Leonardo DiCaprio and Camila Morrone went out for dinner in LA last night and were photographed holding hands. I can’t believe he didn’t run away and duck into a trash can. Then again, Camila is, still, just 22 years old. They’ve now been together at least a year and a half and we’re still three yea…

I’ve liked Harry Styles for a while. Ever since he dumped Taylor Swift, honestly. Remember that drama? It was good – he dumped her while they were on vacation together, and then she tried to real-estate stalk him, and then she devoted a big chunk of 1989 to him, and he still didn’t say one bad word against her publicly. It was a great way to handle all of it. In the years since, Harry went solo musically and he’s been trying his hand at acting. He had a smallish supporting role in Dunkirk, and now… this:

Former One Direction bandmember Harry Styles is in talks for Rob Marshall’s live action take on The Little Mermaid for Disney. Styles is eyeing the role of Prince Eric. Styles was one of the contenders to play Elvis Presley in Baz Luhrmann’s movie. He was waiting to see if he landed that role after testing for it, before committing to Little Mermaid.

[From Deadline]

I’m going to patiently sit here and wait for a ton of people to freak out about the fact that Prince Eric should be Danish. That was the argument against casting Halle Bailey as Ariel in The Little Mermaid, right? Because she isn’t DANISH. It’s not that she’s black! It’s that she’s not Danish and The Little Mermaid is all about Danish peeps and Danish mythology and… I’m going to be waiting for a while, right? No one is going to freak out that a British guy will probably play Prince Eric. But I imagine they’ll freak out once they realize that The Little Mermaid is now a fable about interracial romance?!?!? Sorry, that’s CANON now.

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A few years ago, a Spanish filmmaker called Alice Waddington made a splash on the festival circuit with a short titled Disco Inferno. It seemed to be the calling card of a bright new talent, and anticipation grew to see what Waddington—already a stand-out in the advertising world—would do with a fea…

I haven’t even kept up with all of the drama from the Bond 25 set, but every time I see a new headline, I become more convinced that A) the production is cursed and B) all of the drama will make a very good Vanity Fair article or perhaps even a Hollywood Reporter cover story at some point. Daniel Craig got injured in the first weeks of production, they’ve already had a million mishaps and delays, the production is already over budget and I simply don’t trust the screenwriters or director Cary Fukunaga anymore. But I’m strangely not worried at all at the choice of villain for Bond 25: they hired Rami Malek shortly after he won the Best Actor Oscar this year, and apparently Rami only had one request:

When Rami Malek was asked to play the villain in the ­latest 007 movie he had to think twice before ­accepting the role. Rami wanted a cast-iron guarantee from the film-makers first: he simply wanted an assurance from director Cary Fukunaga that the villain he would play would NOT be a religious fundamentalist or an Arabic-speaking terrorist.

Because Rami’s pride in his Egyptian heritage and culture is, he says “the fabric of who I am”.

“It’s a great character and I’m very excited,” explains Rami. “But that was one thing that I discussed with Cary. I said, ‘We cannot identify him with any act of terrorism reflecting an ideology or a religion. That’s not ­something I would entertain, so if that is why I am your choice then you can count me out’. But that was clearly not his vision. So he’s a very different kind of terrorist. It’s another extremely clever script from the people who have figured out exactly what people want in those movies. But I feel a substantial weight on my shoulders. I mean, Bond is ­something that we all grow up with.”

[From The Daily Mirror]

Rami is a first-generation American, and both of his parents were Egyptian émigrés. Rami was born in LA. Also: Rami and his family are Coptic Orthodox Christians, and they spoke Arabic at home. Which I didn’t know – I didn’t know that Rami speaks Arabic too. I’ve heard him talk about what it means to him to be Egyptian AND American though, and seriously – it was a good call that he cleared that up before he signed on to Bond 25. Weirdly, James Bond films are not really known for the most basic-bitch stereotypes when it comes to villains. I mean, you can still see and feel the thread of British colonialism in Bond movies, especially the older ones, but the villains are rarely “stock Arab terrorist” or “stock IRA dude” or “stock mustache-twirling Russian.”

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This week, Marie Claire profiled living legend and prolific hit-maker, Missy Elliott. Missy remains a pioneer in the industry, a hip-hop and R&B icon for over 20 years. Winner of 4 Grammys (nominated for 22), and having sold 30 million records, any discussion of Missy starts with where she sits, on …

I’m not going to pretend like I know too much about singer Grimes. I know that she may or may not be dating Elon Musk, which, already, shows her taste is questionable. I know that she has interesting marketing techniques, like calling her own music “crap.” And just the other day I learned that Grimes is partnering with Stella McCartney for her Adidas Collection. Stella announced Grimes involvement on her IG page. Grimes used a photo from the same shoot to confirm her collaboration with the designer on her IG page. In her caption, Grimes detailed her workout routine so that we, too, can get her nice toned figure. It’s a crazy workout, too. Burpees and planks have been replaced with shouting into the void, wielding a sword and submitting to a deprivation chamber.

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Here’s her caption:

ADIDAS: Tell us about ur training regimen ?

GRIMES: My training is a 360 approach. I first maintain a healthy cellular routine where I maximize the function of my mitochondria with supplements such as NAD+, Acetyl L-Carnitine, Magnesium, etc. This helps promote ATP and it’s incredibly visceral. From that point I spend 2-4 hours in my deprivation tank, this allows me to “astro-glide” to other dimensions – past, present, and future. In the afternoons I do a 1-2 hour sword fighting session with my trainer, James Lew, we go over the fundamentals that work the obliques, core stabilizes, and triceps as well as a few tricks. To wind down from this I spend 30-45 minutes on an inclined hike at roughly 4-4.5 miles per hour, arguably the most efficient workout. I then spend 45 minutes stretching before heading into the studio where my mind and body are functioning at peak level, with a neuroplastic goal between 57.5 and 71.5 AphC’s (which is my preferred range for my blood type). I’ve outfitted my studio with the highest grade of red light. It is pretty much 1000 sqf IR Sauna. Hana then comes over and we do a screaming session for 20-25 minutes while I slow boil the honey tea that maximizes vocal proficiency. I have also eliminated all blue light from my vision through an experimental surgery that removes the top film of my eyeball and replaces it with an orange ultra-flex polymer that my friend and I made in the lab this past winter as a means to cure seasonal depression. I go to bed with a humidifier on.

I am all about the you do you philosophy when it comes to training. If I could stick to any routine, I’d be happy. Who’s to say that sword fighting isn’t the magic exercise that keeps me honest. I would finally have a proper party trick, that’s for sure. But I’m trying to add this routine up and I come up with about eight hours – that’s a bit much, I’d say. It’s cool to read about such a unique workout but I’m looking at it and the only thing I can really apply to my own routine is the fundamentals workout and the hike incline, at least until I find my sword fighting coach. It’s not relatable for the person they are trying to get to buy their shoes.

Going completely off assumption, I image Elon introduced Grimes to many of her alternative therapies. The supplemental routine was likely influenced by a trainer, but the rest came from someone who likes to research a lot of stuff, right or wrong. I know nothing of deprivation chambers because my claustrophobia barely allows me to read those words without getting light-headed. I am fascinated how a singer could get into scream therapy, though. Remember when Katy Perry said she and John Mayer didn’t even talk at home to save their voices? Granted I’ve never been trained in scream therapy but this seems risky. I get the benefit, though. Shouting into a pillow is some of the best therapy I’ve gotten. As for the experimental eye surgery, again, this just isn’t relatable. Even though some say there’s a case to be made for blue-light blockers, it’s not something the everyman can afford to do. And since she’s promoting an experimental surgery, we don’t even know if she should be promoting it yet. I mean, the shoes are cute, but if I need eight hours a day and experimental surgery in addition to paying for a Stella McCartney price tag for them, not sure this is my jam.

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I was about to start off this post by using the phrase “Titanic Truthers” and then I had to stop myself because I wondered if that would be offensive to the real-life Titanic tragedy. If we had social media back in 1912, there definitely would have been Titanic Truthers though, and they would have compared theories about icebergs and how President Taft secretly ordered the sinking of the Titanic and more. But for now, the Titanic Truthers are really just people on the internet obsessed with the idea that Jack could have fit on the door with Rose in the MOVIE Titanic. It’s a thing. People always talk about it now, whether Jack could have fit on the door and whether Jack should have lived or whatever. Kate Winslet has talked about it, and so has director James Cameron. But Leonardo DiCaprio really hasn’t participated in the conversation. So… he was asked about in a group interview during the promotion for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood:

DiCaprio, who shot to worldwide fame after starring in the flick, hadn’t publicly commented on the moment until he joined Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie for an interview with MTV News on Monday, July 15. While the bulk of the discussion was centered around their upcoming film Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood, the conversation shifted as the Oscar winner was asked whether Jack could “have fit on that door at the end of Titanic.”

Robbie, who also starred with DiCaprio in The Wolf of Wall Street, recalled “bawling my eyes out when I was a girl” watching that scene in the film. When Pitt weighed in, he said he was “gonna go back and look” at the scene in question.

“That is the biggest controversy, I think, in modern cinema,” Robbie, 29, suggested as DiCaprio chimed in to add, “Ever.”

Pitt, 55, then teased his costar by asking: “Could you? Could you have squeezed in there? You could’ve, couldn’t you?” The 44-year-old laughed, and then said: “No comment, Brad.” When Robbie then inquired further to determine whether DiCaprio asked if the door should be made “smaller,” he replied: “Like I said, I have no comment.”

[From Us Weekly]

I’m including the clip below. It’s cute, and it’s clear that Leo really doesn’t want to talk about it, and I admire his strength in NOT chiming in. Let people online talk about it, and Leo will stay above the fray. He wasn’t in charge of props. He wasn’t the screenwriter. He wasn’t the director. He just did what he was told, which is “die” in the cold ocean when he really could have thrown a leg up on the door.

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We asked #LeonardoDiCaprio if he could have fit on the door at the end of #Titanic, and his #OnceUponATimeInHollywood co-stars #MargotRobbie and #BradPitt seemed to think so. ???

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Mariah Carey is 49 years old and on the cover of Cosmopolitan, wearing a tiara and a t-shirt with her own airbrushed face. It’s all very MARIAH. In all honesty though, I feel like Mariah is very happy these days. She went through a rough patch after her divorce from Nick Cannon, and I don’t think that failed engagement from James Packer helped her in any way. Now she’s got something happening with a backup dancer, and she’s still making music and having fun on online and she just seems to be… in a good mood. She’s back to being playful and light. So I enjoyed this fluff piece from Cosmo – some highlights:

On the difference between her and the new breed of superstars: “They have no idea what I went through as a child to even get to be an 18-year-old girl with a record deal. This was before you could just go on YouTube and sing.”

On growing up on Long Island as a mixed African-American, Venezuelan, and Irish girl with divorced parents and financial challenges: “People didn’t understand who I was, what I was, my ethnicity, the fact that we didn’t have money.”

On how her rocky childhood shaped her love of Christmas: “As a kid, I always hoped for great Christmases, and we didn’t have them. My brother and sister would come back to wherever I was with my mom, and they’d be fighting and ruining the holiday. I would still be like You know what? I just want to have the best time.”

On industry artists writing their own music: “A lot of artists say they write, but they don’t really write. No offense to anybody, that’s just what I’ve seen.”

On her apparent preference for younger men: “I haven’t had that many, but there has been a variety pack. I’ve only been with five people in my life, so I’m kind of a prude, honestly, compared to most others in the field.”

On the best birthday present she’s ever gotten: “I don’t have birthdays.”

On her advice for taking a good selfie: “Let someone else take the picture. Unpurse your lips!!! Ugh.

[From Cosmo]

I love her. I’m not a Mariah stan usually, but all of her quotes cracked me up. She’s so mad that the youths get recording contracts after simply putting up YouTube videos. She’s so mad that people claim to be songwriters and they definitely aren’t. And the Christmas quote broke me heart a little bit and made me understand her – she’s all about Christmas because of her own sh-tty childhood. All she wanted for Christmas was a nice, happy Christmas. And she never got that when she was a kid, so now she tries to give some Christmas magic to herself and other people. I would imagine her kids have PERFECT Christmases, don’t you?

Oh, and she’s only been with five people? I believe it. I just can’t believe she told her number to Cosmo!

Photos courtesy of Cosmopolitan, photos sent from promotional Cosmo email.

Guess what was trending worldwide on Twitter last night? What else would it be? WHO else would it be?

Beyoncé released the video for “Spirit” and as I said yesterday, ahead of The Lion King opening on Friday, it’s a Beyoncé takeover. She’s coming for everything: Emmys, Oscars, Grammys, all of it….

Guess what was trending worldwide on Twitter last night? What else would it be? WHO else would it be?

Beyoncé released the video for “Spirit” and as I said yesterday, ahead of The Lion King opening on Friday, it’s a Beyoncé takeover. She’s coming for everything: Emmys, Oscars, Grammys, all of it….