It’s that time of year… the time when a new Fast & Furious movie is coming out and we’re about to be gifted with another promotional tour. How many times have we done this? This is the eighth movie, right? Right. The eighth movie is called… The Fate of the Furious. But don’t be fooled into thinking that this will absolutely answer all of your Fast & Furious questions. It will not, because I’m pretty sure Furious 9 and Furious 10 will be shot soon enough. Still, The Fate of the Furious is special, because they brought some very special ladies into the franchise. Dame Helen Mirren took a small part, because she’s a huge fan of the franchise. And Charlize Theron is playing “the villain” this time, I think.

So these are photos of Charlize and Vin Diesel at the Berlin premiere of Fate/Furious. Charlize is the reason why I’m looking forward to this promotional tour. Usually, the photos are mostly useless because there isn’t any interesting fashion. But Charlize will deliver… good or bad, she’ll deliver. And I kind of think this Dior look is bad? She’s the face of J’Adore (the fragrance) and she usually gets some interesting Dior looks. This is one awkward dress though. The problem is absolutely the cut and the fit in the bust. Yikes.

Would you like to see the trailer for The Fate of the Furious? Here you go. Charlize stars as Icy Bitch Realness.

Speaking of Icy Bitch Realness/Charlize Theron, we didn’t talk about the Atomic Blonde trailer. NSFW for language, violence and some sexy stuff. Enjoy.

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Of all of the women currently on top of the country music charts, it seems Miranda Lambert’s been really living a country song – and not one of the happy ones. She went through a tough, emotional divorce from her husband of four years, Blake Shelton, in 2015. The 33-year-old singer strikes me as someone who definitely wears her heart on her sleeve, getting emotional and crying on stage during a performance back in August of last year. So, then, it’s probably no surprise that she turns to the bottle at times for a little “self-medication.” She DID have a recent hit song called “Vice” you know.

Miranda recently told Sounds Like Nashville that her assistant keeps a little “medicine” around for her, stating “My assistant packs — I call it my nanny bag — she packs a bag of liquor for emergencies, for meltdowns and things like that.” One very recent “emergency” came up on Thursday, when Miranda’s flight to Las Vegas for the ACM Awards ceremony was cancelled, forcing Miranda and her crew to rent a van and road trip it to Sin City. Miranda handled it like a champ, telling SoN, “I’m like okay, we’re good, I’m golden. We just need a cooler of ice and we’re going. It was fun.” She posted a pic of her makeshift bar on Instagram with a caption that read, in part, “Y’all…. @ACMawards 75 or bust! Storms diverted our plane to Laughlin Nevada. So… Rent a car set up the bar!! Vegas here we come.”

Y’all….@ACMawards or bust! Storms diverted our plane to Laughlin Nevada. So… Rent a car set up the bar!! Vegas here we come. Thanks Curt Jenkins For drivin! Best TM ever! :?Marion Kraft #highwayvagabonds #wheelsandwhiskey #fenderbender #vanjam #90’scountry #bartenderinanotherlife

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Miranda is no stranger to the bottle, confessing that her song “Ugly Lights” was written because of her reliance on booze. When introducing the song at a concert in January, she told the audience, “I got divorced so I started drinking a little extra. I found myself in Midtown in Nashville three nights in a row at like last call and with the lights coming on, and I’d be sitting there. So I wrote a song about it.”

“Ugly Lights” is just one of the songs that Miranda wrote for her latest double album, The Weight of These Wings, to help her cope with the split. In an Instagram post from December, she shared her thoughts about using the album as her statement on the divorce, explaining, “I feel really strongly about the only talking I needed to do, I’ve done and it’s on tape. All the parts of me, the parts of the pain I went through, everything that happens to a person in their life — especially in the last couple years for me — is on this record.”

The record not only serves as a source of catharsis for Miranda, it also helped her rack up some awards at Sunday night’s ACM Awards. Miranda was up for five awards and won two. The Weight of These Wings took Album of the Year honors and Miranda won her record eighth Female Vocalist of the Year Award – the most won by any female artist in the awards’ history. Upon winning Album of the Year, Miranda thanked her fans in a short but sweet acceptance speech “for letting me use my heartbreak and sharing it with me.”

Female Vocalist of the Year at the #ACMs goes to @mirandalambert! ? Congratulations! pic.twitter.com/2FFJ8OVbgD

— ACM Awards (@ACMawards) April 3, 2017

Later, in the press room, Miranda added,

I’m so thankful because I really used my stories and it’s basically like my diary won album of the year. To me, country music is about truth, about what’s really going on, whether it’s happy or sad or somewhere in the middle. For me in the past couple of years, it’s been more sad than happy, but it’s moving to another direction. I’m really glad people can relate to an emotion like that.

[From People Magazine]

I am hardly the one to say anything about how one deals with sadness and stress, but, to quote Homer Simpson, alcohol is “the cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems.” I get that Miranda has that hard living, country singer persona, but maybe she can deal with things in a healthier way. She looks really happy with her beau Anderson East – I have to agree with Kaiser that her ACM red carpet look was gorgeous. You’ve got a lot going for you girl, ease up on the hooch and you could be even happier. Geez, I sounded like my mom just then.

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This story is a little bizarre to me, mostly because of what is not being said. For a little background, in 1998, Susan Sarandon and Julia Roberts made the movie Stepmom, in which Julia played a woman married to Susan’s ex-husband, played by Ed Harris *moment of gratuitous sighing to express Ed Harris devotion*. Without getting too involved in retelling the story, the two ladies were not besties for most of the film. Outside of the actual movie, there were stories for years that Susan and Julia did not get along. They were both quoted in Entertainment Weekly at the time calling it ridiculous to presume that two lead actress can’t get along. Julia famously said, “Actually, Susan and I were kinda hoping that people would say we were f—ing. Now that’s delicious cocktail-party fodder. But this? Boring.”

Cut to modern day when Susan is appearing in Ryan Murphy’s Feud, where she plays Bette Davis feuding with Jessica Lange’s Joan Crawford on the set of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?. On Sunday, Susan was live tweeting during the show and she posted this:

The #1 question I get in interviews is whether Jessica & I get along. Jess & I not only got along great during filming, we’re now dating

— Susan Sarandon (@SusanSarandon) April 3, 2017

…I mean, staying in touch. She’s one of the reasons I agreed to do the series. Working with brilliant actors only makes you better. #FeudFX https://t.co/dTcqYhbthU

— Susan Sarandon (@SusanSarandon) April 3, 2017

I don’t think this is shocking – the fact that women are often reduced to petty, jealous harridans or the fact that Susan ripped off Julia’s punchline. Still, people are grossly fascinated by the idea of women fighting so I don’t ever mind someone talking about it. A few tweets later, Susan dropped this bombshell:

Press printed that Julia & I hated each other during Stepmom. Found out it was my PR person creating rumors. #FeudFXhttps://t.co/kBfJXz3pOo

— Susan Sarandon (@SusanSarandon) April 3, 2017

I feel like there is much more that can be said here. I get they were on the topic of how these feud rumors are perpetuated, but can we assume this is her “former” PR person or does she still employ this person? And when did she find this out? Has she been sitting on this information? Or did she, completely coincidentally, learn of this scandalous bit of gossip when her show about the same topic was broadcasting?

I suppose I could be fair and say that perhaps Susan did know this information for a while but didn’t think anyone would be interested in it and remembered it during the topic’s discussion Sunday. I could do that but I don’t wants to give her too much credit.

I believe that Susan and Julia didn’t fight because if they did they would likely admit it. Those two aren’t exactly people-pleasing, shrinking violets. It is sad, though, that Susan’s PR went (presumably) behind her back to generate press for her movie by feeding into this stagnant stereotype of women not able to peacefully co-exist. The story is making the rounds so I’m sure Susan will elaborate further on it. I imagine these days she would like to talk about anything other than her opinions about the last election.

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Celebrity trainer Bob Harper, 51, had a heart attack earlier this year, you probably heard. It was scary to realize that heart disease can affect anyone, particularly a fit, vital guy like Bob. You know who else just had a heart attack? Antonio Banderas, 56, had one in January although he claims it was mild and that he’s recovered. He’s only telling us about it now and I think he’s downplaying it, but I do hope he’s ok. Unlike Antonio, Bob’s heart attack was serious. He did an interview with the Today Show in which he explained what happened when he had a heart attack at the gym. He went into full cardiac arrest and actually died, but luckily there were two doctors there who immediately performed CPR and used a defibrillator on me. Bob has been doing cardiac rehab and is feeling much better now. He said he’s been following his doctors’ orders.

On the day of his heart attack
I had what they call a ‘widow-maker.’ It was a 6 percent survival rate, and the fact that there were doctors in the gym when I had the heart attack saved my life.

I don’t remember that day at all. I went to the gym like I always do. It was Sunday morning I was working out with some friends of mine. At the end of the workout I went down to the ground. If you’ve ever done Crossfit, you know that people go to the ground. About a minute later the coach went into full damage control. There was an event going on at the gym and [they] found two doctors there. I was so lucky.

They started performing CPR on me. They pulled out the AEDs (defibrillator) and used that on me twice before the paramedics got there. They jolted me one more time.

I was in full cardiac arrest, my heart stopped. Not to be dramatic but I was on that ground dead.

What happened when he woke up a few days later after being in a coma
It was super scary for me. I woke up and I was so confused. I was like Dory from finding Nemo. I had this short term memory. I was like ‘wait, why am I here?’ Ten minutes later I was asking the same thing. My friends were so great. It was so sad but kind of funny too.

On having a heart attack at 51 despite how fit he is
It is so important to know your health. There were things going on inside my body that I needed to be more aware of. Go to the doctor, get your cholesterol checked, see what’s going on on the inside.

On if he pushed himself too hard
Before the heart attack I was having like dizzy spells and I thought, maybe I should’ve really taken that more seriously. It’s been a huge wake-up call for me.

[From Today.com]

Bob said he’s been feeling depressed and facing his own mortality but that it’s also taught him what’s important in life. He’s no longer worrying about the small things and is more focused on his friends, family and his dog. Bob got a little choked up during that part.

This was such a nice interview and I came away from it with so much respect and admiration for Bob. He went through so much and it’s so good to hear he’s on the other side of it now. Incidentally, the signs of a heart attack can be much different for women. Here’s more about the signs of a heart attack in general.

Here’s Bob’s interview on The Today Show.

I’m a fan! I’m going to try this guy’s workouts now.

So today was my first day doing my #cardiacrehab which involved 15 min on this bike, 15 min of treadmill and 15min of the ergometer. I felt good and the doctors were happy with all of my readings. It just felt good to get a little bit of a sweat. I love all the support that I’ve been getting. You have no idea how helpful it is. Thank you. #heartattacksurvivor

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Staying warm inside with Karl. We went on our walk earlier and it was FREEZING!! #heartattacksurvivor

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On the road to recovery. I’m required to wear these monitors to see what my heart is doing throughout the day. I feel like a robot from WESTWORLD thank you all for your kindness. You have no idea how much it helps. ??

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Jared Leto looks like he cuts his own hair with blunt scissors.

Ghost

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Does Ashton Kutcher realize he’s starring in a TV show with Danny Masterson?

the problem …

Jared Leto looks like he cuts his own hair with blunt scissors.

Ghost

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Does Ashton Kutcher realize he’s starring in a TV show with Danny Masterson?

the problem …

It’s been almost a year since Lemonade was released. You’ll recall, while we were all watching on that Saturday, we were like… oh f—–ck. Is she leaving him? And then, OK, maybe she’s not leaving him but she is dragging his ass in public.

Cut to today, their 9th wedding anniversary. And not…

It’s been almost a year since Lemonade was released. You’ll recall, while we were all watching on that Saturday, we were like… oh f—–ck. Is she leaving him? And then, OK, maybe she’s not leaving him but she is dragging his ass in public.

Cut to today, their 9th wedding anniversary. And not…

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