Get ready to see a lot more of that Julia Roberts grin. Pushing the A Star is Born team aside, Julia was the biggest star at the Toronto International Film Festival all weekend, hustling for two new projects, Amazon’s new thrilling mystery series Homecoming, and the devastating and completely arrest…

I’ve just spent way too much time thinking about Amber Rose and the psychology of “who we attract” versus “who we choose.” Amber took part in Complex’s web series Open Late With Peter Rosenberg, and she made an interesting claim about something her therapist told her: that she attracts narcissistic sociopaths. Here’s my question: does she attract them or does she choose them? Or is it both?

On Complex magazine’s Web series “Open Late With Peter Rosenberg,” Amber Rose said, “I had to go see a therapist, and she was just like, ‘You attract narcissistic sociopaths.’ And I’m not mentioning no names. But a few of them have been that. Like, nah, you’re not gonna control my every move, you’re not gonna tell me what I need to wear, you’re not gonna tell me where I need to go or who to be friends with. I don’t have time for that s–t.”

She also told Rosenberg that when she sprang to fame, as West’s girlfriend back in 2008, the exposure didn’t exactly give her an A-list lifestyle.

“The first couple years, it was like, ‘You’re famous for dating that guy’ … But I didn’t get money from that — I got fame .?.. When I walked outside, it was like, ‘Oh, s–t, that’s Amber Rose,’ but I was broke as f–k. I didn’t have any money and I didn’t have a bed and I didn’t have furniture.”

[From Page Six]

Obviously, most people are taking this as some kind of reference to Kanye West. Kanye does fit the profile of a controlling narcissistic sociopath, and he clearly thought that he had some kind of ownership over Amber. But what about some of Amber’s other partners? Was Wiz Khalifa a narcissistic sociopath? He always seemed so low-key. She also dated 21 Savage and Machine Gun Kelly, whom I know nothing about.

Going back the psychological dilemma, what do you think it is? Do those narcissists CHOOSE Amber, or does she choose them? I think she’s was pretty young when she first got with Kanye – she was in her early 20s – and while she was “street smart,” she might not have been relationship-smart. I could see how a narcissistic sociopath might have chosen her at that point because she was easier to manipulate and control. But everything past the Kanye relationship, I tend to believe that Amber is choosing to be with guys who aren’t right for her. Like, she does not have the best picker.

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Ben Affleck Gets Haircut & Works Out Before Returning to Rehab: ‘He’s Doing Well,’ Says Source https://t.co/VZ2w775271

— People (@people) September 9, 2018

Ben Affleck has predictably been going home from rehab every day to work out. His people have admitted this and there are paparazzi photos of him arriving and leaving his house with a sober companion. And in case you wondered if Shauna Sexton was there too, like she was the first time Ben went home and her car was spotted there, it’s hard to tell for sure because she’s driving Ben’s car now. Plus Ben has put up a big curtain over his driveway, but he’s been parking on the other side of it so photographers can get photos of him going into the house. This news is being covered by People Magazine and paparazzi agency X17. US Magazine, E!, and ET don’t have follow up stories about the fact that Ben keeps going home for some reason. (E! has a single brief news clip about how well Jen is doing as she promotes that problematic movie she’s in.)

Here’s People’s report, which includes the fact that Ben stepped out to get a haircut too.

“On Saturday, Ben got a morning haircut at the Malibu Wave Salon,” a source tells PEOPLE, adding that the Oscar winner, 46, “also spent time at his Pacific Palisades house before returning to rehab,” where he’s seeking treatment for alcohol addiction.

“He had another workout session with a trainer,” the source continued, remarking that “he has had a workout at home every day this week.”

“He looks much better and seems healthier,” the insider added.

Another source tells PEOPLE that Affleck is “doing well” and attends daily meetings and workouts.

“He knows he needs to stay focused and listen to those around him,” the source added.

“He goes home to his gym to work out with his trainers,” the insider said. “Since last week, he’s been driven from the clinic every day from rehab to the house to work out for a few hours a day. He’s always accompanied by his coach and therapist.”

[From People]

Gee, I wonder who People’s source is which makes Affleck sound like the most committed rehab patient for driving home every day, as if there aren’t other places he can work out. Radar quotes a source who claims that Ben is uncooperative in rehab and “does not have any intention of staying sober,” which seems like a no brainer and may be just an assumption. The dude is leaving in patient rehab every day even though he knows he’s getting photographed. How serious can he be about it? Also Shauna Sexton supposedly posted something to Instagram about being sober and how it’s going to get her ripped. Given how she defended her arrests for being drunk in public and drinking underage, how long do you think that’s going to last?

Meanwhile Jennifer Garner posted this video to Instagram in which she’s wearing boxing gear with Uggs and being goofy to the Rocky theme. She’s very ripped and this is on brand for her. There’s another video she posted in which she is supposed to conduct exit interviews with people who saw Peppermint, except the video is about how nervous she is and we never get to the part where she talks to anyone who saw the movie.

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It’s finally here! If you’re looking for a fun night out, may I suggest going to your local theatre to see #PEPPERMINTmovie?! ?? Putting a movie into the world is humbling, thrilling and absolutely terrifying. I hope you like it, thanks for hanging in while I’ve talked about it ad nauseam ?? #femaledrivenmoviesneedyou #rileynorth #myoneandonlycagefight #readyforpretendcookingshow???????

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*sweats nervously*

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Violence is never the answer. Violence is not funny. Before I address the Cardi B and Nicki Minaj situation, I want to first make it clear that I don’t think that most physical altercations are laughing matters and that when it comes to rap beefs, we know how serious it can be when things get physic…

Y’all know I don’t pay much attention to beauty pageants, but Miss America was especially newsworthy this year. The Miss America pageant made significant changes in the wake of the Me Too movement and assorted internal controversies. This was the first year without a swimsuit competition, because thank God. Several of the young women got somewhat political too. I don’t know if the new Miss America is one of the political peeps, but people seem to be happy about her victory. Her name is Nia Imani Franklin and she was Miss New York. After she won, she told reporters that she was glad she didn’t have to “compete” in a swimsuit contest too. Congrats to Nia!

But we can say a few words about Miss Michigan? Miss Michigan is Emily Sioma, and she’s a sexual assault survivor and advocate. She used her moment on stage to highlight the fact that many Michigan residents don’t have clean water to drink, saying: “From a state with 84% of the U.S. fresh water, but none for it’s residents to drink, I’m Miss Michigan Emily Sioma.” I love her.

#MissMichigan just said: “From a state with 84% of the US fresh water but none for its residents to drink…”
Clearly this is not your mother’s Miss America pageant. #MissAmerica2019 pic.twitter.com/VsYvFK2GQM

— Jim DeFede (@DeFede) September 10, 2018

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Believe in something, even if it means sacrificing everything. #JustDoIt

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Last week, Nike announced that Colin Kaepernick is the face of their 30th anniversary Just Do It campaign. The tagline on Kaepernick’s ad is: “Believe in something, even if it means sacrificing everything.” Morons and racists decided to burn their Nike gear in protest of… Kaepernick, or perhaps in having conversations about police violence towards communities of color. Other people noted that Nike was making more of a strategic business decision rather than a profile in courage towards Kaepernick and football-player protests. Even if Nike had all of the right, woke intentions – which hahaha of course they didn’t – the effect is the same, and Nike sales went up.

Nike’s sales have gone up amid a backlash over the 30th-anniversary “Just Do It” campaign starring Colin Kaepernick, the football player who started the #TakeAKnee movement in 2016.

The brand’s sales increased 31 percent from Sunday through Tuesday over Labor Day, according to Edison Trends. During Labor Day 2017, sales increased 17 percent, the company reported.

[From People]

What’s weird is that before this issue with Nike, I’d only really noticed how many men at my gym wear Under Armour gear. Now I can’t stop seeing how many men and women wear Nike. Do I think that wearing Nike is a political act at this point? No. Do I think that all Nike-wearers are doing it to support Kaepernick? No. But some of them are, and some people are making a point to buy and wear more Nike gear. And that’s good enough for me.

Do you need to cry today? Let’s watch that Nike ad again.

One more thing: just a reminder that stupid people are stupid.

Just confirmed this is real.

The City of Kenner, Louisiana just banned all purchases of Nike in their parks and recreation department.

Foolish. pic.twitter.com/bJsRMqaiZ4

— Shaun King (@shaunking) September 9, 2018

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Even though this is the FOURTH iteration of the classic Hollywood rags-to-riches fable A Star is Born, I will do my best not to spoil it because apparently some of you took exception when Lainey let fly with the ending. At this point every age of cinema has its Star, from Janet Gaynor in the origina…

I’m going through another one of those rough times where every news story and sports story and media story is profoundly depressing. I’m just… so tired. 2018 is canceled. It’s been canceled for a while. The only things that could conceivably save this year? I mean… the midterms could be amazing, and Brett Kavanaugh could wither on the vine after repeatedly perjuring himself in Senate testimony. I don’t know. The hurricane is coming to the South and Mid-Atlantic and everything is just completely awful all at once. Meanwhile, Donald Trump has devoted all of his morning rage towards Bob Woodward’s book, Fear, and behind-the-scenes he’s becoming even more deranged about the New York Times op-ed.

A procession of denials by Cabinet secretaries and White House officials has done little to abate Donald Trump’s rage over the anonymous op-ed The New York Times published on Wednesday. Flying to Fargo, North Dakota, on Friday, Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One that he wants Attorney General Jeff Sessions to investigate the writer of the piece. Trump’s escalation of his war against the Times, close on the heels of the rollout of Bob Woodward’s new book, Fear, has sent the West Wing into paroxysms of paranoia and suspicion. “It’s a hall of mirrors,” one Republican close to the president told me.

Trump continues to be in a dark mood. “Rip-sh-t,” one person familiar with his thinking told me. “He’s punch-drunk,” one outside adviser said. “He’s been hit so hard this week he doesn’t know what to do.” Another outside adviser to the White House added, “He’s not happy he has saboteurs of unelected people trying to pull off a coup d’etat.”

With Trump so far unable to execute a strategy to stanch the drip-drip-drip of damaging disclosures, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump have taken the lead in getting control of the crisis. (The Washington Post reported that Trump said the only people he could trust were his family.) Earlier this week, they told Trump they were deeply troubled by the accounts in Woodward’s book and blamed Chief of Staff John Kelly for many of the leaks, an outside adviser close to them told me. “‘He’s destroying your presidency,’” Ivanka told her father, the outside adviser, who was briefed on the conversation, said. Their hunt for the author of the Times op-ed may bring them into the final chapter of their long-running feud with Kelly.

According to three sources, Jared and Ivanka floated a theory on Wednesday that Kelly could be behind the Times op-ed. Under this scenario, the sources said, the op-ed was written by Zachary Fuentes, the deputy chief of staff, at the direction of Kelly. Jared and Ivanka have told people they suspect this because Kelly is the only one with an ego so large as to have convinced himself that he’s saving the country from Trump, which was one of the op-ed’s principal arguments. On Wednesday night, Ivanka and Jared laid out for Trump the theory that Fuentes might be the author, an outside adviser with knowledge of the conversation told me. (A White House spokesperson said this is “untrue.” Fuentes has denied writing the piece.)

[From Vanity Fair]

VF goes on and on about the palace intrigue and how Ivanka in particular seems to be gunning for John Kelly to lose his job. What’s weird is that I don’t even think Jared and Ivanka’s theory is that half-baked. If the argument is that John Kelly is a megalomaniac who talks out of both sides of his mouth, then yes, I agree, he could have been the anonymous columnist, or he could have had a hand in its writing. For what it’s worth, Ivanka and Jared both strenuously deny that this is what’s happening behind the scenes. So it’s probably true then. Who gets fired first, Jeff Sessions or John Kelly?

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This is for Regan and Sid Vicious, who was the “everywhere” of your home. Because, well, she was the heart of the home, right? Remember though, she made it her home because she was welcomed there. What I’m trying to say is that you gave so much to each other. And that is what remains, long after the…

Olivia Munn found out shortly before her movie, The Predator, was set to premiere at TIFF that the director had hired a convicted sex offender to work with her. Olivia had a single scene with the man, who served six months in prison for inappropriate contact and seeking a sexual relationship with a 14 year-old girl. When Olivia found out about the actor’s conviction she reached out to 20th Century Fox, which ultimately pulled the scene but did not contact her about it. Director Shane Black explained in a statement why he hired his friend, apologized and said he was misled about the nature of the man’s conviction, but did not personally contact Olivia. It turns out that none of Olivia’s costars reached out to her or said anything to her about it before the film premiered either. In fact they practically shunned her. The director skipped the TIFF premiere, presumably because of this issue. What’s more is that she contacted everyone to warn them about this, so not only did they not get back to her, they didn’t even talk to her about it. Here’s what Olivia told ET about being ignored after this issue came out in the press.

“[Striegel’s firing] came out on Thursday and the interesting thing is not one of my cast members reached out to me to say ‘Are you ok?’ or ‘thanks’ or anything,” she said, fighting off tears. “At the premiere that night I look over and the other five cast members are giving the director [Shane Black] a standing ovation, but they didn’t even give me a call that day.

“I keep pushing forward and keep going knowing that at least you did the right thing, even if you’re not getting that support. The only reason I’m talking about this publicly when usually I wouldn’t talk about something so personal is because today, in the middle of an interview a cast member walked out and refused to do any more interviews with me because they said questioning when they’re with Olivia is too draining for them… I’m trying not to cry. I’m not crying because I’m sad, it’s a very frustrating feeling to be treated like you’re the one who went to jail for a crime against a child when all I did was the right thing.”

[From ET Online]

After doing some press with Olivia for the film at TIFF, all of but one of Olivia male costars bailed on their obligations and left Olivia alone hours earlier than they were scheduled to leave on Saturday. I cannot confirm who left, but they may have included Boyd Holbrook, Thomas Jane, Augusto Aguilera and Trevante Rhodes (Note that these are the people I presume bailed based on reports. THR does not specify who was scheduled. The LA Times did get interviews with Aguilera and Rhodes earlier in the day, who were supportive of Olivia before ditching. Keegan Michael Key’s people issued a statement to THR that he had a prior commitment that was prescheduled and that he “reached out to Olivia privately last week,” however that is not consistent with her version.) The only costar who stayed was Jacob Tremblay, the kid from Room who is 11 years old. This says volumes about the culture of the film industry. It’s possible that Fox pulled all the other actors. Here’s some of what she told THR and I would recommend that you watch the video of her interview. She is brave AF.

Munn did show up to THR’s Video Lounge in Toronto on Saturday afternoon, but instead of doing an interview alongside available cast members, Munn was joined only by Tremblay after a few of her fellow actors backed out of scheduled interviews, presumably because of the subject matter of the deleted scene…

Can you walk me through and tell me what the past few days have been like for you after this news came out?
It’s been most tough on the Jane Doe that was in the story because the victim is the victim. Whatever she’s gone through the subsequent years is most important to me. The outpouring of support online and from the media and everyone just validating that it’s the right thing to do has been really uplifting and helps me breathe a little easier. … We’re making movies. We’re not in the mafia. I haven’t spoken against the family. This guy isn’t in our movie anymore. I try to do the right thing and that’s all I can do, and when I see something, you do something. You don’t just sit back and hope it protects your movie. The movie is a great movie, the scene isn’t in there. It’s going to do well. At the end of the day, it’s just a movie. We can’t tell stories about people and not care about people. … There are people who get very mad at you for not just helping them bury it.

I saw you tweeted yesterday that you’re contractually obligated to be here but it might help everyone breathe a little easier. How hard has it been walking through this with your cast and with Shane Black?

Well, I haven’t heard from Shane. I did see his apology that he put out. I appreciate the apology. I would have appreciated it more if it was directed toward me privately before it went public and I had to see it online with everyone else. It’s honestly disheartening to have to fight for something so hard that is just so obvious to me. I don’t know why this has to be such a hard fight. I do feel like I’ve been treated by some people that I’m the one who went to jail or I’m the one that put this guy on set. I found out, and I was really important to me to have the scene deleted. When the press found out, they asked for a statement, I gave a statement. I found out those details like everybody else did. It was shocking and disturbing. Now when I’m being asked about it, I don’t know how to lie about it. I don’t know how to pretend, I don’t know how to skirt around the issue. I just know how to be honest about it. It’s a very lonely feeling to be sitting here by myself when I should be sitting here with the rest of the cast.

[From THR]

Olivia said that while she hasn’t had much support from her coworkers she’s getting a ton of support from people online and the people she meets and that it “just means so much.” She explained that there’s no reason for the people in power to change unless there’s pressure from the public and it affects their bottom line.

Also, people have been dragging me personally for taking Olivia’s side in this. I’m with her, I stand with her, and she is brave as f-k for doing this. As she states so well are not two sides to this. I am a fan of hers now.

Trevante Rhodes said earlier, prior to leaving Olivia to do press by herself for whatever reason, that he wasn’t disappointed in the director, but that he “was disappointed in the situation, and I’m happy that Liv spoke up.” Augusto Aguilera said “I thought about the possibility of this continuing to happen, and where it happens — and also to Liv, for speaking up on such a subject, because it takes a lot of courage to be able to say that.”

Follow this thread on Twitter for Sterling K. Brown’s response. He was not at TIFF. He ultimately sides with Olivia but this is somewhat disappointing to me in that he’s making the “both sides” argument, however many people are applauding him for being fully supportive. He did support her.

.@oliviamunn I’m sorry you’re feeling so isolated, my dear. And I’m sorry you’ve been the only one to speak up publicly. I was not at #TIFF so I didn’t have an opportunity to be there with you. There are two main issues as far as I see it. First, what is and is not forgivable?… https://t.co/NQQpoO9kPa

— Sterling K Brown (@SterlingKBrown) September 9, 2018

You know who isn’t ambigious about this? Thomas Sadoski, remember him? He’s worked with Olivia but is not in the movie. As of press time, Thomas Jane has not said anything.

? @ThomasSadoski Your support means so much. It’s amazing how many people expect you to put the movie first, especially if you’re the lead. On something like this- where a child has been hurt- my silence will never be for sale. And if it costs me my career they can take it.

— om (@oliviamunn) September 6, 2018

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