Anne Hathaway and her Eye Makeup of Doom cover the September issue of Allure. Anne is so pretty and her face can “take” a strong makeup look, but this is not the look. She looks like a drunk raccoon. Harsh but true, and also not her fault. Allure should have known better. Anne covers Allure because she’s hustling for The Last Thing He Wanted, adapted from the Joan Didion book of the same name and directed by Dee Rees (as of this writing, there’s still not a trailer). Anne chats about the movie, and her childhood and how the industry really does seem to be changing post-MeToo. You can read the full piece here. Some highlights:

Learning how to make sushi: “Ordering sushi, all the containers, napkins…It would just be less expensive and less wasteful for me to do it at home.” Hathaway supports many eco- and environmentally friendly initiatives in the US and around the world. “I’ve been very lucky in life, and I just see this as my responsibility as a person with the time and means to do it.”

She grew up in a singing family: “My family sang constantly. I didn’t know that wasn’t normal until the seventh grade. One day a friend just sat me down and said, ‘I need to talk to you about the singing.’ I think there is no better way to express joy in a performance. Singing and dancing forces you to open yourself up to vulnerability. I don’t think anyone is expecting me to win a Grammy or anything, so I just kept my expectations realistic and did my best.”

She used to be more of a fighter: “I used to love to fight! It felt so good to fight and be right.” As anyone in a healthy relationship knows, an insistence on being right won’t last long in matters of love. Hathaway resisted. “You have those moments where you just want to grab them, like, Noooooo! I just want to be petty for a little bit longer.”

Her character in The Last Thing He Wanted: “I feel like something about working on The Last Thing He Wanted made my character so angry and so righteous. She’s not wrong for the reason she’s angry, but [it’s] taken over her life. Now she’s more angry than alive…. It had a big impact on me because anger is something that’s been a big part of my journey. Not necessarily neutralizing it, because anger is useful, but learning the whys of it. Learning how to ask, How does this serve me?”

They asked her to gain 20 pounds for the part: “At 16 years old, it was ‘Congratulations, you have the part. I’m not saying you need to lose weight. I’m just saying don’t gain weight.’ Which of course means you need to lose weight. So I had that, then 20 years later I have Ane Crabtree [costume designer for The Last Thing He Wanted] asking me what my body does on my moon — which I realized meant my period — so she can make adjustments for me. It was just this beautiful thing. I am cautious in my praise of how Hollywood is shifting. There is so much more body inclusivity — which is great! — but the thin thing is definitely still the centralized ‘normal’ expectation.”

She thinks things are improving in Hollywood: “It’s more nuanced, and it’s more interesting. It’s allowed for more interesting characters and stories. Now the big question is are audiences appreciating it? If it’s not supported, it won’t continue. It will go back to the way it was, and people will say, ‘Okay, that didn’t work.’?”

[From Allure]

It me: “I used to love to fight! It felt so good to fight and be right.” I still haven’t gotten to the point where I see the wisdom in being “mature” and not fighting. No, that’s not true – I leave things unsaid a lot because I don’t want to fight with certain people, but I’m still absolutely up for a GOOD fight some days. Some days I’m just hoping that someone says the wrong word to me so I can unleash.

As for the costume designer “asking me what my body does on my moon — which I realized meant my period — so she can make adjustments for me…” Wow, that’s amazing. I guess I never realized that a costume designer would have to think about “oh, this actress is bloated because she’s PMSing” or “she’s got her period so she went up a cup size.” Imagine that, women in power taking care of other women.

Photos courtesy of WENN, cover courtesy of Allure.

Kaiser included Heidi Montag’s new single yesterday in the links but judging by the lack of howling in the comments, my guess is not many of you listened to it. Ah-ah-ah, my lovelies – if I have to listen to this then Imma need all the emotional support I can get, so you need to listen too. Much like Katie/CB taking one for the team on the Pumpkin Spice Kit Kat, I’m doing the same with this. Okay, here we go…

But first, it occurs to me that maybe some of you didn’t know Heidi was releasing a new single. I wrote about her threatening this career move a while back and she made good on it. And here it is…

Before we get started, you should know that Heidi actually had a music career seven years ago. Not so much as had a career but released a couple of unfortunate songs. This time it’s different, though. This is her foray into Christian Pop Music, with an emphasis on “positive message(s)”. *Deep breath* Okay, let’s do this for real…:

How long did you make it? Anyone who stuck around for longer than 23 seconds, take a lollipop from the bowl. Good lord, that was actually worse than I thought it was going to be. How does a song simultaneously annoy and bore you? The music sounds like a pre-packaged background score for film-making software. And the lyrics are – whew. Is half of Make Speidi Famous Again really trying to impress upon us that beauty and fortunes aren’t worth selling your soul? I can’t be convinced she actually means this as she’s still actively pursuing both. And sorry, but I hardly think these folks should be giving any thoughts on money. I mean, we know this song didn’t result from a lucrative record contract so if this is how they’re still wasting their cash, they’re getting it wrong. I know Heidi was hoping for the Christian market, but I think she’s going to need to inject a little more church in her lyrics if she wants them to bite. I know churches adopt secular songs into their services all the time, but those songs are, well – good.

I have good and bad news about Speidi: they are scheduling a second baby for 2020. I’m not being funny in my wording, that’s what Spencer told Kit Hoover at Access Live, “2020, I hear on our schedule that there is another baby planned. It’s been put in the calendar.” Their son Gunner is adorable and another baby is a wonderful thing so that’s the good news. The fact that Speidi keeps a calendar on which they chart out all their career moves is the bad news. Unless we could just get to that calendar…

I think I might try being an astronaut next. But, like, a Christian one – with a positive message

Photo credit: WENN Photos and YouTube

I’m coming at you with the most generic, weak ass analogy, are you ready? The Avengers assembled…and they couldn’t take out The Rock. The Rock is Thanos. I told you. The Rock is the highest paid actor. Not even Robert Downey Jr, with all his back end percentages from the MCU, could beat out The Rock…

I’m coming at you with the most generic, weak ass analogy, are you ready? The Avengers assembled…and they couldn’t take out The Rock. The Rock is Thanos. I told you. The Rock is the highest paid actor. Not even Robert Downey Jr, with all his back end percentages from the MCU, could beat out The Rock…

The news that Sony and Marvel are dissolving their deal to co-produce Spider-Man hit fans hard. Spider-Man is popular unto himself, the MCU version of the character is particularly popular, not least because he is the protégé of Tony Stark, one of the MCU’s most beloved characters. People are All Up…

The news that Sony and Marvel are dissolving their deal to co-produce Spider-Man hit fans hard. Spider-Man is popular unto himself, the MCU version of the character is particularly popular, not least because he is the protégé of Tony Stark, one of the MCU’s most beloved characters. People are All Up…

Like I said the other day, movies are coming at us from everywhere right now as we get closer to fall movie season, prestige movie season. Last week Timothee Chalamet was part of that conversation when the first trailer for Little Women was released and people got into their feelings about his reuni…

The viral Instagram hoax continues, but there has been one winner. A reader called Kari wrote in about John Mayer and I have to agree that he is very good at this. And I miss him on Twitter.

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Tom Hiddleston has been in New York the last few weeks performing on Broadway. He’s received great reviews for his work in Betrayal and that should be the focus. When you’re doing theatre in New York, when it’s your Broadway debut, what you want is coverage in the New York Times. And Tom was profile…

Tom Hiddleston has been in New York the last few weeks performing on Broadway. He’s received great reviews for his work in Betrayal and that should be the focus. When you’re doing theatre in New York, when it’s your Broadway debut, what you want is coverage in the New York Times. And Tom was profile…