Sometimes I love throwback Thursday/flashback Friday. This is one of those times (and I don’t even like these movies): Orlando and a very youthful Elijah Wood getting tattoos with the rest of The Lord of the Rings cast. Viggo Mortensen and Sir Ian McKellan!

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Sex and the City star Sarah Jessica Parker opened up to PEOPLE about her new HBO series Divorce, her past relationship with Robert Downey Jr., and family life with husband Matthew Broderick and their three children: son James Wilkie, 13, and 7-year-old twin daughters Tabitha and Loretta.

On what she learned during her 7-year relationship with Robert Downey Jr.: “It taught me how I love. And what’s the difference between loving and taking care of people and what’s necessary, and what grown-ups should and shouldn’t do for one another. Maybe it taught me a little bit about being a parent too, because the things that I ended up caring about, and the way I cared for Downey, were things that might be more suitable for a parent at a certain point.”

On parenting: “In a way, I think I’m asking myself those same questions now — I have an almost-14-year-old, so what I should and shouldn’t do for James Wilkie is a question. Like, at what point do I let him lose something? When do I say, ‘You gotta lose it in order to understand how to even cope? How are you going to develop your coping mechanisms if I’m fixing?’ When does a parent let go? When do you let go in a relationship? So I think I learned a lot about it. You don’t know you’re learning about it when you’re in it — you’re just in the day-to-day, caring about someone and loving them, and hopefully keeping them safe.”

On more lessons from Downey: “I also learned how to balance a checkbook because I had to, and I think those are pretty big things to be learning.”

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Has Trump ran out of surrogates? #BenCarson https://t.co/qYYTdMlzYa

— Our Revolution! (@OurRevolution2) October 14, 2016

Ben Carson had a spectacular meltdown this morning. [Jezebel]
Gemma Arterton’s premiere dress is… sort of okay, eh. [Go Fug Yourself]
Black women get blamed for Nate Parker’s artistic & personal failures. [LaineyGossip]
David Arquette is going to have another baby. [Dlisted]
Seth Meyers has been doing God’s work. I mean, good work. [Pajiba]
Bethenny Frankel’s apartment sold really quickly, even for NYC real estate. [Reality Tea]
What is Lindsay Vonn wearing?! [Moe Jackson]
I wonder how many votes Deez Nutz will get in this election? [The Blemish]
So did Blac Chyna & Rob Kardashian break up or what? [Starcasm]
Tara Reid went to the Latin American Music Awards…? [Celebslam]

Spook-tacular!

Supergirl star Jenna Dewan-Tatum shared her “#tbt to Halloween with a little [ladybug]” via Instagram Thursday. While carrying her 3-year-old daughter Everly, the actress, 35, and her preschooler looked adorable in their Halloween costumes.

The Step Up star and husband, Magic Mike actor Channing Tatum, raise their sweet daughter together.

“I realized that if you try to be the perfect mom, perfect wife, perfect actress, you start to feel overwhelmed,” Jenna recently said of maintaining a balanced life.

She added: “You shut down. I got that really fast…I was running back and forth from breastfeeding to filming a scene, overextending myself on every level. I realized I have to make priorities, and my family is number one no matter what.”

It’s all about taking care of yourself, first and foremost.

“You have to be fulfilled in order for everyone else to be fulfilled,” she shared. “I’m a way happier, more pleasant person to be around when I take time for myself.”

#tbt to Halloween with a little

A photo posted by Jenna Dewan Tatum (@jennaldewan) on Oct 13, 2016 at 6:38pm PDT

See the corny sh-t I did there?

Mark Zucerkberg has been building an AI for his home. Kinda like Tony Stark has a Jarvis. Or had a Jarvis. I have very mixed feelings about AI. I mean, sure, what happens when they get real and turn on you one day? Or, worse yet, break up with you for your best…

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Irish actor Devon Murray is best know for his role as Gryffindor’s Seamus Finnigan in the Harry Potter films. If you look at his IMDb, Harry Potter makes up the bulk of his career. But the reasons that Devon hasn’t branched out further may be darker than anyone realized. Monday, in honor of World Mental Health Day, Devon confessed on Twitter that he had been hiding a struggle with depression for a decade and is speaking out now hoping to reach anyone else in the same place:

I’ve been battling depression in silence for ten years & only recently spoke about it and has made a huge difference #worldmentalhealthday

— Devon Murray (@DevonMMurray) October 10, 2016

I had suicidal thoughts this year and that was the kick up the arse that I needed! Open up, talk to people #worldmentalhealthday

— Devon Murray (@DevonMMurray) October 10, 2016

If you suspect a friend or family member is suffering in silence #ReachOut to them. Let them know you care #worldmentalhealthday

— Devon Murray (@DevonMMurray) October 10, 2016

Devon said he bottomed out last April and that it was so bad that suicidal thoughts almost overcame him. Fortunately, right before he did act on those thoughts, he reached out to his parents without telling them what was happening. His parents knew something was off and immediately responded.

His story is pretty rough but important, if you are able to read it:

Murray is battling his demons and conquering his fears by making several public appearances. On Wednesday, he had a radio interview with RTE2fm about his tweets and revealed that he first realized something wasn’t right on his 16th birthday.

“People have always said, ‘Oh, you’re in Harry Potter. You’ve got the best life in the world.’ Whereas in a sense I had an amazing life, but I also had to give up so much. I had to live in the UK for pretty much 11 years, away from my father and my school friends… that weighed on me,” he said.

“I was just a mess. I felt like I’d let down my parents, I couldn’t do anything right,” he said. “I had a laundering rope, and I threw it over one of the banisters in the barn. And I was pretty much getting ready to hang myself. So I texted my mom and my dad. I can’t really remember what I said, but it was me asking for help without really asking. My mom and dad straight away they were texting me and calling me.”

Thankfully, his parents were able to reach him and talk about the pain he was experiencing. Murray hopes his story can help others struggling with their mental health.

[From ET]

Devon also said in his radio interview that he suffered from Bell’s palsy during the fifth Potter film. So for six months his face was partially paralyzed leading to much of his part being cut from the movie.

After his parents talked him down that day in April, Devon ended up confessing to them about his depression. It was the first time he had ever told anyone. He said he knew his friends would have supported him had they known but, “I blocked them out, I didn’t want them to see how low I was. I didn’t want them to look at me any differently.” That sentence along with his comment about how everyone just assumed he was on top of the world because he was starring in Harry Potter films ring out the loudest. These are such common trappings in depression: shame rendering someone mute and perception being deception. It’s so important to discuss this.

Devon was overwhelmed by the response he received, both support from the Twitterverse and many people sharing their own struggle. As his first public admission was designed to help someone who might need it, that had to be satisfying. His last tweet of the day was:

Wow!! After my tweets regarding my own #mentalhealth the amount of people saying I was the first person they told about their own is amazing

— Devon Murray (@DevonMMurray) October 11, 2016

For all it’s faults, when social media is good, it’s amazing. I am delighted this reached so many people. For anyone suffering or if you know of someone who is, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255)

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It’s rare to find a celebrity who isn’t polarizing. The most famous—especially in the social media era –are simultaneously adored and detested. Gwyneth, Kanye, Taylor, Kanye’s wife, Angelina. These are some of the most famous people in the world and yet for every person who loves them, I could fi…

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I stopped giving a crap about Billy Bush days ago, but media outlets are still running breathless stories about his “fight” to keep his job with NBC following the grab-them-by-the-p-ssy tape being released one week ago. NBC has, for now, merely suspended Bush and it doesn’t even feel like NBC is going through an internal audit or an in-house investigation or anything. Bush is just suspended and sources claim that people are quietly negotiating his formal exit from Today.

Bush did hire a major LA lawyer named Marshall Grossman this week, and some sites have claimed that Grossman is merely negotiating Bush’s exit package, but some claim that Grossman is actually going to fight for Bush to keep his job. Grossman told Page Six that Bush was merely “doing his job” on the tape and that Bush had “fully adhered” to the “morals and standards of NBC.” Which… no. And then this:

Billy Bush has hired prominent lawyer Marshall Grossman amid his exit from NBC. Grossman told Us Weekly on Thursday, October 13, that the TV host, 44, was just doing his job when he had a lewd discussion with Donald Trump while he was a host at Access Hollywood.

“If Billy had been passive or responded ‘Shut the f–k up’ to Trump, Billy would have been out of a job the next day,” Grossman told Us.

[From Us Weekly]

“Billy would have been out of a job the next day.” What do you think? I say no. Donald Trump wasn’t Billy Bush’s boss and if Billy Bush had stopped Trump’s obscene diatribe with a simple, “Hey, that’s not cool,” I don’t think Bush would have been fired for that. I don’t even believe that Trump would have stopped talking if Bush had stopped engaging.

I don’t believe Bush was “doing his job” by egging on Trump, by giggling delightly at Trump’s misogyny, or by hug-pimping an actress after their wretched conversation. But I will say one thing: Bush’s side of things proves that THEY WERE AT WORK. This isn’t locker room talk. They were both working and they both provided a hostile work environment. This is like a textbook example of sexual harassment in the workplace for BOTH men.

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I totally missed this last month, but Lil’ Wayne said some words about racism. Lil’ Wayne was doing an interview on the Undisputed and he ended up chatting about how many white fans he has and what that means. He said: “I thought that was clearly a message that there was no such thing as racism. My crowd has always been everybody.” He said that to the younger peeps, racism is “not cool to them.” Like, there are tons of holes in that argument, but sure. Anyway, there was a lot of backlash and “????” online about Lil’ Wayne’s comments, and he ended up in another interview this week and tried to explain himself once again.

Lil Wayne has said he understands why some people criticised him for saying racism is over, but claimed people don’t see it from his perspective. The rapper was the subject of a backlash last month after he told the Fox Sports 1 show Undisputed that there is “no such thing as racism” because his concert audiences are attended by a lot of white fans. He also said millennials know racism isn’t cool.

When asked to expand on his thoughts, Lil Wayne told the Associated Press that one of the reasons he feels this way is that a white police officer saved his life when he was 12, after he accidentally shot himself in the chest. “Yeah, he was a cop, and my life was saved by a white man. I don’t know what racism is,” Wayne said. The Grammy-winning rapper said he was lying on the floor when police broke down the door, stepping over his body looking for guns and drugs. But one man stopped and chastised the others for leaving him. “He was white as snow. Them that hopped over me were blacker than me,” Wayne said.

Wayne says the man he called “Uncle Bob” personally took him to the hospital and stayed with him. “[He] stood there and waited until the doctor said ‘He’s gonna make it’.”

Wayne acknowledged that, despite what he said previously, there is such thing as racism. However, he added that when he looks out from the stage, he sees all colours. “It’s the world out there. It’s not a certain part or a certain kind or a certain culture or whatever of people. It’s people. Those people out there in that crowd,” he said. He added: “I’m blessed to have that opportunity, so with that said, I can only be honest with such a thing, I have never witnessed racism.”

[From The Guardian]

Again, there are so many holes in his argument! But I’m going to give Lil’ Wayne some credit here: I honestly think he’s trying to bring some positivity to the conversation and he’s telling a personal story about how a white man saved his life. Is this merely an anecdotal story about one man’s experience with a lack of racism in America? Of course. Statistically, of course Lil’ Wayne has experienced racism. Statistically, of course he’s been around encountered racist people doing and saying racist things. But there goes Lil’ Wayne, AllLivesMatter-ing.

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Emma Stone covers the November issue of VOGUE. She is, currently, the frontrunner for Best Actress Oscar for her performance in La La Land. La La Land opens in December but has already been screened in Venice, Telluride, and at TIFF and was overwhelmingly well-received. Sarah, who is generally an…