Tuesday, January 10, 2023

Anna Kendrick’s dating history: Full timeline of ex-boyfriends

Anna Kendrick may keep her romantic life mostly private, but the “Pitch Perfect” star has been in many long-lasting relationships.

In January 2023, the actress gave rare insight into a “toxic” romance in which she had been cheated on and “gaslit” — but did not identify her partner.

From filmmakers to cinematographers, here are all of the men Kendrick has been linked to over the years.

Edgar Wright

Kendrick met filmmaker Edgar Wright in 2009 while working on “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. Although the duo split in 2013, they appear to have maintained an amicable relationship and occasionally interact on Twitter. Kendrick told Dax Shepard and Monica Padman in a January 2023 “Armchair Expert” podcast episode that she was “still very close” with her ex of five years.

Ben Richardson

In 2014, Kendrick moved on with cinematographer Ben Richardson after filming “Drinking Buddies” together.

Although the Tony nominee was seemingly spotted wearing an engagement ring the following year, she never commented on the proposal rumors.
The couple reportedly split in 2020.
Kendrick later spoke on “Armchair Expert” about breaking up with a partner of six years, with whom she lived and considered “for all intents and purposes [her] husband.” She called the unidentified ex a “stranger” who “screamed” at her until she cried.
“We had embryos together,” the Emmy nominee revealed at the time.

Bill Hader

Kendrick’s romance with “Saturday Night Live” alum Bill Hader first made headlines in January 2022.
At the time, the couple had reportedly been dating quietly for more than one year

Brad Pitt Recalls Filming His First-Ever Love Scene: 'I Was Just Rolling and Frolicking'

Brad Pitt says he did not even have a line during his first-ever love scene in the 1980s drama Dallas

Brad Pitt's first love scene came before he broke out as a movie star.

In 59-year-old Pitt's cover interview for W Magazine's Best Performances issue published Monday, the Babylon actor estimated that the first time he ever filmed a love scene was during his brief stint on the 11th season of the television series Dallas in the late 1980s.

"I had to roll around in the hay in a barn," Pitt recalled of the sequence. "I don't think I had a line. I was just rolling and frolicking.

The actor also referred to a famous love scene in his 1991 movie Thelma and Louise,

one of Pitt's breakout roles in the movie industry, as his "entry into the big leagues, I guess."

"Geena [Davis] was so sweet and kind and delicate," Pitt recalled of that experience, in which his character J.D. sleeps with Davis' Thelma. "That love scene, I think, went on for two days of shooting. She took care of me."

In the interview, Pitt also remembered auditioning three separate times for Thelma and Louise as casting agents "went through a couple of other actors" for the part.I just thought, I'm the guy for this," Pitt told the outlet, when asked if he saw Thelma and Louise's long-lasting impact coming. "But they went through a couple of other actors. I didn't get the part at first, and then it came back around and I didn't get it again, and I went, 'Huh. All right. Moving on.' "

And then it came back around again," he added. "I feel like it was three times."

Elsewhere in Pitt's cover interview, the actor revealed to W Magazine that he once crashed a wedding party while he and ex-wife Angelina Jolie filmed their 2005 movie Mr. and Mrs. Smith back in 2003.

"I have crashed a wedding party," Pitt told the outlet. "It was on the set of Mr. & Mrs. [Smith]. We were filming down in this Deco building downtown, and up in the penthouse above, we kept seeing people going up and down."

"It was a wedding party, so I crashed it," Pitt laughed to the outlet about the experience. "And they were okay with it."

Pitt is nominated at the 2023 Golden Globe Awards for best supporting actor for his new movie Babylon, which is up for five awards total at Tuesday's ceremony.

Dr Dre forces US politician Marjorie Taylor Greene to remove promo video

Rapper Dr Dre has sent a cease-and-desist letter to US politician Marjorie Taylor Greene, after she used one of his songs in a promotional video.
Greene used his hit song Still D.R.E. in a Twitter video celebrating Kevin McCarthy's election as speaker of the US House of Representatives.
"They can't stop what's coming," she captioned the video.
Dre said he had not licensed the song to Greene, who has a history of sharing far-right conspiracy theories.
Her social media posts have supported outlandish suggestions that a 2018 high school shooting was staged, and that a wildfire in California was ignited by a laser beam shot from space by a prominent Jewish family, the Rothschilds, who are the subject of many antisemitic conspiracy theories.
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The Georgia Republican's latest video showed her walking the halls of Congress in slow motion, smiling and reflecting on her role in helping McCarthy secure the House speaker position.
The score was the iconic piano riff from Still D.R.E, a 1999 single by Dr Dre and Snoop Dogg.
Dre, whose real name is Andre Young, immediately expressed his displeasure.
"I don't license my music to politicians, especially someone as divisive and hateful as this one," he said in a statement to TMZ and the LA Times.
Within hours, the video had been removed from Twitter and replaced with the message: "This media has been disabled in response to a report by the copyright owner".
Dre's lawyers then sent Greene a letter accusing Greene of "wrongfully exploiting" his music "to promote [a] divisive and hateful political agenda".
The letter said that Greene's use of Still D.R.E. constituted copyright infringement and that the rapper "has not, and will never, grant [Greene] permission to broadcast or disseminate any of his music".
"One might expect that, as a member of Congress, you would have a passing familiarity with the laws of our country. It's possible, though, that laws governing intellectual property are a little too arcane and insufficiently populist for you to really have spent much time on," the letter continued.
They demanded that Greene "cease and desist from any further unauthorised use" of Dre's work, and to confirm that she had complied with the request by Wednesday evening.
The politician fired back, attempting to undermine Dre's moral authority by referring to his background in gangsta rap, as a member of NWA and producer for artists like Snoop Dogg, 50 Cent and Eminem. "While I appreciate the creative chord progression, I would never play your words of violence against women and police officers, and your glorification of the thug life and drugs," she told TMZ.

See Pamela Anderson 'Take Control of the Narrative' in Trailer for Netflix's 'Pamela, a love story'

Director Ryan White opens up about Pamela, a love story, as PEOPLE reveals the first trailer for the Netflix documentary about Pamela Anderson's life.

The trailer for Pamela, a love story has arrived.

PEOPLE has an exclusive first look at the official preview for the upcoming documentary that tells the story of Pamela Anderson's storied life and career, hitting Netflix on Jan. 31.

Set to a slowed-down, haunting version of the Cardigans' 1996 hit "Lovefool," the 2-minute trailer opens with Anderson, now 55, addressing the controversy over her leaked sex tape with ex-husband Tommy Lee and saying of her image, "I wanna take control of the narrative for the first time."

I had to make a career out of the pieces left, but I'm not the damsel in distress," the actress and model says later, adding with a laugh, "I put myself in crazy situations ... and survived them."

Speaking with PEOPLE, the documentary's director Ryan White (The Keepers) says of Anderson, "She's telling her story in her own words, finally, but she also doesn't know which archival videos and personal diaries will be used in the final film."

"She gave us carte blanche to use the archival [footage for] how we thought best told the story," adds White. "It's a sign of how authentically Pamela has lived her life. She owns every part of her life — the good, the bad and the ugly. It's an incredibly vulnerable but brave way to live."

Pamela, a love story is "an intimate and humanizing portrait of one of the world's most famous blonde bombshells" that "follows the trajectory of Pamela Anderson's life and career from small town girl to international sex symbol, actress, activist and doting mother," read an official logline.

It is produced by Jessica Hargrave and Julian Nottingham, plus Anderson and ex Lee's older son Brandon Thomas Lee.Asked how much input Anderson herself had in the documentary, White says, "Pamela is very experiential and always on the move — I describe her like a fairy, always floating. So when it came to shooting, she was up for anything, because she loves an adventure."

She told me, 'Ask me anything — nothing is off limits,' " he adds of the Baywatch alum. "But in regards to the edit, she didn't play any role at all. She has no interest in seeing the final film because for her it's all about the experience of making something and staying in that moment."

White admits that Anderson took him by surprise, and "ended up being the opposite of [a] preconceived notion" he had — in essence, "the iconic, larger-than-life caricature created by pop culture over the last 30 years."

She cooked dinner for me at her little roadhouse the night before we began shooting," he recalls. "I remember asking her, 'How do you want to handle hair and makeup?' And she laughed and said, 'I live on an island in Canada. I'll do my own hair and makeup.' "

According to White, the former Playboy centerfold "even chose to shoot with no makeup for a lot of the filming. So she still very much has that small-town island girl in her — extremely laid-back."

As for what he loves most about her? Simply the fact that "Pamela is unapologetically Pamela."

And that means, despite how many times she's been burned or traumatized, she's going to continue soldiering through life with that hopeful and romantic free-spirit attitude," White says. "It's infectious."

Anderson announced back in March 2022 that she would open up about her storied life in an upcoming documentary for Netflix.

The project has been in the works for several years but had just landed at the streaming service, Netflix said in a press release at the time.

In a handwritten note on Netflix letterhead and shared on Instagram, Anderson wrote, "My life. A thousand imperfections."

She continued, "A million misperceptions. Wicked, wild and lost. Nothing to live up to. I can only surprise you — Not a victim, but a survivor & Alive to tell the real story."

Pamela, a love story premieres Jan. 31 on Netflix.

Kate Middleton ‘appalled’ over Prince Harry ‘dragging her name through dirt’ in memoir: report

It’s going to take a lot more than an olive branch to fix this.

Prince Harry’s sister-in-law, Kate Middleton, is reportedly “appalled” over the endless revelations the Duke of Sussex has detailed in his new memoir, “Spare.”

The 38-year-old left no stone unturned as he lifted the veil on private conversations he’s had with just about every member of the royal family, including Princess Kate.

“Kate feels that Harry’s actions are atrocious,” a source told Us Weekly of the Princess of Wales’s reaction to the bombshell book.

She is appalled at him for dragging her name through the dirt and is finding it hard to forgive.”

Kensington Palace declined to comment.

Among the myriad of pearl-clutching moments in the memoir, Harry divulges a fair amount about Kate’s relationship with his wife, Meghan Markle.

Harry gave his side of the infamous dress-fitting fallout between Meghan and Kate, which reportedly had the “Suits” star “sobbing on the floor.”

The Duke revealed text messages sent back and forth between His and William’s wives amid a disagreement over a bridesmaids’ dress fitting for Princess Charlotte.

Harry also recalled a time when Kate reluctantly lent Meghan her lip gloss and was “taken aback” by her asking to borrow it. The 38-year-old said the Princess of Wales “grimaced” when Meghan squeezed the tube on her finger and applied it to her lips.

Elsewhere, the exiled royal admitted to having a lot of hope in the idea that William and Kate would get along with whomever he would end up with.

“I thought the four of us would, you know, bring me and William closer together, we could go out and do work together, which I did a lot as a third wheel to them, which was fun at times but also I guess, slightly awkward at times as well,” he writes.

“I don’t think they were ever expecting me to get – or to become – to get into a relationship with someone like Meghan, who had, you know, a very successful career.”Harry said stereotyping caused a “bit of a barrier” when Meghan met the pair.

“There was a lot of stereotyping that was happening, that I was guilty of as well at the beginning,” he writes.

When asked to clarify, Harry adds of Meghan, “Well, American actress, divorced, biracial, there’s all different parts to that and what that can mean if you are, like a lot of my family do, if you are reading the press, the British tabloids, at the same time as living life, then there is a tendency where you could end up living in a tabloid bubble than actual reality.”

Elsewhere in the memoir, Harry claimed that William and Kate “howled with laughter” when he told them he was thinking of wearing a Nazi costume to a party in 2005.Harry was 20 years old when the Sun newspaper published a front-page photo of him dressed as a Nazi soldier with a red armband emblazoned with a big swastika.

“I phoned Willy and Kate, asked what they thought. Nazi uniform, they said,” Harry writes, adding that when he went home and tried it on for them, “They both howled. Worse than Willy’s leotard outfit! Way more ridiculous! Which, again, was the point.”

Monday, January 9, 2023

White House cooperating after Obama-era docs discovered, attorney says

Attorney General Merrick Garland referred the matter to the U.S. attorney in Chicago, John Lausch, for review, according to a person familiar with the decision.

The White House said on Monday that it was cooperating with the Justice Department and the National Archives following the discovery of classified Obama-era documents in a private space at a Biden-connected think tank in November.

“Since that discovery, the President’s personal attorneys have cooperated with the Archives and Department of Justice in a process to ensure that any Obama-Biden Administration records are appropriately in the possession of the Archives,” said Richard Sauber, special counsel to President Joe Biden, in a statement.

The statement follows reports, first from CBS, that attorneys for Biden discovered Obama administration documents, including materials marked classified, on Nov. 2, at the Penn Biden Center think tank. Attorney General Merrick Garland referred the matter to the U.S. Attorney John Lausch in Chicago for review, according to a person familiar with the decision. Spokespeople for the Justice Department and the U.S. attorney in Chicago both declined to comment.

The discovery of classified documents on private property bears some resemblance to the FBI’s seizure of sensitive White House records at Mar-a-Lago, former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate, in August. However, in Biden’s case, the documents were handed over willingly, according to Sauber. They were also not discovered at Biden’s private residence.

Biden in addition has told aides that he was not aware of the presence of the classified documents at the Penn Center until they were discovered, according to two people familiar with the matter who were not authorized to discuss internal conversations.

Aides to the president downplayed the comparisons to the Trump Mar-a-Lago matter, noting the disparity in the number of documents found as well as pointing out that the White House returned them as soon as they were discovered while Trump repeatedly rebuffed requests. They insisted that the White House would fully cooperate with the Department of Justice and expected the matter to be resolved quickly and amicably.

Biden ignored a shouted question about the documents Monday evening while in Mexico City and White House aides, at least to start, decided to allow a statement from the president’s outside counsel to be their only planned public response. But they knew Biden would almost certainly field a question about the matter while in front of reporters on Tuesday — and potentially be confronted by his own scathing comments about Trump’s mishandling of classified documents, which he labeled “irresponsible.”

And a grim realization also set in around the West Wing that the discovery complicates the politics — if not the legal case — surrounding the documents found at Mar-a-Lago.

Immediately, there were voices on the right accusing the government of playing favorites by not revealing the discovery sooner – they were found less than a week before the midterms. Trump himself drew a comparison to his own case in a post on his own social media platform, Truth Social.

“When is the FBI going to raid the many homes of Joe Biden, perhaps even the White House? These documents were definitely not declassified,” Trump posted.

In Mexico City for a summit on Monday, Biden ignored a shouted question from reporters about the documents.

Lausch is a Trump appointee, one of two presidentially appointed U.S. attorneys kept on by the Biden administration. He was kept on at the request of both Democratic senators from Illinois to continue an investigation into the Democratic speaker of the Illinois House at the time, Michael Madigan.

There is no indication that Garland has formally named Lausch as a special counsel, as he did with Jack Smith in November in the Trump documents and 2020-election-related investigations.

“Under the Biden Administration, the Department of Justice and National Archives have made compliance with the Presidential Records Act a top priority,” said House Oversight Chair James Comer (R-Ky.), who has teased extensive investigations into the Biden administration. “We expect the same treatment for President Biden.”

Rep. Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on House Oversight, said Biden’s attorneys “appear to have taken immediate and proper action to notify the National Archives” of the documents.

The Maryland congressman said he had confidence in Garland to review the circumstances surrounding the documents’ discovery “and make an impartial decision about any further action.”

The documents were discovered when Biden’s “personal attorneys were packing files housed in a locked closet to prepare to vacate office space at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, D.C.,” Sauber’s statement said.

The White House Counsel’s office notified the Archives of the discovery on the day it happened, he said. The documents weren’t part of any previous inquiry from the Archives, the attorney added.

Biden used the Penn Biden Center space from 2017 until the beginning of his 2020 campaign, Sauber said.

Fatal Attraction’: Paramount+ Sets Premiere Date; Series Boss On Telling A New Story

Paramount+ said Monday that its freshman series Fatal Attraction is set to premiere April 30 with two episodes airing back to back.

Series executive producer Alexandra Cunningham on Monday during the show’s panel at TCA teased how the drama will be similar to the hit 1987 film starring Michael Douglas and Glenn Close.The screenwriter of the film James Dearden said, to him the character of Alex Forrest is not a study in madness, but rather a sad, tragic, lonely woman under pressure from a really hard job. As a frequently sad, not at all tragic, and not as lonely as I wish I was but under pressure from a really hard job, I wanted us to go in a slightly different direction,” said Cunningham.

She continued, “This reimagining of Fatal Attraction shares a lot with the iconic original film, but it also is about entitlement and midlife crisis and how some of the sausage gets made in our broken justice system, as well as Cluster B personality disorders, isolation, of fathers and daughters, and murder. It’s about how some people just can’t take a win. It’s about self-image and what we’ll do to protect it and also what happens when someone doesn’t have one. And if we’ve done our job, which these actors and their colleagues definitely did, they think that your sympathies will shift more than once.”

Written by Cunningham from a story she co-wrote with Kevin J. Hynes, Fatal Attraction explores the themes of marriage and infidelity through the lens of modern attitudes towards strong women, personality disorders, and coercive control.

The series stars Joshua Jackson as Dan Gallagher, Lizzy Caplan as Alex, Amanda Peet as Beth Gallagher, Alyssa Jirrels as Ellen Gallagher, Toby Huss as Mike Gerard, Reno Wilson as Detective Earl Booker, and Brian Goodman as Arthur Tomlinson.