair and cat-like reflexes in the ring, it's no surprise why he would choose "Jungle Boy" as his nickname. When Luke isn't supporting his son's growing wrestling career, he's busy filming The CW's Riverdale, a new show based on the Archie Comics. Luke will play Archie's (K.J. Apa) father in the series, and even though he's taken on the leadership role, he's not giving out too much advice. "That's not my job," he told E! News at The CW Upfronts in May. "Giving advice isn't my job." And while he's keeping his tricks close to the vest, he did say he'd be looking out for the cast, telling Cole Sprouse, Camila Mendes, Lili Reinhart, Ashleigh Murray, Casey Cott, Ashanti Bromfield, Daniel Yang, Irie Hayleau and Ross Butler "to work hard and treat everybody well." If they don't, his son might be after them! (Eonline)

Jamie Dornan Admits He Has ''No Interest'' in S&M, Plus More Candid Confessions About His Dislike of Christian Grey. Jamie Dornan wants to make one thing clear: He is not Christian Grey. The Fifty Shades Darker star smolders on the cover of GQ Australia's February 2017 issue, in it setting the record straight on his own preferences inside the bedroom. "It was like nothing I'd experienced before," Dornan admitted when asked about visiting an S&M dungeon in preparation for the role. "I'd never seen any form of S&M before this, I had no interest in that world." He explained, "It doesn't float my boat," before adding, "I've always been open-minded and liberal -- I'd never judge anyone's sexual preference. Whatever gets people off is entirely up to them and there's a million different ways to please yourself, sexually." As for playing the franchise's sex-obsessed protagonist opposite Dakota Johnson, he's not particularly fond of the character. "[Christian Grey's] not the sort of bloke I'd get along with," Jamie revealed. "All my mates are easy going and quick to laugh -- I wouldn't imagine myself sat in a pub with him. I don't think he would be my type, when it comes to choosing mates." But when it comes to Fifty Shades box office success, no one is more surprised than the 34-year-old Irish actor. He told the mag he doesn't let himself think about his level of fame since "it drives you mad because there's so much scrutiny and f---king craziness surrounding this series of films." He went on, "But I always had a strong belief that it would be a success and make a lot of money. You don't have to be a scientist to work out that 100 million readers of the book will translate into bums on seats in the cinema. But I didn't expect it to be this big, to be honest." As for the project's haters (and yes, there are plenty), Jamie doesn't fault them for not jumping onboard the Fifty Shades bandwagon. "You go in knowing it's a divisive project and you just accept that -- it doesn't stand alone in that realm," he recalled. "But I don't blame people. I've got plenty of opinions about things I don't know a lot about, or that I don't give a chance -- it's just the nature of the beast. I'm not going to lose any sleep over it." He credits his level-headedness to a strong support system of family and friends. "I've had the same group of mates since I was a child and my wife and my kids and all that stuff doesn't change," he explained. "And none of those people will let me change, unless they're not very good people." Jamie added, "But you see plenty of that in this industry -- the people around you f--king lose the plot and you become a prick. I think I have great people around me." The latest issue of GQ Australia is on newsstands now. (Eonline)

Nick Young's a single man again ... 'cause the Lakers star and his pop singer girlfriend, Paloma Ford, have officially broken up ... TMZ Sports has learned. Sources close to the two tell us there was no cheating or secret baby mamas (like the Iggy Azalea situation) ... this time, the two just grew apart. The two started dating back in September and things heated up quick. But after a few months, both sides agreed that Nick's family should take priority ... especially with his new kid. We're told Nick and Paloma are still cool and are gonna do the whole "friends" thing. He even has a cameo in her upcoming music video ... and we're told she plans on keeping him in it. (TMZ)

Robin Thicke and Paula Patton Attend Therapy With Their 6-Year-Old Son Amid Ongoing Custody Battle. Robin Thicke and Paula Patton are taking active steps to resolve their ongoing custody battle over their 6-year-old son, Julian. A source confirms to E! News that the former couple attended their first joint therapy session with their only child over the weekend. As E! News previously reported, a judge recently denied Patton's request to limit her ex-husband's joint custody agreement, the latest development in an ongoing legal case that has seemingly pinned Robin and Paula against each other. In a declaration submitted by the "Blurred Lines" singer, he claims Patton has repeatedly denied him from seeing his son after Julian said Thicke spanked him. "It is my understanding that Paula is accusing me of 'excessive spanking.' I am told that Julian reported to the school that I spanked him and that the school made a report to the Department of Children and Family Services," Thicke explained in the court papers. He added, "On a very rare occasion, and only as a last resort, I will use light spanking, but it is consistent with the law -- open hand on the butt. This is the type of discipline to which Paula and I agreed during our marriage." Robin also claimed that he had not physically seen Julian since Dec. 31, meaning the therapy session marked the first time the father and son were in each other's presences in more than two weeks. An insider shared with us at the time, "Robin loves his son and did not want to give up his time with him." (Eonline)

Zahara Jolie-Pitt's Biological Mother Wants to Reconnect, Nearly 12 Years After Angelina Jolie Adopted Her. Angelina Jolie adopted her first daughter, Zahara Jolie-Pitt, in Ethiopia in July of 2005 when she was just 6-months-old. Now, 12 years later, Zahara's biological mother is asking to reconnect with her daughter. Mentewab Dawit Lebiso spoke to the DailyMail and explained that she's hoping to be a part of Zahara's life. "I just want her to know that I am alive and here and long to be able to speak with her," Lebiso said. "I do not want my daughter back but just to be in contact with her and be able to call her up and talk with her." Though Lebiso is not too proud to admit that Jolie has give her daughter an incredible life, that hasn't helped the longing to have a relationship with her child. "Angelina has been more of a mother to her than I have ever been," she said. "She has been with her since she was a baby, but that does not mean I do not miss her. I miss her all the time. I think about her every day and long to hear her voice or see her face. I know when she has a birthday, but I am sad because I can't celebrate it with her. I would so much want to celebrate with her on her birthday and other special days." She continued, "I would like Zahara to know she has a mother who loves her as much as Angelina. I know her life is with Angelina is in another country and she speaks another language than me. She has a life that I could never give her, but I would still like to have some contact. I would like to see her face. She has grown into a beautiful woman, and I am so proud of her. My heart bursts because I am so proud." Delivering her final plea to reach Jolie, Lebiso concluded, "We all die sometime and before I die I would like her to know about me and that she has family here in Ethiopia. I would ask Angelina to let me speak with her. I do not think it is too much to ask." Lebiso's plea comes in the middle of Jolie and Brad Pitt's divorce and custody battle over Zahara, 12, and their other five children, Maddox Jolie-Pitt, 15, Pax Jolie-Pitt, 13, Shiloh Jolie-Pitt, 10, Knox Jolie-Pitt, 8, and Vivienne Jolie-Pitt, 8. Though the famous exes currently have a voluntary temporary custody agreement in place -- granting him supervised visitation rights as Jolie maintains primary physical custody -- they're still working out the official custody arrangement, which has become a very public matter. After Jolie filed for divorce, federal and local authorities investigated allegations that the actor was abusive toward Maddox on a private flight. Pitt was later cleared of any wrongdoing. They were due back in court on Tuesday, but E! News learned the scheduled date was taken off the calendar. Meanwhile, last week, Pitt and Jolie released their first joint statement together since their divorce news, explaining that they'd be moving forward in a private forum. "The parties and their counsel have signed agreements to preserve the privacy rights of their children and family by keeping all court documents confidential and engaging a private judge to make any necessary legal decisions and to facilitate the expeditious resolution of any remaining issues," their statement read. "The parents are committed to act as a united front to effectuate recovery and reunification." (Eonline)

Steve Harvey Apologizes for His Joke About Asian Men: ''The Humor Was Not Meant With Malice or Disrespect Whatsoever. Steve Harvey is issuing an apology for an offensive comment. The television personality-targeted a joke toward Asian men during The Steve Harvey Show on Friday, which has sparked quite a bit of controversy. He showed the 2002 book cover of How to Date a White Woman: A Practical Guide for Asian Men to his audience, before asking, "Excuse me, do you like Asian men?" And answering, "No, thank you." He continued, saying if there was a book titled How to Date a Black Woman: A Practical Guide [for] Asian Men, it would be one page. "You like Asian men? I don't even like Chinese food," he said. "It don't stay with you no time. I don't eat what I can't pronounce." Thus, on Tuesday, Harvey released a statement on Twitter in apology over his comments. "I offer my humblest apology for offending anyone, particularly those in the Asian community, last week," he wrote. "It was not my intention and the humor was not meant with any malice or disrespect whatsoever." The apology comes a little over a year after Harvey made his infamous mistake while hosting Miss Universe 2015 during which he accidentally crowned Miss Columbia Ariadna Gutierrez when the winner was actually Miss Philippines Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach. "I'd like to apologize wholeheartedly to Miss Colombia & Miss Philippines for my huge mistake. I feel terrible," the Family Feud host posted on Twitter shortly after the show. "Secondly, I'd like to apologize to the viewers at that I disappointed as well. Again it was an honest mistake. I don't want to take away from this amazing night and pageant. As well as the wonderful contestants. They were all amazing." (Eonline)

George Michael's Cousin Andros Georgiou Slams Late Musician's Boyfriend Fadi Fawaz, Hopes "Justice Will Be Served." George Michael's cousin is speaking out about the late musician's death and a growing feud between Michael's boyfriend, Fadi Fawaz, and their family. Andros Georgiou posted a lengthy message on Facebook questioning the details surrounding Michael's death, including Michael's relationship with Fawaz. Shortly after Michael was found dead at home at the age of 53, an autopsy concluded the cause of death was "inconclusive," but noted it was "not suspicious." Georgiou, however, is disputing tweets Fawaz allegedly penned in the aftermath of the Wham! singer's death. The now-deleted tweets by Fawaz proclaimed, "We loved each other very much and we were together almost 24 hours a day... And finally he managed... he tried numbers of time to kill himself many times... the only thing George wanted is to DIE." The tweets continued, "Not sure who that nasty close friend of George but I was in relationship with George Micheal (sic) till I found him dead in bed." Fawaz claimed his account was hacked, but Georgiou says otherwise. "I have been trying to hold back on this tweet I saw nearly 10 days ago but the more I am reading and the more I am finding out about Fadi I just can't keep my mouth shut any longer," he began his post, which was penned Sunday. [Fadi] was never with Yog [a family nickname for George] 24 hours a day they never lived together he lived in one of Yogs houses in Regents Park. And even if they were, WHY were they not together on Christmas Eve? and WHY did he sleep in the car? Too many questions have come up." The "Faith" crooner's cousin continued, "Every day I get more angry at the lies I am reading. I pray that this nobody doesn't earn a penny from Yog's death -- any money he is offered for his so-called story should go straight to one of Yog's charities which now you all know how many. He never took any credit -- he was in every word the peoples' hero apart, from being the one of biggest talents this country has ever produced. A true gentleman that lost his way. If only there were not so many YES people around him, he would be alive today." Despite the rumors circulating around Michael's death, Georgiou maintained it wasn't intentional. "One thing is for sure this was not an act of suicide," Georgiou continued. "If I was around this would never [have] happened and I have to live with that the rest of my life...I have to pray that the police come to the conclusion I have and justice will be served." E! News has reached out to Fawaz for comment. The famed singer and '80s rock and pop icon died on Christmas Day. He was found lifeless in bed at the home he shared with boyfriend Fadi Fawaz. "ITs a Xmas I will never forget finding your partner dead peacefully in bed first thing in the morning." Fawaz tweeted. "I will never stop missing you xx." (Eonline)

Eugene Cernan, last man to walk on the moon, dead at 82. Gene Cernan, an early NASA astronaut who was the last man to set foot on the moon, died Monday, NASA announced in a tweet. He was 82. Details of Cernan's death were not immediately known. Cernan was the commander of Apollo 17 in December 1972 – the last lunar mission and one of the final Apollo flights. When Cernan stepped out from lunar module "Challenger" he became the 11th person to walk on the moon. His lunar module pilot, Jack Schmitt, was the 12th. But as commander, Cernan was the last to re-enter the lunar module, giving him the designation of being the last person to walk on the lunar surface. His words would not become as famous as Neil Armstrong's first sentence spoken from the moon, however, Cernan's final goodbye to the moon was just as poetic. "...America's challenge of today has forged man's destiny of tomorrow," Cernan said. "And, as we leave the Moon at Taurus- Littrow, we leave as we came and, God willing, as we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind. Godspeed the crew of Apollo 17." In the 2007 documentary "In The Shadow Of The Moon," Cernan spoke of the epiphany he experienced while standing on the desolate -- yet majestic -- surface. "There is too much purpose, too much logic, it was just too beautiful to happen by accident," Cernan said. "There has to be somebody bigger than you and bigger than me...And I mean this in a spiritual sense, not in a religious sense, there has to be a creator of the universe who stands above the religions that we ourselves create to govern our lives." Cernan had previously served as the lunar module pilot on Apollo 10 and was a pilot on the Gemini IX mission. On the Apollo 10 flight, Cernan and Commander Tom Stafford flew to within eight miles of the surface of the moon. The May mission served as a "dress rehearsal" for the historic Apollo 11 mission two months later. Cernan became the second American to walk in space on the Gemini IX mission in 1966. Cernan logged 566 hours and 15 minutes in space, of which 73 hours were spent on the surface of the moon, according to NASA. Born in Chicago in 1934, Cernan received an electrical engineering degree from Purdue and a Masters of Science in aeronautical engineering from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School. A captain in the Navy, he was selected in NASA's third group of astronauts in 1963. He retired from NASA and the Navy in 1976. Cernan's death leaves six astronauts remaining who have walked on the moon. (MSN)

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Lily Tomlin to receive SAG Life Achievement Award. It will be a "9 to 5" reunion onstage later this month at the Screen Actors Guild Awards. Jane Fonda and Dolly Parton will present Lily Tomlin with the SAG Life Achievement Award, an honor announced late last year, at the 23rd Annual SAG Awards on January 29. Tomlin will accept the award from her two long-time friends and co-conspirators in the 1980 feminist revenge comedy hit "9 to 5." Tomlin, who stars with Fonda in Netflix's Grace and Frankie also is nominated for a 2017 SAG Award in the actress in a comedy series category for her role in that series as Frankie. Tomlin is only the second actor to be feted with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the SAG Awards while also in the running as a nominee. In 2005, James Garner received a Lifetime Achievement Award along with a supporting actor nomination for the movie "The Notebook." The 23rd Annual SAG Awards will be simulcast live on TNT and TBS on Sunday, January 29 at 8 PM (ET), 5 PM (PT). (PageSix)

Kate Middleton Sports a Floral Frock for Mental Health Charity Meeting. Spring is in the air for Kate Middleton -- or at least on her clothes. On Tuesday, the Duchess of Cambridge stepped out in a colorful floral frock alongside her husband, Prince William, and brother-in-law, Prince Harry, in honor of their Heads Together mental health campaign, which they spearheaded together a year ago. The royal mother of two paired her elegant daytime ensemble by Erdem with a burgundy clutch and coordinating Tod's leather pumps. The trio arrived in London to discuss their organization ahead of the 2017 Virgin Money London Marathon. Heads Together, which coordinates with eight mental health organizations, is the marathon's charity of the year and funds raised in the run will go toward related initiatives. Over the past year, the royal three have championed against mental health stigmas and encouraged constituents throughout the United Kingdom to treat mental and physical well-being equally. "Mental health matters to each and every one of us. It matters just as much as our physical health," Prince William told attendees. "There are times when, whoever we are, it is hard to cope with challenges -- and when that happens being open and honest and asking for help is life-changing." The royal continued by revisiting the message the group has touted from the start. "Talking to someone else is a positive and confident step to take -- but for too long it has been a case of 'Keep Quiet and Carry On.' As a result, too many people have suffered in silence for too long, and the effects of this can be devastating," he explained. "It is no exaggeration to say that conversations -- simple conversations -- can be life-changing: in a workplace, in your kitchen at home, with a friend, family member or colleague. And that's what Catherine, Harry and I want to do we want more people to be having those conversations. Middleton echoed her husband, encouraging anyone listening to speak up when they need to without fear. "The challenge that so many people have is not knowing how to take that first step of reaching out to another person for help. Admitting that they are not coping. Fear, or reticence, or a sense of not wanting to burden another, means that people suffer in silence -- allowing the problem to grow larger and larger unchecked," she described. "One thing is certain, we are all wired differently," Prince Harry concluded. "We all have mental health; and we'll say it again and again and again, if you want to be fit, healthy and set yourself up for success then your mental fitness is absolutely as important as your physical fitness. Everyone would get help for a broken leg, so why not seek help for an issue that could hamper you and others around you?" (Eonline)

Aaron Rodgers may not be on speaking terms with his family, but the Green Bay Packers quarterback is making an effort to not worsen the ongoing feud. On Sunday, Aaron's father, Ed Rodgers, confirmed to The New York Times that the family is not in verbal communication with his second son following the athlete's rise in popularity. "Fame can change things," Ed said in reference to Aaron, 33. News of the family's rift first surfaced last spring when Jordan Rodgers competed on JoJo Fletcher's season 12 of The Bachelorette. While competing on the ABC reality series, Jordan, 28, revealed that although he was very close with his oldest brother Luke, Aaron is estranged from the rest of the family. "It's just the way he's chosen to do life," Jordan explained on the show. "I chose to stay close with my family and my parents and my brother [Luke]." But although Jordan and his father have opened up about the family drama since it was first discussed on national television last spring, Aaron has no intention of addressing -- or dealing with -- it publicly. "Aaron has never wanted want to air this out in a public forum. He's going through great precautions not to make things worse," a source close to the NFL star tells PEOPLE. "You're not going to see him on Oprah crying about all of this. He will deal with his family issues privately." During Jordan's time on the reality competition series, Aaron revealed to ABC's WISN 12 News that he hadn't been following his younger brother's quest for love on the small screen. "I haven't seen the show, to be honest with you, so it hasn't really affected me a whole lot," said Aaron, adding that he didn't want to elaborate on his relationship with his family. "As far as those kinds of things go, I've always found that it's a little inappropriate to talk publicly about some family matters, so I'm just -- I'm not going to speak on those things, but I wish him well in the competition," he said. Last August, Jordan -- who proposed to Fletcher on the season 12 finale after receiving the final rose -- explained to PEOPLE about why he decided to make his family's drama with Aaron public. "You know, I didn't even think about it going into the show," he admitted at the time. "I probably should've. I just wasn't familiar with the show, but my goal was to be honest with her every step of the way." Jordan went on to admit that he thought it was necessary in order for Fletcher to get to know him better. "You don't get any time off camera," Jordan added. "So, we're talking about really trying to get to an engagement you got to share everything. It had to be talked about." Although Aaron had yet to meet his brother's fiancee as of last August, Jordan told PEOPLE that his older brother is "absolutely" invited to his wedding. "There's no scenario in which I wouldn't want my entire family at a wedding, so absolutely, that's something all of our family wants and hopes for at some point," Jordan said. (People)

Astrologer Terry Nazon Reveals The Starry Truth Behind Selena Gomez & The Weeknd's Budding Romance -- Is This Just Business Or The Real Deal?! Astrology lovers, rejoice! Terry Nazon is BACK! As we previously reported last week, The Weeknd and Selena Gomez were spotted K-I-S-S-I-N-G in public to the shock of fans. Let's just say we didn't see this pairing coming! Given all the drama that has followed with the singer's ex Bella Hadid, we decided to consult the world renowned astrologer for an EXCLUSIVE! look into what's really going on. In Miz Nazon's in-depth analysis, she reveals whether or not Selena is using the Often star to further her career or if this is one big revenge plot against Bella. Terry even went as far to assess the duo's probability for a real relationship! According to our favorite astrologer, it appears these two are not headed for romance... a least not right away. Per the sun sign guru, The Weeknd is a "detached" Aquarius which doesn't pair well with Gomez's emotional and needy sign of Cancer. In fact, the astro buff believes the producer will be completely focused on work over the next few years! Terry explained: "Talented Cancer Sun sign, Selena Gomez has been seen with singer, songwriter and music producer The Weeknd. Is it true love or something else? Let's go under the covers with Astrology and find out. This can definitely be a rebound relationship for The Weeknd after breaking up with Victoria Secret's model Bella Hadid. Once an Aquarius man is smitten he typically has a hard time letting go emotionally. He will obsess over the woman he loves even though the two of them are broken up and caput. The Weeknd, an Aquarius is very focused on being successful in the competitive music business. So much so, that the out of sight out of mind, Aquarius trait can drive any woman out the door. He can forget important dates. Literally, he can forget to pick up his date when plans have been made. It's just the way an Aquarius male is. In short, he is focused and with all the opportunities coming his way over the next years, romance might have to wait." Well, there's no question the 26-year-old is career oriented! As for how Canadian's personality meshes with Selena, she revealed: "So, is Selena Gomez, a Cancer Sun sign and The Weeknd an Aquarius a real love match? Selena Gomez and The Weeknd, have their two Sun signs 150* degrees apart. This indicates two people who are drawn together because of circumstances or big money. It can be a very messy or uncomfortable relationship. It can also be very lucrative for the Cancer individual. Selena Gomez is a warm, homebody, who needs constant hugs and nurturing. Not to mention, her feelings are easily hurt. The Weeknd, an Aquarius is a detached Sun sign who likes to hang out with friends, dispense advice, can be considered strange by some, and is about as emotional as that steel light pole you occasionally walk into." Dang! That assessment does NOT sound promising! As some fans might have expected, Nazon claims this "love connection" is all about WORK: "Their Sun signs suggest there is a strong attraction but there are definitely overtones that The Weeknd and Selena Gomez are collaborating on something more serious than a romp in the bedroom. This is work. His planets are falling in the area of her chart that is all about work, recording, editing, production, and the things he's good at. His Jupiter falls on her Lunar South Node ruler of past life karma, so the two have come together because he has something to teach her about friendship, the recording business and publishing rights. The planet Jupiter also rules publishing. A strong emphasis on the sign of Scorpio and Capricorn suggest it's all business for him." Hey, at least we'll get some good music out of this situation! We'd love for the pair to drop a bangin' collab... Terry went on to add: "Now, let me back it up, those same Scorpio and Capricorn planets are manipulative so he could use this opportunity as revenge or to make his ex, Bella Hadid jealous. Selena Gomez has a beautiful aspect in her natal birth chart that suggests men just can't help themselves from wanting to help her and shower her with money and gifts. With 4 planets in the sign of Capricorn The Weeknd, is investing his money, not giving it away. He is again all business, and he needs to know up front 'What's in it for me.' By Late May this budding romance or collaboration may be over for good." (Perez Hilton)

Amber Rose and Val Chmerkovskiy Share a Sweet Smooch When Caught on the Kiss Cam. We can see Amber Rose blushing all the way from the kiss cam! The Dancing With the Stars alum and beau Val Chmerkovskiy caught the New York Knicks take on the Atlanta Hawks earlier, and it seems their romantic date certainly played out on the big screen. In an adorable video shared to Amber's Instagram, the DWTS signature theme song begins to play and both stars begin smiling from ear to ear. Initially reluctant to pack on the PDA, Val leans in for a classy kiss on the cheek. "Why is he so cute tho," Amber captioned the moment. Our thoughts exactly, girl. Earlier this month, Amber opened up about just how smitten she is with the professional dancer and their budding romance. "It's amazing. It's so good," Amber shared with her co-host Dr. Chris Donaghue on Play.it's Loveline podcast. "It's been four months now and it's awesome. I love his family and everyone's so great. He's great." She added, "Right now, it's just absolutely amazing and I'm super, super happy." The loved-up duo first crossed paths on the set of the ABC competition series when Amber was partnered with Maksim Chmerkovskiy, Val's older brother. The latter went on to win the entire season alongside Laurie Hernandez, and since then, the couple has spent plenty of time together and made their relationship social media official. Amber was initially reluctant to go public with her new man, explaining on the podcast, "I didn't want to put it out there [early on] because I wasn't sure about us yet. We were just kinda talking. It's so exciting, though." Hey, kiss cams never lie and this one is no exception. These two are the real deal. (Eonline)

Paris Jackson is a grown woman, and pretty damn impressive! We got Michael Jackson's daughter leaving LAX Monday, where she obliquely talked about her move to conquer modeling and Hollywood. It's pretty remarkable for someone who was once shrouded in masks, hats and anything else that could hide her from public view. As for whether Michael would be proud ... she's banking on it. (TMZ)

Keeping up with the Trumps? Chelsea Handler blamed the rise of the Kardashian-Jenner family for President-elect Donald Trump's election win. "[The media] were treating him as an entertainer first," the 41-year-old comedian, who was an avid Hillary Clinton supporter, told Variety on Tuesday, January 17. "It was a reality show. We've turned into a reality show. I blame the Kardashians, personally; the beginning of the end was the Kardashians. The way these people have blown up and don't go away -- it's surreal. Everyone is for sale." The Kardashians are often the butt of Handler's jokes on her Netflix talk show, Chelsea, though she is friends with Khloe Kardashian. And last April, Handler suggested during an interview with Jimmy Fallon that her E! series, Chelsea Lately, was canceled because her backside wasn't "big enough" to compete with the other famous derrières on the network. Jokes aside, the funny woman, who broke down in tears on Chelsea days after Trump's Election Day victory last November, said she plans to use her star power to protest the real estate mogul's presidency. "Somebody should have to put a stop to it," she told Variety. "The idea that so many people were so wrong about the outcome is so screwed up. The fact that Russia is interfering with our election is beyond repair. How do we ever recover from that? What's to prevent them from doing it for the rest of our lives?" Handler also said she hopes Trump, 70, gets impeached, but wondered, "How would they even get him out of there? He doesn't abide by laws and rules. They'd have to physically remove him. It's becoming clearer what a sociopath he is. I think our job as entertainers -- or my job -- is to reach across and figure out the people who are so disenchanted that they voted for him, and try to find some common ground." (US Weekly)

'Hardest working human' Ariana Grande enrages the Internet. Ariana Grande sent Twitter into a tizzy when she declared herself "the hardest working 23-year-old human being on Earth." In an Instagram post on Friday, the singer captioned a snapshot, "when you're cute but you're also the hardest working 23-year-old human being on earth #cute #butalso #CEO #unf -- kwitable #haventsleptinyears." She also linked to the photo on Twitter, writing, "cute but also ceo #unf -- witable #haventsleptinyears." Not everyone was impressed with Grande's self-proclaimed work ethic. One Twitter user posted, "Yes Ariana Grande is the hardest working 23-year-old on earth not the ones struggling making 60¢ a day trying to provide for their families." "I really like Ariana but 'hardest working'? somebody who has as much time as her to post all day on her snap chat constantly says otherwise," another posted. The Instagram comments weren't much better. One user wrote, "Is that a joke? I would say a brain surgeon works harder, a soldier, a scientist... just lost all respect for her (not that I had much anyway)." Another scoffed, "You don't know the struggle for a normal human being. #learnrealwork." Though it's likely that the "Side to Side" singer was speaking in hyperbole, her diva demands, including to be only be photographed from one side, don't add much to her credibility. (PageSix)

Donald Trump has a problem on his hands ... what to do with 2 private jets and 3 helicopters. Our Trump sources say the fate of Trump's 757, Citation X and 3 choppers are in limbo. He can't sell them because if he does it will look like he's profiting off the presidency. Likewise, he can't charter them out because it will open the door to criticism that he's getting a POTUS premium. Trump, we're told, will not let the kids use the planes ... they fly commercial and if they choose private it's on their own dime. And putting the aircraft in storage poses other problems. They need to be maintained, which is a complicated and expensive process ... requiring pilots and mechanics. POTUS problems. (TMZ)

You looking for love, like Donald Trump, and long walks on the beach? Well, now there's a dating site for you. TrumpSingles.com is up and running for DT supporters looking for like-minded souls to form a perfect union. The site has 20,000 members and it's growing fast. The dude who started it -- David Goss -- fired up the site last summer and offered to "make dating great again" at a cost of $5 a month. That price has now swelled to $19.95 a month. We're guessing ... lots of first dates at the ol' firing range. (TMZ)

A man is in custody for allegedly trolling the Internet for Justin Bieber fans, targeting young girls and strong-arming them into sending him nude photos ... or else. Bryan Asrary allegedly found a 9-year-old girl back in 2014 who was viewing Bieber's Instagram page. Asrary direct-messaged the girl and said he knew Bieber and said he could arrange a text meeting. Asrary then pretended to be Bieber, and demanded the girl send nude photos of herself and threatened to hurt her if she refused. The girl sent nude selfies and video. Last year Asrary allegedly contacted the girl again ... this time threatening to publish and broadcast the photos she had sent him unless she sent more. She told her mom, and the cops got involved. According to cops, they confronted Asrary and he confessed to extorting the girl and other victims around the country into sending him nude photos. He's facing extortion, child porn and other charges. (TMZ)

Less than a year after Harambe's tragic death, another gorilla has died at an Ohio zoo, but this time of natural causes. Colo, known as the queen of the Columbus Zoo, died in her sleep Tuesday. She was 60. While she was less famous than Harambe she had a rather special call to fame as the oldest gorilla to be born into and live in captivity. She also lived a lot longer than most gorillas, whose usual lifespan is 40 years, and got a special shout-out from Betty White back in December when she turned the big 6-0. The zoo is planning on cremating Colo and burying the ashes on their premises. The primate is survived by 3 kids, 16 grandchildren and 12 great grandkids. #RIP. (TMZ)

Music

Lady Gaga wants to sing on the roof of the Super Bowl -- and lawyers and technicians alike are trying to figure out how to make her ambitious plan work. Gaga has come up with the elaborate, and somewhat dangerous, idea to sing from the top of the NRG Stadium's dome in Houston as part of her spectacular halftime show on Feb. 5. Although insiders say "her team is worried" about technical and safety issues surrounding Gaga's scheme, we're told the "Born This Way" singer is "all for it" and "pushing to do it." "They're writing up multiple plans about how to safely get her on the roof, including potentially [cutting] a hole in the ceiling of the dome," says a source with knowledge of the arrangements. Organizers are also considering "airlifting" the famously outrageous performer onto the stadium, where yet-to-be-decided teams will compete in Super Bowl LI. The stadium has a state-of-the-art, see-through, retractable "fabric roof" that can open in just seven minutes. Meanwhile, we're told that perturbed pen pushers are working just as hard on the project. "Trying to figure out insurance for it is crazy," said the worried insider. A source close to the project says Gaga is hoping to do the stunt live during her halftime show performance, but other insiders worry that -- if they can pull it off at all -- the safer option might be doing the stunt as part of a pretaped commercial in the leadup to the game, "depending on what they actually figure out is doable." It seems that Gaga has something of a head for heights: The spectacle would be a supersize reprise of her recent attention-grabbing performance on the roof of New York club the Bitter End. In October, the singer shut down surrounding streets when she clambered onto the edge of the roof and sang "Angel Down" while dangling her legs rather precariously over its landmark canopy. Reps for Gaga didn't get back to us, and the NFL and NRG Stadium declined to comment. (Page Six)

Donald Trump's inauguration committee has booked multiple performers to sing at 2 inaugural balls, but the committee is not releasing their names for fear they will get intense blowback and back out. Sources connected to the inauguration tell us the 2 events are the Freedom Ball and the Liberty Ball, both of which will take place at the D.C. Walter E. Washington Convention Center. The committee, we're told, now knows the drill. Performers like Jennifer Holliday accept the invite but then get cold feet after fans and others go on the attack. So the committee is doing everything possible to keep the names under wraps. We're told Trump will attend and speak at both balls and do a "first dance" with Melania. As we reported, Paul Anka was going to sing a modified, stylized version of "My Way" for the first dance, but had to back out because of an ongoing child custody trial. Tickets, we're told, will go on sale for $50 a pop. (TMZ)

J. Cole Reflects on His Meeting with President Obama on 'High for Hours': Listen. After releasing his fourth album 4 Your Eyez Only in December, J. Cole returns with his poignant record "High for Hours." On his new track, Cole ruminates about his encounter with President Barack Obama during a visit to the White House. "I had a convo with the President, I paid to go and see him/ Thinkin' about the things I said I'd say when I would see him/ Feelin' nervous, sittin' in a room full of white folks/ Thinkin' about the black man plight, think I might choke," raps Cole. "Nope, raised my hand and asked a man a question/ Does he see the struggle of his brothers in oppression?/ And if so, if you got all the power and the clout/ As the President, what's keepin' you from helpin' n---as out?" Last April, J. Cole, Pusha T, and Chance The Rapper were among the star-studded group of hip hop artists who visited the White House to speak with Obama. The meeting was held to discuss ways to bolster the "My Brother's Keeper" initiative, which is geared to help the younger generation stay on the right path. Obama also praised the Fayetteville rapper during his appearance at last year's SXSW. "I love J. Cole," he said. "You know, this is the benefit of having teenage daughters. I actually keep up. I got a chance to see J. Cole's mom and grandma." Besides delving deep into his meeting with Obama, Cole tackles a slew of topics ranging from religion, Osama Bin Laden's death and police brutality in his hometown of Fayetteville. He adds, "For real? I thought this was 'Thou shalt not kill'/ But police still lettin' off on n---as in the Ville/ Claimin' that he reached for a gun/ They really think we dumb and got a death wish/ Now somebody's son is layin' breathless." (Billboard)

Wiz Khalifa, Chevy Woods & J.R. Donato Feel Like 'The Man' in New Taylor Gang Video. Wiz Khalifa, Chevy Woods and J.R. Donato put their pride to wax in the video for the TGOD Vol. 1 mixtape cut "The Man," premiering on Billboard. The BCKYRD-directed visual opens with a voiceover from Snoop Dogg and shows the Taylor Gang reps chilling in front of a corner store. Donato, who recently delivered his Why So Serious? mixtape last fall, offers a melodic hook. "Bring a child into this world, step it up and be a man," offers the Illinois rapper. "I be feeling like the s--t, and they calling me the man." Donato explains of the song's significance, "It's important for black youth to feel proud about themselves because we're kings. It's in our blood and our roots to be just that. Also, we're told so much by cops, teachers, the upper class, etc, that we won't be sh-t. So when you beat the statistics or beat the odds, show them anything is possible and this is what's meant to be. Remain humble but let your presence be felt." Woods, who is prepping his Taylor's album due later this year, brags about his blessings but vows "to never fall in love again." "We're all talking about what it feels like to be 'the man' from our own perspectives, like for me, it's looking back at my life and feeling good about being able to help friends who are going through hard times," Woods tells Billboard. "We want you to find things that you feel proud about and for you to follow your own path." "Chevy, J.R. Donato, and all the whole gang helped ensure that this will be a timeless song from the project," adds Taylor Gang leader Wiz. (Billboard)

Green Day's 'Kerplunk' Turns 25: Remembering An Album Meatier Than Its Toilet-Joke Title Suggests. In the early '90s, Kerplunk was to Green Day what Bleach was to Nirvana. Both were indie precursors to major-label breakthroughs, and both were retroactively discovered by a great many fans -- after Dookie made the former and Nevermind the latter bona fide phenomena. You couldn't go wrong with either, but only one of these pre-fame LPs presents a fully formed band already ripe for radio. That album was Kerplunk, released 25 years ago on Jan. 17, 1992, although some copies had come out on the DL in Dec. 1991) on the California pop-punk bastion Lookout! Records. It was Green Day's second full-length and first outing with drummer Tre Cool, who makes his presence known in a big way. Along with Mike Dirnt's squishy, sprinting bass-lines, Tre's hyperactive walloping gives power to what people have always loved about this East Bay trio: leader Billie Joe Armstrong's two-minute blasts of sincerity. As with Dookie -- which dropped in 1994 and presented Green Day as a candy-colored alternative to the day's drab grunge acts -- Kerplunk is more earnest than its toilet-humor title suggests. Armstrong grew up loving the Replacements, and he shared that group's tendency to sit arresting songs next to fairly asinine ones. On Kerplunk, Green Day follow the silly S&M-meets-C&W hoedown "Dominated Love Slave" with "One of My Lies," a bracing song about questioning God, contemplating mortality, and realizing your own puny place in the universe. "Do you think you're indestructible and no one can touch you?" Armstrong sings, already sneering like a snotty Cali burnout who's watched a few too many British punk documentaries. He knocks himself and everyone around him off their high horses -- then lights up a joint and forgets the whole damn thing: "All I wanna do is get real high." In the next song, "80," Armstrong uses the word "anxiety," and not in the generic sense. As he later explained in relation to the Dookie single "Basket Case," he'd suffered panic attacks throughout his life. In light of this, Kerplunk isn't necessarily about garden-variety teen angst. On the scraping near-ballad "Christie Road," a painfully bored Armstrong worries his "brains will explode." The antsier "Android" finds the then-20-year-old wondering whether he'll become a bum or maybe die young. There's another reference to smoking dope -- "my chemical emotions" -- and another shrugged acknowledgment he's self-medicating in a bad way. Elsewhere on Kerplunk Armstrong explores different types of romantic longing -- the starry-eyed "2,000 Light Years Away," the stalker-ish "Private Ale" -- and retreats defensively into his own melon on "No One Knows." On "Who Wrote Holden Caufield?" he suspects he might share some stuff in common with the kid in The Catcher In the Rye, but what's he gonna do, read it? It's easier to just rip through another masterpiece of adolescent disaffection, The Who's "My Generation," as he and an earlier incarnation of Green Day do on a bonus cut included with reissues of Kerplunk. The remarkable thing is how vibrant the band makes it all feel. Armstrong had already mastered the Taco Bell method of songwriting necessary for any great punk bandleader: He uses the same ingredients over and over to make stuff that has distinct flavors. He spices things up nicely on "Welcome to Paradise," the most accomplished song on Kerplunk. It tells of a young punker leaving home to live in a crummy warehouse squat with his buddies. Armstrong means "paradise" sincerely and facetiously, and that spiraling bass-and-guitar breakdown captures the narrator's mix of fear and excitement. It's pop-punk's "Welcome to the Jungle," and Green Day rightly re-recorded it for Dookie. About that '94 big-league debut: It was no sell-out move. Relative to Nirvana's Nevermind -- which involved some scrubbing up of the Bleach sound -- Dookie was just a tighter, brighter version of what Green Day had always done. To discover Kerplunk after Dookie was to confirm that, yes, these new voices of young American idiocy were genuine. They made it to heavy rotation by being their goofy, whiny, neurotic selves -- not by trying to be cool. For a little while, those two things just happened to overlap. (Billboard)

LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy Says New Album Will be 'Done Soon'. It's been more than seven years since LCD Soundsystem released a new album. But over the weekend leader James Murphy promised fans that the follow-up to 2010's This is Happening will be "done soon." After mounting their live comeback last year with a string of well-received reunion shows at music festivals around the globe, the group has been hard at work on their fourth full-length album after signing a deal with Columbia Records. They even reportedly canceled a string of late 2016 shows in Asia in order to concentrate on the new sessions. In a Facebook chat with fans on Friday (Jan 13), one asked if there was any news on the new album. "Sure. Still working on it, but it'll be done soon," Murphy replied. "Winter tends to mess with my voice, so finishing the thing drags out." After some fans balked at the band's reunion gig at Coachella last year, Murphy explained in a lengthy letter (which appears to have been removed) to them that he was getting the band back together for the right reasons. "I write songs all the time," he explained. sometimes they're just weird songs I sing while changing a baby, or songs about annoying things that I sing to myself, or to friends while sitting at a bar, or about Christmas, or new york. sometimes these songs live in my head for years and have verses upon verses added to them, almost infinitely. sometimes they're just ghosts of ideas, and sometimes they're fully-formed things which float in front of me, seeming like they'd be easy to make flesh, only to fight furiously as soon as I try to pin them down in any way. some of them I make with friends in a room with instrument things. only a tiny fraction of these ever become songs; get recorded, feel like something that should be shared. those ones, I write the title or some lyrics of down on a page in a little book I carry around. orIi sing a bit of them into a tape recorder (or now a phone, I guess). I've been doing this since I was a kid." (Billboard)

Mariah Carey's Prince Dedication From 'Mariah's World'. When Prince died last April Mariah Carey paid tribute to the pop icon during her show at the AccorHotels Arena in Paris, where she dedicated "One Sweet Day" to the "Purple Rain" singer who died at age 57. The singer will revisit the touching moment on an upcoming episode of her reality show, Mariah's World. In a clip released to promote the episode, Carey tells the crowd, "I didn't know if I was going to be able to make it through the show tonight... I'm not sure if everyone has heard the news yet that we lost one of the greatest, most incredible geniuses that we've ever had in music... He was just one of a kind, and just so amazing," she says in the official video of the dedication. "I didn't know if I was going to be able to come out here and put on a show and be festive, but I said, 'I'm in Paris and that's what Prince would actually want me to do.' I think he would actually want me to get through it and, rather than just make everything bleak, to turn it into a moment and take him and honor him. Because he was a friend to me too, and he talked me through sometimes I really, really needed somebody. He was an incredible person if you didn't ever get to meet him. I'm sure his music has touched every single person in here." Following a moment of silence Carey broke into "One Sweet Day." Mariah's World airs on E! on Sundays at 9 p.m. ET. (Billboard)

Movies

Emma Watson Argues Belle Is a Better Role Model Than Cinderella. It should come as no surprise that Emma Watson prefers Belle to Cinderella. After all, the actress, 26, passed on the titular role in director Kenneth Branagh's 2015 live-action remake of the Disney animated classic. Lily James, 27, eventually stepped into the princess' glass slippers, with Cate Blanchett and Richard Madden rounding out the film's cast. Why did Watson turn down such a high-profile part? "I didn't know they were going to make Beauty and the Beast at the time I turned down Cinderella," she tells Total Film. "But when they offered me Belle, I just felt the character resonated with me so much more than Cinderella did." Watson argues Belle is a much better "role model" than Cinderella. "She remains curious, compassionate and open-minded. And that's the kind of woman I would want to embody as a role model, given the choice," she explains. "There's this kind of outsider quality that Belle had, and the fact she had this really empowering defiance of what was expected of her. In a strange way, she challenges the status quo of the place she lives in, and I found that really inspiring. She manages to keep her integrity and have a completely independent point of view. She's not easily swayed by other people's perspective -- not swayed by fear-mongering or scapegoating." Beauty and the Beast is one of the most anticipated movies of the year, but Watson admits she had "concerns" about the original script. In fact, she only agreed to star in the film after being reassured it would be a "collaborative" process with director Bill Condon. They turned Belle into an inventor, like her father, as she'd wondered what the animated princess did "all day." Additional elements, including Belle's wardrobe, were modified accordingly. Other characters, meanwhile, became larger than life. "We didn't tone him down," says Luke Evans, who plays Gaston. "I think we did the opposite. Everything he does, he does extreme. There was no point trying to find a way to tone it down." The film also stars Josh Gad as Le Fou, Kevin Kline as Maurice, Nathan Mack as Chip, Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Plumette, Audra McDonald as Madame de Garderobe, Ewan McGregor as Lumière, Ian McKellen as Cogsworth, Dan Stevens as Beast, Emma Thompson as Mrs. Potts and Stanley Tucci as Cadenza. Ariana Grande and John Legend perform the movie's title track. Like Watson, Stevens is excited to tell a tale as old as time. "The animated movie came out when I was a kid. It was really great. I think every generation has its own telling of this," the actor, 34, tells Total Film. "It captures a lot of imaginations at once. It certainly captured mine." Beauty and the Beast is out March 17 in standard, RealD 3D and IMAX 3D formats. (Eonline)

Reese Witherspoon: Why the Time is Right for a Third Legally Blonde Movie. It sounds like we could be really close to seeing a third Legally Blonde movie! "We've thought about it," Reese Witherspoon exclusively told me at the Elle Women in Television dinner at Chateau Marmont. "I need somebody really clever to come up with a great idea and we'll do it. "I do think it's a good time to do it," she continued. "I think women need that kind of positivity right now." Elle Woods running for president? Sounds like a movie to me! With that I asked Witherspoon what she thinks it will be like for women with Donald Trump in the White House. "It's a great privilege to be a woman in America," she said. "We have many rights and freedoms that a lot of women don't have all over the world. I try to celebrate that. I try to live that to its utmost, particularly the freedom of speech, being able to express myself, create shows like this to show how important women are in our world. That's what I try to focus on." The shows that Witherspoon is referring to is her new HBO dramedy series Big Little Lies. She stars and produced the series based on Liane Moriarty's best-selling novel of the same name. The star-studded cast also includes fellow Elle dinner guests Nicole Kidman, Zoë Kravitz, Shailene Woodley and Laura Dern as well as Adam Scott and Alexander Skarsgård. It was directed by Witherspoon's Wild director Jean-Marc Vallee. "I think diving deeply into issues that affect women so profoundly, it's not just a sort of desired mission statement," Witherspoon said. "It's sort of a mandate in my life. Women are much more complex than what we're seeing on screen and I feel it's important to see how women behave with each other. And I think that's a unique thing about this show. It's how women really speak to each other about issues that really affect them." Big Little Lies premieres on HBO on Feb. 19. Also attending the Elle dinner were the magazine's editor-in-chief Robbie Myers, Mandy Moore, Chrissy Metz, Genevieve Angelson, Constance Zimmer, Kathryn Hahn, Lili Reinhart, Lena Waithe, Melora Hardin, Amy Landecker, Lisa Bonet and Kravitz's Nocturnal Animals actor boyfriend Karl Glusman. (Eonline)

Are Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds Hinting Pierce Brosnan Will Star in Deadpool 2? What is James Bond doing with the likes of Wolverine and Deadpool? Pierce Brosnan, Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds convened Tuesday morning, though at this point, only the actors know under which circumstances. Jackman and Reynolds, stars of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, each shared a photo on Instagram, leading fans to speculate that Brosnan might be involved in the Deadpool sequel, set for release in 2018. The trio struck a "hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil" pose, implying they won't be sharing updates in the near future. Reynolds captioned his Instagram photo, "Wolvie. Bond. Wade." Jackman, who shared a more candid Instagram shot, added, "#wolverinebonddeadpool." It's been confirmed that Cable will appear in the next movie, though his convoluted backstory will be streamlined. And though Deadpool suggested Keira Knightley ("She's got range -- who knows?"), Stephen Lang, Dolph Lundgren and Liam Neeson have all been rumored for the role. Perhaps Brosnan is being considered for the part. Either way, the actor is remaining mum. Though it was a surprise success at the box office last year, few expected Deadpool to be an awards season contender. Against all odds, the movie yielded two Golden Globe nominations, and the irreverent flick is up for Best Theatrical Motion Picture at the Producers Guild of America Awards and Best Adapted Screenplay at the Writers Guild of America Awards. But will Deadpool earn Oscar recognition next week? "I've been out there campaigning," Jackman told Variety of supporting Reynolds, who spent years developing the movie with director Tim Miller and producers Simon Kinberg and Lauren Shuler Donner. "I think he should be nominated for everything. That stuff is not easy, when you know how much of it he wrote himself and created to keep that tone. Hats off to him." Jackman, meanwhile, has long said that his days as Wolverine will end with Logan, in theaters March 3. "I'm really, really proud of this movie. I was really keen that I didn't leave the party feeling like I could dance more. I think I'm pretty much danced out, and I had a great time," he said of retiring his most iconic role to date. "It's been an unbelievable ride, but it feels right." But what if 20th Century Fox were to green-light a Wolverine and Deadpool spinoff? "I'm hesitating, because I could totally see how that's the perfect fit. But the timing may be wrong," he said. "I'm at the point where I'm finishing up. In terms of a theory, it's a great idea." Perhaps Jackman will be swayed if Deadpool earns an Academy Award nomination. "We had no idea we would ever get anything beyond an MTV Movie Award Best Kiss nomination," Reynolds joked to The Hollywood Reporter. If Deadpool receives a Best Picture nomination at the Oscars, it will be a "cool moment," for sure. Not just for those involved with the movie, he said, "but for everybody -- for the people that went to see the movie, the people that made the movie, the studio, even the Academy. I don't think that any superhero film has ever really broken that glass ceiling, so it would be nice to see one like Deadpool do it. And I can certainly promise one f--king crazy reaction video online. In the Deadpool suit. Guaranteed." (Eonline)

From reality TV to the big screen! Kim Kardashian West and Kendall Jenner were photographed in New York City Monday filming what appeared to be cameos for Ocean's Eight, the all-female reboot of Ocean's Eleven led by Sandra Bullock. The duo were dolled up in lace dresses for the shoot, with Jenner donning a short-sleeved white gown while her big sister rocked a white fur jacket over her sheer gown. They are believed to be filming scenes for a fake Met Gala scene. They're not the only celebrities adding their star power to the already all-star cast. Adriana Lima and Met Gala organizer Anna Wintour have also appeared on the set, and Katie Holmes even confirmed she'd be playing herself in the movie. "I'm a fan of all the Ocean's movies. So, I'm happy that it has so many amazing women in it, so many amazing actresses. It's really so much fun being a part of," Holmes told Entertainment Tonight earlier this month. "I play myself. It's just a cameo." Wendi Deng, the ex-wife of billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch, shared a photo on Instagram Monday in which Jenner seems to be wearing her gown from the film. The photo shows Deng's two daughters -- Grace, 15, and Chloe, 13 -- with the Jenner girls -- Kendall, 21, and Kylie, 19. "Sisters meet sisters," Deng captioned the snap. News broke in October that an all-female version of Ocean's Eleven led by Bullock was in the works. Cate Blanchett, Helena Bonham Carter, Rihanna, Anne Hathaway, Mindy Kaling and Nora Lum (better known by her moniker Awkwafina) will be joining Bullock in the star-powered reboot. Kardashian West, 36, seems to be slowly easing her way back into the spotlight after taking a break from the public eye and social media after being held at gunpoint by masked men who stole millions of dollars' worth of jewelry on Oct. 3. The reality star traveled to Dubai last week for her first public appearance since the robbery. Aside from supporting her makeup artist Mario Dedivanovic during his The Master Class in MusicHall Dubai, Kardashian West also spent some downtime with close friends cruising through the desert on ATVs as the investigation into her Paris robbery continues to make major headway. Last week, Four men were indicted by French prosecutors on several charges, including conspiracy, robbery, kidnapping and forcible confinement, and French authorities reportedly indicted an additional six suspects. Ocean's Eight is set to hit theaters June 2018. (People)

'Game of Thrones' Star Maisie Williams Joins Aardman's 'Early Man'. Eddie Redmayne and Tom Hiddleston have already been lending their voices to Nick Park's upcoming prehistoric animated feature. Oscar-winning Wallace & Gromit creator Nick Park has secured the vocal talents of yet another red-hot British name for Early Man, his long-awaited next feature with animation icons Aardman. Maisie Williams, known to millions around the world as Arya Stark in HBO's Game of Thrones (a role for which she earned an Emmy nomination), has now joined Eddie Redmayne and Tom Hiddleston for the prehistoric caveman comedy adventure, currently in production at Aardman's studios (which happen to be in Williams' hometown of Bristol in the U.K.). Williams joins the cast voicing Goona, the gallant and indomitable rebel who befriends the film's hero, Dug (Redmayne), and helps steer him through the clash of the Stone Age and Bronze Age civilizations. "I'm a huge Aardman fan – having the chance to work with Nick Park is a dream come true, especially as I get to voice such a fantastic character as Goona," said Williams. "I can't wait for audiences to meet her." Added Park: "Maisie is a terrific actress, and she is of course no stranger to embodying a valiant heroine. I'm most excited to see her breathe life into Goona-I know she'll be the perfect ally to Eddie's Dug." StudioCanal is fully financing Early Man due out in the U.K. in January 2017-and will be distributing in its own territories of the U.K., France, Germany, Australia and New Zealand. (Hollywood Reporter)

Emir Kusturica Says He Rediscovered the "Universal Language of Cinema, Which Is Now Rarely Used". 'On the Milky Road,' the Serbian director and two-time Cannes winner's new film, brought audiences to tears at a festival near Belgrade, but it failed to impress critics in Venice. Serbian director Emir Kusturica, a two-time Cannes Palme d'Or winner, on Monday claimed that his latest film On the Milky Road rediscovers "the universal language of cinema, which is now rarely used." Speaking after a screening of the film at the annual Kustendorf Film Festival that he hosts in a hillside retreat near Belgrade, Kusturica apologized to the audience for their tears. "Excuse me if you were crying too much," Kusturica said of the film, a love story set during the Yugoslav civil war, in which he stars alongside Monica Bellucci. "It is a piece of art with which nothing can compare, because the film is made according to a recipe of the past." The film, the director's first fiction feature in nine years, had brought a very emotional reaction, particularly from Serbian audiences, Kusturica said, according to Russian news service Lenta. The director, who is known for holding strongly Serbian and pan-Slavic views, has a reputation for making vividly imaginative films with strong statements. Last year, Kusturica claimed Cannes had rejected On the Milky Road due to his support for Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin. Cannes said the film was rejected because it was submitted a day after the deadline. Later in the year, the director was honored with a Russian "Friendship" award via a decree signed by Putin. On the Milky Way, set during the Yugoslav civil war and starring Kusturica as a Serbian milkman who falls in love with an Italian-Serbian woman played by Bellucci, premiered in September at the Venice Film Festival, where critics were less than impressed. The Hollywood Reporter's review noted: "No one enters the universe of Kusturica these days seriously expecting humility, restraint or even nuance, of course, and complaining that On the Milky Road is noisily over-the-top should be filed alongside moans about water being wet." (Hollywood Reporter)

India Box Office: 'xXx: Return of Xander Cage' Revs Up Ahead of Expanded Release. The latest installment of the 'xXx' franchise also stars Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone, and first opened in 3D and Imax in India a week ahead of its U.S. release. Vin Diesel-starrer xXx: Return of Xander Cage is hoping to gather steam in India after the film began its initial rollout in the country last Friday, a week ahead of its U.S. release. According to figures from Paramount, the title collected $4.2 million (about 285 million rupees) in paid previews over two and a half days after its Jan. 13 opening, following the film's premiere in Mumbai, which was attended by Diesel and his co-star, Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone, who makes her Hollywood debut with Xander Cage. As with any Hollywood tentpole release in India, in addition to its English version, the title has been dubbed in regional languages including Hindi, Tamil and Telegu. Xander Cage first opened only in 3D and Imax across 1,200 screens as per Viacom18 Motion Pictures, which handles Paramount releases in the country. This figure will expand to 1,800 screens when the title also opens in 2D starting Wednesday. India does not officially report box-office figures but according to estimates, so far, the highest opening weekend for any Hollywood film in the country was recorded by another Vin Diesel title, 2015's Fast & Furious 7, which collected $10.6 million. But that was largely attributed to the fact that Universal released Furious 7 on more screens, at about 2,800. "With Deepika Padukone's leading act in the film and Vin Diesel's successful India visit, Viacom18 Motion Pictures has ensured India remains one of the priority markets for Hollywood movies," Viacom18 Motion Pictures COO Ajit Andhare said in a statement. In addition to its U.S. opening Jan. 20, Xander Cage will release in 53 international markets including the U.K., France, Spain, Germany, Australia, Mexico, Brazil and Russia, while the movie's China release date is set for Feb. 10. (Hollywood Reporter)

Xavier Dolan's 'It's Only the End of the World' Leads Canadian Screen Award Film Nominations. The Tatiana Maslany-starrer 'Orphan Black' leads the field in TV categories at Canada's national media awards. Xavier Dolan's Cannes grand jury prize-winning movie It's Only the End of the World, starring Marion Cotillard, secured a field-leading nine nominations, announced Tuesday, for the Canadian Screen Awards. And BBC America's Orphan Black, where Emmy-winner Tatiana Maslany plays a dozen look-alike characters, nabbed a field-leading 14 nominations in the TV categories. Dolan's French-language film grabbed nominations for best picture, best director and best-adapted screenplay but didn't earn best actress nods for Cotillard or co-star Lea Seydoux, Dolan had to make do with Vincent Cassel nabbing a nomination in the best-supporting actor category and Nathalie Baye securing a best-supporting actress nod, both for It's Only the End of the World. Elsewhere, the Canada-Germany co-production Race, the big-screen biopic of Jesse Owens preparing for the Hitler-hosted 1936 Summer Olympics, nabbed eight nominations, including a best-actor nod for Stephen James. Chloe Leriche's Before the Streets, Matt Johnson's Operation Avalanche and Bruce MacDonald'sWeirdos each earned six nominations. And Maslany earned a best movie actress nomination for her role in The Other Half, a romantic drama also starring Tom Cullen. On the TV side, Maslany's Orphan Black will compete for the best Canadian TV drama trophy with the cop drama 19-2 and History's Vikings. The sci-fi drama, which will see its final 10 episodes air this year, has Maslany competing in the best drama actress competition against Erica Durance for ION Television's Saving Hope, Megan Follows in The CW's Reign, Kristin Lehman in ABC's Motive and Carmen Moore in Hulu's Blackstone. Maslany earned the best TV actress crown at the Canadian Screen Awards in 2015 and 2016 for her star turn in Orphan Black. This year, the Eugene Levy-starrer Schitt's Creek dominates the TV comedy categories with 13 nominations, followed by Kim's Convenience with 11 nods. The Canadian Screen Awards, hosted by America's Got Talent judge Howie Mandel, will be handed out March 12 in Toronto. The national film, TV and digital awards, organized by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television, will be broadcast on the CBC. Check out the full list of 2017 Canadian Screen Award nominees here. (Hollywood Reporter)

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Let Maisie Williams Get You Excited for Game of Thrones' Season 7 Finale...Yes, Already. Maisie Williams has a very understandable Game of Thrones fear, a fear readers everywhere probably have when it comes to her character Arya Stark: Death. "Am I going to die? Just give me a little bit of warning," she said during a visit to The Radio 1 Breakfast Show With Nick Grimshaw. Save Arya Stark. Forever. Season seven of Game of Thrones is in production, the penultimate season for the HBO fantasy drama, with a premiere date in the summer of 2017. "I make educated guesses and we try and get answers and bits of information from the writers, but they keep it close to their chest. It's so exciting... it's just a great finale, it makes me excited for the series after," Williams said of what's ahead. After she read the scripts for season seven she took to Twitter. "Just finished reading season 7," she tweeted. "S -- t gets REAL... I'd start preparing yourselves now... Scratch that, nothing will prepare you for this." Gulp. "People should be very, very excited," she told host Nick Grimshaw. And just like you, Williams tries to get spoilers wherever possible. "We go out for drinks and stuff and we end up talking about the show. Because we're a season ahead we have to watch what we're saying because you never know who's listening," she said about trying to guess what's ahead. HBO has yet to officially renew Game of Thrones for season eight, but it's coming. Just like winter. "The only thing we're working out is how many episodes they want to do," Carter Bloys, HBO's president of programming, told TVLine. Bloys said he hopes D.B. Weiss and David Benioff will give more than six episodes for the final season. "They're still figuring it out because I think they're trying to get a shape of the season. They always do what they think [will yield] the best version of the show. It's all about how many they're comfortable [with]. But I'll always take more." (Eonline)

Chris Pratt Is Ready to Charm Real-Life Wife Anna Faris Over Parking Meters in This Mom Sneak Peek. What do you get when you combine the comedy chops of real-life husband and wife Chris Pratt and Anna Faris, along with the ace writing staff of Faris' hit CBS comedy Mom? A whole lot of charm, that's what. In this sneak peek of this week's episode, exclusive to E! News, Pratt stops by for a guest star appearance and has a meet cute over parking meters with Faris' Christy along the way. You can't fake this sort of chemistry, folks. In the episode, Pratt plays Nick, a handsome horseback riding instructor who, with encouragement from Bonnie (Allison Janney), Christy decides to pursue -- and not just because he's a good Samaritan on the street. The only hiccup? He's Marjorie's (Mimi Kennedy) nephew, and she's declared him off limits. While this is Pratt's first appearance on Mom since its premiere in 2013, it's hardly the first time the spouses have shared the screen together since tying the knot in 2009. They appeared in What's Your Number? and Take Me Home Tonight in 2011, followed by Movie 43 in 2013. Mom airs Thursdays at 9 p.m. on CBS. (Eonline)

Scott Patterson Shares His Favorite Luke Moment from Gilmore Girls (Hint: It Involves Milo Ventimiglia and a Lake). Scott Patterson has Gilmore Girls costar Milo Ventimiglia to thank for his favorite "Luke moment" from the dramedy. Speaking with Elle Magazine, Patterson, 58 revealed that his "favorite Luke moment from the original Gilmore Girls" involved his on-screen bad boy nephew, Jess Mariano (Ventimiglia). "Pushing my nephew Jess into the lake," Patterson, who played Luke's Diner owner Luke Danes, admitted while answering fan questions. "Number one moment probably in my life." On the original CW series, Luke pushed Jess into a lake following an argument between the duo hours after the diner owner found out that his nephew had allegedly stolen money from a donation cup in Taylor Doose's market. Patterson, who starred in the recent Netflix revival Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, also answered a longstanding question about his on-screen love interest, Lorelai Gilmore (Lauren Graham). Asked why it took his character so long to recognize that he was in love with the Dragonfly Inn owner, Patterson said, "Luke was always, always in love with Lorelai. He just hid it well for four seasons until he couldn't hold it in any longer." Thankfully, Gilmore Girls fans got their happy ending when creator Amy Sherman-Palladino showcased a mature and mended relationship between Luke and Jess in the revival -- and a wedding between Luke and Lorelai! Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life is now streaming on Netflix. (People)

'The Walking Dead' salaries leave cast dying for raises. Stars of "The Walking Dead" are "paid a pittance" compared to their counterparts from different US TV shows according to a new report. Two of the biggest names on the show, Andrew Lincoln and Norman Reedus, earn less than £100,000 (about $124,000) an episode, with Lincoln said to be making just £74,000 (about $92,000). While this sounds like a lot of money, in comparison to shows of the same caliber in the US, the pay is massively different. The cast of "The Big Bang Theory" coined in over £18 million (about $22 million) each for the most recent series, while "Gilmore Girls" stars Alexis Bledel and Lauren Graham made just over £2 million (about $2.5 million) per episode. Uproxx looked into the salary discrepancies and mused that while it was possible producers of the hit AMC show couldn't "afford to pay all its actors 'market rates'" because of the size of the cast it seemed unlikely. "The Walking Dead" is reported to have doubled AMC's advertising revenue since it started in 2010, meaning there is a lot of money which doesn't seem to be filtering down to the cast. The digital company also looked into whether the pay difference was down to the changing nature of the show. Uproxx wrote, "'The Walking Dead' can kill any cast member it wants at any time, meaning that rather than give in to the salary demands of the cast (there was speculation the cast has rallied together to ask for a raise in 2014), it can kill off expensive characters at its leisure. Indeed, doing so will not only save the series money, but it may give the show a ratings boost." However it seems things are changing for the cast, with recent reports claiming Lincoln and Reedus will get pay rises for the seventh and eight series. Lincoln is said to be looking at a huge rise, earning him over £500,000 (about $618,000) per episode while Reedus will get £450,000 (about $550,000). (PageSix)

Amazon's 'Bosch' Taps New Showrunner. Daniel Pyne replaces Eric Overmyer, who excited for 'Man in the High Castle.' Amazon's Bosch has tapped a new showrunner. Daniel Pyne (Alcatraz) has been selected to take over show running duties for Eric Overmyer, with the latter having departed for the streamer's Man in the High Castle. John Mankiewicz (House of Cards) -- a frequent collaborator with Pyne -- has also joined the series as an executive producer. Overmyer will continue to be credited as an executive producer. Bosch is currently in production on its third season, with a renewal for season four of the procedural already announced. Bosch, starring Titus Welliver, ranks as Amazon's longest-running original. It is expected to return this year. Based on the Michael Connelly novels, Overmyer developed the drama for television. Fabrik Entertainment's Henrik Bastin as well as Pieter Jan Brugge and Connelly. Pyne is repped by WME. (Hollywood Reporter)

CNN Adds Washington Post Reporter David Fahrenthold as Contributor. Fahrenthold has broken several unflattering stories about President-elect Donald Trump. CNN has added Washington Post reporter David Fahrenthold to its roster of contributors. Fahrenthold has written several investigative pieces about President-elect Donald Trump and first revealed the 2005 Access Hollywood tape back in October. Among his multiple investigative pieces was a deep dive into the Trump Foundation, which revealed that Trump had given virtually nothing to his charity since 2008, despite bragging publicly about all the money he gives away. Fahrenthold has appeared on CNN and other networks to talk about his scoops. But the new deal means he'll now be exclusive to CNN. Fahrenthold's Post colleagues Wesley Lowery and Abby Phillip also have been added as contributors. And CNN has made several familiar faces official political commentators, including former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, and former New York Congressman Steve Israel. Meanwhile Charles Ramsey, former Philadelphia police commissioner and Washington, D.C., police chief, has been named law enforcement analyst. Rick Santorum, Salena Zito and J.D. Vance also will stay on at CNN as contributors and analysts. CNN has maintained a large roster of contributors. And many who rose to prominence during the 2016 campaigns have continued to appear, notably Trump supporters Jeffrey Lord, whose deal was extended through 2017, and Kayleigh McEnany. But the network has also endured criticism for putting on Trump surrogates, including Katrina Pierson, who make demonstrably false assertions on CNN's broadcasts. (Washington Post correspondent Karen Tumulty characterized them as "nutjob(s)" during a Harvard University-sponsored conference last December with Zucker and political operatives.) The addition of experienced D.C.-based journalists comes as the Trump transition team is considering evicting the press corps from its briefing room at the White House. Trump spokesmen Sean Spicer and Reince Priebus have said the move is being considered because the current briefing room, which has 49 seats, is not big enough to accommodate all of the outlets that want to cover Trump. But writer Peter Boyer, who broke the story for Esquire, quoted a senior Trump official saying the press is "the opposition party." "I want I want 'em out of the building. We are taking back the press room," the official told Boyer. And on Jan. 11, at the president-elect's long-awaited first press conference, Trump and Spicer vilified CNN for reporting that intelligence officials had briefed Trump and President Obama on an unsubstantiated dossier from a British spy asserting that Russia had gathered compromising material on Trump. CNN did not go into detail about what was in the report, and then BuzzFeed later put the 35-page dossier on its site, without any context. But Spicer and Trump lumped CNN with BuzzFeed, which Trump called "a failing pile of garbage." At his press conference, Trump refused to call on CNN reporter Jim Acosta, shouting, "fake news!" at Acosta. The dust-up elicited a statement from CNN that said in part: "We are fully confident in our reporting. It represents the core of what the First Amendment protects, informing the people of the inner workings of their government." (Hollywood Reporter)

A+E Networks President Nancy Dubuc Discusses Canned KKK Series, Says Scientology Is Harassing Her Over Leah Remini Show. "We're very proud of her," she says of 'Scientology and the Aftermath ' star Leah Remini. "It's a courageous thing to do." A+E Networks president and CEO Nancy Dubuc has not been shying away from hot-button issues of late. The exec recently launched, too much success, a Scientology expose starring former church member Leah Remini and, to less success, attempted to put a documentary series about the KKK on the air. Dubuc, appearing at the Miami conference for National Association of Television Program Executives, broached both subjects during her Tuesday keynote -- and shared an interesting fact about Scientology's campaign against the show. "My personal Facebook is all anti-Leah," she said, adding that the church must be buying negative social media about the project. "My friends think it's wild." Scientology and the Aftermath has been a success for A+E. The doc series brought the network its best premiere ratings in years, has inspired a rabid community on social media and, perhaps best for the flagship network in Dubuc's portfolio, has given it some critical cachet. "We're very proud of her," Dubuc added of the star and executive producer, who works with families harassed by the controversial church. "It's a courageous thing to do." One area where A+E admittedly did not have much success was with Escaping the KKK. The high-profile documentary series was filmed over the course of a year and a half, announced in December and swiftly (and preemptively) canceled when the network found out that producers had allegedly paid members of the hate group to appear on camera. "The investigation is ongoing," Dubuc said. "We're not sure yet where the issues really lay. Clearly there are some issues there. We need to continue our independent investigation, and we'll move forward from there." She added that the findings of that investigation will dictate how she and her lieutenants approach such programming moving forward. "We were dealing with producers who may or may not have been following documentary protocol," she continued. "We have to be more surgical and tailored in how we're dealing with our partners. But we're going to do that after the investigation is complete." One thing Dubuc did not shy away from was the controversial nature of the topic. Though some cried foul on giving the KKK a platform well before the allegations, she insisted that sort of uncomfortable and educational programming is important to A+E. "A+E has always looked in places where others didn't want to look," she said. "There's a service in that." (Hollywood Reporter)