Is there a show you don’t watch but follow online? That was The Undoing for me: I’ve read the recaps and tweets and have enjoyed the discourse on Nicole Kidman’s wig work, but I don’t actually watch the show. Last night it ended and Twitter had some feelings. I read the book the show is based on and…

Mangrove, the first entry into Steve McQueen’s film anthology series Small Axe, is a historical courtroom drama that is vital in a year of social demonstration and change. The second film in Small Axe, Lovers Rock, is in many ways a step back from Mangrove, not in quality but in urgency. In fact, Lo…

As you may have heard, the royals and royal supporters and royal reporters have been pearl-clutching over season four of The Crown, which is the season when Lady Diana Spencer joins the story. And it’s basically the most-talked about show on television right now, considering the series’ previous suc…

As you may have heard, the royals and royal supporters and royal reporters have been pearl-clutching over season four of The Crown, which is the season when Lady Diana Spencer joins the story. And it’s basically the most-talked about show on television right now, considering the series’ previous suc…

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And just like that, the Utah monolith has disappeared! I can’t wait for this Ancient Aliens episode! Who put the monolith there?? [Jezebel]
Chris Krebs, the election-security official hired & fired by Donald Trump, spoke to 60 Minutes about how secure this election was. Guess who hate-tweeted the interview? [Towleroad]
People are raving about Steve McQueen’s Small Axe. [Pajiba]
Christmas light unveiling, 2020-style. [Dlisted]
Donald Trump wishes Joe Biden well after Biden’s slip. [Just Jared]
Mariah Carey’s Magical Christmas Special has a trailer! [LaineyGossip]
Happy 44th birthday to Chadwick Boseman, sob. [Go Fug Yourself]
Lisa Beasley’s parody of The Crown is amazing. [Buzzfeed]
What even is this Lindsay Lohan thing? [OMG Blog]
Jennifer Lopez’s whole Christmas-decoration scene is so extra. [RCFA]

Where did you come from? Where did you go? A mysterious silver monolith in the Utah desert has disappeared less than 10 days after it was spotted by wildlife biologists performing a helicopter survey of bighorn sheep, federal officials and witnesses said. https://t.co/hiOAFtG19z

— The Associated Press (@AP) November 29, 2020

Emma Roberts covers the latest issue of Cosmopolitan. She’s promoting various projects, but mostly she’s just talking about the one thing people are actually interested in, which is her pregnancy. The Cosmo writer had interviewed Emma years ago, and the interviewer tried to make Emma sound like a hidden genius who “quoted Didion, Rilke, and Solnit from memory and held writers in the highest reverence.” That line made me chuckle. I mean, maybe Emma is that person. But probably not. You can read the full piece here. Some highlights:

The infantilizing narrative around her: “It’s funny, because I think people to this day think I’m 19, even though I’m turning 30. I don’t know if it’s about growing up as Julia Roberts’ niece or if it’s because I’ve been doing this since I was so young that people see me as younger. There’s always been a disconnect between the private me and the public me. In Hollywood, the public decides who you are and then they’ll decide if you get to change or not. That’s been disheartening. If you want to come out and say, “But wait, this is who I am,” it’s rarely perceived well or people think, I don’t want to hear that story. I want the old story because it’s juicier or it makes me feel better, or whatever the reasons are.

How she’s been dealing with 2020: “That’s become such a loaded question in 2020. Long story short: I am hungry and tired. Food and sleep do not abide by the normal laws when you’re pregnant. But I’m healthy, which is the thing I’m most grateful for. To see my body change inside and out so drastically has been a wild experience. Surprising and beautiful. Then again, some days I feel like I’m being hijacked by something.

Life-changing self-care: “I’ve really gotten to take care of myself for me, instead of for a movie or for a show or for an event. Honestly, I don’t think I’ve had this much time off since I was 12 years old. Some days are a struggle. This year has been a struggle, for everybody, in different ways and at different levels, but I’ve gotten to really reassess what self-care means to me. To have days when I can really turn inward and focus on myself has been life-changing, truly. Digging deep is a beautiful and sometimes difficult and harsh experience. Because I can go years being on autopilot of getting the next job and doing the next thing and, Oh, I’ll take care of myself after I accomplish this. Or, Oh, I’ll spend time with my family after I do that. This year, it’s been like, Okay, later is now.”

Whether she wanted kids when she was younger: “Ever since I was little, I wanted to have a baby, in theory. When I was a kid, I begged my mom to have another baby. The day she brought my sister home from the hospital, I remember holding her, wanting to dress and play with her. At 16, I thought, By the time I’m 24, I’ll be married with kids. And then I was 24 and I was like, Remember when I said I would be married with kids by now? With work, especially with acting—the travel, the hours—it’s not always conducive to settling down in a traditional way.

She had/has endo: “It really started to come to the forefront of my mind when, a few years ago, I learned that I’ve had undiagnosed endometriosis since I was a teenager. I always had debilitating cramps and periods, so bad that I would miss school and, later, have to cancel meetings. I mentioned this to my doctor, who didn’t look into it and sent me on my way because maybe I was being dramatic? In my late 20s, I just had a feeling I needed to switch to a female doctor. It was the best decision. She ran tests, sent me to a specialist. Finally, there was validation that I wasn’t being dramatic. But by then, it had affected my fertility. I was told, “You should probably freeze your eggs or look into other options.” I said, “I’m working right now. I don’t have time to freeze my eggs.” To be honest, I was also terrified. Just the thought of going through that and finding out, perhaps, that I wouldn’t be able to have kids….I did freeze my eggs eventually, which was a difficult process.

She got pregnant when she stopped thinking about her fertility: “It sounds cheesy, but the moment that I stopped thinking about it, we got pregnant. But even then, I didn’t want to get my hopes up. Things can go wrong when you’re pregnant. That’s something you don’t see on Instagram. So I kept it to myself, my family, and my partner, not wanting to make grand plans if it wasn’t going to work out. This pregnancy made me realize that the only plan you can have is that there is no plan.

[From Cosmopolitan]

She goes on and on and a lot of it first-time pregnancy/first-time motherhood stuff (so many women act like they invented all of it the first time around), and I really think she’ll probably launch some motherhood-lifestyle brand in a year or something. That’s the way she sounds, like Eva Amurri only… somehow, not *as* annoying. I also think it’s interesting that while Emma throws in a “we” here and there, she never refers to Garrett Hedlund by name, and she (at times) sounds a little bit like she’s preparing to be a single mom. Which I don’t hate – I feel like Garrett sounds very unreliable, and she seems fine with raising this kid on her own if it comes to that. I didn’t know about her endo either.

.@RobertsEmma for @Cosmopolitan ?
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— Cosmopolitan (@Cosmopolitan) November 11, 2020

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One of the big expectations for The Mandalorian season two was the arrival of Ahsoka Tano, a popular character from the animated series The Clone Wars. Well, that event transpired on Friday in the latest episode of The Mandalorian, “The Jedi”, as Ahsoka Tano shows up, dual white lightsabers in tow. …

One of the big expectations for The Mandalorian season two was the arrival of Ahsoka Tano, a popular character from the animated series The Clone Wars. Well, that event transpired on Friday in the latest episode of The Mandalorian, “The Jedi”, as Ahsoka Tano shows up, dual white lightsabers in tow. …

In George Clooney’s recent GQ interview, he spoke a lot about how he’d spent the pandemic in LA, with his wife and twins, at the same three-bedroom LA home he’s owned since 1995, which he bought at the time for $600,000. It was a spacious bachelor pad, but he made it sound like there was not enough room for four people (plus assorted animals, I would imagine). He also told GQ that he’s gotten pretty domestic during the pandemic and “I cut my own hair and I cut my kids’ hair and I’m mopping it and vacuuming and doing the laundry and doing the dishes every day. I feel like my mother in 1964.” We all had a good chuckle because George tells a good story. Turns out, he was telling the truth. He really does cut his own hair and he cuts his kids’ hair. Dude’s got a Flowbee.

Actor/director George Clooney tells @thattracysmith that he’s been cutting his own hair for years – by using the Flowbee haircutting machine https://t.co/SWYT8pFC8h pic.twitter.com/bKepm5LQCM

— CBS Sunday Morning ? (@CBSSunday) November 29, 2020

I don’t believe him. George Clooney is playing a prank on everyone. Now, I believe he probably bought a Flowbee. Maybe he even uses it on his kids, because kids won’t sit still for more than a couple of minutes, so why not knock out a haircut with a Flowbee. I don’t believe that George uses it on his own hair though. That’s not a Flowbee haircut! That looks more like Amal gave him a trim. I also don’t believe he’s been using a Flowbee on himself for years. Come on. He’s practical and cheap, but NOT LIKE THAT.

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This probably isn’t a surprise. As IF Tom Cruise would take time away from filming. Tom Cruise, as we know, is happiest on a film set. It’s work and home for him. And he continued working on Mission: Impossible 7 this weekend in Italy with production now moved to Rome, where he was seen on a motorbi…