| | | | | | | | Tuesday, April 18th, 2017 | | | | | | "Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine."
-Fran Lebowitz
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-Fran Lebowitz
To sign up for this newsletter click here. | | | | | | | | Jessica Chastain hasn’t been afraid to speak out about the problem of unequal pay in Hollywood. Male actors all too often make more money than their female co-stars, and Chastain says in many cases actresses are fine with what are those admittedly still very large salaries. Still, it’s not fair, and in a new essay for Variety she shares her simple tip for how to fight the inequality: ask how much her male co-stars are making upfront. "What I do now, when I’m taking on a film, I always ask about the fairness of the pay," she writes. "I ask what they’re offering me in comparison to the guy. I don’t care about how much I get paid; I’m in an industry where we’re overcompensated for the work we do. But I don’t want to be on a set where I’m doing the same work as someone else and they’re getting five times what I’m getting." Chastain says she’s already lost one major role over her new tactics, but she has more than enough projects in the works to make up for it. | | Lady Gaga, Festival Headliner | So how was Lady Gaga’s stint as Coachella headliner? Eh, reviews are sort of mixed. The L.A. Times writes that while the first 45 minutes were great, the set sort of petered out. Turns out, however, that she’s pulling double duty at the festival. She’s also using the festival as a backdrop for scenes of her upcoming remake of A Star is Born (the one costarring Bradley Cooper, who will also be making his directorial debut). Scenes will be shot at weekend number two of the California festival, and a call has been put out for extras. Meanwhile, the first still for the film, with Gaga as a vaguely rocker-looking singing with Cooper as her grungy-haired guitarist have been released. The film, however, won’t be released until Fall 2018. | | |  | | | |  | | Frat mixer soundscape artists The Chainsmokers have the No. 1 album in the country right now, and just kicked off their first major arena headlining tour. It’s safe to say that there’s a lot of people out there who are really into this musical project (we’d say band, but they’re technically not). Whoever those people are however, they’re most certainly not in the media. As per Metacritic, the album, Memories: Do Not Open, hasn’t received a single positive review from a major outlet. The always polite Entertainment Weekly had the closest thing to a decent review, and even they called it “modernized Moby without the soul-searching or gospel samples.” Pitchfork calls it a “a lifeless, anodyne pop record that wallows in basic feelings of regret and narcissism.” Vulture points out that lead singer Andrew Taggart sounds like a small child while singing live. The AV Club points to a viral series of snaps of a guy pointing out how formulaic and easy to mimic their songwriting is. It’s not even necessarily a New York elitist thing either. The band kicked off their tour in Florida, and even the local press there is savaging their stage show as a polite “different” to another noting that supposed fans started slowly filing out of the arena once they played their big hit “Closer.” | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Here, via Kim Kardashian’s Instagram, is Kanye West in a bunny costume. | | | | | | | | | | Suri Cruise, 11 (Pint-sized Style Icon)
Britt Robertson, 27 (Fictional #GirlBoss)
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, 30 (Legs-spiration) America Ferrera, 33 (Everyone’s Favorite Fictional Fashion Mag Hero) Kourtney Kardashian, 38 (Chillest Kardashian) Conan O’Brien, 54 (Leno Victim) | | | | | | | | |
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